This is an archive of CompuServe forum messages from 1985 to 1995, as saved in transcripts by John Foust.
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Dean, I agree about the manuals. Matter of fact, when I bought the A3000 upgrade and just got some added pages for my original manual there was a little flyer saying that if the part number of my manual was less than such-and-such I should order a complete new manual.…
Dean, I have a 3000 with 2 Quantum 210s installed so I am using CBMs controller. WITHOUT going to the manuals can you tell me how to update the RDBs? Further, I am not using 2.04 in ROM but rather from disk as I see little reason to install the…
Dean, Didn't mean to confuse anyone. I am OF COURSE using 2.04 KS 37.175 WB 37.67!! My only question was a more technical one about the subtle nature of different versions of the FFS. Is THAT what YOU meant? I can't tell by your message. At any rate, I still…
Ugh, Sounds like I have to do a low-level reformat after all. Damn. OK, so is the 2.04 FFS that much better than 2.02 that I got when I bought my 3000? Why (if so)? – via Whap!
When it is said that the drive 'must be reformatted' to take advantage of the latest file-system does that just mean using the ADos format command or does it mean that a low-level re-prep is needed? If I have to do a low-level format then that blows the whole drive…
There you have apparently hit on a key issue. In a conversation with a company using the Resolver it was pointed out to me that even 24 bit didn't give what THEY needed, increased range in greyscale. With each gun limited to 8 bits there are only 256 discrete levels…
[ continuation ] Amiga UNIX and XWindows and it looked GREAT at the show, seemed responsive too. A few of the other products supporting the Resolver now or in the near future (according to DMI promotional material) include ADPro, ImageMaster, Draw 4D Pro, DynaCADD, Professional Page 3.0, Imagine, Caligari, Animagic,…
TO continue…. (too long a message?) DMI claims that up to 60 frames per second can be displayed but they don't specify at what resolution. That covers the included software. Supported software…. well, that is changing rapidly and I can't give the latest. Art Department Pro and ImageMaster support it.…
[ continuation ] are fairly nice and do show a range of colors as well as many textures that MUST be built into the chip (the demos are too small, I think, to contain the descriptions of said texures and also, several clearly have TI specific promotional themes). Some of…
[ continuation ] A1950 is pretty equivalent, I think, to the Diamond Scan. Programming the board and configuring it to a particular monitor is accomplished with an included program, Tweek. Tweek is a bit intimidating initially but you get used to it and it has quite a nice Intuition interface…
Andrew, Well, I don't want to go over information that is readily available but then people can skip messages easily enough I guess 🙂 The current DMI Resolver is an 8 bit graphics coprocessor using the TI 34010 GSP graphics chip and the Brooktree palette chip. It comes in 3…
Michael, I can't remember the gist of the message you are replying to, I'm sorry. I THINK it was that someone had suggested that the v.32BIS had been quoted at $239 mail-order but maybe you are right and it was just the v.32. I was quoted a price of $249…
$239!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Come ON, the SYSOP offer is $249!!!!! Boy, I have heard of progress but this is ridiculous :-)!!!! – via Whap!
Alan, As long as YOU brought up the subject of upgrades, I would like to know about future upgrading of the SupraFAXmodem to 19.2 KBaud, which other 14.4 KB modems are sounding off about. I can't give a specific name of another modem but it has been mentioned here. I…
Clint, And JUST to keep you honest, NG is releasing 2.0 of Animator in a couple of months! I was just talking to them today and that's what I heard. – via Whap!
DMI Resolver
Message #50261
I have just purchased a DMI Resolver 'B' model board and would like to talk to anyone interested in this device. Scott – via Whap!
DMI Resolver
Message #16505
I just purchased a DMI Resolver 'B' model and would like to talk to anyone interested in this device. Scott – via Whap!
DMI Resolver
Message #20745
Does anyone here have a DMI Resolver? I recently purchased a 'B' model board and would like to talk with anyone who is interested. Thanks. Scott – via Whap!
Clint, What else is he supporting??? If you mean Makepath and Terraform, they are important but obviously of secondary importance. If there is something else, what is it? DS is not his is it? – via Whap!
Clint, "…but realistically, the earliest you might see results would be this summer." Given the fact that you JUST released a major upgrade, I can understand that 🙂 But if enough developers support SAGE.library it will rapidly become a standard and EVERYBODY will have to support it as at least…
Clint, Hmmm, as long as you are on the line here let me pop in. I installed the 2.0 upgrade last night (Sunday night I installed my Resolver, that came first 🙂 ) and was playing a bit with it. Did you darken the palettes or something? All my renderings…
Steve, For what it is worth Supra told me the same thing 3 days ago. – via Whap!
Nelson, I spoke to MY guy at Supra the same day (Thomas, a nice guy). I have 2 of the v.32bis new modems on order on the sysop deal… $250 each!!! (ONE Dual Standard on USRs sysop deal was going to cost me $560). Anyway, the deal is (supposedly) at…
There was also an article in Byte sometime last year that gave information I think you would find most useful. I really can't remember much about it but it was written by one or more 'Amiga Notables'. Carl Sassenrath(?) comes to mind. – via Whap!
Steve, Hey, me too. I love my CBM 3 button mouse. And I also bought it for good luck, hoping CBM would SOMEDAY release AmigaUNIX unbundled. – via Whap!
WOW! You have had BAD LUCK! Now I have had NO such similar problem. For several years now (about 5) I have always had 2 Amigas on my desk and only one monitor. Originally I had 2 1000s, my machine and the BBS machine. I used a simple A-B switch…
Ron, I don't know about yours but my version says what it is in the window titlebar. Scott – via Whap!
I, for one, would consider your proposed product if and when I can get my hands on the new version of Amiga UNIX.
Ron, Just to be sure, I just went and ran AtomClock 1.2a on my A3000 with 2.04. It worked fine. NO Guru. Scott – via Whap!
Steve, Whoa!! You say VD0: has been upgraded to work with the 3000 and 2.0x? I had to dump VD0: and adopt VDK: when I got my 3000 last Christmas. Where is this upgraded VD0:, I would like to see it??? I will say that VDK: works fine 90% of…
[ continuation ] 12 Files/s Create 61 Files/s Open/Close 293 Files/s Scan 54 Files/s Delete 349 Seek/Read Buffer Size 512 4096 32768 262144 ——— ——— ——— ——— ——–Bytes/s Create 29020 166008 357913 408577 Bytes/s Write 29705 199431 659546 707339 Bytes/s Read 159973 597408 994205 803698 Let me know if you…
Jim, Here are some results for you: DiskSpeed 3.1 – Copyright (c) 1989,90 by MKSoft Development Device: dh3: Test Intensity: Med Performance Stress: CPU Contention & DMA Contention 11 Files/s Create 43 Files/s Open/Close 152 Files/s Scan 42 Files/s Delete 190 Seek/Read Buffer Size 512 4096 32768 262144 ——— ———…
Wayne, Yes, I have alot of memory, 7 megs, soon to be 9 when I fill up the A2620 card. I just got the upgrade from IVS for my TrumpCard Pro and it still doesn't support AmaxII!! Serious deficiency when they were the first company to support Amax way back…
Michael, I have the Quantum 210 and am using it with the TrumpCard Pro. I think it's a great little drive and the only thing I would say is that I have it divided into 5 40 Meg partitions, I could NOT get it to format to more than 200…
Jim, Can you or anyone else remember the name of that file? I would like to try putting a multi-serial card in an A1000/ToolBox. I would ALSO like to use a TrumpCard Pro controller with it. Anyone have any knowledge along these lines? Scott
BBS advice
Message #4882
This is a solicitation for advise 🙂 I run the BBS for the Amiga Friends club in California. We currently are running BBS-PC! on an A1000 with 1.5 megs and a 235 meg drive. Interest has been expressed in going multi-line. What suggestions, ideally backed by experience but all comers…
BBS advice
Message #2738
This is a solicitation for advise 🙂 I run the BBS for the Amiga Friends club in California. We currently are running BBS-PC! on an A1000 with 1.5 megs and a 235 meg drive. Interest has been expressed in going multi-line. What suggestions, ideally backed by experience but all comers…
Chris, I hadn't thought about it but you're right, I got it free as well. I still have to pay $10-12 per month to keep it though since it is flat fee. The debugger code tricks the Prodigy software into thinking there is a SCSI port present as this is…
Chris, In short, your right. It IS interesting that the Amax RRD survives an AMIGA reboot. Scott
Chris, Tell you the truth, the real reason I got Prodigy was so I could prove to myself that I could go out, buy stock Mac software, plug it into my Mac drive and have it run. It did. I rarely call Prodigy, I think it's pretty bogus. Maybe I…
Chris, I don't want to go looking for my Amax manual but isn't it documented that, not only is the ram disk recoverable, you can BOOT from it? Or doesn't that qualify as recoverable? In any case, I usually move a system folder into the ramdisk and then when you…
Steve, I am not sure why you would say that BUT, I just resurrected a 47 meg partition on my hard drive last night using disksalv. I have 5 partitions on my drive and the command was simply disksalv dh3: to dh2: . It TOOK AWHILE but I wound up…
For what it's worth, I use Prodigy software with Amax with no difficulty whatsoever. No significant line noise. I also have both 16 and 32 bit memory and have never had the debugger open unexpectedly. Scott
Betty, This is the PERFECT thread for me to air my doubts/concerns re: upgrading to the 3000. I started in '86 with a 1000 (obviously) and upgraded to a FlickerFixed, CMI accelerated (a little, inexpensive boost), now 5 meg with 235 meg hard drive A2000 1 1/2 years ago. My…
Khalid, Glad to see you're on your toes 🙂 Scott
#Khalid FRQ Wishlist
Message #116704
Khalid, A request if I may, could it be worked out that we could specify if we did want a particular file requester replaced? Specifically, I LIKE the CED FR and would rather it NOT be replaced. I really think having a choice would be very good. Scott
Mike, Actually, I wish Bill Hawes could figure out a way to get the system to sort out those Pathman paths ALOT faster, they can take the best part of a minute if you have a very extensive C: (for instance) that is spread over multiple volumes. For me, REXX:…
Just a comment about Aldoseri's file requestor. It's beautiful but it seems incompatible with Bill Hawes PathMan and reliably causes a GURU when it is presented with one the the "extended" path descriptions created by that program. I like how it looks but PathMan is infinitely more important. Scott
#AREXX fun.
Message #12965
One of the reasons I like AREXX is that you can modify your working environment so easily and modify specific programs so that they work more to your liking. I have been using the reader 'rd' that comes with Access! (the reader is enough to justify a download of Access!.arc)…
Not funny.
Message #12145
I have been a member of the Amigaforum for 2 years and now I am a new member??? Not funny. If you changed the software you should have been able to move the names of members over. What's the problem? I had to pay connect charges to watch all that…
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