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Draw+ minus
Message #45788
The DrawPlus upgrade arrived at the post office today (yay!). However comma it appears that there was a slip up making the DrawPlus disk (boo!) — what I received was a blank, unformatted disk. The DataDisk arrived in good condition (even swept it with ErrorCheck, and all sectors passed), so…
Draw+ minus
Message #45788
The DrawPlus upgrade arrived at the post office today (yay!). However comma it appears that there was a slip up making the DrawPlus disk (boo!) — what I received was a blank, unformatted disk. The DataDisk arrived in good condition (even swept it with ErrorCheck, and all sectors passed), so…
If you'll be talking to Chuck Forsberg, be sure to ask him when Pro-YAM will be out for the Amiga. 😉 P.S. I use /slant/ for italics as well — and more often than _underline_ or >boldface< since the / character is "lower case", saving wear and tear on the…
If you'll be talking to Chuck Forsberg, be sure to ask him when Pro-YAM will be out for the Amiga. 😉 P.S. I use /slant/ for italics as well — and more often than _underline_ or >boldface< since the / character is "lower case", saving wear and tear on the…
V, I've purchased several big ticket items through CUS, and have had no problems (knock on wood). My impression is that CUS is really nothing more than a middleman for a large number of smaller firms around the country; your order comes in one end, and they send a purchase…
V, I've purchased several big ticket items through CUS, and have had no problems (knock on wood). My impression is that CUS is really nothing more than a middleman for a large number of smaller firms around the country; your order comes in one end, and they send a purchase…
Well, fixing the color table was on my "to do" list, anyway. There are some other defaults that I would like to change permanently, such as size/placement of the initial window, ruler status, grid pattern, and initial pen. Unfortunately, these won't be as easy to find as a 32 byte…
Well, fixing the color table was on my "to do" list, anyway. There are some other defaults that I would like to change permanently, such as size/placement of the initial window, ruler status, grid pattern, and initial pen. Unfortunately, these won't be as easy to find as a 32 byte…
#Draw Colors
Message #34376
Neither FileZap nor Disasm seemed to be able to handle a file as big as Draw correctly, so I zapped Draw over to an 8-banger CP/M system and took a look at it with EdFile. The ColorMap image is located at 135908(10), 212E4(16). A little twidling, and now Draw comes…
#Draw Colors
Message #34376
Neither FileZap nor Disasm seemed to be able to handle a file as big as Draw correctly, so I zapped Draw over to an 8-banger CP/M system and took a look at it with EdFile. The ColorMap image is located at 135908(10), 212E4(16). A little twidling, and now Draw comes…
#Draw Colors
Message #34376
Neither FileZap nor Disasm seemed to be able to handle a file as big as Draw correctly, so I zapped Draw over to an 8-banger CP/M system and took a look at it with EdFile. The ColorMap image is located at 135908(10), 212E4(16). A little twidling, and now Draw comes…
#Draw Colors
Message #34376
Neither FileZap nor Disasm seemed to be able to handle a file as big as Draw correctly, so I zapped Draw over to an 8-banger CP/M system and took a look at it with EdFile. The ColorMap image is located at 135908(10), 212E4(16). A little twidling, and now Draw comes…
#34171-
#AEGIS DRAW
Message #34220
Here's the PlotDriver file I've been using for the DXY-800 (I still tweak the dotted line pitch once in a while, but the file is functional). 42586 254.0 13.77 10.23 .015 1 8 "H" "H" "M" "," "" "D" "," "" "J" "" "L0" "B12^ML1" /* the ^M, naturally, is…
#34171-
#AEGIS DRAW
Message #34220
Here's the PlotDriver file I've been using for the DXY-800 (I still tweak the dotted line pitch once in a while, but the file is functional). 42586 254.0 13.77 10.23 .015 1 8 "H" "H" "M" "," "" "D" "," "" "J" "" "L0" "B12^ML1" /* the ^M, naturally, is…
You need the Addison-Wesley "Hardware Reference Manual"; see pages 220 ff. "During vertical blanking, you write a value into an address called POTGO. For a standard X-Y joystick, this value is hex 0001. Writing to this register starts the operation of some special hardware that reads the potentiometer values and…
You need the Addison-Wesley "Hardware Reference Manual"; see pages 220 ff. "During vertical blanking, you write a value into an address called POTGO. For a standard X-Y joystick, this value is hex 0001. Writing to this register starts the operation of some special hardware that reads the potentiometer values and…
BTW, all these sequences are correct in the Addison Wesley RKMs — see pp. 281 – 290 of the "Libraries and Devices" volume.
BTW, all these sequences are correct in the Addison Wesley RKMs — see pp. 281 – 290 of the "Libraries and Devices" volume.
Ah ha — word from the editors' underground. 😉 Too bad about C. Brannon leaving Compute! (I HATE titles that end in "!" (Online!, too)). He seems to have been responsible for some of the initial support the magazine displayed during the bleakish days last winter. Wonder if the recent…
Ah ha — word from the editors' underground. 😉 Too bad about C. Brannon leaving Compute! (I HATE titles that end in "!" (Online!, too)). He seems to have been responsible for some of the initial support the magazine displayed during the bleakish days last winter. Wonder if the recent…
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#CD-ROM
Message #28106
The Compute! editor who was on here is Charles Brannon (76004,73), Program Editor and author of the Amiga columns. Don't be too hard on him; he seems to be an Amiga enthusiast, and can hardly be responsible for the views of the magazine's Founder/Editor in Chief. Don't remember seeing him…
#28048-
#CD-ROM
Message #28106
The Compute! editor who was on here is Charles Brannon (76004,73), Program Editor and author of the Amiga columns. Don't be too hard on him; he seems to be an Amiga enthusiast, and can hardly be responsible for the views of the magazine's Founder/Editor in Chief. Don't remember seeing him…
Not at all. While "raids" of the DLs by a competing service may be naughty, it seems a bit high handed to disallow an individual the authority to send some useful or imaginative software onwards to another network. A good program will show up on ( )Link, ( )IX, whatever…
Not at all. While "raids" of the DLs by a competing service may be naughty, it seems a bit high handed to disallow an individual the authority to send some useful or imaginative software onwards to another network. A good program will show up on ( )Link, ( )IX, whatever…
Ahhh, I understand! On the roadmap of telecommunications, rather than an interstate highway, CIS is more like a dead end street. 🙂
Ahhh, I understand! On the roadmap of telecommunications, rather than an interstate highway, CIS is more like a dead end street. 🙂
Yes, but there's a lot of sleepy time between characters — how do you decide when you've gotten all characters pending from the current burst, and it's time to update the screen? Try this pseudo-code skeleton: while (carrier_detect) while (serial port has a character) get (in_character from serial port) send…
Yes, but there's a lot of sleepy time between characters — how do you decide when you've gotten all characters pending from the current burst, and it's time to update the screen? Try this pseudo-code skeleton: while (carrier_detect) while (serial port has a character) get (in_character from serial port) send…
#22835-
#xon/xoff
Message #22904
What you _ought_ to be able to do is test the screen handling functions to determine if they are willing to display a character RIGHT NOW. If a direct-to-screen pipe isn't open at that moment, then shuffle the current character into a small ring buffer and go do something else,…
#22835-
#xon/xoff
Message #22904
What you _ought_ to be able to do is test the screen handling functions to determine if they are willing to display a character RIGHT NOW. If a direct-to-screen pipe isn't open at that moment, then shuffle the current character into a small ring buffer and go do something else,…
#21361-
#KickStart to ROM?
Message #21447
Yes — if a photon happens to interact/dump its energy in the vicinity of the teeny tiny gate capacitor in a CMOS memory cell, the associated bit can easily change state. It is quite possible for a beta particle to do the same thing, as a beta is nothing more…
#21361-
#KickStart to ROM?
Message #21447
Yes — if a photon happens to interact/dump its energy in the vicinity of the teeny tiny gate capacitor in a CMOS memory cell, the associated bit can easily change state. It is quite possible for a beta particle to do the same thing, as a beta is nothing more…
#21129-
#KickStart to ROM?
Message #21294
Tsk, tsk. Gamma rays are ionizing radiation, but interact through Compton scattering, pair production, and the photoelectric effect (and a couple more minor mechanisms). Beta particles _can_ result from neutron capture, but I don't suppose you have a fission reactor in your basement. 😉 BTW, the tenth thickness (reduce gamma…
#21129-
#KickStart to ROM?
Message #21294
Tsk, tsk. Gamma rays are ionizing radiation, but interact through Compton scattering, pair production, and the photoelectric effect (and a couple more minor mechanisms). Beta particles _can_ result from neutron capture, but I don't suppose you have a fission reactor in your basement. 😉 BTW, the tenth thickness (reduce gamma…
Dunno. Sounds like it should work. If the modem is able to go off hook, it "knows" how to accept commands, and how to assert the phone line. Maybe the tone generator is broken? Does it dial if you ATDP rather than ATDT? Since pulse dialing should use the same…
RTS(4) is a handshaking signal that pairs with ClearToSend(5). Do you have a MR (modem ready) and TR (terminal ready) light on the USR? If both LEDs are ON, then any mutual handshaking needs should be satisfied. If TR is OFF, check your dip switch settings — you may be…
I've seen some modems that, while they pass data at 1200 (or 2400) bps, are not able to accept a command line burst at full rated speed. Are you able to send a dialing string a character at a time, from the keyboard, and not able to autodial from a…
If you get an "OK" back when you send an "AT", then there doesn't seem to be any reason for the modem not to dial, etc. What happens when you send it a full dialing string? * RR 13025 +
#12978-
#Linking C & Assem Files
Message #13008
How hard would it be to write a preprocessor that digests Amiga Assembler source and produces code that the Aztec assembler will accept? If it's do-able, some enterprising Amiga hacker with access to the specs for each could make a lot of friends by writing one. * Reply: 13053
How hard would it be to write a preprocessor that digests Amiga Assembler source and produces code that the Aztec assembler will accept? If it's do-able, some enterprising Amiga hacker with access to the specs for each could make a lot of friends by writing one.
How hard would it be to write a preprocessor that digests Amiga Assembler source and produces code that the Aztec assembler will accept? If it's do-able, some enterprising Amiga hacker with access to the specs for each could make a lot of friends by writing one.
#12986-
#Hello/Help
Message #13007
Aha, from Startup-sequence — try this. Go through the startup-sequence initialization, and include the lines newcli endcli This will open CLI 2, then terminate CLI 1. You _can_ change the default size of NewCLI windows, if you have FileZap (DL2 "fileza.exe"), or equivalent. The area starting at 04B9 is a…
Aha, from Startup-sequence — try this. Go through the startup-sequence initialization, and include the lines newcli endcli This will open CLI 2, then terminate CLI 1. You _can_ change the default size of NewCLI windows, if you have FileZap (DL2 "fileza.exe"), or equivalent. The area starting at 04B9 is a…
Aha, from Startup-sequence — try this. Go through the startup-sequence initialization, and include the lines newcli endcli This will open CLI 2, then terminate CLI 1. You _can_ change the default size of NewCLI windows, if you have FileZap (DL2 "fileza.exe"), or equivalent. The area starting at 04B9 is a…
#12941-
C COMPILERS
Message #12948
An excellent How To book on the C language is the "C Primer Plus" by the Waite Group, published by Sams. You probably should also pick up a copy of "The C Programming Language" by Kernighan and Ritchie (the famous K&R). Though it this is less a textbook than a…
#12941-
C COMPILERS
Message #12948
An excellent How To book on the C language is the "C Primer Plus" by the Waite Group, published by Sams. You probably should also pick up a copy of "The C Programming Language" by Kernighan and Ritchie (the famous K&R). Though it this is less a textbook than a…
#12941-
C COMPILERS
Message #12948
An excellent How To book on the C language is the "C Primer Plus" by the Waite Group, published by Sams. You probably should also pick up a copy of "The C Programming Language" by Kernighan and Ritchie (the famous K&R). Though it this is less a textbook than a…
#12941-
C COMPILERS
Message #12948
An excellent How To book on the C language is the "C Primer Plus" by the Waite Group, published by Sams. You probably should also pick up a copy of "The C Programming Language" by Kernighan and Ritchie (the famous K&R). Though it this is less a textbook than a…
#12941-
C COMPILERS
Message #12948
An excellent How To book on the C language is the "C Primer Plus" by the Waite Group, published by Sams. You probably should also pick up a copy of "The C Programming Language" by Kernighan and Ritchie (the famous K&R). Though it this is less a textbook than a…
#12941-
C COMPILERS
Message #12948
An excellent How To book on the C language is the "C Primer Plus" by the Waite Group, published by Sams. You probably should also pick up a copy of "The C Programming Language" by Kernighan and Ritchie (the famous K&R). Though it this is less a textbook than a…
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