This is an archive of CompuServe forum messages from 1985 to 1995, as saved in transcripts by John Foust.
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Wanted A3000 PAL,Battery
Message #179915
Wanted: Replacement PAL chip for A3000 motherboard, component number "U202", this is a 16L8 PAL with foil sticker marked (c)1989 CBM 390526-02 Also need one or two replacement batteries for the A3000 clock. If you have these parts or phone numbers of sources, please reply. Thank you very much. By…
D2D Upgrade Info
Message #36478
Hello. Please tell me how I go about getting an upgrade to the latest version of Dos-2-Dos, since I need to run under AmigaDOS 2.0. Thanks very much. Joel Halbert
John, changing the line spacing is easy in PageStream. There is a distinct menu item for it. Just highlight the text you want to change, select "Line/Char Spacing" from the menu and adjust it. The number of points you specify is considered the amount of "extra" space over and above…
#SB Personal Questions
Message #14179
Hello. I just received Superbase Personal (as a gift), and I want to set up a simple "inventory" style database for a collection of antiques. I have several questions at this point, and I'd be most appreciative if anyone can help me. If the answer to any of the following…
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NeuralLab
Message #22794
Kevin, I haven't had a chance to work with NeuralLab extensively. Overal it has a very nice appearance. I just wanted to tell you that I ran it several times and it _always_ locked up the machine upon exit, even when I did nothing except start and quit. Joel
Andrew, I must disagree with Jeff on the IBM vs. Amiga Plug 'N Print. The ROMS are NOT the same. If you buy the IBM version, you will get an extra white line between each pass of the printhead on graphics printouts. No problem on text work. This was a…
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HP deskjet Plus
Message #57703
Richard, I would echo what Don told you – the Commodore-supplied Preferences driver works well. You might also be interested in some third-party Deskjet drivers from a company called Creative Focus. They posted a driver called Better_DJ that I think is in the libraries here, and they sell an even…
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pagestream fonts
Message #19125
That's a good idea, John, but you'll probably have to appeal to Soft-Logik directly. I don't think that Jack has an Amiga. On the other hand…Jack could upload some Neochrome pictures in 640×400 ST format, and then we could translate the format using one of the converter programs in the…
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PageStream Defense pt.2
Message #18689
Thanks for the information, Justin. Are all versions of Pri – ah, PixelScript able to use the PageStream fonts? I actually haven't tried mine yet (v1.0.1), but I'm sure that it would do better on my DeskJet than the PageStream fonts – because PageStream still hasn't fixed their "roundoff" problem…
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#1080 pinout required
Message #54733
Richard, here is the complete 1080 monitor pinout, from the service manual: Pin No. | Digital Pos. | Digital Neg. | Analog ——–|—————|————–|——- 1 | Ground | Ground | Ground 2 | Ground | Ground | Ground 3 | Red | Red | Red 4 | Green | Green |…
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#MS-DOS M2 ?
Message #9405
Are you saying that you can subsist in the desert, as long as you have your Modula-2 to keep you company? It's true, though, that the mouse wouldn't work too well on a sand dune. Joel
Sorry, I didn't remember reading about CTRL-DEL in the manual. I'm glad to know that's in there. On the Correct Case disabling – as I said, the multiple line comments is a frill I could do without. If you can disable inside quoted strings and single-line comments, that's great. Joel
Frank, if the high-pitched "squeal" from the monitor also stops when it blanks out, and/or the power light goes out, then you are losing the high voltage. I had this problem on my 1080, and I have fixed it by adjusting the OVP (overvoltage protection) potentiometer. Remember, you shouldn't try…
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SuperDJ Driver
Message #49565
John, I haven't tried the Super_DJ. I was using the Better_DJ (the one they distributed on the nets). I noticed that it doesn't support the alternate character set (i.e. it doesn't map the Amiga alt keycodes to their equivalents in the printer character set). I began to wonder if Amiga…
Thanks for the reply. I can accept your explanation, but as you say, as a user of the compiler I would be very wary of writing that way. I also see the range/overflow checking as a useful safeguard, to be turned off before the last "release" compile or for evaluating…
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#More Strings Stuff
Message #8595
I will check the new Strings. I _do_ think that there are other problems in the previous version, besides the range checking issue. The only reason I started looking at the code was that it didn't work (not a range-check error) in all cases. The idea of having modules that…
Doug, I share many of your disagreements with the AmigaWorld review. One thing that X-CAD is _not_, is "buggy". It has never crashed on me either. Also, I haven't found any commands that didn't work as they were supposed to. Perhaps there are some (the author vaguely claimed to have…
X-CAD Deal
Message #15456
I thought that I would call the following to everyone's attention: (This is not a commercial announcement, as I am not affiliated with any of the parties mentioned below in any way.) Through the end of April, you can purchase X-CAD Designer (presently the most powerful general-purpose CAD program for…
Thanks for your reply, Justin. I guess I misunderstood – I thought that the supplied fonts needed different width tables and kerning specs than their Adobe counterparts. If it's only a case of appearing a little too bold, then I could easily live with that for now. I'm glad that…
Thanks for the information, Mark. You say that the fonts through PrintScript don't match exactly to the screen font appearance. What if you print them directly on your Deskjet (I seem to remember that you are a DJ owner…)? I have done that on mine, and I don't remember thinking…
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#PageStream Output
Message #14857
Justin, I was one of the first to request your brochure, which I received a while back. I will definitely order your program – I'm just waiting for my finances to recover from all the money I've recently "saved" from special offers on Deskjet, M2Sprint, X-CAD, and various other upgrades!…
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#PageStream Output
Message #14856
I thought of that, Bill, but I think the problem is that PageStream may need to look at the two (or more) different disks during a screen update or a print operation. If it knows that all fonts are to be found in (say) PSFONTS:, and you have in fact…
Good luck to all in finding the problem. I would suspect that it isn't just in the font rendering routines, because (as I said) I've noticed that lines will be printed at varying widths depending on their angle – that doesn't happen when printing via PostScript, so it isn't just…
#PageStream Output
Message #14190
Jack, could you clarify an issue that I was discussing with several other PageStream users today (maybe you already have and I missed it): Is there in fact a known "bug" in the output rendering math routines that causes fonts and/or drawings to be a little rougher than they should…
I'd like to put in a plug for Interfont to handle the complete range of font options that PageStream and other programs use – for each font, there are (often several sizes of) screen bitmap fonts, plus the PageStream native dot matrix outline format, plus the downloadable PostScript outline format,…
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Draw 2000 memory usage
Message #13282
Lynn, I agree with Jack's definition, except that I would use the term "paint" program where he uses "draw". I reserve "drawing program" for a specific kind of CAD program. The way _I_ see the terminology is thus: 1. CAD program – a program that creates "draftsman-type" drawings, i.e. very…
David, I'm not from Gold Disk but I thought I'd give you a quick answer. Gold Disk recently posted a message which emphasized that Professional Page is NOT designed for high quality output on anything except a PostScript device. This means that LaserJet and DeskJet are only going to produce…
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#Need to undelete file
Message #33028
Dan, there is a program called UNDELETE which does exactly what you want, as long as (obviously) the file areas have not been overwritten. It scans every block on the disk to find the file. I will try to upload it tomorrow (Wednesday) unless you solve your problem before then.…
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#31465-CAD Program
Message #33026
Larry, Haitex are the ones who "do" XCAD. This is a program I'm very anxious to get as soon as I have the urge to splurge. The product manager posted some sample LaserJet output on another net, and these printed beautifully on my new DeskJet. Very impressive output at 300dpi…
Ron, I am sending you a description via EMAIL of what I have found so far about the Amiga VAX tapes. It comes off of an update to the DECUS library, and describes "Amiga Collection 6" which appear to be Amiga programs that are simply stored on a VAX tape,…
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DeskJet Promo ??
Message #32733
John, I've got a rebate form right here. It requires you to send: a: The serial number bar code from the DeskJet box. b: A certain page from the instruction manual. c: A copy of the sales invoice. d: An old printer, which will be "destroyed" upon receipt. The address…
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Deskjet
Message #22390
Clay, although the current 24-pin impact printers are very good, their output is still visibly inferior to a good 300dpi laser printer. The 360 x 360 dots per inch specification is true, but you must keep in mind that the dots are much larger than 1/360th of an inch in…
CAD -MS-DOS- Amiga, etc
Message #7292
Jim, please read my message no. 7159 – I sent it to Rick by mistake instead of to you. Joel
Thanks Rick, I'll give him a short message telling him to read the long one. Joel
Jim, it is not necessary to have any new programs to do what you (your customer) wants. Aegis Draw Plus can create HPGL plot files just fine, and its plotter drivers are very easy to customize. The output is simply an ASCII file containing the plot commands (though it will…
Schematics
Message #7158
Betty, (I hope you weren't joking with Jay…) "machine-readable" does NOT mean that you can read the schematics on the screen. It is a widely-used term which means that the information is stored in a form that can be used on a computer. A magazine article becomes "machine-readable" if someone…
Wendell, ARC.EXE will do it, but there is a much smaller and easier program (also in DL4 I think) called UNARC that is just for dearcing. It is small enough to keep in your C: directory if you like. Joel
#VT220 Emulation
Message #388
Ron, I got your message in the EMAIL after the forums reorganized (thanks SYSOPs for arranging that!). I have uploaded Meshugana as MESHUG.ARC (unless they change the name). This is the VT220 emulator (shareware) program that I was telling you about. It should be available soon – let me know…
IMPORT FILES
Message #134227
Greg, it is a well-established practice that Amiga picture files are highly standardized, so that they can be traded very easily among different programs. The name of the "standard" for these bitmap picture files is called ILBM (InterLeaved Bit Map), or IFF (Interchange File Format, which really includes more than…
#comm/vt100/printscreen
Message #134222
Ron, I recently downloaded a full-fledged VT220 emulator from another source. If you are interested, I'll put it up here. It is called "Meshugena", and it's quite complete as a VT220, BUT it doesn't have printer capability which I believe is what you really want. It includes a custom font…
John was telling me about the equipment he bought to develop the program, which came to several thousand dollars (maybe more than $5K). If that was only a tiny fraction of the development cost for his DXF conversion module, then he shouldn't have brought up the equipment cost. Remember, Ben…
John was telling me about the equipment he bought to develop the program, which came to several thousand dollars (maybe more than $5K). If that was only a tiny fraction of the development cost for his DXF conversion module, then he shouldn't have brought up the equipment cost. Remember, Ben…
(Clapping hand over my mouth) Oh, I didn't realize I was using filthy five-letter words. Hmmm. Amiga is also a five-letter word. But if you combine the two, you get an interesting result. By putting Amiga first, you get the word Ample. But by putting the fruit word first, you…
(Clapping hand over my mouth) Oh, I didn't realize I was using filthy five-letter words. Hmmm. Amiga is also a five-letter word. But if you combine the two, you get an interesting result. By putting Amiga first, you get the word Ample. But by putting the fruit word first, you…
I'm not sure that because you can find lots of customers for major CAD packages at $1000, that it follows that John will be successful with his DXF converter at several hundred (apparently $200 or so being a laughably low price). But then again, I'm not sure he won't be…
I'm not sure that because you can find lots of customers for major CAD packages at $1000, that it follows that John will be successful with his DXF converter at several hundred (apparently $200 or so being a laughably low price). But then again, I'm not sure he won't be…
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#AutoCAD to Amiga !
Message #125837
Thanks for the explanation, Ben. And I wasn't suggesting that you should rewrite your programs or change your philosophy. You know that I've expressed my views about PCLO etc. in the past, and you know (I hope) that they reflected my own needs, not meant as a blanket judgement to…
#125751-
#AutoCAD to Amiga !
Message #125837
Thanks for the explanation, Ben. And I wasn't suggesting that you should rewrite your programs or change your philosophy. You know that I've expressed my views about PCLO etc. in the past, and you know (I hope) that they reflected my own needs, not meant as a blanket judgement to…
#125728-
#AutoCAD to Amiga !
Message #125834
OK John, fine. I only gave you my views. What you do now is your business (literally). But I don't accept the argument about development costs justifying a high price. Don't you think that every good quality commercial program involves a large expenditure of time and resources? Every product is…
#125728-
#AutoCAD to Amiga !
Message #125834
OK John, fine. I only gave you my views. What you do now is your business (literally). But I don't accept the argument about development costs justifying a high price. Don't you think that every good quality commercial program involves a large expenditure of time and resources? Every product is…
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