This is an archive of CompuServe forum messages from 1985 to 1995, as saved in transcripts by John Foust.
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Yes, the usual chicken and egg. We have WordPerfect at the College and it screws up on the 4000. Now WP Corp. has abandoned the Amiga. I feel like going on MAC and PC boards and saying, "Look at how WP Corp treats its customers–abandon them totally whenever it suits…
Phasar is an accounting package, something like Quicken I guess. It is a commercial product whose author continues to develop it. It has been highly recommended to me by several users. I asked about software to track a stock portfolio, for example, and Phasar was suggested. (I suppose if you…
Is Director II available directly from Right Answers? I recall that the person posting on Internet really wanted it for a project. I suggested he try some of the mail order houses, but that failing….
Well, Ben only mentioned Quicken and Quattro PRO. I hear rumors that there is a really nice spreadsheet coming soon. The poster, who claimed to be a heavy user, said the Amiga will finally have a competitive spr spreadsheet. I have heard good things about Phasar. I do not know…
Bad info from dealer
Message #56301
Someone on InterNet left a message saying that he was told by his dealer that Director II had been discontinued. I told him I would check here. From the traffic, I would gather that his dealer is incorrect and that Director II continues to be a supported product. The Internet…
Of course, C='s stock is down in the cellar these days, so the user groups could could maybe get some stock.
Thanks Malcolm. I couldn't seem to find it in the manual….
#Escaping \ in Ppage
Message #85306
I have some docs for Scheme that I would like to print out from PPage. Alas, Scheme uses the \ character and when I try to import the file, PPage AE thinks it is seeing a weird formatting command and chokes. How do I "escape" the \ character in a…
Director and FantaVs?
Message #49938
I have been playing around with FantaVision. It's great fun. But I would like to make interactive things with it. That is, I would like to play the anims it creates from The Director. If a button were clicked, the FantaVison anim would be played. Ideally, I would like to…
From what I read on the FIDO feed on a local BBS, EMPLANT does indeed work. Several folks have reported that. I think I even remember someone getting some sort of color. One boots of his AMAX partition, etc. But whether it works on all systems, etc. I do not…
How much is the toolkit if it is not an upgrade? And how *hard* is it to make it get a Pioneer 6000A going? We have the manual but not too much knowledge. It would be fun to get it conrolled from Director. Thanks. Jim Ventola
I figure the 1200 is at least as expandable as the 500–and that can be expanded a lot.
Thanks, Chris. I have been experimenting with tabs and such. I never quite got the hang of them but I am getting there slowly. The paragrap tag gives you a lot of control.
Thanks very much for your help. I had been steered to the tab and pagenumbering codes and I knew about Don Cox's Genies. I got them out today and had a closer look. WOW. That is pretty impressive stuff. Of course, you make it sound as if *I* could write…
Thanks, Shane. I think the suggestions about TAB are even easier than your method. I made a paragraph tag with an outdent of 1.5 and told it to NOT use the box tabs but its own. Then I made the first tab 1.5. Then, in AE, I typed the number…
Shane– That helps a lot. I will have to look more closely at the manuals!
Thanks, Chris. I had figured out about the tabs, but your posting helps a lot. Got any ideas on how to handle page numbers on long docs that are going to need revisions? What about non-symmetrical footers? –Jim
I, too, got interested in the Amiga in large part due to Byte's coverage. Too bad they stopped supporting anything but IBM and Mac systems.
Ppage outdents be hanged
Message #83600
I am having a major problem with the output of hanging paragraphs in Ppage. What I want is something with, say, a numeral and some text with the text lined up with itself. I have defined a paragraph tag to do this. But when my partner prints out the postscript…
Pagenumbering in PPage?
Message #83440
I'm working on a handbook for Composition teachers in my department. It will be revised several times for sure. I am trying to figure out how to handle page numbering in Ppage. For one thing, if the template is not perfectly symmetrical (i.e. if the left page has a different…
#4000 in Byte
Message #82938
I think I saw a message on bix from the author of the article about the 4000. He has become a freelancer. He is very supportive of the Amiga. One problem—he didn't receive his 4000 from C= until two days before his deadline, so some explorations were not possible. I…
Assigns in 2.1
Message #82834
I recently upgraded from 2.04 to 2.1. Now VLT gives me occasional AREXX macro error: host not found. And Turbotext can't find my macros in Sys:RExx. and PPage can't find the genies. If I do Assign Rexx: exits, I still get the three directories assigned to Rexx: (sys:s, sys:rexx, and…
Or look for multidos in the libraries here. It works like a champ.
I agree totally about the usefulness of being able to import other document formats. My partner uses PageMaker on his Mac. I use Ppage. We often do long docs with me doing the first half; him, the second. It would be great if I could just send him an editable…
I think by now Mr. Robinson is probably locked into his mindset… Many of these mags ignore the Amiga. Partly, it may be that no one offers to write for them. The last article I saw in New Media was by Mark Brown. He praised the A4000 with faint damns,…
Mac-2-Dos prob solved
Message #80312
The problem with the Mac-2-Dos not working when the Amiga drive did turned out to be mechanical: the weight of the interface was causing it to pull out of the socket and deform the pins! (It needs some sort of support.) The solution seems to be a paperback book underneath…
My dealer discovered what was causing the Mac-2-DOS problem: too much weight. The interface comes without any supports, and the weight of the interface added to that of the disk drive connecter creates a see-saw effect at the port. The pins were getting pulled out. The solution is to put…
I haven't gone from mac to amiga with lharc. And today, I couldn't get the lharc on the mac to work! I hate intermittent problems.
I know it can be done that way. I am thinking, though, of compressing on the Amiga and using a modem to send the files and then having the same de-compression program on the mac. today I found a mac version of ARC. I Arc'ed a file on the amiga…
Does that mean that something like SENDPS would actually be able to send the file to the printer? Do you need a resource fork for a simple postscript file? When I imported the file into JoliWrite, it got some of the text and a bunch of little squares and some…
#Compressing for Macs???
Message #79070
Is there a compression routine that works in Amiga mode whose result can be de-compressed on a MAC? I have unstuffit, which will decompress stuffit files on an Amiga. I want to compress postscript on the Amiga (not using a Mac emulator) and modem the file over. Then I want…
What does 2.1 do that 2.0 doesn't?
Thanks, Don. I will mention this to the repair man when I see him. I have the feeling this could be an expensive proposition!
Thanks, Don. But the dealer did replace both 8520s while I stood there–still no luck. (Come to think of it, I think he left the newer ones in there.) Does the Amiga drive NOT need the 8520s to work?
#weird problem
Message #78676
My serial port got flaky and Mac-2-Dos stopped being able to find the mac drive in df1: The dealer replaced the 1488 and the 1489 and two 14 pin sockets. Now the modem works perfectly. Also, an amiga floppy drive at df1: also works perfectly. But Mac-2-Dos still will not…
M-2-D problems
Message #47408
I am having a weird problem with Mac-2-Dos. Last week, my serial port started getting very flaky—putting out random garbage, not echoing keystrokes to the terminal, etc. I also found that Mac-2-Dos could not find the Mac drive. My dealer ended up replacing the 1488 and 1489 and installing two…
How about The Copyist from Dr. T. It comes in Apprentice and Professional (supports postscript) versions. I have seen used copies of the Apprentice version selling very inexpensively. My guess is it would be much wiser in the long run if you intend to sell the fake book to go…
Moved?
Message #45970
Has The Right Answers Group moved or gotten a new phone number? Someone on a local BBS is complaining of not being able to get through. If so, what is the current address and number. I will pass it on to him. Thanks.
Good idea. I will pass it along. Thanks.
Thanks, Keith. I will pass that info along.
DCTV-Director under 2.0?
Message #45585
I was at my dealer's tonight and a customer complained that neither AmigaVision nor The Director would show his DCTV pics and anims under WB 2. but they work just fine under 1.3. I offered to leave a message here to see what the problem is. Is there a new…
Thanks, Keith. I will check out those pages.
I am coming into the middle of this, so I must have missed something. It seems to me that with TurboText, FinalCopy, and ProWrite—we have MANY fine HOME level word processors for things like letters and short stories. Unless you plan to be MUCH cheaper. I think there is some…
#FADE ing
Message #42685
I notice that FADE will behave differently given different processor speeds. Is it possible to work out some sort of table of equivalents? That is, if FADE 0 could be tested with various processors/speeds and we could then know what argument to use for a desired effect? Am I making…
Well, I got it going after loading some of the sound scripts that come with The Director. I am not sure yet what was wrong–probably I had the file or path wrong, though in that case I would have expected an error message.
#Sound is Silent
Message #42678
Using the latest modules (sound 2.05f, etc.) from here, I find that the following script fails to produce sound. I know that the sound is there since I can play it with other utilities. What is wrong: module "director:modules/sound" sound "LOAD",1,"tutorial:sounds/titan3.snd" sound "PLAY",1,0,64 pause 300 Thanks. PS: Using amiga 3000/16
#Director Abort
Message #42309
I adapted the script on page 26 of the manual (it just does a slideshow) and substituted GETMOUSE X,Y,BUTTON for the PAUSE. The idea was to click the left mouse button to advance the show. Worked great. But, of course, I could not ABORT the film because I was sitting…
There is a commercial utility for the Deskjet C from the folks who made SuperDJ. I don't know if it is worth the price. To print the fonts you either need them resident in a printer or you must make a bitmap in a DTP program like ProPage or PageStream…
Except that the utility doesn't work on any of the hundreds of fonts downloaded from local BBS systems…. Those same fonts work fine in PageStream. Gold Disk is very weak in the font area.
the way smart quotes work on the mac they only use the " key. They are "smart" enough to know whether they follow or precede a space, I guess, and so they curl the correct way. So you would not lose the other keys. The user would simply tell the…
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