This is an archive of CompuServe forum messages from 1985 to 1995, as saved in transcripts by John Foust.
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Note that MegageM has provided and continues to provide several versions of LCD shutter glasses sets for the Amiga community and 3D stereoscopic graphics/video/VR. Prices range from $219 to $399.
A2000Toaster4Sale
Message #216368
A2000/GVP030/Toaster2000 – 9megs ram total, 150HD, nice condition $1500 takes it! EMail replies only, please.
Dale, thanks for the info – I hope someone has made a SOLID 060.library as there were various versions of 040.library before it got straight. I'd like to try a couple benchmarks on an 060 – just happen to have a FractalPro benchmark image which very precisely tests for raw…
NeuroPro is indeed a (the only commercial) neural network AI program for Amiga. 3-layer backpropagation 'textbook' but nifty, with a complete color display of network operation and connections. Accepts inputs (256 neurons per layer, adjustable from 1 to 256 in each layer) as text strings, little 8×8 or 16×16 2-color…
Why won't software using 040 MMU functions work on the 060, Dale? Likewise, why won't FPU instructions work? I think they're the same as 040, but please educate me if I'm mistaken.
A2500++Toaster
Message #209703
Amiga 2500 with Toaster 2000/rev3.5. This system has 25mhz 030/882 accelerator w/4megs of 32-bit ram. An addition 4 megs of 16-bit ram. 2 hard drives – 100 and 50 megs. 2.04 rom with Workbench 2.1 installed. Excellent working condition. $1800 takes it. Please EMail if interested.
PLEASE, oh, PLEASE, won't Escom port AmigaDos to the pentium? I would like the speed of the pentium but I hate to leave AmigaDos behind for Windoze. If AmigaDos ran on pentium, those who needed Windoze could just run it as a task – then no compatibility problems running other…
SuperGEN Board
Message #209037
SuperGEN Amiga 2000 Genlock Board with external fader controlller and NTSC or Y/C capability – with software – $300. EMail if interested or have a reasonable offer on this item in excellent condition. Software is ProVideo Plus with fonts. Sorry, no itional info on the software.
If RL were so good at boosting computer sales, his continuing promotion of MAC would have done that computer much more good than it appears to have done. It appears folks believe RL on almost any subject except computers … 🙂 If RL were so good at promoting computers, MAC…
The response to the FAIR analysis was very revealing of where RL really is coming from. His non-stop assertion of near 100% accuracy is pure nonsense and his FAIR reply was bizarre and whiney. That's why I'm cautious about his being recruited to boost Amiga – those who know his…
PAWS Press Release 8/95
Message #208289
I'll be most interested when it all gets finalized. I have a nifty A1200 w/accelerator, large capacity 2.5 inch drive, etc. which might be nice as a laptop. I'm well aware that LCDs are outrageously expensive at this time. Thanks, Shawn – looking forward to your release announcement and pricing…
#How's the Philips522?
Message #117866
Interested in hearing from those with experience with Philips 522 CDROM recorder. Am considering purchase of that unit for backing up large libraries of rendered animation image sequences. If you have comments on its reliability, ease of use, reliability of disks written with it, etc. I'd be grateful for your…
Am interested in Philips 522 – can you provide any more specific information on your experience with that particular writer? Reliability? Ease of use? Thank you.
It sure is – and the gem collection is nice, too!
I'll keep you updated with info – of course RPaint, JobTracker, and FlyerCom are our latest but I think I've already sent off info to you on those. More coming along, too! Thanks, Denny.
Perhaps that's how they got that way, charles …
Interesting comment – missile launches… I've supplied Amiga systems to NASA at Vandenberg Air Force Base here to use in sophisticated telemetry systems for missile launches there. NASA has a VERY small installation at VAFB (it would have been MUCH bigger had not the shuttle exploded and caused a cancellation…
Escom statement
Message #195006
'production of … A4000, A1200, A600 … will be continued …" OK, When? How? By Whom? Where? Continued (per se) isn't the issue – the issue is Resumed or Restarted or Resurrected or some such word … Hope Escom can tell us a straight story some time before 1999.
Jack, I'm familiar a bit with emplant but have never used it myself nor installed it for any of my customers. I bet if you post a general question here in this forum, plenty of Emplant fans will RUSH to your aid. If you are nearby Santa Maria I'll be…
Thanks for asking (and the very kind words about the FractalPro Image Library CDROM) – of course anyone with a even moderately powerful Amiga can use the FractalPro program itself to create not only individual fractal images like on the CDROM but also incredible fractal animation sequences (very cool for…
Erik, PLEASE write that down and send it to our prison-construction- happy governor, Pete (I will serve my whole term as governor) Wilson.
I predict an end to the CBM mess not later than Dec 31, 1999. Surely they can finish off the Amiga by the end of the Century. End of the Millenium, too, for that matter …
If JobTracker's 'alarm' is set and you run overtime, it does pop itself (and the Workbench) back up front. I'm not sure why it should jump onto any public screen, though …
In case nobody noticed, last week in an LA Times newspaper business section I saw an ad for Creative Computers 'Mac Superstore' public stock offering for $17/share. Don't remember which brokerage house was the underwriter.
The VR product is available. It uses OUR headset (true separate video inputs to each eye). The Virtual I/O company's headset splits sequential field 3D video into two streams (one signals gets split to the two eyes) so it will work fine with our 3D encoded video tape library of…
I haven't heard any recent rumblings about Creative buying CBM but there were some such rumors back a while. I hate the rumors. I'm waiting for the results of the CBM fiasco to be published in the Wall STreet Journal, I expect sometime in late 1999.
Your Sales Tax complaint is a common one – it really makes us CA dealers less competitive in California. Sometimes I sadly tell customers "I don't get to keep it, the Sales Tax goes to the Governor so he can build more prisons". It adds nearly 8% to the cost…
JobTracker is great, but not magic (no way to really tell just from which screen is up front exactly what project that means – the Amiga multitasks! 🙂 ). The JT Projects reside in little windows on the Workbench (iconifiable, too) so you just bring up the ones of interest…
how much ram on the A4000? When you say '28mhz' does that mean there's a WARP 28mhz board in there? (A stock A4000 is 25mhz). Thanks.
In case you missed it, Creative Computers 'Mac Superstore' had a public stock offering advertised in the LA Times the other day. They own Centaur. I'd be surprised if the DON'T have the means. $5million is small change.
RPaint 2.0 is a new AGA paint program (son of RPaint 1.0 for ECS) which is fully ARexx-able as well as a nice interactive paint program. Not quite all the bells and whistles of Deluxe Paint or Brilliance, etc. but thoroughly integrated with ARexx for almost all operations of the…
Santa Maria, home of MegageM, is about 1/2 way from San Jose to LA. About 3.5 hours driving time from San Jose, due south on the 101. Easy to get here and easy for MegageM to ship to or support customers in the Bay area.
I am not ruling out some sort of motion toward Windows NT in the future, but am definitely ruling out 'abandoning' the Amiga. I plan to continue Amiga products, Amiga systems sales, and full support for all customers long into the future. MegageM got great support from the Amiga community…
Nice seeing all the Amiga/Video/Toaster/Flyer type folks at NAB. Happy to see Alpha Paint get the great review. A friend (James Smolin) who ordered direct from Innovision via a super-special offer through LA TUG showed me Alpha Paint hands-on the evening I returned from NAB (I had grabbed a Flyer…
Being a bit closer to the inside of NewTek than I am to the outside (and also being able therefore to see what they HAVEN'T said or shown) I stand by my interpretation. I think the new toaster-in-a-shoebox is a winner and will be on the streets very quickly. A.…
JobTracker is a nifty tool which lets you automatically track time and charges (hourly, daily, etc.) on consulting jobs you're doing, etc. You set up a 'project' and set its billing time period and 'periodic' rate (dollars per hour, dollars per day, etc.) and JT keeps track of it all…
#A4000 FOR SALE
Message #192710
MegageM is still handling Amiga (genuine Amiga dealer), here in Santa Maria, CA.
This product is actually quite close to done.
NewTek stated Q3 95 at their NAB product introduction, which was loads of fun.
#Where is Amazing?
Message #192704
Don Hicks spoke with me at NAB and handed me the latest issue.
#MegageM
Message #192703
MegageM is still here and with NEW Amiga products just being released now – like RPaint 2.0, JobTracker, and FlyerCOM. We're staying!
My Amigas are also going strong and will do until 'the tires fall off' – at which time I will try to repair the tires and keep going.
So does anyone know if ESCOM plans to make Amigas?
3Gig Hard Drive
Message #189504
Micropolis 1936AV 3-Gig FAST Scsi2 hard drive – 3 years still on warranty (new unit, but recently gotten from Micropolis on exchange for an earlier 1936 I wanted upgraded to AV). Used only 1 month. Asking $1649. Excellent for large DCTV animations, audio recording for hours (with AD516 Sunrize board)…
I thought, fine, so someone else will Amigas… no one could do a worse job marketing them than Commodore so things were even looking up. Now I agree – the only worse thing Commodore could do than market Amigas was to NOT market Amigas . What a mess!
Righto, DON! – A bit of realism is finally starting to creep into these discussions. The only thing Commodore could do worse than marketing the Amiga is killing the Amiga – and they are proving how much they can screw things up in this process of mangling whatever future the…
Amiga MultiSyncs
Message #188469
Amiga Monitors – 1942, like new $249 and 1950, excellent shape but used longer, $199.
Righto, Steve – I'll believe it (sorry, Tom) when I see it printed in the Wall Street Journal – maybe I won't believe it until I see new machines available for sale on the shelves …
Thanks for the referral, Richard, but the T4000 sold immediately. Many other items still available and I'll correct it if another T4000 comes in.
Thanks – list coming by email, tremendous response already. No – MegageM is not 'abandoning the Amiga' – JUST TRYING TO CLEAR OUT SOME SPACE AROUND HERE!
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