This is an archive of CompuServe forum messages from 1985 to 1995, as saved in transcripts by John Foust.
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Scott: For $125, I would expect a wordprocessor to have a decent set of features. The thing is, I don't want to spend twice that for a MAC program when I can do full DTP with what I already have on the Amiga. I just wanted a decent MAC wordprocessing…
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when will PgS 2.0 ship?
Message #34936
Chris: Thanks for your input. Sorry it took a bit to get back to you, but I've been lazing away at the annual Kerrville, Texas Folk Festival for 11 days! Anyway, sounds like having our own machine might be more trouble than it's worth. ?|^] Ray Lewis
Kevin: RE your questions re whether or not Commodore could suddenly become a household consumer name, two points: 1) the C64 remains the best selling consumer computer in history. 2) exactly what was the earliest date you remember hearing the name Nintendo? ?|^] Ray Lewis
Rick: Re your Jun 3 response that multimdeia software is "merely a means of bringing all the elements together" is not entirely correct, at least insofar as TheDirector and CanDo are concerned. Both, for example, can take vritually any font in your fonts directory and write direct to a displayed…
My brother does AI for a major chemical company. One of the first things he did was create a "best route" program for their distribution system. Saved them millions of dollars a year. Believe it or not, he wrote it in C, and it runs and a 386. ?|^] Ray…
Well, given the capacity of a cd, the mind boggles at how much sound and heavy graphics one could very easily have available for an interactive training set up on one of these. And, seeing the kind of money companies spent on professional _slide_ training shows 20 years ago, putting…
Flicker is minimized if you don't have highly contrasting images next to each other. Digi-View does a lot of smoothing of that sort of thing (it tends to be inherant in creating HAM images, which need three pixels to make a major color change). Try using a paint program to…
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Presentation/Video stuff
Message #34150
CanDo is a bit different. It can be used for some of the things you want, but its strength is creating interactive/hypermedia training stuff, point of sale demos, front ends for AREXX integrated environments, etc. The others are mainly for multi-media presentations. I have seen AmigaVision at work, and it…
An encapsulated postscript representation of a BITMAPPED image has a bit map built in. An encapsulated postscript representation of a STRUCTURED graphic is a set of graphics description commands. A ProDraw or Aegis image is a STRUCTURED graphic. ProPage has a built in interpreter for these structured grahpics formats in…
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Amiga 2000 & SuperGen
Message #106934
Well, you CAN give all the files icons, but you don't have to. The files that usually don't have icons are utilities, scripts and various system files which just have to be put in the right place and forgotten for the software to work. so, most applications provide icons for…
Well, you'd need a built in postscript to screen interpreter for eps to be displayed and scaled. I think the MAC, at any rate, has had something like that from the start. We haven'. I suspect it's not a trivial addition.
Well, Steve Ahlstrom says that I was right, and that the graphics are displayed if you use "full draw" mode. If memory serves, the guy doing the demo hit one of the "tools" in the upper left part of the screen to turn that mode on. Re ProDraw — I…
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Dorothy.LZH
Message #17022
Perry: Bought TAD on Thursday, and I love it! I didn't notice if they had the Silver module available at the store (Amagination here in NYC) 'cause I didn't realize that TAD only came stock with IFF and DigiView modules. Do you know if they are on the shelf? (BTW…
Are you sure that is doesn't display bitmaps? Seems to me that the demo I saw at WOA here in NYC had the equivalent of ProPage's fast display mode (the one that has "x"d boxes for faster screen updates), but had a toggle which would show everything going on in…
I haven't tried it, but the PC Window claims to have clipboard-style capability for cutting and pasting text to and fro between Amiga windows and the PC Window, so that's here now! I 'spect I really have to play with this stuff more. But, I also 'spect that there are…
Ben: You should point out, however, that TAD only comes with modules to read IFF and DigiView IP 24 bit files. Modules to read other formats are extra (around $30-$40 each?), which is just fine, 'cause, for what it does, TAD is incredibly well priced. And, with the modules, you…
Tom: Thanks for the reply. I'm probably not telling you something that you don't know, but you folks have, in the past, developed a TERRIBLE reputation re customer support. You put out some great software, and I thik this has hurt you. It's nice to see you around, and I…
Don: It would on mine, if I let it run for a while. I think it heated up enough to break free on the reboot. ?|^] Ray Lewis
I don't know, Mike. When I had the problem with the 20 megger I had, I posted a HELP message here, and several folks told me about the lubricant problem. It may have been through the Seagate line at the time. I do think, however, it was temporary. Seagate sells…
Bill: Many of us also fill the waiting time on our Amigas by communicating with CIS — On the SAME Amiga. It's called true multitasking! Try it, you'll like it. ?|^] Ray Lewis
Wayne: Bit maps and structured art are two very different things. A bit map is a bit-by-bit representation of the image, very similar to the little dots which make up a newspaper picture. By making a very large one in black & white, and then scaling it down in size,…
You need to "assign bjl: " so the program can find those files. ?|^] Ray Lewis
Steve: If you still have AmigaDOS 1.2, you might want to check out CONMAN. It makes your cli very similar to the Amiga 1.3 shell. ?|^] Ray Lewis
Wayne: There sure is something wrong on your end. At work I have 1 meg chip, and don't have to worry at all about memory when I print. At home I have 512 K chip, and have to run without a workbench, and go to B&W with no interlace, no…
Dan: You can get a list of the file in the archive by doing lzh -l catalo.lzh Then you can extract some (by name) to one disk, and the rest (by name) to another disk. To get the basic template and expanation for lzh commands, just enter lzh into a…
Bill: With the advent of the Amiga 3000, I hear that the speed up cards are dorpping in price considerably. Yes, a big part of the cost is the 32 bit ram, and it makes whale of a difference. You can, for example, map your ROM into 32 bit ram…
Well, this is on a Novell net, and it permits you to select all kinds of printers, from QMS to HPIII's to plotters to postscript printers to dot matrix label printers. It would be real nice to switch over to the MSDOS side, select the printer on the Novell net,…
Don't utilities like desqview sort of intercede and make such memory available to other programs on MSDOS? ?|^] Ray Lewis
Laurie: Try putting a single line into your startup-sequence, near the bottom: cd vd0: And follow it by a cd back to your boot disk. Also, if you are rebooting from a RAD:, make sure that this is in the startup-sequence in the s: directory of your RAD: ?|^] Ray…
Perry: What is the suggested retail price of the JX-730? ?|^] Ray Lewis
Bill: The MSDOS world has a bunch of bitmap formats. You need to convert that bitmap to an IFF bitmap. It is probably a TIFF (there seem to be two basic kinds -raw and compressed), or it might be a pcx file. Either way, there is a program called HIJAAK…
Richard: I'm far from an AREXX expert, but I think I read about some fairly sophisticated serial port input and output capabilities in the AREX manuals. You might be able to write a couple of quick AREXX programs, on for each machine, that would do what you want. Ask Larry…
I have no idea if you can defeat that feature or not. I saw a note that someone had uploaded the most current version of Mackie, so, if you're interested, look in lib 1. If it's not too big, dl it and see. ?|^] Ray Lewis
On my NEC 3D at work, there is a slight blurring when fast moves are made accross the screen using a flicker fixer. ?|^] Ray Lewis
Chris: Actually, I think its fairly easy to add in the target. Just create a new axis, have that axis move where you want the camera pointed, and move the camera as well. Since you don't have any object attached to the axis you are using as the target, it…
Chris: What is the cost of a postscript compatible Linotron setup that can handle newspaper width output? We currently have on our net my 2500/30 Amiga as well as several 386s with Ventura. Since we write and spec quite a few ads for the NY Times and Wall Street Journal,…
Wayne: Sizing ANY graphic in ProPage is quite easy. First, load the graphic into a box. Next, use the "hooks" on the side of the box (the little black rectangles) to get the cropping you like (put the pointer on the little black rectangle, and hold down the left mouse…
Ed: It's been a few days since you put up your message, and you may know this by now. Some Seagates had a problem with excess lubricant. The lubricant would roll up into little worms, and, upon shutdown, would settle in between the disks. When you went to boot up,…
My goodness! Gold Disk technical support actually exits! Question: I have the Advantage. As I hope you know, it has a serious shortcoming. The display of numbers over 6 digits long is rounded off. Strangely, the actual math is good for larger numbers, but you can't see the real figures…
Yes, it is possible to configure up to 2K as chip ram by simply moving the 1K of fast ram that comes with the machine over to the chip side. I guess your dealer wanted to see how the machine worked with a full 2K of chip. However, all the…
Perry: I understand that one can capture and edit 24 bit graphics on the Amiga. However, one cannot VIEW them in full collor —- YET. ?|^] Ray Lewis
Yes I do have a flicker fixer. I think the overscan max on the Amiga is 710 x 480. ?|^] Ray Lewis
Well, on my machine I have tried "aread vd0:myfile.ps lpt1:" and had the message returned that the MSDOS side file could not be opened. Now, lpt1: on the MSDOS side is in fact redirected to a printer on a Novell net, so that might be the problem. It is not…
In that case it is beyond me. My perspective is usually as a user. I simply want to tell the computer to do something, and have it happen. How it does it is of interest to me only if I have to know that to get where I want to…
Ron: I agree. It seems to me (with my general knowledge of computers, but very little specific knowledge of how they are programmed, etc.) that some kind of pipe style utilities should be able to do all of that. TSR on the MSDOS side, and utility on the AmigaDOS side.…
ClockDJ has hot keys, and comes with a newshell/cli hot key arleady configured. What Mackie seems to have, however, is an added feature. If you preset a hot key to run a program, the first time you hit that hot key, the program runs, and its window/screen comes front and…
In fact, it will be for us, if we get one. However, I must say that, until she began this course at Parsons (which is an internationally known design school) I couldn't get her near a computer. Now she goes in to Parson ON HER FREE TIME to play with…
Ethan, she is heading towards a degree, but not a four year degree. ?|^] Ray Lewis
Wayne: As I have told you a number of times, I have no trouble getting ProDraw to print under 1.3 on either my 2500/20 at home, or my 2500/30 at work, in either dot matrix or postscript output. The ONLY constraints I have to watch for involve available memory, especially…
ON the NEC 3-D, there is a horizontal adjustment knob under the front (inside a hatch, I believe.) Also, you can adjust the position of the screen in Preferences. Actually, I use PPrefs (a utility which replaces preferences which can be found here on AmigaTech libs) which also permits you…
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