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 IBM/Apple non-announcement (I believe it was a premature leak) is not intended to affect the existing IBM-PC or Mac product lines, IMHO. I believe the real intent of such an agreement is for Apple's user interface software to be rewritten to run on IBM's RISC chipset hardware. Intel-based 80×86…
I didn't mean to cause a stir… IBeM is an incredible achievement; they seem to have put a lot more thought into the design than was put into the Transformer. I considered the Transformer unusable, and the 68000 version of IBeM is probably even a little slower. Since I knew…
Pong WAS available in a package called Golden Oldies along with several other early computer programs… And believe me, it was just like the original. Black & white and ugly as heck 🙂
Now it seems to me that there is a very strong history of connections between BNR and the Software Distillery… I used to work at BNR Toronto and I recall getting one the the SD members at RTP to send me the A1000 schematics thru company mail… Did you use…
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what is IBeM ?
Message #26873
IBeM is a dog… I ran it on my 1000 (2.5M) and run some PC benchmark programs. It was pathetic. Totally unusable. I don't recall the exact numbers, but it was well UNDER a ONE MHz XT. And the disk access was worse. Of course, I ran the 68000-compatable one,…
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mixers
Message #9797
Any info on digital mixers? I hear they are available, and I'd like to set up myself with a digital portastudio of some kind… (I want to mix midi-produced music with analog sounds – vocals, guitar…)
Music-X Upgrade
Message #22281
Just wanted to check to see if the Music-X 1.0 to 1.1 upgrade off was still available. I will send you my disks and a money order as soon as I hear from you. Thanx, Paul Whittemore [72007,3305]
#Music-X? Sonix-to-DMCS?
Message #33308
I remember someone mentioning there was a demo of Music-X online? Is this actually true? I haven't spotted it anywhere… Also, I have a Sonix score that I'd like to play on my MIDI keyboard. Does anybody know of a Sonix to DMCS converter? Thanx, Paul Paul Whittemore [72007,3305]
#Unix Fever
Message #99760
I have seen Unix System V Release 4 running _with_ X-Windows (and was told that this was the first time _anybody_ had successfully combined the two). All this on an Amiga 2500. It was still under development and pretty shaky but I'm sure it's come a long way since then…
ARP Bindings
Message #14254
Last question… You can tell I've been off CIS for a while… Can you tell me if the ARP bindings in the A-G section here have been updated for ARP 1.3? I know there's little change to the bindings, but forgot to ask previously…
Hi Leon, follow-up to my previous message: I turned range-checking off for a quick check and sure enough, it solved my problem. The code worked correctly. So I started thinking about the range error and decided that I should leave range-checking on and fix the bug rather than band-aid it…
Thanx Leon, Range-checking WAS on. I'll turn it off and see what happens. BTW, I DID trace through it in ASM mode and didn't see anything unusual, but I was looking for TRAPs and other (very) unusual instructions. If I still have a problem after turning off range-checking, I'll have…
#Problems w/proc RETURNs
Message #14225
Hi Leon, Been having a problem that only you may be able to solve… Any other development environment and I'd say it's bad code from the compiler, but in your case (BM), I know that's VERY unlikely to say the least. My problem(s) are with PROCEDURE returns. My original problem…
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M2Ed menus
Message #14224
I had the same problem with menus in the past and it always turned out to be insufficient memory as Leon suggested…
Sorry, I still catching up on DNET. Do you mean Matt has (or is working on) a software set that will allow an Amiga to appear to a Unix net as aother NFS machine (through the serial port?)? Does it require software on the Unix end? (It sounds like it…
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#Kickstart1.3
Message #41163
Has anybody heard about RemRAD guruing if you use two RAD:'s ? Also, RAD: doesn't seem to boot if I have the second RAD1:. (I realize your not _supposed_ to have 2, but what the heck… =>8v) More to the point, maybe it's time for someone to detail the order…
The Amiga has a built-in boss key – the window/screen-to-back gadgets…
#News coverage
Message #41160
Seems to me that no matter how many times you explain the point you were trying to make, it seems to get missed entirely. Anyhoo, to show you that your point WAS received by some of us, let me have a go at it : Public networks can and should…
Me too… The guy wrote THE textbook didn't he… everybody I know who took the course in the past eight years used that one as far as I know …
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C? or Modula-2?
Message #35234
Just had to get my 2 cents worth in … Modula-2 is my language of choice, but it does lack some features which make it a less powerful language than C… For example : 1. The break and continue statements… very flexxible and useful, but not available in M-2… 2.…
You mean Andrew S. "Computer Networks" Tanenbaum?
#Intermixed Raw Reads
Message #32149
Now _I_ don't want to write a custom console device, especially when ConMan's available, so if you could just add the following, I'd… I'd… I'd stop asking for source! Well, don't get your hopes up… If you'd prefer not to have slightly modified versions all over the place (my usual…
Pure is reentrant AND reexecutable, the latter meaning you assume nothing about the initial value of your global variables (i.e. no BSS) and use executable statements in your initialization code to give them their original values.
Borland advertised TurboPascal in the very first AmigWorld, then they changed their minds and decided to shift their efforts to ANOTHER computer system rather than Amiga. I never thought Borland would be a vaporware company… Maybe eventually they'll come back and finish the job. (Don't hold your breath…)
Have you tried MachII? I gave up PopCLI and the other 'TSRs' (yuck – a 'blue' word) as soon as I saw MachII. It does everything.