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Being from the Netherlands, I think "vice" is a rather strange word. How many meanings does it have? Used in the "tool" sense, it gives a whole new meaning to "Miami Vice"… 🙂 >F
Without going into the details about the how and why, follow this formula. Suppose you want to use a 640×480 screen, and use a refresh rate of 70 Hz. What KHz spec would your monitor need to be able to display this? The formula is… horizontal lines x refresh rate…
No expert on this (yet!) but they claim ALL modern GVP controllers work – Series I excluded. Series II should work ok. The rule of thumb is: does it use the FaaastROM chip? If yes, the new chip works. >F
Don, I read the legal agreement and shareware or PD GIF was free. As the GIF format USES LZW, *that* particular use of LZW is also free. The point is whether or not you charge money for your program. BTW, It's Friso, not Frisco. I'm named after a people in…
That last problem is simple – before you dial out with your modem, give it the command AT&D0. This tells the modem to keep the connection when the terminal program exits. Simple huh? Really, you cannot expect to make internet software work easily – it's just not as simple as…
Excuse me for butting in, but the way most programs are providing for GIF capability on the Amiga these days is by using datatypes. The GIF datatype is freeware, and therefore you don't have to pay Uni$y$ anything. >F
What about your PCMCIA port? That's not available in a 4000! What I'm saying is: you are gonna need a special OS version for the 1200. Just like there are special versions for the 3000 and the 500/2000. This specific A1200 version used to be unavailable but has been released…
#GVP 030/40MHz mysteries
Message #187803
My guess is that you do not have 6 Megs of 32 bit RAM. With one SIMM installed on the board, that's impossible. You are much more likely to have only 1 meg of 32 bit, 1 meg of chip and 4 megs of 16 bit fastram. I can only…
Well, that's one more subject for the x-files then. People connecting to modems at rates the owner says they don't support. Scary huh? 🙂 >F
#System slowdown @ 28.8
Message #186690
Yes yes yes! When you use a 28800 baud modem, you should at least use double that speed between the modem and your computer. But a standard Amiga serial port probably will not manage 57600 baud. Serial cards will. You can set the link speed in Prefs/Serial, but these settings…
Uhm, yes. I find it remarkable that you're even able to use 28800 baud on your standard serial port. Remember it should be set to double the speed of the modem connection, so your computer should be set at 57600 baud. There's no way the internal port can manage that.…
#Term
Message #185595
Joachim, modern modems really don't care about the speed you use to talk to them. With error detection and datacompression turned on, you're even *required* to talk to your modem at a higher speed than your modem talks to the other modem. Otherwise the datacompression is useless. A 14400 modem…
The fact that Picasso-IIs are hard to get is caused by the fact that production of the boards was stopped for a couple of weeks. The company also makes the only currently available ethernet card for Amigas, and they distribute OS 3.1. So they were quite busy for a while.…
Another thing a lot of people don't know about Fountain (or its alias, IntelliFont) is that you can actually set the sizes that it creates for any new font you decide to import. Normally this would be something like 10, 20, 30 etc. point size, but I'd much rather have…
The Internet Niche
Message #183602
I just read a reply stating something about the Amiga being a niche machine and all that, which is probably right. But then I started wondering which niche it should take. It's already in the video/gfx business, and I see an interesting new market developing for our beloved machine. When…
>Well, I know someone stuck the ROM's in the "wrong" sockets — i.e., the >"0" ROM in the "1" socket and vice versa — and it worked. His was an >A3000, but I guess it might be worth a shot. An A500 doesn't have 2 ROM sockets to try. There's…
NEVER buy a Merlin GFX board!!!!! I've read so many reviews on them, saw them demonstrated etc. and they were absolutely not worth ANY money. I state this so strongly because I've seen a few people get very disappointed with their Merlin. When one of my favourite magazines tested it,…
Maxon… Maxon Computer Industriestrasse 26 D-65760 Eschborn Tel. +49 6196 48 18 11 Fax: +49 6196 4 18 85 They make 3 programming languages: MaxonPASCAL 3, MaxonC++ 3 and MaxonBASIC 3 (compiler). Also a raytracing package called Cinema 4D. >F
Aren't the people who are going to market the CyberVision planning to do their software in other versions as well? I read about this somewhere. It seems they take so much pride in the stuff (which supposedly runs 24bit workbench) that they plan on porting it to other gfx boards.…
Rick, technically there is no difference between chip ram and fast ram. The chips are exactly the same. It's just that the Amiga uses both differently. On any Amiga there is a bank of chip ram and a bank of fast ram. Some Amigas (like 1200s) come with only chip…
Ever hear of those switches they used to have in blinking lights on cars? They consisted of two strips of metal. When the light was on, they made contact and warmed up which caused one strip to bend slightly upwards. The light went out. So the strip cooled off, came…
Blocksize RAMdisk
Message #45138
Hi, I'm using 3.1 and was just looking at my RAM disk. It reports 162K in use, but when you add up the number of bytes in use as well, these two do not quite match. I started thinking and came to the conclusion that this is caused by the…
Nah, just leave them. It's their loss if they want to be ignorant about computers. I happily use PC's, Macs and Amigas and see flaws and good points in all of them. The remark "but an Amiga is just a game machine right?" doesn't even bother me anymore. >F
I hope he doesn't have a 3.1 ROM. 🙂 >F
Tony, I for one have no experience with Picasso's. I do know that they are solid boards, and compatibility is -on the whole- good. But that doesn't mean there are no better choices. For me the situation was like this: I wanted a gfx board, but I am not content…
#Faster math
Message #180860
Hi all, I just wanted to tell everyone to go and take a look at a nifty little program called FMATH.LHA here on CIS. It's absolutely great if you have math intensive applications and a fast processor like a 68040 or a math copro like 68882. This FMATH.LHA contains replacements…
No way! Ever used their software? I think when it comes to ease of use a Piccolo board would be much better. No flaming intended here, but I've seen the Z-III hyped when it came to speed – there is no decent software to tap that speed. The emulation breaks…
No hope there then. Movieplayer animations aren't ANIM-5 animations. They come from a program called MovieSetter by Golddisk I believe. I think you want to convert Eric Schwartz anims?
Try a company in (I think) Braunschweig. They are called Micronik and they advertise regularly in Amiga and AmigaPlus. They make tower cases for Amigas and they offer heavier (PC) power supplies for them as well, so I think you could use a PC supply with a different connector. They…
Did you know that Photoworx is now available as PhotoWorx Pro? According to a German Amiga magazine it's been improved rather dramatically… >F
#WoC?
Message #88699
GVP Tech, Do you already have any idea if GVP will be attending the WoC (the name is a bit strange nowadays) in Germany this november?
Andreas, I used Set040 for this. It's a bit difficult to set up but I still have the Startup-Sequence that worked… mail if interested. Two things to note however: – you must have some zorroII Fast-RAM available (pick up any old zorroII mem expansion, like a CBM A2058 or even…
I think (or rather – I am sorry to admit) that your analyisis seems to be right, except for the tech support faxes. I sent them a couple of faxes about a week ago and all of them were responded to in less than 24 hours… How's that for a…