This is an archive of CompuServe forum messages from 1985 to 1995, as saved in transcripts by John Foust.
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That is their right, but I can't see how it is their interest to keep the protocol to themselves. Open systems are supposed to be the current trend in computimg 🙂 Its not that I particularly want an Amiga version of CIM, I like Autopilot and have no desire to…
Any idea why they keep the HMI protocols to themselves ? If their main income is from providing online services surely they would benefit from making access to Compuserve easy on as many platforms as possible. Do they actually make a profit out of licencing HMI ? Peter Wade Autopiloting…
They wouldn't need to compile their libraries on an Amiga, just release the specification of their communication protocols to an Amiga developer. Whatever they are doing in HMI it basically comes down to two systems exchanging commands and data with an agreed protocol over a serial line. Any competent programmer…
If are reading input from a window you can get Intuition to give you keyboard events. If you don't want to wait for input then call GetMsg and if there is no input waiting it will return a NULL. Peter Wade Autopiloting from London, England
The CD "Demo II" from Almathera has Workbench and Parnet on it, and it works on the CD32. Are you saying that at AT->PS/2 will make a standard CD32 work with an IBM AT compatible keyboard ? Peter Wade Autopiloting from London, England
Reminds me of a team meeting in a project I was on once. The team leader asked how much more work needed doing on that 3 day job he had assigned at the last meeting, and the reply was "About a month". Peter Wade Autopiloting from London, England
Thats Ok, its quite a system. I've been using it a few months and I don't really know very much of it. Peter Wade Autopiloting from London, England
If you mean DMS the "Disc Masher" program, I think the only way you will be able to do this will be to unpack them on an Amiga and repack them with Zip or something similar. The DMS I am familiar with doesn't deal in files but reads the disc…
The declaration : int (*func) () ; means that func is a pointer to a function which returns an integer. In SAS C integers are 32 bit by default, unless you use certain compiler switches. Strictly speaking it is bad form in C to declare something just as int if…
Transfering files should not be a problem. If you have CrossDos on the Amiga it will read and write MS-DOS format discs. I think CrossDos comes free with Workbench 2.1. Alternatively you can connect the Amiga and the PC with a null-modem cable and use terminal emulator programs at each…
It is a directive to the compiler. It makes the compiler include code at the start of the function to load the address of the near data section into register a4. I think you only need to specify this for functions which are called from somewhere other than within your…
> What are Frontiers, Settlers and Skidmarks like? I like all three of them. Frontier and Settlers are what I would call "long term" games. There is a lot of strategy in them and they need plenty of long playing sessions to get into them. Both games have plenty of…
I've got a GVP A530 Turbo for my A500+. This gives me a hard disc, 40MHz 68030 and 4Meg 32 bit RAM (expandable to 8Meg), and it can all be switched off for games that don't like accelerators. I still wish I had waited, a month or so after I…
Why are you feeling sad ? I'm an Amiga 500+ user and I'm not sad. OK, I have got a CD32 as well, but I spend more time using my trusty old 500+. What sort of games do you like ? Peter Wade Autopiloting from London, England
There is good stuff available by mail order. Most of the shops that I have found concentrate on popular products that are likely to have a good turnover. There may be small specialist shops where you can find the serious stuff, I'd be interested to hear if anyone knows of…
Its difficult to find shops that carry much Amiga stuff these days apart from games. If you are after games, the big HMV shop in Oxford Street and the Virgin Megastore on the corner of Oxford Street and Tottenham Court Road stock quite a few. The only shop I know…
I'll have a look, but I'm rapidly losing confidence. Does RHCSLP and/or AMITCP include this TCP/IP protocol stack thing that Dale was talking about in his message ? I'm not a registered developer so I can't get things like AS225R2 out of Commodore and I'm not on Internet.
Sounds complicated. The reason I asked was because we've have been having problems trying to get our Sun system to work with ordinary logins via modems. When I mentioned seeing SLIP mentioned in the libraries here our local network expert said "If you've got SLIP you'll have no problems, I'll…
Last time I tried to go online myself I was lost in minutes. I've depended on Autopilot so long I can't remember how to use this system any more 🙂 Is there any way of updating the catalogue other than erasing Autopilot's catalogue files and requesting the whold lot again…
#Slip
Message #135698
I wonder if anyone could give me a bit of help about Slip. I have heard that this is a sort of TCP/IP connection that runs over serial connections. I want to run a VT100 emulator on my Amiga and dial a Unix system at work using Slip, is this…
#File ELVIS.LHA
Message #135697
I've just tried to download the file ELVIS.LHA from Library 7 but Autopilot says it cannot find the file. Has this file been removed or is it a problem with Autopilot or Compuserve ? Peter Wade Autopiloting from London, England
If you do decide on the Amiga, have a look at "Amiga Real-Time 3D Graphics" by Andrew Tyler from Sigma Press. This is full of assembler routines for creating 3D displays. Peter Wade Autopiloting from London, England
I've never used it, but I have heard that Hisoft's Pascal compiler is compatible with Borland's Turbo Pascal, apart from the object oriented extensions. Peter Wade Autopiloting from London, England
PC/286 Problem
Message #76186
I have just bought a GVP/PC286 PC emulator. I have an Amiga 500+ with a GVP A530 Turbo, 4M RAM in the GVP, 2M RAM in the Amiga and 120MB hard disc in the GVP. The Amiga is running 2.04 and it is a PAL machine. I have setup a…
A British supplier told me last week that they were expecting the CD32 module on the 17th March. Did they just make this up ? By the way, is the module likely to have an RGB video output ? The composite is OK for games but for displaying text it…
I'm pretty sure they made a point of not including the includes. That was probably one of the benefits you got if you used their cut price upgrade offer. I've probably got that disc lurking somewhere in these boxes, if I can find it and it has got the includes…
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Message #134354
Sorry, this has probably been covered already but I've missed the beginning of this thread. Is this configuration file and Arexx port documented anywhere ? I've looked in my "Using The Amiga Workbench" manual (version 2.04) and the only editor it even mentions is Memacs. Is the Arexx port in…
Sounds like this is an oddity of my setup, I'll just have to put up with it until I can afford a better monitor. By the way, do you know if this "S-Video" thing that the CD32 has is RGB ? If it is, can it be converted to Scart…
> The other question is, is it true that the newer 1084S's have the > RGB/Composite switch on the back? Pardon me for jumping in, but are you planning to use the RGB/Composite switch to select from two sources ? You might have a problem there if you plan to…
Octamed Version 5 has online help. If press the "Help" key while the program is running it comes up with an AmigaGuide screen and you can click on the highlighted words to get further information. If your Octamed is earlier than version 5 it should have a draw called "Docs"…
You don't get the Amiga OS include files with GNU C, just some generic C includes. The Amiga includes come with SAS and the registered version of DICE but not the shareware one.
Watching it here I kept thinking "that is just a joke, isn't it ?". The great thing about Francis in the first series was how he would plant ideas in a conversation without actually saying them. Then once his victim said what he wanted, he would finish with his catchphrase…
Octamed is a music program in the style of Soundtracker, but more advanced. It usually comes with instructions in a documentation file on disc. BTW if it is later than version 2.0 it is not Public Domain.
#King Ralph
Message #38896
I really enjoyed both of them, and they did almost ring true. Francis is just like the sterotyped Tory politician, and the King's attitudes sound very like what we expect from Prince Charles. His ex-wife looked the part as well. They said after the last episode that there would be…
Forbid() should lock out other tasks (but not interrupts) but if your program does a Wait() it will suspend the Forbid() state. According to the autodocs, any DOS or Device I/O can cause a Wait(). Peter Wade Autopiloting from London, England
No need for faxes yet, I'm only looking at options. I only just got my SAS 6.5 so I don't know how good it is yet. Come to think of it, I haven't actually learnt to program in C++ yet 🙂 Is this "AC" you mention "Amiga Computing" magazine ?…
Go easy on the kids. Didn't you used to do this sort of thing when you were young ? When I was a kid I used to wander around computer shows typing things on teletypes and getting them to repeat by feeding the tape from the punch into the reader…
As I understand it, volatile is supposed to tell the compiler that a variable may be changed by something outside the program being compiled. If the compiler was to ignore the hint, there is the danger of the optimiser making it miss changes in shared memory or hardware registers. To…
Hisoft do a Pascal compiler called "Highspeed Pascal". I haven't used it but I have heard it is mostly Turbo Pascal compatible but without the object oriented stuff. IMHO Hisoft stuff is usually good, and I expect it will be compatible with WB 3. I saw a PD Pascal compiler…
2) You might try buying an unsupported non-upgradeable copy of SAS 6.3. Everyone who upgraded to 6.5 has a full new set of manuals and disks and can sell their 6.3 without support or upgradeablility. Is that legal ? I thought that selling your old copy meant that you were…
I'm using Autopilot on a hires non-interlaced screen. I have found in the past that however much I fiddle with the colours, interlace flicker is still annoying. This might be because British Amigas run at 50Hz rather than the American 60Hz. The program works fine, although I'm probably wearing a…
Does your 100 series number mean you are calling from Great Britain ? If so, you might like to have a look at Amiga Shopper magazine. They are offering fully registered DICE with Amiga Includes and a beginners book on C for 25 pounds.
I don't think se does anything special about keys, it should be controlled by your keymap. On the British keyboard it is second row up, second from the right (not including return) shifted, but the German one may put it somewhere else. Peter Wade Autopiloting from London, England
Point systems for the Amiga usually come as two programs. I don't remember the terminology used, but one of them communicates with the BBS and the other one is what you use to read and write messages. They work together by exchanging files of packed messages. The program "Trapdoor" is…
I thought a there were a lot of familiar sounding names around here. Transactor lives, and with up to date technology. No old fashioned paper and printing presses for the Amiga Gurus 🙂
There are at least 3 of them. "Thats What I Call Games" volumes 1 and 2, and "Demos II". They have CD-32 front end programs that allow you to select a program using the CD-32 controller, although not all of them will run on the CD-32, and quite a few…
Liberation is a large 3D strategy+action game with lots of places to explore if you like that sort of thing. Labyrinth of Time looks interesting although I haven't played it much yet. These are both designed for CD-ROM. There are also a lot of AGA games which have been put…
If I may add my suggestions here, if you have access to something like SAS C you could have the best of both worlds. You can easily link modules written in SAS C with ones written in assembler. It comes with its own assembler, or if you don't like that…
I don't think the designers are deliberatly hiding things. In my opinion the Amiga design has the look of something descended from larger systems like Unix, rather than something that has grown from smaller systems like the C64. There is a tendency to do things in very "structured" ways. For…
Yes, and curiously enough it was Future Publishing that reported the cancellation of Amiga User's magazine. Wishful thinking on their part ? Peter Wade Autopiloting from London, England
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