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Michael- Assuming all Panasync 1081i's will not scan down to 15.75 then I guess my logical move is to add a flicker fixer _and_ a Panasync to my A2000 and move the 1080 from that to the kids' A1000. I guess the old NEC would scan that slow, since in…
Don- Thanks for the info. I'll have to check on the available scan rates on the Panasync. Dick
#Multi-sync monitor
Message #83110
A quick question: I had been using an old NEC Multi-Sync on my kid's Amiga 1000 for several years, and it (the monitor) just died. I have to replace it, and wonder if anyone has experience favorable or un- to report on the Panasync 1081i. I saw one ad that…
Tim, Thanks for the reply. You don't happen to know of a really active forum for AMOS users do you? I have this strong love/hate feeling about AMOS that I'd really like to share with a few others. Dick Darling
AMOS Compiler Seg Files
Message #21373
Help! Has anyone been able to get AMOS 1.3 to read a sequential file when _compiled_. There is a readme file with the compiler that warns that you must initialize a floating point variable in your main program before reading a seq file, to tell the compiler that it must…
Bill The IO work I recognize I will probably have to do directly on the MSDOS machine, which means "at the office", but I hope to do 90% of the user interface (menus, plots, etc) at my leisure, at home, on the Amy. And this is S-l-o-w instrumentation I'm hooking…
#AC Basic /True Basic
Message #84423
In my spare time, I have volunteered to develop some software for sale by my employer. Involves interface with fairly slow lab equipment and later reduction & display of data. Language must be BASIC for maintainability by users; target hardware is MS-DOS compatibles. I know from experience that I can…
I don't know what "people" are doing. I am using the same copy of pc-dos that came with my pc-at at the office. In general sticking with the rule to treat my copies "like a book"—that is that there is no possibility that two copies of the same piece of…
I don't know what "people" are doing. I am using the same copy of pc-dos that came with my pc-at at the office. In general sticking with the rule to treat my copies "like a book"—that is that there is no possibility that two copies of the same piece of…
Kevin- Speed-wise it seems fine. And never having written a program that hit the limit size-wise on our PC-AT I can't comment on the comparable size limits. All I say is it's ridiculously small for a 512k machine costing $2k, as compared to 64k and 128k machines costing 1/10 as…
That's probably wise. From what I hear even the current release of C is buggy. This is what we get for jumping in this early. And I think CBM may have released just a tad early, too. Dick Darling
I'm afraid you're beyond me. Can you elaborate? Dick Darling
Yeah, I HAVE to increase the SIZE option when I use ED because of the program length. But ED isn't where I have trouble. It's when I LOAD the file into ABasiC that I get the error msg. A new development: I've found that I can get the "Program Too…
Running straight text files is only an advantage if they're of usable size. Why can't ABasiC tokenize internally while still preserving the ability to read straight text files? Heaven knows there's a batch of fairly small utilities that give the 64 this ability. I'd trade a usable program size for…
That's kind of consistent with my exper- ience, although I actually am using as much as 120k of array at times (3 screen buffers at about 44k each). What gripes me is that this fundamental information isn't available in the docs. That plus the inefficiency of the language.
#ABasiC program size
Message #42402
I've come to the startling conclusion that my C64 is bigger than my Amiga. A few little test programs consisting of a variety of assignment statements, gOSUBS, simple functions, etc. were written for the 64 and also entered into the Amiga. The value of FRE(0)noprogram-FRE(0)program was compared for the two…
I'm going to try it (C). I'm just not looking forward to it on a machine whose DOS still doesn't know which end is up (and neither do I). Dick Darling
Yup! That's the problem all right. I've seen that others have had it too, so it's a generic bug apparently. Dick Darling
An interesting suggestion, and it's true that the screen depth really soaks up memory (and slows the program), but I get my "Too Large" message when I'm still in edit mode. I don't believe the editor is smart enough to parse the entire program and decide I've exceeded some run-time…
#ABasiC Program Size
Message #12880
What is the size limit for ABasiC programs? I am geting "PROGRAM TOO LARGE" at a source code size of 60100 bytes (as determined by fre(0) before and after loading) on a 512k machine. It seems that a 90k language should support a program size a little bigger than 60k.…
ABasiC program size
Message #42113
HELP! I'm getting "PROGRAM TOO LARGE" on the ABasiC program which I've invested 3 weeks in and which is about 60% done. I can't find any info in the manual as to the max allowed program size. I naively assumed as long as I was showing 179k free even after…
amiga fonts
Message #42055
Anyone have any ideas on how to extract usable information from the FONTS files.for use in ABasiC? Dick Darling Enter command, N for next message or for menu : n
C will be a new experience for me. I have a LOT of Basic and Fortran and SOME Pascal, Forth and 6502 assembly , but for some reason I think of C with some trepidation. I have one application that I'm working on right now that I HAVE to get…
Great idea! I've been usithe command all the time, including scrolling a figure off the screen by repeated GSHAPES and I never thought of setting up an entire picture off-screen. I can immediately think of a couple of possi- ble uses in my application. Have you by any chance come…
Rick- Thanks for the info. Glad to know it wasn't just my lack of understanding. Dick Darling Enter command, N for next message or for menu : n
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#abasic gshape command
Message #41850
David- A further thought: My problem wasn't so much with what GSHAPE , but with the fact that the book a mode can be specified in the syntax: GSHAPE (x,y), [,] where the "optional mode should be an integer from 0 to 2, one of the DRAWMODE values." In fact…
#41828-
abasic gshape command
Message #41848
David- You've got me thinking. I would almost.swear that when I use gshape I get back.ground as well as foreground overwriting. whatever was previously on the screen. In fact, I save and reload entire screens by using sshape and gshape, and I have an Oops! function built into the program…