This is an archive of CompuServe forum messages from 1985 to 1995, as saved in transcripts by John Foust.
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It may well be that a few of those who have lost money on Apple, Adobe, IBM and other high tech stocks are moving their money to a new venue. The high techs have taken some big hits over the last two weeks, in the case of Adobe they lost…
Chowdy Brendan, Nope I hadn't heard that rumor. As you say, it should be interesting to see how close the rumors come to reality when all is said and done. In the meantime, I'm taking a wait and see attitude. Wait til it's official and then see what the truth…
Rafael, Getting used to the Mac's operating system isn't that tough for someone who's used an Amiga. Go back and forth between the two pretty easily. Sure I'm not a Mac guru, so I don't use the MWP debugger to figure what happens when a bomb blows up (grin). But…
Larry, &.0 has not been released yet either. It was announced at last week's developer's conference in Cupertino that it would be delayed until the end of the year. And I can tell you that you are sadly mistaken about the amount of software that does run on 7.0. The…
Don, How many kids you got playing with your mouse? And do you use mouse intensive operations or stick to the keyboard? I think it's more a problem for people who live in mouse-intensive environments. I know my son is very hard on mouse buttons. He tends to press them…
Mike, Everything cleaned. Result the button still doesn't want to work properly. One of these days, I'll have to get motivated and replace the switches. It's that or buy a new one. For the moment, it's livable. It does make doing my artwork my tedious. It's not that noticable when…
Chowdy Rafael, Don't be so sure you'll be happy with your dream Mac system. I'd be willing to be you run into a few unexpected problems when start using it. That 256 color board your looking forward to means that when you save a piece of artwork to disk, it's…
Mike, Good suggestion, but in this case, mine get cleaned once a month or so. The one on the my 1000 is so flakey, it's barely usable. (It's the second one for that machine.) The one on my 2000 is just starting to get flakey. Ah, well, it's a small…
Don, just to add to what was said earlier… I'm on my third Amiga mouse. And it's starting to go flakey. Yep, the left button doesn't work reliably. It's often difficult to get a good double-click out of it. So it's not just an isolated incident. More like, most people…
Don, You're probably right. But since I still have the 1000 parked on the other desk, I usually just go ahead and use it. It isn't really difficult to take the digitized sounds diskd over to the 2000 and use them there. What I really want to do is get…
Chowdy Wayne, Bad news. I tried using the Future Sound with my 2000 by just adding a gender changer and it didn't work. I was able to run the software, but I couldn't get any signal in through the unit. I have a very old unit, but it still works…
Betty, Thanks! I'll add that to my MNP modem info for the next review I have to do. Chow, Cheryl P!
Chowdy Richard, If the Baud Bandit modem is typical of MNP modems (and from the way the documentation is written is written, I think it is) the modem defaults to level 4. If you want to go online at level 5 you must set it before you make contact with…
Chowdy Rich, Chowdy is my own personalized greeting. The explanation is a little long, so I'll forego it. Just take is an especially friendly "hiya." The only reason I know anything at all about MNP is that I just did a review of the Baud Bandit modem and I needed…
Chowdy Richard, CompuServe does not support MNP 5 according to my last check with them. There is a good reason for this. MNP level 5 uses a compression method similar to ARC and LZH. Since most of the files transferred using CIS are already compressed, recompressing them using MNP 5…
Chowdy Karl, The existing software that makes direct calls is already "breaking the rules," so when a hardware manufacturer makes the claim that the new operating system won't break software it means software that played by the rules in the first place. This has been a problem in "other computer…
Chowdy Mike, If you do get an AppleTalk netowrk up and running, I'd love to chat with you about it. I need the same kind of setup at my place. BTW, in case Chris doesn't have it handy, DigiFex's number is (503) 656-8818. Chow, Cheryl P!
Don, That sounds like the Supra Corp. I know and love. I recently got a 68020 board for my 2000 and I suspected that it might cause problems with my WordSync hard drive card. (I was not looking forward to having to reformat my drives or going to great lengths…
Chowdy Don, One of the things that games designers often complain about is the amount of disk space that really good graphics consume. The explanation for the poor quality of games converted from movies is that there's never enough space on the disk to put in the good graphics. Serious…
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Chowdy Joe, Glad I could help. If you'd like a recommendation for some great graphics to look at, you might try downloading some of our Hall of Fame files. These can be found in library 4 of three of the picture-lated forums -the graphics corner (go corner), the quick pics…
Don, You understanding of copyright and patent parallel what I know about it. So I don't think you're off on this. Chow, Cheryl P!
Chowdy Nelson, 1) You are correct their was a lawsuit. The court found that the second game was identical in look and feel and therefore violated copyright since it was to all intents and purposes an exact "copy." 2) Ideas cannot be patented. Gizmos and processes can be patented. Not…
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Chowdy Joe, Gosh it's been a long time since I used a IIGS. If it will emulate the regular Apple II, you can try downloading and running IIGIF.BNY from library 3. This is an RLE/GIF decoder that may be able to display the GIFs on your screen. I hope this…
It is my understanding that the trade-in offer has been extended until the end of April. Good luck on the trade-up. Chow, Cheryl P