This is an archive of CompuServe forum messages from 1985 to 1995, as saved in transcripts by John Foust.
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Ron: This product will allow access to the MS-DOS hard disk? I'm not talking about an AmigaDOS partition, but rather direct access to the MS-DOS portion (in my case, that's the whole drive) of the drive? Is there really that big a question of if it will be produced? -Mike
Ray: I tried to import some EPS files into propage and for some reason they wouldn't print out on dot matrix printer. Is that supposed to be that way, or did I do something wrong? I'm using an MS-DOS program that's supposed to convert GIF files to EPS, then moving…
Aaron: Yes, now you're on track, Economics is a SHAM! We (John Q Public) generally don't have much say on anything. This country as well as most all (including Comunist ones) is basically geared towards those with 'the power' as opposed to all the rest. If there are any government…
Ray: You're using it with fastrom ON? I was under the impression that it wouldn't run that way. As a matter of fact when I tried to run it that way my system died (crashed) and i had to reboot. my system is: A2000 A2620 w/4 megs Supra Wordsync w/ST157N…
Jim: How do you boot from the virtual drive?? -Mike
You could also buy a 2088 bridgeboard (8088, 4.77 mhz) and adding a 386 accellerator card to it. I have the 2088 and so far havn't added a speedup card (although I havn't used it for many proccessor intensive apps yet). These days 2088's are getting very cheap (I paid…
Don: Now that I have it up and running, is there any way of accessing the drive from AmigaDOS other than the Aread/Awrite programs? I have CrossDOS and was hopeing that there was some way I could add a mountlist entry for the drive using Jdisk.device and MSDOSFileSystem ? any…
Jay: What movie was that? (Slim riding the H bomb) I remember parts of the movie, but all of it, and the name escape me. Thanks… -Mike
Don: I got the drive up and running today after replacing the controller card with another WD one (the ROM was bad) and also I had the drive selected as drive 2 not 1, fixed that, and the drive/controller works fine now. Thanks -Mike
Geez… I don't think I could handle more than one monitor at a time! As it is now, I need a custom desk (havn't gotten it yet though) to hold all the disk dri drives, AB switches, scanners, etc that I have hooked up to this thing! -Mike
How does it compare with flickerfixer/multisync combo both proformance wise, and price wise??
James: Is there any way to reprogram 3.0 (or possibly a future revision) to have any keyboard commands you like? There are several shareware editors out there (DME – Matt Dillion , UEdit -Rick Stiles I think?) that let you completely reprogram the keyboard commands, and while I love Prowrite,…
James: Can you tell me what the heck IS a style sheet anyway?? I've heard of them before from my days with MS-DOS (looks like those days might come back as I've just upgraded to A2000 w/bridgeboard) and always wondered what a style sheet is. -Mike
Jay: What is a Moniterm? is that a special monitor with special software? or is it just a prerelease of 1.4?? -Mike
Betty: Ahh, then the question should be this– is it possible to make a drive like the amig-a-tosh (apple style drive) read & write amigados format????? -Mike
Allen: One possibility is CLuI (Command Line user Interface), or of course you could call it a Command Line Interface (CLI) or perhaps the PUI (Prompted User Interface) etc… Actually I don't think there really is a "generic" term for the CLI, as it's more of the traditional cryptic interface…
Brian: One nice thing about the Amax as it presently is: You can use your Amiga drivesas if they were Mac drives, although the format isn't right. What they do is have a completely different format that isn't quite Amigados, and isn't quite Mac dos (or whatever it's called) but…
Lee: Is there a way on the 2088 Bridgeboard to have both the mono and color windows open? For some reason, I can't open the mono window at all. when it comes up, it's a full screen, but is a dead screen, as in no MS-DOS in it. The color…
Justin: Are the .metric files different for ProPage, than say ProScript or Pagestream? -Mike
Justin: {Warning: Dumb question follows:} What is the main difference between Postscript fonts, and Compugraphic fonts? -Mike
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Prowrite's Future
Message #15592
Jim: I doubt that you'll see 1 program that EVERYONE likes on any platform! I know that WordPerfect is ONE of the favorites on MS-DOS, but then there are those (like myself) that wouldn't giveup WordStar if their life depended upon it! -Mike
#IFF to ProDraw?
Message #29994
Can Interchange take an IFF file and convert it to ProDraw? I've been told that there is some round about way to do this, but thought I'd ask you if Interchange can do it directly.
Can your fonts also be used with Professional Page??
Why do you say unfair advantage? It seems to me that the reason that Gold Disk paid for the rights to the font tech was to have that advantage and the last time I checked, the capitalistic systems runs that way.
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#Activating Agnus?
Message #90133
The mod you found, is that the one that say's to put a +5 volt line to the Gary chip? If not, could you upload it here? And do you know if it will also work with the newer boards (Rev 6.x) that come from CBM with the new agnus…
Betty: yes, that's what i've been told. I don't think that it has any built in emulations (what the company calls spoofing) for ftp, and it's still fast. I'm going to start saving my pennies, and that's high on my list of things to get! Seems like I've always been…
#AMIX on A500?
Message #88459
Don: Sounds like it might be able to run on some A500's. I already have my system expanded much more than the avarage 500, and the only thing that might be a problem is the 68020 chip (although I think there are companies that make boards with that chip that…
Brian: You might want to look into the Telebits Trailblazer, as the Amiga is moving into the Unix world now, and with Unix will come UUCP (actually for some it's here already) and the Telebits modem has built in UUCP g protocol spoofing. That is when 2 computers are xfering…
Jane: I hate sounding stupid, but what is AMIX? Is that Commodore's version of Unix (or should I say Unix like OS)? If so, do you know if it will work on an expanded A500 ?? -Mike
James: Seems like that's the way to do it. Actually since I've started rescaling pictures with Photon Paint then importing them, the results ain't that bad (not that great either though) I'm still unsure if I like the requestor style of fonts choice like ProWrite uses, or the large display…
Art: No actually my FONTS: directory is on a Supra Hard disk. When I say slow, it's a reletive term. When I call up the fonts it takes about 15 – 20 seconds for the program to even display the font names. Also, the fact that I have approx. 3…
James: My system is an Amiga 500 with 3megs RAM, 45megs hard disk storage. There are many Amigas (2000's, 2500's, and now 3000's) that are much larger than mine, and there are lots that are smaller( a friend has a more usual A500 1meg, dual floppy) than mine. It's my…
Wayne: excellence! is already back at the dealer, refund in hand, and ProWrite 2.5 is it for now. I would like to try PenPal though. -Mike
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#ProWrite & IFF
Message #28553
James: Couldn't you have 2 versions (1 with rescalable pics, 1 without) similiar to the way that you have 2 files now? (ProWrite ProWrite.MR) Also wouldn't it be fairly easy to incorporate a simple switch to turn interlace on or off with a single program rather than need 2 different…
James: First after setting "Continuous" and saving the prefs, it still didn't seem to hold the setting. Most all the other settings are held, but the spell checker doesn't seem to want to hold. The question I had with the spell checker was that after it beepes to let you…
Vicky: When you Kindwords please let me know what you think, because my local dealer doesn't have Kindwords in stock, and I'd have to ask him to get it in. Thanks…. -Mike
#ProWrite & IFF
Message #28183
James: Well, I stand corrected. I was playing around with excellence! and it SEEMED to be printing pictures better,(with the ability to resize without ruining the picture) until I noticed that the picture I was playing with only had 6 or 7 colors to start with. As soon as I…
Wayne: MSS doesn't support excellence?? I just bought a copy of excellence! to use instead of ProWrite 2.5 (which I'm going to return) because of the better graphics support, and I talked to them on the phone, and they seemed to be very helpfull. I had ProWrite 2.0 and didn't…
Well, I just found a HP-Paintjet under the tree, and so now must ask-does it work with the Paintjet, or just the Deskjet? (Deskjet is in the office hooked up to an MS-DOS machine anyway)
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HP Soft Fonts
Message #80844
Do you know if there is any such beast as a program to either convert HP fonts to Amiga fonts, or Amiga to HP?? as they're both bitmapped fonts, I would think the conversion wouldn't be all that difficult. (although I'm probably wrong or else somebody would do that already!)
Larry: As a matter of fact Supra has just upgraded their software (ver 1.09f) to support SCSIDirect, and that update is available here on CIS (where I got it from). Do you have any ideas as to cost of SCSI tape drives? My local Amiga dealer say's their about $700.00…
#Canon PJ1080 ROM's
Message #80174
Does anyone know where I can get a set of ROM chips for a Canon PJ1080 printer? I have a Radio Shack CGP-220, and I believe with the removal of the Tandy ROM's and replacing them with the Canon ROM's will make the printer work like a Canon ( I've…
Christian: Why is 68000 too slow? It's my understanding that the Altos has been running Unix on 68000's for a few years now, and AT&T made a unix machine that was based on the 68000. -Mike
Phil: GOMF2.2 is the first (or maybe second) command in my Startup-Sequence, and as such it gets through with all it's messages well before the SS stops. It's also possible that some of the problems I've had are related to varying line voltages, and dips that the local electric company…
So is 2.2 better than 1.0? or is 1.0 better than 2.2? -Mike
Bill: I've found the Amiga has one SERIOUS flaw for the multi machine user, and that is that once you start using the Amiga, you won't want to go back to the other system. I have a Tandy 1400 Laptop that I used to think was really neat, then a…
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#ZIP for Amiga
Message #77791
Mike: Actually if you're going to MS-DOS from CP/M (as many people were back in the early 80's) the 8+3 format makes perfect sense. The problem arises t MS-DOS is outmoded. I can remember 10 Years ago CP/M was the big rage, if the machine wasn't CP/M compatible, it just…
Wayne: Do your comments apply to GOMF 2.2 as well? I've had some problems with random guru's (that apparently slipped by v2.2) but now i'm wondering if it didn't cause them itself. Any help you might be would be appreciated. -Mike
Scott: Was the diagram that you found a 2 page document? (with the actuall diagram on page 2) If so it's the same one that I have. When you say the trim pots, are those the 2 horizontal & vertical adjustments in the back? Or is this something that needs…
Peter: After leaving this message, I found a curcuit diagram that allows exactly what I'm looking for IBM TTL Monochrome–>Amiga via a little curcuit that adapts the 23pin amiga jack to the 9 pin IBM, and has some other components in it as well (I don't know what they are,…
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