This is an archive of CompuServe forum messages from 1985 to 1995, as saved in transcripts by John Foust.
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Brian, You write: >they were cheaper? Yes, but if someone was going to shell out close to 1000 bucks (which is what they seemed to have cost back then), it didn't make sense to me to pay a little less and wind up without an MMU. And then later on,…
Ian, You're right about the EC chips. I never understood why anyone would ever upgrade their computer with one, but that seemed the way a lot of accelerators were going a while back. Take care, John G. Ata Sterling, VA
Ian, You write: >consider >a 68020 at 14 MHz, like the a1200, is equivalent to a 28MHz 68000. However, the SupraTurbo 28 MZ 68000 accelerator that I have seems to have performance numbers that are much better than the A1200 (14Mz 68EC20). This is using Lamonte Koop's AIBB 6.1. This…
Dale, You write: >Escom doesn't support anything for the Amiga as far as I know. At least not >if, by support, you mean that someone will answer your questions or give you >a waranty or anything. I'm curious if there is a ROM Kernel Reference Manual update (Fourth Edition?) that…
#ESCOM – UUGH!!!
Message #209063
Ian or anyone who has a comment: Regarding AmigaDos 3.1: Do you know whether this is supported by Escom as an official Amiga release? My understanding is that it was never released by Commodore. I have held off from buying it because I didn't know what its status was. The…
Epson AL1100 Control Sim
Message #182887
Does anyone have an Amiga program that will control the Epson AL1100 laser printer? This printer is great and works fine with Final Writer, but I wondered if anyone had a way of manually chaning parameters that the word processor probably doesn't address such as "toner saving" mode. Thanks, John…
PMFJI, but I just wanted to add that AutoPilot uses APAssist for it's online documentation. Just move the cursor to some gadget and hit the help key. Take care, John G. Ata Sterling, VA
Many thanks to Dan Darlingon, Tom Jones and Daniel Stripes for their response to my query on using a switchbox on the Amiga printer port. Basically I am switching between a printer and a handscanner (doesn't have a passthrough). I will not fear that the 8250 will blow up as…
Bob, You write: >I use a switch with no problems… (Knock on wood!) Thanks very much for the information. A field engineer from work (we used to service Amigas) told me the same thing, so I won't worry about blowing any chips… Thanks, John G. Ata Sterling, VA
#Switchbox safe?
Message #157788
Can anyone tell me if it is safe to hook up a printer to a switch box on an A2000 and switch between devices while the system is still up? Thanks, John G. Ata Sterling, VA
David, Do you know if the WB3.1 update for the ECS and AGA Amigas is a software only update, or is there a new ROM involved? Thanks, John G. Ata Sterling, VA
John, Do you feel that Dice contains an equal or superset of features that the Manx compiler did? I'm an orphaned Manx user and Lattice is just to expensive for me to upgrade. However, Dice (the commercial product) is new, correct? So I'm wondering which features I'd be missing or…
#Archive 5945C
Message #64135
Does anyone know if an Archive tape drive model 5945C will work on my GVP Series II controler? This drive might be in Qic-2 format… John G. Ata Sterling, VA
Hand Scanners
Message #108929
Has anyone used the Migraph ColorBurst scanner? Would appreciate any feedback on this before I purchase it. Also, does anyone have any experience with the Golden Image handscanner? John G. Ata Sterling, VA
Nancy, I'm running a XT BB on a stock 2000 with 2.04 and Janus 2.1. I have no problem at all with aread/awrite. I would make sure that your PCPrefs point to D000. Also, there should be no need to manually load in PCDisk any longer, so make sure you've…
The XT Bridgboard has default settings at E000. The 286/386 BB have default settings at D000. Configuring at A000 turns off the Janus utilities as far as I can tell. John G. Ata Sterling, VA
DOS 5.0 works fine on my Janus 2.0 system even though it came with DOS 3.3. Don't let that stop you from installing it! John G. Ata Sterling, VA
Perhaps someone can download it from the Tenex BB, convert it to LHA format and upload it on Compuserve? John G. Ata Sterling, VA
I have tried ordering Janus 2.1 using the part numbers published either here or on Usenet. Commodore won't let me order direct from them and *no* dealer that I'm aware has gotten them in quantity enough for there to be one in stock when I ordered. This has been going…
Now if only one could find Janus 2.1… 🙁 John G. Ata Sterling, VA
#486 in a 386sx bb
Message #73089
.04 docs. Sure it is, you supply a negative number and it frees up that number of buffers. It's in the AmigaDOS Manual (3'd Edition) and on page 8-7 of the Using the System Software docs provided with 2.04. It actually works quite well… John G. Ata Sterling, VA
Err, try typing dir >prn: NOT prt: John G. Ata Sterling, VA
#486 in a 386sx bb
Message #72267
This simply is NOT true as stated: The 2.04 version of addbuffers does NOT have those two failings. It does not allocate buffers in chip memory and it allows you to delete the buffers once they are allocated. Please refer the the 2.04 documentation for a complete description. Maybe there…
While I understand your point of view and agree that hires interlaced is the future for productivity, I guess I am at a loss as to how supporting a hires non-interlaced screen takes away from the functionality of AP. After all, any word processor is more usable at hires, interlaced…
Why the requirement that AutoPilot be interlace only? This will make it difficult for those without flixerfixers or A3000 to use. Does this mean that AutoPilot will automatically create an interlaced screen, or will it return an error if the Preferences setting is not interlaced? John
That's nice…however, a 105 Meg hardrive backed up to 880k floppies results in over 110 disks! I'd hardly call that painless. In my case, I'd rather sacrifice some speed for reduction in the amount of disks. A streaming tape device is not an option for me. John
Quarterback&Compression
Message #30217
I must confess that currently, I am not an owner of Quarterback but use another backup tool which works quite nicely. I do own, however, Quarterback Tools which I have found to be a very useful product wich performs as advertised. Therefore, I was wondering if the current version of…
Do you know what type of UART the Intel Above Board Plus 8 uses? I am looking for one which as a small internal buffer as the advanced UARTS do. John
Yes, I definitely have version 1.5 of QB. Further analysis of the problem, however, shows that memory is being released, it just seems to be fragmented. Running the "avail" command before a qbsnap and running "avail" after shows that the amount of free memory for both chip and fast have…
Ignore the message from DOSSHELL that says that the mouse driver is not recent. It works just fine and the message only pops up once unless you change your screen resolution. John
#24593-
QBSnap
Message #24834
I reported a problem a while ago with QBSNAP where it would leave FAST memory horrible fragmented, so much that QBT wouldn't run properly on my Q105S drive (GVPII Controller w/ 2M fast ram). I have to do a NoFastMem before doing a QBSnap and everything turns out ok. I…
Hmm…I use the EpsonQ printer driver…Is there an advantage to using the NEC Pinwriter driver? John
#5501-
Control Manx Compiles
Message #5746
Thanks everyone for their responses… John
Internet
Message #9482
But I run MicroEmacs (3.10) on MSDOS, AmigaDOS and Unix… John
Roy, It's very strange but Mike hasn't been around CIS, the Manx BBS or from what I hear BIX either. It certainly looks like something strange is going on there. Even if Mike has resigned (as previously suggested), you would think that either he or someone would have left word…
Roy, Mike Spille seems to have vanished…he hasn't been here or at the Manx BBS either since the beginning of October. Don't know what happened. John
Gary, How fast is Quarterback Tools and BAD? I heard that it might take hours to defrag a 40M hard drive. If so, it would definitely be faster for me to delete everything on my harddrive and restore to it, much faster… John
2400 bauud XT BB problem
Message #5969
Don, Forgot to ask the obvious, but what kind of serial board are you using on the BB? I can't seem to find a buffered serial card anywhere… John
Don, Then could it somehow be my serial port at fault? I have a generic serial port that seems to work for all other purposes. Is the baud rate timing done by the serial port itself? Could it be off causing this problem. Since we have identical hardware, I can't…
Don, I didn't think it was the serial card because regular characters that are being sent over have no problem. For example, I downloaded using YMODEM a very large file (180K) with no retransmissions or errors whatsoever. Like I stated earlier, normally characters are not dropped. Only when the character…
Don, No, you misunderstood me. If I am in a telecommunications program such as MS-Kermit which emulates a VT102, and I am talking to a remote host running Emacs on it, then if I type in ^F, for example, that tells Emacs to move the cursor forward one character. So…
#2400 bauud XT BB problem
Message #2418
I have an Amiga 2000 with an XT Bridgeboard, serial card, extra 128K memory and WD controller with Miniscribe RLL HD (60 meg). Have recently upgraded my modem to 2400 baud. I seem to be able to keep up at this rate with no problem, all file transfers seem to…
Mike, You did it! MicroEMACS 3.10 now compiles and runs correctly with the latest fix. Than you very much. It is support like this that makes me happy that I purchased Manx. It's not only the fact that you found the problem and fixed it quickly that impresses me (I…
Are you serious? Are you saying that if I had a document that wanted to change from normal text to condensed mode or wide mode that I would have to figure out the escape sequence and edit a file? I must have misunderstood you!!! John
Steve, One more question…If I have an all text document and which to use different internal printer fonts, the marketing blurb does say that they are supported. Is this so? Hopefully, I do not have to dump my document in graphics mode to get the different fonts my Panasonic KPX-1124…
Steve, Thanks very much for your reply. You have answered my questions. I have one more question however, because it was not clear in the marketing blurb whether Excellence did this. Does it support footnotes? Someone told me that the first version didn't, although I would thing version 2 most…
I am considering purchasing the lastest version of Excellence (V2). It's supposed to have many new features and is considerably faster. Is this true? The marketing liturature looks great, but you never know… John
#MicroEMACS 3.10 & 5.0d
Message #1158
The version of Daniel Lawrence's MicroEMACS 3.10 which used to compile and run correctly under Manx 5.0a & 5.0b is failing under the new Manx 5.0d. It compiles (-so option) and links ok with no errors, but when attempting to run it, the window only seems to output characters up…
I have noticed that same thing (errors on both messages and downloads) if the MNP flag is on. If off, I do not get them. Does anyone know exactly the correct procedure for using the MNP flag (it isn't documented in the WHAP documentation that I have (1.9). Does it…
Just FYI, I have the latest version of Superback which seems to work quite well. It has a very intuitive and easy to use interface as well as being fast. And the latest version (2C) uses multiple floppy drives as well as better error recovery. I have fully and selectively…
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