This is an archive of CompuServe forum messages from 1985 to 1995, as saved in transcripts by John Foust.
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Tom, Do you still use your ELF II ever? Mine is right here beside me as I type this. But my terminal board no longer works, and I haven't used it since 1986 when I bought my first Amiga. Actually, I bought the Amiga because I was upgrading my ELF…
Thanks for the tip. I'll give ReadArgs a try, although I have been using the other approach successfully for nearly four years with CAPE2.5 (there WAS no ReadArgs then). It is still frustrating that it works as is in Debug, but crashes from the Edit screen. Except that often I…
It's been 11 days since your response (for which I thank you), so I should probably remind you what it was: > When your program is called the arguments are pointed to by a0. > Additionally the length of the argument is stored in d0. > What you need to…
Phill, I'm really glad to hear from you. I knew another user (in England) but he joined a monastery last spring (no connection with computing). I was wondering if I should try readargs, but haven't gotten around to it yet. It didn't exist when I wrote the working version of…
#using DevPac
Message #48024
Any successful DevPac3 users out there? I'm switching from Cape2.5, but having some strange problems. I get proper results with a program segment (reads a file-name argument from the CLI) when I run it in the debugger, but get garbage running from the editor screen (unless I have run it…
Stuck at 3M? Part 2
Message #208833
I had failed in attempts to increase either my fast RAM or chip RAM beyond a total greater than 3M. The problem seemed to be in my accelerator board. Please see "Stuck at 3M?" for details. But I tried one other experiment. VXL-30 allows mapping of its piggy-backed fast RAM…
Stuck at 3m?
Message #208832
Abstract: Attempts to add more RAM (chip or fast) to my accelerated A2000 with 3M have consistently failed. Most experimental evidence points to the accelerator board as the culprit, but other evidence seems perhaps to exonerate it. I hope there are some engineering-type lurkers out there who can help me…
It's scary thinking I might have missed this valuable exchange because John called it "Help" (Hmm… *Might* be interesting) instead of "Searching" (Just what I'm looking for). How about more descriptive subject lines! Fortunately I did see it and Jim's responses are duly printed out for study. By the way,…
> From your code, which due to formatting problems I cannot read to well Sorry about that, Phill. I write code with Memacs, and when I imported it into AutoPilot the s were all ignored, so I tried to fix it with spaces. I suspect you got both the tabs…
#OpenDiskFont()
Message #47219
I wanted to specify a text font and size in a program under development. So I (successfully) open diskfont.library and save its address as DFLbase. Then I attempt to open the font, with the following code: move.l ascfont,a0 my TextAttr structure move.l DFLbase,a6 SYS OpenDiskFont(a6) move.l d0,txtfnt beq close [Followed…
Your "… when first bootng up the Amiga. It takes several minutes to get the keyboard to work" reminds me of a similar problem I had recently. With my original keyboard. I had slightly ruined the 8520 in charge of my A2000's parallel port. (Just enough to make the output…
Surprising differences! On my board and in my manual the 68000 is U100 rather than U1, Paula is U200, Denise U201, etc. I didn't know the different revisions differed that much. (I have an early Rev. 6–I recall seeing "Feb 1989" stamped someplace inside the cover.) Anyway, it's the full-size…
My manual is copyright 1985, 1986, 1987, nine chapters and appendices A-F. Appendix F is Schematics, comprising 12 of them. #1, U100 (the 68000); #2, audio, with Paula; #3, serial, with U301; #4, power (CN400) + ?; #5, memory; #6, the Amiga expansion bus; #7, the IBM 8-bit and 6-bit…
(Drat! I'm sure there was a "Load from Clipboard" option in my previous version of AutoPilot. "Help" doesn't help either.) Anyway, instead of "DACK0" I should have said "_DACK 0 at pin B19 of connector CN700 in appendix F, page 9 (F-9), showing the IBM expansion busses." Sorry for the…
#Broken A2000 Motherboard
Message #189127
The CIA chips should have nothing to do with your +5v and +12v problems. The first thing I would check is the connections to those LEDs in the Analyzer. Those connector pins are connected to the power supply. Do you print from the serial port? (Now that I'm replying in…
RAM chip speed
Message #187462
Is there a way to calculate how fast memory chips should be, based on CPU speed? I have an AdRAM board with 2M of 80 nanosecond chips which I used very happily for over two years with my 68000, but I had to remove it when I accelerated with a…
#GARY?
Message #185882
A couple years ago, my monitor display started very occasionally twitching–a kind of darkening or shrinking (recovers too fast to tell which) here and there around the edges–reminds me of the way a jellyfish pulses. More recently–on rare occasions at first, but now at some time during almost every 2-3…
Marty, I find your reply very helpful. I had recently reviewed the AW Nov 94 article, but I had the feeling that I had read of other options somewhere or other, and you have provided me with hints that I can understand and work from. I'm still not sure my…
Thanks, Don. I mapped out what I could see of my motherboard a few days ago, and didn't find an AGNUS, so was afraid it must be under the VXL-30 board, which takes up most of the available space under the drives. I'll take another look… Bart
Marty, I have a bad habit of forgetting to mention my model/configuration. I've got an A2000 with accelerator (…30/33) and 3M RAM. (Plus a no-longer- compatible 2M board, drat!) Most of my computer time is spent online, then word-processing, various kinds of data collection and sorting, teaching-material preparation, etc. I…
#Monitor upgrade
Message #185185
Either my 9-year-old 1080 monitor or my 5-year-old CIA chips are getting a bit flaky. When the problem (streaking, colors fading, twitching) gets less intermittent, I will hook up to my TV tuner and find out for sure whether it is the monitor or not. If it is the monitor,…
#2M Agnus in A2000
Message #185184
I assume that upgrading to 2M chip memory in an A2000 is not simply a matter of replacing a 1M Agnus with a 2M Agnus, but that I need something like the DKB Megaboard. Is this correct? If so, is the DKB Megaboard the only option? If so, does that…
#to rx or not to rx
Message #45401
I can't figure out from my WShell manual why I get the following kind of results when I run a certain ARexx program by typing its name at the prompt: –> 1 Unknown command 1 30 *-* open('newtext',outfile,'w'); +++ Command returned 20 –> 77 Unknown command 77 52 *-* writeln('newtext',outline);…
GPFax paging
Message #173999
Paul, Thanks for confirming that (probably) all fax machines will figure out some way to handle an over-long fax. I shall stop worrying about that until I hear of somebody missing something. Happy Thanksgiving
GPFax Error
Message #173998
My GPFax manual is 108 pages. Starts out with Update Notes 2.346 on pages i-iv. I guess for once I held off buying until the right moment to get a major upgrade, without having to send in the upgrade fees and old disks and stuff.
Shraddhan
Message #42424
Shraddhan, I've been trying to send you the following as C-mail for over a week; I just realized why it keeps coming back: I'm missing one number in your ID, probably a "3" because my "3" key is erratic. Thanks for your offer of help. How come you get to…
#160833-
SCSI = SCSI?
Message #161336
Thanks. I suspected as much about PC CD-ROM (otherwise I would have heard about Amiga users buying them). I wouldn't mind dealing with MacWarehouse again. Amiga users should get that kind of turn-around mail order service!
Steven, Many thanks for your clarification re SCSI and CD-ROMs, especially the tips about how to solve what would have looked to me like incompatibility problems if they came up (possible need to reset IDs). Something else I keep wondering. How many of those inexpensive CD-ROMs I see advertised for…
#SCSI = SCSI?
Message #160041
How uniform is SCSI? With a SCSI controller (Trumpcard Pro), what do I need to watch out for when considering SCSI media from non-Amiga merchants? (Case in point: CD-ROM drive with "twin 50 pin SCSI connectors" from MacWarehouse). Bart
HookFunc (was AnchorPath
Message #41989
Looking for a compassionate teacher again (Shraddhan?). I am still having problems translating filehook.c (ROM KRM: Libraries, p. 426-8) into assembler language. (I am trying to do the reverse: namely exclude, rather than include, .info files, due to a user complaint.) ParsePattern() seems to work, with "#?.info" as source, and…
Shraddhan (and Peter Wade), Yes, I studied dos/dosasl.i and dos/dosasl.h as well as asl.library/#? quite a bit before posting (I hate to reveal my stupidity except as a last resort). But I just looked again, and see the crucial line is there after all: "Allocate this structure and initialize it…
#AnchorPath
Message #41931
According to the 1992 edition of _ARKRM, Libraries_ p. 426, in the "ASL Library" chapter, a requester will under certain circumstances pass a pointer to an AnchorPath structure to a custom hook function. An example of its use is given on p. 428: returnvalue = MatchPattern(pat, ((struct AnchorPath *)obj->ap_Info.fib_FileName) As…
#Can't get DF1:
Message #141110
I have installed a Power Point 1.76MB Internal XL Drive in my A2000. It works fine, in terms of formatting HD disks (1.76M and 1.44M both) and reading and writing disks of any OS 2.1 compatible format. The down side is that my computer does not recognize DF1: (nee DF0:).…
Christopher, Yes, I have had the "looping thread" problem, but with Whap!, not AP. And I haven't had the problem since getting my LineLink. Very irritating, wherever the cause. You say you cannot access some things on CD-ROMs. Does that mean that the standard CLI commands do not apply, so…
Christopher, Thanks for the info, which I will move to my "Which CD-ROM?" file. Guess I won't worry about the Kodak PhotoCD. 24-bit color is WAY down my greed list. (But I may have to consider it; my 1977-vintage 1080 monitor may not last forever…) What is the problem with…
#fax on LineLink
Message #137182
Christopher, I've finally got AutoPilot working and registered, so I can answer your 22 March note. Fortunately I saved an echo file, because I had to go to HandsOn to read your message, and it zipped off the top of the screen before I had a chance to read it–thought…
Cristopher, I've tried two programs I downloaded from the Communications library. I could even figure out how to use the one in LCFAX.LHA. AFAX13.LHA seems to supply most of the documentation one should need, but I obviously haven't figured it out yet. I get no modem activity, and a debug…
#Can I fax?
Message #136053
I just got a LineLink 144e (Technology Concepts, Inc.) from Mac Warehouse. Mac users can upgrade this modem to a fax modem with a SOFTware upgrade. What are the chances GPFax would do the same for an Amiga? Bart Ever-the-tyro Mathias
#PC0: si, DF0: no! Why?
Message #135831
Five days this time between your message and my response. I don't know if that's better or worse. Ka`ahumanu is a bit more attractive than where Software Dungeon was. I might even drop in one of these times (I used to go to HeathKit in that area). I missed the…
PC0: si, DF0: no! Why?
Message #135182
Danial, Thanks for the reply. Has it really been that long since I logged on to Compuserve?! I'm on O`ahu–Wai`alae-Kahala area. Rarely get to Software Dungeon. Kind of a long drive, unless I know they've got what I need. I took my floppy drive out and ran it upside down…
Chris, I appreciate the advice. I'm going to put in a HD floppy anyway–it'll be worth it just to be able to tell in this kind of case whether it's the floppy itself or something else. I took my floppy drive out and slapped it around a bit; now it…
Robb, Thanks. That makes sense, and I can live with either one. I haven't the foggiest about how to get a drive back into alignment but there may still be one Amiga servicer left in Hawaii… If worse comes to worst, sounds like I can "just" replace it. I appreciate…
Don, Thanks for the quick and ultimately encouraging response. I've played enough with DiskEd to know where AmigaDOS' root is, but knew nothing about MS-DOS. I had not tried actually reading any of the MO-DOS disk's files until a little while ago. When I do, I get read errors, which…
#PC0: si, DF0: no! Why?
Message #132414
Since this morning, if I put a normally formatted disk in df0: (the only floppy drive on my accelerated A2000), after quite a bit of spinning and complaining I get two icons, labelled respectively: DF0:NDOS, PC0:???? If I try to open DF0: I naturally get the old "Not a DOS…
MicroBotics is no more. I called about upgrading my VXL (turns out I need an MMU after all), and a recording had me call another company (at (214) 644-0043–I didn't write down the company name), which faxed me some material yesterday morning. I've been pretty happy with my VXL and…
Amiga Assembler: Thanks
Message #39091
Good to see several responses to Bryan Wilcutt's hail to ASM programmers. I think they mostly tend to be a quiet lot in this forum unless somebody's in trouble. They have come to my aid many a time. So count me in. I started last spring and released my first…
I don't see any replies to this, though it's two weeks old. You don't mention any GURU number. Surely you get one? Is it an 80000002 plus address? – via Whap!
If you get absolutely no other offers of help, I would be willing to take a look at your code. No expert, but have written some programs in AmigaBasic. I use one to do the grading for my classes; it crashes under OS 2.0–even if I use NoFastRam, I think,…
Brian, Yes, I got the help I needed to eventually force me down the right track. But I very much appreciate your efforts to help, and I will take your advice to check out the C Class files. Bart – via Whap!
Freddy, It was immediately obvious that changing move.l to lea as you suggested would help to solve my problem. I made that change and followed up with your suggestion to save my window structure pointer directly in the taglist. Then I compiled and ran, and the requester STILL came up…
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