This is an archive of CompuServe forum messages from 1985 to 1995, as saved in transcripts by John Foust.
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Thanks Jack, I'll give it a try. ?|^] Ray Lewis
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#No local Amiga dealer
Message #113474
No Greg, BEtty is located in a Dallas suburb called Fort Worth (he said, ducking frantically 🙂 ?|^] Ray Lewis
Gee, Tom, Desk Top Publishing, Video and Presentation ARE NOT recreational, they are very serious business uses of a computer! I use all of them all the time at work, on my Amiga 2500/30. Also, there isn't much you can't do with an Amiga, using inexpensive and available software. 99%…
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#JR-Comm!!!
Message #113472
Jack: I finally dl'd the JR-Comm 1.0 evaluation file, and am playing with it. Seems real nice so far. One thing: You like to have the DCD (carrier detect) signal to only come on when there realy IS a carrier to detect (as opposed to the normal Hayes compatible setting…
Ethan: You can make all the copies you want of a magazine you own, so long as you are the only person using them. Indeed, so long as you adhere to the "fair use" rules, you can even give a few away. ?|^] Ray Lewis
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Lotus Wins Lawsuit
Message #113470
Hmmmm…. Wonder what would have happened if Borland had simply put out a fully configurable program, and a _USER_ had set up a freely distributable Lotus command clone module? Geez, whoever set up those command modules for UEDIT which mimic commercial word processors better have good lawyers! ?|^] Ray Lewis
Hilary: The cheapest way would be to find a used 68020 board with a couple four megs of 32 bit ram on it (make sure it has a math chip and an mmu, as well, but most do). The 32 bit ram is essential to the speed, so make sure…
Roger: I think that "custom color" is a device that lets you create printing plates for special inks on a professionally printed job. Let's say you had certain text and or graphic elements you wanted to print in a special silver ink. You would have them set up in your…
Well, I think I heard that Lotus was going after Quattro Pro next, for exactly that reason. I noted with interest that Quattro Pro had an ad in the Wall St. Journal this week showing their windows next to 1-2-3 windows, with the message being that there was very little…
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A2000 Accelerators
Message #113026
I haven't used the third party boards, but be advised that GVP's boards are NOT cheaper. They are more expensive. BUT, based on their advertising and the comments of the folks around here, they have higher performance. They may also have a few things you need to work around, as…
Do you have a TIFF module? ?|^] Ray Lewis
[ continuation ] video, with the right equipment. The interface is really slick. Instead of involved script languages, you assign various sounds, scores, graphics, text and/or graphics to icons. The icons, if I remeber correctly, sometimes have menus to fill out (show how many times, how loud should it be,…
Michelle: Amiga Vision is a program which lets you build interactive, multimedia presentations/applications easily. Now, what does THAT mean? Well, it means that you can combine animations, music, sound, still graphics, etc. into an INTERACTIVE setup, which even has a built-in database function, and do this, with perfect timing, simply…
jamie: One way to go is to use HIJAAK on an MSDOS machine. It is commercial software, costs around $100, and converts many different IBM and MAC graphics formats among each other, and to and from IFF and GIF, as well. (Doesn't do HAM IFF, but, for ProPage, you wouldn't…
Bruce: The best and most complete information on the IFF format is in one of the new Rom Kernal Manuals. Next time you are in youlocal dealer, (or SW ETC, for that matter) see if they have it. (There are two or three, but this section is an appendix in…
Geez Ben, this is a family forum, quit talking about how big your dongle is. ?|^] Ray Lewis
I dunno, maybe it is an ADD ON to the xt BB, similar to, but more compatible than, your SOTA. At a decent cost, you could sell a lot of something like that, and make a bunch of xt BB owners not only happy, but keep them away from buying…
Interesting. I thought I was the only one with that kind of setup (save for Tom Holaday, who helped me get setup, but I don't think he's on Novell). Where are you located? I'm in the financial district in NYC, around the South Street Seaport. I don't know that much…
[ continuation ] of my NEC, I constantly have folks come in and ask me to play their favorite music while I work 😉 ?|^] Ray Lewis
Russ: Once you have the Amiga BB set up, it's very simple. In fact, I have my BB window come up as part of my startup sequence. Since I'm running it as a separate 16 color CGAstype screen, it comes up just before the workbench, and then the workbench load…
I know lots of folks have run Prodigy on the BB, and I know I can run windows on it. 1-2-3 is no problem. Wordperfect is no problem. Don't know Express Publisher. If it's an IBM/MSDOS desk top publisher, it probably costs more than ProPage run on the Amiga side…
Ron: I close PCWindow (in my case, a full, 16 color screen) ALL THE TIME, to get extra chip ram. All it does is close. It doesn't effect the BB at all. in fact, I usually close it while I'm hooked up to the Novell net, and when I reopen…
Well, what I'm talking about is creating two separate HAM images that are then merged together to create an animation by AniMagic. Essentially, each "frame" of the animation is automatically created using brushes from one image superimposed over the other, the final image is then "delta"d by the software versus…
Chris: Usually, if you run that colortext program, it will intercept the normal screen text routines and permit you to use color fonts in most any paint program. Normally, you will have your color fonts in their own file, separate from your normal fonts directory. At least I do. So,…
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#Terminal Emulation
Message #111797
Chuck: I don't know what D410 is. What do you use it for? To do telephone-line connection to something? What platform, and what software do you need to connect to? FYI, I got an Amiga 2500/30 with all the trimmings (105 meg Quantum 4 megs 32 bit ram, flicker fixer…
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One Monitor or Two?
Message #111796
Russ: What kind of MSDOS programs do you want to run? I have an AT Bridge on my Amiga 2500/30 at work, mainly to give me access to our Novell net. I run 1-2-3 and Wordperfect on it, as well as run a Windows-based fax-server. It also lets me run…
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dBase files on Amiga?
Message #111793
As I said, I haven't used it, and the reviews said the first versions were a problem. However, I have seen some good reviews on the latest version. Have no idea if they are right, tho. ?|^] Ray Lewis
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Amiga multimedia store
Message #35953
Scott: Most of this stuff comes with demos and tutorial sections that take very little time to be able to use for sales purposes. Then, as you play around with them, you find even more things you can do, and can really gt out and fully demonstrate the software. It…
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PC video vs. Amiga video
Message #111536
Ethan: I'm far from an expert on HAM, but I think, based on my experience, you only have half the story. ONe thing I've noted using TAD is that, if you want two HAM pictures to be compatible, you have to get a set of 16 colors, in a specific…
I would see two things happening. 1) Sensors which would "see" traffic jams (this is almost certainly going to come some day, it's just a matter of when, 'cause it's fairly trivial from an engineering point of view to sense how many vehicles there are in an intersection, and whether…
[ continuation ] Gorka, Pierce Pettis, David Massengill and Josh Joffen. In addition, there are a bunch of really great writer/performers who are mainly known regionally like Rod MacDonald, Jack Hardy, Frank Tedeso, Tom Intondi and a wonderful group called Left Field. Then there are folks who you wold know…
Scott: I thought I was using the "comment" button on Whap! correctly, but I guess I wasn't. Yeah, I promosed to send you some stuff, and blew it. Sorry. I have put together some interesting things. How much ram do you have? Do you have the 1 meg Angus? (The…
What iff image resolutions do you support? Can it generate convincing landscapes in hi-res interlace? ?|^] Ray Lewis
Hector: Jump over to AmigaArts. You can edit that prolog file to fix it on any text editor, but I can't remember exactly which line to edit. I do remember, however, that there were some messages over there several months ago which said how. If I were you, I'd post…
Chris: I have saved all the information you sent me, and you will definitely be hearing from me when we get a bit further into this. Over the next two months, I plan to work up some samples using ProPage, based on ads we've done in the past. I'm sure…
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#A500 Expandibilty
Message #109378
Andy: I'm thinking of getting an Amiga 3000. I live in Brooklyn. I currently have an Amiga 2000 with a 40 meg Quantum SCSI hard drive mounted directly on a GVP driver card, 2 internal floppy drives, 2 megs of 16 bit ram, and a Commodore 68020 accelerator with 2…
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#CDTV in my Vehicle
Message #109374
Of course the ultimate integration would be to have such a system telecommunicate with a citywide "traffic report" system, which would keep the system up to date on blocked streets, traffic jams, utility and construction work, etc. Not here yet, but could be here in 5 to 10 years. Imagine…
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CDTV Software Wishlist
Message #109373
Well, if they don't provide their own ways to capturing/printing the data, you can be sure that there will be plenty of third party folks who will figure out ways to do it. Better that the industry do it first, and do it responsibly, than for them to give our…
Kevin: Quite a bit of the material for these kinds of things is already standing. Here in NYC, for example, when the Metropoliton Art Museum has a special show, they generally have a "walking tour" tape you can rent, with earphones and player, that takes you through the exhibition. They…
I agree that you wouldn't want to do this with a new, large novel. (i.e. make a version with interactive sound and graphics). But I think it would work quite well for shorter pieces of "classic" fiction, especially mysteries and some types of sci fi. For example, in mysteries, quite…
Scott: Give me a "for instance" example of what you might want to do. A sort of script of a short presentation. Then I might be able to explain how you would use various pieces of software to do it, and some info on what each item costs. ?|^] Ray…
[ continuation ] very fast animated transition (I peeled another graphic off of the logo, just like on TV!) Anyway, my "normal" computing needs only require simple data basdes, simple spread sheets, and moderately powerful word processiing. I have all that on Amy. In addition, I have ProPage, ProDraw, etc.…
Scott: The main reason I got the AMAX was to have compatibility with the editor of Fast Folk Musical Magazine. He creates the written portion of each issue on a MAC (it is a 12 inch lp with a dozen new songs, plus a printed b&w magazine with articles, the…
Now Ben, don't go telling us to forget the name Ben Blish. Quite a few of us spent many great hours with your dad's wonderful sci fi! ?|^] Ray Lewis
Adolfo: I think there is a utility in Amiga Arts forum's graphics utilities library that converts at least one MAC file format to Amiga IFF. There are some commercial programs which convert a number of IBM and MAC graphics formats to Amiga IFF, as well. At least one of them…
Well, in that case, I guess you would have to have enough of them up there to have continuous coverage of the area involved by at least one at all times. Since this is something used by the milatary, I would assume that they would want this to be the…
Well, how about a collection of classic sci fi stories, or mysteries? I can think of lots of ways interactive animation, graphics and sound would spice that up. The raw material already exists. You just add the graphics and sound. (Example — the collected Nero Wolfe stories, or Asimov's robot…
Steve: The way I got an Amiga 2500/30 at work was to take my 2500/20 from home into the office, and do a hands-on demonstration to the head of DP AND my immediate boss. I then told then that the AT Bridge, with an ethernet card, would let me use…
John: Ask Mike Berro about edit bays and transport controllers, etc. I believe that Amiga systems can be used to do what you want, but I seem to remember system prices in the $15K range. ?|^] Ray Lewis
Mike: Are you running a larger than usual screen? Perhaps using morerows? I've found that I have to set my screen back to 640 x 200 to run some older "movie" animations. ?|^] Ray Lewis
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