This is an archive of CompuServe forum messages from 1985 to 1995, as saved in transcripts by John Foust.
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Redmond, My 1200 is equiped with a 33MHz 1230XA + maths coprocessor and just 1 meg of fast ram in addition to the 2 meg of Chip. AIBB 6.1 showed it to be more than 30 percent faster overall than the A3000. I shall be using these results in my…
Early, Wolf Faust's STUDIO printer program supports the 1200C. Pete Jones, flying on AutoPilot from Brussels, Belgium
John, Certainly. Will come back to you with a list. After twenty years in Belgium, my girth is a witness to the good eating available 🙂 String sextet: are we speaking of Scarlatti, Couperin, Bach etc? If so, would be interested in more details. The trip wouldn't involve the name…
Dom, I know how you feel. American dates drive me mad as well :-^ Compuserve may be American-based, but it has very wisely expanded to become a world-wide service. At the global level, I suspect that the American date format may be the odd one out. A compromise would be…
Richard, Me too! LHx would only unpack a few of the files, while LHA worked with no trouble at all. Having said that, I wasn't too struck with MagicWB. It is very much a matter of personal taste, and the only way to find out if you like it is…
Danny, I have two 1950s and a 1960. For what it's worth, my advice would be to have the 1950 repaired rather than update to the 1960. Pete Jones, flying on AutoPilot from Brussels, Belgium
John, I have a CP/M emulator for the Amiga around here somewhere if you feel the need 🙂 As to the Nascom etc. I believe there is a Computer Museum in Boston! Pete Jones, flying on AutoPilot from Brussels, Belgium
Redmond, It was not such much stating a position as making an observation and inviting your comments. I think you have made a valid point about the SIMMs. Unfortunately, dealers generally do not seem to mention in their advertisements that extra RAM is essential. Whether they do so when the…
Frank, Even if James doesn't pay a dealer to remove the daughter board, he would well be advised to pay to have it (or the Rejuvenator board replacement) replaced. The though of lining up about a zillion pins and pushing down hard and praying that one doesn't get terminally bent…
#1230 XA
Message #109209
Redmond, I have the Microbotics 1230 XA 68030 accelerator on loan for a magazine article. One thing is immediately apparent: unless there is fast RAM present the accelerator serves little purpose. AIBB shows it to be three percent faster than the stock 1200 overall, and for some of the individual…
John, Don't forget that Philips in Europe was also a source of MSX machines. Quite a few of the schools in the Dutch-speaking area of Belgiumn were equiped with them. Pete Jones, flying on AutoPilot from Brussels, Belgium
Amiga Shopper Amiga Format Amiga User International Amiga Computing CU Amiga Amiga Power and sundry other games only mags. And thats just the U.K! Pete Jones, flying on AutoPilot from Brussels, Belgium
AMAX & Mac Diskettes
Message #108860
Steven, You are right, of course. Having used both the cartridge and the card I was getting my wires crossed 🙂 Philip, Scratch that bit about Mac drives from my previous message. Sorry about that. Pete Jones, flying on AutoPilot from Brussels, Belgium
Tom, Thanks, I'll bear that in mind. I'm getting both machines tomorrow to do a comparison article for a magazine here in Belgium. Objectivity is the keyword 🙂 Pete Jones, flying on AutoPilot from Brussels, Belgium
Mike, No, not for the CDTV. There are currently two Pinball titles available on diskette for the Amiga: Pinball Dreams and Pinball Fantasies. There will be a Pinball/AGA available towards the end of the year. I am presuming that it will be available for both the 1200 and the CD32.…
Mike, I have it on good authority that the the there is a 1MB ROM in the CD32. This contains the 512K v39 kickstart AND the full CDTV ROM. So in principle CDTV software should run on the console. There are a few caveats, however. If the software writes directly…
Chas, No need to be coy 🙂 I quote from Amiga Format, September issue: "The [CD32] console is due to hit the streets in late August, and when it does, 16 to 18 shiny new CD-based games will appear too. Among these are many of the big name games of…
Steve, My 200 meg drive was once a single partition. Late one night I decided to format a floppy in df0: As it started to format I woke up really quickly when I saw it was formatting the first of several hundred tracks. I aborted immediately, but too late. The…
Bill, Many thanks! I think that last one -Termination- might be the answer to my problem. It was set to 1=off so I shall try it the other way. Pete Jones, flying on AutoPilot from Brussels, Belgium
#Chinon CDX431
Message #107788
Advice sought: I am using a Chinon CDX-431 CD-ROM player on my A2500, using the external connection of the 2091 controller. It works well enough with the Xetec software, except that it seems to be randomly screwing up the partitions of my hard drive. I start to get read/write error…
Paul, I think that the accurate figure is 72 minutes. I was invited by Philips a few months ago to see full motion video on the CD-I. The quality was excellent. They told me that since a lot of LP records or CD audio albums are only around 35 minutes…
Steve, Yes. The credit card route is the way to go for international purposes, I think. They also have their problems, though. For example, I have had problems with deliveries to my Belgian address when ordering with a credit card which has my English address. I can understand this, however,…
Steve, I am chopping and changing so many things all the time I can't honestly remember exactly how the BB worked in my 2000. I do have the HD in my 2000 without the BB, however, and I can read and write both msdos and amiga HD floppies, ans well…
Steve, I have a 2000 fitted with a HD drive, running 2.1. I use a patch called HDFixer which solves the problem of swapping DD and HD floppies in the drive. (this is fixed in 3.0) apparently). I have put my 386 in my 3000 now, but I had no…
Steve, Sounds like a reasonable bank. What is curious, though, is the fact that it charges for EuroCheques but not for other European cheques. The issuer of a EuroCheque pays 1.25% on top so that the recipient shoud pay no charges at all! Part of that 1.25% obviously goes to…
Don, See my further mumblings to Ben. 🙂 Pete Jones, flying on AutoPilot from Brussels, Belgium
Yeh, I got there in the end 🙂 Pete Jones, flying on AutoPilot from Brussels, Belgium
Genius, sheer genius!! Pete Jones, flying on AutoPilot from Brussels, Belgium
Ben, Points taken. I guess that part of the problem is I cannot help comparing bankers with vultures. The belgian banks have a cute little system that says deposits are credited only from the following working day while withdrawals are debited from the previous working day. There are no figures…
Jim, AW airmailed to Europe is 81.97 Dollars a year. I can buy it at my local gas station here in Brussels for the equivalent of six dollars (let's see .. 12 times 6 …. um 72). I save nearly ten dollars and have the advantage of browsing thru each…
Tony, Many years ago I notice that the salt and pepper were in the wrong pots. They were identical pots except for the fact that one had only one hole and the other three or four. I decided to remedy the situation … and had got as far as carefully…
Wayne, I've got to agree there. Apple's paranoid attitude over the roms is hard to understand. The people at Apple do not seem to realise that nobody who wants a Mac is going to buy an Amiga and an emulator. It's just not cost effective. On the other hand, There…
Chris, Love to see that list! Pete Jones, flying on AutoPilot from Brussels, Belgium
John, Thanks. I'll play around with that. Pete Jones, flying on AutoPilot from Brussels, Belgium
Tony, A confession. I have two Amigas side by side. The A2500 configuration I described in my previous message and an A3000 with 2MB chip and 3.5 fast (the other .5 holds Kickstart). Since I use one monitor for both machines and have a second monitor for the Bridgeboard, I…
Betty, Thanks for the reply. I had noticed various Fish files, of course, but wasn't sure if it was routinely done. Pete Jones, flying on AutoPilot from Brussels, Belgium
John, What version of the Janus software do you have? I am limited to a 32 meg DriveC with the version I have. Pete Jones, flying on AutoPilot from Brussels, Belgium
John, Term is a very good comms prog and the latest version (3.3) is available here on Compuserve. It is giftware, i.e. if you use the program the author would like you to send him a gift of some description (he gives a few suggestions) Pete Jones, flying on AutoPilot…
Tony, I have a 2386 Bridgeboard running at 20MHz with 3MB RAM. It is installed in an A2500 with 1MB chip RAM plus A2630 card(25MHz 68030 & 4MB RAM). The partition holding the 32MB PC pseudo-hard drive (driveC) has a buffer value of 2000. I noted how long it took…
Jonathan, There was an Amiga Emulator for a PC sitting in the display window of a stand at one of the shows in Germany last year (Koln, I think). Not running, though, Just a card sitting there. It caught my eye just as I was leaving so I didn't have…
Keith, A wacko display problem should be aimed at Dave Cinege. He's an expert on wackos Pete Jones, flying on AutoPilot from Bruxelles, Belgium
Betty, Would it be possible (and permissible) to have files on the latest fish disks available individually? From my experience, few people want everything on a particular fish disk and would therefore not bother to download a whole disk just for one or two items. Pete Jones, flying on AutoPilot…
Jonathan, WOC Show, UK, Jul 19th? I haven't noticed any publicity in the UK mags. (that's not to say there isn't any, though, the brain is wandering more and more these days 🙂 Pete Jones, flying on AutoPilot from Brussels, Belgium
Tony, go into startup-sequence and put a buffer size of around 2000 for the partition on which you have created the the 32meg pc drive. Pete Jones, flying on AutoPilot from Brussels, Belgium
Richard, correct. If that is not a perfect example of corporate madness, I don't know what is. By the way, is that a standard A1000 you are using? I still have my A1000, ordered on launch day 1985, but I also have a second (being used by my son) with…
Richard, A company that can release a cdtv add on for a machine that they had already discontinued is capable of such a thing! Pete Jones, flying on AutoPilot from Brussels, Belgium
Clint, As a kid, did you ever play that game where the first kid is given a message and he has to whisper it on to the second and so on? This A5000 story sounds like the electronic equivalent! 🙂 Pete Jones, flying on AutoPilot from Brussels, Belgium
Nice one, Erik. I have tried running a Psion Organiser emulator on SoftPC on A-MaxII Plus on an Amiga 2500. It worked, but don't ask about the speed! Pete Jones, on AutoPilot from Brussels, Belgium
Bruno, Don't know. Will try to find out. By the way, I have found the dongle if you are still interested. Pete Jones, flying on AutoPilot from Brussels, Belgium
It's more than a rumor. I saw a Mac emulator running on a PC at a show here in Brussels at the beginning of the year. Can't remember the name of the company now, but could dig it out if anyone is interested? Pete Jones, flying on AutoPilot from Brussels,…
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