This is an archive of CompuServe forum messages from 1985 to 1995, as saved in transcripts by John Foust.
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Robert, I'm so fond of enforcer and mungwall that I run them ALL the time on the 3000. Amazing what programs you find that have bugs in them, not simply your own.
Shraddhan, Debugging code on the Amiga withOUT Enforcer is a waste of time. Of course, I think that "MetaScope: The Debugger" is particularly useful too .
Sze, When you gonna be here?? That's MY stompin' grounds!
Betty, Eet is in Oklahoma City, that's even closer.
John, I sorta remember seeing it in some of the Motorola books.
Michael, Eet called me yesterday evening around 1730 my time. He's doing ok. We chatted politics for a while (he'd vote for me, but he doesn't live in my district…and I'm NOT in Chicago ).
Jim, I haven't seen a HP IIC scanner. If I had one for a week or so, both would.
Betty, It just took one phone call, they said 'oops' and fixed it in about 15 minutes. I'm a _little_ concerned in that I still get the 'checking account status' every time I log on, but I guess nothing will happen until next month on the 1st .
Carsten, Yes, Oxxi sells Amiga Client software (ACS) for the Amiga. We have 4 Amigae hooked into a Novell server here at the office. Oxxi have a section in AmigaVend, you can ask there how to purchase.
Christie, I'm not real clear on what you're doing (or trying to). If you want to write a disk which a PC can READ, yes you must format a disk for it. The simplest way is do make sure your devs/dosdrivers drawer has PC0 in it, then format pc0:
Michael, No printed manual yet…but some enhancements to the program. Do you happen to recall what version you have? Maybe I should send you the latest.
Betty, I've been pretty 'under the weather' and going to bed around 2230 for the past couple weeks…then there was this little mixup with my account (it temporarily went over it's 'limit' and when the end of the month came around (and the current balance was $45) they 'suspended' it…
There is a Pascal for the Amiga (or there was…I have it here somewhere). I think it was HiSoft Pascal. If you only need it compiled, EMail me the source, I'll do it for you.
Betty, If you have any problems with the scanner SW, you know who to call .
William, If you're referring to some games which run that way, I can't be of help. There are some game programmers that don't want their games to be HD installable. If it's some other sort of program, I'd be happy to help out…what program (or what sort of programs are…
Michael, There purportedly is a touch screen and controller available for the Amiga which generates intuition events. I don't know how well it would work with the workbench tho.
Arnie, re: "How much would one have to pay for the knowledge and experience of setting up and compiling one's own compiler!" I've done it (not on the Amiga) and it ain't all it's cracked up to be. Though, I wouldn't mind doing it one more time .
Mike, If you really like the Amiga OS, you might wanna pick up OS/2. It's a rather nice OS (beats the heck out of Windoze). Of course, you'll soon discover that PM (Presentation Manager) only supports 'simple refresh'.
James, Odd, they SHOULD have 1.50 for available…since it's the only one we ever gave them. If you get that and can test some later code, EMail me…I've got some new 'features' which need some thorough testing.
James, Contact Inovatronics…they're publishing MetaScope now. EMail me if there are any problems
Any Rand is NOT _casual_ reading. I've heard that "Atlas Shrugged" is the 2nd best selling book in English of all time (after the Bible).
Jay, Not much to say about them what sort of difficulty you having?
Kevin, We'd be interested (Metadigm). We recently completed the port of "Star Trek: 25th Anniversary" for Interplay.
Ayn Rand was an author/philosopher. Her most 'famous' book is "Atlas Shrugged" which was written about 35 years ago. I just finished re-reading it late last year (I'd read it the other time in 1962). It's worth reading, IMO.
Karl, re: "horrible old mainframe machine language" Not exactly. Knuth 'invented' the language for use in the books
Chris, CIS-B is faster
David, Far be it from me to argue with Jean. BTW, has he ever made his 'publication' available in machine readable form? I've sorta been out of the astronomy 'biz' for several years and want to get back in (after all with 3 Alika Herring mirrors, I ought to do…
Mark, I disagree that programs that could take advantage of one will run faster. On the Amiga there are math libraries which WILL take advantage of an '881 should it exist. Most Amiga programs are written like that.
David, I thought that J.D. 0 was in 4713 B.C….. have to check my references again.
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Mark, What do you want one for?
I've heard of people having multiple Amigas sharing one disk on SCSI. You'll need to get details on this tho. Limit on addressable disk space…yes, current limits are 2gig files (probably 2gig disks (also).
Steve, In many cases just doing what the docs say is the best policy .
Kirk, Ok, we're working on the mnemonics. Are you SURE you want to make the status window show ALL the registers? What format???? As for shift-(del|backspace)… didn't know it was a 'standard' Haven't touched that code since 1986 when you couldn't even control the colors in a string requesters. I…
Steve, According to the AutoDocs on BltMaskBitMapRastPort: minterm – either (ABC|ABNC|ANBC) if copy source and blit thru mask or (ANBC) if invert source and blit thru mask So, I make it 0xE0…but simpler to #include and use the equation as written.
Kirk, What version do you have now? What support do you wish for 040? I think we've got most of it covered. MMU seems a bit specialized to me FPU is doable…messy, but doable.
Peter, Unfortunately, the current specification uses the word 'hint'. I concur, if it doesn't work absotively all the time, it's worthless.
Steve, You need to create the mask. If you've got 8 bitplanes, it takes 4 blits to do.
Bryan, Hehehehehe.
Brian, Which compiler are you using. Volatile doesn't always work with Borland C++ (yes, we filed a bug report and were told "well, it's only a HINT to the compiler)
Jim, re: "If a Quicken type program was available, would you buy it?" Yes
Brian, I may be fixed by now. I haven't had the energy to look lately (was too busy with the port of StarTrek)
Bryan, Well, the only 'available' one is my daughter. She's living with "friends" .
Bryan, re: "Was the best thing since sliced time" Still is, in my "humble" opinion.
Larry, I'm glad you like it…btw if you're always scanning for the printer/vinyl, scan at 1/1 (we'll scale it as we display it) and you won't get any artifacting when you go to final.
Brian, not essential because of DMA, it's essential in ANY multi-tasking system, IMO. As for why it's not there, ask Greg.
Jochen, Well, I found it, and "you're NOT going to like it." Additionally my reference only give one table up 'til the year 2000. I'm still looking tho (and it's VERY VERY messy)
John, Hmmm, I've never seen one that far off.
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Hydra users?
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John, Don't know. The only Hydra boards I've seen were AT Oxxi, not here.
John, In what program do you notice this? It's generally difficult to see exactly where the pointer is pointing at normal display resolutions.
Dom, Well, the CATS disk 'lets' you use the mouse.
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