This is an archive of CompuServe forum messages from 1985 to 1995, as saved in transcripts by John Foust.
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Tom, 999 pounds would be around 1500 dollars. I log on to the Amiga fora at least once a day. MaxonCAD, I think, is a down-market CAD program. I'll check. I am connected with the CAD industry inasmuch as I am a journalist specializing in the Amiga and also a…
Arnie, Yes. I just checked. J213. The mere fact that it is there could be used as an argument that Commodore "promised" more chip RAM. Pete Jones, flying on AutoPilot from Brussels, Belgium
Tom, XCAD is now available on Unix, Pcs and Sun systems as well. I am about to do a review of it on a Sun Sparc workstation for a Belgian magazine, Having reviewed it on the Amiga a couple of years ago. Pete Jones, flying on AutoPilot from Brussels, Belgium
Paul, I seem to remember someone on the forum asking about a jumper on the 4000 motherboard for 2MB or 8MB chip RAM. If I didn't image it, then that would seem to be a firm enough 'promise'. Pete Jones, flying on AutoPilot from Brussels, Belgium
Peter, It's dog eat dog in the publishing world. Pete Jones, flying on AutoPilot from Brussels, Belgium
Peter, That puts them head to head with the CD32 Mag from Future Publishing, then. Pete Jones, flying on AutoPilot from Brussels, Belgium
Brian, It was a photocopy of a page from the Gallup Weekly Report, given to me by the boss of Commodore Belgium. Gallup is an old-established company in the U.K. which does market research, surveys and polls. It was probably faxed to him from Commodore UK. Maybe one of our…
Steve, Thanks for that. Gallup Weekly Report 29 Jan. % Unit Sales for CD-based machines in U.K. Previous week Amiga CD32 34.6 33.1 Sega Mega-CD 32.8 38.8 PC CD-ROM 28.1 26.1 Philips CD-I 4.0 2.0 Pete Jones, flying on AutoPilot from Brussels, Belgium
#CO Transcript
Message #130643
Michael, I know we have to wait for the transcript, but how about a few tidbits to be going on with? Pete Jones, flying on AutoPilot from Brussels, Belgium
Bill, :-^ By car from Brussels: Paris – 2h30; Amsterdam – 2h; Aachen – 1h15. Who need to jet set? Pete Jones, flying on AutoPilot from Brussels, Belgium
Paul, Check around. Amiga World certainly gets as far as Belgium and the Netherlands. I'd be surprised if it didn't make it to Germany as well. Pete Jones, flying on AutoPilot from Brussels, Belgium
John, Don't forget Belgium. Pete Jones, flying on AutoPilot from Brussels, Belgium
I haven't checked, but on the disk it says DiskMaster 2. This probably means that when I read the magazine description of it I shall find that DiskMaster 3 has just been released, and that since I am the owner of DM 2 I can upgrade for only xxxxx pounds!…
Brian, I took it on trust at the time, they are reliable people, but it's a fair question. I shall ask and report back. Pete Jones, flying on AutoPilot from Brussels, Belgium
Leslie, DiskMaster2 has just been released on a cover disk by the British magazine Amiga Format (January 94 issue). I understand that the magazine is available in the States. Pete Jones, flying on AutoPilot from Brussels, Belgium
Brian, Can't say for the Toaster, but I swapped my original motherboard for a 4.5 version on the advice of friends at Commodore, who preferred it to other versions, up to and including 6.x. Pete Jones, flying on AutoPilot from Brussels, Belgium
Jan, My upgrade has just arrived and I have yet to install it in my A4000/40. Can you tell me what version of the sofware you received which finally worked? It may save me trying to run the bum version. Hope I don't need to replace my motherboard! Thanks. Pete…
Chris, It actually reboots the 1200 into 1.3. You get the 1.3 screen asking for a disk. Pete Jones, flying on AutoPilot from Brussels, Belgium
Ron, A German company called Arxon sell an intelligent switch boxthat will allow parnet and the printer to be connected at the same time. Wolf Faust's Studio program supports this box. Pete Jones, flying on AutoPilot from Brussels, Belgium
Don, I should have said "kickstart on hard disk". I do have a kickstart on floppy, though, and did try it. No luck. A friend at Commodore Belgium muttered something about co-processor problem, so I am going to sling it back and let the technicians have a look. thanks for…
#Yellow screen blues
Message #125661
My A3000 is refusing to talk to me. It is one of the early ones with the kickstart on disk. It starts up ok, but after the message "loading kickstart 2.x, reboooting system", the rebooting starts, the screen turns yellow, the power light flashes a few times and the screen…
Thanks for the info. I have meanwhile downloaded VC33 and shall give it to my young friend. Trying to sort out somebody's virus problems from a distance is really difficult!
Karl, Thanks, Shall do. I have a desperate student on my hands! Pete Jones, flying on AutoPilot from Brussels, Belgium
#Jeff 2 Virus
Message #124751
I posted the following message on 4 December. So far no reply. Is there really nobody out there who can help? >A young friend of mine is having trouble with viruses. He has an A500 without hard disk. Using VirusX 4.4 he is told that the Australian Parasite Virus was…
Chris, There is stuff for the Amiga over in the Ham radio forum. Pete Jones, ON9CUK, KC4TFV, flying on Autopilot from Brussels, Belgium
Lu, Supra maked very little effort at promoting the Amiga software for its modems. The full page advert on the back of CompuServe magazine talks about PC and Mac, but no mention of Amiga. None of its advertising seems to. Pete Jones, flying on AutoPilot from Brussels, Belgium
Jeff 2 Virus
Message #123889
A young friend of mine is having trouble with viruses. He has an A500 without hard disk. Using VirusX 4.4 he is told that the Australian Parasite Virus was found in memory and has been disabled. The Link Protector virus killer tells him that "Jeff 2 has been found and…
Download Trouble
Message #123865
Brian, Yes, Term can be set to start the download automagically. It is set in the Transfer Protocol menu, after having selected XPRQUICKB in the Transfer menu. Of course, there is always AutoPilot. Pete Jones, flying on AutoPilot from Brussels, Belgium
Gary, There is a class 2 Generic GPFAX AND a class 2 Supra specific version. I have the Generic version for my Zoom modem. There is also, as you say, a class 1 version available. Pete
Donovan, Sorry. I expressed myself badly. I was thinking back to that long period and thinking that if they are already saying "in a few weeks" it might be the same story as before. Let's hope not. Pete Jones, flying on AutoPilot from Brussels, Belgium
Karl, I was afraid of that. A-Max II Plus had a similarly long gestation period. Pete Jones, flying on AutoPilot from Brussels, Belgium
Karl, I faxed my order to ReadySoft yesterday. I hope it comes soon! Pete Jones, flying on AutoPilot from Brussels, Belgium
I have just received the upgrade offer from ReadySoft. the 120 dollar upgrade offer for A=Max II Plus owners makes no specific mention of chips. It just refers to a Color Upgrade Kit. What is interesting is that all of these super new features are apparently available with the existing…
Craig, I have an A520 in front of me. I have never used one. This was inherited. It has an RF out and a switch marked L and H on the front (I assume that is to select two different RF channels. On the side are two phono sockets marked…
Kurt, Thanks. Looks as though I'll be upgrading! Pete Jones, flying on AutoPilot from Brussels, Belgium
Karl, Does it take over the machine, or is it an Amiga task? Pete Jones, flying on AutoPilot from Brussels, Belgium
Charlie, Small correction. C= has not closed completely in Holland, though it is considerably reduced in size, and has the same Managing Director as the Belgium company. Pete Jones, flying on AutoPilot from Brussels, Belgium
Thanks for the info. My editor is very keen for me to do a review of Warp. On another subject, have you sent out the VistaLite manuals yet? Nothing received here.
#Warp Transputer Board
Message #121808
Does anybody know what is happening with the Warp transputer board? I left an E-Mail for Khalid Aldoseri a couple of weeks ago, but so far have had no reply.
I was there on Sunday. It was crowded. Apparently they had to lock the doors on Saturday as the hall was so full! Yet I hear that the Amiga is not doing so well in Germany? Somebody's wrong.
Darron, Yes, that is true, but only PC-compatible machines, which will be handled by Acer using the Commodore brand name. Amiga stays with Commodore. Pete Jones, flying on AutoPilot from Brussels, Belgium
Good to hear. I am a good friend of Dirk Verhetsel, who has just started working for Scala here in Brussels. I was enthusing to him about CompuServe and its advantages.
Yesterday I suggested to a friend here who has just starting working for Scala that the company does just that – set up in AmigaVendor. He thought that it was a good idea.
A week or so ago, I had a hard disk problem. This meant that I lost some downloaded messages before I had a chance to read them. Seeing your name reminded me that I read part of a reply from you to my message about the Koln Messe. I just…
Betty, This same problem has been reported several times before, me being responsible for one. I put AP on a friend's 1200 and the only way to get it past the Host prompt was to click the window to active, and press the return key. The rest of the sequence…
As a journalist, I am afraid I can't reveal my sources. You may rest assured, however, that it doesn't get any farther than me. I am not about to bite the hand that feeds me!
Steve, I wonder if we are comparing the same thing? You wouldn't like to select a specific icon and try to describe it exhaustively, would you? Pete Jones, flying on AutoPilot from Brussels, Belgium
Redmond, Shall do, as soon as I get the 1200 back from the magazine photographer who is taking a pretty picture of it for my article.
Steve, I am using workbench 3.1 and have the same problem. Same blue-grey muted colour scheme, but totally different when I view thru Opus. Only thing is, I think the Opus-viewed icons are garish! 🙂 Pete Jones, flying on AutoPilot from Brussels, Belgium
The 1230XA I reviewed also bowed the trapdoor slightly. Not as much as described by Joe, but noticeable.
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