This is an archive of CompuServe forum messages from 1985 to 1995, as saved in transcripts by John Foust.
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>>People who say cats always land on their feet… just don't know how to throw them right.
Dale, The manual says I've got a class 1 fax/modem. I tried using a shareware program for the class 2 type and it wouldn't work. Are there any programs for the class 1 types? (Sure hope so.) Vicki
#Just the fax, please
Message #152197
Does anyone here use a Bocafax modem? If so, why software do you use that successfully employs the fax potential of this periferial? I've not been able to get the copy of Terminus that came with the modem to work on my 2500 with OS2.1 –keep getting the message that…
#Show on other foot now
Message #150655
Steve, You must grow weary of members coming in here asking if there is a CIM for the Amiga. I thought I'd stop in to tell you that my husband wants to know if there is something as great as AutoPilot for MS-Dos computers. We just got a 386 laptop…
>>I've got a hardware question. I've come across 16 MC514256-Z10 chips. My A2620 manual says I need 16 414256-10 chips. Are the 51.. chips equivalent to the 41.. chips? In other words, can I use the chips in my A2620?
James– Thanks for explaning.
Whooops! Thanks for the explanation.
>>After spraying contact cleaner in this multi-pole, circuit-board switch…
Ron– Thanks! More impressive information. 🙂 Gaads… I've been up so long I've lost track of what day it is and what I've written where. I'm working two other bulletin boards in addition to this forum in trying to get a handle on this ram problem. Ok, I've figured out…
Gosh —that's an impressive ammount of information Ron. Where do you get it? You know so much and yet you always appear so modest and unassuming. Do you sit here all night scanning Amiga statistics and making files? Vicki
Ron, I've moved the jumper pin setting from 0 to 2. When I boot I get a red/brown screen entitled _System_Expansion_Board_Check_ that contains 3 columns: Status; Manufacturer; Product. Product "81" and "3" are "ok" but product "10" is *BAD*. Each product is identified as "514" under the Manufacturer column. Interesting.…
Rusty, I am just sifting through the messages in this section and came upon yours. While I can't give you much in the way of help — certainly not better than Betty or the other Amiga Pros around here, I can give you some words of encouragement. First of all,…
Ron, Akkk! I just noticed that we're in the Amiga Hardware section (11) now and I've not set AP to pick up that section. (Will make the change.) No wonder I've been missing messages that come up as read waiting when I post and then come on later and can't…
#RAM & Chip questions
Message #148011
>>A card that fits into a Zorro slot in your A2500 is the way to go.
Paul, Perhaps I should have started this quest with a newer Amiga. I've always assumed that upgrading to a newer model would have been more expensive than I could afford at the time. I'm not so sure now. Because the 2500 has never given me any problems that weren't silly…
>>Either you have only 3-megs of RAM, or there was a type. …
#RAM & Chip questions
Message #147290
Paul, Your answer(s) are complete. "Fat" is understood. I was looking for the FAT AGNUS chip and couldn't find one with that name. I found Gary and Denise but no Agnus or Paula. 🙁 Did find a chip named Fat Lady
Gracia, 14! You don't know what 14 is? That's Unravelling Threads– it's where we ship all off topic messages if renaming them still doesn't fit them into a crafts section. Yes, that's where all of the Amiga talk is shipped. >>…still hung up with no SCSI.
#Geneology
Message #147287
>>…lost of people cannot view 24-bit IFF pictures…
#RAM & Chip questions
Message #147286
Ron, I opened MAX: up today and gave him a good cleaning. I took the opportunity to take a long hard look at everything. I still can't figure out what makes this thing so heavy –sure wasn't the _dust_ making it weigh so much. The A2091 doesn't appear to have…
A scanner! 🙂 How neat. What kind is it? Flatbed or the hand-held? I haven't looked into them enough to know which kind would be best for the work I'll be doing. I bought a tablet about 2 years ago but have not really used it much. I'd *like* to,…
Betty, I haven't had to use the MSDOS disk reading ablilities of the Amiga yet, but I thought it was only good on text (wordperfect documents, etc). You mean to tell me it can read .GIF files??? Gaaads! I *have* been away too long. Say… is it my imagination or…
Michael, Oh? I didn't think of pressing the help key…. Anyway, I just tried it on this machine and nothing happens. I didn't expect it to since it's not installed properly… but the copy on the upstairs Amiga should so I'll go up there and check it out. (Later –can't…
>>…CPU-card is 32bit, and should allow either RAM using either 32bit SIMMs, .8bit SIMMs in groups of 4, or larger number of plug in DRAM chips.
Ron, I can really buy chips for my Amiga at CompUSA or the other mega computer stores? For reals? Thanks for the tip. …from the inception of a Tawanda attack Vicki
Michael! Of course I'm ok! ;^) Don't have to stand in the fast food lines any longer –not since "all-in-a-call" came to the neighborhood. …from the fax machine next to the microRAVE Vicki
Betty, Yes, my Amiga user group uses PageStream for their newsletter so that's why I'm confident that I've made a good choice. I can't wait till it comes… meanwhile I've got to expand the RAM of my system or I won't be able to install any of it. I've noticed…
Ron, JIBDS– I'm aware of the various weaving, knitting and CCS programs for the Amiga. I even know the person who holds the rights to several of those programs. Alas por moi, I neither weave, knit nor do hand stitching. The Amiga program(s) I'd be most interested (flat pattern drafting,…
Trent, Does the "slider gadget" available in KinCON, work specifically with the CLI window? Vicki
Ron, I find your explanation of chip names and their respective job descriptions quite helpful and extremely fascinating. Chip names that are derived from acronyms based on assigned tasks and the relationships to one another makes a lot of sense. I had no idea that was the reason for the…
Michael, Your message reminded me that I'd overlooked to update the copy of AP on my 2nd Amiga so I did that today. This time I did it with the the install gadget. Everything went well but I am a little disappointed in that I don't see the new icons.…
Ron, Thanks for another most excellent message. Unfortunately I'll have to get some rest (reboot my brain) before I can carry on. Of couse it couldn't have anything to do with the fact that I've got too many windows open in the grey cells. ….from the frozen screen Vicki
Ronald, Now *that* was a gem! Thank you. I don't know the name of my Zorro card. (z-1 or z-2?) I hope the name is printed on it somewhere so I can determine what kind of simms to buy. I'm guessing it's the 32's because it says "32-bit, 68030CPU, 25…
Some people have all the dust! Why this has to be me, I don't know, but I'm blaming it on I-95. I've been thinking of buying an additional hard drive for MAX: (I guess that would would have to be named MAX2:) Does each hard drive have to have it's…
Hi Michael! Nice to see you again too! I'm dusting off that old note book I named "Amiga, Joy of" and going back to fill in the blanks. I'm amazed at all the messages I printed out –didn't know about making directories and naming files in those days. …from the…
Michael, What AP archive? The file I downloaded –the .lha one? Sure, it's on a floppy. Yes, I'm a registered AP user and I know I can get the registration thing sent via e-mail, but I didn't loose the registration. BTW, I really appreciated the announcement of that courtesy in…
Betty, Ha! Wouldn't you know it, I ordered PageStream yesterday morning. Also ordered ArtDeptPro. Aaak! –Mastercard is going to love me this month …and this is only the beginning. I'm scheeming for a scanner and laser printer next. Thanks for the tip about SCREENX. Wonder if it's related to KLEENX?…
Richard, Thanks! I appreciate your painting the arrows to "the neat and painless way" of adding fast ram: —-> Zorro bus on the motherboard, adding fast ram by using SIMMs just plug in the card
Betty, Typing "ShowConfig" in CLI gives the same info as clicking on the icon. Does that scroll off as quickly for you? I came in here once to check on the IFF to GIF / GIF to IFF shareware and never really did have much luck at it. Only one…
Michael, (Yeah) I thought I read that in one of the files that goes with the latest version of AP (1.72?). Unfortunately for me, I didn't install it correctly so it doesn't do all the neat things it's supposed to. I guess I'll just wait till the next release and…
Ken, Hello dear Amiga newbie! You're most definitely headed in the right direction with your Amiga100 by just being here. From the trouble you're having the arrow keys it sounds like you're visiting the forum interactively. Just as soon as you get your balance with the A1000 you'll want to…
(Ah! My gawdess!) WHAT A WRITER you are Ron! Ronald, Thank you. What a fine message! I think I actually understand it or at least what you've said makes sense to me. You've actually answered many of the questions I've put in my replies to Betty and Richard, plus expanded…
Betty– I've missed you all too. Guess that's why I'll keep coming back. The only reason I have for staying away so long is that my forum gobbles up a considerable amount of my day as it is so I can only come back when MAX: needs therapy of some…
Richard, Thanks for your reply, it's been quite helpful. I've never heard of a Zorro slot before but if adding RAM is as plain as attaching something called a SIMM to a card, I just might try it. So, how does one tell how much RAM is in a SIMM?…
RAM & Chip questions
Message #144924
Hello everyone– After working with the same Amiga 2500 for about 4 years and having come a long way (I feel) there is still so much that I do not know, so I'm hoping someone will have the time and patience to help me find the information I need. If…
Steve, Thanks for your reply. Sorry it's taken me a while to check back here. I don't have PKAX. Looks like I'll have to get that. I hope that VGIF20.ARC is the program I'm looking for –one that converts IFFs to GIFs. I'm working on a series of drawings which…
Jim, I used Lha. I thought it would do the job. It doesn't? (oh,oh) (don't have ARC or PKAX) Vicki
#Help with AMGIF.LZH
Message #33026
Hello, Need some help here… I've downloaded AMGIF.LZH and have read the file Amgif.Notes in it but didn't find anything in there to tell me just how to use this program. Do I just place the extracted file AMGIF in the C directory? If so, I'll also need to know…
The files I'm uploading to the library are meant to be read while on-line _or_ may be downloaded for reading off-line. We don't zip up things in our libraries unless they are humongous. When I upload these files using AutoPilot it sends them binary. It seems to be taken care…
#103382-
What is a formatted msg?
Message #103408
Michael, Oh oh… this sounds expen$ive… (the venture to convert IFF's to GIF's). Shoot. Vicki …from the escalator at Crystal City (and there really is a ladder in the entryway)
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