This is an archive of CompuServe forum messages from 1985 to 1995, as saved in transcripts by John Foust.
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Message #4597
Would it be possible to have a module written that converts from)6+lpt-animate to BOSCH? A friend of mine wants to know. — Colin —
As far as the Assembler is concerned, I can heartily recommend Charlie Gibb's A68K, a PD assembler. It is really slick. There is a book from Abacus, called something like The Amiga Programmer's Guide, that is written with all assembly language examples. — Colin —
You can use a WEDGE to hook up a hard drive to the Ami. They have 1000 and 500 models. You can contact RSI at: Alexandra Road Richmond B.C. Canada V6X 1C6 (604)-278-6694 — Colin —
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#Software
Message #4594
Why would you have to stop buying software if you don't have a HD? Do you have to put everything on the WB disk? — Colin —
You say that you would hate to see the Amiga become unusable to someone who doesn't have a harddrive- unfortunately a machine of this design (multi-tasking, graphic etc..) SHOULD HAVE come with a minimum of 1 or 2 megabytes and a harddrive! I know that some people are going to…
Betty, I can understand your problem with the workbench disk vs libraries, but there are advantages to having a library. For one thing, programs that use it will be smaller and therefore save you space. My old file requester was 12k. If you had 3 programs on your disk that…
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Font help
Message #9375
Fontographer? — Colin —
We're having some strange problems at work with the clocks. Most of the 1000's we've got have insiders, and therefore a battery-backed clock. One one machine, you type `rtclock' (the command to copy the insider's clock to the system clock) and it shows the right time, but when you look…
I'm making a guess here, but… The front/back gadgets in the upper left of the blanked screen are just that- screen gadgets. It sounds like he's opened up a black screen to cover the view, to darken you monitor. He must have just forgotten to make the BackDropWindow full size,…
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Bruce Dawson Review
Message #28988
I didn't mean to imply that you are "… against God, apple pie, and the girl next door…" because you don't like the idea of an optimizing assembler. I actually forgot what I said, but I meant no offence. I think I remember saying that you are SOL if you…
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#Bruce Dawson Review
Message #28987
Using the Address Register indirect with Displacement mode for addressing is still ROMable, isn't it? I was under the impression that the requirement for ROMable code was the same as that for re-entrant code. Am I wrong? An assembler will NEVER (unless there's a bug somewhere) change your code so…
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#Bruce Dawson Review
Message #28986
There is nothing stopping you from being completely explicit in your programming. Assemblers aren't supposed to change your code if you are totally explicit. If you say BRA.L the assembler won't (shouldn't) optimize it to a BRA. If you say ADDI it won't (shouldn't) optimize it to an ADDQ. It's…
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#IO requests
Message #28510
I didn't know that WaitIO() actually removed it from the queue. I guess I'm a bit shakier on IO than I thought. Question, then. When you do either a SendIO() or a DoIO(), _does_ it come back attached to your message port? — Colin —
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Bruce Dawson Review
Message #28509
Thanks for the info. Jim G. doesn't seem to want to reply to Bruce's requests. Maybe we'll find out more later. — Colin —
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Software
Message #4348
Thanks for the info. I have a question- how would you like to reduce the code in any of your products by (depending on the original size) a healthy margin? Bruce Dawson and myself are working on a run-time library (like arp's and the system's) that is about 75% done.…