This is an archive of CompuServe forum messages from 1985 to 1995, as saved in transcripts by John Foust.
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Perhaps when you boot off of the DPaint IV floppy, your startup-sequence gets you up an running with a minimum of RAM overhead. Check your startup-sequence and User-startup on your harddrive for additional programs that are launched and running in the background. That could be the difference in your not…
The main thing to suspect is insufficient RAM, that ever needed but elusive commodity… I believe that if you are running with 1/2 meg or even one meg of ram, you will not be able to access the more ram-intensive features of DPaintIV. Sean Hannon Ad Rats – Stamford, CT
> Hope this helps! 🙂 Indeed it does. The attention and care you give to our stumblings on this path is a gift to us all. Keep the rose blooming! Sean Hannon Ad Rats – Stamford, CT
Thanks, Erich. Which bank account did you want my check made out to? ;^) Sean Hannon Ad Rats – Stamford, CT
Erich, Now that I'm going, a ton o' questions… Can you tell me if I can use UUxt to uuencode small programs as well as pictures? Also, what kind of compression utility can we use on both platforms? He is using Windows 95 on a PC. Can I use LhA…
Give the man a cigar! Thank you, Erich, I followed your instructions and the man with the beard (my friend in L.A.) appeared in a jif… as `twere. I hope that I don't have to continue this strange character search&replace routine, but if it's what I must do, then do…
Ya, Paul, the files contained the extra "3D"s when I got them in my C-mail. What freeware editor do you recommend for processing these files? I sent a copy of the files to Erich to see if he could do something with them. Sean Hannon Ad Rats – Stamford, CT
Getting closer by inches as it gets stranger!!! (Are you listening, Asha? Ueli? Paul?) When Dr. Kuester said his VuePrint worked at uuencoding files, I decided to ask my friend to send me a file one more time. He did, and this time, I noticed two separate files: section 1/2…
Thank you, Erich. I would be very interested to know if VuePrint 4.1 can create and/or handle uuencoded files. I think the file he sent was complete, despite the "section 3/3" reference. However, he seems to be trying a new scheme using something called MIME. And for the briefest moment,…
Yup, I've used them all. And I'm not convinced that these are standard uuencoded files, even though the "M" appears at the beginning of each line. I await to hear from my friends o'er thar about just what it is they are sending. And thanks, Asha, for your input. I'd…
Can you use a SuperGen2000s, which installs internally in the video slot? I'll sell you mine for $650. Sean Hannon Ad Rats – Stamford, CT
#Crossplatform uuencode
Message #214968
Thanks, Asha, I appreciate your analysis of this. I'm going to try the two other uuencoders you mentioned and see if my friend can handle the output, and vice versa. Sean Hannon Ad Rats – Stamford, CT
CrossPlatform uuencode
Message #214967
I downloaded uuInOut1.lha last week. I think it boasted being the latest and greatest. I'm going to try downloading some of the earlier ones and sending their output to my friend in L.A. and see if his VuePrint 4.1 can decode any of them. Thanks for your info. Sean Hannon…
Trent, I am about to blurt out an untried idea, but I think my ego can take the hit if it don't work… You might try applying nine bones – three sets of three in vertical columns- to your rectangle of fabric. Animate the really big, sweeping billows with the…
Todd, Thank you for your graciousness under fire. I also appreciate that you heard all of my points fairly, no mean feat when one's work is being harshly criticized. I share responsibility for my dissatisfaction with the book. I wanted the book to be what I wanted it to be.…
De rien, de nada, and no sweat, kiddo! 😉 Sean Hannon Ad Rats – Stamford, CT
PMFJI, but I just wanted to second Brad's suggestion that you write an article for LWPRO on the finer points of motion blur and blade rotation. I think you offered some good food for thought on real vs. perceived speed, and adjusting the rotation to avoid syncing with video frame…
Erik, With regard to your comment: > If you want to keep your Amiga as a functional part of your network, your > best bet is to get an Ethernet card, and run TCP/IP on all your machines. I am about to invest in a 100 mhz Pentium to run…
Wavey win
Message #119064
Thanks alot, Trent! Sean Hannon Ad Rats – Stamford, CT
#Wavey Win!!!
Message #118685
Greetings, Brethren! I am just returned from an exciting time in the City of Lost Angels, where I zipped in to attend the Wavey Awards ceremony, and zipped out with a Wavey Award myself! It was for the "Stephen King Book-of-the-Month Club" ad I participated in at Ball & Chain…
Mike… Snail-mail address would be fine, just leave it in my e-mail. I have to find where on my harddrive I put it. Sean Hannon Ad Rats – Stamford, CT
Well, Mike, it happened like this… I asked the $64 million question that I figured would be either met with silence, or a few cagey deflections. The question was, what are people like ourselves charging their clients, and how do they determine their pricing structure with so many variables involved…
Mike, I found out just how open the LW community can be about sharing the wealth when I started that "Video Pricing" thread last year. Lots of stuff happens when you don't work in a vacuum. Sean Hannon Ad Rats – Stamford, CT
Yup, it's a disk thing with Bill, too. He went in for an MRI today to get a definitive answer. I will pass on your regards. Sean Maynard is a professional LW animator working out of Waterbury. I hope that he will attend our LW SIG as he is the…
Mike, >…that take LW anims & make DCTV anims. And why would you need it? I suspect the only reason would be if his harddrive space is at a premium and he can't make space to render a lot of 500-900k RGBs. Yes, Hank's been a busy man. He called…
Except, Mike, I think he was looking for a conversion from Lightwave anims to the DCTV format. AFAIK, there is no utility that will read the individual frames from a Lightwave-generated anim and convert them to RGB or DCTV pics. Your solution to just render the frames out as RGBs…
John-O!!! Brass ring time! Now, that's what I pays my hard earned moola to Compuserve for! Thanks for the solution. Sean Hannon Ad Rats – Stamford, CT
Thanks, Patrick, your advice is well taken! Maybe next time… Sean Hannon Ad Rats – Stamford, CT
#Amiga/Mac Pic conversion
Message #111341
Michael, I noticed you giving advice to someone on TIFF conversions for use on the Mac, and I have a weird problem related to this. For some reason, the TIFF and PICT graphics I convert using AdPro and port over to the Mac will not show up as viewable graphics.…
Introductions
Message #111145
Dear Christie, Sorry, but I came up empty in asking local video stores about the availability of The Gong Show–THE MOVIE. You would think that would be a natural for the rental stores. I never saw it myself. I did do two Gong Shows… the first being an impersonation of…
#Graphics not seen
Message #46946
To anyone transfering graphic files between the Amiga and the Macintosh: I have a Mac Performa 6115CD on one end of the room, and an Amiga 4000 on the other. Recently, I purchased the Texture Gallery CDRom set, which I read on the Macintosh, and transfer files from via disk…
A true story… I was once a holder of Commodore stock. I came in on it when it was $10 a share and steadily rising. As it went up, my in-laws and accountant hailed me as a genius. I bought a little more when it was around $15 and still…
#Wanted: Video Recipe
Message #111086
Dear Michael… Mondo thanks for the lengthy reply and advice. I found a lot there that was valuable in the new info and in the confirmation of my own thoughts. In regards the timecode, however, there is a solution with the SMPTE Output module that works with the AD516 from…
PMFJI, Nigel… Insofar as you have had good luck from a helping hand across the waters, I wonder if you could help me? I have been trying to track down a game called "Kingmaker", produced by US Gold (a UK based company). I finally got their upper level manager on…
Thanks for the Big Picture, Wayne. Fortunately, the Mac investment was made with home applications exclusively in mind ( Quicken for our financial management, entertainment & education software for the kids.) I have no need of it in any of the larger DTP or DTV arenas. I did, however, order…
CEI, as everyone now knows, stands for Completely Erroneous Information. Sean Hannon Ad Rats – Stamford, CT
No, but you conjured up the image of a character in the movie who was definitely infringed! 😉 Sean Hannon Ad Rats – Stamford, CT
#Amiga's future
Message #46491
> I believe that the MAC is slowly headed he way of our own beloved AMIGA… This is an opinion I would like you to amplify with whatever hard facts you have, as I just plunked down a few G's on a Macintosh Performa 6115CD. Also, isn't the recent appearance…
> I do hope that you'll squeal like a stuck pig and tell us all the gory details… Were you just watching "Deliverance"? Sean Hannon Ad Rats – Stamford, CT
> not after the great city in the US 🙂 And I understand the residents go ballistic when their great city is referred to as Frisco! Sean Hannon Ad Rats – Stamford, CT
#AMIGA SOLD!
Message #192092
Dear Michael, IMHO, Joe's little bit of mischief was a welcome diversion to the draining, mind-numbing ordeal we've subjected ourselves to over the last year, and I'm actually surprised that we haven't seen more of it. As a parody, it was well crafted, and not too transparent. (and by the…
#Diavolo help
Message #186470
To anyone using Diavolo as a backup utility… I just got my hands on it, liked what I saw, and got the registered version. I am using it in conjunction with a 525 meg Python streaming tape system to backup my 200 meg Quantum harddrive. The harddrive is housed in…
#CIA in France
Message #186431
Speaking of rumors… I have this from an informant (my wife) who reminds me (of Emma Thompson) that three seemingly disparate facts may not be so unrelated: a) The Amiga's incredible record for anonymity b) The never-ending "sale" of Commodore assets c) Former Sect'y of Defense Al Haig on the…
AmigaGuide help
Message #45493
To any AmigaGuide adepts, I am occasionally coming across AmigaGuide files that won't load and I can't figure out why. The AG error message is either "Can't find node" or it's "Can't find database". I have looked at the files in Diskmaster, and they appear to be identically constructed to…
Hank, Thank you, but I feel I should be upfront about this before you expend any further energies… Bill Chadwick and I are going in on this purchase together to share the device, and he will be ordering whatever unit we go with. Since he did not know about the…
#Compatible backup?
Message #45475
Hank, After a scary episode of what looked like a harddrive crash with no recent backup, I am taking immediate steps to get some kind of large scale backup system. I am considering the Python streaming tape, which offers 525 meg tapes that price out about three-quarters less than Bernoulli…
Doug, thanks for your info. As you may have read, I was able to solve my immediate problem by reinstalling my sys:libs. The corrupted files were the iffparse.library, diskfont.library, and asl.library. I do seem to have a program called Enforcer. It was in my Tools drawer, without an .info icon,…
#"ramlib" error
Message #45447
Dear Werner, You hit it right on the nail! I re-installed my libraries and I was up and running again. I swear, with Commodore tech support out of the picture, it's absolutely invaluable to have this kind of networking support among users. Thanks again! Sean Hannon Ad Rats – Stamford,…
#"ramlib" error???
Message #45428
To any and all who have a clue… I am just recently coming up with a strange problem while trying to run certain programs. On both AutoPilot and PageStream2, which have been fine for months, I'm now getting a Recoverable Alert Error 0003 8007, and then a requester saying: ramlib…
Stephen, Not being familiar with frames off of Exabyte, I may be off the mark. But from the description of the problem, you might consider the possibility that the *fields* for each frame need to be reversed. My machine is being leased right now so I can't look in on…
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