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Robert, thank you for your efforts to help me with my amouse problem. I appreciate this very much. As my bridgeboard is an A2286 only, I don't run a memory manager. I use the bridgeboard mainly for converting files to the Amiga from 5.1/4" MS-DOS formatted disks. The second purpose…
Stuart, >> It's also running Enlan DFS 2.0 and acts as one of our file servers do you know of any Network software for a PC Clone that will communicate with ENLAN (I think it's DEC net compatable) ? – wkc – … via AP from Hamburg, Germany
Robert, >> I have no problem with nonWindows applications with Amouse hmm… I got the following problem with DOS applications: In 640 x 480 VGA 16 color mode, the mouse will only be movable in the upper 640 x 350 pixel area. At the same time, in the 351th line,…
Charles, >> I never did understand virus programmers.. What is the big "High" in >> making something to cause someone to lose a lot of what they have done it's the same reason for what kids are playing a person a trick. – wkc – … via AP from Hamburg,…
David, >> and apparently have lost a file called "Dos.Library" Hehehe, you can't loose it, because it's in the Kickstart ROM of the OS. Looking into the (C) 1987 Absoft Corporation AC/BASIC Compiler Reference Manual, the problem you got may derive from the LIBRARY statement in your code: LIBRARY "dos.library"…
Ian, >> AddPower written in assembly is about 18K in size. Wow, pretty small >> for all it does. The same thing (with a much improved interface, and >> a few more features) is about 100K in C well, I solved this kinda problems by (1) not linking with c.o,…
Zeddock, what OS are you running on your A4000? The timeout period has been slightly increased in OS 3.1. So, if you are still runniung OS 3.0, it _may_ help to upgrade to OS 3.1. – wkc – … via AP from Hamburg, Germany
Ingvar, just sent you some serial.device assembler routines through binary EMail. – wkc – … via AP from Hamburg, Germany
Ingvar, >> If you have example code could you please mail it to me I'll mail some example code to you. But wait one or two days, as I have to check the comments in my code I probably added out of frustration :-). BTW, do you speak German ?…
Phillip, >> I couldn't work out how to do 8 byte multiply/divide well, if you got Knuth Vol. 2 `Seminumerical Algorithms', there is extensive discussion of this matter. And yes, while multibyte addition/subtraction is quite simple using the ADDX and SUBX commands, multiplication is not that easy, and division is…
Robert, >> I have the problem that I can not use Amouse with OS2 hm, no idea, as I don't own OS2/Warp. AFAIK you can't activate COM2 with the bridgebord, as COM2 IRQs and ports are used to communicate with the AMIGA side of the system. BTW, which version of…
Ingvar, >> Is there anyone who can tell me how to open/use the serial-device in >> Amgia OS1.3? yes, I probably can. As this is the ASM section, you are interested in some Assembler example code, no? BTW, there is no difference between OS 1.3 and OS 2.0 in programming…
Dan, even with 4 Bytes, math will not be sufficiant for commercial programs, as accuracy is only granted for ? 21,474,836 $ plus 48 c. The summarized cash movements will exceed this value even with small companies. So you have to write your own at least 8 Byte math routines…
Steve, I see from your message to Laurie, that you use a VGA card with your bridgeboard. Does your mouse (AMOUSE.COM) work correctly in 640 x 480 VGA modes ? Just curious, because on my system, the mouse will only support EGA modes. – wkc – … via AP from…
Phillip, >> There is also problems with accelerators I believe yes, if you wanted to put an A2620 or A2630 board into the A2000-A, you had to remove the original 68000 CPU and set some jumper on the accellerator board. I don't know if non-C= accellerators supported the A2000-A. -…
Peter, >> My early A2000 had 512k Ram on the motherboard, and 512k on a separate >> card which fitted into the CPU upgrade slot. Does yours? yes, exactly. I heard that the small memory card populating the accelerator slot could be upgraded to 1M giving you a total of…
Phillip, >> From what I remember the 2000a looked more like an a1000 than the b2000 the A2000-A has the same casing as all the later A2000-B and A2000-C had. The difference is in the number of layers the motherboard is build. And the internal Video Slot had fewer connectors…
Jamie, looking at the schematicts, the clock signal of the Amiga PS is taken off the ac power inlet line, using an opto-electronical IC, and amplified by a transistor powered by the 12 V and 5 V feedback lines. I think you have to be an expert to add this…
#A3000 Scsi Problem HELP!
Message #215004
Dean, >> then you need to _remove_ the terminators from the host adaptor you can't do this neither with the A2091 nor the GVP Series II, at least without using a soldering iron. – wkc – … via AP from Hamburg, Germany
#textured graphics
Message #215003
Frederic, >> There's no way any existing Amiga can compete and come close to >> Pentium's speed as far as textured graphics are concerned. Unless you >> go for a $$$ (ou plein de brouzoufs) Amiga fitted with third-party >> high-end graphic cards and accelerators… Unless I go for a…
Wolf, >> I just have to ask Werner more questions although I'm the uploader of the Demo, I'm not the programmer of Diavolo, but was a beta tester of V 3.0 (well, Martin made me the first on the list because I took so much pain for testing). The programmer's…
Philip, >> CBM never really covered all the important topics when parsing command >> parameters. take a look in the C= official start-up code called `startup.asm' (v 36.13). You may determine from that code and from the supplementory text file `UsingAmigaStartups' how the CLI arguments should be read. – wkc…
>> Usually, the light blinks on the printer indicating it's getting a >> signal, but it didn't Jeff, check your settings in serial.prefs that they confirm with the settings of you printer (baud rate, xon/xoff, 8N1 etc.) – wkc – … via AP from Hamburg, Germany
Guillemain, yes, of course this is possible. You need a terminal program on both machines which is set to the same baus rate, handshaking, and transfer modus. But there is even a superior way to exchange data through a Null Modem Cable using a programm called `Twin Expres'. It is…
Ian, >>The ramlib is a handler used by the Ram-Disk sorry to disappoint you, but that's wrong. The RAM-Disk is handled by the RAM-handler (L:RAM-Handler up to KS 1.3, a resident module since OS 2.0). `ramlib' is an extension to the exec.library, that will be called whenever exec is going…
Ernie, >> When I try to set the serial parameter in Term to 31,250 the modem does >> not respond try setting Term to 38400 bps. Most modems are not able to synchronize to 31250 bps on the serial line to the computer. – wkc – … via AP from…
Stew, >> Is it not documented in the 2nd edition? well, the editions of the RKMs cover the following OSes: 1st edition (1986): KS/WB 1.1 2nd edition (1989): KS/WB 1.3 3rd edition (1991): KS/WB 2.0 for 2.1 and above, only the includes & autodocs (and some tutorials) have been released…
Stew, BOOPSI is a part of intuition.library and located in the ROMs since OS 2.0. Documentation and Examples can be found in the 3rd edition of the RKMs. Werner – wkc – … via AP from Hamburg, Germany
Stew, >> What does BOOPSI Stand for? Basic Object Oriented Programming System for Intuition. Yes, it's oriented, not orientated nor occidented . – wkc – … via AP from Hamburg, Germany
Jim, thanks for you statements. >> Many people on this board would agree that technical superiority does >> not always assure leadership in the marketplace. How true. I'm just working on a port of a program from Amiga to MS-DOS, because the customer wants to get rid of his amigas…
Phillip, >> You can write serious applications that quickly access up to 4gig of >> memory and the code will work on 68000 through to 68060 >> On the 80×86, you would have to support ems for 8086, xms for 286 >> (which both still only give you 16mb maximum).…
Richard, >> I think you can use AGA software on a non AGA machine. You do this by >> buying an OS 3.1 upgrade thanks for the info. I just can't try it, because my A2000 is OS 2.1 only. My A4000 got OS 3.1, but as it has AGA…
Eduard, >> 80386 is very different than 8088 (or 8086,80186 or 82086). well, I see no significantly bigger differences between the 80386 and 8088 (or 8086, 80186, or 80286) than between the 68030 and 68000 (or 68000, 68010, or 68020). Of course, the 80386 was a progress over the 80286,…
Ian, >> I have never found anyone who prefers programming assembly on an Intel >> to a Motorola. I totally agree. Not only you have to deal with a crappy adressing scheme, but you have to fiddle around with registers that lack the universality of the ones in a Motorola…
>> Amigas must be cool: otherwise why would I own two of them? ROFL! You never make a mistake, do you ? – wkc – … via AP from Hamburg, Germany
Phillip, PMFJI, but I have to disagree in some points. >> … the 1990 pc or mac wouldn't run todays software, this for a pc is >> true … This is true for the Amiga, too. I can't run today's AGA software on my stock A2000, and it isn't upgradable,…
Mack, if you wantm to run the original Amiga Unix on the machine, so yes, it can be run on an A2000, if it is equipped with an accellerator card (either C= A2620 or C= A2630), and a C= A2091 SCSI-controller. You will need a QIC-150 (e.g. C= A3070) streamer…
Jack, to monitor the keyboard in a system conform way, you should make use of the commodities.library (see ch. 31 of RKM `Libraries'). It does just what you asked for: it adds a handler into the input stream. Of course you may program your own custom input handler (and have…
#Mystery Message Lines
Message #116549
Lothar, > this line is generated by NavCIS […] I already guessed that this was the case. !^NavFuck01F0007QGHHGBE687C – wkc – … via AP from Hamburg, Germany
Philip, I know, I know… you are right of course. asl 40.6 (7.5.93) was distibuted with OS 3.1 and asl 39.4 (18.8.92) with OS 3.0. I made a mistake when checking the 3.0 and 3.1 Workbench Disks with the 'version df0:libs/asl.library' command in a 2.1 environment without the 'FILE' option…
Lepido, I apologize to spread wrong information. Your are right, version 39.4 of asl.library is on the 3.0 Workbench disk, and version 40.6 on the 3.1 Workbench disk. I had to know by checking the Autodocs_3.1/doc/asl.doc file, but I tried to get the version actually distributed on the Disks using…
John, you are right of course. I mucked with the version command. On an OS 2.1 machine, I put the WB Disks of 3.0 and 3.1 into DF0: and typed version df0:libs/asl.library which gave me wrong results :-(. After typing version df0:libs/asl.library FILE I got asl 40.6 (7.5.93) for OS…
William, the last official version of asl.library is 38.36. It is supplied with Versions 2.1, 3.0 and 3.1 of the Amiga operating systems. There might be some inofficial newer Version I don't know of, so if Photogenics needs such a beast, it should be part of the Photogenics installation discs.…
Clay, >> I only have the RKM manuals, so I don't know about allocPooled, etc. Pooled memory allocation has been introduced into the system software since OS 3.0 (V 39). It's part of the exec.library in ROM. To gain downwards compatibility to OS 1.3 and 2.X, C= put the code…
>> … no one is interested in a garbage-collecting memory allocation … Clay, well, in new programming projects, I tend to use pooled memory allocation using the LibAllocPooled() routine (et al) from AmigaLib V 40.14. Unfortunately, there is very little request for new profitable projects on the Amiga in the…
>> If it ain't broke, don't fix it Erik, everything is working ok with the A2091. With internal HD only, with external streamer tape only, with both internal HD and external streamer. And there is no difference if the internal HD and/or the external streamer are terminated or not, other…
>> … there should be a default (0 in the option bits) Don, exactly, that is what I suspected. A `0' in all option bits will format the unit with existing defects (factory and grown defects). If for any reason the map of the grown defects on the disk is…
>> … demonstarting … Thomas, what typo ? Never heard about starting a demon on multitasking machines ? 🙂 – wkc – … via AP from Hamburg, Germany
>> All the software did was send the command through the controller to the >> drive to initiate a low level format. John, yes, that's right, it should send a `FORMAT UNIT' (opcode = $04) SCSI command to the drive. But, for Quantum drives, there are 8 different options: 1)…
>> If the SCSI controller card is on one end of the chain, _IT_ must be >> terminated, just like any other device. Erik, PMFJI, but, as a SCSI controller card, is the A2091 terminated by factory settings, and how can I set/unset termination, e.g if I use external devices…
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