This is an archive of CompuServe forum messages from 1985 to 1995, as saved in transcripts by John Foust.
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> It is a double lane with double everything 68020-based computer in fact. > Redundancy. Double 68020's? The real high reliable stuff is supposed to use different processors running independently developed programs. But I've never seen that myself. Gerald Bonnstetter, Bonnsoft, Ventura, IA, USA
David, I just looked and I don't have "Dos.Library" so its not part of AmigaDOS 2.1 or 3.1. I don't have the AC-Basic Compiler so my guess would be that the Dos.Library came with the compiler or some other program. // \X/ Amiga lives? Gerald Bonnstetter, Bonnsoft
Wayne, > …I had resigned myself to a minimum 64 meg machine. Then be sure to get a machine that can handle lots of SIMMs. Some PCs are like my cow and they can only hold 4 SIMMs for 128 megs of memory. Others have 6 or more SIMM slots…
Jim, They DO want your money. But there is(was?) a time limit for no activity. If you do NOTHING at all for 5 minutes or so they will drop the connection. A transmit now and then should keep you active and online. Gerald Bonnstetter, Bonnsoft, Ventura, IA, USA
Wayne, I don't know about LW, but for WinNT hardware requirments, if you have'nt already, you just must get the one of the HCL files from the WinNT forum. Look for the keyword "HCL" which stands for Hardware Compatability List. Don't buy any hardware thats not on the list. Also…
#Improvements For Amiga
Message #216310
David, I assume you've heard of AutoPilot. I hope you have as you sent your message to Steve who wrote and supports one of the best CompuServe GUI interfaces and it's only available on the Amiga. Check the AmigaVendor forum. And if you'd rather spend more money on CompuServe to…
Ian, Well I like a reliable compiler like SAS's. > …but the C++ preprocessor is rediculous. And it maybe gone by now. The Amiga was just one platform that the SAS compilers supported. They have continued working on the rest and getting rid of the preprocessor was one of the…
Henry, If it really is a problem, at the start of your program, have it read in it's own file from disk and do a CRC check to verify that the file has not been changed. // \X/ Amiga lives? Gerald Bonnstetter, Bonnsoft
Harry, > Have you heard if ESCOM has contacted any certified developers? I haven't heard anything from ESCOM yet either. They need to get moving. As of August 8th, the developer and other Amiga conference rooms were still going on BIX. Not much else though as far as I could…
Ron, Before we start up a petition, I think it would be best if everyone that cares would send a quick, polite and clear email to Feedback that we don't like losing the ASCII interface and that we want the HMI libraries for the Amiga. // \X/ Amiga lives? Gerald…
CServe Connect methods
Message #197759
Before you download AutoPilot make sure your friends Amiga meets the requirements: Requires 2.04+, 1M chip ram, 2M fast ram, and 5M free hard disk space If it does then be sure they get AutoPilot, it is good. // \X/ Amiga lives? Gerald Bonnstetter, Bonnsoft
I second the request for a file listing the new features! // \X/ Amiga lives? Gerald Bonnstetter, Bonnsoft
Christian, The IBM engineers choose the Intel CPU because they had just finished a project using the Intel 8085 so they were familiar with interfacing to the Intel IO chips. They thought they had to get to market fast so they didn't want to take the extra time to learn…
You may not be able to make a kickstart file for a A3000 from the A2000 ROMs. // \X/ Amiga lives? Gary Bonnstetter
Carl, Well it looks like its a bit harder than just using GBKICK.LHA. I looked through all my saved BIX messages and found this from the Amiga grand master himself: amiga.user/main #6433, from msinz, 496 chars, Thu Aug 18 16:32:27 1994 This is a comment to message 6423. There is/are…
Carl… Yes. The easy way was to be a C= developer and get it from BIX. They still had the WB 3.1 and kickstarts the last time I looked. And the files are still only available to developers. So your out of luck there for now. But I beleive there…
Bob, The Kickstart file is in Devs/kickstart on the boot partition and the partition's name in HDToolBox should be WB_2.x or else your Amiga will not find the kickstart file during boot. // \X/ Amiga lives? Gary Bonnstetter
James, Don't forget to consider the cost of tapes. You'll need 7 of the 250 MB tapes to back up all of a 1.7 GB drive. The 250 MB tapes cost around twice what a DAT tape costs, Altex Elc. gets $14.79 for a QD-6250 and $8.79 for a 2…
#AmigaWorld ends 🙁
Message #187166
From the February Amazing Computing. 1-508-678-4200 or 1-800-345-3360 US subscription is $24.00 and they say they take Visa, MasterCard and Discover. // \X/ Amiga lives? Gary Bonnstetter
Christian, First check the power connectors going to the disks. Make sure they are all connected good and solid. Also, I've heard that it is a bad idea to have a hard disk get it's power from the controller card, so if either drive is set up that way, change…
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#Unisys GIF Clarification
Message #181809
Ex-Unisys eh? There are a lot more of us ex's then employees I would think. I agree with your message. I could say the same thing, but I would have to switch the Burroughs and Sperry names around as I started with Sperry. They do need the money. This month…
HD / CDROM Compatability
Message #174695
Betty, No, NO, terminators don't come as a "pass through"! Don't daisy chain past the terminator unless its to one device and there is little or no cable past the terminator. Little = 4" to 6" at most. Aren't the two conections different, like one male, one female? The M/F…
> I love it too! Okay, I do own a Pentium90 myself, but nevertheless I > love it since I don't do CAD and I have a more recent processor 🙂 Don't smile too much till you test your "more recent processor" to see if your P90 is math challenged.…
What Amiga are you using and what is the kickstart level? There have been problems reported with tape backups on A3000's with KS version 40.70. // \X/ Amiga or bust! Gary Bonnstetter, Bonnsoft
Why do you have to convert all the characters at once? Make a loop and convert a nice number, maybe 100 charaters, at a time untill you run out of bytes. // \X/ Amiga or bust! Gary Bonnstetter, Bonnsoft
The way to update a listview is to detach the list, alter it, then re-attach the list. /* Detach list by setting labels to ~0 */ GT_SetGadgetAttrs( Gadgets_ptr, Wnd_ptr, NULL , GTLV_Labels, ~0 , TAG_DONE); /* * Add/delete nodes here. */ /* Re-attach list. */ GT_SetGadgetAttrs( Gadgets_ptr, Wnd_ptr, NULL ,…
Werner, The US CATS program on BIX has stated that they are not sending out any developer renewals or accepting new applications. The developer conferences on BIX are also staying open for now and are not droping or adding anyone to those closed conferences. The above may only apply to…
Battery polarity usually doesn't matter. Hows that for a non-straight answer? As I remember it, most phone line equipment does not care, but a few things do. So if it still doesn't work with a battery and resistor, you could try switching the batteries polarity. // \X/ Amiga or bust!…
Put a resistor ( try 1 K to 5 K ohms) between the 9V battery and the modem lines. It will work better then just the battery. // \X/ Amiga or bust! Gary Bonnstetter, Bonnsoft
From an April BIX PR message for CPR: Contact: Allan M. Purtle (snapper@bix.com) Company: Canadian Prototype Replicas Phone: +1-519-884-4412 That looks like a US phone number but I've never called them. You could also contact Allan Purtle by Internet mail from CompuServe. // \X/ Amiga or bust! Gary Bonnstetter, Bonnsoft
Hello Henry, Your algorythm looks good on the first pass but it is wrong. It looks like you tried putting too much into the two if's. You will probably need several if's. To find your problems you can step through your code using different dates and you will see what…
I haven't heard of anyone getting through to them. But their old address's were: Central Coast Software A division of New Horizons Software, Inc. 206 Wild Basin Road, Suite 109 Austin, Texas 78746 And Support was listed as: Central Coast Software Attentoin: Customer Support PO Box 164287 Austin, Texas 78716…
Peter left out posibility 4. 4. Make sure the phone line is connected. Check that the cable is connected on both ends, that its not in the wrong connector on the modem and that the voice/data switch is set for data. If his modem has a speaker, turn it on,…
Scala Questions
Message #151151
I think the IDE 512MB (520MB?) limit is mostly for IBM type PCs. There was an artical in Byte a few months ago about IDE drive limits. Seems like IDE itself is good to 8GB or so but that PCs couldn't address all the heads, sectors and cylinders due to…
I'm only getting a temporary 264 byte loss here, but I'm running a Beta WB and I only have the C= blanker running. I lose 264 bytes the first time I bring up the blanker's window, then memory usage stays constant untill I do an "avail flush" which gets the…
Have you looked at using ArgArrayInit(argc, argv)? Then your Shell arguments look just like your ToolType arguments and you process them with the functions. // \X/ Amiga or bust! Gary Bonnstetter, Bonnsoft
I don't have either book but both were recomended on another system. If you can, look them over before you buy. The first books name was listed over there as "The C++ Programming Language" by Stroustrup. // \X/ Amiga or bust! Gary Bonnstetter, Bonnsoft
Do get and use Mungwall. If I may add a bit to what Jim said, Mungwall also helps catch bad reads by filling unused memory with a special pattern x'DEADBEEF'. Mungwalls main disadvantages are that it slows your system down a small bit and you use up your memory a…
Dan, You might need to clean your tape drive. Or if your real unlucky, your drive may need servicing, like I think mine does. 🙁 I cleaned my drive but I'm was still having troubles with read errors and I had gotten several of those messages asking for the second…
Hilary, I haven't looked into it myself, but what I've heard is that the hardware for the parallel port of IBM PCs is not quite the same as the Amiga's. For printing there is no difference, but the parallel port tape drives require these extra "features" to work on the…
Randy, Has the patch been released to move Quarterback 6.0 up to 6.0.1? I don't see it in my AutoPilot catalog. // \X/ Amiga or bust! Gary Bonnstetter, Bonnsoft
WTG Hilary! With Quarterback 6.0, to backup more than one partition at a time to a tape, you need to clear the checkmark for "Rewind after backup or restore". You will find this by selecting "Tape Options…" in the "Options" menu. This will delay the automatic rewind the QB normally…
> real men left, who write machine language programs with a disk editor Ha! I wrote machine language programs for my ELF in hex on scraps of paper and loaded them in with the hex keypad. REAL personal computers didn't have disks back then. I even had it digitizing sound…
Maxiplan ???
Message #133012
Scott I have made a few working macros and ARexx programs for MaxiPlan4. Have you tried steping through them to see what they are doing? // \X/ Amiga or bust! Gary Bonnstetter, Bonnsoft
#Maxiplan ???
Message #133011
Did you buy/get MaxiPlan4? That was the latest when I upgraded last year. My copy says it's version 4.09. This version of MaxiPlan4 HAS an ARexx port but with only one page of documentation you might miss it, see apendix C. If you didn't get MaxiPlan4 and it wasn't marked…
You should ask about this in the C programming section of the AmigaTech forum. At least one SAS person has been reading and replying to messages there. Otherwise like someone else said, if you know where the character is on your keyboard, se will usually let you use it. You…
Quoting from my Quantum ProDrive manual: "The RESELECTION phase allows a target to reconnect to an initiator to continue some operation that was previously started by the initiator but was suspended by the target (i.e. the drve disconnected by allowing a BUS FREE phase to occur before the operation was…
#Identi-Ring
Message #131382
There is a phone service which is sold under various names of which "Identi_Ring" sounds like one of the names. I had it hear as distinctive ring. It allows you to have two or more phone numbers on one incoming phone line. The only difference between a call coming in…
In case no one else has asked yet. First, how are the drives installed, one inside and one external? Or both drives mounted internally? Second, which drives are terminated in relationship to the ends of the cable? Normally the last device on each the end of the SCSI cable is…
Quarterback Tools Deluxe, version 2.0, says it works with AmigaDos 1.3. I just started it and so far its been using 630K of memory while checking my 85M partition. Its not PD or shareware so you'd have to go buy it somewhere. Also if you do go shoping for it…
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