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Thanks for the comeback. Sounds like an interesting machine! — Rick
#My Resignation
Message #22959
Please see AmigaTech message #68340 for information regarding my resignation. I can now be reached at 72177,3516 Respectfully, Rick
#My Resignation
Message #68340
Beloved "All": You may recall that several months ago I posted a message warning that my 76703 account would shortly be rescinded, and asking everyone be aware that I would be continuing my sysop duties under my old PPN. That is no longer the case. My resignation as an AmigaForum…
No, I don't know. There are a couple for the Mirage, but I don't really know about the EPS. Speaking of which, do you like yours? What are its good and bad points? Rick
Ah, but you're delimiting yourself differently now. You've just said: "I actually *am* pretty confident that any correctly written software…" But in the message to which I responded, you first said basically the same thing, and then said that any package that didn't bang the hardware directly would work. It…
William, It looks like David's done a pretty good job of answering your queries, and I have little if anything to add. The crash-on-exit is a fairly well-known problem, but I've never seen a crash on MIDI disable; sorry to hear YOU have! Wish I could offer an easy solution…
New in Library 1
Message #22838
PRELUD.ARC/binary 29-Sep-89 22020 Keywords: CHOPIN PIANO PRELUDE DMCS Chopin prelude op.28 #16 (same as in CHPREL.ARC 9 Sept. 89) but greatly improved with respect to dynamics and DMCS play style. This one you may actually enjoy listening to! "Highpiano" instrument file (needed) is included. Anselm Wachtel
Ah, I see why you're having problems, then! Sorry the suggestion was of no use to you. Rick
Sounds like a description of yer typical "Orchestral Stab"… Rick
#WHAP, EasyPlex & Addres
Message #22774
Don't know how to access CIS's address book via Whap!. Have you considered using WHAP!'S address book instead? Adding an entry is as easy as clicking on a gadget, and selecting the addressee is as simple as scrolling a requester and clicking again. Can't beat it! Rick
Perry, does the DSB *EXACTLY* emulate the Amiga's serial.device in ALL respects? If not, you're really taking a risk by saying "it will work with *anything* that doesn't go directly to the Amiga's serial hardware". Speaking of which; do you have a board available yet which you can send to…
I don't think DrawPlus's internal format is anything but proprietary (but that only means I haven't heard otherwise!) If you need a standard format — for exporting, perhaps — you can get HPGL by playing a little trick. When you select PLOT, DP creates a drawing file which it then…
If grid snap was off, I can't imagine what was happening. You know how it is, though; if one of us could SEE it, we'd probably go "AH…" and tell you what's up. Doing it "verbally" like this makes it tricky until something "clicks" for one of us. Do keep…
Peter sounds to be bang on with his comments about grid snap. For something like an equipment rack where you want fairly exact placement, just turning off grid snap may be even more frustrating, though! A couple of things you might try. Zoom way in on a corner of the…
Sampling rate ranges from as low as you want to go to 28,867 Hz. For "instruments" (sounds used by various music programs to play notes), the sampling range generally spans of about 14 to 28 KHz. To eliminate digitizing artifacts, the Amiga includes a reconstruction (antialiasing) filter on the outputs…
Welcome, Rick. I'll let those more knowledgeable deal with your graphics questions and touch on the audio briefly. The Amiga has four audio channels, two tied to each of a pair of line level stereo RCA jacks. All four channels are driven by custom, dedicated hardware, which means you can…
Easy as pie, Sylvain. If you have, or can get your hands on, a copy of Amazing Computing V3N3, you'll find a simple C program in my column which does just that. If you need verbatim code, let me know. Basically, the only thing you need to do is flip…
I expect the Amiga can do an excellent job of replacing a chirp generator as long as a pure signal isn't needed; for approximate frequency response plotting, it should work fine. I needed some gross thumbnail response graphs a few months ago and hacked up a quick BASIC program to…
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#Audio.device
Message #65408
55 hertz sounds suspicious; wait a second… … okay, maybe I have it. To control the pitch of the output signal, you change the value in the period register for the channel you're using. The range is from 124 to 65535, and the resulting period is period_register/3579545. Plugging in the…
Nick, I don't have the documentation on MusicX either, so this may be a strange way of doing it or have some extra steps, but: 1) Reset yourself back to zero time and otherwise set up whatever parameters you want/need. Click record and let the requester come up. DON'T click…
The MIDI data rate is 31,250 baud. Rick
Oh, no doubt it makes a difference! I was just curious as to which ones you had access to, as it's traditionally been the high-end machines which support it. (None of my machines know a THING about release velocity!) Rick
David, What synths/modules do you have which support release velocity? Rick
Pen Pal Winner!
Message #21449
Congratulations to Brendan Pratt, winner of tonight's electronic door prize: a copy of Brown-Wagh's Pen Pal word processing system. Brendan eased ahead of the rest of the pack with a score of 89 out of a possible 100. Congratulations, Brendan! Thanks to everyone who attended the Pen Pal conference, with…
Delay(1)=2CRASH|!2CRASH
Message #62876
[FORWARDED MESSAGE] Ben, I read with interest your messages on AmigaDOS crashing methods. I've found a few of those myself — wish I'd had your list earlier. However, one thing confuses me. You mentioned that using Delay() with a small value, say 0 through 2, will guarantee a crash. Something…
Chris, you might try to join us tomorrow night in AmigaArts for our conference on Pen Pal. Rick
#62204-
#–==<[ FAX! ]>==–
Message #62225
Something sounds strange here. My understanding has always been that FAX uses a different protocol than those used by standard modems, and that the two are not compatible. (I'm not doubting your word, Mario, just being my normally confused self 8). IF this is legitimate, it's remarkable news! Is it…
Mike, do you know for a fact that you weren't invited because of that complaint?
#20249-
Samplers
Message #20339
Well, it might turn out that we're both right or both wrong… 8) Allow me to counter your statements. You are correct in stating that S/N ratio is "a function of the WHOLE system… including the analog circuitry." This is also true of dynamic range. But since we are discussing…
No problem at all, Steve. In fact, in rereading my reply to you I saw where I could have been misread as being particularly snooty in my attitude; please believe that this was NOT intentional. It's often hard to tell what a person's really thinking by the written word, since…
Hehe… a friend received a special gift for his birthday one year. 'Twas a small card, and imprinted thereupon were the words: This card entitles the bearer to a free shower in any house he can get into without being caught. Rick
"… as long as [you] can" is the key, I suppose. When it becomes too burdensome to support an old rev (because of code hoop-jumping of the sort being described), then it's time to discard the old baggage and move on. I applaud your attitude, but I don't want to…
Or you could just assume you're where you want to be and say in big bold letters "Requires AmigaDOS 1.4+" on the package. After all, downward compatibility can be as much of a headache for you as it is for the OS manufacturer. I don't see anything wrong with requiring…
Yasushi, I don't know where you are (and therefore how much it costs you per hour), but if you can justify it, you might want to be here next Wednesday night. We will be having a formal conference with Mike Lehman on the subject of UltraCard, and this will give…
on a good stereo. Now, the disclaimer: I've been thinking about doing this for over a year. Time is finally starting to loosen up, but it'll be another month or two before I really have anything like "free time". And I may NEVER do it… but it's a big stone…
Ah, but you see, it's of limited usefulness. I think THAT'S the reason you haven't seen it done, not because it isn't easy. Consider: first of all, you need a 12 or 14 or whatever bit sampler to digitize the input (unless you're porting from some other source). Then, you…
I just checked; if it makes a difference, I'm running 1.41, not 1.42. I don't have any problems with QB and 1.41 with no MNP, but it dies with. Steve says QB and MNP coexist happily, so Access! must be the variable in the equation. Tell me (and forgive this…
I mean that the C function is just that: a function, not a piece of code which exists inline with the assembly code. Having just written an interrupt handler for the Amiga, and having written it in assembly, I'm finding it difficult to conceive of a handler which would have…
forget all of this mess, since Whap! takes care of all the niggly details for you AND saves you money to boot. (One warning, though: Whap! resets your CIS defaults for maximum speed and efficiency. If, after using Whap!, you ever need to log on without it, you'll find yourself…
Hi again, Steven. Here you're seeing the differences in the "products" I mentioned before. In EasyPlex there is a menu wrapped around the editor that does a bit of setup for you; here, when you ask to edit a file again, it just restarts the editor. Just like editing an…
"library 16" in a MESSAGE, which was entirely possible during an extended conversation ("It's in Tech somewhere, right?" "Yes, Whap! is in lib 16".). Anyway, after reading your message today I checked the announcements and you're right: it DOES just say LIBRARY 16, here in the Arts bulletin. This is…
No problem, Steven. I don't know when either of the two editors came along, but I've been here for quite a number of years (long enough to still say PPN instead of UID), and we've had both editors for as long as I can remember. It used to be that…
Mmm, must be something with Access!, then. Glad I asked Keith the same question. What happens is, I consistently see the string which (I assume) should be going to the protocol handler, sort of a "QBI@" or suchlike. Access! seems to just sit there waiting, as if it never saw…
Gads, doesn't THAT sound encouraging! Let's hope he takes the (Boing) ball and RUNS with it! Rick
Rick
You know, this is really interesting. I wonder what the preferences say about our psyches which we can't see… You prefer not to have both opening and closing braces on seperate lines, cited as one reason the wasted vertical space. I, on the other hand, wouldn't want to indent five…
"When OS/2 really gets moving, it will wipe out _all_ competition, including Amiga and yes even MAC." That's a VERY powerful statement, Richard. Geez, I dunno. If all of what I've heard about OS/2 is true (or even the majority of it), it's got a LONG way to go before…
Hehe… these are the risks we all take, Ethan. 😉 By the way… did you ever get your answer? 8D Rick
Right. If the problem is that you're coming in from the outside world somewhere and your registers aren't right for C, but you have a big chunk of C code to do, you'd set up the registers properly, then call the C function. Same thing on exit: when you return,…
Barry, the file you want is Lib 8: MDLIB2.ARC. Rick
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