This is an archive of CompuServe forum messages from 1985 to 1995, as saved in transcripts by John Foust.
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Don, not necessarily. If you can only have up to (say) 16 colours on the screen at one time, but can draw from a palette of (say) a zillion colours, then the 16 you use can all be taken from the range that lies between two neighbouring colours in the…
Rich, one package that might help you is called "LaserUp! Print 1.2" from a company called S. Anthony Studios in San Francisco. It can output any IFF file in PostScript form, and also does 4-colour separations. The address is: S. Anthony Studios, 889 De Haro St., San Francisco, CA 94107,…
Mike, I believe Examine() wants a Lock, which _is_ a BPTR… so presumably the multiply by 4 is unnecessary and that's causing the guru. Nick
Erv, DeviceProc() should return an address for everything except a non-existent device (like "foo:"), after you click CANCEL in the "Please insert volume foo" requester; and for "nil:". Given a directory or file name, existent or not, you will get the address of the file-handler for the device where the…
Rick: well, I _told_ you it was something earlier in the code. 🙂 Like the dog in the Sherlock Holmes story, it's often harder to obvious thing that's missing than the subtle thing that's there. Nick
That's correct… I allocate with 0L for the memory type more often than not, and it behaves as you describe. I've also used AllocRemember lots of times with no crashes, so it _does_ work. The only problem I saw in your example was that you didn't declare AllocRemember() itself (char…
Right. Forgot about Pharos… Phidias' Zeus, temple of Artemis and King what's-is-name's mausoleum I would never have come up with. If it had been me, I would have stretched a point, had _8_ wonders of the world, and included the Sphinx… really, they're by no means as easy to build…
Umm, well there's a problem, you see. The "Seven Wonders of the World" are also known as the "Seven _Ancient_ Wonders of the World"… and some of them are unfortunately so ancient that they no longer exist. The Hanging Gardens of Babylon and the Colossus of Rhodes are both in…
Hmmm… you could be right. One thing I'm not sure of at this point is how tight the focus on programming in TransAmi is going to be. If we decide to stay a strictly programming magazine, it would follow that any graphics (or music, for that matter) stuff we do…
TransAmi's looking good, Greg… still some minor details to attend to (like editing all those articles, putting together a cover, and 4 or 5 thousand other things) but we're very hopeful of getting it out on time. Only problem is, what are we going to put in issue 2, since…
Pretty close, Greg! They're called Filenotes, and you set them with the Filenote command. I believe the ARP version of the Copy command _does_ copy filenotes unless you specify otherwise with a command line option… this provides a fourth possibility in addition to the three you mentioned in your message.…
Steve, this is not exactly an impartial recommendation, but if you're interested in Amiga programming you might want to take a look at the file TRANS.TXT in DL2, which gives details about "Transactor for the Amiga", a new magazine to be launched in January. Nick
Rick, to modify the object I used Joe Bostic's text editor AEdit, which has the very neat capability of reading in a binary file as hex (with the Ascii off to the right as per usual) then writing it out again as binary after you've played with it. Very good…
Okay, here's more… I just changed those bytes in the executable and it does now get the config file from s:. Much nicer. In the process, I found out that its system for filing all those support files is a little bizarre. You know that window where you specify filing…
Mysteriouser and mysteriouser. I have the colour file defined as trm:Acc!.color (trm: being a virtual device somewhere in the bowels of my HD), and it finds it no problem. I can only think of a couple of things, primarily mistakes I doubt you'd make… such as, you don't _really_ have…
Rick, about getting Access! to load custom colours… It looks for the file called Acc!.color (I think) in the directory you've specified in the config file. I tried that a little while ago with one of the colour files in the arc package and it worked fine. Nick
Great, Brad. If you do make it, stop by the Transactor booth and say hello. Nick
Brad, I'm not sure but I think the dates for World of Commodore are Dec 3-6 (it'll be a Thursday through Sunday, anyhow)… and it's at the International Centre, which is right beside the airport. This will be the 5th year it's been held, and it's usually quite a good…
Ben, I realize you and Richard are at opposite poles in your current discussion, and that you have a battery of further arguments, but your comments are inadequately grounded both in fact and philosophy. What started as a source of amusement has become off base and a drain on our…
Tom, are you implying that you get a large number of Amiga programmers before you on criminal charges? Maybe that accounts for the frequent delays in getting Amiga software to market. 🙂 Nick
In case it ever comes up, Chris, let me add another vote for the Comspec board, which I've had in virtually constant use for about a year. Like Vic, I've had no troubles at all. Nick
Don, Strictly for the sake of the historical record: though Brian originally did make the statement that the dongle was being used at the instigation of his backer, he later defended it quite vigorously – in at least one message – from a perspective that was clearly his own. I…
Great… maybe I'll hold off on trying to learn Xlisp myself until I see your article. 🙂 Looking forward to it. Nick
Jim, I've checked into it, and it turns out that taking a sub via E-mail is no problem. Address it to me, include your Visa or Mastercard number and expiry date, and of course the address where the magazines are to be sent. By the way, the cost of the…
Sure, Jim, got your capture buffer open? 🙂 The address for "Transactor for the Amiga" subscriptions is: Transactor Publishing Inc. 85 West Wilmot Ave #10 Richmond Hill, Ontario Canada L4B 1K7 Or call (416) 764-5273, 9-5 EST. I'm not sure if we are able to take Visa and Mastercard orders…
Okay, Tom, I've got that marked on my calendar – I won't get taken by surprise. There seems to be a crucial phrase or two missing from your message; did you mean that the last positron and the last electron will be orbiting each other with an orbital diameter greater…
I was referring to "neutronium". From other replies, I gather it's a standard term, at least in the science fiction community… so if you _do_ have a copyright on it, Rick, you'd better speak up. 🙂 Nick
Oh, by the way, I expect we _will_ be running quite a bit of Modula-2 stuff – we already have a couple of people working on M2 articles for early issues. Nick
Okay, Michel. Good luck. Nick
Mike, that is a complication. Transactors supplied to TPUG members are handled completely differently than Transactors you buy from us. Basically, we just sell TPUG so many copies per issue, and they alone are responsible for what happens to them after that. I'm not sure if we are able to…
(Jumping in) Michel, yes the ReadySoft emulator is reportedly compatible with memory expansion. Nick
Thanks, Michael. The limited Amiga coverage in the current Transactor has been frustrating for us too – there's always been more we wanted to put in. Let us know if there's anything you'd particularly like to see covered in the new magazine. Nick
Mike, just give us a call (416-764-5273) or send in a sub card from the next issue of the 8-bit Transactor, which will have a place to check off if you want to switch to the new one. Won't cost you anything. Nick
Jim, I don't know for sure how much we'll be paying for articles, but so far I gather it'll be a minimum of $80/magazine page. We have a writers' guide for the 8-bit magazine, but haven't had time to do one for the Amiga magazine yet. When we do, I'll…
Yes, here's a quote from the hardware manual: "If the self-test failed for any reason (…) it blinks the CAPS LOCK LED to inform the user of the failure. The blinks are coded as bursts of one, two, three, or four blinks, approximately one burst per second. One blink =…
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The Amigans P.O. Box 411, Hatteras, N.C. 27943 Membership (they call it that rather than a subscription) is $24 US per year in the US and Canada, $34 US elsewhere. The membership form in the AA&J asks for the number of drives and the type of printer you use, besides…
The Amigans P.O. Box 411, Hatteras, N.C. 27943 Membership (they call it that rather than a subscription) is $24 US per year in the US and Canada, $34 US elsewhere. The membership form in the AA&J asks for the number of drives and the type of printer you use, besides…
Jim, just want to echo your applause for the Amigan, the least pretentious and least known of the Amiga-specific publications, and the only one I always read cover to cover. Dick Barnes (the editor) writes the most thorough articles and reviews I've seen for our computer, and he neither pulls…
Jim, just want to echo your applause for the Amigan, the least pretentious and least known of the Amiga-specific publications, and the only one I always read cover to cover. Dick Barnes (the editor) writes the most thorough articles and reviews I've seen for our computer, and he neither pulls…
Um, could be… it would be a little off our turf, since we focus mostly on programming. Maybe when Joergen Thomsen gets back on here we could ask him for an article on the theory and practice of printer drivers, with a sidebar or something on how PrtDrvGen works and…
Um, could be… it would be a little off our turf, since we focus mostly on programming. Maybe when Joergen Thomsen gets back on here we could ask him for an article on the theory and practice of printer drivers, with a sidebar or something on how PrtDrvGen works and…
That's interesting. What is the nature of the repulsive force that would re-differentiate the neutrons? I've always had the idea that what kept the electrons in an atom from collapsing in on the nucleus – i.e. succumbing to the attraction of the protons there – was simply their energy of…
That's interesting. What is the nature of the repulsive force that would re-differentiate the neutrons? I've always had the idea that what kept the electrons in an atom from collapsing in on the nucleus – i.e. succumbing to the attraction of the protons there – was simply their energy of…
Greg, are you saying that if I push my mouse across my desk the far end of the mouse moves later than the near end by an amount proportional to the speed of sound in the mouse? Sounds unlikely to me. Nick
Greg, are you saying that if I push my mouse across my desk the far end of the mouse moves later than the near end by an amount proportional to the speed of sound in the mouse? Sounds unlikely to me. Nick
Don, yes, I read that one too. It was a neat idea – it depended on the instability of a total vacuum, which takes a little getting used to. Nick
Don, yes, I read that one too. It was a neat idea – it depended on the instability of a total vacuum, which takes a little getting used to. Nick
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