This is an archive of CompuServe forum messages from 1985 to 1995, as saved in transcripts by John Foust.
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Walker, You will have much more success if you change your setup to 8N1 instead of 7E1. Also, you may want to visit the Practice Forum (GO PRACTICE) and work on your downloading there, since that area is free from standard connect charges. This will save you some $$$ until…
Mark, I've also had problems with TTR choosing not to follow through on support of a product that was non-functional. I left a long message here a while ago detailing the problems, and don't feel like repeating it (it's quite a long story). However, I personally do not hold either…
Steven, You raise a valid point. However, I'm not convinced that there exists a large number of potential customers in the Amiga market for a $500 software package. The majority of the existing Amiga computers were priced in that ball-park (A500) and most likely couldn't even run the software (since…
Michael, You say that you are willing to pay "MS-type prices" for a program like Word or Excel. Let me ask you the following: Are you willing to pay the development costs for such a product, assuming that you'll be receiving the return from sales of said products? You can…
Dave, The only way to format a FFS floppy from workbench would be to create an IconX script file and icon to do the format. The current workbench "Format" option will only do an OFS format. The system does not use a mountlist entry for the standard floppy drives, and…
Mike, Sounds to me like you are using an older version of LHA, which unfortunatly had a problem similar to the one you describe with large files. The latest version, 1.22, seems to have corrected this problem. (You can find the latest version here – I think the file name…
Dave, As you have found, using FFS floppies is relatively easy now that the filesystem is in ROM. Historically, until the 2.0x release of the operating system, only the OFS existed in ROM, which meant that a fastfilesystem-formatted floppy disk could never be bootable. Also, a FFS floppy disk would…
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Michael, Welcome to the Amiga forums. I wouldn't say that you're wasting your time or money here (but I'm just a little biased ). There is a vast wealth of knowledge of the Amiga and green things in general among our membership, and almost all are quite willing to share…
MS-DOS a better mousetrap? Hardly! Marketing and the luck of being in the right place at the right time explains Microsoft's success, not technical innovation (or even solid trailing-edge technology). However, I also understand your frustrations about the disparity in the available software for the different platforms. Unfortunately, it is…
As far as I know, the upgrade kit does not include any tools, since there are no "special" tools needed – just a standard DIP chip-puller (and the correct size Torq driver needed to open up the 500). I don't know for sure, as I didn't purchase the upgrade kit…
WorkBench 2.0x does not require the newer versions of the Amiga custom chips. All that is required is the new ROM that comes with the 2.0x upgrade kit, as well as the new Workbench and goodies diskettes that are also included. Changing the ROM is a relatively simple task, as…
The Microbotics program RDprep has the capability of saving RDB information to a file and reload it from a file for archival purposes. This utility even works with other SCSI controllers (including the Commodore 2091) that conform to the RDB standard. Unfortunately, it is only currently available to owners of…
I suspect that the programs launched from WB are those whose icons are in your WBStartup drawer. The only way to avoid that situation is to not place programs in that drawer, but to start them from the user-startup script, using "run nil: …". However, some programs are really designed…
Nancy, As an automated program, Whap! doesn't need an external term program to do its automagic. However, Whap! also gives you the option to "Stay Online", which will cause it to invoke an external term program for "manual driving" after the automagic. You can also have Whap! just logon to…
David, Diga! has been "broken" ever since it was first released – it's too bad as it did have potential that was never realized. I've been using BackTalk both as a standalone term program and as my "Whap! term program" for a while, and would recommend it. Best of all…
Steve, Glad you found a way to recover. Have you tried contacting NewTek in their section in the AmigaVendor forum? I really don't know off-hand the status of the DigiView software (no personal experience with it). – BobR
Leslie, That system error code means that the program broke. Actually, I don't know that the system errors are documented in the user docs, since for the most part they don't mean much except to the developers, and they are documented in the developer docs. In this case, the first…
Russell, The only way to accomplish what you are attempting _is_ to start up a second process with the window specs. The trick is to get the original process to go away when it is finished. The key thing to remember is that all programs run by the original program…
Steve, The "root" block is not block 0 – it is the block that is exactly in the middle of the partition. For example, floppy disks have 1760 blocks total capacity, and the root block is block 880. Consequently, the block number of the root block on your hard disk…
Wayne, The _real_ problem is that Enforcer was designed and developed to be a developer tool, not a consumer tool. A separate version is available to send the output to the parallel port. Both versions have been made available by Commodore to registered developers. The only reason that Enforcer appeared…
Wayne, CMD will not work for this purpose. Enforcer goes directly to the hardware to output to the serial port, while CMD traps the access to serial.device. Enforcer, in it's debugging mode, is really designed to be used with an external terminal (or attached external computer). – BobR (Motorola Inside!)
Len, The Amiga cannot support the "standard" high-density floppies – they need to transfer the data faster than the Amiga hardware can support. The "rumored" Commodore HD floppy drive (which is real, and has shown up on dealers' price lists) is a special drive that runs at half-speed when in…
Jeff, I'm not familiar with the Supra V.32 modem, but I've had no problems using the XPR libraries at 9600 baud – the key thing to do is to make sure that you set up the modem to use hardware handshaking (CTS/RST) between the modem and your system, and set…
Lou, I'm not sure the Amiga is even third anymore. First is most definitely the MS-DOS platform. Second is probably the MAC, which is percieved as a growing home market. Third is probably Windows, which _is_ different from the first category, but can be viewed as encompassing MPC. The Amiga…
Mike, Use the command "/help" while in the editor. – BobR (Motorola Inside!)
Shraddhan, The slashes get eaten by the CIS editor — all of the edit commands begin with the slash character, so the line begining with the slash is interpreted as a "command initiator". When the text following the slash is a valid edit command, then things get more interesting .…
Sean, Sounds like the software is broken (unfortunately). I don't recall seeing a rep from Software Toolsworks online on Compuserve. Sorry. – BobR
Sean, If you have a bootable floppy disk that was set up for 1.3 (or earlier), booting from that disk will trigger some extra compatibility capabilities within the 2.04 ROM, which may solve your problems. (There's a lot of compatibility built-in to the 2.04 OS to help solve problems with…
Shraddhan, If a program opens a window on the workbench screen that is full-sized and doesn't allow resizing/depth arrangement, it is (generally) poorly designed. There are programs (like PopCLI) that will allow you to pop up a new CLI window via a hotkey, however. In the case of View! -…
>Which one do _you_ recommend? Particularly for development work? That primarily depends on what you're developing and what your marketing expectations are. If you are developing an entertainment software product targeted for the "mass market" (what ever that is), you probably need 'em all. Note that I currently have 4…
Peter, It's difficult to say where your problem is, without seeing the code. If it's not too terribly long, you may want to post the script in a message here – it will be easier for folks to possibly see the problem. One thing I've found helpful when a script…
Actually, the SoundBlaster has an optional add-on Midi interface, while the SoundBlaster Pro comes with the Midi interface standard. The Pro is not that much "better" than the standard SB (IMHO) – it does have a second FM synthesis chip, so their are twice the sound voices available, and stereo…
Ian, Ouch! At this point, you really don't have too many options. If you have a good backup of the contents of your hard disk, you should reformat your hard disk and restore from the backup. If you don't have a good backup of it, there are a couple of…
Ben, I never stated that the Amiga is a game machine, only that there are Amiga users that happen to enjoy playing computer games. You know, there are quite a few MS-DOS users who also happen to play games, and a lot of MS-DOS systems that are purchased _solely_ to…
Ben, I most respectfully disagree with your request that AW dump all coverage of games. After all, that's my livelihood! While I'll agree that the "thrust" of the magazines coverage should not focus on games, they are still a significant part of many Amiga users' "computer experience", and should be…
John, I've used that type of construct frequently, as I find it very flexible. The _major_ problem I've found is that it is very much compiler-dependent. SAS/C on the Amiga does not support it (at least it didn't the last time I tried), which made for some porting challenges for…
Dom, I have no objections to your citing my situation, as I believe I've given TTR more than enough opportunity to deal with the matter. Good luck! – BobR
accessing the tape drive via SCSI-direct, I was told that the problem was due to the fact that TTR was unable to get a hardframe from Microbotics for inhouse testing (and consequently Microbotics' and not TTR's problem). Gee, Todd, why did you assure me that your software would work on…
reliably. First test: I set it up to do a backup of a small test partition. Insert a write-protected tape in the tape drive, and tell the backup program to start. Gee, it proceeds to back up the drive, never noticing that the writes to the tape drive are failing!…
Dom, You are not the only person having experienced problems with TTR. I've also been burned by them, although I did not spend nearly as much as you have with them. I purchased MRBackup Pro from my local dealer. After installing it and starting to do some preliminary testing (I…
Martin, There are a few software packages available for the Amiga that will allow you to read standard MS-DOS formatted 3.5" diskettes (720K) on your Amiga. The one that I'd personally recommend is a very inexpensive commercial package called CrossDOS (costs about $30 US, I think). There are also a…
Martin, There is a quite-good automatic program for Compuserve available for the Amiga called Whap!. It is similar in concept to TapCIS (which is the most popular CIS automator for the MS-DOS world). Whap! is a commercial product, but there is an almost-fully-functional demo available — it can be found…
Actually, the Lynx is most definitely not an Amiga, although it is a distant relative. RJ Michal was one of the folks that worked on the original Lynx development team (for Epyx). RJ, of course, was one of the original Amiga software developers. The development tools for the Lynx are…
I can't speak for Ben, but I do know someone else who's (patiently) waiting for a promised mailing.
Frank, I think you'd have a bit better success asking for help with the Whap! setup from the vendors, who are located in Section 9 (ATI) of the Amiga Vendor forum (GO AMIGAVEND). The problem I'm running into now (in terms of trying to help you) is that I've not…
Frank, The "assign" that you need to make is to tell the Whap! program the _directory_ in which the various files are located. So, for example, if you put all of the Whap! files into the directory "dh0:comms/cis", then you would need to issue the command: assign whap: dh0:comms/cis You…
Steven, Because of the way that the blitter operates, any time you are blitting to a significant portion of the visible screen (assuming your color depth is more than 4 colors [ or 2 in some cases ]), you are going to get an unpleasant "flash" effect, since the blits…
Frank, You must tell Whap! where to find the terminal program to use for interactive terminal. The default for that (in the Whap! parameters screen) is "Whap:whapterm", which means that Whap! will load the program "whapterm" from directory "Whap:" when it needs an interactive terminal. If you want to use…
Steven, There is not an easy way to double-buffer an intuition window. It can be done, but you have to be very careful. One of the major problems is that Intuition will attempt to render to the window, and will not know that you've switched bitmaps on it. And Intuition…
Frank, If the file that you downloaded is still called "lharc.exe", then you either have to specify the full name of the program in the command line (i.e., "lharc.exe -m -x x dh0:whp19g"), or rename the program file to something simpler, using the command "rename from lharc.exe to lharc". Either…
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