This is an archive of CompuServe forum messages from 1985 to 1995, as saved in transcripts by John Foust.
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Sam, You'll have better luck downloading if you change your serial setting to 8N1. You will also want to set your term program to "strip high bit". The problem is that most Amiga software doesn't handle 7-bit (7e1) settings properly for binary file downloads — it's not really the software…
Lowell, LHA213.EXE is an MS-DOS program, which is why it won't run on your Amiga. The file you need to unpack .LHA programs is LHA138.RUN, which is in Libary 16 of this forum. Once you download it, copy it to a temporary directory, make that directory your current directory (in…
Don, My understanding of the situation was not that IBM was using undocumented calls, but actually loading the Windows executables into memory and patching them with custom modifications needed to run under OS/2. When MS issued an updated version of Windows, the wrong locations were being patched cause the mirrors…
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Volker, You are a bit confused. There is a terminal program for the Amiga called BaudBandit — it used to be sold by Progressive Peripherals before they went out of business. I'm not sure if the program is currently available elsewhere or not (the author was separate from the publisher).…
Bzzzt – wrong answer. Gotta read that fine print there, Eet. This only works with a bitmap that's 8 x 8 pixels. – BobR (Motorola Inside!)
Steve, Ignore Eet's information – it's incorrect (even for Windows). Basically, you need to a series of blits to copy your tile individually, adjusting your horizontal and vertical offets in the destination accordingly, based on the size of the tile image. Say your tile image is 24 x 24 pixels.…
Tom, I'm not a philosopher, so I can't speak for that particular viewpoint. However, I can attest that it is possible to softkick 3.1 on a 2500 with a 1.3 ROM – I do it at least once a day using the tools provided to developers by Commodore (back when…
William, Download the file LHA138.RUN from our Archivers/Crunchers library. This is a self-extracting archive that contains the latest freely distributable version of LHA ( the successor to lharc ). Hope this helps…. – BobR
Henry, I believe the some of the later incarnations of the Amiga C compilers provided a mechanism to increase the stack size. but it is something that is definitely compiler-specific. Unfortunately, I've done little programming on the Amiga lately and my compiler packages are far from current. You'll have to…
Henry, The first potential for problem I see is your array allocation — unless you have set your stack fairly large, you will be using more stack space than is allocated, which can lead to all kinds of problems. Your data allocations alone for your main() function are close to…
Tony, The Amiga is not an orphan in this respect, but unfortunately, _your_ Amiga is. There is an excellent automatic navigator/off-line reader available for the Amiga, called AutoPilot. A functional demo is available for downloading from Library 9 of the AmigaVendor forum. The downside is that AutoPilot requires version 2.04…
John, The real question (IMHO) is that given the 18 months needed to complete the OS side of AAA implementation, is this another example of "too little, too late" in terms of technological advancement? I don't have the answer to this question, but it is, I believe, the one that…
Jim, Amiga hard disks do NOT use a boot sector, per se. The "bootable/non-bootable" status is controlled solely by the rigid disk block (RDB). Block 0 of the partition only contains the indication of what "filesystem" the partition has been formatted for. The "install" command, which does create boot-blocks containing…
Joan, From the dos window, type "LOADWB" and press return. This will load the Workbench graphical interface. After doing this, typing "ENDCLI" and pressing return will cause the original DOS window to close, leaving the Workbench interface. Normally, these commands are part of the standard "startup-sequence" command file, which is…
William, In Section/Library 9 of the AmigaVendor forum (GO AMIGAVEND), you will find just the program that you are looking for — it is called AutoPilot (funny coincidence, no?). The file that you want is AP.LHA. You will also want to download the documentation, which is kept in a _separate_…
Hans, You may have missed the fact that the forum recently re-organized, and a number of message sections were added. Make sure you have your Navigator refresh the section list for the forum, and check to see that you have the appropriate sections selected. Hope this helps…. – BobR
Ronald, I've never heard of the APOLLO controller, so I am not at all familiar with the way that it is set up. However, _some_ SCSI controllers use a flag in the hard-disk's RDB (rigid disk block) to tell the controller that the device is the highest SCSI-ID to scan…
There is an MS-DOS version of the LHA program that can decompress both .LHA and .LZH files. (You'll have to rename the .LHA files to .LZH). Look for the program lha213.exe in one of the IBM forums. Note that you may run into some problems due to the MS-DOS 8.3…
DJ, Yes, I'm sure about stripping the high bit – that is only in effect when the data is being displayed. It does not affect downloads, which are done with the full 8 data bits. Autopilot, which was written specifically for Compuserve, knows exactly when it has to internally strip…
Warren, Make sure that you have ATalk's serial setup configured to 8N1 (8 data bits, no parity, 1 stop bit). If there's an option to "strip high bit", set that. Many folks think that they have to use 7-bits with parity to access Compuserve, but that is not the case.…
Rodney, Copy LHA138.RUN to an empty floppy disk. Open up a CLI/Shell. Once the shell window is opened, insert the floppy disk containing LHA138.RUN into your drive, and type in the command "cd df0:" and hit RETURN (without the quotes – note that this assumes that you inserted the floppy…
George, In the Autopilot section of AmigaVendor (Library 9), you will find separate catalog files for all of the Amiga forums, not just the one for Vendor. They are kept in that section because the catalogs are created in the format that is usable by Autopilot (although they can also…
Rodney, Download the file LHA138.RUN from Library 16 of the Amiga Users Forum (GO AMIGAUSER). This is a self-extracting archive file, which means that you can run it (from the CLI) after downloading, and it will de-archive itself, giving you the "lha" executable program, along with documentation on how to…
Bill, My guess is that you have a copy of the blanker icon in your WBStartup drawer. Remove it from there (copy it back to your Commodities drawer) and it should stop being run. Hope this helps…. – BobR
No, it's 20 cents. – BobR
Carl, If the problem is because of "slow spinup", then the problem would not occur on a warm boot (ctrl-amiga-amiga), but would when first powering on the machine. If that is the case, then there is a control flag in the 3000's battery-backed memory that will tell the OS to…
Martin, You are correct in your diagnosis – the MaxTransfer value is most likely the culprit. Try changing the value to $1ffff and see if things work well. If not, change it to $ffff, which _should_ work for all drives. Hope this helps…. – BobR
That was part of the preceeding "rather long night", 'cept I didn't have to disguise the booze with that red stuff. :-> – BobR (Motorola Inside!)
The issue that burned Stac was the fact that their reverse-engineering activities were against Beta copies of MS-DOS, supplied to Stac by Microsoft under specific non-disclosure agreements. The "feature" that they were implementing was the "early load" of the disk compression drivers, implemented in MS-DOS 6.0, that allowed the compression…
Betty, What do you expect, asking me to pose halfway through my first cup of coffee in the morning? And of course, it was following closely on the tail of a rather long night! Ahhh, Devcons – sure miss 'em! – BobR
Not totally flakey. Unix systems tend to have lots of little tasks running in the background at all times, and they can (and do) access the disk whenever they want to, which means that powering down the system without a clean shutdown can (relatively easily) catch one of those tasks…
That wasn't me – it was Steve P. in a BobR suit. 🙂 – BobR (Motorola Inside!)
Steve, Unix by design requires an orderly shutdown of the system, rather than merely pulling the plug. The file-systems are "marked" by the shutdown procedure so that they can be restarted safely/quicker when you boot the system. Otherwise, the boot procedure will run (almost) the equivalent of Disksalv on all…
Except with the current occupants of the White House, where it is correctly spelled "french fries". (guess I've been watching too much Letterman) – BobR
Tom, Depending on the revision level of the ROM on the 2620, you should either hold down BOTH mouse buttons (all revs at -06 or lower) or just the LEFT mouse button (if the ROM rev is -07) when you are booting the system. This should bring up a menu…
John, Personally, I hate theft-protection schemes almost as much as I hate software theft. I would be very nervous about hardware dongles (particularly for a small company), as the support hassles can be very costly. The multiple-dongle interaction would scare the h*ll out of me, but any type of hardware-related…
Roy, While I cannot immediately find my 2.1 disks, I did find an image of the 2.1 install disk on my HD and looked at the installer script. It looks like the printer drivers are distributed on the EXTRAS disk in the "storage/printers" directory, not "devs/printer". However, what you really…
Lance, Look in library 16 of this forum – this is where our Archive utilities are kept. The main one that you will want is the file LHA138.RUN – it will handle both .lha and .lzh files. This file is a self-extracting archive. Just run the file (from the CLI)…
The problem with the Stac case was that Stac was working with BETA releases of the operating system for their reverse engineering, which was in violation of the strict Non-Disclosure agreements involved with being granted access to pre-release software. These "little" distinctions seem to be glossed over outside of the…
Malcolm, I'd venture that it much too premature to panic about any rumored potential buyers — the rumors are much too varied to put any serious credence to any (at least to the extent that it affects your nervous system). Whatever's going to happen will play out over the next…
Roy, I'm almost positive that WB 2.1 included the PS printer driver, although it was less than perfect. I've had my PS printer since before 3.x was available to developers and I know that I was able to use it from the Amiga without resorting to HP emulation mode, and…
That's easy to beat! Want a copy of Maxicomm? – Bobr
Craig, No reason to start doing something sensible like getting to sleep at a reasonable time. Now that things are working, you can concentrate on being productive. Who needs no stinkin' sleep. Glad it helped…. – BobR
Craig, One thing to try is to change the MaxTransfer value for your hard disk, using HDToolBox. I assume that you are using an IDE drive in your 4000 – many IDE drives (designed for the PC world) cannot handle large data transfers. Setting the MaxTransfer to 0xffff will get…
Jon, Download file LHA138.RUN from Library 16 of this forum. This is a self-extracting archive containing the LHA program, which is the successor to LHARC. Hope this helps…. – BobR
Harold, Download file "LHA138.RUN" from library 16 of the AmigaUser forum, and toss LZ into the bit-bucket. LZ is old and buggy, and LHA is a suitable (and better) replacement. LHA138.RUN is a self-extracting archive containing the LHA program and documentation. Hope this helps…. – BobR (Motorola Inside!)
Barry, Yes, iffparse.library is a standard part of the Amiga operating system, used to allow application programs to be able to read/write IFF files in a standard way. I believe that it was first included in the 2.0x version of the Workbench distribution. Hope this helps…. – BobR
Dale, Make sure you configure Term to use 8 data bits, no parity, and 1 stop bit (8N1). Also, if there's an option to "strip high bit", set that. Your best option for protocol to use here is either B or B+, as it is designed for optimal use of…
No, we're not currently working on anything for 3DO. Unfortunately, we're not in the financial position to be able to risk being on the leading-edge, as our resources are too limited to be able to balance that risk with safer pursuits. It would be more of a matter of "betting…
Mark, One thing to keep in mind when evaluating the 3DO is that the current crop of titles are "first time" development efforts — the developers are just learning how to make the hardware "sing", as it's a new platform. That implies that there is "more and better" to come…
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