This is an archive of CompuServe forum messages from 1985 to 1995, as saved in transcripts by John Foust.
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Kept the beard. Hair is very short on the sides/back, and pretty short on top. Got tired of taking care of it, didn't think I'd like it with SCUBA mask and stuff, and always hate dealing with customs and immigration with it… Dale L. Larson, dale@iam.com el Presidente, IAM http://www.iam.com
Thanks for your interest in our products! MegaBall4 is indeed neat! We had the launch party yesterday. Besides the authors and their friends (and friends of IAM) we had a half dozen kids over to play the game. We some times had to tell the adults to let the kids…
From the AFS FAQ: Q: What are the limitations of the Consumer version? A: The Consumer version can only be installed to a single partition, and that partition must be on a drive which is less than 650mb capacity (not a partition of 650mb, a drive size of 650mb). You…
Hmmm. I have 4 SIMM sockets, 64mb of RAM, and 2 SIMM sockets free. Now why does this guy need to make sure he has a PC with lots of SIMM sockets? Dale L. Larson, dale@iam.com el Presidente, IAM http://www.iam.com
And as an added bonus, in this issue you can even find a blurry picture of me before I got my hair cut (10 days ago), blowing a fuse in the Karoke machine as I belt out "Wild Thing." Dale L. Larson, dale@iam.com el Presidente, IAM http://www.iam.com
The product info is downloadable as iam.lha in the news&reviews section here on CIS. Dealer information depends on whether you have enough volume to justify buying direct — Software Hut has been good at distributing our products to smaller dealers with about the same or even better terms than they…
Actually, I left out a lot of places that we have distributors. The list would be longer than the announcements. Dale L. Larson, dale@iam.com el Presidente, IAM http://www.iam.com
You're right, I was hoping to have the announcement ready, but I don't. Seems the doing is taking more time than the planning (hence the announcing). Dale L. Larson, dale@iam.com el Presidente, IAM http://www.iam.com
#MegaBall4!
Message #216702
Drexel Hill, PA (26 October, 1995) Intangible Assets Manufacturing toda announced that it is shipping the new Amiga game MegaBall4 MegaBall4 is classic Amiga brick-busting action in a brand new commercia package. The Mackey Brothers (famous authors of Ball and MegaBall) dazzl you with exploding blocks, plus poofing, growing, locking,…
>I will ask more I don't really know more, since I don't have one of the cards, but I'm sure someone could step in with the answer. >coax/T Thin only. (I at least had the EB920 manual when I wrote page 114 of my book.) Dale L. Larson, dale@iam.com el…
They work fine if you have the right jumper setting (and the SANA-II driver that goes with it — ASDG made one for each interupt level). Dale L. Larson, dale@iam.com el Presidente, IAM http://www.iam.com
Thanks for your interest in AFS. I forwarded your question to AFS and within a couple of hours, David Southwell of Fourth Level responded to your questions as follows: Dislexpeander is not OS legal and will therefore not woprk with AFS. I understand that DE author is working on remedying…
No, they've been moving offices, so they've been responding to critical support questions and have fallen behind on other things. It would likely be faster (if you still have your list of questions) for you to send your questions directly to david@flevel.co.uk. By all means, share any reply with us.…
> o you know if AFS will work with Amiga partitions setup for use in > Mac emulator's like ShapeShifter or Emplant? I don't know how their partitions work, so I don't know. If they are using FFS and creating a file in it, it should work with AFS. Jason…
IAM sells AFS to dealers and direct to end users. So support your favorite dealer if you have one, or download iam.lha to find out about all our good products and how to order directly from us. Dale L. Larson, dale@iam.com el Presidente, IAM http://www.iam.com
> ith FFS I can just about generate a disabling hangup with the scsi > activity light Then you have a hardware problem or a driver problem. A different filesystem would not likely affect it. Regarding validation, though, see the published reviews that have come out in the Sept/Oct UK…
> doubt if it would work with my current config for the hard drive. I think that your doubt is unfounded. > doesn't recognize the drive in the HD toolbox. You have to change an HDToolBox tooltype (with WB's Info requester) to let it know what it should use instead…
#New computer
Message #214873
"Big Developers" probably won't be making the leap to the next generation machine quickly. Many of them will probably die with the PC dinosaur. The question isn't whether this will happen, it is when. Be might be a little too soon. But a fresh start WILL happen someday. Dale L.…
Be has been working on it for several years. AT hasn't. Dale L. Larson, dale@iam.com el Presidente, IAM http://www.iam.com
> beyond my present level of networking sophistication Gee, I have a book to fix that. 🙂 AmigaLink has been around for a while (and is discussed in my book), but it has gotten easier to get ahold of in North America. Here is AmiTrix's press release: ====================================================================== Amiga-Link PRESS…
I'm sometimes asked "what do you have against parnet?" Well, nothing really. Except this. If you want to network, invest in networking hardware. Buy an AmigaLink kit from AmiTrix Development to use your floppy ports instead (and you can daisy-chain off the floppy ports so that you can share with…
FPU stuff might be the same, I'm not sure. I think it was MKS who told me that the MMU stuff had all changed for the 060, the way it had for the 040 (Mike did 040.library, so he ought to know what he is talking about). Dale L. Larson,…
RKM's have never been released past 2.x. I belive that SAS C 6.5 and Commercial Dice have the include files for 3.x. To make use of the new calls, you also need the autodocs, and I don't know of anywhere that they are available to people who don't already have…
Yes. Look at TwinEx in the libraries here for software to make it easier. Dale L. Larson, dale@iam.com el Presidente, IAM http://www.iam.com
No. I've heard of about three people who have the board, though. Wait, yes, I know software that won't work. Anything that depends on the MMU. Enforcer. Virtual memory stuff. Unix. Some math stuff might be affected to (some tries to use the FPU directly, and I'm not sure if…
You're a sick puppy. I thought that you liked to do the assembly code thing. Life under x86? Puh-lease. Make it PPC. Dale L. Larson, dale@iam.com el Presidente, IAM http://www.iam.com
Given that you have to figure out their terrible user interface anyway, it is much easier to have all the messages for a few years in the message base and accesable through one interface rather than to have some stored as files. Dale L. Larson, dale@iam.com el Presidente, IAM http://www.iam.com
#Amiga Magazines Galore
Message #209540
I don't like Bix either, but the excuse for using it is that they'd archive messages forever, and that is darn useful in a developer support area where you had engineers giving detailed responces to complex questions. Dale L. Larson, dale@iam.com el Presidente, IAM http://www.iam.com
#3.1 from ESCOM??
Message #209539
Escom doesn't support anything for the Amiga as far as I know. At least not if, by support, you mean that someone will answer your questions or give you a waranty or anything. 3.1 is as official as it can get. Buy it. Dale L. Larson, dale@iam.com el Presidente, IAM…
I don't think paper documentation is a serious deterent to piracy, for a number of reasons. Not least of which is that online help is an important feature in most programs anyway. Dale L. Larson, dale@iam.com el Presidente, IAM http://www.iam.com
I don't doubt at all that there are tens of thousands of very active Amiga owners who'd quickly upgrade to 3.1 for something like $75. Anyone who'd spend any money on their Amiga at all is a good upgrade candidate. That there are some/lots of people who's Amigas are gathering…
Manuals cost money and waste trees. In general, the less paper you ship with each box, the heathier the planet and your wallet. Dale L. Larson, dale@iam.com el Presidente, IAM http://www.iam.com
VillageTronic and 3.1
Message #208501
Expert Services imports them from VillageTronic. Dale L. Larson, dale@iam.com el Presidente, IAM http://www.iam.com
In a market with volume as low as it is, the margins have to be fairly high. Though you'd think that someone selling 3.1 could bet on being able to make good money putting together tens of thousands at a time and selling them cheaper… Dale L. Larson, dale@iam.com el…
Rush to Amiga.
Message #208499
That is a MUCH MUCH MUCH better idea!!! Dale L. Larson, dale@iam.com el Presidente, IAM http://www.iam.com
#Rush to Amiga.
Message #208498
Rush would be just about enough to get me to throw my Amigas out the window. 1/8 🙂 Dale L. Larson, dale@iam.com el Presidente, IAM http://www.iam.com
#PAWS Press Release 8/95
Message #208497
Could you please post the info? It's such a pain to download text when I could just read it. Dale L. Larson, dale@iam.com el Presidente, IAM http://www.iam.com
ESCOM – UUGH!!!
Message #208496
Sure it is. Anyone who'd wanted to buy Commodore for twice what Escom paid could have slapped the cash on the table at least six months earlier, if not before that. Dale L. Larson, dale@iam.com el Presidente, IAM http://www.iam.com
ESCOM – UUGH!!!
Message #208495
Lively Computer seems like good folks. I know 'cause they buy plenty of IAM products on a regular basis. 🙂 Dale L. Larson, dale@iam.com el Presidente, IAM http://www.iam.com
#Amiga Magazines Galore
Message #208494
Out here the Starbucks just ain't what it is in Seattle. In Seattle when I order latte, I'm asked "1, 2, or 3?", meaning "how many shots of espresso do you want in that?" In the Philly area when I order a latte, I'm asked "would you like decaf or…
Ali Dart Board Game
Message #208492
[reply to # 207291, already scrolled] Yeah, but in this case, the tapes are of the defendent cussing everyone, not of the cop cussing everyone… Dale L. Larson, dale@iam.com el Presidente, IAM http://www.iam.com
Can it be fixed?
Message #208491
I seem to recall someone complaining that the last good Boston dealer had closed. Maybe someone took their place. Frankly, though, I seriously doubt than any A500 is worth the cost of repair — getting one used would likely be cheaper than repairing yours. Dale L. Larson, dale@iam.com el Presidente,…
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Pleasance?
Message #204636
Pleasance was in charge of Commodore UK, but I don't know how one might get ahold of him. Dale L. Larson, el Presidente, IAM
You make 'em yourself. No need to muck around with UUCP, just with UUCP:. dale@iam.com http://www.iam.com Intangible Assets Manufacturing
INetUtils includes the NNTP to use with GRn. You still need to create a UUCP: assign and subdirectories. This is where GRn stores various configuration and data files it needs. If CIS has a news server for PPP, it is NNTP. dale@iam.com http://www.iam.com Intangible Assets Manufacturing
What kind of deal did you get on your IIIc? dale@iam.com http://www.iam.com Intangible Assets Manufacturing
I can't tell for sure from your message, but it sounds like you may not have name service configured correctly. To find out, try pinging an IP address rather than a host name. If that works, where pinging the host name doesn't, your DNS config is hosed. dale@iam.com http://www.iam.com Intangible…
Don't forget non-standard power supply (tick signal), floppy drives (different electronics), etc. The connectors on an Amiga will make using a standard casework tough in any event, and will certainly require a new board layout, something which will be expensive and time consuming to set up, do, test, and put…
You get bonus points in Dogbert's New Ruling Class if you start a rumor at your company that Scott Adams is really a pen name for an employee there and that the strip really *is* about your company.
Sounds to me
Message #197171
They didn't say they'd make any sales in the US, just that they'd make US$1 billion per year in sales. Big difference. dale@iam.com http://www.iam.com Intangible Assets Manufacturing
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