This is an archive of CompuServe forum messages from 1985 to 1995, as saved in transcripts by John Foust.
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Darrick – There's a file over in AtariArts forum that has all the popular ST formats explained. You're not going to like Spectrum format much – they choose between 3 different palettes per scan line to get the 512 colors on screen at once. It's quite invloved, which is one…
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#WB2.0
Message #3272
Don – Try not having part of the screens off the bottom – i.e., none of the other screens are showing when any one of them is up. Now, using the mouse on the flip gadgets, cycle through _all_ of them. One of the interlace screens should show up as…
Keith – I believe the 2090A handles multiple SCSI IDs just fine, but it can't handle multiple LUNs off of a single SCSI ID. The SCSI ID is usually set on the drive by a jumper; I'm not familiar enough with the 2090A software-wise to say what's needed in MountList.…
Don – I _think_ the screen-to-front bug (with on non-IL and two IL) is a bug in Workbench, which you wouldn't see as you don't use it. I use Workbench and I see it whenever I'm not careful enough 8^). I _have_ found that I can have that one-and-two setup…
Dean & Don – OK, I understand now 8^). All these little chippies floating around can get a might confusin' … Dean, please put me on your mailing list or whatever list for one of these babies. Thanks … Harry
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Breaking 1MB Chip Limit
Message #1757
When you say 2-meg Agnus, is that to differentiate it from the 1-meg Agnus, or are they the same chip? I was under the (very possibly mistaken) impression that the Agnus chip I upgraded to was the one to be used in the ECS, along with the new Denise which…
John – Since there seems to be a lot of interest in Silver/Imagine, perhaps we can get the sysops to dedicate a forum & library in Arts specifically for that. They have one for ray-tracing and one for animations, but perhaps a program-specific one would be appropriate for what you…
Don – FYI, there are three ST IBM emulators. The favorite one currently seems to be SuperCharger, which hooks _externally_ to the DMA port, runs like an AT, lets ST memory be used for ramdisk while emulating, and has space for expansion cards (I understand they're working on VGA -…
Lee – I have that happen to me periodically, too. It seems to be independent of the MNP button, more like it's the modem. I believe Whap looks for a particular string to terminate a session, and if the modem hangs up before it gets that string, Whap won't recognize…
Henry – I agree with the other replies, inasmuch as removing the recursive call will stop the recursion from happening. There are instances, though, where recursion is the "best" way to get something done. What you're probably missing is a termination condition – i.e., "I've looked in every direction already…
Judd – Set Whap to 7-wire, set the MNP flag. Then go to Preferences, set your baud rate to 19200 and your flow control to RTS/CTS and save. You might also want to increase the buffer size (mine's at 16K). Make sure the modem is also set for RTS/CTS (it…
Glenn – I got that same message when I tried to install. What I did was go into the install_hd script, delete the line that creates ram:t (and possibly another line or two, if they looked like they would've already been done in Startup-Sequence), save and execute. Worked just fine…
#Whap 1.9c HELP!
Message #1183
Vic (& Steve) – I'm glad (sort of) to see that I'm not the only one this happened to. Kinda makes me think I might be sane after all 8^). It's not happening tonight, either (same fonts, etc.) so it's definitely sporadic, whatever it is. I just tried an experiment…
Steve – Unfortunately, when I used Whap! tonight to get your reply, it overwrote the .msg file … Oh, well. And another strange thing, tonight everything seems to be wrapping just fine. Must be the phase of the moon or something. I'm using an IBM font I think I got…
Steve – I just started using View 1.9C, and am noticing something aesthetically different in the message display. The word wrap seems to not be in sync with what CIS send out, or something. I looked at the .MSG files, and they seem to be formatted the way CIS normally…
Steven – I did go by there (it was a Monday afternoon around 2:00 pm). The office entrances were locked up. From what I could see in the windows (the offices are second floor, but it's a low second floor) they still had some furniture in the office (I saw…
68030 card for sale
Message #631
Hurricane 2800 Accellerator for the A2000. Includes: 68030 CPU and 68882 floating point coprocessor, at 28 MHz 4 MBytes of 32-bit, 70 nanosecond RAM, expandable to 16 MBytes Built-in _fast_ SCSI interface Utilities Disk and SCSI Driver Disk Asynchronous design for genlock compatibility; switchable to 68000 mode (hardware switch) for…
Jack – Check your "&" settings carefully. There's one that tells it to either lock the baud rate to what you set it at (probably 19200 for calling HST BBSes), or to change on connect to whatever the baud rate on the other end is. If the baud rates don't…
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Where's Imtronics?
Message #101
Steven – I've been trying to get in touch with them as well. I'm currently considering driving by their office (it's about 15 minutes from where I live) and seeing how the "renovations" are going. I certainly hope they're not OOB, 'cause I was just about ready to upgrade to…
Perry – Thanks for the info. Now to go get a rag to clean the drool off my keyboard … 8^). I know it's probably too early, but any hints on what the upgrade cost might be? Harry
Are registered owners of TAD going to get a notification of availability and upgrade cost for ADPro when it's ready? What are some of the features ADPro will have that TAD doesn't? Thanks … Harry
Roger – Go to your Globals menu and set up your pathnames. The program expects some files to be in certain places unless you tell it different through the Set Paths (or something like that) requestor. That should fix things. Harry
Fred – The best way to do that would be to find a disk/file editor (like Zap or something) that will let you write a portion of the file, beginning with an offset and going for a certain length. You could then load the file into memory and tell the…
Miles – Thanks for the info. I'll be sure to keep an eye out for those header problems – you'd think they'd try this stuff out before they ship it! Those kind of problems are real easy to find and fix. I haven't worked on anything major yet that requires…
Steve – You speak of user resistance in the SAS takeover of Lattice C – do you suppose it has anything to do with the two dollar per minute tech support charge? I got the update flier in the mail a day or two ago, and I couldn't believe they're…
Rick – Add all you want, the more the better! 8^) Anyway, it's nice to know we _will_ be notified. I was just curious whether we would still have the 30-day head start. Thanks… Harry
Dave – I think you're in a bit of a spot … I don't believe the 2090 works with IDE drives, only "standard" MFM/ST506 interface drives. THe controller on the GVP accellerator (assuming you mean the A3001) is an IDE controller. So your drive would work with the GVP, but…
Dave – The light begins to pierce the fog … 8^). So that must mean that normal (non-interlace) WB is 640×200. I always assumed it was 320×200, thus confusion built upon confusion … And you probably did say 4-color in your last message, but since we had been talking 16-color…
Dave – Thanks. I've saved a copy of this message, and when I get a WB that's reliable in 16 colors I'll try it. I found HamBench and tried that, but it seemed to do wierd things in HAM mode, and using it to just set the number of planes…
Rick – Are Silver owners still going to be notified 30 days (or whatever the last newsletter said) before the release of Imagine so we can upgrade? If the second week of August is the current target, then I would think I'd have gotten the notice by now. Just impatient,…
Allen – Don't feel bad. I didn't mention how long it took _me_ to figure it out 8^). Harry
Paul – I installed my own 1MB Agnus. The most difficult part is getting the old chip out of the socket with out damaging the socket. Once you do that, there's a jumper to move and a trace to cut. If you've messed around with this type of thing before,…
Dave – You're right about TAD – and I already have it 8^). I haven't yet tried to make icons out of pictures. What would I do, set the colors to 8 and then scale it down to 32×32? And what about the palette – I guess I'd have to…
Allen – You probably haven't turned off the character filtering. Look for something that says "Character mask 127" and change it to 255. Or, if it says something like "character filtering ON", turn it off. Harry
Jim – I was beginning to think that message didn't get posted after all … 8^). Anyway, I've gone so far as to put all the files on their own bootable disk, with no Startup-Sequence and just enough files around so it'll boot. I turn off my accellerator and boot…
16-color Workbench
Message #113086
I am having a lot of trouble trying to run a 16-color workbench. I downloaded the 4D-ICN.LZH (or whatever) file and was trying to look at it, but no matter what I do the system locks up or worse. At times I start getting a high-pitched squeal from my monitor…
NEC has a (new?) system that does the opposite – their system is a CD-ROM player from which the CD reader detaches to become a portable audio CD player. Cost for the unit is around $799. This is for IBMs and Macs – I don't know if the interface is…
Actually, though software is my main business, I've done enough soldering that I think I could probably do the 33 MHz upgrade he described. I did my own Fat Agnus, and have modified several PC 1.44K drives to defeat the media detect with a switch, among other things. Even etched…
Scott – Talked to Imtronics today. They had just had a meeting where pricing on the 33 and 50 MHz versions was discussed. According to the guy that runs the place down here, the conversions required to make the existing board run 33 MHz are not very complex (i.e., he…
Mike – But that essentially eliminates the utility of the feature. If I really wanted to do the masking and shifting myself, I'd write the thing in assembler. The other compilers I've worked on (three C, one Pascal ) produced the code to use the feature as it was (or…
Scott – Tracing … Haven't played _that_ much with it, though I do have a scene with a flat mirror, a ball mirror, a pool-type ball (one color, but hard and specular) another shape, ground and horizon with one light source. That particular trace takes something less than 15-20 minutes…
#More bit field problems
Message #107965
Mike – Did some more playing with bit fields. I put four bit fields of varying lengths in with other normal fields ( short, char, etc.). In each case it seemed like the bit fields packed to a byte each, rather than the requested number of bits, according to sizeof().…
Scott – 32-bit ram will certainly make a difference in rendering times. I own the Imtronics board fully loaded with 32-bit RAM (4 megs) and the difference from the stock 68000 with stock memory is phenomenal (well, pretty darn good, anyway! ). Just for curiosity's sake, I've booted the board…
Mike – I tried the -w option in the compile as you suggested, and it made no difference. The structure with the three char fields gives a sizeof() of 3, and the structure with the 4 4-bit fields gives a sizeof() of 4. I was hoping the second structure would…
Pete – Hey, they needed to leave _some_thing for version 2 … 8^). Harry
#106211-
Monitor Upgrade
Message #106307
John – The NEC 3D works fine on the Amiga; I'm using one now. You _do_ need a special cable, though. Redmond cable is where I got mine, and it's operated flawlessly. I don't think the Seiko CM1440 will work. If I remember the specs, it doesn't have a wide…
Sly – My information is that Martin is definitely working on a new Modula-2, and it will have the features listed as being worked on for M2Sprint 2.0. He is also definitely considering a special deal for M2Sprint owners. I called him and spoke with him for a few minutes…
TAD from interlace WB
Message #16878
ASDG – OK, I tried the Avail thing. It showed I had 870+K of chip left. I ran from Interlace WB and it worked fine. Not sure what was going on last time, though the machine _had_ been up for a while. I can't remember if I tried from a…
ASDG – I usually work with an interlaced WB. When I tried running TAD from there with nothing else running, it gave "not enough memory". Is TAD so chip-hungry it needs to run from low-res? It's a bit of a pain to have to reboot into low-res to run it…
Leon – OK, thanks for the information. As far as not requiring further development, I have yet to see a software product that (IMHO) could not benefit from enhancements. In M2Sprint's case, an optimizing compiler and a smart linker would make vast improvements in program speed and size areas. It…
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