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1 ?rea all dat>890901 cat1-22 NOR ************ Topic 4 Mon Jan 30, 1989 DEB at 14:23 EST Sub: Where did my Topic/Message(s) Go? Subtitled: "or What the Topic Police did while you were gone!" -SEARCH Terms: Topic, Move, TMOVE, relocate, forward, messages, new 14 message(s) total. ************ ------------ Category 1, Topic 4 Message 14 Mon Sep 04, 1989 C128-BILL [SYSOP] at 11:24 EDT The Topic started by RAMONR about BBS Telephone Lists has been moved from Category 1, topic 14 to Category 9, FlagShip BBS Resources. ------------ ************ Topic 12 Sat Aug 19, 1989 K.ELKIN5 [Keith] at 16:21 EDT Sub: SAM Software If you have bought a copy, I am willing to buy it from you.. 4 message(s) total. ************ ------------ Category 1, Topic 12 Message 4 Tue Sep 05, 1989 C128-BILL [SYSOP] at 09:49 EDT This topic is slated for moving..... ------------ ************ Topic 14 Tue Sep 05, 1989 B.BHAN at 22:11 EDT Sub: Twenty four pin printers Question of compatability of 24 pi printers with all 64 & 128 software 4 message(s) total. ************ ------------ Category 1, Topic 14 Message 1 Tue Sep 05, 1989 B.BHAN at 22:16 EDT Required: any opinions on whether or not 24 pin printers, such as the Panasonic 1124, are completely compatable with C64 & C128 software. I need help on this subject from anyone who has any experience in this area whatsoever. inten time & effort in maintenance. End of Message. ------------ Category 1, Topic 14 Message 2 Tue Sep 05, 1989 DIGITAL.DOC at 21:29 PDT A lot depends on the printer. Most printers are designed to work with interfaces of 16 or 8 bits. However, is there an interface for the C64 available that supports a 24 pin printer? Sorry, I don't know of one. All of the 24 pin types I know of will work with the Centronics parallel interface. <Doc> ------------ Category 1, Topic 14 Message 3 Wed Sep 06, 1989 H.HERMAN1 at 07:00 EDT B.Bhan, _ALL_ 24 pin printers will work fine with either the 64 or 128, so long as you use any of the print styles offered by the printer. In fact, all of the print styles offered by the printer are available to you! Where you probably will have a prob is in printing out graphics. Most 64 and 128 graphics programs expect 8 or 9 pins, and unless they offer an option for modification, or you can figure a way to fill in empty spaces, graphics will probably come out sorta weird. This also applies to software-generated graphic characters, such as those in some of the printer inter-faces. So, if you are wiling to limit yourself to the printer's internal characters, and the multiple variations avaliable from them, you will get some letter quality print out of most of the 24 pin printers. I'd suggest if you haven't bought one yet, that you take a look at Epson's LQ-500. It's a 24 pin that used to sell at $850, and is now available for around $290. Howie ------------ Category 1, Topic 14 Message 4 Thu Sep 07, 1989 DIGITAL.DOC at 22:09 PDT I've tried that with an IBM compat..Super printer for the money! <Doc> ------------ ************ Topic 16 Thu Jul 20, 1989 L.KLEIN1 at 18:53 EDT Sub: top 100 top 100 files 3 message(s) total. ************ ------------ Category 1, Topic 16 Message 2 Sun Sep 03, 1989 C128-BILL [SYSOP] at 12:16 EDT Bert... Carl just dropped off August's Top 100! ------------ Category 1, Topic 16 Message 3 Sun Sep 03, 1989 DIGITAL.DOC at 23:54 PDT ...And I just snuck in!!! ------------ ************ Topic 10 Wed Mar 22, 1989 DO-RAE-MI (Forwarded) Sub: News in the Outside World A little Gazette on what's going on in the Outside Computer World! 31 message(s) total. ************ ------------ Category 2, Topic 10 Message 31 Sun Sep 03, 1989 DO-RAE-MI [Ted] at 00:27 EDT Things to Celebrate ------------------------- This year marks the 400th aniversary of the invention of the first knitting machine by William Lee of England. It was not a rousing success at the time of it's invention, but within 200 years, there were more than 20,000 models out there making socks, etc. Next time you don your polo shirt or your inexpensive argyles, remember the guy who made them a lot less work to make. Our Own: Deb's Delight is a mark for flowers! Deb, when did you sell the rights to your name to that nursery? <joining HardHat in his natural foxhole> First it was Laundromat, then it was Photomat and now It's Copymat--for *you* figure it out. First it was "Dress for Success" then it was "Dress for Success for Women", now it's Invest for Success. First it was Snappy Lube, then it was Jiffy Lube and McQuick's (yeah the one with the tartan wearing rabbit), now it's RocketLube. Will originality never cease? In Opportune Timing Award: Trademark for retail tableware services "We Liberated China". Trashy Research of methane gas which is sold by the dump as fuel.) In the interest of scientific progress (increasing the amount of methane produced from the decompositionof garbage which certain dumps sell as fuel), some research is being done into garbage. Digging into the dumps has produced some surprising results. Contrary to what one might expect, perfectly preserved hotdogs & pastries have been found at 20 year levels (90 feet down). Also found: green grass clippings and perfectly readable newspapers. Contrary to the claims of How-Awful-It-Is Set, only about .25% of the garbage was composed of FastFood packaging--10% was predicted-- and disposable diapers were 1% (not 5% of the garbage. While the biodegradables were still fresh & new, specimens of plastic had degraded 50% over the 20 years in the dump. It's a strange world...biodegradable doesn't and eternal plastic disappears. Those of you within driving distance might want to visit Cincinnati, Ohio over the Labor Day Weekend. They have a great fireworks display! HardHat intends to Crash the celebration. Some unenlightened persons have denominated the box turtle a "pet" <"Just Try It", he says, snapping his sharp box turtle beak.> and forbidden him entry. If I were a betting person, I'd put my money on HardHat attending. The guerilla of the garden is one tough & determined old reptile. Have a Great Labor Day Weekend! ------------ ************ Topic 17 Sun Jul 09, 1989 H.HERMAN1 at 16:15 EDT Sub: WOC's World of Commodore shows: Where and when are they? 5 message(s) total. ************ ------------ Category 2, Topic 17 Message 5 Tue Sep 05, 1989 C128-BILL [SYSOP] at 09:22 EDT Be sure to drop in and visit the GEnie booth while browsing the World of Commodore! ------------ ************ Topic 15 Sun Jul 23, 1989 J.DIMATTEO (Forwarded) Sub: GIF L Help- ! Looking for a GIF reer. 3 message(s) total. ************ ------------ Category 7, Topic 15 Message 3 Tue Sep 05, 1989 LLOYD at 01:37 EDT The specs for GIF are in the Photography RT Library in text form. ------------ ************ Topic 9 Sun Sep 03, 1989 RAMONR (Forwarded) Sub: BBS Nu MBERS UMBERS (US) Bulletin Bod Numbs om ound the couny and ovseas to be ovided on a disk and is to include a database oam to view the numbs. *S 3 message(s) total. ************ ------------ Category 9, Topic 9 Message 1 Sun Sep 03, 1989 RAMONR (Forwarded) I h will be making availan ble f all GE membs a disk containing BBS numbs om i ound the couny. The is package will be comised of 2 disks me. One will contain the database oam called Multi-Find and the oth disl k will c contian the BBS numbes s. By the time I complete this disk, i will have compiled huneds of numbs. The asking ice will be $6.95 which will include shipping and hand- ling. If anyone is intested, please op op me an E-Mail and i will o- vide all the details. ------------ Category 9, Topic 9 Message 2 Wed Sep 06, 1989 H.HERMAN1 at 07:01 EDT RAMONR, It looks like your 'puter has a case of dyslexia! :) Howie ------------ Category 9, Topic 9 Message 3 Wed Sep 06, 1989 HORO [ SysOp ] at 07:20 EDT RAMONR, do a few keys on your keyboard not work properly? It looks like "p","r", and a few others aren't coming through right. Your messages are very hard to read. ------------ ************ Topic 34 Mon Sep 04, 1989 DIGITAL.DOC at 00:07 PDT Sub: Clinic Session: Popping from the spkr A recent letter from a C128 user described a popping sound coming from the speaker of his TV...Is it the TV or the 128? 3 message(s) total. ************ ------------ Category 11, Topic 34 Message 1 Mon Sep 04, 1989 DIGITAL.DOC at 00:09 PDT The following letter was forwarded from a 128 user who experienced a "popping" sound from the speaker of the TV he was using as a monitor. <Doc> ------------ Category 11, Topic 34 Message 2 Mon Sep 04, 1989 DIGITAL.DOC at 00:36 PDT Forwarded: From: R.PRESTON1 Richard W. Preston To: FLAGSHIP$ Staff for the *FlagShip* Commodore Sub: Feedback to Commodore Sysops Hi, my name is Richard. I am have a problem...I have owned a 64 for a long time, and just recently I purchased a used C128 and I am having a problem. the TV started to send a popping sound thru the speaker and ramdon characters come on the screen. Can you tell my the problem or do I have a messed up c128 = thanks Rich ------------ Category 11, Topic 34 Message 3 Mon Sep 04, 1989 DIGITAL.DOC at 00:52 PDT Richard, I hope you don't mind my sharing the problem(s) you're having with the rest of the world! <Grin> I think you MAY have two problems: (1) the popping noises and (2) the garbled characters. Let me see if I might help you track this down. To do this I will need your help. I have a few questions which will help me narrow down what is going on with your new computer. (1) Unplug everything from the TV you're useing and turn it on. Does it still make the same popping noises? (2) Is this really a TV or are you using a monitor? If the answer is monitor, which one? (3) Do you understand peeks and pokes? The answers to these questions will give me a solid starting point to help you out. At this point, with no other info, I expect the problem is in the TV, but I would like to narrow it down a bit before offering specific advice. I am online in the Real Time Conference (room 6) a fair number of evenings. Sorry, there is no schedule of when I'm there yet. I'm trying to get organized so I can be there at least one or two nights each week to help out. Looking forward to hearing from you.... <Doc> ------------ No messages found in category #12 ************ Topic 2 Mon May 08, 1989 C128-BILL [Phoenix] at 17:06 EDT Sub: 1750 RUE Availability Found a short time source for 1750 REU's: 16 message(s) total. ************ ------------ Category 14, Topic 2 Message 15 Fri Sep 01, 1989 C128-BILL [SYSOP] at 11:06 EDT R.A.D.: CBM Engineering Dept is looking into this, and will get back to me. Initial response is: New Mother Board, but let's see if they can come up with anything else. It would help if you noted the REV number, etc of your existing board in this Topic. Bill ------------ Category 14, Topic 2 Message 16 Fri Sep 01, 1989 R.A.DAVIS at 23:21 EDT C128-Bill, The REV number of my Mouther Board is #7 (Rev-7) ther Board is #7 - (Rev-7) Found on the under side at the back of the computer. R.A.D. ------------ ************ Topic 3 Sun Apr 23, 1989 EMJAY at 01:27 EDT Sub: Desterm128 - GEnie problems Need help on setting of Desterm128 for GEnie. 37 message(s) total. ************ ------------ Category 15, Topic 3 Message 37 Fri Sep 08, 1989 A.K.QUINN [colonel] at 00:06 EDT KWL: Copying dl's to disk: have you got the wedge (128 and 64) that was uploaded by Bowen? I'll look it up for you, but as I recall, you use a command like /10,filename (10 is dv # for REU). the file will be dl to computer, then can be saved to disk. I'll dbl-chek this and come back with better info. ------------ ************ Topic 29 Sat Sep 05, 1987 PAULGILBO at 08:21 EDT Sub: 2400 baud for the C-128? This is a query as to the possible availability of 2400 buad modems for the C- 128, either through RS-232 or direct C-128 port. 26 message(s) total. ************ ------------ Category 15, Topic 29 Message 26 Tue Sep 05, 1989 E.PIECEWICZ [Ed] at 18:23 EDT Bill: I have a Computer Direct CD2400 which I paid $99.00 for, and the Omnitronix RS232 interface for $19.00. Both work great, and I appreciate the speed of 2400 (as you know). Ed ------------ ************ Topic 39 Tue Aug 01, 1989 N.L.WILLIAMS [Cpt Nathan] at 21:25 CDT Sub: GIF graphic format for GEOS I would like to convert GIF files into GEOS files. Any info on that can be put here. 7 message(s) total. ************ ------------ Category 19, Topic 39 Message 6 Sun Sep 03, 1989 WC.COLEMAN [GeoOp] at 05:48 EDT 80-column color is not too hard. There are three routines to get you started: SetColorMode = $C2F5 ColorCard = $C2F8 ColorRectangle = $C2FB SetColorMode changes the VDC mode. Pass the mode number (0-4) in A as follows: 0 - monochrome 1 - 176 x 640 8x8 color 2 - 200 x 640 8x8 color (req 64K VDC RAM) 3 - " " 8x4 color ( " " " " ) 4 - " " 8x2 color ( " " " " ) Only the mode is changed, you'll have to clear the screen and attributes (which begin at $3880 BTW) yourself. Geos doesn't know diddily about 176 x 640 so if you are in this mode don't draw past 175 and don't let the mouse go down there either. I've never used ColorCard and I don't remember the parameters, disassemble it and look if you need it. ColorRectangle gets the same parameters as Rectangle. -WC ------------ Category 19, Topic 39 Message 7 Sun Sep 03, 1989 N.L.WILLIAMS [Cpt Nathan] at 09:08 CDT Thanks I'll look into it. I was afraid I was going to have to subvert GEOS and do it myself. This may shorten things... Cpt Nathan ------------