This is an archive of CompuServe forum messages from 1985 to 1995, as saved in transcripts by John Foust.
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Message #48589
John, I wouldn't hold my breath for that if I were you. Somebody just managed to finish a C-64 emulator for PC, and it needs a 486DX2-66 to run at 100% C-64 speed… The C-64 has an 8bit CPU clocked at 1MHz. The (old standard) Amiga has a 32/16bit CPU…
Rafa, I have to admit that I'm _not_very knowledgeable about NewIcons. I just happened to find the entry in my AmigaUser catalogue und give it a try. Personally, I like the look of MagicWB icons better, to me they look more elegant than the (in my eyes) a bit clumsy…
Asha, just for the fun of it – try out the NewIcons system (NEWICN.LHA somewhere in AmigaUser) – if your Amiga is speeded up a bit and has a bit of memory to spare you may even want to keep it on your system! It's done really neat – you…
Wayne, the icons are "NewIcons" icons, i.e. they only work if you have NewIcons installed and running on your system. It's downloadable somewhere in AmigaUser, the file name is NEWICN.LHA. NewIcons is a new icon system which preserves an icon's original colours as far as the current palette setting allows.…
David, that depends… the 2.04 ROM chips usually came _with_ the wire bridge, so you only had to cut this if not needed, without danger for the chip because of unprofessional soldering technique… Cheers, // Christian "ELP" Busse \X/ near Frankfurt, Germany
Ferrin, . the Sonnet is a 50MHz upgrade for the Commodore A3640 CPU board which simply doubles the CPU's clock frequency. This is done by a minimum of electronic hardware, especially selected CPUs (there are no true 50MHz 68040s) and a CPU cooling ventilator. The product does exactly what can…
David, as Lowry Stiles rightly pointed out, there has to be a wire between 2 pins of the OS ROM. I quote from the ROM installation doc: 8. There are several different versions of the A500's motherboard: Rev.3, Rev.5, Rev.6A, and Rev.7 (You find these numbers printed on the upper…
#Is Amiga on 24hrs safe?
Message #209101
Hank, we expericed some thunderstorm last night during which I had left on my Amiga while watching TV in the living room. There was one major "brownout" and I expected the Amiga to have crashed or frozen but it still went like a charm… Still, I am considering buying a…
QUICKEN on AMIGA
Message #209099
Paul, at the moment (and probably in the future, too) you wouldn't want to run any Windows(R) program on whatever Amiga PC emulator if it's in software. The only thing you could do is look for a S/H Vortex Golden Gate with the 486SLC50 CPU upgrade to get a decent…
Ratios
Message #209098
Frederic, I suggest _affordable_ (like in: PC) networking. That would include Ethernet/Token Ring boards with prices only marginally higher than comparative PC boards, and the conversion of as many client packages (Novell 3.x/4.x, WfW/MSN, etc., plus – if at all possible – routers to SQL database server packages, ODBC and…
#Rush to Amiga.
Message #209097
Betty, yes, he had – every number over 100000,xxxx is outside the US as far as I could make out… Cheers, // Christian "ELP" Busse \X/ near Frankfurt, Germany
#ESCOM – UUGH!!!
Message #209096
Jerry, the XT was like the IBM PC only with Intel's 8086 (16-bit) instead of 8088 (8-bit) CPU. Towards the launch of the AT there were even some XTs with the new 80286 CPU (my wife used to have one at her office back in '88/'89). About the only problem…
#ESCOM – UUGH!!!
Message #209095
Leslie, >> "I know it doesn't look like the Windows 95 demo you just saw because the screen changes were so slow you could actually see the computer redraw the screen while the Amiga screens change as fast as you can click."
ESCOM – UUGH!!!
Message #209094
Ian, I couldn't have put it better!!! well, just about "two more weeks now", as the old saying goes, and we'll have a chance to see Escom's Amiga premiere. I sincerely hope that everything you said will turn out that way. And I'm really anxious to see what they'll do…
Douglas, well, the "really commercial" version of DICE can be obtained from OIC. I believe they have a forum in AMIGAVEND. Have a look there. I don't know if this would still be worth your while, but I happen to still have the (registered) shareware version of DICE v2.06.40 with…
#Quantum Failings
Message #208205
Anthony, I had a similar problem with my Maxtor 7120S drive (not spinning up at all, spinning up only some time after booting, spinning up/down at odd times). I have a fairly loaded machine (A2000) with flicker fixer, SCSI host adaptor, graphics board (Merlin w/4MB), 16bit FastRAM expansion w/4MB, Multi…
Escom SUCKS!!!
Message #208204
BTW, in Germany the first Commodore PC is being advertized in ESCOM's monthly leaflet (on front page even – heading "Commodore kommt…… und wie!"). The picture shows a fairly standard pc desktop standing on its side to _look_ like a tower with standard keyboard in front and a standard 14"…
Daniel, well, for starters you could do worse than the DICE package. GCC is really big and probably too difficult to set up and work with at your level (well, most levels, really…). I f you use DICE's installation routine you shouldn't encounter any problems setting up a working programming…
#47451-
Help me with C !!!
Message #47557
Carlo, do you have the registered verion of DICE? I believe the DEMO version of DICE doesn't handle floating point values at all (built-in limitation to make you want to register…) Ciao, // Christian "ELP" Busse \X/ near Frankfurt, Germany
Notation Software
Message #47467
Does it do PostScript output as well? Copyist (which I am using at them mom though it's a real pain…) does and for 'normal' bitmapped output I already have DMCS 2.0… Cheers, // Christian "ELP" Busse \X/ near Frankfurt, Germany
David, sorry this took so long but I haven't been online for nearly 2 weeks… Well, I somehow get the impression the OS 2.1 ROM is faulty if it won't even boot from a floppy (with HD installed or not?). Do you know anyone you could take the chip to…
David, I believe the jumper really just toggles the autoboot setting of the controller. Prior to 1.3 a hard drive could not autoboot so the manufacturers built in some hack to enable it to do so. As of Kickstart 1.3 this is no longer needed and a 'normal' autoboot ROM…
B&P pro 1.0e (from the AmigaFormat cover disk) runs painlessly… // Christian "ELP" Busse \X/ near Frankfurt, Germany
Louis, what do you think of the Apollo? I'm toying with the thought of purchasing the Apollo 2030-50 and a 16MB SIMM (especially after a favourable review in the leading German Amiga mag) but I have heard from a shop assistant that it wasn't good quality. At the moment I…
Thanks for the correction! Usually I check on everything I write here but this one was from (my bad) memory only… // Christian "ELP" Busse \X/ near Frankfurt, Germany
I bought a book called Applications Programming in ANSI C (Second Edition) by Richard Johnsonbaugh and Martin Kalin (Depaul University, Chicago) published by Macmillan Publishing Company, New York ISBN 0-02-361131-6 and I believe this to be just the right thing to start out with C. The text on the back…
Since Amiga-OS 2.04 a commodity called CrossDOS is included with all Amigas. This enables you to use floppy disks with MS-DOS format (if you have a HD floppy drive, even 1.44MB MS-DOS floppies). Using this you can just download your stuff with the PC, save to floppy, carry the disk…
Marcus, you should, but why don't you just go and ask them? They have a forum in AMIGAVEND, so if they're still in business they should be able to answer you question. Cheers, // Christian "ELP" Busse \X/ near Frankfurt, Germany
Hi Tony, how do I have to understand your question? a) you want to store sound f/x (samples) in your Amiga which you want to trigger 'live', i.e. while watching the video you press the appropriate keys on your MIDI keyboard, the sounds being simultaneously recorded to your video tape,…
James, as this thread is actually titled 'C editor Help' I probably shouldn't continue this topic in here… Anyway, I guess so many people are (at least fairly good) muslims because they live in societies that ENCOURAGE belief in God and have the Qu'ran as the basis for general behaviour.…
Oliver, what's the filename for HDInstTools (as I don't seem to be able to find it)? Thanks, // Christian "ELP" Busse \X/ near Frankfurt, Germany
John, HDToolbox, like all the other tools I mentioned, locks up as soon as it accesses the drive. BTW, I tried to run the drive from the external connector of my SupraDrive 500XP as well. The programs dodn't lockup but HDToolbox showed an error 44 whenever I tried to make…
I'd say it's 'points out of 10' rating the uploader gives to the MOD (remember Bo Derek? 😉 ) Cheers, // Christian "ELP" Busse \X/ near Frankfurt, Germany
James, as for religious reading – there is one book I'd recommend to everyone: the Qu'ran (or Koran). If all people took it as a guideline for their lives (which the moslems actually do – it's their law applicable for all areas of daily life) this world could truly be…
As to 'war' – there used to be FALCON (by Spectrum Holobyte/MirorSoft), a jet fighter simulation which could be played by two people simultaneously with the machines connected via modem or null-modem cable. // Christian "ELP" Busse \X/ near Frankfurt, Germany
Richard, as I, too, own a SupraDrive 500XP I'd like to know if there are any newer SupraBoot and SupraTools disks out than the ones I have (Workbench 1.3.2). I seem to have problems getting the SupraDrive recognize my Quantum LT730S SCSI hard disk which I tried to use externally……
#Quantum lowlevel format?
Message #196960
HOW can I lowlevel format a Quantum Lightning 730S hard disk on my Amiga with an Evolution (by MacroSystem) host adaptor??? I tried using the EvoInstall tool, the format utility that comes with it, SCSIed and SCSIutil which I dl'd here. All of the named programs 'hang' as soon as…
#Right foot
Message #196723
Gabe, couldn't agree with you more… dto. Christian wrote kinda 'minimum requirements' for the new generation Amigas – if you don't do DTP with 100megs or more of fonts or video works or have loads of games HD installed you don't actually NEED that much HD space – contrary to,…
Escom buys Rumbelows
Message #196722
That's just U.K. // Christian "ELP" Busse \X/ near Frankfurt, Germany
Whoops! Like most applications nowadays GoldEd needs _at least_ OS 2.04. Funny how we take for granted that everybody has this… Well, I don't know any editor for 1.3. I would advise you to download the AmigaUser and maybe AmigaTech catalogue files from the AutoPilot library in AMIGAVEND (file name…
Try GoldEd. It's the best. // Christian "ELP" Busse \X/ near Frankfurt, Germany
Harald, I will try to do it as you told me, but I don't believe this will really work. The hang-up occurs in the EvoInstall program as well at the moment I select the LT730S for Unit. The output window says "Searching for RDB" or something along that line and…
#HD Help!
Message #195887
Help! Last week I bought a Quantum LT730S (Lightning). When I tried to install it with the tool (EvoInstall) that comes with by host adaptor (Evolution 3.0) the program realized that there was no RDB. Then I clicked on the button "Install" which prbably tried to write an RDB onto…
#195699-
#Atari
Message #195807
Oh, don't ask me about such things – what actually IS MultiTOS? A new Atari OS with real (i.e. preemptive) Multitasking? The only thing(s) I can tell you are the facts of the new C-LAB Falcon MKII: CPU: Motorola 68030/16MHz with 256 bytes each of data and instruction cache DSP:…
..at least the early A600's even had "A300" printed on their motherboards… // Christian "ELP" Busse \X/ near Frankfurt, Germany
Yes, they (Dell) actually DO manufacture PCs. They (according to chief or spokesman in an interview) would prefer to sell only higher-class (above the $3,000 price barrier) PCs and leave the budget segment to the competition. Having said that, the Amiga would have made sense for them as a sort…
N.B.: Atari licensed the Falcon to a German (Hamburg) company who refined it so it's now a) stable and b) able to do what it promised when it was introduced. It's delivered with C-LAB Notator/Audio software pre-installed so it's "unpack, plug and play" for MIDI/Audio musicians which it is solely…
A German (?) manufacturer acquired the licence to manufacture typewriters and other office equipment (I remember document shredders) under the C=/Commodore brand. This was about 2 years ago if my memory serves me correctly…
Well, the C64 wasn't such a bad machine – you could/can even get a GUI for it (GEOS) – not bad for an 8 bit/1MHz CPU… If they can produce it _really_ cheap (which I doubt – I guess the A600 is cheaper to build) it might indeed become 'the…
Alexandre, yes, it's blackmail, but I don't think it's illegal. Microsoft can't be FORCED to sell to anyone they don't like to sell to. Likewise, nobody can be forced to buy their software. That's got nothing to do with democracy, it's called 'business' (i.e. making money – or at least…
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