This is an archive of CompuServe forum messages from 1985 to 1995, as saved in transcripts by John Foust.
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Thol: Given enough ram (especially chip ram), I don't see where there would be a problem. Just kick off the CanDO application from a cli command, and then control it with AREXX. (Or, for that matter, use AREXX to kick it off.) ?|^] Ray Lewis
Peter: BTW — I live in Brooklyn, NY, just south of the Brooklyn Bridge. If you happen to live anywhere near, I'd be ahppy to actually show you what I've been doing with AmigaVision. It's a lot easier than trying to describe it! ?|^] Ray Lewis
[ continuation ] software created it. There is a "quit" button to use if you don't want to hear the whole thing. If you clicked dtp, you would get a series of screen shots, with music played over, that told you the Amiga DTP story through the text being used…
[ continuation ] built in editor which permits you to create hot spots for mouse input, either invisible (for over a graphic), outlined, with text inside, or using a "brush" (i.e. a small graphic created in a paint program which is layered over the background text), and you can have…
[ continuation ] backbone for the integration of virtually any of your software into the application. 3) With AREXX, an interprocess communications and control environment this is currently thrid party software at about $50, but is an integral part of the version 2.0 operating system just now coming out from…
Peter: I'm not sure that there is a very straightforward way to cross develop this sort of thing between Amiga and MAC. But, not being knowledgeable in cross development, I'll leave that to others. My personal experience with AmigaVision is moderate — i.e. I have had it about two weeks,…
Luciano: As others have told you, if you have a postscript file, you need a postscript printer. However, there MAY be an alternative. I don't have PageStream, but I belive that, like Professional Page, it has a way to print "almost" postscript quality to a non-postscript printer. So, try this:…
Peter, Like I mentioned to John, I've seen notices about cross deveopment systems here in the libraries. Are these just code transformers, and not cross compilers, or what? ?|^] Ray Lewis
John: I'm not a user of these things, but I have noticed that there are around a half dozen C code formatters in the libs here. ARen't any of them worthwhile? r ?|^] Ray Lewis
John: How about this one: "Pain and tribulation are good for the soul." ?|^] Ray Lewis
In fact, it is in the "Getting Started" section. Next, it follows the heading "Hard Disk Instructions". Under "Hard Disk Instructions" it first has a section called "If you are using Workbench". Since I was putting it on a hard disk, and was using workbench, I did what they said.…
Well, someone [Thol I think] put that there. However, I have read, and re-read the actual question that generated the thread (silly me, doing such a thing as checking the source), and, I just can't see the words "simultaneous monitors" anywhere, or even anything close to it. Now, maybe that…
Bill: You can always use the ARP file requestor. Just use ClockDJ, and get ARP.library. Then you can "hot key" a file requestor, select a file, and when you hit return, the next time your click the mouse using your left mouse button, the file name will be printed out…
[ continuation ] selected products, or show folks how to do a "do-it-your-self" thingy that was interactive, and included REAL TIME animation!) ?|^] Ray Lewis
[ continuation ] DOT MATRIX printer) in Professional Page for all of about $190! Again, there ARE PD and shareware data base programs available here, or on PeopleLink, or on Bix. But, the commercial variety are very reasonably priced. For example, in the MSDOS world, SuperBase is getting a nice…
Mark: The first thing you need is a commercial program to convert MSDOS 3.5" disks to AmigaDOS format. Then you can dl to your clone, and, provided you can put the file on a 3.5" 720K formatted disk, you can read the dl'd software into your Amiga! OK — so…
Actually, screen sufflers are very handy. With ClockDJ, I just use Left Amiga M to cylce through the various screens I have up. And, since I usually like having each task running on its own full size screen, I use it a lot. (Naturally, your milage may vary!) ?|^] Ray…
Ethan: A friend from Japan sent me a set of OS disks which not only altered the system fonts, but made them entirely Japanese! Along with that he sent a MAC Japanese telecomm setup and word processor. It all works just fine with AMAX! (i.e. ALL menus, etc., on the…
Ron: Try ClockDJ instead. I don't seem to have the problems you do with ClockDJ using just about ALL its functions with a 2500/30 and at bridge at work. ?|^] Ray Lewis
Ben: They may not WANT help. It's amazing how, in the mass retail world, you can't tell the merchandising types ANYTHING. ?|^] Ray Lewis
A FEATURE! I believe you, but, geez, who'd 'a thunk CBM, of all people, would have stuck such a non-Amiga "feature" into a piece of software they themselves distribute! Seems to me they should have a very LARGE type WARNING page to alert us all to that "feature". ?|^] Ray…
Hilary: This is very strange. Unless there is something wrong with your operating system, redirection of output to the NIL: device should work just fine. All it does is throw away the stuff that command would normally write to your screen. Try this: open a cli or shell and type…
Edward: Another note: it seems, for some strange reason, that the extra letter you put in front of the name for the avf file or path MUST be an "a". I just cd'd to Amigavision:, and then tried: av eerinpic.avf Didn't work. However, when I used: av aerinpic.avf It worked…
Edward: In looking for an answer to your question, I ran into a very interesting bug in Amigavision! I have a very simple Amigavision file, which simply shows a picture painted by my granddaughter erin, and plays the looneytunes theme at the same time. Since I have my setup on…
Gee, John, you know that you can have two different screens visible on the same monitor at the same time. ?|^] Ray Lewis
In addition to what Thol tells you, if you use a flicker fixer with something like an NEC 3D, you can set yourself up such a large screen area that you can have your two tasks running in the top half of two diferent screens, and simply pull one screen…
Pat: Yes, that is what AmigaVision is. Most important, it has a very slick interface that permits you to do all that simply by moving icons around and filling in dialogue boxes. Most of the dialogue box fill-in is also automated for you, using built-in file requestors, lists of options…
Greg: Welcome back, and congratulations! I have one son, four daughters, 7 granddaughters and one gradnson. So, I think you got the best of the bargain, since, as you can see, around here we are partial to girls! ?|^] Ray Lewis
I had the impression that the main reason for the 800 number was to give users in the hinterlands someone to talk to to get through the basics — how to set up the hardware, what is a "startup-sequence", what is that window I get if I do "info" on…
Jack Radigan = 76545,201 ?|^] Ray Lewis
#118088-
#Printer HELP!!
Message #118153
Betty: Sorry to jump in on this thread, but I thought you could help me with something. A coworker asked me to drop a message in the ROOTS forum to help him locate the town from which an ancestor came in the 1700s. I set Whap! to join up and…
Make that a "gamma" version — commerical, but first generation commerical.
Andy Finkle dropped by here a while back to verify that this was a bug, and they were working on it. _IF_ I remember his messages correctly, he said that you should COPY the offending file under AmigaDOS 2.0, and port the COPY to DPIII running under 1.3. Try that…
I doubt there is any display mode that would come close to using 2 megs of chip to display a single screen. Where the extra chip ram is useful is when you have numerous things happening that all need chip ram. For example — at home, where I only have…
The fellow at Computability was right, he just didn't give you full information. The version of AmigaDOS 2.0 currently being shipped with the 3000 is a beta version, and is undergoing firaly constant upgrades, as the growing base of users put it through its paces. From what I hear, the…
The stock AMiga modes will work just fine with the RGB capabilities on your UltraScan. You may need a special cable, but they are readily available. The highest resolutions on the Amiga use interlace (which is why they are so easy to hook cheaply into video equipment). On a normal…
It might. I'm just learning about this stuff! Right now, I'm hooked into a novell net on the at bridge side. They have Oracle running on a Unix box, and I can link into it through Novell. I have the link up, and they were about to give me a…
Doug: A couple of thoughts: You might try AniMagic, but I suspect that you may have a bad header of some sort on the file. So, create a ten or twenty frame animation in DPaint, save it, make a copy, then load the original back into DPaint and deliberatly save…
Ron: I use PPage with Transcipt. I can write the raw text in transcirpt, then import it into PPage boxes for layout, etc. If, while in PPage setting this up, I need to edit the text, if Transcript is running the the background, I can select a block of text,…
Chris: Uedit, a shareware editor in the libs here, will do just about anything you want along that line. The demo version is fully usable, but doesn't have full docs or all the functions available. However, I know that it will do what you want in the demo version. ?|^]…
Yasushi: Tell me more! Here at my office in New York City, we have a person responsible for Japanese marketing for our company who is forced to use a very clumsy IBM Japanese word processing system. Who makes XED, how much does it cost, do you know if it is…
#117476-
When 2.0?
Message #117675
Jim: It might be possible to have both roms on board, with some kind of hardware hack to switch between them. Me, I'd rather do it in software, but, hey, if you don't mind hacking at the hard stuff, go for it! ?|^] Ray Lewis
Well, I suspect that the next 6 to 9 months will tell us all a lot about the Amiga and hard-core business applications, what with the Unix box coming out, the 3000, TCP/IP-Novell-DECNet hardware and software, etc. all coming out for the platform. Might just break the old chicken/egg problem,…
Re your SQL info: I'm just getting into Oracle at work, running on a UNIX box through a TCP/IP link to my AT BRidge, using a Novell setup as a sort of "shell". Will SB4, Novell flavor, permit me to work boack and forth with the Oracle setup, provided I…
BUT, _when_ can we expect Novell NetWare for the Amiga? (+- 60 days would be just fine.) Right now, I'm using an AT Bridgeboard and an MSDOS ethernet board to hook into Novell at work. Areading and Awriting are a PAIN! ?|^] Ray Lewis
Jamie: I'm jealous of your 3000! Oh well, maybe after the first of the year, we'll be able to get one on my wife's educational discount qualifications. ?|^] Ray Lewis
Tom: OTOH — I bought a 2000 in Nov. '87, added ram, a CBM 68020/20 with 2 megs 32 bit, an ASDG dual serial card, a second floppy, AMAX, MIDI capabilities, 2400 baud modem, GVP 40 meg Quantum hardcard — the ONLY problem I've had is when I was indeed…
Artist/anti-virus prog
Message #115757
Kevin: If a disk, or even a file on a disk, get's corrupted, you will often get a cmessage that says, "use diskdoctor to fix". Diskdoctor, a CBM supplied utility, if used, will makes some changes on the disk, and automatically rename it Lazarus (raised from the dead and all).…
#113238-
#Gov't Control of Copiers
Message #113612
Jim: _Forbes_ had a cover story a few months back on computer forgery. They gave some of their reporters some moderately expensive, but readily available, desk top computer/scanner/printer equipment. That, the right paper (which they found in Manhattan) and a couple low-tech hand tools permitted them to forge a $3,500…
Aha, caught in the cross fire, eh? ?|^] Ray Lewis
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