This is an archive of CompuServe forum messages from 1985 to 1995, as saved in transcripts by John Foust.
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#4521-
Amax…Amax II
Message #4926
The AMAX II+ has more features, and costs more, than the AMAX II. Which one is "better" is a personal decision highly dependent upon pocket-depth . THol() { cout
#1599-
#Lattice/SAS C++ ??
Message #1614
The Lattice C++ package is an orphan more or less (since SAS did not pick it up), and it is version 1.0 of C++ rather than version 2.0. THol() { cout
The message limits in all the Amiga Fora are the Compuserver maximum: 999. AmigaUser has the highest scroll rate, followed by AmigaTech, then AmigaArts, and last AmigaVend. Semi-weekly visits to AmigaUser are recommended.
Macintosh disk drives are variable-speed. Amiga disk drives (and the rest of the industry) are constant-speed. Reading / Writing Mac disks is non-trivial. Readysoft's AMax II, it is said, accomplishes this miracle in software. Central Coast Software's Mac-2-DOS accomplishes it by having you plug a Mac floppy drive into the…
The maxium RAM on an A3000 is 64 MBytes. RAM, not hard drive. To get to 64 MB would entail installing a memory card in every slot, but disk controller, video, audio, serial, parallel are all on the motherboard so a 64MB A3000 is practical and as easy to implemen…
Disney & Sonix?
Message #1058
The Amazing Computing review of DP:TAS suggests it may be used to synchronize Sonix scores with _any_ animation. Is this really the case? I have a Sonix score I'd like to synchronize with an .anim file produced by PageRender 3D. THol() { cout
#Vanishing Hard Drive
Message #1924
Gee, this morning everything was copasetic, but tonight when I turned on my 18-month-old Amiga 2500, I got the Workbench Disk prompt instead of booting from dh0:. I put in a Workbench Disk, because I like to obey prompts, but dh0: is nowhere to be seen. I wonder what it…
#Fool's Errand Endgame?
Message #844
I'm stuck in the endgame of the Fool's Errand. I've got the map all straightened out, and have solved the maze, but I don't know what the secret codes are about or the find-a-word Straight Path. Hints? THol() { cout
"See you later, animator" ? Groan. THol() { cout
I'm about to try Loom running from RAM disk. I'm hoping that smooths over the nastier breaks-for-disk-load (such as right in the middle of the climax). It's _still_ a fine game. THol() { cout
You're remembering more or less correctly. I can't recall the poet myself, but feel sure it was not Eliot. The () cout
GIF has enough information in it to recreate a one-byte-per-pixel image, which is 8 bits per pixel. When you convert it to HAM, you convert it to a six-bits-per-pixel format. That is a 25% reduction right there in gross data terms. Compression of the HAM image results in a smaller…
There is no text input in Loom. A seven-year-old would not be able to play by himself unless he was good at record-keeping, though. When you learn something, you need to write it down, and then be able to look it up when you need it later. THol() { cout
If there is sufficient Modula-2 activity in the Other Languages section, management is likely to consider providing a special section. An earlier incarnation of the Amiga Forums had a Modula-2 section which rarely got a posting. THol() { cout
I don't know whether I have a Rodime or not.; I bought the A2500 about six weeks after its release. I'd be extremely skeptical of any scheme to handle large sound samples other than reading them all into FAST RAM to start and then swapping them into CHIP RAM, so…
So far as I know, private messages have been forbidden in the Amiga forums for at least a year and a half. I can never remember posting a private message in any Amiga forum, starting in 1985.
Don, here is just one of the reasons for Commodore to distinguish between a package intended for the budget-professional market and one intended for the consumer market. "The A500P, which is sold only by Amiga Dealers, may be upgraded to a full 1 MB of CHIP memory. This additional CHIP…
My applications are programming, communications, drawing, and music. I'm delighted with the performance of the 2090A. THol() { cout
#Loom Rave Review
Message #504
_Loom_, by Brian Moriarty, published by Lucasfilm, is a wonderful, wonderful family entertainment. My eight- and six-year-old children and I started at 7:00 tonight and enjoyed ourselves for the next three hours (tomorrow's a school holiday). The first half hour we listened to the dramatic narrative (as instructed), and then…
Don, I disagree with you. "Profanity" has nothing to do with belief systems or offended sensibilities, or as little to do with them as "Noun" or "Gerund" does. Whether you find a given example of profane speech offensive _is_ p personal, and in the same sense that one may be…
Hi Ben, What I was driving at was that Commodore's Fat Agnus policy makes no distiction between the Consumer model and the Professional model. I could imagine a more complex policy which would say "You can do thus-and-so with a P, but not with a C." It might make the…
Private messages cannot be sent in any of the Amiga forums. If you wish to reply to a message in such a way that it will be read only by the person who wrote the message you're replying to, type type MAIL instead of POST at the end. Your reply…
I don't see any distinction between the A500P and the A500C. Is that because there isn't any? THol() { cout
I mean, if I have a certain amount of money to spend, I can get better system performance (for _my_ applications) by economizing on the hard drive (in terms of speed) and spending the savings on additional RAM. Thus, the 2090A, which allows me to use cheaper ST-506 drives _as_well_as_…
Don, consider that "profane" and "abusive" are terms subject to syntactical definition. "Frobozz on a bicycle!" is (if we posit a faith which holds the name "Frobozz" to be holy and completely unconnected with velocipedes) a profanation in itself, even absent any member of the faith to take offense. Similarly,…
Okay, in order: 1) Commodore has not announced a 386 Bridgeboard product. _One_ foreign developer told me last year that he had seen a 386 Bridgeboard being worked on by Commodore Germany. This has never been confirmed from a second source. The A3000 chassis is little-and-lovely rather than hefty-hefty, and…
MIke, the WordPerfect with the very-nice-hand-holding after abnormal termination is at a client's home, so I won't be able to check the date. I think it's "the latest" update, about twelve months old. THol() { cout
I think "ill-mannered" vs "well-mannered" is a good scheme for judging whether a message should be placed somewhere many innocents will (pay to) download it, or sent via E-mail. It is _not_ a good scheme for judging whether something may even be _uttered._ Senator Helms on the Chrisian Right and…
The intent was not to "blow by you," but to provide an example of an utterance which could never be appropriate (except in the degenerate case of within a discussion of eternal improprieties such as this one). I believe I may be holding a fairly "existential" position, that profane, obscene,…
The main reason I'd like a 2090A instead of a 2091 is that ST-506 drives are cheaper than SCSI drives, and the 2090A handles both. I personally prefer cheap, slow drives and a huge RAM cache (using Blitzdisk2) to more expensive, fast drives and a small RAM cache. Infinite resources…
I would be interested in seeing you make the case that you find it offensive to use "hateful" or "frustrating" or "shoddy" in place of a profanity. Let me assume someone had been maltreated by adherents of a particular faith, who hold the name "Frobozz" to be holy. I could…
No mechanism exists to permit moving a message from one forum to another. If there was, I'd move this to HSX so we could get juicy. THol() { cout
If you use the regular 10-pitch font, you can use any word processor to place text to the nearest tenth-inch because they all tell you what position your cursor is. If you need finer placement or proportional fonts, both PageStream and ProPage allow placement of text to at least the…
There isn't a rule against _inappropriate_ language. I can post "Please remember to readjust dolphin very stiletto before bellyache transom gentry," which is completely inappropriate. THol() { cout
However, older technology is not necessarily less desirable. The A2090a controller supports both IBM-type and SCSI-type hard drives, and the former have been cheaper than the latter. THol() { cout
When I want to listen to harsh language, I put on a Richard Pryor album. Patrick Henry and Sam Adams were able to incite the country to war without cursing. There are plenty of free private BBS where someone who wishes to describe a module in terms of the state…
A light just went on. Commodore certainly feels differently about what kind of hardware it provides developers at a developers' discount than what it provides the general public. I believe that at one time developers' discount equipment could be refurbished. I would be delighted to be able to get "obsolete"…
From what I've read, Leo would have to have been a mind reader in order to have not been nipped by the copper-clipper.
The "Nemesis" demo of a couple-years back had a steer-through-space option, but I can't recall whether the stars are coming toward you or not. It's spooky enough as it is, what with the big black hole gradually swallowing the solar system.
I hadn't thought about Boing and Robocity. It would be a little sad if they didn't run under 2.0, wouldn't it? I suppose I got used to not being able to play the animal noises diskette or that neat version of Musicraft that only ran under 27.x …
I see, I had confused the C CloseLibrary(arg) with the Asm offset notation. Thanks!
There's a lot more expertise on Amiga Video in the AmigaArts forum.
#Closing Arp Library
Message #363
I'm a little puzzled about closing the Arp library after I've opened it. Assuming the library handle is in LibHdl, I'd normally say move.l LibHdl,a1 move.l 4,a6 jsr _LVOCloseLibrary(a6) The Arp manual's examples keep refering to _LVOCloseLibrary(ArpLib), though. Does that mean I do something like move.l ArpHdl,a1 jsr _LVOCloseLibrary(a1) That…
All games are in data library 2, and game scenarios are in data library 3. Turn on your capture buffer, type DL 2 [return] sca /des [return] and you'll get a complete list of games, with a paragraph description. THol() { cout
ABasiC crashes under 2.0? Oh, well, easy come, easy go. (I wonder if it's something one could fix with a patch …) THol() { cout
#523-
Gandey vs 2.0
Message #595
The registered developer's section is over in AmigaTech. This section is public view. THol() { cout
My system, using a 680×0 accelerator and the A2286, had to have Binddrivers nearly the _last_ or it would hang. Bridgeboards have lots of personality.
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Message #485
The first 17 messages were idle chitchat, intended to test that the essential forum software didn't have itself in a knotted through Kleinspace.
#WordPerfect Timed Backup
Message #464
I hadn't seen mentioned before how nicely the latest version Amiga WordPerfect handles timed backups, specifically recovering files after an abnormal termination. The next time the user starts the program, a great big warning screen appears, explains that backup files exist, and takes the user directly to the file view…
The color version is 24-bit and Renderman is bundled. The total nExt world shipping to date is under 8,900 units.
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