This is an archive of CompuServe forum messages from 1985 to 1995, as saved in transcripts by John Foust.
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Wow – that's quite a leap from the '040, no? Seems like a pretty good price as well. …Steve
>PM only supports simple refresh But on the flip side, PM doesn't block output while you are looking at the menus. …Steve
John, load up the pointer editor and move the hot spot one pixel to the right. Then when you click you'll be clicking where you're pointing. …Steve
Yes, 6.50 is shipping – I got mine about a month ago. It's working very well for me – I've started using C++ for new projects. It doesn't come with Amiga class libraries, but I'm sure they will appear from somewhere with time. …Steve
#38569-
Writers Aware
Message #38629
Oh.. yeah, that's trivial. In the UserName.BBX script, you check to see if the user name is one you want to call UUCP for (I did this simply by starting the user name with UU but you can do anything you like) and if so, call UUCP. There is a…
Sounds like there's something not set up right… When you add the new node to the list, are you detaching the list first? You have to do a GT_SetGadgetAttrs() with the GTLV_Labels set to ~0 to detach the list, and then again after you have changed the list with GTLV_Labels…
You can't legally reposition and resize a GadTools gadget, nor can you destroy a single gadget. You will have to destroy all the gadgets in the window and recreate them. Bummer. …Steve
Yes, Arnie, but the problem I have is this: My bulletin board, BBX, can open on a public screen. If the screen isn't open, BBX will create it. BBX will not exit without closing the screen. So if you run BBX node 1, then node 2, then quit node 1,…
How to open a public screen: struct Screen *Pub=OpenScreenTags(0, SA_PubName, "MyPubScreen", TAG_DONE); PubScreenStatus(Pub, 0); /* Use the screen… */ PubScreenStatus(Pub, PSNF_PRIVATE); while (CloseScreen(Pub)==0) Delay(25); Read over that carefully – there are three things here you need to remember when dealing with public screens: 1) They open in PRIVATE mode so…
I have used a tool called NGI for this – it takes IFF input, and outputs C source in various forms (ie, intuition Image structure) that you can link in with your program easily enough. …Steve
>Hunting MOD formats One of the MOD editors or players, I can't remember which but MED does spring to mind, includes a description of the formats used by some of the various programs. It's a very poorly defined format and seems to change with every release of every MOD creator.…
I haven't seen the commercial DICE. Does it offer anything that SAS doesn't? …Steve
But when the work stopped on the compiler, the 5.10 version was still the current Amiga release, right? How many people were working on the code generator and optimizer and debugger, which did come from other SAS efforts? …Steve
The SAS/C help is for stuff SAS provides only. Standard IO functions, character functions, that sort of thing, as well as helpw ith compiler options, the utilities (Make, etc), the debugger, the editor, and probably some other things I've forgotten. …Steve
I've been beta testing 6.0 for quite some time now. The code generator in 6.0 is basically a rewrite from 5.10 – and it shows. SAS doesn't just do the compiler for the Amiga – so the development they put into the compiler on any platform shows up on all…
GT_Underscore was defined after the Lattice headers were created. Here's what you need: #define GT_Underscore GT_TagBase+64 …Steve
And if they'd been blowing it out at $50, then the upgrade owuld be double the price you paid for the original. Fact is, SAS put more effort into the 5.10->6.0 development than most Amiga companies put into an entire product. Of course they have to charge for it. …Steve
Depends on the quality of your interface builder. GadToolsBox generates font sensitive code, and also adapts to different window border sizes. …Steve
If one third of your customers haven't switched yet (which I doubt) then your requiring 2.0 would encourage at least some of those to get it. Considering that not having to work for 1.3 would cut time off the development of the program, (since now you can use real GUI…
True. But anybody spending $300 on a compiler probably already has a hard disk – anybody seriously using the compiler will have one. I would rather see the compiler optimized for the high end. Floppy users can still use compacted headers copied to the ram disk, and the compiler will…
Even under 1.3 I used PowerWindows. You are making it sound like we have no tools for generating interfaces. What percentage of people who are buying your products now do you estimate are using 1.3? Do you ask this on warranty cards? I would like to have some real information…
The two performance improvements that impressed me were the Global Symbol Tables, and the lack of LINK and UNLK instructions for every function. With a GST that has in it, you can #include and not even have to wait the 5 seconds or so it takes to load it in…
Do you know, if I have an Amiga and the AS225 package from CBM, what would be compatible with it on a PC? I've got an Amiga with a huge hard disk, and two PC's that would like to be able to exchange files with it quickly and easily. …Steve
Do you use SAS now or do you use something else? If you use SAS, it really is worth upgrading. The new code generator is really something compared to the old one. (Just recompiling will probably knock 10% off the size of an executable). …Steve
For 1200 pages of printed documentation (a complete rewrite over the old manuals) and the work that's gone into the new tools (and the online help) – yes I think it's worth it! …Steve
You still lay out gadgets on graph paper or in DPaint or something like that? Time to spring for ToolMaker or download GadToolsBox. …Steve
I don't mean I use RAM:, I mean I use system semaphores and one global library base to handle things, and that wouldn't work with multiple machines. What would work would be having a control program on one machine answer requests from other machines, and that shouldn't be too hard…
Thanks, Betty – I'll give that BBS a call. …Steve
Sounds like I'll have to get a CD-ROM drive at some point, and put in some real support for it. Until then, the Sysop (again) is free to write some Rexx code that would let the user do exactly what BBBBS does. It should be pretty easy to set up…
To get into customizing BBX, you're going to need to know the basics of ARexx. There is no way around that – but once you do know a bit of Rexx, you can do a lot with it. The problem with integrating the messages into the BBX message area, is…
To get into customizing BBX, you're going to need to know the basics of ARexx. There is no way around that – but once you do know a bit of Rexx, you can do a lot with it. The problem with integrating the messages into the BBX message area, is…
I want to do something similar – network three Amigas and a few PC's together. Please let us know if you get this working, and how well it works. Thanks. …Steve
BBX supports up to 127 lines (and it may support more, but I've never tried it 😎 At least, that's how many nodes it supports. And a given BBX node doesn't take much CPU time at all when it doesn't have a console open. With a console open, it slows…
What's a "Door"? 😎 I hate that term. BBX lets you call external programs. You can spawn a remote shell if you like, or you could spawn anything that does console input and output. Of course it won't know about BBX's time limits, etc., but if the program wants to…
I am still not sure if I'm going to do conversion of files from BBS-PC – the file area is no problem, but I don't have any way of getting the message base out of BBS-PC aside from going and figuring out their file format – have you ever seen…
I will definitely be uploading a demo version here, probably around the same time the program is actually released. Yes, BBX does multi-line, and has chat support built in as well as sending messages between nodes at any time. …Steve
BBX doesn't do Fidonet or Usenet internally, but there are enough hooks that other people can add it later on. That's being worked on now, actually, by a local fellow who wants Fidonet. Ottawa is a veritable hotbed of Fidonet activity, what with Welmat being written here among lots of…
And the Perihelion you've seen is primitive compared to the Perihelion Craig has in testing now. (Peri was the largest ARexx script ever written, at something like 400K. He's rewritten it in Modula-2 and added a LOT to it – it's a lot more than your average BBS game). …Steve
"Working on it for a long time" is an understatement. 😎 But, it does have the benefit of being released as a mature product, since it's been running for about 3 years now, and on and off on a total of about 20 systems. Reliability is something that seems spotty…
Get ahold of the ROM Kernel Manual: Devices, and read the chapters on IFF. That covers most of the common Amiga file formats (Animation, sound, graphics). …Steve
>Writers not knowing what they are talking about. Many magazines can't find enough good stuff to print. I think AmigaWorld Tech Journal paid big bucks to their authors to try and attract some good writers – and I think it worked. Their articles were the best I've seen in any…
#23124-
PD vs. commercial sw
Message #23199
Sure makes it hard to stay current though! At about 40 minutes to download the current version, expensive, too. I don't use IP anymore since I no longer have a Ham-E hooked up… but I don't have ImageMaster so I generally just peek at new versions of IP to see…
#23124-
PD vs. commercial sw
Message #23161
Sure makes it hard to stay current though! At about 40 minutes to download the current version, expensive, too. I don't use IP anymore since I no longer have a Ham-E hooked up… but I don't have ImageMaster so I generally just peek at new versions of IP to see…
QBTools, a commercial program, will do this. Version 1.5 is fairly stable – but before you proceed, at least make a backup of things you don't have on floppy. Any data you've created yourself. For example, losing power during the reorganization will lose you most of your hard drive. …Steve
ImageMaster won't build animations. At least, it wouldn't when I needed this, I don't know if it does now.
In the case of PowerPacker – it's not that I stopped liking it when I got the commercial one, it's that I expected the commercial version to be better than Imploder, when the free version was not. I was wrong. I got bit by the "Commercial stuff must be better…
If John had said that some PD stuff is bad, I wouldn't be pursuing this. John keeps saying that "ALL" PD software comes with no docs, no support, and is inferior. As an author of public domain software, I can take that personally – John has said that my software…
I haven't seen a lot of PD software come without docs. I've seen PD programs come with MORE docs in many cases. I don't understand why you are being so "down" on PD software. …Steve
Interesting. Because I found myself in just such a situation a few days ago. Specifically, we were working on an AmigaVision application, and we needed to build some small animations to play in AmigaVision. So we got all the frames the right size, and then tried to combine them into…
It sounds like you're approaching this whole issue from the standpoint of trying to make some cash, whereas I'm approaching it as a guy trying to get a job done. If you publish software, then PD software is "Bad". It's software that people can use with no money changing hands…
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