This is an archive of CompuServe forum messages from 1985 to 1995, as saved in transcripts by John Foust.
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Sorry, Sly. Just folling the stream of information & reply to anything that looks good. BTW I have not heard form the new owners since I talked to Leon. They are a bit too quiet.
There is still suport for m2Sprint, suplied by myself & the faithfull users of m2sprint. The cost is now very competitive to Be Benchmark. Check out the mail order prices carfully. The Bechmark package does not contain all of the special suport libraries for IFF, simple, Arexx and others. They…
I have heard(though my memory sometimes plays tricks, so be careful) that there was a theory that explained evolution by blaming the changes in the chromosones on radiation damage. One of the scientists against this theory said that there was not enough damage caused to explain evolution as it apeared.…
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#User Beta-testers Please
Message #92750
No plans yet. I may be at the next Swiss Ami Expo 🙂
What was the disk drive manufaturer name? was it C LTD?
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#CLtd ??
Message #84731
As far as I know the C Ltd products are the hand scanner, and I think the audiomaster. I think the hard cards are from someplace else.
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#CLtd ??
Message #84700
Preferred Technologies Inc. has 2 hard cards, AudioMaster, Handyscannder , a slow scan digitizer, M2Sprint Modula-2 environment, and other products. As to who Preferred Technologies is, they are currently an Amiga only producer of products. They are a new company, but are not new to the Amiga. Most(or all) of…
Shoot golly! I used the data tape inputs on my apple II back in 78 to understand the spoken voice. Kind of hard to do more than a few words with only a 40% chance of understanding them.
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Design, Don't Code!
Message #84321
Shoot golly! I used the data tape inputs on my apple II back in 78 to understand the spoken voice. Kind of hard to do more than a few words with only a 40% chance of understanding them. Dan Brookshier M2Sprint Software Support
Tom Dow used to work for Preferred Marketing, I think. Dan Brookshier M2Sprint Software Support
At the moment, I have only two names. They are: Mark Henry and Tom Dow. From what I got from a quick phone call from Mark is that they have only been around for a couple of weeks. The empoyees in the company have all been involved with the Amiga…
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Sale of M2S
Message #14523
Thanks Steve! Things got wishy washy when the sale happend and it is nice to keep a bit of continuity. I'll try to get the new owners to give me a bigger hand in the details so I can prevent people from scooping me. If I am lucky they will…
M2Sprint has new owners!
Message #84178
Anouncement about M2S Things have changed for M2S and M2Sprint. The original owners of M2S have been bought out by Preferred Technologies Inc. Preferred technologies is a new company specializing in Amiga hardware and software. During the coming months the company will also be selling a SCSI Hard card, a…
M2Sprint has new owners!
Message #27469
Anouncement about M2S Things have changed for M2S and M2Sprint. The original owners of M2S have been bought out by Preferred Technologies Inc. Preferred technologies is a new company specializing in Amiga hardware and software. During the coming months the company will also be selling a SCSI Hard card, a…
Sorry about the delay, Robert. I just got told that the company was sold reciently. I have had to wait for somebody to talk to me at the new company. Unfortunatly the new owners have only been in existance for a few weeks and are very busy setting up shop.…
I already have a multi-user Amiga!!!! I have a MIDI converter on my serial port! Do I get the cash? BTW it gets pretty hard to hit a ^D or even a lowly ^C (thats ^Y for you VAX users) from 90 percent of the MIDI keyboards that I have…
ARGH!!!!! Will it never end! I feel like I am trapped in the never ending circle! Welcome to the 'Argument Clinic'. That will be $5.00 for the first ten minutes. Now if you guys would start insulting each other from a thesaurus you would at least be entertaining. And now…
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Manx 5.0 C?
Message #77636
That does seem to be the best place! Most languge wars are ramblings any way.
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#Periodic ARexx
Message #75488
The FutureSound code looks kinda exactly like this: PROCEDURE ReadFuture(buf:ADDRESS;len:LONGINT;rec_timer:LONGCARD); TYPE MySet = SET OF [0..7]; VAR MyBuf : POINTER TO CHAR; port_data : POINTER TO CHAR; data_direction : POINTER TO CHAR; int_control : POINTER TO MySet(*POINTER TO SET OF [0..7]*); timera_low : POINTER TO CHAR; timera_high : POINTER TO…
I have played (and got source for ) Future sound, from Applied Visions. It was very easy to use. But, I have a SoundScape from Mimetics that I have yet to crack, If anybody has some SoundScape hacks, I would like to see them. If any body needs the FutureSound…
Yeah, you don't get the system requester, but you also don't get the volume name if the boot volume is not online. Nope, the only way to do this the RIGHT way is to scan the device list.
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#C Portability HeLp!~~
Message #70062
There is an easy way. At program startup, you can check how much stack you have. If it is not enough, then simply AllocMem() the stack you need, and point A7 to the end of the allocated memory block. At program termination, point A7 to the original location and free…
I'm not sure, they should be in one of the DL sections around here. Maybe one of the SYSOPs might point the way…
Check the Bantam AmigaDOS manual, it has the complete description of the load file format.
Just installing the 1M Agnus is not enough, there's a trace to cut in order to remap the $C00000 memory to $080000 where it must be for Agnus and her two friends to see it.
There never was an ARP 1.2 release, so there never was ARP 1.2 documentation. The ARP 1.1 docs are the most current. The ARP 1.3 programmers documentation is virtually complete and should be released to the public in the very near future. In the interim, the 1.1 docs remain substantially…
FAT Agnus was included with every single A500 and most A2000 ever made. the chip you are talking about is referred to as either 1M Agnus or Obese Agnus.
The 1.2 Enhancer manual is the manual that came when purchasing 1.2 as a stand-alone product (1.2 Kickstart that is). The routine is certainly available elsewhere though.
er, that's to reboot and keep your RAD: intact…
SETPATH r has nothing to do with 68020s. It's to allow you to reboot with an Obese Agnus installed.
To intercept calls to the printer device, it is a simple matter of doing like the CMD program on Extras 1.3. You SetFunction the BeginIO vector of the device, then wathch for every CMD_WRITE that comes along and send the output to wherevr you want it to go. Be sure…
A I've mentioned this before elsewhere, but the true fastest method for reading single characters from a file is the one used by the SingleCharDOS module supplied with M2Sprint. The module uses double-buffered asynchronous IO to achieve truely remarkable performance. Basically, there are two input buffers of equal size. When…
Calling the AmigaDOS Read() routine for single-character IO is the worst thing you could do! It gos VERY slowly.
"finding a copy of the M2Sprint docs for reference" I hope you are aware that this will require him to purchase M2Sprint? This stuff ain't PD. I'm trying to pay the rent with it… 🙂
Exactly, the bindings still work except for the new functions, or the new names of certain field. There were also some bugs with the interface to two of the functions in there, TackOn being on of them…
The BM-2 ARP bindings are for ARP 1.1 and have not been updated for the latest ARP release. As such, some flags have changed and some record fields have changed, including the LeftEdge/TopEdge thing in the freq structure. Either someone will have to update the BM-2 bindings, or you could…
I'm not sure what you want. I do have some code to do flood fills, but I'm not certain it's exactly what you want. Could you giv an example of what you need the routine to do?
The Hidden bi,t is meant to hide any file from the file system in general. It has not been implemented yet, since it really must be in the file systems and since the file system stayed the same from 1.2 to 1.3…
Blocks missing
Message #11435
Could I get some extra blocks in DL 12? Thanks…
I think he's looking for a shell with support tools that make the Amiga feel like UNIX, not a true UNIX environment. I know there are at least 2 UNIX shell environments available for the Amiga, although I don't remember what their names are.
"Application Support Library". It should have a general-purpose toolbox to help you build a standard looking interface re gadgets and menus. The file requester will use this tookbox for example. It'll also probably have a font and color requester.
The argument wasn't on whether to include or not ASL, everybody was very happy with the fact that it will help AMiga developers provide a consistent user-interface. The talk wasn't a fight, but it very quickly degenerated in a "I want this and that" kind of thing. Quite useless discussion…
IAddress does NOT point to a menu item structure when you get a menu event. You need to use the ItemAddress() procedure on the IntuiMessage's Code field.
I think you've got your problem well defined. It does seem like a blitter alignment problem. One thing I do know is wrong in what you posted is the value you assign to MaxX and MaxY. These should be MaxX:=x+width-1 and MaxY:=y+height-1.
Your confusing people! "to get all the new features, you will need the new chips" is misleading. You will get EVERY feature of 1.4 EXCEPT the new graphics modes provided by the ECS. I think that's a more accurate way of saying it.
The problem is that what they showed is an early Alpha version of the software. Regardless of any disclaimers they may have put in their article, it will still give the impression to folks that 1.4 is almost here, which it is not. In a few months, people will start…
They did that? That's irresponsible journalism. Magazines were asked NOT to talk about 1.4 explicitly.
NO it will NOT require the new chips.
IAddress is currently only defined for gadget events.
I had the same problem with TxEd, so in the M2Sprint editor I tried different approaches and ended up with something that works real well (for me anyway). You need to hold down the left button, and then click the right button. Simple, efficient, and there is no possible confusion…
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