This is an archive of CompuServe forum messages from 1985 to 1995, as saved in transcripts by John Foust.
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DF0: Stuck as A:
Message #100565
I have a 386 BB and for the last couple of days, on bootup, Workbench reflects df0:??? with Flipper set at auto and the drive selected is A: I've tried warm and cold booting with an AmigaDos floppy, but the machine will not recognize DF0: It runs fine as the…
Well, thanks. Maybe someone else can clarify the situation for me. Bill Perez San Juan, P.R.
Ron: Sorry for jumping in here. I bought the upgrade kit a WOC with the 2.04 ROM and now I am told that I need to get the 2.05 ROM if I want to use the new High Density floppies. I had been assured at the show that 2.04 would…
Marion: That's too bad, I had a 4-meg Supra expansion card before I bought my CBM 25 mhz accelerator with 4-megs of 32-bit ram and finally pulled out 2 megs when I realized that was what was making my old BB act crazy. I hate ot have two megs of…
Don: Thanks. Could you explain why, . . in layman's terms? Bill Perez San Juan, P.R.
Marion: Thanks. That's exactly what I figured out after a lot of trial and error. I also had to make a couple of tries with the a: disk before it would work properly. Question. I recall that with the XT board you could not have more than 6 megs of…
#Lost Hard Disk
Message #94563
Don: I picked up one of those 386 Bridgeboards at the WOC show this past weekend. I have been using an XT boards since they hit the market, with an old 20-meg Panasonic Hard Drive. Everything was fine after I installed the new board. The old Hard Drive popped up…
It looks like I'll be in NY that weekend and I will be there. Bill Perez Villa Verde A-1 Guaynabo, PR 00966
Merry Christmas everyone! Hope Santa brought all the toys you wanted. Bill
Don: Well thanks with the help. As always, I am grateful. Bill
Don, What I can't understand is that if this bug is common, why hasn't Commodore fixed yet? It seems that others are having problems with the software. Nonetheless: "Very clever Sherlock Holmes.":>) Bill
Nancy: See Don Curtis' answer to my very similar question. Bill
Don: Eureka!! It works perfectly. Even ATime works. Now the question. Why? How did you figure it out and what is the bug you get around? By the way, I am using the XT BB and as I recall so are you. Were you able to use the software to…
John: I tried all the defaults available and one worked. The fact is that I didn't remember the E000 setting for the XT BB and I will try it when I tryout a workaround suggested by Don Curtis. Bill
Don: I'll try it and see if it works. Bill
David: Thanks for the response. I'll pass your message on to him.
Betty: Thanks. Maybe someone else can come up with an answer.
#AT Floppy for 3000
Message #81066
One of my friends purchased an A-3000 and an AT Bridgeboard. At the time he didn't realize there is no bay available to install the HD 5-1/4-inch disk drive. Therefore he has been unable to bring up the DOS system to install the operating system on his HardDisk. He does…
#New Janus Software
Message #81065
My dealer gave me a copy of the new Janus software and I tried to install it last night. All went well, except that I can't get the utilities (Awrite, Aread and Atime) to work. I am using the old XT Bridgeboard and aside from the periodic "can't find libraries"…
Jim: What I ran into was that if you set that up in your startup-sequence, when you run the ZKick startup, it loads ZKick, reboots after a five second pause and goes back to the startup-sequence again. Ergo you wind up in the ASK Go 1.3? routine, but with 2.04…
Jim: I have a similar problem. I use Z-Kick on HD with a patch to get into 2.0 on my A-2000. I still have the 1.3 Rom installed. In order to run 1.3 the way my set-up is fixed, I have to boot from a floppy. It seems to me…
Barb: I'm interested in the A2320. What next? Bill Perez San Juan, PR
Andy: I think I spotted the problem. Before you run the SetAutoBoot routine, you must mount the partitions. Since this is done from the floppy which sets up the controller and the HD, and these utilities are on a WB1.3 disk, the partitions are mounting off the old FFS. I…
Andy: In order to make a partition auto-booting with the C-Limited controller, you run a routine called SetAutoBoot which apparently writes the autoboot information into four files in the l directory. When you run the routine, one of the options is Mount other partitions on startup. Perhaps if the answer…
Andy: I am using a C-Limited Autobooting Kronos. Works fine with the Quantum and drives a LazerXpress printer. I just can't umderstand how the Boot Partition took the New FFS formatting, while the other one won't. Everything seems to be running fine, nonetheless. Bill Perez San Juan, PR
Andy: Sorry to jump in here. But, I'm experiencing a strange problem. I'm running 2.04 from disk and reformatted dh0: on my four partition 105 meg Quantum HD. Version Check reports that it is running under the new version FFS. I then tried to format the second partition (DH1:) but…
Thanks Alex. Bill Perez San Juan, PR
Betty, Thank you. I'll try it. Bill Perez San Juan, PR
Bob, Thanks for the help. Bill Perez San Juan, PR
#Using AMouse
Message #42029
How do you use AMouse with the BB. I know you run AMouse on both the Amiga and the DOS sides? But I can't remember the combination Alt or Ctrl keys which activates it and I can't locate the docs in this mess I have here. Bill Perez San Juan,…
Don, Thanks for the prompt response. Then I guess that means the A-3000 has the CBM equivalent of the FF built in? Bill Perez San Juan, PR
Don: I'm not really clear how ECS Denise works. With the new Denise installed, will I be able to simply hook up a Multi-Sync monitor to my A-2000 and have the new graphics modes available? I am currently running ADOS 2 from software. I don't plan to install the rest…
Ben: I really don't know anything about Lippert, except what I read here when C-Limited went under. But I began dealing with Breck shortly after that when I had problems with my virtually new Kronos and had nowhere to turn. He and another fellow working with him were extremely attentive…
Ben: I didn't intend to ruffle your feathers. Personally, all I'm responding to is my appreciation of the products which came out of the Lippert ventures. And, certainly you'll agree that most of the time that small businesses go under there's an element of under capitalization involve, and often as…
Elvin: So what? I know there are a few professionals out there who are bitter with Ed Lippert. But as the owner of a Kronos controller and a Lazerxpress printer, I sure like the products his enterprises put out. I'm in no position to determine if he short-changed earlier co-venturers…
Bill: Let me know how is runs when you try it. Bill Perez San Juan, PR
Bill: I am using Pagestream2.1; filesize, 403,200 and Pixelscript1.1; filesize, 47,456. The requester says "Pausing after showpage." Bill Perez San Juan, PR
Bill: I have been able to make PixelScript work with the LazerXpress. After the page is composed by PXS, it pauses and sends up a requester (can't recall just what it says, right now). I send the screen to the rear and call up PageControl and print from there. Works…
Ben: I will. Thanks. Bill Perez San Juan, PR
Ron: Well, initially, I was getting a Guru on boot up. But since, I think Bill Leach had said early on that he had been able to get the Kronos to operate while he was Beta testing, I figured there must be something wrong in the setup. I also disabled…
Ben: I recall that WP 4.01 was originally one of the programs that didn't run very well with WB 2.04. Did they do any type of "fix" to run it with the new OS? I can't get it to print. The requester says "can't find printer.dev." Bill Perez San Juan,…
Ron: Check to see where the SetAutoboot routine is storing the controlle information. I found that if I changed the setup to Fast Ram rather than Chip, I had no problems. I'm autobooting off the Kronos with no problems. Bill Perez San Juan, PR
Bill: Good to hear from you. I still haven't had any luck. But, this has just become a mental challenge. With Pagestream, I can solve most problems, just as you suggested. I've been trying to straighten out my fonts directories so that I can use the JSU created fonts with…
Bill: Sorry, but I've been off-line for a few days. I just checked and find I don't have VPC. All I have is VPM and VPU. Maybe this is my problem. My LPrefs are set up as you indicated. Bill Perez San Juan, PR
LazerXpress Help
Message #17052
Bill: I followed your instructions. However, after printing out the document with PGS, and returning to CLI to give the – VPU print Pg-out 1 – command, all I get is the same response as when I issue the FindPage command. However, I get no printing on my LazerXpress. I…
Bill: Hey, that's all right. The fact is that if you don't help me I would just be out of luck. There's no one around here who can even begin trying to explain this for me. I'll try to follow your instructions carefully, and I will let you know how…
Bill: It seems like I'm missing something here. I open a CLI. Entered "vpm open FontSample.tem 2432 3204. FontSample.tem is the filename which I have brought up into PGS. First problem is that after entering that command, them vpm screen comes up. I hit iconize and I'm back in CLI…
Bill: I'm not quite clear on how you go about using VPM. You give the VPM command and enter the page size (2432 x 3204). Then you open LazerPrefs and write in the name of the document just as you have within PGS. You then print once with PGS. Open…
Ernie: Thanks for the offer of the upload. I downloaded the new printer driver from the SoftLogiks BBS last night and everything is fine now. The print outs really fly now that PGS doesn't have to use the Preference driver. Everything is working just as I had hoped when I…
Bill: For the moment I have solved some of the problem. I noticed that PGS has a preference printer driver, and I am able to print from that. I will try the Soft-Logiks BBS tonight to see if I can download the one you refer me to. If you have…
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