This is an archive of CompuServe forum messages from 1985 to 1995, as saved in transcripts by John Foust.
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Busy signals on Pyrzqxgl are inevitable. He should just keep trying. 4am and 10am PST are probably good times to try… >Bela
Argh. I will only consider the port if Turbo Pascal or a similar Pascal compiler is available. MCC doesn't cut it. So meanwhile, there must be someone who'd be interested in porting to Modula-2 or C, but Howard won't let them at the source. Hmmm. Anyone feel like writing an…
Yes, unfortunately zapcis isn't >absolutely< reliable (there is a script by Earle Robinson, for the comm program pro-yam, that is reliable enough for him to go to Europe for a month and >count on< its having captured all messages in the interim… but pro-yam's an unfriendly beast!) It's best to…
#Power supply
Message #52489
The power supply is really 200 watts — and still not enough to reliably drive multiple external drives and side-bus devices at the same time? Weird. A PClone with 130 watt supply can handle 2 floppies and 8 boards in slots, though it's pretty rickety at the point and a…
Again I'm relying more on continuity than knowledge: I know that VAX files use CR+LF, if they use anything at all (they can be straight text with CR+LF delimiters, or "FORTRAN" files, or variable-length records of various sorts, but when a >program< tries to read them they >look< like they…
Software lists
Message #52132
Whoops! Looks like your upload script went slightly haywire. Message received, in any case… I knew the VAX Adventure I was playing wasn't the original (it even stated so), but I thought it was a fairly straight port from the original machine and the attributed names were the originals. Guess…
What voltages at what levels does the Amiga power supply provide? I wonder if there's a market for beefier power supplies for Amigas. Alternatively, I wonder if something like a 3rd-party AT-clone supply would do the job (most of them are 230 watts or so — should be more than…
Give 'em hell, Ed!! >Bela
Bill, I'm very sorry to hear that your board is still not working perfectly. Jeeze. Anyway, what is the serial # of your board? If it's under 398, you have the old PAL chips and they will replace them for free. While you're at it you may want to upgrade…
Ed, I saw your messages about bus loading and how to deal with it. Thank you for researching this and letting the information out to the public!! I have posted the two series of FIX messages on a local board with an Amiga section (XBBS, (408) 336-2249. To get to…
ANDI.L #$00FFFFFF,D0 / MOVEA.L D0,A0 is, as you say, >highly< suspicious. Have you traced through to that point to see if the contents of D0 before that operation had something other than 0 in the high byte? That would seem to indicate their use of the high part of the…
What happened to your warp drive? ;-} >Bela
Ed, have you in fact tested the Techni-Soft RAM-BOard's passthrough? I would like to pick up the new Amiga PALs and malemale connector from you guys, but before I do that I want to know that I'm not just wasting my time & money. If you or any of your…
So AmigaBASIC does run on the Turbo-Amiga at 14.32MHz, but screen output is wrong? Is it possible that AmigaBASIC is using the high byte of certain addresses to store related data (i.e. assuming that it's running on a 24-bit address bus)? I'd expect a guru from that, though, or at…
Turbo-Amiga
Message #51756
Thanks, that's quite a list!! I like it… full-out Turbo-Amiga (Bela
Turbo-Amiga
Message #51755
I completely agree about not uploading TurboBasic (I'm sure it wouldn't be legal, in any case — most of the code is MicroSoft's). But isn't there a way for you to upload only the patches? You could upload a small program that would apply patches to AmigaBasic from a file,…
#Printer help
Message #51754
Bill, actually as far as I know all the DEC machines use CR+LF as their line seperator. (I should say all the DEC >operating systemsBela
Techni Soft RAM-BOard
Message #51753
Thansk. It seems to be all over now. (faint) I'm not, how shall I say this, in the mood for further group purchase activity right now!! Maybe in a few months, if something really good comes out and I really trust the company… >Bela
#Techni Soft RAM-BOard
Message #51752
Joergen, if you've got more specific information about what chip that is, I'm interested… I would never dare to take a soldering iron to my machine myself, but I've got a friend who does it for a living. (The ribbon cable doesn't seem >that< long… less than a foot from…
#Techni-Soft redux
Message #51751
It's over. All 13 group purchase members have received their boards, and to the best of my knowledge, they are working (perhaps with glitches, but no out-and-out DOA boards at this time). Summarizing: I heard about this company, Techni-Soft, selling a 2MB RAM board for $500. I called them and…
#Techni Soft RAM-BOard
Message #51750
Gordon, since my EasyPlex I've talked with the last two group purchase members. I'm extremely relieved to say that the entire order has >FINALLY< been fulfilled. Jon Fleming was the last of the group, receiving his board about two weeks ago. He's apparently not using CIS much any more, so…
I want Transformer 1.2
Message #51749
Nope, no CSA box here, just wishful thinking… >Bela
Software lists
Message #51748
Oops! The version I started with was in FORTRAN on a VAX. The source was credited to Will Crowther & Don Woods. I guess one shouldn't believe everything one reads in the source code… >Bela
#Transformer
Message #51747
Let me know if you get the new version of T-Move. Getting anything out of Techni-Soft is like pulling teeth… >Bela
AmigaEXPO
Message #51746
Feb. '88 is 12.5 months in advance, but I was basing the "advance notice" length on the date of the first show, the one in New York. >Bela
Is the connector the double-female wonder? My new connector doesn't have an enclosing case. I didn't realize there was supposed to be one. Even without a case, it's much less exposed than the original was. Jon Fleming reports that his RAM-BOard finally arrived, so Jeric Chard is the only victim…
I'd like to see Transformer 1.2 too… (might even buy it if it works!) BTW, do you know if XFormer 1.2 runs on the CSA 68020 box? >Bela
There are 3rd-party 68020 expansions for the Mac, with prices as you'd expect (Mac is somewhat more expensive than Amiga, 68020/68881 Mac is somewhat more expensive than 68020/68881 Amiga — around $8 or 9000). I think they also run it at 16MHz. The machine makes it extremely difficult to run…
What happens (dare I say it?) if you ignore the -3 error and just proceed as if everything's cool? >Bela
#Downloads
Message #51229
Zapcis does EasyPlex. Set up a "SIG" as EasyPlex, and make sure everything is set as the zapcis docs say (e.g. EasyPlex in "command" mode, notify about waiting mail instead of going directly to EasyPlex, editor set for no line numbers, maybe more). In fact, look at the docs, they…
#Software lists
Message #51228
Walt Bilofsky had nothing to do with Adventure. He's the proprietor of the Software Toolworks, I believe. Adventure was by Will Crowther & Don Woods. >Bela
Blitter/CIA's
Message #51227
Blitter addressing is limited to the low 512K. No ports. A tight CPU loop is the best you're going to get. (You could probably do no-inc by blitting a word-wide block with a modulo of $3FFFF, but since the blitter can't reach the ports, there's no point). >Bela
#Basic Compiler
Message #51226
Apple is not selling AbSoft's Mac compiler, MicroSoft is. >Bela
#Turbo-Amiga
Message #51225
If you find 68020/68881 AmigaBASIC useful at 7.16MHz, certainly someone else might. If you expect to get it to work at 14.32MHz soon, I can see holding off on uploading it. If you have to wait for MicroSoft… well, you might as well upload it now, so people can get…
#Turbo-Amiga
Message #51224
Could you put that list up again with accuracy information included? >Bela
Software lists
Message #51223
Cop-out: exactly. It's obviously a cop-out. Oh well… >Bela
Software lists
Message #51222
We need it as a "propaganda tool". Really. >Bela
#Transformer
Message #51221
Don't look at me about your updated T-Move! I've had it up to here with Techni-Soft . Their number is 976-LIES… no, wait, it's (801) 268-4961. >Bela
#Portal
Message #51220
I didn't like Hacker, not in the slightest. The first screen was interesting: try to break into an unknown system. It deteriorated immediately. First, it didn't let me really break in, instead it "let" me in with lots of fanfare. Then the whole game ended! Left me doing "stupid work"…
#New printer.device ?
Message #51219
Argh. Back and forth and the message base scrolls between each exchance. Wrong. I don't know how printer.device is written, but it's unlikely to be in assembly language. It's also unlikely that it's as table-driven as it should be. Chances are it can be sped up by a factor of…
#Your modem
Message #51217
I've left an EasyPlex for an IBM user who had the "?~?~?~" problem. Hopefully he'll know the magic word that tells USR tech support what to do. Re user CIS at 8-N-1: you must log on at each rate that you normally use (2400 for most work, 300 for CO?)…
It's a bonus to keep advanced players from complaining about the first screen. If you jump and land on the numbered arrows, you get a bonus of 1000 points times your landing position measured against the numbers. The splotch shows where you landed. Try it! >Bela
That's nice but… February '88?!? You've been planning for over 7 months and now you're announcing it another 8 1/2 months in advance? I can't wait that long!! The local SF show won't be for a year+. Sigh. (But thanks for planning it, nonetheless!!) >Bela
Turbo Pascal: they say they're working on it. I happen to know that there's another project standing in its way. The more Amiga users that yell at them to get it done >now
The Apple IIgs CPU is $995. Of course it's not much use without a disk drive and monitor, but I think even at list price it adds up to about $1800. The big question is why on Earth would you want to pay $1800 for such a weak machine?! >Bela
How slow is sooooo slow? 50% slower? 10 times slower (hope! hehe)? >Bela
#Software lists
Message #50519
Andy Nicola has been maintaining an ST software list on the Atari Developer's Forum, and it is up to 1,100+ entries. I'd like to see a similar list for the Amiga. Commodore claims "350+" titles. I know that's a severe underestimate, but I don't have a list to back the…
#CBM press releases
Message #50481
The Commodore Service Forum (GO CBM-2000) has opened a section for press releases. The first batch went up a few days ago, announcing the PC-10 and C-128D and new memory, drive and RAM options for the C64/128, and … nothing about the Amiga. Oh, they had a press release, but…
#Turbo-Amiga
Message #50480
Ye ghods! You are a hacker of the first order! Have you uploaded your 68020/68881 disassembler? Have you talked to AbSoft about their AmigaBasic compiler? It sounds like you would make an ideal beta-tester for the product. AbSoft, (313) 549-7111. Good luck with your patching war! >Bela
#MANDELBROT
Message #50479
Kelly, the SIGware provides a function to send a prompt character after each prompt. Go into OPtions and set your prompt character to something, then use that as part of the search string in your script. One possible character is ^H (control-H — you give it to the OP;PC command…
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