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#I am assuming
Message #185691
I imagine that if the insurance company had to pay out based upon wrongdoing by the officers, they would then pursue those officers – I am assuming this is in the form of an bond, that Gould and Ali are bonded versus insured. A full financial disclosure which went back…
If the amigaguide file calls external databases, there may be a hardcoded path or an assign in the links. These means you would need to recreate this on your system. There is also a debug mode which is described in the amigaguide docs somewhere. There have been a few versions…
Try opening CON: as a file and calling ReadCh – might work.
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CD32 & PAL?!
Message #181886
Note that many newer TVs do not allow any user adjustment of vertical roll and you would find such a set unusable. Some PAL games will work ok in NTSC mode with the bottom rows not displayed. Others will hang. Still others will cause the vertical roll problem in NTSC…
The notice states it is an involuntary petition. These are initiated by creditors. This is likely an attempt by the creditors to assert US jurisdiction over the liquidation. How this action figures into the Bahama liquidation at this point is clear as mud. This may be a precautionary measure by…
Yes I have ZEDRexx.
Your description of what an rp library does is correct. The way to avoid the need to create your own rp library is to convince Mark to do it. He probably has some tools to simplfy the process. Early versions of RexxPlus would call the function library directly but this…
Try RexxMast > NIL: Bob
CA's Programmer's Guide To ARexx provides sample sourcecode for a function library. The first step would be to create a library with the same name as the library of interest prefixed by rp – for example rpmylib.library for mylib.library. The function list needs to be modified to include all the…
GT_GetImsg is pulling messages from the message port. By the time the message is pulled, I believe Intuition has done all it intends to since all types of messages could have been put there (mouse moves, etc) befor the app gets around to pulling the message. Now it could be…
Per the RKMs, you must call GT_SetGadgetAttrs() using the GTCY_Active tag. Constructing your own Intuimessage and sending it does not in itself emulate a mouse click on the gadget. After sending the message, respond to it in your intuition event loop by seeting the active item. You are responsible for…
Are you using one of the utilities that patches calls to the ASL requesters?
I had less obvious things in mind – the sort of information that shows up your personal tax return and make obvious conflicts of interest, stock price manipulation that sometimes happen in the world of business.
The way to dump INTERPRET goes something like this: 'zWaitForEvent 'stem.' EventProc = RESULT CALL EventHandler() .. .. EventHandler: signal value(EventProc) RETURN Bob
Yes. I have it on order as well. I have a rather large shared library under developement which I hope to someday release. I have slowed down quite a bit the development since the CA demise. I have not tried to compile any of the Zed stuff – it needs…
It should be part of the archive. The run time license is required to distribute compiled versions of the script. The license requires that it be distributed with the necessary support files. The version numbers of the support files must more or less match the compiler version which produced the…
If you know how to build a dummy ARexx library, the rp library is easy to create. Instead of calling the function, it just tells the compiler that the function exists in the library. Bob
I don't know. Its been a while since I spoke with them. The latest version of the compiler is 1.34. I was reporting bugs on a regular basis prior to that version. Haven't had any worth reporting with v 1.34. It would be a shame if they folded… Bob
A runtime license is required to distribute executables. Certain support files are covered by the license because they are required by any RexxPlus executable. Bob
There seems to be an extremely limited number of environments which can accessed via ADDRESS. Also the business of registering all external functions in each script is rather annoying under OS/2 REXX. As I understand it, OS/2 REXX scripts for applications supporting REXX must run on the applications task. Whether…
We bought Portable REXX at work which has DOS and windows versions. It is published by KiloWatt. The Windows version is unusable. At the last REXX symposium, IBM discussed plans to release a version of REXX for Windows but its not put yet. As far as the ARexx port goes,…
DICE Quetions
Message #82973
I have installed dice on my A4000 and have some questions. I checked out the shared library example. I needed to change the options to use the 3.0 headers but the project would not use them unless I clicked Save. The Use gadget was not applying setting changes to the…
Don't know. Really did not try to go further past the scrambled screen when I tried the early helm demo..
I think the problem has something to do with incompatible bitmaps. 3.0 may be assuming the bitmap is in a different format.
Gould has been lending money to Commodore from another company of his. If his loan is secured, a liquidation could be as much as his interest as any other creditor. He may have been able to position himself such that he stands a better chance of recovery than other creditors.…
There should be a tooltype in the icon which is set to the macro directory path.
Try list.x = infile in your loop. Then you say list.1 say list.2 Bob
Software for Sale
Message #122857
I have BroadCast Titler 2.0 which I would like to sell for $75. Interested parties please reply in EMAIL.
You need to address value wherefrom acommand
The software published by A-Squared for Live! was rather weak (including Focus Video – a real piece of junk. The Elan Invision was much better – have you tried that?
I don't know. I did visit a friend who has a 1200 and a NEC3D. He had some utility that allowed all sorts of adjustments to the image. He had stretched the 3Ds image a bit so it better fit the display. Since the utility is messing with the sync…
Due to hardware changes, the maximum overscan widths are a bit lower on a 1200 or 4000. The 1960 will almost fill the screen when set as described on these machines.
If you know anyone with a 1942, there should be updated monitor files which allow you to get close to full screen after you tweak screenmode and overscan settings. You will also need to set V.SIZE to auto and WIDTH to add on your 1960. Bob
The fix was to buy a 1960…
#NEC 3D & A1200
Message #116303
The display actually looks worse with the new drivers (1942) on my 3D. It is yet narrower.
Could be that these programs don't use public screens [Ds.
Its easy to forget. You may wish to explore macros to get around limitations with templates. Bob
Try holding down the left amiga key along with CTRL and J. You may have to disbale the text gadget filter in Prefs IControl as well.
This sort of thing was recently driving me nuts. I finally wrote a pair of library routines for setting/getting compound variables. Inside the library, expressions are received already evaluated by ARexx so you just convert to uppercase and use the RVI. This technique works when the seemingly obvious fails. You…
VSIZE on the 1960 should be set to auto and WIDTH to add. He also may want to try reducing the number of loaded monitors to double NTSC and NTSC. Use ScreenModes and Overscan to set and save the maximum screen size. Worth a try.
Dealer in Groton, Conn?
Message #98584
The Subbase Navy Exchange has been known to stock Amigas from time to time but is not open to the general public. There used to be a place nearby (One Byte? Uncasville?)…
Enforcer is a debugging tool which runs in the background which detects illegal memory accesses. A common type of illegal memory access involves location zero. This can occur from trying to use a NULL pointer and will cause a 'hit' at which point Enforcer provides a dump of information which…
If you are sure you know what the file name is going to be, you tell ARexx to open it and loop (with a delay) until the return code indicates success. Then you access the previous file in the series. There is the problem of the possibility of the prior…
PCs are often packaged with multiple ports -some by dealers and others at the factory. The third party addons are rather expensive for Amigas and I am not sure they are availble for all models.
Multiple serial and paralell port are rather common on PCs. Seems like CA should give this some thought too.
Gee – I guess I lucked out. My ARexx macro to print envelopes on my DJ+ still works with FC2R2. My biggest problem is getting the DJ not to consume the envelopes. Now if I had a HPIII and FC was refusing to do envelopes landscaped, I would be peeved.…
Use of printf is a no-no as I recall. Also, amiga.lib may have to go in favor of pragmas. Bob
There is an ARexx library written by one of the CA guys which allows cutting and pasting to the clipboard if this helps.
I have a NorthGate connected to my 2000. I was sort of hoping they had a A4000 compatible model. Bob
I tried the chargeback route and CitiBank refused. The process took several months before I concluded there was a problem. It was otsbeyond the bank time limit at that point. As an update, Chuck from GrapeVine did contact me and arranged a refund to my card. Thank you Chuck!
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