This is an archive of CompuServe forum messages from 1985 to 1995, as saved in transcripts by John Foust.
Search Results (221 messages)
Thanks
Message #24058
After a number of years reading and sometimes contributing to these Amiga Forums, I'm about to leave, for a while anyway. I'd like to thank the people here who have taught me so much. After six years I'm still in awe of my Amiga. When I needed it to, it…
MicroTimes, Editor-in-Chief, Dennis Erokan, published by BAM Publications, Inc., 3470 Buskirk Ave, Pleasant Hill, CA 94523. Phone 510-934-3700. BAM also publishes Bay Area Musician, which is the sort of mag that Rolling Stone used to be – heavy on music, light on politics. Both are very professional and readable. MT…
CEDPro
Message #39917
I'm using CEDPro2 (updated with 2.11 and 2.12 patches) on an A2000 w/A2620, 7MB ram, and AmigaDOS2.04. After the 2.04 update, I installed CEDPro in the SYS: harddrive where it runs fine – well, almost fine – the scroll slider is a little flaky and it didn't used to be.…
Jonathan, thanks for the advice. The country is Zimbabwe which has a fairly decent climate – high plains, a rainy season in our Fall, moderate temperatures. Drought, famine, disease, and politicians are bigger problems than the weather. What you say makes great sense to me. The user, however, feels that…
Thanks, John, I'll price the ruggedized models for next year. I got a fax yesterday that said cheaper = better, so I bought the "Golden Hawk of Sunnyvale" top of the line for $1339. It runs fine although I doubt the screen hinge can handle much stress. I'm going to…
Thanks, Betty and Steve. I think I'll pick the middle priced one, run it in, and then function as a mail order parts business when I get back. Mailing small boards or chips is possible and with luck I'll be going back again in another year to take anything larger.…
It's going to Binga, a small town on Lake Kariba in Zimbabwe. The nearest computer store is in Bulawayo, 400 or so miles away. The drive to Bulawayo is not exactly like a trip on an Interstate. 🙂
Buy high or low?
Message #23661
Question for techies. This has nothing to do with Amigas, but: I need to buy quickly a laptop/notebook class clone for use in a 3rd world country – where warrantees mean nothing, parts are unavailable, power is iffy, etc. I have no idea how the user/buyer sees the tradeoff between…
I have a Deskjet500 (not the C version, just B&W) and am very pleased with it. I use the HP_500C driver downloaded from AmigaUser Libs; I have some other PD drivers as well, but generally just use the HP_500C. The output at 150x150dpi is something like 24-pin quality and at…
These days Interactive *IS* Sun. Buy Interactive now and you get a cheap upgrade to Solaris 2.0 when it's released. I have heard a release date of something around September for Solaris' Intel version. Buy lots of ram, too; once you get up around 16MB, OpenWindows achieves almost Amiga-like speeds.…
>>Spectrum Holobyte, 2061 Challenger Drive, Alameda, CA 94501 Yep, that's right where they are. Phone 510-522-3584.C
>>NEC model 95 Sounds like a contender; I'll add it to my list. Thanks
There are several used computer places in the San Jose area. A few of them advertise in the give-aways like MicroTimes or Computer Currents. I can't recommend one in particular, but the standard advice is to test the actual hardware before you buy from one of these places. FWIW, I…
Can I nose into the thread here? On a slightly different subject, I have read (where? I forget) that it is much sounder (i.e., things are more likely to work correctly) to buy a Postscript printer that is "downgradable" to HP emulation than to buy an HP or clone and…
Just my opinion, but, depending on the buyer, C='s non-US distribution network could be its most valuable asset. Rob.
Thanks for the quick reply. Rob
A2058 Ram Board
Message #53724
I've acquired an A2058 ram board without any documentation. Anybody remember what size chip that board takes? also the correct jumper setting for adding 2MB (total 4 MB) ? Thanks, Rob.
#Customer Support
Message #37327
Thank you for the super_fast upgrade time on an obsolete version of Notebook. Monday to Monday turnaround – hard to beat.
Jeff, quit feeling sorry for yourself. Pedros Banos is only about a hundred miles away. 🙂 Tough bike ride, though. Rob.
Gold Disk Management
Message #49841
Ed Esber (former chairman of Ashton-Tate) has joined the board of directors of Gold Disk, Inc. !!??!! (PC ek, Feb 10th, Short Takes Column). FWIW, Rob.
I got a copy of "The AWK Programming Language" by A, K, and W themselves today. Many things are already clearer. 🙂
Maybe I read too much into what seems like unhelpful commentary in that forum. Thanks for your reply.
#AWK question
Message #19615
Anybody take an AT&T7300 question? Assume the following command: awk '/FLTHOSP5/ /\t6510-/ ' /usr/neuro |tee /dev/tty |cat -u>>list Is "\t6510-" the correct way to specify a field that begins with "6510-" immediately following a tabstop field delimiter? I'm trying to avoid finding "6510-" preceded by characters and then a space,…
I can't get the following ProCalc functions to work: LINKDISK() returns "Logic: Spreadsheet not open" with sheet1 on disk and not in memory syntax used: =LINKDISK("dh2:procalc/sheet1", F8) ROUND() and LROUND() do not round, they truncate. if F8 holds 3.785, =ROUND(F8,-1) returns 3.7 =LROUND(F8,1) returns 3.7 LRANGE() returns "Syntax: expecting a…
David, I have used Tax-Break, now DataTax, for three years. The 1990 version did everything I wanted it to do and it certainly *did* do depreciation for real property. I did my entire 1990 return in DataTax including form 1040, Schedules A, B, D, and E, forms 2441, 8606, 4562,…
Thanks, John and Ben. Those were the two companies ((DMI and PPS). It seems to make sense and I was hoping to see Standard Amiga Graphic Extensions (I think that's the full term) go somewhere before investing in 24bit graphics.
Speaking of DIG and non-disclosure, is that why SAGE was mentioned by two companies at AmiEXPO, once (to my knowledge) in this forum, and never again? I know, you can't say. 🙂
It's more complicated than maybe you think. A certain RISC station manufacturer just took a $24K server "off my hands" and gave me a $10K tradein on a new model. They then sold back to me the original for $3K. I never unplugged it. I guess they could have given…
Ah-ha…now I see. No wonder you teach thistuff. Switch() choked when I tried to feed it "argv[1]" but worked with the single character pointer. The strcmp() and strcpy() way of calling a function from "argv" seems inelegant. Care to suggest another way? What I'm trying to do is write a…
Thanks, Khalid was right. My manual said switch() would take scalar constants, which it never defined. I guess I should do a lookup table; I was just being lazy and hoping. strcpy() and strcmp() will do the conversion/comparison but seem to work differently (i.e. require slightly different code) on my…
#switch()
Message #17827
I'm having trouble using argv[1] as the controlling expression in switch(). Assume the command line entry is "program ee". Code as follows: #include #include main(argc, argv) int argc char *argv[] { switch(*argv[1]) { case 'ee': etc……. Switch() seems only to see "e", not "ee". Is the single character a limitation…
Docs for GANT41.LZH
Message #41657
AmiGantt version 4.01.00 is in Lib 13 as Gant41.lzh. The docs, however, are part of Version 4.0, whch isn't in the Lib. If anybody has the docs for this program, could you please upload them? Suddenly, i need a Gantt charter. Thanks.
By successful, I meant sustained marketing of a product/products which remain in demand. 🙂 Borland does that upgrade trick with ALL their stuff. They couldn't care less about the legitimacy of any individual upgrade, since the upgrade is as profitable as an original (through distribution) sale. Piracy is an outrage,…
I can't seem to answer without sounding patronizing and pendantic. You're the successful developer, not me. So I'll shut up after one observation. Marginal revenue is the difference between the quick and the dead. If your upgrade revenue is the same as your sale revenue, take the guy's $20. Forget…
Hmmm… Maybe you ought to buff up the upgrade until it IS, or at least until you can claim it is worth more. 🙂 Seriously, excepting the super cheap upgrades ike yours, New Horizons, W. Hawes, etc. don't you think that's what the other guys do? A Borland "suit" said…
Why be nasty at all? Seems to me that a lot of companies price upgrades very close to what must be their wholesale price for the program itself. Since you're selling it direct and probably charge S&H (another profit opportunity), doesn't an upgrade come close to the revenue/profit generated by…
Well, if New Horizons wants to sell upgrades through Amiga dealers Id go along with that. 🙂 But that isn't what you meant, is it? Rob.
I'm the complainant. Yes, I understand _why_ you want the disk; I don't agree that you should make your customers work so hard to give you their money. Of course I own the program. After all, _you_ sent me the upgrade notice. Where did you get my name if not…
>>Visicalc for sale. You shop at WeirdStuff, too? 🙂 Rob.
I certainly didn't intend to disparage PCalc; I _thought_ everything I said was favorable. Since I don't know the specifics of the data engine operation but was aware of some shortcomings in Advantage, I decided it was better to praise most specifically only what I was shown and allowed to…
Thanks; suspicions confirmed. You're right, though, there _is_ a way; just have to find it. Rob
Ben, take an academic question about JPEG? About five years ago, Mitre Corp PhD's, looking at digital radiology, decided that *any* data compression greater than about 20-to-1 was necessarily destructive with no recovery possible. Has JPEG found a way around this? Or is the "intolerable loss" tolerable in non-scientific applications?…
AutoCAD _is_ the Navy standard, fulfiling your predictions about government, huh? 🙂 We could not get it to run at a useful speed on 386's; thus, the Sun acquisition. It's real zippy on Suns. Rob.
Mail back the disk???
Message #28047
I got your ProWrite 3.2 upgrade offer asking me to mail back the disk. I've upgraded 3 or 4 times in the past few years and mailing back the disk has always annoyed me. It also delayed the upgrade while I looked for the original disk, looked for a mailer,…
Ben, you are wrong about MSDOS prevailing in a partly-unix shop. We bought *four* SPARC stations *solely* to run AutoCAD. Is it unix? Is it Sun? Or both? I don't know, but we now have 16 SPARC's running *BRILLIANTLY* with the Loyal Staff begging for more. Sun/unix is driving MS/DOS…
Since posting the ProCalc message, I heard the comment that the spreadsheet engine is probaby the same one that drives Advantage, meaning that it could use some improvements. The demo by GoldDisk emphasized output both as high quality spreasheet printing and as EPS or ProDraw Clip files for incorporation into…
Just to muddy the water, a DMI rep at AmiEXPO said the Resolver Board *IS* the A2410 replacement and that C= has turned over the Lowell code for porting to the Resolver.
I believe GfxBase, 1881 Elwell, Milpitas, CA has a working but not finished SLIP available for XWindows customers to play with. Call 408-262-1469.
Electronic Arts. Showing DPIV. They were actively soliciting suggestions for a Deluxe Music revision. Everybody is invited to write Orlando Guzman, E.A., 1450 F. I. Blvd, San Mateo, CA 94404 A $7.50 DMCS upgrade is available for "improved" ADOS2.0 performance. Pacific Digital showed some single purpose F/X generation software. Stars…
What else did I see at AmiEXPO? Well, I had only been to East Coast Amiga shows before, so this one in Oakland was an experience. It was an interesting crowd – not so much numbers, which seemed decent enough, but more the experience level of the attendees. It was…
Page 1 of 5