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I found the best way to deal with the offset problem was to use Pagestream exclusively.P^) But seriously…just move the margins up and left 1/8" and don't forget to reset the printer for each page. Grrr, I hate that bug. Actually it is the printer driver from C= that is…
#Toaster 4000 at NAB
Message #96269
I'm waiting for a first person report from my wife who is at NAB. She didn't attend the showing yesterday but planned to see the new Toaster on the show floor today. The "lower price" part is what amazes me. I think I'm starting to get excited……naaahhh. It will still…
AGA should capable if displaying Ham8 animations at high speed. The new Anim7 format could probably do what you ask. Anim7 players are just in their infancy and certainly will get faster. Adding a fast 030 or even an 040 will make this easier to accomplish. The FC24 can display…
The engineer I spoke to said they started socketing the Superbuster as soon as they became aware of the problem. Unfortunately that was after they made my 4000. P^( Goin' AP …..Mark Sterling
Caller ID seems to be in trouble here as well. All the hardware and software is there but it won't be turned on until it is approved and some people seem to DISapprove. Goin' AP …..Mark Sterling
I have a 2091 on my 4000 but haven't used the patch (even though I have it) as I still get decent throuput to my only SCSI device which is a tape drive. Goin' AP …..Mark Sterling
Ben answered one of your questions. I'll answer the other. I don't know of any real-time animations tools for the FC24. It don't think it is possible to write to it fast enough to do animation. I DOES make a very pretty picture and is supported by a number of…
I have delayed making the 4000 my main machine until it can access all my SCSI devices at a reasonable speed. Did you try the patch to speed up access? I think the older 2091 did not work at all. I think that rev 6.6 or above is needed. As…
I haven't hung any other SCSI devices off the 4000/2091 as yet and probably won't. The 4091 SCSI-2 controller will solve the bottleneck problem for 4000 owners. I just talked to an engineer at C= today and he said the 4091 will ship real soon and include a new SuperBuster…
Oh, thanks for the ram refresh. It must have been a typo. I did have an FX line going into the Cleveland area. I just had to pay; not sue. It wasn't hard to get it installed. I might have to sue to get caller ID. Things are going real…
Who did I sue? Was that another one of many typos or something? Rats, I don't have the parent to that message. I have never sued anyone, yet. My mind is going Dave; I can feel it. Goin' AP …..Mark Sterling
Jim, I think you are right. What you did was irrelevent. Oh well, as long as it works OK then its not a problem. The 2091 would not function if you booted from a floppy that did not have scsi.device in its expansion dir. Does the CDRom function at a…
Miguel, Nope. It isn't just the machine; it is also the operating system. Maybe a $8000-12000 UNIX workstation but the software is a LOT more expensive. You might try a UNIX that will run on that machine. Goin' AP …..Mark Sterling
Hmm..what is the "2091 expansion directory"? Do you mean on the 2091 installation disk? I'm pretty sure the 2091 has "scsi.device" in ROM. The 2091 will not boot first if it is on a 4000 with the IDE controller. ROM on the 2091 configs a second copy as 2nd.scsi.device. Where…
Ben, I use ImagemasterFC and I use two monitors. Who sez it requires using "the _same_ monitor"? You must mean that either you must use one monitor or use the overlay cable for the second monitor. IMCF seems to use the Amiga display overlaid on the FC24 display for all…
Michael, The 2091 does work with the 4000. It certainly doesn't work 100% but I do have it working. See my reply to Norm for details. Goin' AP …..Mark Sterling
Norm, I use the 2091 with my 4000. I have only used it with a tape drive (A3070 scsi 150/250meg) but it works OK. Autoboot MUST be enabled. The 2091 auto-configs as "2nd.scsi.device" when it sees the IDE controller of the 4000 is present. I'm not certain of the exact…
I sued to have such a line for my business. It was called an FX line for "Foreign Exchange". It was ~165/month for something like 18 miles to get into the very large Cleveland, Ohio local calling area. A change in our calling habits made it unfeasable but it saved…
Yep, both are there and NFS (client only) too. I haven't tried the Telnet or NFS yet but FTP works great! Now if I could just figure out how to send an escape code with the function keys while using the RloginVT function.. The docs give NO hint.
Hey! Zmodem might be better; in fact it IS better but….in my experience y-modem has proven to be faster. It apparently has less overhead. I still use z-modem exclusively when it is available. Z is more robust with noise on the line and has a resume feature that I have…
I thought you would like the A3070. I know a BUNCH of people that have bought it and like it. Just buy that mini-tower case mail order. Most local dealers don't seem to have them. $70-90 should do it. 200 watts minimum. I paid $84 1.5 yrs ago for a…
Yep, I ordered one too but they said 2-3 weeks. 200 smackers. Goin' AP …..Mark Sterling
I'll send the the file to …..ummm, where does it go? I can't find a really appropriate library for it. How about AmigaUser under General Apps. I will upload it today. Have fun. It'll be called WDB1.LHA. Goin' AP …..Mark Sterling
I haven't tried that yet. Good idea. I have been in contact with a Bruce Mortinson (sp) at CBM but he has yet to get back to me. Goin' AP …..Mark Sterling
Mike, That must be it! I remember two connectors. It is good to know that the drive could be removed and used in a standard configuration. Thanks for setting me straight. Goin' AP …..Mark Sterling
I do have a capable machine except for the ram. It is a 486-33 DX, 4meg ram, local bus video and a 210mb HD. I also have a Toshiba XM-3201 CDRom drive in the thing. $15 bucks for the beta sounds VERY interesting! Thanks for the phone number. Sounds like…
Mike, I could swear that the connectors were strange inside my 3070. I only took it apart once. Maybe I should look again. It is more useful for me in the case as I use it on three different machines. I think you are right about the 150-250meg deal. I…
I guess the memory protection is pretty good with OS/2. I wish it was that good with Amigados. At least it has improved some along with the programs. I do have fewer crashes that take the system down. Most just take out the task. Maybe I'll just get OS/2 to…
I don't know why CBM doesn't sell the A3070 drive as a 250meg unit. But then, who does understand their marketing? It would be tough to beat the price of the A3070 for a similar SCSI tape drive. Hmmm, I think I bought my 3070 for $350 from Software Hut…
Blaq!, This happens to my A2500 once in a while also. The blinking is supposed to mean the keyboard rom has failed but I have always been able to recover from it. I just turn off the whole thing for at least 2-3 minutes. Anything less doesn't seem to be…
Jim, I have the WDB.1.all file. It is on FF disk #580. It is 639711 bytes compressed. If you would like me to upload it here I will do it. I don't have the WDB.2.all file. I do have 3,4,5. Goin' AP …..Mark Sterling
You just "complained" that nobody had asked about the 6809 emulator since the day it was released. I remember when you announced it. I was just pulling your chain a little. Is the 6809 used much embedded controllers or the like? Goin' AP …..Mark Sterling
Hey, what about that 6809 emulator? P^) Goin' AP …..Mark Sterling
Tony, I have an A3070 and an A3000. You can use a DC6250 type tape and get 250meg on a tape. I get 4-6meg/minute transfers depending on the type and size of files as well as compression settings. Yes, you can retrieve individual files with ease as a directory of…
Check the Oxxi area in Amigavendor. They have Amiga Novell/client software that has a good reputation. Goin' AP …..Mark Sterling
A 10% improvement probably still doesn't cut it. Too bad. Maybe there is still something you can do to "tune" transfer rate. Maybe some parameters for file system handling could be tweaked. I know this is often true with UNIX. I thought I heard that the file system with OS/2…
I'm glad to hear you got it working right. The 3D will handle anything the 1200 can dish out. Goin' AP …..Mark Sterling
I have a CD-Rom (as you know). I use Imagine some. I have Nasa PDS discs, GIF discs, some PeeCee discs(a couple of games for the 486 pig), FF disc, AB20, Walnut Creek Desktop Library. Looking for Clipart, 24bit images at reasonable cost and the 3d objects ARE interesting to…
If you had regular slots in your machine you could get such a converter which is known as a "scan doubler". The Flicker Fixer was the first and others are available such as the Commodore A2320 and the ICD FFV. The problem is that they only work in pre-AGA video…
It sounds like the problem might be on the OS2 side. Good luck. I'm afraid I know almost nothing about OS2 except that it is still a very young OS. Might be a teething problem with the file system or the NFS implementation. Thanks for the tip on sending the…
Nick, The "characters instead of lines" problem might be due to the font you were using. An ANSI compatible font must be used. One comes with JRComm. I use one called IBM.font. I use JRCOMM on two Amigas at work in a fairly demanding situation on a UNIX system with…
I have heard the price for the Syquest 105 will be around $500-550 and 70-90 for carts. This IS from Syquest and not just a rumour. Goin' AP …..Mark Sterling
Sergio, The 1200 initially boots up at 15.75kHz which will not display on you NEC 4G. You could set the machine up with a TV attached and then change the monitor settings to work with your NEC. The adapter does not change the signal frequency. It only changes the connector…
I think there is a switch you can set that turns off case-checking for file names that could affect the speed of transfers. I don't have the manual here at home so I can't check it now. It might have been in one of the doc files on the disks…
I'm using Interactive Unix (Sunsoft) and the add-ons are not cheap although less than SCO. I'm having fun with my small network too. I have two Amigas w/ethernet attached to the UNIX host. All other terminals are just serial connections to dumb terminals or PCs running VT100 emulation. What sort…
"all the beta testers complained…" Darn right. What the heck is this left mouse button menu pull-down stuff anyway? Downright unnatcherl. P^) Goin' AP …..Mark Sterling
As long as the OS/2 machine has NFS and TCP/IP you could backup the Amiga to the server's HD. The Commodore TCP/IP has NFS but as a client only. It was only $800 to add TCP/IP and NFS to my UNIX machine! Goin' AP …..Mark Sterling
I print ascii file to the postscript prefs plenty of times. Usually it is no problem. Once in a while it has gone nuts and printed a bunch of garbage but I assumed it was my fault. Your problem might be that the ascii file has form feed characters in…
Jonathan, There have been some very good TNG episodes but the one you mention is DEFINITELY my favorite! Stands alongside of a very few outstanding short stories I have read….and NO other TV shows. That was the second time I saw it and I taped in HI8 for the archives.…
Arto, Somehow your message intended for Softwood/Ric Fisher was sent to me. You may want to re-send the message stating your Kickstart and Workbench versions. Goin' AP …..Mark Sterling
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