There are 7 messages totalling 205 lines in this issue. Topics of the day: 1. Amiga Discussion 2. Mac Modem 3. Re[2]: Hard Drives and RAMLinks 4. Star NX1000C printer 5. GIF viewer within a term prg (3) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Thu, 18 Jul 1996 23:00:58 -0500 From: Superstar CJB Subject: Re: Amiga Discussion On Wed, 17 Jul 1996, Steven A Cavanaugh wrote: > Have you tried the Listserv?When you email to listserv,type in the body > of the message,list global Amiga.That should do it. >=20 Actually, I've signed up to a few Amiga related listservs....but there is= =20 no activity on them! Actually you're better off going to usenet and=20 entering the Amiga discussion groups there. There is plenty of activity=20 on those. -Curtis ________________________________________________________________________ | Internet: The first network worthy of the Amiga | |________________________________________________________________________| ________ \ \ ____ ____ ____ _____ _______ ____ \ | | | | | | | \ | /\ | | \ | | |____| |--- |____| \ | /__\ |____| _______\ |______| | |____ | \ ___\ | / \ | \ =B8 = =20 CJB Email: umbilewi@cc.umanitoba.ca =20 CISNET 9:100/302 User name Superstar. Call Wired BBS at (204)661-1174 =20 (MS-DOS: The Pinto of operating systems) ERROR: Insufficeint memory. Add 4 Megs and retry. ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 18 Jul 1996 23:03:06 -0500 From: Superstar CJB Subject: Re: Mac Modem Most external modems are compatible with any computer with a serial port.= =20 However the software that comes with them is often only for one computer=20 or operating system. -Curtis ________________________________________________________________________ | Internet: The first network worthy of the Amiga | |________________________________________________________________________| ________ \ \ ____ ____ ____ _____ _______ ____ \ | | | | | | | \ | /\ | | \ | | |____| |--- |____| \ | /__\ |____| _______\ |______| | |____ | \ ___\ | / \ | \ =B8 = =20 CJB Email: umbilewi@cc.umanitoba.ca =20 CISNET 9:100/302 User name Superstar. Call Wired BBS at (204)661-1174 =20 (MS-DOS: The Pinto of operating systems) ERROR: Insufficeint memory. Add 4 Megs and retry. ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 19 Jul 1996 06:54:45 -0400 From: Tony Perotti Subject: Re[2]: Hard Drives and RAMLinks >As for running CP/M on the CMD, I have not tried yet (due to time >limitations), but I do know that it runs great and fast on the LTK. CP/M does work on the CMD HD. You have to create a CP/M format partition and copy the system over from the original disks. The HD also came with some CP/M utilities so you can change partitions on the HD while running CP/M. ____ ,^o |perotti_anthony@hq.navsea.navy.mil / _ ._ | C=128D,JD,Swiftlink,CMD HD40, /_(_)_| )_\/ | Boccamodem 14.4,1581,fun,fun,fun. Perotti / | -=8 bits should be enough for anyone=- ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 19 Jul 1996 08:38:26 -0500 From: David Meads Subject: Star NX1000C printer I have a phone number you can call to get a manual or have part of it faxed to you... 1-800-506-STAR (7827) 1-908-572-3300 (Tech Rep Help) de Hat ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 19 Jul 1996 10:20:00 EST From: Christopher McLeod Subject: GIF viewer within a term prg Why couldn't a GIF viewer be built into a simple term program? This viewer (take vgif, for example) could read the GIF data directly from the modem. I assume this would work since I can't see why vgif would prefer data read off of a disk to data coming in through a modem. It seems like the only thing that would have to happen is that vgif would have to be modified to "see" the data in this way. There must be some OBVIOUS reson this cannot be done, because if it COULD I am certain that someone else would have already done it. :-) Wadya think, sirs? Chris McLeod (of the clan MacLeod) PS I no very little about programming; please keep this in mind in your explanations! :-) \0/ | TGIF!!! << ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 19 Jul 1996 13:28:22 -0500 From: Chris Bongaarts Subject: Re: GIF viewer within a term prg In the immortal words of Christopher McLeod: > Why couldn't a GIF viewer be built into a simple term program? This > viewer (take vgif, for example) could read the GIF data directly from > the modem. I assume this would work since I can't see why vgif would > prefer data read off of a disk to data coming in through a modem. There are GIF viewers built into term programs on higher-powered machines, but it would be tough to do on a C64. Keep in mind that 2400bps is already pushing the limits of the standard 64 hardware (the CPU is mostly devoted to servicing the user port.) Now you want it to perform GIF decompression (not a terribly complicated algorithm, but requires some computation nonetheless), and write to the screen (bitmap graphics on the 64 require quite a bit of bit twiddling.) Plus, this adds to the code required for the term program, thus likely decreasing any space reserved for a scrollback buffer. It might be possible on a 128, or on a 64 with a Swiftlink or equivalent, but as I own neither, I can't speculate :) ============================================ Chris.Bongaarts-1@umn.edu Chris Bongaarts My opinions are my own, http://umn.edu/~cab Univ. of Minnesota and they are right. CBongo on EFnet IRC (#umn) GCS d-- s+:+ a22 C+++ ULHSX++++$ P++++ L++ E W++ N+ o+ K+++ w-- !O M+ !V PS+ PE Y-- PGP-- t+ !5 !X R tv b+ DI++++ D+ G++ e h- !r y? [GeekCode 3.12] ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 19 Jul 1996 15:35:32 -0400 From: Gaelyne Moranec Subject: Re: GIF viewer within a term prg On Fri, 19 Jul 1996, Christopher McLeod wrote: > Why couldn't a GIF viewer be built into a simple term program? This > viewer (take vgif, for example) could read the GIF data directly from > the modem. I assume this would work since I can't see why vgif would > prefer data read off of a disk to data coming in through a modem. DavesTerm128, which Loadstar put out has a GIF viewer in it, but it reads it from disk. It also, BTW --- creates GIFs from other Commodore format files. The two major downfalls of DavesTerm is that it doesn't allow high speed modems, and a real downfall from the point of view of a CMD device owner is that it doesn't allow for any "manual" DOS commands to be sent. > Wadya think, sirs? Err... ... uh... does the opinion of a woman count? ;-) > PS I no very little about programming; please keep this in mind in > your explanations! :-) With Dave's Term you have to download the file first before you can view it, but you don't have to go offline to do so. Cheers, Gaelyne //\ /\\ Gaelyne R. Moranec (Gasson) Fidonet: || * \ . . / * || 90 Hilliers Rd 1:366/221.128 \\____\X/____// Reynella, S.A. 5161 3:800/809.128 / * /O\ * \ Australia \__/ " \__/ Gaelyne@cris.com / moranec@hal9000.net.au http://hal9000.net.au/~moranec QWKRR: http://hal9000.net.au/~moranec/qtoc.html Speaking only for myself and not for any employers or publications. ------------------------------ End of COMMODOR Digest - 18 Jul 1996 to 19 Jul 1996 *************************************************** =END=