This is an archive of CompuServe forum messages from 1985 to 1995, as saved in transcripts by John Foust.
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#A3000 Dead Battery
Message #48007
Hello, The clock battery in my A3000 has apparently died, its always 1991 though the month is correct and the days are close. Can't find the battery type in the visible manuals. May be in a hidden/missing manual somewhere 🙂 AnyOne know what type of battery to use to replace…
Owen, I was afraid you might ask:-) Unfortunately, I gave my brother the instructions along with the computer and he is now in San Fransico. I still have a copy of "Schematics and Expansion Specifiactions", June 9, 1986 with a few notes but nothing that could be considered instructions. There…
Owen, I seem to have missed a previous message but, the A1000's ROM was 256K and only used to load the Kickstart image to RAM. Before giving my A1000 to my brother ( hated to loose the signed case) I had added the piggyback RAM chip hack in an old…
Blowfish encryption
Message #47754
There was an interesting article in the September Dr. Dobb's Jrnl in the algorithm alley section on an block cipher encryption algorithm called Blowfish. Its is presented in C, and source is available from compusurve in th DDJ. The file name is AA995.asc. I tested using SAS 6.55 and encountered…
Hi Doug, Love the colored syntax in SE, but, there appears to be a bug on the back ground color when I use up or down arrows. The background changes from a light beige (my normal) to white for lines with only a brace or blank line. Any chance there…
C2Man Help
Message #45602
I recently downloaded c2man.lha from lib 5. The general concept is very attractive but the configure makefile files are in a unix format with which I have a limited knowledge. The manual is "flattened" whatever that means. How can I create a readable manual? Is there an amigaguide manual available?…
Monitor Degauss
Message #163454
Thanks for the information. I borrowed a head demagnetizer from a friend at work. Took a few minites and seems good as new! Everyone, thanks for the help and safety suggestions!
Civilization ver?.?
Message #156260
Hello, Does anyone know what the latest version of Civilization is? I have version 855.04. Thanks.
Some time last year I had posted some questions regarding MAKELINK ( under 2.04) and was told ( and confirmed ) that it was actually creating a copy of the entire file not just a pointer to it. Was this changed in 2.1 etc..? Thanks Jim
Wish List
Message #39913
Hi Doug, Some suggestions for the next release/version. Include a "hook" in the help amigaguide allows automatic inclusion of my own notes in amigaguide format. Could operate like user_startup and the startup-sequence? Then I won't have to modify SAS files! In the help's useful tables include one with the data…
Temporary Objects
Message #39847
While experimenting with classes and SAS6.51 I noticed that when overriding the + operator and returning a temporary (on stack) instance of the class that the entire class is copied then the temporary instance is deleted. This seems to be a lot of overhead. Is there a syntax which would…
Configure SE?
Message #37922
I received the new SAS/C v6.50 on the 19th and just now have had the time to open it up. Nice upgrade! I am attempting to configure SE. Specifically the arexx macros indent.se and unindent.se. I would like to use the Tab and shift Tab key for these functions. I…
Hi Mark, The only problem I can see is that an integer divided by an integer will yield an integer. On pg 37 in the old "The C Programming Language", by Kernighan and Ritchie. Thus the line: a_attack = (a1*100)/attack_factor; will alway have an integral value stored in a real.…
Maybe the program is not using the same font on the different machines? I shooting in the dark.
SAS C++?
Message #35819
Hello Doug, Earlier you mentioned that SAS would be releasing a C++ compiler in the fall. Do you have any more information? Specifically a date and price. SAS might also consider collecting some of the usefull PD utilities and example code for programmers, such as Gadtoolsbox(a Great Tool) and iff…
Great!! thanks for the tip. Jim
Gadtools new vs old
Message #35526
I recently downloaded gadtoolsbox v2 and it doesn't seem to load in the #?.g file I recently created ( work in progress ) with v1.4a. Is there a way to load it into the new version? Thanks Jim.
Larry, You are right! I couldn't seem to get the pointer out of my head after all thats what it says in the manual. I should remember manuals are only a last resort. Thank for clearing it up before it got out of hand. Jim
Larry, re Links. For example I have gadtoolsbox in a subdirectory of my compiler partition. The default path when the program creates the project file is :gadtoolsbox. Thus I use a link from :gadtoolsbox to the appropriate subdirectory and never have to modify the tool path in the created project…
AmigaDos Links
Message #35320
Although not specifically a C problem: I have tried to use the makelink feature of AmigaDos to create links to common files in different directories allowing me to maintain directory contents but make specific files available to other programs without adding a zillion directories to my path list. PROBLEM: how…
Ron, sorry I didn't get back to you sooner! Looks like the problem has been quashed. I haven't yet compiled the isam portion of the database source. After getting the CBT source compiled I am attempting to learn/use GadToolBox to create a test program to enable testing and debugging. Then…
Thanks for your suggestions. There is such a large body of code out there that a guide is almost necessary.
Porting Database
Message #34811
Doug, I have two questions. While attempting to port Mix's Database toolchest to the AMIGA per the article in AC's Tech vol3#2, I found that the prototype for open used by SAS/C6.2 uses the variable argument convention which was conflicting with the prototypes in the Mix source. The documentation doesn't…
Useful Utilities
Message #34810
I am preparing a C progamming utilities disk for my local users group. I would appreciate suggestions on which PD C utilities / source which you have found indispensable, very useful or just interesting. I currently have already downloaded "Sorcerer", "Gadtoolsbox" and "Cats AmigaGuide". I am currently using SAS/C6.2 an…