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#69189-
Modula Keyb.
Message #69639
JAMES, Glad I was of some help. BTW why a "cut-down version for the Amiga". Our (Amiga Friends) results show the Amiga to be within 15% of an AT even with HEAVY math running.
Faery
Message #69638
ALL CONCERNED. Could you PLEASE change this thread to GAMES where it belongs. Thanks
#69143-
#Fixing AmigaDOS
Message #69637
Steve, Elaborate please, I'd rather not go buy an ST just to find out what you're talking about. BTW are type and execute the ONLY options you're interested in??
#69146-
#Fixing AmigaDOS
Message #69636
Larry, I think I'm just gonna have to write the Examine() & ExamineNext() like I mentioned to you earlier. Give me a week (or two) then I'll upload them. Maybe then we'll get some peace about the speed.
#69409-
IN MEMORIUM…ODE TO CBM
Message #69635
Michael, I saw the phenomenon myself on a new computer purchased by my club. Universal agreement among the hardware "techies" is that it is a problem with power supply in the monitor. When we changed the "white" color to "black" all of the jaggies went away. There is another message…
#69236-
#Smart Ctrl-A-A
Message #69634
"We apologise for the inconvenience"
This ain't the best solution, but if the manuals are already being printed, an addition in the form of a Read-Me file would suffice. Those who need the feature would be overjoyed and those who don't won't care much (they won't have to read all the stuff about public port…
This ain't the best solution, but if the manuals are already being printed, an addition in the form of a Read-Me file would suffice. Those who need the feature would be overjoyed and those who don't won't care much (they won't have to read all the stuff about public port…
I understand, I must have been asleep at the wheel, I generally have opinions about everything (as soon as I hear about them), and comment on them. Well, we all have 20/10 hindsight, keep up the good work.
I understand, I must have been asleep at the wheel, I generally have opinions about everything (as soon as I hear about them), and comment on them. Well, we all have 20/10 hindsight, keep up the good work.
Charlie, AmigaDOS only puts 11 sectors per track, but I catch your drift…10 out of 11.
Charlie, AmigaDOS only puts 11 sectors per track, but I catch your drift…10 out of 11.
I'd like to add my vote to Larry's…..see message : #: 68743 S6/Videophile 21-May-87 18:18:15
I'd like to add my vote to Larry's…..see message : #: 68743 S6/Videophile 21-May-87 18:18:15
Charlie, Since a directory never takes more than one (1) sector, the caching doesn't really have to do a lot of work.
Charlie, Since a directory never takes more than one (1) sector, the caching doesn't really have to do a lot of work.
#Starglider
Message #68651
Jez, Just a small suggestion, mayhaps in the future you could look to see if there is enough memory (lots of extra megabytes on Amigas over here) before you trash AmigaDOS. I understand you're dislike of multi-load programs, I don't like them either, but I DON'T like programs more that…
#Starglider
Message #68651
Jez, Just a small suggestion, mayhaps in the future you could look to see if there is enough memory (lots of extra megabytes on Amigas over here) before you trash AmigaDOS. I understand you're dislike of multi-load programs, I don't like them either, but I DON'T like programs more that…
#Programming Questions
Message #68511
RE: DPAINT and the ASTERISK….maybe they redefined the "checkmark" to asterisk. There's a field somewhere in the menu stuff to point to the "check" image. If you REALLY need to know where, I can look it up. (just did, for the excersize…it's in the Intuition manual). The NewWindow structure allows…
#Programming Questions
Message #68511
RE: DPAINT and the ASTERISK….maybe they redefined the "checkmark" to asterisk. There's a field somewhere in the menu stuff to point to the "check" image. If you REALLY need to know where, I can look it up. (just did, for the excersize…it's in the Intuition manual). The NewWindow structure allows…
#67967-
#Fixing AmigaDOS
Message #68134
One thing I DO know (don't remember whether Tim King mentioned it to me, or I read it somewhere) is that when a disk is validated there is a bit somewhere in the root record that says "I think disk is ok". When a disk is 1st written on, this…
#67967-
#Fixing AmigaDOS
Message #68134
One thing I DO know (don't remember whether Tim King mentioned it to me, or I read it somewhere) is that when a disk is validated there is a bit somewhere in the root record that says "I think disk is ok". When a disk is 1st written on, this…
#67917-
Amiga Priorities
Message #68129
Probably the same way Dpaint II does, just NEVER wait for anything, poll it yourself (i.e. Dpaint II apparently continually reads the mouse position from one of its own structures…..even when its screen is NOT active).
#67917-
Amiga Priorities
Message #68129
Probably the same way Dpaint II does, just NEVER wait for anything, poll it yourself (i.e. Dpaint II apparently continually reads the mouse position from one of its own structures…..even when its screen is NOT active).
Haven't run into any of those "can't get from here to there" things. Perhaps since my normal job has been with imbeded real-time systems for the last 15 years I happen to think like the people who did AmigaDOS. In which case, I guess I owe a bunch of people…
You mean someone has found a technique to make programmers read the WHOLE manual????? Incredible!!!!!
#67793-
Smart Ctrl-A-A
Message #67973
Larry, you're a real die-hard. I started (in 1964) with a machine which only had an assembler….was years before I had a block structured compiler (1975…CalTech Pascal). Yes, I still code some things in Assembler (generally stuff having to do with interrupts & critical sections), but other than that, If…
Yes, I can imagine documenting a main-frame in PL/I. It would beat the &^%$ out of most of IBMs manuals. The real point I'm trying to make is that we have coddled the assembler person for TOO long. A problem is that most hardware manufacturers are hardware manufacturers. They generally…
#67791-
HAZELTINE EMULATION
Message #67971
I agree wholeheartedly, let's make CIS the "first major network". But why limit it to DoubleTalk….how about TripleTalk…NTalk, full multi-session; so I can BROwse, set up next download, get the stock quotes….whatever. It would be especially nice if I could get latest messages while sending my latest replies. BTW any…
#67796-
IN MEMORIUM…ODE TO CBM
Message #67970
RE: "DUMB marketing mistakes" You would rather that they just start selling it overseas without saying a word here in the good 'ole US of A. I can hear the screams now …Big headlines: COMMODORE ABANDONS THE USA AMIGA DEAD in USA "Yeah, Commodore really %*##^$ up this time, they…
#67797-
Beta Testers Wanted
Message #67969
We found that some settings of Preferences and the Horizontal control on the 1800 monitors caused jagged vertical lines at the top, but they were easily removed by using the Horizontal control 'till the jaggies went away, then adjusting with Preferences. Hope this helps, please let me know, we'll be…
#67778-
Fixing AmigaDOS
Message #67968
Everybody seems to keep forgetting that AmigaDOS will run in a 256K machine, try that with any Eunuchs you happen to have laying around. "Smart caching" is great…..if you have lots of memory….how much of your display memory do you want to give up for disk chaching?? I guess you…
If you notice the modification dates, you'll discover that all directories in path to a file show the latest date of any of their "children". I believe this and the other clean up which may be done is what is going on. The reason for the delay is that in…
#67678-
Modula
Message #67769
I have a program written in Lattice 3.10 'C' which I compiled and linked just last night, it runs IntuiTextLength just fine. I fear that it must be the Modula interface library. The following is taken by MetaScope from my program, and is the listing of the Lattice _IntuiTextLength interface…
#67678-
Modula
Message #67769
I have a program written in Lattice 3.10 'C' which I compiled and linked just last night, it runs IntuiTextLength just fine. I fear that it must be the Modula interface library. The following is taken by MetaScope from my program, and is the listing of the Lattice _IntuiTextLength interface…
Larry, I understand your point of view, but VERY few assemblers have any concept of TYPE. For that matter, neither does BCPL, and 'C' is only now getting around to it. The AutoDocs (I think) presented the case rather well. The function/procedure was written in 'C' with the register designations…
Larry, I understand your point of view, but VERY few assemblers have any concept of TYPE. For that matter, neither does BCPL, and 'C' is only now getting around to it. The AutoDocs (I think) presented the case rather well. The function/procedure was written in 'C' with the register designations…
AmigaDOS Philosopy
Message #67576
OK, peeps, here is the new thread. Larry, what the machine "really" does is interpret 1's and 0's; assembly is just a convenient representation (with substantially more mnemonic value) for humans. I know I'm being "picky", but pholosopy is that way. 'C' and BCPL are other representations of "what is…
AmigaDOS Philosopy
Message #67576
OK, peeps, here is the new thread. Larry, what the machine "really" does is interpret 1's and 0's; assembly is just a convenient representation (with substantially more mnemonic value) for humans. I know I'm being "picky", but pholosopy is that way. 'C' and BCPL are other representations of "what is…
#67285-
#Modula Keyb.
Message #67449
Larry, gonna disagre with you on this one. Assembler is "right" only for documenting what a machine IS doing, not -repeat- NOT for documenting what an operating system is going to do. As anyone who knows me will *gladly* tell you I am NOT a UNIX ™ fan, but one…
#67285-
#Modula Keyb.
Message #67449
Larry, gonna disagre with you on this one. Assembler is "right" only for documenting what a machine IS doing, not -repeat- NOT for documenting what an operating system is going to do. As anyone who knows me will *gladly* tell you I am NOT a UNIX ™ fan, but one…
#67043-
Languages
Message #67307
I couldn't and haven't said it any better
James, you haven't really lived until you try to find a "bug" in a system whichexists ONLY because someone forgot to ask him/herself the question "What do I do if this code gets executed twice at once?" real-time re-entrant programs take a different discipline to write, and MSDOS and the…
No, I don't know where/whether one is available, but if you hear of one, pleaseforward the location to me.
#65618-
#Undelete?
Message #66050
The original design criterion for file name lookup (Tripos) was that most of the time, the full file name was known… so speed up that kind of open. Hashing the directory makes a lot of sense in that case. For all of us developers (read hackers) who can't remember the…
#65618-
#Undelete?
Message #66050
The original design criterion for file name lookup (Tripos) was that most of the time, the full file name was known… so speed up that kind of open. Hashing the directory makes a lot of sense in that case. For all of us developers (read hackers) who can't remember the…
I was refering to the standard read text file call (fgets…..file get string). If you are writing a simple application and don't want to bother with keymap tables etc. Of ocurse I know how, its just that the standard I/O should help (pun intended) out some. The basic problem is…
I was refering to the standard read text file call (fgets…..file get string). If you are writing a simple application and don't want to bother with keymap tables etc. Of ocurse I know how, its just that the standard I/O should help (pun intended) out some. The basic problem is…
#New Member
Message #64833
I just wanted to say that I am now on-line. My Amiga work is with Metadigm (we publish MetaScope: The Debugger) If you have any questions regarding Metadigm products, send mail. I am also the SIG chairman for the ROM Kernal Sig for Amiga Friends so I guess "techie" questions…
#New Member
Message #64833
I just wanted to say that I am now on-line. My Amiga work is with Metadigm (we publish MetaScope: The Debugger) If you have any questions regarding Metadigm products, send mail. I am also the SIG chairman for the ROM Kernal Sig for Amiga Friends so I guess "techie" questions…
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