This is an archive of CompuServe forum messages from 1985 to 1995, as saved in transcripts by John Foust.
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No, I never used AutoPilot. AP won't operate under 1.3. When it comes I'll probably give it a try. Barry
Dan, Right now I can't afford a 3000 or 4000 (and don't think a 2000 would be a big step up). Maybe some day, but I want to see what happens with the Commodore liquidation first. Barry
Rick, I mean online with an old fashioned term program. I'm still under 1.3 (but did order 3.1) so most automated programs won't work for me right now. Barry
Ronald, I don't think the well ran dry-I think you hit the nail on the head yet again. The paint and graphics programs I'm using are pre 2.x and 3.x, so their "standard" overscan must be an arbitrary number-which would explain the trouble I'm having. Thanks again. It looks like…
Dan, Thanks for the information about Opalvision. That won't work for me since I've got an A500, but I think I can get by using an old version of Mostra and some slightly enlarged pictures-362×480 instead of 352×480. Barry
Richard, Thanks for the information. I did have a copy of Mostra, but it was a version that only operated under 2.x+ (and I'm still waiting for my 3.1 upgrade to arrive). After reading your message, I found a V. 1.7. I can make this one work-but only if I…
Ronald, I was able to convert both of my A500's to address 1 meg of chip RAM. Thanks for the information. Your instructions were good. It went fairly easily. The only slight problem I had was when I mis-read your message about where to cut the trace from the A501.…
Ronald, Thanks for the information. I opened up the machine and confirmed that it does indeed contain the 8372A. I do have the A501 in one of my 500s, and an equivilant in the other. I have no intention of removing them, so converting them to address the one meg…
David, Thanks for the information. I just took a look inside and found that it does have the 8372A (instead of the 8370 specified in the manual). As for cutting a trace to enable the other 512K, there are at least 2 different PCBs for the A500-I wonder if the…
#IFF overscan images
Message #46584
I'd like to run a video slide show from my Amiga-which I didn't think would be difficult, but now I've down loaded close to a dozen IFF file viewers and have yet to find one that works correctly. What I'm looking for is a viewer that will run automatically and…
#Overscan viewer
Message #46552
I'd like to run a video slide show from my Amiga-which I didn't think would be difficult, but now I've down loaded close to a dozen IFF file viewers and have yet to find one that works correctly. What I'm looking for is a viewer that will run automatically and…
Kenton, Thanks for the information. I have 4 megs of fast RAM, so it looks like all I'll need is the new Agnus. I don't think I'll need more than 1 meg of chip RAM, though. Barry
#Hello, Agnus?
Message #46581
I have an A500 that shows 512K of chip RAM when I do an AVAIL from CLI. I take it this means it has the 8370 Fat Agnus chip. Here comes the confusion-I've been told that I can replace the 512K Fat Agnus with a 1 meg Agnus and get…
Thanks anyhow, Don. I think the power supply is 5 amp. What I needed to know was the draw of the disk drives. One had it printed on the bottom-260ma, way below the power supply I'm going to use. Barry
Thanks for the information, Don. I can't find any specs on the power supply for the A500. Do you know them off hand? Actually, it would be better to know the power requirments of the drives. I've found a great deal on +5/+12 switching power supplies, but don't know wether…
Ron, Thanks for the information about Scala. Barry
Accelerators
Message #193047
Does anyone have experience with accelerators for the A500? There only seem to be 2 commonly available now-the M-TEC which has a 16 Mhz 68020 (and co-processor) and the CSA Derringer which uses the 68030. Has anyone used either of these (or any other that is still available)? How are…
#External disk drive
Message #193046
When I bought my A500 years ago, I also bought an A1010 drive. The "manual" that came with it said that you shouldn't cascade A1010s together as they would put to much strain on the power supply. It said to use an external drive with it's own power supply if…
News generator program?
Message #192466
Alex, Thanks for the info. I think I've got an old demo version of Whap that I might dust off and see if it works. I can't use auto pilot becuase I don't have 2.+ yet. Barry
CF, Thanks for the information. It does sound a bit easier than the other suggestions. The only problem is that I've only got a an A500-no place to plug a an OpalVision board. Maybe I'll have to wait until I get a 3000 or 4000, but thanks again. Barry
#Scrolling Text
Message #46356
William, I'm sure there are any number of ways to do it with enough equipment-that's why I said you could probably do it on an Avid when a Flyer was suggested. I was looking for a cheap way to do it and thought there might be a piece of software…
Thanks for the information. When I put it in the libs directory it worked fine. I still don't know why an assign wouldn't work. Barry
Jim, Thanks for the information. I was trying to test DMCS 2.0 demo and the verison I DL'd didn't have the libs. I DL'd a different version that had the libraries needed. I'm still having a problem though. Whenever I try to operate the MIDI port, I get an error…
Miracle Piano is now published by Software Tool Works. They do not seem to be online in any of the MIDI forums. They used to be a big publisher for Amiga, but I haven't seen much from them lately. Barry
#IFFParse.library
Message #40487
Please excuse my ignorance, but can anyone explain what the iffparse.library is? I have some demo software that won't run without it and I can't find it in any library on any boot disk I have. Is this a WB 2.x library by any chance? Barry
#Music Teaching Software
Message #40592
A while back the Miracle Piano Teaching System was available for the Amiga. The bad news was that it wasn't software only, but a combination of hard/software (you had to buy and use their keyboard). Don't ask how, but I ended up on a mailing list for IBM software. In…
Lu, Maybe I'm not making myself clear. I'm not having problems transferring mailing lists between platforms. I'm only using Amiga files. My problem is that I have multiple _files_ (I do NOT want to merge the files either). These files are in the form of mailing lists (text or word…
Lu, The mailing lists are Amiga WordPerfect files or Amiga text files. If there is specific software that will do what I'm looking for, there will have to be a utility for converting from text files. Barry
#Mailing list managment
Message #135444
Is there any utility I can use to compare mailing lists for duplicate names. Some of the lists I have are long and aren't in alphabetical order which makes it difficult to do by manualy. It seems like something a computer should be able to do. Barry
Michael, Thanks for the information-but maybe there's something I'm just not getting. I thought the idea behind a monospaced font was that every character had the same width? I downloaded the Olympia font. The file description said that it was monospaced. So as an experiment I opened a text window.…
#Non-proportional Fonts
Message #94345
Are there any PD non-proportional/monospaced fonts available for PageStream. I'm trying to import spreadsheet text files and am having difficulty with all the proportional fonts. The only one I've ever heard reference to is "Courier", and since it doesn't seem to be in the libs (except for a proportional UltraCourier),…
Thanks, Michael. I'll give it a try.
Thanks, Pat. I'll have to try a non-proportional font.
#PageStream Update
Message #53923
I'm using version 2.2HL of PageStream and would like to upgrade to version 2.22. I noticed to files in the DL, one to go from 2.2HL to 2.21, and one to go from 2.21 to 2.22. Do I need both these files, or can I just use the latest update?…
Actually, I did notice that the messages weren't the same. What surprised me was that you'd send two that were so very nearly the same. As if you were thinking, "oh, no, it would have been _so much_ better if I'd used 11 and 10 instead of 14 and 13"-oh…
Thanks, I thought this was probably something I was doing wrong. If it were a bug, I wouldn't expect the file to keep opening correctly after being closed so many times. Barry
Rich; Just to clear up one point. With Pgs on a 1 meg machine, with _over_ 200K of free RAM:, Pgs will _regularly_ crash when clicking between the pointer icon and the text icon. That's the kind of problem that leads me to say-"non-functional". Just no excuse for that. I…
Mike, If you contend that PageStream 2.1 operates on a 1 meg Amiga 500 you are welcome to demonstrate that to me. Though you'll have trouble, unless of course you're trying to get a black screen with a flashing red box saying, "Software Failure. Guru Meditation Error". As for your…
Bill, If you have some type of Utopian system to see that software makers don't rip us off, I'm all ears. As for what composes useable, I'd say being able to operate for at least 20 minutes without a crash is _Minimum_ for what I would define as useable. I…
Soft Logik, In response to message 38709, I never said that you, "produce a bunch of crap", I said that Page Stream 2.1 is non-functional on a 1 meg Amiga, furthermore, I said that it was rock solid in it's demo version (V. 1.82). As for calling you tech support…
Soft Logik, Let's see if I've got this straight. From your messages you say that Soft Logik. 1). Designed PageStream to work on a 1 meg machine, and it wasn't a marketing decision to call it a 1 meg program. 2). You know there are problems with V. 2.1 on…
Darron, Are you using a 1 meg Amiga by any chance? That's where I had all the problems. When I expanded the memory to 3 megs, most of the problems dissapeared. Barry
Chris, I'm using a 500 with 1 meg-now expanded to 3 megs. Without the extra memory on, PageStream goes crash happy and can't be used for any kind of work. It won't print and crashes every 5 to 20 minutes ("crash" includes Guru's, and "lockouts", where all the gadgets and…
J.R., The printer I'm going to is a Panasonic 1124i. Oh, just to mention-I installed a 2 meg expansion on my 500 (3 megs total) the other day and guess what-it hasn't crashed since. Makes you wonder. Barry
Mike, Right now I'm down to really basic tests. Importing very short documents from WP and seeing if they'll print using a single supplied font. I actually did get it to print a short, half page, letter at low density (printing to disk, not printer) using the CS Times font-of…
Harry, Thanks, I'll try increasing the stack. I have tried the save, exit, restart, reload routine-no luck. Barry
John, You're kidding me, right? An Amiga program that should bow out gracefully, _and_ tell the user _exactly_ why it's bowing out and what is required to make it work! It's so much more fun to crash the computer, and with the Amiga, you not only destroy the data in…
Donovan, I think that every problem I've encountered has been for a reason-don't you? The hardware hasn't changed since I ran the PageStream Demo, which as I said, was slow, but did everything I needed it to do, and _never_ crashed. I'm using the software as it came out of…
Bill; Do me a favor, describe your system set up to me. I have a feeling that just about all my problems have to do with the system running out of ram. As for, "there oughta be a law". I _never_ suggested the government pre-approve software. I suggested that people…
J.R.; One question, please give me your system configuration. I have a feeling that most lock ups and Gurus I've encountered have been the result of the system running out of memory (though it has Gurued twice when selecting between the text and pointer boxes). I've taken to watching the…
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