This is an archive of CompuServe forum messages from 1985 to 1995, as saved in transcripts by John Foust.
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George, Superkickstart is the name of the Kickstart floppy that came with the 2.04 A3000 (not sure about other OS versions). Yes, when you booted holding down both mouse buttons, a menu came up allowing you to select 1.3 KS. This was read from the floppy, then you were prompted…
Thanks for the feedback, Geir. I hadn't thought about doing the 2.1 wb upgrade when going SCSI-2. Hmmm, while I'm in there, maybe I should put a few more memory chips on the motherboard……. –Gary Hines –on AutoPilot over Fort Wayne, IN
#A3000 & SCSI-2
Message #126320
Does anyone know whether a SCSI-2 hard drive will work with the SCSI controller built into the A3000? Thanks, –Gary Hines –on AutoPilot over Fort Wayne, IN
Andrew, Ah, so the spouses have to be spaced such that both of their parents are visible in the row above them. I will probably use AFT mostly to enter pedigree charts (as opposed to family groups), so I will want that capability to traverse to the ancestors of both…
Andrew, I've had my A3000 for over a year and a half and didn't know you could set the screen size larger than the viewable area and use the mouse to scroll! I tried this with AFT and found (with the screen width at 1024 or so) that I could…
#AFT v1.2
Message #123108
Andrew, I have recently downloaded your AFT genealogy program, v1.2, and am very impressed with the ease of data input and the speed and flexibility of the tree display. I have a few suggestions for improving the program: 1. Add marriage date and place to GEDCOM export and import. This…
A-Talk III and CIS B+
Message #69004
I can't seem to get CIS Bplus protocol to work with A-Talk III. When I do a NEWCLI and start up the bplus module, it just hangs, and the main A-Talk window is unresponsive until I close the bplus window. I'm running 2.04 on an A3000 and have tried 7E1…
Macrons
Message #120179
Does anyone know of a font or keymap for the Amiga that supports macrons? I want the ability to use macrons to indicate long vowel sounds in Latin.
Thomas, Will this interface also work with the M2Sprint Modula-2 compiler? Gary – via Whap!
Mike, I have the Amiga 1.01 version of SBPro 4. Is there an update available to 1.2? Are there plans to keep the Amiga version in synch with the Windows version? Gary From snowy Fort Wayne, IN – via Whap!
RJ, I have QB 5.03. Archive bits work as you have described. I don't think QB will write into the middle of an existing archive. In essence, the incremental backups are new archives. If you are concerned with minimizing the number of floppies used, they describe a procedure in the…
Jeff, The last I heard is that the M2S product was bought by the owner of Benchmark M2, the other major Modula 2 product. Haven't heard anything about continuing support for either product, e.g., bindings for the new operating systems. – via Whap!
This is another vote for a good spreadsheet, a la Microsoft Excel.
Replacing Tiny Tiger
Message #50814
Has anybody ever successfully replaced the HD mechanism inside a M.A.S.T. Tiny Tiger drive? My Quantum 40 Mb drive has failed and I am wondering what replacement drives will work.
Harry, I would be interested in any M2Sprint fixes you, or anyone else, has. – via Whap!
I got an Amiga Resource with mine (March 91 issue). Maybe they sent you the wrong version.
Malcolm, I renewed my TransAmi subscription (sorry I don't have my subscriber number handy), and the renewal was posted to my VISA account on March 9. I still haven't received issues 2.1, 2.2, or any others. Could you look into this? Let me know if you need any further information…
Martin, I'd like to add my appreciation for your quality product and excellent support. I have a request for a future version of the M2E editor: 1. Allow macro bindings to the keypad keys. Many of us at work who have Amigas use the MicroEmacs editor because we can set…
Betty, I agree. My renewal subscription was posted to my Visa account in March; still no 2.1 or 2.2. It's ironic that not too long ago Transactor tried to go ALL subscriptions. Now the subscribers (and in your case, the contributors) are the last to receive their copies! Seems like…
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#TransAmi
Message #8612
I haven't received 2.1 or 2.2 yet, either. Does anyone from Transactor ever get on AmigaVendor forum anymore to deal with these problems? They used to be on regularly.
I've had error messages like that, also, when I was running a program that ran out of stack (such as a compiler). Of course the system requester didn't tell me the program had run out of stack! Gary
I've had error messages like that, also, when I was running a program that ran out of stack (such as a compiler). Of course the system requester didn't tell me the program had run out of stack! Gary
TDI Opaque Types
Message #123394
Larry, Good point. This one is not too serious — the workaround is to always pass an opaque – type parameter as VAR. What bothers me is (1) this workaround didn't USED to be necessary, and (2) the compiler error generated was obscure enough that I spent a lot of…
TDI Opaque Types
Message #123394
Larry, Good point. This one is not too serious — the workaround is to always pass an opaque – type parameter as VAR. What bothers me is (1) this workaround didn't USED to be necessary, and (2) the compiler error generated was obscure enough that I spent a lot of…
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#TDI Opaque Types
Message #122308
Thanks, Steve. Is it worth it anymore to report bugs to TDI? Gary
#TDI Opaque Types
Message #122175
I recently was mailed TDI M2 v. 3.01a and was interested to (eventually) discover that TDI thinks an opaque (pointer) type may only be passed as a VAR parameter into a procedure. Is this required by the language? TDI v. 3.00a allowed opaque types as value parameters. Gary
#TDI Opaque Types
Message #122175
I recently was mailed TDI M2 v. 3.01a and was interested to (eventually) discover that TDI thinks an opaque (pointer) type may only be passed as a VAR parameter into a procedure. Is this required by the language? TDI v. 3.00a allowed opaque types as value parameters. Gary
#Basic Random Files
Message #104831
I've never tried to open more than one random file at a time in AmigaBASIC. But it did take me awhile toure out that you have to write dummy records out to a random file before you can write and read real records correctly! Are you initializing all three files…
ON TIMER GOSUB
Message #90161
John, Have you tried various values for the number of seconds? Also, it seems to me that I read somewhere (probably in the Compute Publications book Advanced AmigaBASIC) that there are some problems with the event-driven commands, such as ON TIMER — at least with v. 1.1. I loaned out…
ON TIMER GOSUB
Message #90161
John, Have you tried various values for the number of seconds? Also, it seems to me that I read somewhere (probably in the Compute Publications book Advanced AmigaBASIC) that there are some problems with the event-driven commands, such as ON TIMER — at least with v. 1.1. I loaned out…