Having read everyone's extremely helpful advice on building an
AmigaGuide I have commenced said project. Trouble is I've now hit a
brick wall, how the hell do I link to a picture? I've looked at other
guides and checked what they've done, then converted the filenames to
my system and it still does nothing! According to SnoopDOS, it executes
the line, but no pic appears.

The line is as follows:
@{"WBGrab1" SYSTEM "Visage dh1:Contributions/Pics/WBGrab1"}

I have made sure that Visage is assigned correctly. I don't know what
else to do. Any help greatly appreciated :)

Regards, Phil

Hi Matthew,

>> Date: 1 Mar 2000 19:6:57 +0000
>                      ^
> Does anywhere actually write it like that?

Yes, our intranet. :( The date and time appears on the web page and it's
always without leading zeros: 9:5:2 AM (like the AM makes it better...)

All the best,
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Hi Daniel,

>> Whhhhooooooooooooooooooooo?!!!?!?!

> Sometimes your sigs seem designed to confused the unenlightened, Ben
> :)

But of course. I'm doing some new ones today, I think...

All the best,
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Inflation to be phased out in favour of annual 1.1% lowering of wages
to avoid costly relabelling of goods

Hi NiGhT65

On 02-Mar-00, you wrote:

> Now Ive been experimenting with WinUAE until i buy my Amiga...and ive
> found a load (about 300) old A500 and afew A1200 games in my drawer and Im
> wondering if theres a way i can make These disks into ADF files so i can
> use them with UAE. If anyones got *any* utils or ways of doing it, let me
> know ASAP.

Standard PC floppy drives cannot read Amiga disks, so unless you have the PC
version of Catweasel, you'll need an Amiga.

Use the TransADF tool on the Amiga to convert the contents of a floppy to an
disk image file. Bang a disk in the drive, open a shell and enter:

TransADF >game.adf

You then have the problem of how to transport this file to a PC (an ADF is
too large to fit on a 720K floppy). You could try compressing it - but you
would have to use an archiver that you have a unarchiver on your PC for.
LhA and Zip would be obvious candidates.

Cheers,
Rich

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Hello Sean

On 01-Mar-00, you wrote:

> Just upgraded to os3.5 and Genesis falls flat on its face,  oh well 
> Anyone know of a fix ? will it be fixed soon ?

How do you mean 'falls flat on its face'? I use Genesis and os3.5
successfully.

Cheers,
Rich

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Hi Peter,

> 1) Phase5 have filed for backruptcy (spelling anyone?), so no G4 direct=
ly
> from them 2) DCE have firm licenses to make old Phase5 stuff, but no G4=

> prototypes, BUT they have talked to Wolf, but they're not sure what
> they're up to when it comes to this whole Gx business 3) Met@box are

The phase 5 G4, from any company, is never likely to see the light of day=
=2E I
think you can take it for granted that when p5 announce a product's
availability, it's usually some two years after their original
announcement. Hence I doubt that serious work has been done on the G4 to
this point. Oh yeah, and it's bankruptcy.

> =B7 Is anyone working on a G4 card for big box amigas at the moment? An=
d if
> so, who, what, when, where, how...??!? :) =


No.

> =B7 What about G3?

Met@box have gone one in planning. Presumably, given that their A1200 G3
works fine, I don't see it taking more than six months.

> =B7 What about BoXeR?

Yes, how 'bout that?

> =B7 (Amiga based..) Alternatives??

Nope. Unlike the PoP box and OS4.0 come to fruition.

All the best,
-- =

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"You and Patricia deserve each other", said Tom meretriciously.

Hi Christopher,

> Pah, you can tell Herge was dead by this time :-|  It may have been a
> bit early for Monkey Island, but post DotC surely they could have come
> up with some kind of puzzle/adventure game with graphics to live up to
> the books.  Still, it isn't as if any game license has ever lived up to=

> its hype...

I had a day off school when Herg=E9 died I was so distraught...

All the best,
-- =

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Hi Phillip,

> When Amiga Shopper went to staples it only lasted about another 3
> months tell me the same thing isn't going to happen with AF

It lasted nearly a year, didn't it?

All the best,
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Hi Neil,

>> There are plenty of reasons to criticise every software house; every
>> program ever written (with the obvious exception of "Hello World" and the
>> like) has bugs and flaws

> "Hello World"'s locale support is rubbish :)

Guten Tag Welt?

All the best,
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you join a tiny group that believes in such strange, unseen forces as
"gravity" and "electromagnetism."

Hi Gerald,

>> perhaps a lot of people are fed up of listening to promises and would
>> like articles full of practical electronics projects and advice.

> I seriously doubt that the majority of people are interested in 
> "practical electronics projects".

That much was demonstrated by CU...

All the best,
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On Wed, 01 Mar 2000 22:43:17 +0000, Peter Gordon (mrtickle@amiga4k.ndo.co.uk) wrote:
> Hi,

'lo

> I'm fed up of using an 030/25. Somebody DO something!!!

wanna buy an A3640?   ;-)

Kev

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On Wed, 01 Mar 2000 14:57:12 -0800, Sean Martin (sean@martin53.freeserve.co.uk) wrote:
> Just upgraded to os3.5 and Genesis falls flat on its face,  oh well 
> Anyone know of a fix ? will it be fixed soon ?

ummm, it's working fine here as ever - you re-installed genesis to make
sure your mui stuff and prefs and that haven't gone walkabouts?

Kev

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Il 02-Mar-00, NiGhT65 scrisse:\n

> Now Ive been experimenting with WinUAE until i buy my Amiga...and ive
> found a load (about 300) old A500 and afew A1200 games in my drawer and=
 Im
> wondering if theres a way i can make These disks into ADF files so i ca=
n
> use them with UAE. If anyones got *any* utils or ways of doing it, let =
me
> know ASAP.

You can use virtually any disk imager imager on aminet as far as you have=
 an
amiga (it's impossible to read amiga disks on pc) and you dont use
compression features. You also have to rename imagefile afterward *.adf.

For some disk you have to specify more tracks to read.

You can use for example Yadi.lha on aminet.
7.RamDisk:> yadi

 YADI  v2.0  -  Yet Another Disk Imager   -   Public Domain
 Written by     Andr=E9 Rodrigues de la Rocha  <adlroc@usa.net> =


 Usage: yadi [options] <command> [disk_image] <device>

 Commands :
     r : read disk image from device
     w : write disk image to device
     i : show informations about the device

 Options :
    -c : generate compressed disk images
    -a : ask for user reply in read/write error
    -q : quiet operation
    -n<nn> : number of disk images to read/write
    -t<nn> : number of retries
    -s<nn> : starting cylinder
    -e<nn> : ending cylinder

> yadi  r ram:thomas.adf df0:

-- =

Ave Mellas                   =


Del resto, le disgrazie, non si comprano al mercato.

"richard drummond" <richard.drummon-@futurenet.co.uk> wrote: 
original article:http://www.egroups.com/group/afb/?start=49652
> Hello Sean
> 
> On 01-Mar-00, you wrote:
> 
> > Just upgraded to os3.5 and Genesis falls flat on its face,  oh well 
> > Anyone know of a fix ? will it be fixed soon ?
> 
> How do you mean 'falls flat on its face'? I use Genesis and os3.5
> successfully.

> -- 
> Richard Drummond

Me Too and it works fine. :)

BTW I am really annoyed with BT. The only way you can sign up with BT
Internet is if you have a credit card. They don't take cheques, direct
debits or any other method. I think whoever came up with that one is a
real loony.

For the record, I don't trust myself with a credit card O.K?


Regards

Mikey C

> fool said, 
> 
> > There are plenty of reasons to criticise every software 
> > house; every program ever written (with the obvious
> > exception of "Hello World"  and the like) has bugs and flaws
> 
> "Hello World"'s locale support is rubbish :)

Do you know how much bloat it adds to the helloworld app
when you DO add Locale support? :)

-- 
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Distributed Systems Support
Computer Centre
University of Leicester

> > > > 
> > > > Go and search for the "Ottoman" PC - it's like a footstool with
> > > > a PC inside it!
> > > 
> 
> http://sozodesign.com/ottoman.html
> 
> Ohhhhh pretty, but Matt what would you sit on ? ;)

I don't see why not ;)

-- 
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Distributed Systems Support
Computer Centre
University of Leicester

Hello Mikey

> BTW I am really annoyed with BT. The only way you can sign up with BT
> Internet is if you have a credit card. They don't take cheques, direct
> debits or any other method. I think whoever came up with that one is a
> real loony.

agreed... why can't we slap it on our current BT phone bills!>?!?

> For the record, I don't trust myself with a credit card O.K?

i have one... but I can't trust myself with it anymore either... i keep
blowing the limit up...

cya
hugo

Hello..

The 9.99 deal will have to be signed up through a PC at your library or
cybercafe or something i'm afraid.

VOYAGER and IBROWSE do not cope with the javascript orientated login AT ALL.
They don't even display the different buttons for loggin in!

AWEB does a good job (if you've ever been to the BTInternet site before with
Aweb, clear ALL your caches before going back!)..

AWeb does fine until it comes upto the CREDIT CARD bit. It looks like either
1> bad javascript programming, or 2> something a bit unusual which Aweb
doesn't know about..

anyway, if you choose to DEBUG the problem on this page, then you'll get a
pull down list of years called "null0, null1, null2" etc etc.. I guessed
that was 2000,2001,2002 etc etc. However, when you select one and press the
NEXT button it reports an error saying that you should TYPE IN the year
using numeric DIGITS only!!

so something has gone RIGHT up the creek there.... 

ALTERNATIVELY, use NETSCAPE on Mac Emulation... or a browser with linux.

they both work well too..

cya
hugo

Hi!

When my U-net account was working, I use to be able to access my FREESERVE
e-mail account by dialing my U-Net ISP and vice-versa..

does anyone know if this is possible with the BT ISP?? I don't want to
change my e-mail address because its not practical... but I would also like
to take up the free calls offer and pay 9.99 to access that free line..

anyone have any ideas?? or have an old FREESERVE account they could try and
check the mail from?

also, if there is a NAMe for this activity, what it is?

thanks
cya
hugo

Hi Ben,

> > Just a small point though, its their fault it didn't sell very well:
> 
> > 1) DPaint still had some features miles ahead of it, and that is
years old
> 
> And doesn't work on gfx cards well.

Agreed, DPaint is very little use for a gfx. card owner, like me; and
under AGA it's fine; but I got a gfx. card for better graphics... :)

> > 2) I seem to have several free versions on my HD anyway
> 
> Yes, that much is true.

So do I, but I'm not taking it for granted, I feel really guilty that I
didn't upgrade to PPaint 7.1 before though, because if maybe I had
purchaced a copy, things may have been different... :(

> > 3) Everyone already has DPaint which does virtually the same thing
just
> > aswell anyway
> 
> I disagree. Go on, do me an animated gif in DPaint...

So do, DPaint has some features, but PPaint has image processing better
than DPaint; and the ARexx port is much better.  24BIT printing, full
gfx. card support and more.. :)
 
> > 4) No 24-bit
> 
> It still works in 24-bit internally, but no, no 24-bit. However,
there are
> plenty of other packages for that and it's much faster than DPaint was
> since v3.

Much faster... :)
 
> > Basically, it never offered anything marginally better than that
which was
> > given away with amigas anyway, you can heardly blame anyone for not
buying
> > it.
> 
> Tosh.

I agree, that is complete utter crap (sorry), DPaint is great, yes, I
have DPaint II, III and IV.V :) (4.5) and PPaint is still used more,
okay so because DPaint doesn't like my Pixel 64, but PPaint is a modern
bitmap painting package that is unrivalled.

I just wish I had bought the upgrade...

All the best,

Nick.

So can i use my old A500 (hold the laughing thanx) to make the ADF files
providing ive got the right software.....
I really need to buy a decent Amiga eh?....

Cheers
 Ben

Phil Allen wrote:

> Okay, for your technical enjoyment, here it is:
>  Apple 1705, apparently, the guy said he thinks it is a multiscan but
> he's not sure.

Here is the link at the Apple site:

http://til.info.apple.com/techinfo.nsf/artnum/n18615

It's a PC/Mac monitor - but doesn't do the Amiga modes :(
Still a nice monitor though :)

l8r
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Sealey, M. said, 

>> "Hello World"'s locale support is rubbish :)

> Do you know how much bloat it adds to the helloworld app
> when you DO add Locale support? :)

That's a feature, not bloat.

HelloWorld with a 3d flight sim easter egg is bloat :)


Neil
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mother-in-law died, and they came down upon him for the funeral expenses.
-- Jerome K. Jerome

On 01-Mar-00, Allen Kong wrote:

> On my system I don not have "not 2" in the terminator file I just have
> "2"  try that.

Heh.What I /meant/ was 'Terminator=3D0' or 'Terminator=3D1' (ie. not 2) :=
)
(it says in the docs that the PPCemulib won't work with Terminator set to=
 2)
I've tried it on 0,1 and 2.Still no luck.It won't execute PowerUp progs.

Can you list the changes you have made to your setup (startup-sequence,et=
c.) to get
the PowerUp emulation running? Assuming you have a BlizzardPPC board too.=

Here's what I did : added #'BPPCFix reboot'# to the start of the startup-=
sequence,
                    copied the new #'PPC.library'# to LIBS:,
                    changed the env varibles #nopatch=3D1# and #terminato=
r=3D0#.
What have I missed?
--
<sb>Geo=

On 02-Mar-00, Ben Vost wrote:

 #-heavily snipped-#
> It still works in 24-bit internally, but no, no 24-bit. However, there =
are
> plenty of other packages for that and it's much faster than DPaint was
> since v3.

Funnily enough,since I installed FBlit,Dpaint 5 is running /faster/ than =
PPaint 7.1,
for general drawing anyway.(with an 040/AGA)

But PPaint is still better for most things.
-- =

<sb>Geo

I was wanting a few pieces of information.
Firstly should I get my Buster rev9 replaced with a rev11.
If so how much would it cost?
And can I do it myself or is it a tricky operation?

I ask this because I heard that rev9 can only take two cards which I have
but I was
hoping to get a G3 board and didnt want to have any problems.


Joke: In a world without walls and fences, who needs windows and gates?

On Wed, Mar 01, 2000 at 05:19:20PM -0000, Sealey, M. wrote:

> et voila! If you're having lots of trouble, just give me a poke and I'll
> see if I can help. For I am the FBlit Master!!!

I've just had the bestest idea in the world ever - really!!

Matt must attend the WOA'2000 and have a stand of all his own.

This will acheive 3 aims:

1/ Matt can do a housekeeping/cleanup service. People bring in their
A1200's, etc and Matt sorts out their memory/startup/conflict issues

2/ Matt can charge and make money for some good cause

3/ Everyone gets to meet Matt face-to-face (i'm sure this would help!)

The other spin-off would be someone opposite his stand selling wet sponges
to throw at him :)

Seriously though, I think this "clinic" idea would be well worth it.
And if people cannot bring their machine, Matt could provide a list of
printouts that they must bring with them for him to troubleshoot on paper.

Ideas? Question? Flames?

l8r
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> On Wed, Mar 01, 2000 at 05:19:20PM -0000, Sealey, M. wrote:
> 
> > et voila! If you're having lots of trouble, just give me a 
> > poke and I'll see if I can help. For I am the FBlit Master!!!
> 
> I've just had the bestest idea in the world ever - really!!
> 
> Matt must attend the WOA'2000 and have a stand of all his own.
> 
> This will acheive 3 aims:
> 
> 1/ Matt can do a housekeeping/cleanup service. People bring in their
> A1200's, etc and Matt sorts out their memory/startup/conflict issues

Hmm..

> 2/ Matt can charge and make money for some good cause

Suggest a good cause ;)

> 3/ Everyone gets to meet Matt face-to-face (i'm sure this would help!)

I'll be wearing a t-shirt anyway, I think. You'll all be able to see who I
am..

> Seriously though, I think this "clinic" idea would be well worth it.
> And if people cannot bring their machine, Matt could provide a list of
> printouts that they must bring with them for him to 
> troubleshoot on paper.

Sounds too much like work to me ;)
 
> Ideas? Question? Flames?

How about I just hang around the AF stand and do my work from
there? Or people just run up to me ad-hoc and badger me for info
or something?
 
-- 
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Distributed Systems Support
Computer Centre
University of Leicester

> 1/ Matt can do a housekeeping/cleanup service. People bring in their
> A1200's, etc and Matt sorts out their memory/startup/conflict issues

Or spends the entire time laughing at how badly the dolts' Amigas are
set up. Maybe there could be "special guest appearances" by people who
know a little bit about FBlit but not aas much as Matt, like the guy
who wrote it.

;)

Joking aside though, could be a good idea.

Does anybody know how to program serial ports in Linux coz i have a load of 
coad which i need to convert to AmigaOS functions (C). I can either do this 
by changing each function separately or write another function that converts 
the args to AmigaOS functions, so i don't have to modify any code. You see i 
heard about gPhoto the Linux digital camera program and tried to port it. I 
have managed to compile the core of the program (i took out all the gui 
code) and it runs fine. i created a test friver that did nothing to test the 
system. so now i need to convert a load of linux code and bung on a gui and 
hey! we'll have a program that supports 100+ cameras and the list is 
increasing everyday!
so if anyone can help me (i want a camera too!) i'll be thankfull!
Simon Hall
______________________________________________________

I may have sought help on this before, and whoever gave me the help was
right on the money, but it's starting again...

I have TurboPrint 7...my problem lies there...

Lately when I've been booting up TurboSpool has been trying to start up
before TurboStart, which as y'all know, won't work. I adjusted some things
in my WBStartup drawer -- that is, on all the items in the drawer I set one
of the tooltypes to CX_PRIORITY=2. Everything except TurboStart has that
tooltype; TurboStart has CX_PRIORITY=0. My understanding is that the lower
the number is, the earlier the program will start, which means that
TurboStart should be the first thing that runs.

Anyway, this worked for a while, but last night I was getting that conflict
again.

Here's my setup:

-- Amiga 4000 desktop, NTSC
-- GVP/Tekmagic 4060 accelerator
-- 2MB chip RAM, 12MB fast RAM on motherboard, 128MB fast RAM on accelerator
-- Picasso IV running 800 x 600 24-bit via Picasso 96 software
-- OS 3.5, DOpus 5.82 [yes, I finally bought it, and I admit that I love it
now!]

Any clues? I s'pose one thing I can do is go back to what I had some time
ago -- take TurboStart and TurboSpool out of my WBStartup directory and make
a pull-down menu item that'll start 'em separately, but I'm sick of doing
that....

On Thu, 2 Mar 2000 08:26:37 -0500, Dauber (dauber@wallnet.com) wrote:

> My understanding is that the lower
> the number is, the earlier the program will start, which means that
> TurboStart should be the first thing that runs.

I think you've got it the wrong way round - AFAIK the HIGHER the priority,
the sooner it is run.

Therefore something with a priority of 127 runs first, and something with a
priority of -127 runs last ...

Kev

-- 
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Hi Dauber,

> Lately when I've been booting up TurboSpool has been trying to start up
> before TurboStart, which as y'all know, won't work. I adjusted some things
> in my WBStartup drawer -- that is, on all the items in the drawer I set
> one of the tooltypes to CX_PRIORITY=2. Everything except TurboStart has
> that tooltype; TurboStart has CX_PRIORITY=0. My understanding is that the
> lower the number is, the earlier the program will start, which means that
> TurboStart should be the first thing that runs.

T'other way around mate. 127 is the highest priority, 0 is normal, -127 is
the lowest.

All the best,
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On Thu, 02 Mar 2000 13:29:39 +0000, Ben Vost (ben.vost@futurenet.co.uk) wrote:

'lo Ben

> T'other way around mate. 127 is the highest priority, 0 is normal, -127 is
> the lowest.

Why don't you read other people's replies before posting you're own, Ben? 
I mean, come on, I beat you to it by 37 seconds ...

If I were moderator you'd be looking at a 1 week ban for that ...   ;-)

<duck>

Kev

PS  Seeya all in a week peeps  :)

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Hi Kevin,

>> T'other way around mate. 127 is the highest priority, 0 is normal, -127
>> is the lowest.

> Why don't you read other people's replies before posting you're own, Ben? 
> I mean, come on, I beat you to it by 37 seconds ...

Well, tbh, your answer *was* quite wishy-washy - all AFAIK and all that.
Mine is firm and definitive, as you'd expect from someone of my stature
(about 6'2", thanks for asking).

All the best,
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On Thu, 02 Mar 2000 13:35:27 +0000, Ben Vost (ben.vost@futurenet.co.uk) wrote:
> Hi Kevin,

'lo again

> Well, tbh, your answer *was* quite wishy-washy - all AFAIK and all that.

The reason I was wishy-washy about the answer is because there's something
else with the Amiga where priority works in reverse.  I can't for the life
of me recall what it is (ie it's not this or boot-up sequence prioities) so
was merely covering my back ...

> Mine is firm and definitive, as you'd expect from someone of my stature
> (about 6'2", thanks for asking).

Really?  You didn't seem that tall at WoA when you won that award ... in
fact, Rich seemed considerably taller than you despite his illness!  And
just because I'm only about 5'9" or so doesn't make my answers any less
definitive (wishy-washy replies not withstanding ;)

Kev, forseeing a poll on average heights of afb members  ;-)


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Hi

I have just bought an A4000 with PIV and Ariadne and now I have e few
questions:

My clock is not working is it possible to change the battery myself? I have
tried to pull it out, but it is stuck.

The AGA flicker fixer on the PIV is behaving strangely. It works for a few
seconds, then the screen starts to disappear. Does this mean that I am one
the unlucky people who needs to have my PIV fixed?

How much Fastmem can the motherboard handle? It is currently equiped with
4*4Mb Fast and 2Mb chip, I have tried to change two of the simms to 16Mb
each, which would give a total of 40Mb fast, but it will not recognises them
:(

Thanks
	Steen

On Thu, Mar 02, 2000 at 01:12:07PM -0000, Sealey, M. wrote:

> > 2/ Matt can charge and make money for some good cause
> Suggest a good cause ;)

Ummmm - I dunno! Matt's pocket? CLIC? The AFB Fund?

> > 3/ Everyone gets to meet Matt face-to-face (i'm sure this would help!)
> I'll be wearing a t-shirt anyway, I think. You'll all be able to see who I
> am..

You mean that you will be wearing a "I'm Matt Sealey" T-shirt?
Cool - I want one just to confuse people :)

> Sounds too much like work to me ;)

Let's say that you got 1 for every one - would that make it worth it? AF
could mention that you were gonna be there running a clinic and what you
would need, etc.

Is LAAUG(!?!) having a stand? Be on there.

> > Ideas? Question? Flames?
> How about I just hang around the AF stand and do my work from
> there? 

Hmm - I might have a word with Andrew Elia about this idea. We could have
different people doing different times or different subjects. How's your
presentational skills?

> Or people just run up to me ad-hoc and badger me for info or something?

'cos you'd shout at them for being stoopid or something ;P

Seriously Matt - you have a skill/knack that the rest of us could use - will
you offer it if I can get something arranged?

l8r
-- 

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                                     Technology in Perfect Harmony
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On Thu, 2 Mar 2000, NiGhT65 wrote:

> So can i use my old A500 (hold the laughing thanx) to make the ADF files
> providing ive got the right software.....

Yes, of course. There is not needing for a faster cpu or a better chipset
to read a disk and write a diskimage. Beware you still need a place where
you create the diskimage, like RAM: or an Harddisk!

You need 880 kb only for the image, then you have to transfer this image
to a PC.... it means you need to write on floppy or CDROM (I found the
rewritable invaluable for such file transfers).

880 kb doesn't fit on a 720 cross-dos (o similia) disk; maybe you have to
lha it! (and then find on the net, look in aminet at lha.exe or lhant#?
for msdos)

Or if you have access to the net via a500...

Or you can null-modem cable your pc with your amiga... 

 > I really need to buy a decent Amiga eh?....

It helps as you can see above... :)

Hello Tudor

On 03-Mar-00, you wrote:

>
> Even if BT charge =A370 for 256k/64K - that's still a hell of a lot fas=
ter
> and cheaper than current incl. ISDN!!


Just a quick question how much does ISDN cost in England?

Cheers,
      Sean.


                             POWERED BY:      =


A4000(T) 040 25+PPC233 144Mb CVPPC PreludeZII+Rombler* IOBlixZII
UltraPlex32X
RicohMP6200SCDRW Nomai750.c Mustek1200SP Tiptel506 ISDN Modem EpsonSC500
OS3.5 =

Opus Magellan II etc

*=3DStill looking for a sound daughter board DB50XG from Yamaha to fit on=
to
it!
(Any offers!)




Whenever you find that you are on the side of the majority, it is
time to reform.
-- Mark Twain

On 3 Mar 00, at 12:38, Ross Whiteford wrote:

> Does anyone know of cheap accomodation (I mean REALLY cheap - as in
> Camp site!)
> in Birmingham? Somewhere central would be good!

You want to go camping in central Birmingham??

Bauglir

Hello Bill

> I have asked this question on the mFTP support ml and directly to
> Vaporware. As yet I have received NO responses. Can anyone tell me if
> the upload feature on the shareware version of mFTP2 is disabled. I
> keep trying to upload to my new website and the program locks up every
> time!


Well I have NC3 with this on and its crap, gone back to using AmFTP from NC2.
From what I have heard from the NC mailing list its bugged to hell so don't
bother with it (yet)

                 Cheers all the best

                       Ken 




  

> Here are the results of the vote:
> 
> 3. Once in a while			7
> 4. Occasionally			11
> 6. Sometimes			16

Don't all of these mean the same thing?

Bauglir

"ben vost" <ben.vos-@futurenet.co.uk> wrote: 
original article:http://www.egroups.com/group/afb/?start=49813
Hi Ben,
> >The infra red controller made interesting
> > reading but wasn`t particularly practical. One of the things I
bought
> 
> Not practical? Surely it was one of the most practical hardware hacks
going,
> or are you Amiga and IR-responding equipment that far apart> (I know
they
> are for me).

Well, not practical for me - a good project though.

> > CU for was its bias towards hardware hacks, from the editorial in
the
> > last issue this had nothing to do with its close which came from
high
> > command.
> 
> It *wasn't* anything to do with their closure, but it didn't add to
copy
> sales in the way they'd hoped.

The problem is that the people who are into electronics (for me it is a
living as well as hobby,) would not know that this sort of project or
magazine exists. My suggestion was for a team up with another mag for
projects using Amigas. Not only would AF be able to tap into the
expertise, and possible lab testing facilities, of another mag but just
one project published simultaneously in both mags would instantly reach
ten of thousands of potential new readers of AF. I once read that I
million Amigas were sold in the UK, this means that one person in 50
has still got one.


Cheers

Will.

Hi Matthew,
> 
> What are the Ioblix speeds like (the one that connects to the 1200
> clockport) theres one on amibench for =A315 that I've got my eye on....

It's pretty good actually.  I haven't compared it against any other card
although it probably isn't the fastest.  For an example, if I open
the 'Network status' window in AWeb I can reload this page at about
2000cps.
Typical downloading from Aminet (using Aweb) I can get up to 2800cps
average.

For =A315 it is worth the money.  They cost about =A350 new although the
'Twister' 
is about =A325 new but you still have to pay the carriage.

Note:  If you are using a Powerflyer you *will* have problems getting
it to 
fit.  You can do either of the following. Use about 5 or 6 Rom socket
raisers
or use an 'clock port' extension lead.  I opted to get a 'clock up' (4
clock
ports) and extension lead because it can be fed its own power supply
(tower) 
and avoid any nasty power problems.  Where you then put the thing is a 
different question (mine just hangs there!!).

Anyway, get it as it saves loads of money and time if you download
stuff.

Regards,
Nick.

---------
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       http://www.free0052804.free4all.co.uk
       Virtual online games?  (almost) See website.
---------

"gerald mellor" <974558-@tiree.sms.ed.ac.uk> wrote: 

> I'm *not* happy with the alternatives. I like AmigaOS, which is why I 
> buy software like IBrowse and Voyager. Although I'm not entirely 
> happy with their current performance, I'm hoping that some day soon 
> either one will become stable enough and compatible enough for me 
> to use on the majority of websites. The only way they will be 
> developed is if people spend money on them now (I'm just using 
> browsers as an example here, the same goes for other software too). 

Good example, I bought Ibrowse and recieved various updates, including
the one which wouldn`t print (don`t they beta test?) I was then invited
to purchase their new manual and spent seven quid on a book virtually
identical to the standard instruction book. I was recently invited to
purchase the new version which would mean I would have spent a total of
seventy odd quid for a browser which doesn`t hold a candle to either of
the two PC free ones. Why should I? Hisoft are not a charity.

> > I do too and when this new hardwear and softwear comes out I will be
> > interested in it. Until that time (if it ever comes,) I am
interested
> > in practical uses for my current equipment - is that such a bad
thing?
> 
> Not at all, I just don't think you should expect AF to give up their 
> News section and replace it with practical electronics projects,
which 
> is what you seemed to be suggesting.

I have read countless articles about "The New Amiga" - there was even
one several pages long devoted to the shape of the box. There have been
spreads about "The faces behind The Amiga" etc. All of these have come
to nothing and I would like to see some practical hardware hacks for
what is ,after all, a piece of electronic equipment.

Many people have a desperate longing for something positive and real to
happen in the Amiga and this IHMO is reflected in a disproportionate
level of reporting of "Start up" events and meetings etc. I would like
to see the news section reduced to a small editorial and more space
devoted to the above. OK, if I am in such a minority that it won`t
happen then the mag contains nothing for me to read.

Cheers

Will.

Hi Mirrorball

> I'll keep it short, I know buying a PC I was asking
> for trouble.  Well I was trying to optisimise the
> machine by fiddling with the BIOS set-up and I seem to
> have buggered the computer, it won't boot up anymore
> and I don't know how to access the set-up to fix it,
> hmmn.  Any one who can help me please email me off the
> list.   Sorry for the OT post but you guys are
> generally clued up on most things!

There's most likely a jumper on the mobo that'll reset that BIOS to its
factory defaults, but be warned: this will delete all your current BIOS
settings so you might need to re-configure your hard-disks (or something).
In other words, RTFM ;-)

Lovely job
--
Alex Furmanski - a.furmanski@virgin.net
http://www.furmanskinet.connectfree.co.uk
http://www.afb-ot.co.uk
Also, *another* new site coming soon (!)
ICQ: 51206302

This week's lie: It is possible to transmute marzipan into gold merely by
folding it correctly

Hi Andy

> >> Someone pointed me at a lovely place: http://www.gradwell.com
>
> >They do look pretty good.  So could I get a domain registered with them
> >and host it on, say Free4All?  Would it be a full host or just
forwarding?
>
> /me slaps the Yeti around the head with the wet end of Barry the sheep.
>
> Who do you think the afb-ot domain was regged with and where do you
> think it's hosted... ;)

(after checking WHOIS)

Lawks!  Hmmm, a .co.uk domain & full hosting & email for 2 years for a
tenner - almost too good to be true!  Bunter, get me my (parent's) credit
card!

--
The Yeti (the Earl of Swirl) - theyeti@afb-ot.co.uk
http://www.afb-ot.co.uk

Sender: Robert Johnston
Subject: [afb] Re: Doing the Business on the Amiga
Date:     Fri, 3 Mar 2000 08:21:10 -0000

Hi
> > > Anybody know if it's possible to start a business website using the
> > > amiga? If it is, how about a tutorial, Ben?
> > > I'd like people to be able to click on items that go in a 
> > basket, then
> > > they pay by credit card. As far as I've found out so far, 
> > it looks as
> > > though I'd have to have a PC with 200 of software at the cheapest.
> > > Any ideas anyone?
> > 
> > Simple Solution: Learn Perl, it's free. Find a webserver 
> > which allows you
> > to use perl, then create a shopping basket script, and I'm pretty sure
> > you can get credit card validation perl scripts from various 
> > script archives
> > around the net. Being able to use people's credit card 
> > details is a different
> > matter of course.
> 
> The credit-card check's easy, and it can even be done (with ease) in
> Javascript. It's just a Base-10 check. However actually validating the cards
> requires access to the "NETCARD" merchant banking system, and that costs a
> fair bit.

Yeh I just read about that, but I also read that a PC of PC software
called "shop@assistant"-200, solves the shopping basket problem and
links it back to your database, but I'd still need the merchant
banking system.

Looks like it's not that easy then. I was really
looking for some software that would do the job using the Amiga. I
don't want to have to learn a language (HTML's gives me headaches),
and lashing out lolly for credit card validation is a no no at the
moment. Looks like I'll have to make a site with the goods and an
email address. Would still be nice to see some info about this is
Amiga Format : )

-- 

Bruce

From: Ben Vost <ben.vost@futurenet.co.uk>

>> grateful.  Seriously, Ben where do you want me to send the money?  afb
>> Charity Appeal, Amiga Format, 30 Monmouth Street, Bath, Somerset. BA1
>> 2BW?   I'll pop it in the post tonight if poss or Monday, let me know,
>> I want to help! :)

>That's fine. Thanks Nick.

Count me in too, It was my 18th on Wednesday and I'd feel guilty as hell if
I didn't do
anything to help those people in Mozambique(sp?), oh yeah and get rid of the
ads :-)

Tom U

>Stuff happens to thing due to whatever

Nice :)

Hi steve

ooopps and sorry for the first 1 wrong button
can anyone help me i have a scsi scanner a umax S-6E i have scanquix5 and a
surf squirrel interface but i need a driver for the above scanner can
anyone help 

thx 

steve


-- 
AKA Fryer uk2.arcnet.vapor.com #gas
most evenings

Simon wrote something like this:

>            Right ho you amigan "pop pickers", any of you that reguarly
> use Songplayer - please explain this for me? I play my CDs,MP3s and my own
> encoded MP2s with this great program. My audio leads are from the Amiga
> itself. How am I getting excellant play back thro my Amiga? Surelly its
> not Paula doing all the work! The CD audio is just as good a quality as if
> I use my CD audio out ports.

That's because it uses a little trick to play in 14bit instead of 8bit.
Sounds actually better than my friends SoundBlaster.

-- 
http://www.kolumbus.fi/jami.laakkonen/ppc/index.html
  http://www.freespeech.org/cliffbarnes/index.html
      A1200 040-25MHz & PPC 603e-240MHz 2+48Mb

"After all we've said and done. We're still in it for the fun."
-- Venerea: Scratch

Hello Ross

On 03-Mar-00, you wrote:


> Does anyone know of cheap accomodation (I mean REALLY cheap - as in
> Camp site!)
> in Birmingham? Somewhere central would be good!
> 
Always thought the centre of Birmingham WAS a camp site....or was it building
site..

Regards
-- 
Roger

Amiga 1200, Viper 68030 Mk V Accel with 50Mhz FPU and 8 MBFast, Seagate 410MB
2.5" internal HD and 800MB SCSI HD in a midi tower with 4xCDRom. 56k Modem,
Power Port Junr Serial IF G.Image Hand Scanner & Citizen Swift Printer.
Website:-http://callnetuk.com/home/rogerbu
ICQ-62990780 Robuck2
What happens to the hole when the cheese is gone?
-- Bertolt Brecht

On Fri, 03 Mar 2000 roger buckley <rogerbu@callnetuk.com> wrote:

> > Does anyone know of cheap accomodation (I mean REALLY cheap - as in
> > Camp site!)
> > in Birmingham? Somewhere central would be good!

> Always thought the centre of Birmingham WAS a camp site....or was it building
> site..

Best thing about Birmingham is the entry and exit roads to the moterway
</FLAME>

:)
--
Mark 'tecno' Wilson : Team Member of AmiBench

Web: http://www.AmiBench.org
Email: mark@amibench.org
ICQ Number: 39814816

On 3 Mar 00, at 15:08, Will wrote:

> Good example, I bought Ibrowse and recieved various updates, including
> the one which wouldn`t print (don`t they beta test?) I was then invited
> to purchase their new manual and spent seven quid on a book virtually
> identical to the standard instruction book. I was recently invited to
> purchase the new version which would mean I would have spent a total of
> seventy odd quid for a browser which doesn`t hold a candle to either of
> the two PC free ones. Why should I? Hisoft are not a charity.

That's true. I've not spent quite as much as you on IBrowse. I bought 
IB1.2, then last year I bought the upgrade to 2.1. So, what's that? 
=A330 altogether? I'm not sure.

I don't think there's any way you can expect any of the main Amiga 
browsers to compare with Netscape or IE. These are developed by 
huge companies with a lot of money to spend, and they lead the way 
in the development of the web. So any other browser will always be 
playing catch-up. Having said that, V3 has impressed me... I was 
never a fan of Voyager in the past, but I quite like the current version.

> I have read countless articles about "The New Amiga" - there was even
> one several pages long devoted to the shape of the box. There have been
> spreads about "The faces behind The Amiga" etc. All of these have come
> to nothing and I would like to see some practical hardware hacks for
> what is ,after all, a piece of electronic equipment.

But it's not the fault of the magazine that none of these new Amigas 
have actually appeared. At least we can see things are happening, 
news that only reports products once they're ready isn't really news 
anymore, iyswim.

> Many people have a desperate longing for something positive and real to
> happen in the Amiga and this IHMO is reflected in a disproportionate
> level of reporting of "Start up" events and meetings etc.

"In Her Majesty's Opinion"?

Gerry

On 03-Mar-00 Neil Bothwick wrote:

> Use a " instead. JavaScript accepts single and double quotes. It treat
> them the same, but each quote must be paired with one of the same
> type.

Ok. I wasnt sure if I can nest several of these without confusing the
JS parser.

> IBroswse regularly gives errors on perfectly valid (and fairly basic)
> JavaScript.

Yeah, Ive noticed. :( Hopefully the 2.2 will iron these bugs out
(someone on this listmentioned it is on betatesting stage).

> AWeb has had JavaScript for more than two years. It's what all the
> scripts for the tutorial were developed with.

Whoops! Check before you talk and stuff like that... I guess my
assumption was because I couldnt get the rollover images to wrok with
it.

- Jani
-- 
"The capacity of technology to modify the definition of humanity"

Hello Gerald


> I don't think there's any way you can expect any of the main Amiga 
> browsers to compare with Netscape or IE. These are developed by 
> huge companies with a lot of money to spend, and they lead the way 
> in the development of the web. So any other browser will always be 
> playing catch-up. Having said that, V3 has impressed me... I was 
> never a fan of Voyager in the past, but I quite like the current version.

Yes I'm with you on that I was always an IBrowse fan but since NC3 use it all
the time


                 Cheers all the best

                       Ken 




  

sw> ooopps and sorry for the first 1 wrong button can anyone help me i have
sw> a scsi scanner a umax S-6E i have scanquix5 and a surf squirrel
sw> interface but i need a driver for the above scanner can anyone help

My wife and I are getting the UMAX S12...does ScanQuix 5 support that, or am
I just gonna have to use my wife's awful PC? I asked Software Hut...they
said they THINK ScanQuix supports it, but they're not sure...

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      Dauber IS Possible!      | www.wallnet.com/~dauber
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Well...after all this updating on Voyager and adding Javascript and plugins
and stuff, here's what I've found...but please, correct me if I'm wrong...
I downloaded the latest demo to check it out...

-- SLOOOOOOOOOOOOOW IMAGE LOADING!!!!
-- They STILL haven't put in support for simple ORDERED LISTS!!!! When I
want ordered lists, I want NUMBERS, not bullets!!!!

Oh well....

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       dauber@wallnet.com      | the biggest butthole in the world!"
    Ocean Grove, New Jersey    |     -- Brian Wilson
      Dauber IS Possible!      | www.wallnet.com/~dauber
-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-

Hey...

What's the name of the program that allows you to put backdrops in window
title bars? I did a search for everything I could think of on Aminet, but
I'm drawing a blank...

Also...how come in all the pictures of Voyager I see in AF there are little
backdrops in the areas by the button bar, etc., that are plain-ol-gray on
mine?

-- 
-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
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       dauber@wallnet.com      | the biggest butthole in the world!"
    Ocean Grove, New Jersey    |     -- Brian Wilson
      Dauber IS Possible!      | www.wallnet.com/~dauber
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On Sat, 04 Mar 2000 00:52:59 -0500, Dauber (dauber@wallnet.com) wrote:
> Hey...

Bee

> What's the name of the program that allows you to put backdrops in window
> title bars? I did a search for everything I could think of on Aminet, but
> I'm drawing a blank...

Birdie


Kev



-- 
Kevin "Redvers" Fairhurst - ICQ 56332267, redver5 on AIM

Hi everyone,

Just curious whether anyone's heard of an MSN Messenger client for the
Ami? I have a few friends who use it now, evil as it is... :)

I thought I heard a bit about an Amiga client a couple of months ago,
but haven't really tried to dig it up until now.

Thanx :)

Jason
-- 
Words fade, prayers vanish - but what is built, endures. 
Faith manages.

    issue 135 arrived this morning
- 
                 Cheers all the best

                       Ken 




  

Hello Dauber

>> ooopps and sorry for the first 1 wrong button can anyone help me i have
>> a scsi scanner a umax S-6E i have scanquix5 and a surf squirrel
>> interface but i need a driver for the above scanner can anyone help
> 
> My wife and I are getting the UMAX S12...does ScanQuix 5 support that, or am
> I just gonna have to use my wife's awful PC? I asked Software Hut...they
> said they THINK ScanQuix supports it, but they're not sure...

The Golden Rule which has been said countless times unless the software
supports a scanner don't get it. Ask before you buy thats why if 'possible'
buy from an Amiga dealer

                 Cheers all the best

                       Ken 




  

Hello Sean

On 03-Mar-00, Sean FT wrote:
> Hello Tudor

> On 03-Mar-00, you wrote:

>> 
>> Even if BT charge 70 for 256k/64K - that's still a hell of a lot faster
>> and cheaper than current incl. ISDN!!


> Just a quick question how much does ISDN cost in England?

> Cheers,
>      Sean.

   With BT Together and Home Highway it's 49.50 for conversion from
analogue to ISDN.

   Rental is 39.99 a month, which includes BT Together 11.99 and 13 call
allowance, which works out at 26-99 if all the call allowance is used.  

   You can use Best Friend for 20% discount on your ISP number, plus you get
two lines :-)

Cheers
-- 
-----------------------------------------------
Jon Barker                         ICQ:20786000
-----------------------------------------------

Ross "Mr Cheap" Whiteford said something about [afb] Re: WOA 2000
Shopping-list

> Does anyone know of cheap accomodation (I mean REALLY cheap - as in
> Camp site!)
> in Birmingham? Somewhere central would be good!

http://www.theaa.co.uk/region7/27301.html

Charges by the room, so with a bit of sneaking around with sleeping
bags, the price comes right down ;)

Also the breakfasts are lovely :)
-- 
Anthony Prime
>>Powered by Amiga in Crewe
anthony@prime.clara.co.uk

On 4 Mar 00, at 0:52, Dauber wrote:

> Also...how come in all the pictures of Voyager I see in AF there are little
> backdrops in the areas by the button bar, etc., that are plain-ol-gray on
> mine?

You can change all that kind of stuff if you go look in the MUI 
settings :)

Gerry

Hey Sean

On 04-maa-00, you wrote:
On the V subject:
> I downloaded the latest demo to check=B8 it out...
> =

> -- SLOOOOOOOOOOOOOW IMAGE LOADING!!!!

Odd. I've choosen V on its raw speed of imageloading/decoding. So I'm sur=
prised. What hardware do you use to display your graphics? I'm using a PI=
V in a 800x600 24-bit screen and it flies.

> -- They STILL haven't put in support for simple ORDERED LISTS!!!! When =
I
> want ordered lists, I want NUMBERS, not bullets!!!!

I suppose you're right here. However I did not think it was a problem.
> =

Regards
-- =

Bert Volders

bert@volders.demon.nl
<sb>
Tag of the day:
I like pigs. Dogs look up to us. Cats look down on us. Pigs treat
us as equals.
-- Winston Churchill

-----Original Message-----
From: Dauber <dauber@wallnet.com>
To: afb@eGroups.com <afb@eGroups.com>
Date: 04 March 2000 02:41
Subject: [afb] Re: umax S-6E driver


>sw> ooopps and sorry for the first 1 wrong button can anyone help me i have
>sw> a scsi scanner a umax S-6E i have scanquix5 and a surf squirrel
>sw> interface but i need a driver for the above scanner can anyone help
>
>My wife and I are getting the UMAX S12...does ScanQuix 5 support that, or
am
>I just gonna have to use my wife's awful PC? I asked Software Hut...they
>said they THINK ScanQuix supports it, but they're not sure...




SQ5 does , but not via the surf squirrel (which has a chipset bug). It will
work fine via the classic squirrel & all other SCSI interfaces we have
tested


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"anthony prime" <anthon-@prime.clara.co.uk> wrote: 
original article:http://www.egroups.com/group/afb/?start=49952
> Ross "Mr Cheap" Whiteford said something about [afb] Re: WOA 2000
> Shopping-list
> 
> > Does anyone know of cheap accomodation (I mean REALLY cheap - as in
> > Camp site!)
> > in Birmingham? Somewhere central would be good!
> 
> http://www.theaa.co.uk/region7/27301.html
> 
> Charges by the room, so with a bit of sneaking around with sleeping
> bags, the price comes right down ;)
> 
> Also the breakfasts are lovely :)
> -- 

I'll take a look at that!
Any more suggestions anyone?

Ross "Cheapskate" Whiteford

Hi all!

Is the AF136 News deadline March 10th 2000? (Date AF135 goes on sale)

Ross Whiteford

rosswhiteford@yahoo.com

"Imagine a world without hypothetical situations..."

Hiya Ross 

On 03-Mar-00 20:38:18, you said:
>"tom miles" <to-@teknogrebo.freeserve.co.uk> wrote: 
>original article:http://www.egroups.com/group/afb/?start=49916
>> Hiya Chris 
>> 
>> On 01-Mar-00 15:12:33, you said:
>> >Hello fellow afb'ers
>> 
>> >Sometime in late June/early July, I intend to lose my WOA virginity.
>:)
>> 
>> >I live in Birmingham
>> too.  This sounds like an ideal way to spend my first months wages 
>> > 
>> I just hope that it is early July and not late June as I may be away
>:/
>> 
>> 

>Does anyone know of cheap accomodation (I mean REALLY cheap - as in
>Camp site!)
>in Birmingham? Somewhere central would be good!

If I'm around at the time you can stay at my house. It's about 3 miles
outside the city center.  I think I'll be going, but it really does depend
on when it is.

Toodle pip,


Tom

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Hello Dauber

On 04-Mar-00, you wrote:
 
> My wife and I are getting the UMAX S12...does ScanQuix 5 support that, or
> am I just gonna have to use my wife's awful PC? I asked Software
> Hut...they said they THINK ScanQuix supports it, but they're not sure...


By ScanQuix 5 under ScannerDrivers are the following UMAX Scanners:-
UMAX_Astra_1200s
UMAX_Astra_1220s
UMAX_Astra_2400s
UMAX_Astra_610s
UMAX_PowerLook_II

Cheers,
      Sean.


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Hello Jon

On 04-Mar-00, you wrote:
>   With BT Together and Home Highway it's =A349.50 for conversion from
> analogue to ISDN.
> =

German Telekom:

I finaly decided to get a telephone line installed in October,so i chose
ISDN mainly because in theory it is cheaper?This cost me ca.=A333 for a =

line to be installed and the NTBA(i think thats what it is called) i fitt=
ed
myself(2 Raw plugs & screws wow! saved another =A333)
If you already have a analogue line it costs ca.=A317,which is not bad re=
aly.
You get 3 telephone numbers,two telephone lines and only one cable to lay=
=2E

>   Rental is =A339.99 a month, which includes BT Together =A311.99 and =A3=
13
> call allowance, which works out at =A326-99 if all the call allowance i=
s
> used.
> =

>   You can use Best Friend for 20% discount on your ISP number, plus you=

> get two lines :-)

My line rental is ca.=A319 a month but this includes special tariffs and =

times when it is cheaper.Like phoning England(which i do often?)only cost=
s
ca.6 pence a minute after 6pm.But slowly the competition is get better so=

Deutsche Telekom are having to drop their prices,but im  not complaining.=

                                      Cheers,
                                            Sean.            =

                        =




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Opus Magellan II etc

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to
it!
(Any offers!)




Anyone can make mistakes, but only an idiot persists in his error.
-- Cicero

Hi,

Just got the new issue, and it is indeed frab and goovy. So, pop-pickers,=
 heres the rundown:

1) Page 6, Phase 5. Thats right, rub it in :-/

2) Page 7, gomi. Nice to be a world beater again, but, errmmm.... who the=
 hell would buy one!?

3) Page 15, comment under big picture. ROTFLMAO :))

4) Page 34, CreateOutline. Well, I typed "web address here please" into v=
oyager, but it didn't get me to the CreateOutline website :)

5) Page 38. I love anything to do with emulation, me. I am an emulation n=
utcase. So this article is much appreciated, thanks :)

6) Page 56. Urmm... For how many months do we have to learn about '??????=
??' before we get onto the good stuff? :)

7) Page 81. I'll take these BoXeR claims with a pinch of salt. Although I=
 don't like salt. Can I take them with a pinch of Hundreds and Thousands =
please?


I think the word that sums up this issue best is: "Plinth". Stay tuned fo=
r next issues descriptive word!


-- =

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Real meanings #7:
COBOL: Come On, Bloody 'Orrible Language

Hi,

> That's because it uses a little trick to play in 14bit instead of 8bit.=

> Sounds actually better than my friends SoundBlaster.

Also, as has been said lumpy-zillion times (so please just take this as r=
ead in future ;), Paula has an excellent signal to noise ratio and freque=
ncy response. Had Paula been 16bit when AGA was introduced, she would sti=
ll be happily pissing over all but the most extremely-expensive PC soundc=
ards. Which would be nice.


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=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D
so long and thanks for all the fish
      http://fly.to/Mr_Tickle
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=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D

=2E.. Actual quote from ITV daytime news, Jan 6th 2000:
"Thousands of patients will flood NHS waiting rooms with flu symptoms."

Hey there

Got my AF135 today in the post and I liked it.  Plenty of silly captions
in the TAO feature (who won the game of pool BTW?) and elsewhere, Heretic
II looks gorge, Reader Games at last (!)  I had to laugh at "Stonkin'
Toons", simply because it reminded me of all the, er, twits /(this is the
PG version.  Ed)/ in my electronics class who think the best measure of a
stereo is how many decibels of bass it'll blurt out or the diameters of
their subs.  But I digress (yibble).

Tch!  You couldn't've got that Epson 1160 review in earlier could ya?  My
dad bought a nice (but not as big) 740 a fortnight ago.  I like the
snooker table render in the Gallery.  I tried to do on once, but I'm crap.
PPaint 7.1B - enough said.  And an excellent picture of Airwolf (well, the
pilot at least) to top it all off.

One gripe - Neil's Javascripts didn't work in IE5 :-(

Lovely job
--
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http://www.afb-ot.co.uk
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ICQ: 51206302

This week's lie: It is possible to transmute marzipan into gold merely by
folding it correctly

There I was, almost at the end of issue 135 and I hadn't seen my name
mentioned once!  Suddenly I happen upon page 79, the afb page, and Alex
Furmanski drops me into the conversation!

Cheers mate, had me worried for a minute  ;-)


Kev, a bit worse for wear at 2 in the afternoon.  I blame the Liverpool vs
Man Utd game.  And Man Utd were <censored> lucky to not lost, let alone
draw!!



-- 
Kevin "Redvers" Fairhurst - ICQ 56332267, redver5 on AIM

Hi Alex!

[SNIP PC Prob]
 
> There's most likely a jumper on the mobo that'll
> reset that BIOS to its
> factory defaults, but be warned: this will delete
> all your current BIOS
> settings so you might need to re-configure your
> hard-disks (or something).
> In other words, RTFM ;-)

Ah but the manual is back at home 250 miles away!  But
I did eventually solve my problem by opening the
computer up (quite a task as it has no screws!  Held
together with metal tabs which I had to pull quite
harshly!) I just removed the battery then....

> Lovely job

yes, resetting everything, lovely job, only took a
full hour to get it running like it used to :(

Cheers for the help, now back to Amiga t'ings!

DAN



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Hi Kevin

> There I was, almost at the end of issue 135 and I hadn't seen my name
> mentioned once!  Suddenly I happen upon page 79, the afb page, and Alex
> Furmanski drops me into the conversation!
>
> Cheers mate, had me worried for a minute  ;-)

That's alright, so long as I get my Curly Wurly.  And that goes for the
other two as well.

Lovely job
--
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http://www.afb-ot.co.uk
Also, *another* new site coming soon (!)
ICQ: 51206302

This week's lie: Ice Cream makes machines work better.  Spoon it right in.

[names mentioned]

> That's alright, so long as I get my Curly Wurly.  And that goes for the
> other two as well.

How about a chomp? Curly Wurly's cost too much :)

-- 
Neil Bullock
URL: http://www.trogsoft.co.uk  Email: tsoft@tsoft.screaming.net
ICQ: 27873010                   IRC: frodo.afternet.org/#trogsoft
--

Hello,

Well, the new ish dropped through the letterbox this morning, and though it
is still sad to see the desperate thinness, there are some very pleasing
features.

Heretic II- finally another decent game for the PPC (excellent), but I'm not
sure from the review if I need a sound card or not?

Interview with Tao, I'll read this soon, looks quite interesting.

A mixed bag of good and bad in the news section.

An interview with Hyperion, who are still being positive about things, maybe
I didn't waste my money on the PPC. (Did I just say that?)

I get a mention in the afb bit (yippee! I'm famous, thanks Alex)

And there's the promise of a BoXeR review next month. Again. Well, optimism
is not a bad thing.

(You can probably tell that I read the mag in a rather random pattern)

So AF is still keeping the quality up, even if the industry makes it hard to
do so. Well done Ben etc., there's not long to wait before the new dawn
now.

Oh, yeah. The CD installer still crashes when it opens up the multview
window halfway through.

Regards,

        Sandy

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On Sat, 4 Mar 2000 14:57:53 -0000, Neil Bullock (tsoft@tsoft.screaming.net) wrote:
> [names mentioned]
> 
> > That's alright, so long as I get my Curly Wurly.  And that goes for the
> > other two as well.
> 
> How about a chomp? Curly Wurly's cost too much :)

You can't afford 12p?  Cheapskate!

Kev, not sending Alex any money cos he sent it all to Ben for the
Mozambique fund ...

-- 
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> > How about a chomp? Curly Wurly's cost too much :)
> You can't afford 12p?  Cheapskate!

12p! 12P!? They're 20p here :)

-- 
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ICQ: 27873010                   IRC: frodo.afternet.org/#trogsoft
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On Sat, 4 Mar 2000 15:03:02 -0000, Neil Bullock (tsoft@tsoft.screaming.net) wrote:
> > > How about a chomp? Curly Wurly's cost too much :)
> > You can't afford 12p?  Cheapskate!
> 
> 12p! 12P!? They're 20p here :)

They *were* 12p, the last time I bought one.  So you can't afford 20p?  ;-)

Kev

-- 
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Hi Neil

> > That's alright, so long as I get my Curly Wurly.  And that goes for
the
> > other two as well.
>
> How about a chomp? Curly Wurly's cost too much :)

Only if it's one of the old Chomps with the monkey on it.

Lovely job
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http://www.afb-ot.co.uk
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This week's lie: Ice Cream makes machines work better.  Spoon it right in.

> > > > How about a chomp? Curly Wurly's cost too much :)
> > > You can't afford 12p?  Cheapskate!
> > 12p! 12P!? They're 20p here :)
> They *were* 12p, the last time I bought one.  So you can't afford 20p?  ;-)

15p the last time I bought one, then I noticed they said 20p when I last went
to the shop. No, I can't afford 20p at the moment :)

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> > How about a chomp? Curly Wurly's cost too much :)
> Only if it's one of the old Chomps with the monkey on it.

How old are they? :) I think I'd better save up and buy you a curly wurly
after all :)

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On 4 Mar 2000 14:58:43 +0000, redver5@cableinet.co.uk wibbled...

> You can't afford 12p?  Cheapskate!

Curly Wurly's are 20p now. It's a bigger bar, y'see and it has the
Cadbury Land branding. Hence the higher price.

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On 4 Mar 2000 15:22:15 +0000, Daniel Thornton (thewibble@cwcom.net) wrote:
> On 4 Mar 2000 14:58:43 +0000, redver5@cableinet.co.uk wibbled...
> 
> > You can't afford 12p?  Cheapskate!
> 
> Curly Wurly's are 20p now. It's a bigger bar, y'see and it has the
> Cadbury Land branding. Hence the higher price.

yeah right, i bet it isn't a bigger bar, they just say "bigger packaging"
or something to make you think it is!

Bigger wagon wheels aren't. QED.

Kev

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Hugo Wilkinson
> When my U-net account was working, I use to be able to access my FREESERVE
> e-mail account by dialing my U-Net ISP and vice-versa..
> does anyone know if this is possible with the BT ISP?? I don't want to
> change my e-mail address because its not practical... but I would also
like
> to take up the free calls offer and pay 9.99 to access that free line..

You can receive mail but need to dial in Freeserve to send. The only account
I have had a problem with is ContactBox which requires you to dial into
their server to send & receive mail.
--
Gareth Knight
Amiga Interactive Guide http://aig.amiga.tm

Hi Daniel,

> Curly Wurly's are 20p now. It's a bigger bar, y'see and it has the
> Cadbury Land branding. Hence the higher price.

Right. That's it. I'm going out this very second to buy one. Maybe
more than one. When you next hear from me I will be chomping down hard
on a Curly Wurly...

Cheers,

Eddie

Hello Robert

On 03-Mar-00, you wrote:

> Nah. I don't have any =A350's... it is(was) 2 =A320's instead.

Flamin' eck!

I'm afraid I'll have to be a lot tighter than that, as I am skint in the
true meaning of the word. I'll support as best as I can though.

Regards

        Sandy

-- =

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For sale: Parachute, used once, never opened, small stain.

Hello M.

On 03-Mar-00, you wrote:

> I think the main thing stopping *ME* from doing any hardware projects
> is that it's a complete bitch to get stuff from Maplins. They're right out
> of the way behind the train station, next to Office World, and you don't
> even know what they have until yo either buy a catalogue or walk in.

There's always the website, with an apparently full catalogue listing for
free now.

> And half the staff wouldn't know the difference between their arse and
> elbow, let alone two different ICs.

So far, I have known exactly what it was I wanted, so I have never had to
ask the staff. But isn't that what mailing lists like afb were invented for
(as long as it's miggy related)

Regards

        Sandy

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Hello Ross

On 03-Mar-00, you wrote:

>> Neither, yet. ntl: wanted to buy C&W, but it's currently in the hands
>> of the MMC.
>> 
> 
> Don't want to sound stoopid! but what is the MMC? (just out of
> curiosity?)

Monopolies & Mergers Commission (IIRC), they make sure that Micro$oft type
situations don't occur in the UK.

Regards

        Sandy

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Why should I bother typing out a tagline?

Hello Will

On 03-Mar-00, you wrote:

> I once read that I
> million Amigas were sold in the UK, this means that one person in 50
> has still got one.

Remember there are lots of ppl like me with >1 Amiga.

Regards

        Sandy

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From the people who brought you poor taglines.

I was trying to use the preloadimages() function on the Rollover Images
section of the javascript tutorial and found an error. The original code
would not work (at least not with Netscape 4 and Internet Explorer 5)
because each successive image that is loaded into TempImage will stop the
browser downloaded the last one (as it would probably still be downloading
it at the time). The fix for this is slightly more complicated. Whereas the
old script read:

<script type="text/javascript" language="javascript1.1">
<!-- hide script from non-JavaScript browsers
// Preload button images
function PreloadImages()
{
    ImageNames = new
Array('home','aboutme','myamiga','mydog','links','software');
    ImagePath = 'images/';    // the path to the images must end with a "/"
    StdExt = '0.gif';
    SelExt = '1.gif';
    TempImage = new Image;
    for (var i = 0; i < ImageNames.length;i++)
    {
        TempImage.src = ImagePath + ImageNames[i] + StdExt;
        TempImage.src = ImagePath + ImageNames[i] + SelExt;
    }
}
// -->
</script>

The new, working version reads:

<script language=javascript>
    function preloadimages()
    {
        imagenames=new
Array('home','about','myamiga','mydog','links','software');
        imagepath='images/';
        stdext='0.gif';
        selext='1.gif';
        normalimages=new Array(imagenames.length);
        selectedimages=new Array(imagenames.length);
        for(var i=0;i<imagenames.length;i++)
        {
            normalimages[i]=new Image();
            normalimages[i].src=imagepath+imagenames[i]+stdext;
            selectedimages[i]=new Image();
            selectedimages[i].src=imagepath+imagenames[i]+selext;
        }
    }
</script>

The new script is called in the same way.
The other thing I want to point out probably won't worry most of you, as it
only affects Internet Explorer, but as 30% of visitors to my site (mainly
those visiting the Psion section) use Internet Explorer, it is quite
important. Basically Internet Explorer won't recognise onMouseOver,
onMouseOut and onClick within an <area> tag, although Netscape will.
One other thing - although putting comment lines around a javascript script
should make it invisible to non-javascript browsers, some (such as Mosaic)
don't understand multi-line comments, so it won't work.

- Stephen Morley (http://www.morleysoft.co.uk)

The subject line probably got your attention, and no, I haven't accidentally
found this mailing list by accident with a typo while looking for Arsenal
Football Club.  I first got an Amiga in 1993 and I thought it was brilliant.
However, at secondary school I was exposed to PCs and was amazed - I thought
"you'd never see an Amiga  with CDs playing in the background while doing
DTP  and 3D rendering'. And so, like the bloke from PC World said, the Amiga
slowly gathered dust. However, as I started to use the PC more I realised
there was a price to pay - and I don't mean the 1500 plus about 100 for
any kind of software - I mean the inability to get work done without an
invalid page fault every twenty minutes, or the complete crashes requiring a
(very long) reboot. At the time, however, I thought the Amiga, while
virtually uncrashable, didn't have to draw me to it then my old VIC20.

A few weeks later, while looking at computer magazines in WHSmiths, I picked
up a copy of Amiga format and started reading. A few hours later I was
sitting at home transferring files from the CD to my Amiga via the PC. With
the news of OS3.5 and the new Banging The Metal tutorials, I decided to
subscribe. Since then, I have been trying to answer the question 'What is
Amiga?', and have come up with a few suggestions.

1) The seamless integration of custom hardware and graphics chip sets
I hadn't previously realised how brilliant the Amiga hardware was. When I
read about the workings of the Copper and the Blitter, I was amazed that the
Amiga had not managed to succeed. While talking to my friends Mark (who is
an Acorn fan, so didn't really care) and Matt (who is a Psion fan, but still
owns an Amiga) about the hardware, Ben Dunbobbin walked past and said "I
remember the Amiga - the Blitter was brilliant" (he loves anything to do
with computer graphics, although he is now programming his own rival to
Windows, which he wants me to think of a name for - perhaps SuenOS, Spanish
for dreams) and then he said "It's a shame the technology's now lost". I
felt rather angry that this brilliant technology was going to disappear -
how could the PC win?

2) The operating system
The Amiga operating system is hardly good looking, but when I started using
Windows I realised how much more reliable (and smaller) it is. It would have
to be kept alive.

3) The idea
From the new AF : "Tao have a system which fulfils the Amiga principles of
elegance, simplicity and efficiency." How many times have I heard a phrase
like this, about Tao, Linux, QNX etc? Too many.

In every 'new Amiga' that's been planned, we seem intent (is that some kind
of Tao based pun?) on losing two of these. With the ability to run on any
processors, or just one new processor, we lose the advantages of the custom
hardware and will and up with hundreds on incompatible standards and
hardware drivers. If we adopt Neutrino or Elate, what happens to the
AmigaOS?

I used to think there was not much point developing any new Amiga software -
it would no doubt be incompatible with the new Amigas, and why should I rest
my hope on a dying platform? Matt introduced me to Psion one day, and a
little later we formed Morleysoft (my idea, so I got to mirror my surname in
the company name). We will continue to programming for the classic Amiga,
but. looking at the way the Amiga is heading, not for the new ones. I have
discovered an operating system that, like Workbench, is elegant, simple and
efficient, but also has major companies supporting it. When the Amiga
community dies and is reincarnated as the New Amiga community, there will be
one less button at the top of my Website, for EPOC has everything I want in
an operating system, and a new community will start to form.

Sorry about all that, but as Rich says, 'it's hard to work in the Amiga
market without getting jaded, cynical, depressed...'. I'm still here for now
though, and programming a new program(s), called 'Fractal Suite'. Soon after
the Amiga release, we will port it to the Psion, and I don't doubt which
will sell better.

- Stephen Morley (http://www.morleysoft.co.uk)

I was looking through my old Amiga Format and came across an issue of CU
Amiga, which I probably have because it came with Imagine 4.0 on the
coverdisks. Anyway, while looking through it I came across 'The Ultimate
Amiga Trainspotter Quiz'. I can answer some of the questions, but others
have been really bothering me. As afb holds the entire collective knowledge
of the Amiga community, I'm sure you lot can come up with the answers:

1. Which classic Amiga game from Cinemaware features battles between the
Saxons and Normans?
2. Name the main programmer responsible for Kick Off, Kick Off 2 and Goal!
3. Which martial arts game featured a secret hot key which caused the
combatants pants to fall down?
4. What form of light refreshment is being sold by a bloke in the audience
of Speedball 2?
5. Which cute Amiga platform game shares its name with a food consisting of
fried potato, onion and cabbage?
6. What is unusual about the inside of the original Amiga 1000 casing?
7. In what year was the first Amiga put on sale to the public?
8. Which major software developer supplied the original Amiga BASIC for 1.3
Amigas?
9. Commodore took over the development and manufacturing of the A1000 from
which company?
10. Name the man widely regarded as the "Father of the Amiga" due to his
development input.
11. List all of the custom chips in the A1200 with female names.
12. What is the clock speed of Fat Agnus on an A500?
13. Which B52s song titles are written on the motherboards of the A500 and
A1200?
14. How large (in Kilobytes) is the Kickstart of a CD32?
15. In which chip is the RS232 Serial UART housed?
16. If when listing a file you saw the flags '--p-rw-d' what would this tell
you about that particular file?
17. What type of multitasking does the Amiga use?
18. What is the maximum length of a Fast Filing System filename?
19. The 'Right Amiga' key of certain A500s is marked with a different
symbol. What is the symbol?
20. Name the man behind the original Rexx language upon which ARexx is
based.
21. Name the 3D rendered CD32 game inspired by the film Fantastic Voyage.
22. What do the letters AGA stand for?
23. How many grooves are there along the back of an A500?
24. How many colours can be displayed simultaneously on a HAM-8 screen?
25. What does the 'CU' in CU Amiga Magazine stand for?

Hi Sandy,

> > Nah=2E I don't have any =A350's=2E=2E=2E it is(was) 2 =A320's instead=
=2E
>=20
> Flamin' eck!
>=20
> I'm afraid I'll have to be a lot tighter than that, as I am skint in the
> true meaning of the word=2E I'll support as best as I can though=2E

I don't think anyone could ask for any more than that=2E Personally, =A340
is too much for me as well, but if I cut back on the pints this
weekend I reckon I can just about hit =A320=2E The only reason I'm saying
that on here is so that, once I've posted the message, I'll have to
make the effort to do it (I got off to a good start by buying a cheap
botle of cider for the Liverpool/Man Utd=2E game - saved me a good fiver
on pub prices)

Cheers,

Eddie (=2E=2E=2Enot forgetting he's got to buy something for Carls
spendathon as well  :))

On Sat, Mar 04, 2000 at 03:50:40PM -0000, Stephen Morley wrote:

> 1. Which classic Amiga game from Cinemaware features battles between the
> Saxons and Normans?

Defender of the Crown?

> 2. Name the main programmer responsible for Kick Off, Kick Off 2 and Goal!

Dino Dini

> 3. Which martial arts game featured a secret hot key which caused the
> combatants pants to fall down?

IK+

> 4. What form of light refreshment is being sold by a bloke in the audience
> of Speedball 2?

Ice cream

> 5. Which cute Amiga platform game shares its name with a food consisting of
> fried potato, onion and cabbage?

Bubble and Squeak?

> 6. What is unusual about the inside of the original Amiga 1000 casing?

It includes moulded signatures of the designers and Jay Miner's dog

> 7. In what year was the first Amiga put on sale to the public?

1985, I believe, though widespread availability was probably 1986

> 8. Which major software developer supplied the original Amiga BASIC for 1.3
> Amigas?

Microsoft

> 9. Commodore took over the development and manufacturing of the A1000 from
> which company?

Amiga, oddly enough :)

> 10. Name the man widely regarded as the "Father of the Amiga" due to his
> development input.

Jay Miner

> 11. List all of the custom chips in the A1200 with female names.

Lisa, Alica, Paula, Gayle

> 12. What is the clock speed of Fat Agnus on an A500?

14.28MHz?

> 13. Which B52s song titles are written on the motherboards of the A500 and
> A1200?

Rock Lobster, Channel Z

> 14. How large (in Kilobytes) is the Kickstart of a CD32?

1024

> 15. In which chip is the RS232 Serial UART housed?

Paula

> 16. If when listing a file you saw the flags '--p-rw-d' what would this tell
> you about that particular file?

It's fully reentrant, readable, writable and deletable

> 17. What type of multitasking does the Amiga use?

Pre-emptive

> 18. What is the maximum length of a Fast Filing System filename?

31, I believe

> 19. The 'Right Amiga' key of certain A500s is marked with a different
> symbol. What is the symbol?

The Commodore logo

> 20. Name the man behind the original Rexx language upon which ARexx is
> based.

Michael Cowlishaw

> 21. Name the 3D rendered CD32 game inspired by the film Fantastic Voyage.

Microcosm

> 22. What do the letters AGA stand for?

Advanced Graphics Architecture

> 23. How many grooves are there along the back of an A500?

9 grooves along the full width and more than I can remember small ones
(though I think somewhere in the region of 50 or so)

> 24. How many colours can be displayed simultaneously on a HAM-8 screen?

Nominally 262,144 but limited by your screen resolution.

> 25. What does the 'CU' in CU Amiga Magazine stand for?

Commodore User

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Hello Neil

On 04-Mar-00, you wrote:

> 12p! 12P!? They're 20p here :)

What id do for a Curly Wurly for 20p,the damm things cost 30p here!



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sandy brownlee <sand-@brownlee99.freeserve.co.uk> wrote: 
original article:http://www.egroups.com/group/afb/?start=49981
> Hello Ross
> 
> On 03-Mar-00, you wrote:
> 
> >> Neither, yet. ntl: wanted to buy C&W, but it's currently in the
hands
> >> of the MMC.
> >> 
> > 
> > Don't want to sound stoopid! but what is the MMC? (just out of
> > curiosity?)
> 
> Monopolies & Mergers Commission (IIRC), they make sure that Micro$oft
type
> situations don't occur in the UK.
> 
> Regards
> 
>         Sandy
> 

Aha!  Thanks for that one!

Never was much of a Monopoly player myself :)...

Ross Whiteford

"My family say I'm a psychopath, the voices in my head disagree..."
(stole that line, sorry ;) )

Hi,
>   I have a problem copying large files (ie 1 meg +).
>When using DOpus IV (I know its dated but I can't afford the latest)
>whilst copying a large file it freezes and I have to reset.
>Does anyone know why this is?
>I'm using OS3.5. Could it be a max transfer thing? Currently the
>max transfer is set to 0x0001FE00 with a fileblock size of 512.
>If this is the problem can I change this without losing the data on my
>hard drive?

Your MaxTransfer is correct for IDE drives. It could be a problem with
Dopus as it should not freeze, the files get corruped for large files with
a too large a Max Transfer. Try using WB and see if the same thing
happens or not...

Peter Hutchison
http://www.blizzard.u-net.com/

>Has anybody been able to get the latest version of fusion68k.  I have
>been trying to download it from many amiga news sites with no luck.

>If you have been lucky, would you mind e-mailing it to me please?

Fusion 3.1 for 68k is NOT free, nor PD nor shareware. Its a commercial
product. Get the current Amiga Format as its on this month`s CD!!!!
It would be illegal to email to you.

Peter Hutchison
http://www.blizzard.u-net.com/

>> There some new CGFXdrivers via my Fusion FAQ page!

>Um..where? I looked on the Fusion bit, and the only linkl was to
>J.Fentons page... and he's removed the Fusion stuff. I got v3.2 and
>3.3 from there originally, but the cgx homepage contains a spatch type
>patch that only works on 3.1 drivers, so I can't get it to work.

Ah! Hum, I don`t know where else to try unless you try the Fusion
mailing list and ask for the patch there...
BTW, If someone could email the patch, I could include for download
direct from my web page...

> I have a  Fusion Hardfile you could use!

>Downloaded it last week too, but haven't tried it yet. I'll see if I
>can get Fusion to boot my SS Hardfile - it crashed before, but I was
>using a link from the SS hardfilenanme to fusions MSHardfile00 name in
>its HardFile dir.  

Renaming and moving could certainly work. My HardFile is known
to work in Fusion and includes the progs needed to start up new
Fusion owners.




Peter Hutchison
http://www.blizzard.u-net.com/

>> I'm sure it's the poxy new HDTOOLBOX. :(

>I'm sure it could be, there are things I miss from the OLD
>HDToolbox...
 
>> Everything worked fine until I tried to add a new partition by making
>> an existing one smaller. Bummer Drive crashed again kept asking for
>> ramlib which is in the OS31 rom.

>Huh?? "asking for ramlib"?

Were you using the nsdpatches for your hard disk. What size and make of
hard disk was it. What Amiga were you using? Did you do a full install
of 3.1 before installing 3.5?

>> Fortunately I had got round to backing up my OS3.5 workbench partition
>> on an old 2.5 inch 500mb drive. I lost all my apps, but It  hasn't taken
>> too long to get back up this time. This time I have made my Workbench
>> partition fastfile system rather than PFS2. So next time if it goes, I
>> can try using rdbsalv.

>You're using PFS2? Why? It's buggy, obseleted, causes no end of
>problems ANYWAY.. and you expect it to work nicely with OS3.5?
>PFS3 doesn't even work with it properly!!

Utter rubbish, PFS worked flawlessly with OS3.5 and I did have to
remove the nsdpatches from the startup it worked fine since.

Peter Hutchison
http://www.blizzard.u-net.com/

>Hi everyone,

>Anyone any ideas how to mount a hardfile with the suffix .hdf?.
 
Yes, it is for Winuae, load Winuae, goto Hard Drives section,
select Add Hardfile, select ... where is says Path and select the
.HDF file, OK it to add it and then OK to start the Emulator.

Peter Hutchison
http://www.blizzard.u-net.com/

"tom miles" <to-@teknogrebo.freeserve.co.uk> wrote: 
original article:http://www.egroups.com/group/afb/?start=49958
> Hiya Ross 
> 
> On 03-Mar-00 20:38:18, you said:
> >"tom miles" <to-@teknogrebo.freeserve.co.uk> wrote: 
> >original article:http://www.egroups.com/group/afb/?start=49916
> >> Hiya Chris 
> >> 
> >> On 01-Mar-00 15:12:33, you said:
> >> >Hello fellow afb'ers
> >> 
> >> >Sometime in late June/early July, I intend to lose my WOA
virginity.
> >:)
> >> 
> >> >I live in Birmingham
> >> too.  This sounds like an ideal way to spend my first months wages 
> >> > 
> >> I just hope that it is early July and not late June as I may be
away
> >:/
> >> 
> >> 
> 
> >Does anyone know of cheap accomodation (I mean REALLY cheap - as in
> >Camp site!)
> >in Birmingham? Somewhere central would be good!
> 
> If I'm around at the time you can stay at my house. It's about 3 miles
> outside the city center.  I think I'll be going, but it really does
depend
> on when it is.
> 
> Toodle pip,
> 
> 
> Tom
> 
> -- 
>   

Cheers Mate!

Don't want to impose or anything but I may get in touch with you closer
to the show!

Ross Whiteford

KW> The Golden Rule which has been said countless times unless the software
KW> supports a scanner don't get it. Ask before you buy thats why if
KW> 'possible' buy from an Amiga dealer

I wasn't really planning on using on the Amiga, basically because I don't
have room. I was going to use it with my wife's PC...I was only thinking of
using it on my Amiga in case of "emergency"....

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BV>> I downloaded the latest demo to check=B8 it out...
BV>> =

BV>> -- SLOOOOOOOOOOOOOW IMAGE LOADING!!!!
BV> =

BV> Odd. I've choosen V on its raw speed of imageloading/decoding. So I'm=

BV> surprised. What hardware do you use to display your graphics? I'm usi=
ng
BV> a PIV in a 800x600 24-bit screen and it flies.

Me too, and I'm using a GVP 4060 accelerator board fully-loaded with 128M=
B
RAM...Even pages I made that have just TWO GRAPHICS that total 30k took
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mark wilson <tecnoba-@stayfree.co.uk> wrote: 
original article:http://www.egroups.com/group/afb/?start=49940
> 
> On Fri, 03 Mar 2000 roger buckley <rogerbu@callnetuk.com> wrote:
> 
> > > Does anyone know of cheap accomodation (I mean REALLY cheap - as
in
> > > Camp site!)
> > > in Birmingham? Somewhere central would be good!
> 
> > Always thought the centre of Birmingham WAS a camp site....or was
it building
> > site..
> 
> Best thing about Birmingham is the entry and exit roads to the
moterway
> </FLAME>
> 

Have to admit I don't know F.A about Birmingham, except that they speak
funny ;), mind you, so do us Scots!

If you think Birmingham's bad, come to Dundee! (Tayside, Scotland)
everyone I know thinks it's, well, have a guess...

Ross Whiteford

Hi

Oh, and one more thing (Mr. Johnson!) dont send me a URL with your picture
on. No matter how much I'd like to, I dont have time to nudge up 800+ hit
counters to get your pic. And jpg is fine as long as its not too bad in
quality

Mash
-- 
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HTTP://www.mashman.co.uk

A fool and his money are soon elected.

Hi Robert

> The credit-card check's easy, and it can even be done (with ease) in
> Javascript. It's just a Base-10 check. However actually validating the
> cards requires access to the "NETCARD" merchant banking system, and that
> costs a fair bit.

You might want to check out powerC's site, they use a third party company
who give them scripts and access to all the credit card checking services.
Although personally its doubtful that I'll use Power in the near future
after the way they showed how much of a  cheapskate company they could be
:/ (no offense to Vince or errrm, thingy, Allesandro?..... they're great
guys :)

Mash - 
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Yo mama so dumb, she took a ruler to bed to see how long she slept.

On 03-Mar-00, Nick Lamburn wrote:

> All of 1 eh! :)  In fact, all of 4p! :))  Hee Hee, if you want the ads
> removed, and you need some cash; let me know where to send a couple of
> quid... :)  And this time, maybe everyone can donate! :)  Of course the
> overflow could be donated to a worthy charity like me :), Amiga Inc.
> :)) or seriously a good cause which matters, anyone got ideas who we
> could donate to?  With about 900 subscribers, that's 900 if we all

> I'm all for it, what about the RSPCA.. :)

I think I'll pass on the scruffy dogs. How about putting something
reeeeeally good on a cover CD with it? or have a bumper giveaway in the
gallery and pd select. or maybe even (gasp!) a compy?..... (as in
competition, although it could be a computer :))

Mash - 
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You NAMED the Borg?  - Guinan.

On 03-Mar-00, Ben Vost wrote:

> I'd like to think we could raise double that original 50 this year.

Weren't you moaning that you couldn't get enough money last time and that
you had to pay alot of it yourself?

Mash - 
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"If I could reach you, I would hurt you, Pinky" -- The Brain

On 02-Mar-00, Alex Furmanski wrote:

>> 25 times per second.  Though sometimes you'll see that happen on
>> somebodies finely patterned jacket, on TV, if the studio has really good
>> definition in their cameras.

> [snip the rest of your useful, informative mail - thanks]

> I thought that jacket-pattern flicker was caused by the TV set getting the
> luminance and chrominance signals confused.

Did anyone ever player the great escape on the C=64 Hollywood classic pack?
in case you're wondering what we're on about with the stripey suits, just
cast your mind back to playing that and you'll (hopefully) see what I mean

Mash - 
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HTTP://www.mashman.co.uk

A true friend is the best possession.

On 03-Mar-00, Nick Lamburn wrote:

> Fair dos, but what else is there to represent the saving function in a
> program? 

WW7 has the best one, and arrow going into a folder (or drawer) for saving
and vica-versa for loading (and arrow point out of a folder, not a folder
comming out of an arrow!!! ;))

> Unfortunately floppy disks are indeed antiquated and out-of-date but
> seriously there is not a major cheap alternative.  Not everyone has a
> Zip drive, and there is no equivilent 15 fast storage medium.  Even a
> concept which increased capacity to just 40Mb would be excellent...

Because nothing to replace it has been made. People want cheapo disposible
media. floppy = 20p zip disk  = pounds. People dont want to worry about
breaking them during transit.

Mash - 
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To be Honest: Frank Lee(a)

Hi M.
> removable media. And if they don't, and they're dumb enough NOT to
> know what a floppy looks like (I find that hard to beleive, you see disks
> on TV every day) then there's always Help, Tooltips, the menus, the text
> NEXT to the icon that says "Save As.."

The imac is an all in one, like the miggy was/is and is aimed at the
complete novice, who's never touched one before. I'm sure thousands of
computer users, if not millions wont know what a floppy is.

Oh, and the floppy icon looks nothing like a zip or jaz, ls120 maybe...

Mash - 
-- 
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HTTP://www.mashman.co.uk

Spaghetti code = job security.

Hi M.

> and as it stands, ADSL access looks to be roughly 50 a month for
> unlimited access, and a 512Kbit downstream (I think they say 64Kbit
> upstream).

LAst I looked (few days ago) NTL had 128Kbit up...

> Well blow me if I don't get a connection 12 times faster, infinitely more
> reliable, and leave-connected-all-day-able for roughly the same price!!!

I~d just like to point out that we're not all internet junkies like you ;)
given the chance sure!, but not just yet

Mash - 
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Computers are unreliable, but humans are even more unreliable.

On 02-Mar-00, Bert Volders wrote:

> build by M$-ware with all the basic errors everyone makes (like \-slashes
> instead of /-slahes as directory seperators. And that's only one. Also you

I'm dreading the day M$ imposes that as a standard onto us all :/ hurry up
Amiga!!!

Mash - 
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HTTP://www.mashman.co.uk

APEXers DO IT in fancy boxes..

...but not yet subbed to the AFB!

A while back (Dec 12 to be exact) I was disconnected from the .net by my
folks for running up a huge phone bill (300+ :(() but now I'm back! I have
built time restrictions into GENESiS and I am ready to roll! :o)

I'll get around to subbing to the AFB again at some point in the near
future. In the mean time, could someone reply to me in private telling me
exactly how much mail the AFB receives in a day, in terms of kilo (mega?)
bytes? The reason I ask is that I am going to use a yahoo account for my
mail, and that has a limit of 3Mb on it. 

Catch ya later,
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> Hi,
> >   I have a problem copying large files (ie 1 meg +).
> >When using DOpus IV (I know its dated but I can't afford the latest)
> >whilst copying a large file it freezes and I have to reset.
> >Does anyone know why this is?
> >I'm using OS3.5. Could it be a max transfer thing? Currently the
> >max transfer is set to 0x0001FE00 with a fileblock size of 512.
> >If this is the problem can I change this without losing the data on my
> >hard drive?
> 
> Your MaxTransfer is correct for IDE drives. It could be a problem with
> Dopus as it should not freeze, the files get corruped for large files with
> a too large a Max Transfer. Try using WB and see if the same thing
> happens or not...
> 
Narrowed it down to transferring files to/from my zip drive via a
classic squirrel. Think I've solved the problem I was running Poolmem
removed it and so far everythings OK.
Thanks anyway
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Hi M.

>> Its a pity they dont sell 2.5" IDE connectors :/

> They do.. I bought one not long back for a laptop..

They didn't a month ago, I went in there, they thought they did, but
absolutely nothing, not in the mag, not on the shelves and the computer
found nothing either

Mash - 
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"140,000 rehydratable chickens?" * Rimmer "Check." * Lister

On 04-Mar-00, Ross Whiteford wrote:
>>> Does anyone know of cheap accomodation (I mean REALLY cheap - as in
>>> Camp site!)
>>> in Birmingham? Somewhere central would be good!
>> 
>> http://www.theaa.co.uk/region7/27301.html
>> 
>> Charges by the room, so with a bit of sneaking around with sleeping
>> bags, the price comes right down ;)
>> 
>> Also the breakfasts are lovely :)
>> -- 
> 
> I'll take a look at that!
> Any more suggestions anyone?
> 
You might want to check out the Chamberlain Hotels

http://www.chamberlain.co.uk/

Their site's broken in Voyager tho - lots of javascript errors.

35 for a single/night including all the breakfast you can eat IIRC.

Regards
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eaborn@powernet.co.uk

On 03-Mar-00, Nick Lamburn wrote:


> Oh yes, I forgot all about that!  Oh those were the days with your new
> A500+, with a whole meg of memory, squeezing about 30 frames of
> animation in using the wonderfully fun move requester.

What do you mean those _were_ the days? I just used it on a 500 for my
A-level media project!

Mash - 
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There's my request...  Thanks for helping me fatten my tagline collection...

On 03-Mar-00, Ben Vost wrote:

>>>>> *Quiz tag:* continue this sequence 1, 11, 21, 1211, 111221, 312211, ?

>>>> 13112221, I think.

>> Go on then, whats the formula?

> Read each number out loud to yourself, you'll soon work it out...

as "one, two, one, one" or "one thousand, two hundered and eleven" ? either
way, no :/

Mash - 
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On 03-Mar-00, Tudor Davies wrote:

> Even if BT charge 70 for 256k/64K - that's still a hell of a lot faster
> and cheaper than current incl. ISDN!!

But how many people would that be split up by?

Mash - 
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Hello Matthew

On 04-Mar-00, you wrote:

[snip]
> 
>> 9. Commodore took over the development and manufacturing of the A1000
>> from which company?
> 
> Amiga, oddly enough :)

Nope, it was Hi-Torro.

Agree with all the rest of your answers tho....:)

Regards

chris
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Powered by PowerPC Amiga in Dumfries & Galloway

A1200 Power Tower, 200Mhz PPC/060 50Mhz, BVision, 74Mb Ram, OS3.5, CGX V4.2

Panasonic 36" W-i-d-e-s-c-r-e-e-n TV, Pioneer 717 MultiRegion DVD, Denon AC3
Decoder, Mordaunt-Short Speakers, Marantz SubWoofer..... 

Hi,

I havent looked at the other replies, because I want to see how well I ca=
n do...

> 1. Which classic Amiga game from Cinemaware features battles between th=
e
> Saxons and Normans?

Errm... Defender of the Crown? (no idea.. :)

> 2. Name the main programmer responsible for Kick Off, Kick Off 2 and Go=
al!

Dino Dini? (I think anyway..)

> 3. Which martial arts game featured a secret hot key which caused the
> combatants pants to fall down?

IK+ :)

> 4. What form of light refreshment is being sold by a bloke in the audie=
nce
> of Speedball 2?

Ice Cream

> 5. Which cute Amiga platform game shares its name with a food consistin=
g of
> fried potato, onion and cabbage?

Bubble & Squeak

> 6. What is unusual about the inside of the original Amiga 1000 casing?

It is signed by all the engineers and has Jay Minors dogs paw pring. (Mit=
chie?)

> 7. In what year was the first Amiga put on sale to the public?

Rough guess, 85. Though it may be 84.

> 8. Which major software developer supplied the original Amiga BASIC for=
 1.3
> Amigas?

Microsoft

> 9. Commodore took over the development and manufacturing of the A1000 f=
rom
> which company?

Well, Hi Toro were developing it although they had changed their name to =
Amiga. They stole it from under Atari's nose, but Amiga were actually dev=
eloping it.

> 10. Name the man widely regarded as the "Father of the Amiga" due to hi=
s
> development input.

Jay Minor.

> 11. List all of the custom chips in the A1200 with female names.

Gayle, Paula, Alice, Denise.

> 12. What is the clock speed of Fat Agnus on an A500?

urh.. afaik its twice the CPU speed, so 14.something.

> 13. Which B52s song titles are written on the motherboards of the A500 =
and
> A1200?

Rock Lobster, Channel Z respectively.

> 14. How large (in Kilobytes) is the Kickstart of a CD32?

At a guess 2048 but its probably 1024.

> 15. In which chip is the RS232 Serial UART housed?

Eek.. Gary?!?

> 16. If when listing a file you saw the flags '--p-rw-d' what would this=
 tell
> you about that particular file?

pure, readable, writeable, deleteable.

> 17. What type of multitasking does the Amiga use?

Pre-emptive, round robin.

> 18. What is the maximum length of a Fast Filing System filename?

30, even though AmigaDOS specifies a maximum of 107.

> 19. The 'Right Amiga' key of certain A500s is marked with a different
> symbol. What is the symbol?

Commodore?

> 20. Name the man behind the original Rexx language upon which ARexx is
> based.

Pass

> 21. Name the 3D rendered CD32 game inspired by the film Fantastic Voyag=
e.

Microcosm

> 22. What do the letters AGA stand for?

Advanced Graphics Architecture

> 23. How many grooves are there along the back of an A500?

9 vent grooves and 74 enclosed grooves at the back.

> 24. How many colours can be displayed simultaneously on a HAM-8 screen?=


262,144

> 25. What does the 'CU' in CU Amiga Magazine stand for?

Commodore User



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so long and thanks for all the fish
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Real meanings #9:
FTP: Find The Porn

On Sat, Mar 04, 2000 at 06:31:45PM +0000, Chris Millar wrote:

> Nope, it was Hi-Torro.

All the patants are in the name of Amiga corp - I'm pretty sure that that
was what they were called before being bought out, though they were
Hi-Torro before that. I think :)

-- 
Matthew Garrett | mjg59@cam.ac.uk

Hi Matthew,

>> 11. List all of the custom chips in the A1200 with female names.
> Lisa, Alica, Paula, Gayle

I forgot Lisa. Is Denise part of AGA? Can't remember. My brain hurts :))

>> 15. In which chip is the RS232 Serial UART housed?
> Paula

D'Oh! I knew this as well. I must be Captain Slack of the stupids :)

[FFS filenames]
> 31, I believe

I thought it was 30... oh well.


-- 
===================================
so long and thanks for all the fish
      http://fly.to/Mr_Tickle
===================================

Real meanings #11:
HTML: Hate This Microsoft Lameness

Nick Darley-Jones said this:

> > I noticed a web page for the Gloucestershire Amiga Group at the
> bottom of the mail "Pathetic Ioblix speeds".  Trying to access this
> from my girlfriends laptop I had no luck.  Why is this, and how can I
> get in touch with the group.
>
> It's me!  This is a little usergroup based in Stroud, Glos. that I set
> up
> only a month ago.  Just by placing an advert (free!!!) in the local
> 'Trade it' I have managed to get about 4 members (I have only met one so
> far!).  We will be holding another meeting soon so please contact me at
> nickdj@free4all.co.uk or http://www.free0052804.free4all.co.uk
> I don't know why you have had problems getting to my website.  Has
> anyone else had these problems?

Hiya Nick,

I tried your site and got a totally blank page, here's why...

<TITLE>The GAG Website</TITLE>
</HEAD>
<BODY>
<FRAMESET frameborder=0 COLS="*" ROWS="98,*">
<FRAME SRC="titlebar.html" NAME="titlebar" SCROLLING="no" MARGINWIDTH=3>
<FRAMESET frameborder="0" COLS="150,*" ROWS="*">
    <FRAME SRC="linkbar.html" NAME="linkbar" SCROLLING="no" MARGINWIDTH=3>
<FRAME SRC="main.html" NAME="main"   SCROLLING="auto" MARGINWIDTH=3>
</FRAMESET>
</FRAMESET>
</BODY>

Another person who doesn't know where to put <FRAMESET> tags :)

You can't have a frameset within the body. The only purpose of a frameset
page is to establish the frames, each frame then loads a seperate page, each
seperate page has a body where all its text and images are laid out. The
only place on a frameset page that should have <BODY> tags is within the
<NOFRAMES> tags. This body text is then displayed on browsers that do not
support frames.

Does nobody read AF tutorials?

See ya later,

Oll

> [snip the rest of your useful, informative mail - thanks]
> 
> I thought that jacket-pattern flicker was caused by the TV set getting the
> luminance and chrominance signals confused.
> 
> Lovely job
> --
> Alex Furmanski - a.furmanski@virgin.net

I thought it was a moire effect caused by the patterns on the jacket not
being matched properly by the pixels on the CRT?

Arran

Hello Tudor

On 02-Mar-00, you wrote:

> On Wed, Mar 01, 2000 at 05:19:20PM -0000, Sealey, M. wrote:
> 
>> et voila! If you're having lots of trouble, just give me a poke and I'll
>> see if I can help. For I am the FBlit Master!!!
> 

> The other spin-off would be someone opposite his stand selling wet sponges
> to throw at him :)
> 
I'm pretty sure which stand would make the most money :)

> Seriously though, I think this "clinic" idea would be well worth it.
>
> l8r
Regards
-- 
Roger

Amiga 1200, Viper 68030 Mk V Accel with 50Mhz FPU and 8 MBFast, Seagate 410MB
2.5" internal HD and 800MB SCSI HD in a midi tower with 4xCDRom. 56k Modem,
Power Port Junr Serial IF G.Image Hand Scanner & Citizen Swift Printer.
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won't either.
-- Murphy's laws on sex

On 2 Mar 00, at 11:33, Will wrote:

> You`re dead right, the majority of people are not. However, if you take
> a look at the amount of electronics mags in any major shop you will see
> that there are enough people who are interested in both electroics and
> HI FI to keep the circulation of quite a few mags going.

So those magazines already exist, we don't want AF to turn into 
that. I think you'll find most of the people on this list (which after all 
makes up just under 10% of AF's readership) are perfectly happy 
with AF in the role it's filling right now.

Gerry

On 2 Mar 00, at 12:31, Will wrote:

>> You see the Amiga as something like the C64, an old computer not 
>> worth buying anything for, but maybe useful for some dedicated 
>> tasks.
> 
> Not quite, I use my Amigas daily but I am aware of their limitations
> and I don`t feel part of any "Community" or club. Nor do I feel obliged
> to spend money to support a brand name - why should I?

Well I don't feel part of a community either, that's something invented 
by people like Petro and Jim Collas, imo. Or maybe it's there, but I 
always feel faintly embarrassed when I hear the management of 
Amiga talking about it. There's no reason to support a brand name, 
as long as you're happy with the alternatives if development for your 
favourite platform ceases.

I'm *not* happy with the alternatives. I like AmigaOS, which is why I 
buy software like IBrowse and Voyager. Although I'm not entirely 
happy with their current performance, I'm hoping that some day soon 
either one will become stable enough and compatible enough for me 
to use on the majority of websites. The only way they will be 
developed is if people spend money on them now (I'm just using 
browsers as an example here, the same goes for other software too). 
I'm not *blindly* supporting a brand name, I'm paying for what I enjoy 
using and what I would like to see more of in the future.

> I do too and when this new hardwear and softwear comes out I will be
> interested in it. Until that time (if it ever comes,) I am interested
> in practical uses for my current equipment - is that such a bad thing?

Not at all, I just don't think you should expect AF to give up their 
News section and replace it with practical electronics projects, which 
is what you seemed to be suggesting.

Gerry

Hi Oliver,
> 
> Hiya Nick,
> 
> I tried your site and got a totally blank page, here's why...
> 
> <TITLE>The GAG Website</TITLE>
> </HEAD>
> <BODY>
> <FRAMESET frameborder=0 COLS="*" ROWS="98,*">
> <FRAME SRC="titlebar.html" NAME="titlebar" SCROLLING="no"
MARGINWIDTH=3>
> <FRAMESET frameborder="0" COLS="150,*" ROWS="*">
>     <FRAME SRC="linkbar.html" NAME="linkbar" SCROLLING="no"
MARGINWIDTH=3>
> <FRAME SRC="main.html" NAME="main"   SCROLLING="auto" MARGINWIDTH=3>
> </FRAMESET>
> </FRAMESET>
> </BODY>
> 
> Another person who doesn't know where to put <FRAMESET> tags :)
> 
> You can't have a frameset within the body. The only purpose of a
frameset
> page is to establish the frames, each frame then loads a seperate
page, each
> seperate page has a body where all its text and images are laid out.
The
> only place on a frameset page that should have <BODY> tags is within
the
> <NOFRAMES> tags. This body text is then displayed on browsers that do
not
> support frames.
> 
> Does nobody read AF tutorials?
> 
Thanks mate!  To be honest this is my first attempt at writing/designing
a website.  I will be more careful next time.

Regards,
Nick.

"ben vost" <ben.vos-@futurenet.co.uk> wrote: 
original article:http://www.egroups.com/group/afb/?start=49697
> Hi Anthony,
> 
> > Greetings from across da pond (lb?) Will there be an article in AF
> > regarding
> > this thing called USB in regards to the AMIGA?...thanks & Cheers!
> 
> I'll do it for you right now.
> 
> There is no USB for the Amiga right now, but there are two or three
> companies working on it. However, it will almost certainly be limited
to
> Zorro III-based computers from what these developers have told me
because
> of the fact that you need the speed that Zorro III provides along
with the
> DMA and bus mastering facilities. Even wehn the hardware gets done,
it's
> not the end of the story since then drivers need to be made for the
> hardware you attach to the port.
> 
> How's that? :)
> 
> All the best,
> -- 
> Ben Vost (x2337)        /PGP key available/        T: (+44) 01225
442244
> Editor, Amiga Format                             F: (+44) 01225 732275
> ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
> A glass is half-full to an optimist. To a pessimist, a glass is half-
> empty. An engineer thinks the glass is twice as big as it needs to be.
- - -- - - - - - -- - -- -

Ach du lieber!...Danke Herr Vost!..More confused now than before..
Cheers!....tony

On 02-Mar-00, Ben Vost wrote:

>>> T'other way around mate. 127 is the highest priority, 0 is normal, -127
>>> is the lowest.

>> Why don't you read other people's replies before posting you're own, Ben?
>> I mean, come on, I beat you to it by 37 seconds ...

Something uses priorities the other way round?..... is it the boot sequence?

> Well, tbh, your answer *was* quite wishy-washy - all AFAIK and all that.
> Mine is firm and definitive, as you'd expect from someone of my stature
> (about 6'2", thanks for asking).

6'2"??? sniff sniff..... sniff........ sniff..... Male cow droppings!

Mash - 6'3"
-- 
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HTTP://www.mashman.co.uk

It's people, not guns or knives that kill.

On 02-Mar-00, RPotts@scherer.co.uk wrote:

> I noticed a web page for the Gloucestershire Amiga Group at the bottom of
> the mail "Pathetic Ioblix speeds". Trying to access this from my
> girlfriends laptop I had no luck. Why is this, and how can I get in touch
> with the group.

What are the Ioblix speeds like (the one that connects to the 1200
clockport) theres one on amibench for 15 that I've got my eye on....

Mash - 
-- 
Matthew O'Neill - MashMan
HTTP://www.mashman.co.uk

My, what a miserable shot you are - Hobbes

On 02-Mar-00, Ben Vost wrote:

>> 1) DPaint still had some features miles ahead of it, and that is years
>> old

> And doesn't work on gfx cards well.

"Pants" said Mash, as he purchased a bvision...

>> 3) Everyone already has DPaint which does virtually the same thing just
>> aswell anyway

> I disagree. Go on, do me an animated gif in DPaint...

I never said DPaint was better in every way

>> Basically, it never offered anything marginally better than that which
>> was given away with amigas anyway, you can heardly blame anyone for not
>> buying it.

> Tosh.

Ok then, for someone who owns Dpaint, why would they want to buy PPaint? The
animation capabilities dont even scratch DPaint. The filters are all done
many times better in other paint packages. I dont know about you, but I
dont make SIPS or SIRDS on a daily basis. The only plus point for most
people would be the arexx port and the scripts which were included. Oh, and
there's no morphing, half the paint modes available, you can't antialias,
the storyboard was useless because it was almost guarenteed to crash after
doing more than 4 operations. Plus worst of all the toolbar was on the
left. Unforgivable! ;) 

But generally it just didn't work as well. Dpaint instantly scaled up the
circle drawing tool while ppaint treats it as a brush and has to do a bit
of processing on it. It also takes up a much larger amount of chipmem just
to load it. Even if all these problems were addressed, it'd still only be
on par with a prgram everyone already had.

Still tosh?

Mash - 
-- 
Matthew O'Neill - MashMan
HTTP://www.mashman.co.uk

Cthulhu loves you, with an apple in your mouth.

Hi

I know there'll be a lot to say. I'm getting a ppc and bvision in a couple
of days and I want to know what I should and shouldn't instal, and in which
order. Theres the official powerup stuff, then theres warpup which is the
best and most supported, then theres the gfx stuff, do I stick with the
default stuff or go for picasso/cybergfx? or is there something else
better?

Also whats the best versions of file viewers? jpg, mpg, mov,avi, mp3 etc.
Any essential hacks for the ppc like fblit for AGA? Oh and overall which is
the best quake port ? =)

Mash
-- 
Matthew O'Neill - MashMan
HTTP://www.mashman.co.uk

We are all God's children - by a previous marriage!

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Neil Bullock [mailto:tsoft@tsoft.screaming.net]
> Sent: 02 March 2000 00:49
> To: afb@egroups.com
> Subject: [afb] Re: Doing the Business on the Amiga
>=20
> > Anybody know if it's possible to start a business website using the
> > amiga? If it is, how about a tutorial, Ben?
> > I'd like people to be able to click on items that go in a=20
> basket, then
> > they pay by credit card. As far as I've found out so far,=20
> it looks as
> > though I'd have to have a PC with =A3200 of software at the =
cheapest.
> > Any ideas anyone?
>=20
> Simple Solution: Learn Perl, it's free. Find a webserver=20
> which allows you
> to use perl, then create a shopping basket script, and I'm pretty =
sure
> you can get credit card validation perl scripts from various=20
> script archives
> around the net. Being able to use people's credit card=20
> details is a different
> matter of course.

The credit-card check's easy, and it can even be done (with ease) in
Javascript. It's just a Base-10 check. However actually validating the =
cards
requires access to the "NETCARD" merchant banking system, and that =
costs a
fair bit.
--=20
Robert Johnston (A.C.P.)
Customer Response Operative, Simply Computers
0870 727 4020 x657
Free delivery on the Web @ http://www.simply.co.uk

On Thu, 02 Mar 2000 16:16:25 +0100, Matthew O'Neill (mash@myamiga.freeserve.co.uk) wrote:
> On 02-Mar-00, Ben Vost wrote:
> 
> >>> T'other way around mate. 127 is the highest priority, 0 is normal, -127
> >>> is the lowest.
> 
> >> Why don't you read other people's replies before posting you're own, Ben?
> >> I mean, come on, I beat you to it by 37 seconds ...
> 
> Something uses priorities the other way round?..... is it the boot sequence?

Nah, I think it's CX_Priorities ...

Kev

-- 
Kevin "Redvers" Fairhurst - ICQ 56332267, redver5 on AIM

Does anybody know how to make the alarms in Organiser (V1.1) activate
automatically on startup? I keep getting the requester asking if I want to
activate them and it's getting annoying.

Stephen

-- 
http://www.iweb.net.au/~amiganut/default.htm

Hi Mash,

> I know there'll be a lot to say. I'm getting a ppc and bvision in a
couple
> of days and I want to know what I should and shouldn't instal, and in
which
> order

PowerUp, WarpUp, CGFX 4.2, Warp3D.

> Also whats the best versions of file viewers? jpg, mpg, mov,avi, mp3
etc.
> Any essential hacks for the ppc like fblit for AGA? Oh and overall
which is
> the best quake port ? =)

I don't know what FBlit would do with regards to a gfx card, but
QuakeWOS is the best Quake port I have used.

Paul Laycock

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Matthew O'Neill [mailto:mash@myamiga.freeserve.co.uk]
> Sent: 02 March 2000 14:59
> To: afb@egroups.com
> Subject: [afb] Re: Matt's Clinic & WOA2000 was TweakWB, WBCtrl, FBlit
> 
> > You mean that you will be wearing a "I'm Matt Sealey" T-shirt?
> > Cool - I want one just to confuse people :)
> 
> How many people will pick up the Monty Python link here?
> 
> > Seriously Matt - you have a skill/knack that the rest of us 
> could use -
> 
> Pissing people off more than me? =)
> 
> Mash - I'm Matt!

"Matt Sealey of AFB? Who'se Matt Sealey?"
"I am centurion"
"No, I'm Matt Sealey!"
"No, I'm Matt Sealey!"
"No, I'm Matt Sealey!"
"No, I'm Matt Sealey!"
-- 
Robert Johnston (A.C.P.)
Customer Response Operative, Simply Computers
0870 727 4020 x657
Free delivery on the Web @ http://www.simply.co.uk
_NOT_ Matt Sealey.

Hi Stephen,

> > Yes, that sounds rather strange; since I have sucessfully used 512Kb
> > ROM images and 1Mb ROM images (2).  I took them from my Mac IIci
> > (512Kb) and my Quadra 650 and 950. (1Mb)

What Mac did the ROM come from, it's meg one so what LC, Quadra, Centis
model?
 
> > I cannot see why a patch is needed...  Please tell us more! :)
> > 
> >
> Found the patch on my hardrive after all!  It may only be needed on
phase5
> systems, I'm not sure.  If you want the archive, mail me privately.
> 
> Here is the doc file from it:

Okay I've snipped it all; but from what I guess; try using the very
latest Rsrvxxxx programs on the AFCD; they're in a seperate drawer and
newer than the ones that Fusion installs.

You may want to try fiddling with the switches, i personally use:

RsrvWarm -f

Which sticks the patch in fast memory instead of Chip mem.  Without
knowing where the ROM came from as yet; I'm afraid I cannot help much
more. :)

All the best,

Nick. 

Hi Sandy,

> > I agree, that is complete utter crap (sorry), DPaint is great, yes,
I
> > have DPaint II, III and IV.V :) (4.5) and PPaint is still used more,
> > okay so because DPaint doesn't like my Pixel 64, but PPaint is a
modern
> > bitmap painting package that is unrivalled.
> 
> I think the only part where DPaint wins over PPaint is the anim
facilites.
> IMO the move requestor is v powerful.

Oh yes, I forgot all about that!  Oh those were the days with your new
A500+, with a whole meg of memory, squeezing about 30 frames of
animation in using the wonderfully fun move requester.

However; at the heart of it; all it did was do some simple resizing and
rotation; so simple yet no other package has done the same, yet! :)

All the best,

Nick.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jani =3D??Q?M=3DE4kitalo?=3D =
[mailto:jani.makitalo@saunalahti.fi]
> Sent: 02 March 2000 18:35
> To: afb@egroups.com
> Subject: [afb] Re: JavaScript speed: I'm just passed by a snail :-(
>=20
> > you don't see what you're doing. Somehow, I don't know why, I feel
> > like I have to be in charge of what code is generated.
>=20
> Seriously, I like to write HTML by hand because I have seen=20
> how horrible
> code those programs can generate. Using non-breaking spaces=20
> for picture
> alignment (which is inaccurate anyway) and leave behind long=20
> strings of
> nested commands (like <B></B>) that do absolutely nothing. If=20
> you do it
> by hand, the code will be accurate, short, does *exactly*=20
> what you want
> it to do, nothing more. Short code =3D faster download =3D happy =
surfers
> that bookmark your page.
>=20
> Only after I am proven those programs churn out compact code with no
> excessive and unnecessary additions, and use rational layout=20
> methods, I
> will leave the task to the computer.
>=20
> It might even be reality when they finally develope those learning
> neural network things that first watch me work, then emulate my
> actions. :)

Saw (And played with) Dreamweaver 3 yesterday... Very nice. And as you =
make
changes in the source, it shows straight away in the =
WYSIWYSRGAIDAWLT=A9
window. (What You See Is What You Should Get Although It Doesn't Always =
Work
Like That).
--=20
Robert Johnston (A.C.P.)
Customer Response Operative, Simply Computers
0870 727 4020 x657
Free delivery on the Web @ http://www.simply.co.uk

> > Right, go to http://www.tpec.u-net.com and get FBlit 3.56e because
> > you'll need it for this. Note down your FBlit settings, and delete the
> > ENVARC:FBlit.cfg file before installing it. Get the newest WBCtrl as
> > well.
> > 
> > et voila! If you're having lots of trouble, just give me a poke and
> > I'll see if I can help. For I am the FBlit Master!!!
> 
> O.K, that worked lovely.  Thanks very mucg for solving my problem.
> 
> Next question (you are the FBlit master ;) ), do the following...
 
Okay.. how to work around it. It's because the AddBob#? and
RemBob#? patches in FBlit erroneously reserve loads of chip ram
to do their tricks: and Workbench triggers it by doing an AddBob
on every icon in preparation for you dragging it. So apart from
the size of the icon (3k each?) you also lose about 600k of CHIP
for the privilege of calling the damned thing.

> How do I get back that missing bit?

Go into FBlit 3.56e's control panel and turn the Bob patches
off, and leave QBSBlitPatch on. Set "WBCtrl IMT=ICONFAST"

*OR* turn QBSBlitPatch *OFF* and leave the Bob patches ON,
but turn SIMPLEGELS *ON* for LoadWB. 

You *WILL* need FBlit 3.56e for this, or if you're smarmy like
me then you could be using 3.59 ;)

-- 
Matt Sealey mws2@le.ac.uk 
Distributed Systems Support
Computer Centre
University of Leicester

I know that I should actually have asked on the official mailing list,
but the last time I joined it was full of messages from UAE owners
asking why AmigaAMP was so slow on their "Amiga". Does anyone know how
the internal crossfader works in AmigaAMP?

Hi Matthew,

> > Someone needs to look up the word "icon" and the word "metaphor"
> 
> Dont get all stuck up with me, I simply asked a question. And what
about new
> computer users? They're looking for a save button, but if they've
never
> owned a computer before, they'll not have seen a floppy and have no
chance
> in hell of getting the link between saving and a picture of an
obsolete
> piece of hardware will they?

Fair dos, but what else is there to represent the saving function in a
program?  Drawing a hard disk imo is both ugly (aesthetical bugbear)
and also un-intuitive, or equally so than the floppy diskette since the
user may wish to save to floppy, zip, syquest, hell even tape! :) 
(Well within reason!)  The problem is that representing the save icon
in a program is a difficult one if you don't wish to use floppy disks
as the icon.

It so happens that the floppy disk is almost a universal representation
of this function; and is easily recognised by most.  And if the
begginner still doesn't know; there's always the File/Project menus and
the tool tips, on most modern progs that will inform you what the
function is.

Unfortunately floppy disks are indeed antiquated and out-of-date but
seriously there is not a major cheap alternative.  Not everyone has a
Zip drive, and there is no equivilent =A315 fast storage medium.  Even a
concept which increased capacity to just 40Mb would be excellent...

Until then, the floppy disk will be with us for some time.  :( Plus
it's the only easy way to swap files with PCs and Macs (so long as you
have a HD disk drive to do anything useful!) currently, without using
e-mails... :)  

All the best,

Nick.

> Hi Matthew,
> 
> > > Someone needs to look up the word "icon" and the word "metaphor"
> > 
> > Dont get all stuck up with me, I simply asked a question. And what
> > about new computer users? They're looking for a save button, but if
> > they've never owned a computer before, they'll not have seen a floppy
> > and have no chance in hell of getting the link between saving and a
> > picture of an obsolete piece of hardware will they?

Funny, that floppy disk looks JUST like a Zip, Jaz, LS120, or EZ135 disk
from a distance. No doubt the iMac owner will have SOME kind of
removable media. And if they don't, and they're dumb enough NOT to
know what a floppy looks like (I find that hard to beleive, you see disks
on TV every day) then there's always Help, Tooltips, the menus, the text
NEXT to the icon that says "Save As.."

> Until then, the floppy disk will be with us for some time.  :( Plus
> it's the only easy way to swap files with PCs and Macs (so long as you
> have a HD disk drive to do anything useful!) currently, without using
> e-mails... :)  

And the LS120 drive has prolonged it's life somewhat..

-- 
Matt Sealey mws2@le.ac.uk 
Distributed Systems Support
Computer Centre
University of Leicester

Hi Matt,

> > > > Someone needs to look up the word "icon" and the word "metaphor"
> > > 
> > > Dont get all stuck up with me, I simply asked a question. And what
> > > about new computer users? They're looking for a save button, but
if
> > > they've never owned a computer before, they'll not have seen a
floppy
> > > and have no chance in hell of getting the link between saving and
a
> > > picture of an obsolete piece of hardware will they?
> 
> Funny, that floppy disk looks JUST like a Zip, Jaz, LS120, or EZ135
disk
> from a distance. No doubt the iMac owner will have SOME kind of
> removable media. And if they don't, and they're dumb enough NOT to
> know what a floppy looks like (I find that hard to beleive, you see
disks
> on TV every day) then there's always Help, Tooltips, the menus, the
text
> NEXT to the icon that says "Save As.."

Agreed!  A Zip disk, or any recent removable media is pretty much
identicle in looks to a floppy disk.  And I can't honestly believe that
there is anyone out there looking for a computer who doesn't know what
a floppy disk looks like!!
Perhaps my Gran, but she's hardly looking for a computer! :)  
 
> > Until then, the floppy disk will be with us for some time.  :( Plus
> > it's the only easy way to swap files with PCs and Macs (so long as
you
> > have a HD disk drive to do anything useful!) currently, without
using
> > e-mails... :)  
> 
> And the LS120 drive has prolonged it's life somewhat..

Which is kind of annoying.  In one way it's good because it gives
backwards compatibility with the older floppy disk; and bad in that it
gives backwards compatibility!! IMO the only way we can get rid of the
old 3.5" floppy disk is to create a cheap alternative.  Till then; the
LS120 is the closest we have got.

All the best,

Nick.

Here are the results of the vote:

1. 8" Drive (I think nobody has!) :-)			1
2. Two High Density (Power and Micronik)			1
3. Double Density (Chinnon/External etc.)			21
4. High Density (Chinnon/Power/Catweasel)			27

Here are the results of the vote:

1. Never now.			2
2. All the time			7
3. Once in a while			7
4. Occasionally			11
5. Rarely			12
6. Sometimes			16

03.03.00
Ok, so I`m curious as to how long people think it will take for the UK phone companies to get their act together and give us permanent Free connection...

----

Please select one of the following:

   o Under a Year
   o One to two years
   o Three to four years
   o Five to ten years
   o Never!
   o Who cares - I have cable!
   o Why bother - I like paying through the nose....
   o Nothing in life is free...


by going to the following Web form:

   http://www.egroups.com/vote?id=952081593258&listname=afb

Thank you!

Freedom!

They may take our lives, but they will never take our - Freedom!

(Or something like that)

Any way.  Im trying to guage peoples thought on the time scale employed
before we get Free local calls here in the jolly old UK.

You know where to go folks.

Charge!


Bifford the Youngest

Don't be stupid, free modem-based internet is a dumb idea. By the time =
the
technology is in to support it, we'll have all moved to ADSL, which =
will
have
gotten cheap enough for most people.

I spend about =A3140 a quarter on internet calls (after BT Together/F&F =
etc.),

and as it stands, ADSL access looks to be roughly =A350 a month for =
unlimited
access, and a 512Kbit downstream (I think they say 64Kbit upstream).

Well blow me if I don't get a connection 12 times faster, infinitely =
more
reliable, and leave-connected-all-day-able for roughly the same =
price!!!

When it drops to =A330, or if they offer a slower service (256Kbit?) =
it'll be
great. And your phone bill will drop to 0 because you'll be using =
webphones
:)

--=20
Matt Sealey mws2@le.ac.uk=20
Distributed Systems Support
Computer Centre
University of Leicester

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Sealey, M. [mailto:mws2@leicester.ac.uk]
> Sent: 03 March 2000 11:15
> To: 'afb@egroups.com'
> Subject: [afb] Re: POLL: Free UK Internet
>=20
> Don't be stupid, free modem-based internet is a dumb idea. By=20
> the time the
> technology is in to support it, we'll have all moved to ADSL,=20
> which will
> have
> gotten cheap enough for most people.
>=20
> I spend about =A3140 a quarter on internet calls (after BT=20
> Together/F&F etc.),
>=20
> and as it stands, ADSL access looks to be roughly =A350 a month=20
> for unlimited
> access, and a 512Kbit downstream (I think they say 64Kbit upstream).

That's what it was during the Trial, but they've downgraded it (256K =
down,
64K up)
And they've announced the pricing @ =A370 per month for the ISP's. =
They've
then got to put their profit margin on it.

Not looking so Rosy now, is it?

for more info, go to http://www.unmetered.org.uk
--=20
Robert Johnston (A.C.P.)
Customer Response Operative, Simply Computers
0870 727 4020 x657
Free delivery on the Web @ http://www.simply.co.uk

On Fri, Mar 03, 2000 at 11:23:53AM -0000, Robert Johnston wrote:

> That's what it was during the Trial, but they've downgraded it (256K down,
> 64K up)
> And they've announced the pricing @ 70 per month for the ISP's. They've
> then got to put their profit margin on it.
> Not looking so Rosy now, is it?

Yes but that is BTs pricing structure which will stand until the local loop
gets unbundled - s/b 2001.

We already have a californian company wanting to do it - free access but
monthly subscription - just like the US.
UUNet are starting trials - with BT and without BT.

UUNet are the people to watch - they are part of the one of the largest ISP
conglomerations around the world and when they want something they get it.
They have invested massively in datacomms infrastructure (as opposed to
renting it from BT) ('cos they buy it from Lucent), and are desperate to get
the UK/Europe inline with their US plans - ADSL for everyone on monthly
charges - it works and it works well.

Even if BT charge 70 for 256k/64K - that's still a hell of a lot faster and
cheaper than current incl. ISDN!!

l8r
-- 

Tudor Davies                         Running Amiga, Mac, PC & Unices
                                     Technology in Perfect Harmony
Team Member of AmiBench
Web: http://www.AmiBench.org         Specialist in Internet Security & ISP
Email: tudor@high5.net               Support (RADIUS, Firewalls & Routing)
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Jani Mkitalo said, 

> while the JS-article on AF134 was very enlightening, I need some more
> info...

> How do I replace the current frame with a specific HTML file? I would
> think

>   onLoad="if (top == self) top.location.replace(INDEX.HTM); return true;"

> would work, but I am getting a "Document not found" error. Should I be
> using the full URL instead (thus making it impossible to test the code
> offline)?

The URL must be quoted ('index.htm'), it's a string literal. Without the
quotes JavaScript will be lloking for the HTML property of the object
INDEX.

> Also, the said INDEX.HTM contains nothing but a frameset. I would like
> to show the originating page in one of the frames, but can I pass
> information like this through JavaScript? For example, in the form of a
> variable? Can I pass ANY variables between pages, for that matter?

Have your script load the new document, and then replace the contents of
that frame with the current URL. Something like:

    top.location.replace('index.html');
    top.mainframe.location.replace(location.href);


Neil
-- 
Neil Bothwick - Connected via Wirenet
The UK's first Amiga-only internet access provider
http://www.wire.net.uk
-- 
"I'm Not Sure If I'm Homosexual", Said Tom, Half In Earnest.

Hi Will,

>>> I seriously doubt that the majority of people are interested in 
>>> "practical electronics projects".
>> 
>> That much was demonstrated by CU...

> I would have built the Yamaha sound project if the Yamaha hardware
> hadn`t been so pricey. The infra red controller made interesting
> reading but wasn`t particularly practical. One of the things I bought

Not practical? Surely it was one of the most practical hardware hacks going,
or are you Amiga and IR-responding equipment that far apart> (I know they
are for me).

> CU for was its bias towards hardware hacks, from the editorial in the
> last issue this had nothing to do with its close which came from high
> command.

It *wasn't* anything to do with their closure, but it didn't add to copy
sales in the way they'd hoped.

All the best,
-- 
Ben Vost (x2337)        /PGP key available/        T: (+44) 01225 442244
Editor, Amiga Format                             F: (+44) 01225 732275
++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
Family Fortunes answers:  Q. Name a jacket potato topping
                          A. Jam

Hi Robert,

> Saw (And played with) Dreamweaver 3 yesterday... Very nice. And as you
> make changes in the source, it shows straight away in the
> WYSIWYSRGAIDAWLT=A9 window. (What You See Is What You Should Get Althou=
gh It
> Doesn't Always Work Like That).

I have to admit that I've been playing with Adobe's Image Ready 2 lately.=

It's fantastic - I'd give my right arm for something with this
functionality on my Amiga. It does crash a lot which is irritating in the=

extreme, but other than putting in a load of </XX> tags which aren't alwa=
ys
necessary it makes quite clean code and is superb for imagemaps and
rollovers.

All the best,
-- =

Ben Vost (x2337)        /PGP key available/        T: (+44) 01225 442244
Editor, Amiga Format                             F: (+44) 01225 732275
++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
Save as much as 44% when you subscribe to AF! Ring: 01458 271102
right now to save...

Hello.
I worked out why the PPClibEmu wasn't working for me.It seems that puttin=
g the new
ppc.library in Libs: wasn't enough,as it wasn't being loaded.
So I put LoadLib in the Startup-Sequence : 'C:LoadLib LIBS:ppc.library'
Now it works fine! Yeah!:D

Can't run MamePPC anymore though :(
-- =

<sb>Geo=

Hi jeremy (only I think it was Dan Thornton or Bifford that originally wrote
this),

> On 03-Mar-00, you wrote:
> . Is it worth paying to remove them again? 

With the number of people on here it works out to about 4p each. I can live
with that cost. I can even live with paying a pound for the removal of ads
that really have nothing to do with us...

All the best,
-- 
Ben Vost (x2337)        /PGP key available/        T: (+44) 01225 442244
Editor, Amiga Format                             F: (+44) 01225 732275
++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
*Capricorn*: /(Dec 22-Jan 19)/ Next week will bring great monetary 
and emotional reward. It's a shame you won't be there to see it.

On 02-Mar-00, Daniel Thornton wrote:

> Personally, I never noticed that this group doesn't have advertising;
> all of the other eGroups/Onelist lists I'm on have ads, and they're
> not particularly intrusive. Is it worth paying to remove them again?

If we pay to remove the ads, why is egroups advertised at the bottom of
every mail? another couple of lines wouldn't make a difference, I say let
the ads come, if they get too annoying, you could slap a flat cap and
scruffy dog on the af stall for donations ;)

Mash - 
-- 
Matthew O'Neill - MashMan
HTTP://www.mashman.co.uk

Sexist??!! No! I'm just a huperbiped..

On 02-Mar-00, Ben Vost wrote:

>>> *Quiz tag:* continue this sequence 1, 11, 21, 1211, 111221, 312211, ?

>> 13112221, I think.

> Bingo! Here have a black star (haven't got any gold ones) - *

Go on then, whats the formula?

Mash - 
-- 
Matthew O'Neill - MashMan
HTTP://www.mashman.co.uk

URA Redneck if your wife has a beer belly and you find it attractive.

On 02-Mar-00, Will wrote:

> Maplins even charge for their catalogue - the hobby is so popular.

> Quite a few of these people probably own unused Amigas.

Its a pity they dont sell 2.5" IDE connectors :/

Mash - 
-- 
Matthew O'Neill - MashMan
HTTP://www.mashman.co.uk

28 Millionaire US Senators: 21 Democrats, 7 Republicans. Tax the rich?

Hi Ben,

> With the number of people on here it works out to about 4p each. I
can live
> with that cost. I can even live with paying a pound for the removal
of ads
> that really have nothing to do with us...

All of =A31 eh! :)  In fact, all of 4p! :))  Hee Hee, if you want the ads
removed, and you need some cash; let me know where to send a couple of
quid... :)  And this time, maybe everyone can donate! :)  Of course the
overflow could be donated to a worthy charity like me :), Amiga Inc.
:)) or seriously a good cause which matters, anyone got ideas who we
could donate to?  With about 900 subscribers, that's =A3900 if we all
paid a =A31; minus the ads removal cost, then it'll be christmas all over
again for at least a charity! :)

However, you'll probably end up with only =A330..

I'm all for it, what about the RSPCA.. :)

All the best,

Nick.
I may be a student but when it comes to helping.... :)

> > Maplins even charge for their catalogue - the hobby is so popular.
> 
> > Quite a few of these people probably own unused Amigas.
> 
> Its a pity they dont sell 2.5" IDE connectors :/

They do.. I bought one not long back for a laptop..

-- 
Matt Sealey mws2@le.ac.uk 
Distributed Systems Support
Computer Centre
University of Leicester

Hi Matthew,

>>>> *Quiz tag:* continue this sequence 1, 11, 21, 1211, 111221, 312211, ?

>>> 13112221, I think.

> Go on then, whats the formula?

Read each number out loud to yourself, you'll soon work it out...

All the best,
-- 
Ben Vost (x2337)        /PGP key available/        T: (+44) 01225 442244
Editor, Amiga Format                             F: (+44) 01225 732275
++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
Calm down.  It's only ones and zeros.

> Hi Ben,
>=20
> > With the number of people on here it works out to about 4p each. I
> > can live with that cost. I can even live with paying a pound for =
the
> > removal of ads that really have nothing to do with us...
>=20
> All of =A31 eh! :)  In fact, all of 4p! :))  Hee Hee, if you want the =
ads
> removed, and you need some cash; let me know where to send a couple =
of
> quid... :)  And this time, maybe everyone can donate! :)

Hmm.. if only I could pay by VISA :)

> However, you'll probably end up with only =A330..

Hmm.. if only I could pay by VISA :)
=20
> I'm all for it, what about the RSPCA.. :)

The PDSA or the CPL gets my vote..

--=20
Matt Sealey mws2@le.ac.uk=20
Distributed Systems Support
Computer Centre
University of Leicester

Hi,

> > > Maplins even charge for their catalogue - the hobby is so popular.
> > 
> > > Quite a few of these people probably own unused Amigas.
> > 
> > Its a pity they dont sell 2.5" IDE connectors :/
> 
> They do.. I bought one not long back for a laptop..

I know someone who did likewise, albeit a little while ago.  Otherwise
give Farnell a ring, or request a set of catalogues from there web
pages, I did, what i didn't realise was that I would have an instant
library on my doorstep :)  Well, the bloke from Parcel Force gave it to
me at least... :)

Oh and Farnell have some lovely 100MHz Crystal Oscillators and some
super duper fans and heatsinks quoted as ideal for Motorola 68040-
might be worth a go! :)) 

All the best,

Nick.

Hi Nick,

>> With the number of people on here it works out to about 4p each. I
>> can live with that cost. I can even live with paying a pound for the
>> removal of ads that really have nothing to do with us...

> All of =A31 eh! :)  In fact, all of 4p! :))  Hee Hee, if you want the a=
ds
> removed, and you need some cash; let me know where to send a couple of
> quid... :)  And this time, maybe everyone can donate! :)  Of course the=

> overflow could be donated to a worthy charity like me :), Amiga Inc.
> :)) or seriously a good cause which matters, anyone got ideas who we
> could donate to?  With about 900 subscribers, that's =A3900 if we all
> paid a =A31; minus the ads removal cost, then it'll be christmas all ov=
er
> again for at least a charity! :)

> However, you'll probably end up with only =A330..

Last year, with only 400 members (I think) we managed to get about fifty.=
 I
donated what was left over and made it up to =A350 to Imperial Cancer at =
Rob
M's suggestion (I think). Part of that money was donated in huge chunks b=
y
the likes of Richard Lane and we also got a 100BEF from... umm, can't
remember, but it's still sitting in my drawer.

I'd like to think we could raise double that original =A350 this year.

All the best,
-- =

Ben Vost (x2337)        /PGP key available/        T: (+44) 01225 442244
Editor, Amiga Format                             F: (+44) 01225 732275
++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
Excuse for the day: Network packets travelling uphill

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Nick Lamburn [mailto:oruk-amigan@excite.com]
> Sent: 03 March 2000 13:05
> To: afb@eGroups.com
> Subject: [afb] Re: type of mag?
> 
> I know someone who did likewise, albeit a little while ago.  Otherwise
> give Farnell a ring, or request a set of catalogues from there web
> pages, I did, what i didn't realise was that I would have an instant
> library on my doorstep :)  Well, the bloke from Parcel Force 
> gave it to
> me at least... :)

What's the cost?

> Oh and Farnell have some lovely 100MHz Crystal Oscillators and some
> super duper fans and heatsinks quoted as ideal for Motorola 68040-
> might be worth a go! :)) 

Wooohooo! What's the cost?!?!?! :)
-- 
Robert Johnston (A.C.P.)
Customer Response Operative, Simply Computers
0870 727 4020 x657
Free delivery on the Web @ http://www.simply.co.uk

Hi Matt,

> > > With the number of people on here it works out to about 4p each. I
> > > can live with that cost. I can even live with paying a pound for
the
> > > removal of ads that really have nothing to do with us...
> > 
> > All of =A31 eh! :)  In fact, all of 4p! :))  Hee Hee, if you want the
ads
> > removed, and you need some cash; let me know where to send a couple
of
> > quid... :)  And this time, maybe everyone can donate! :)
> 
> Hmm.. if only I could pay by VISA :)

No credit card =3D no good for me! :)  Cash and cheques though... :)

> > However, you'll probably end up with only =A330..
> 
> Hmm.. if only I could pay by VISA :)

Ditto. :)

> > I'm all for it, what about the RSPCA.. :)
> 
> The PDSA or the CPL gets my vote..

Let me guess.... :)

CPL - Cats Protection League, right and the PDSA, hmmm Portable
Dumpling Suet Association.  Hmmm perhaps not, what's the PDSA Matt?  I
honestly don't mind where the cash would be donated; just so long as
it's a worthy cause, these two seem that.

All the best,

Nick.

> > > I'm all for it, what about the RSPCA.. :)
> > 
> > The PDSA or the CPL gets my vote..
> 
> Let me guess.... :)
> 
> CPL - Cats Protection League, right and the PDSA, hmmm Portable
> Dumpling Suet Association.  Hmmm perhaps not, what's the PDSA Matt?  I
> honestly don't mind where the cash would be donated; just so long as
> it's a worthy cause, these two seem that.

People's Dispensary for Sick Animals. It's Animal Hospital, but without
Rolf Harris. A lot more deserving than the RSPCA, as it deals with sick
ickle animals what get hit by cars and fings, instead of daft "homeless"
puppies and rescuing snakes from sewers.

-- 
Matt Sealey mws2@le.ac.uk 
Distributed Systems Support
Computer Centre
University of Leicester

Hi Ben,

> > However, you'll probably end up with only =A330..
> 
> Last year, with only 400 members (I think) we managed to get about
fifty. I
> donated what was left over and made it up to =A350 to Imperial Cancer
at Rob
> M's suggestion (I think). Part of that money was donated in huge
chunks by
> the likes of Richard Lane and we also got a 100BEF from... umm, can't
> remember, but it's still sitting in my drawer.

I reckon it's a great idea for us to donate money to a wortyhy cause;
and we could get one of those heeeerrrrruge :) cheques from the banks
which could have the money, signed by 'Amiga Format' :)  Hee Hee. 
Seriously, I reckon it's a really nice idea, and something I would
support greatly.  Usual address Ben? :)
 
> I'd like to think we could raise double that original =A350 this year.

I'd like to think that 200 out of the 900 could donate at least =A31 each
for a total of =A3200 minus the ad removal costs, it'd be great!

All the best,

Nick.

> > give Farnell a ring, or request a set of catalogues from there web
> > pages, I did, what i didn't realise was that I would have an instant
> > library on my doorstep :)  Well, the bloke from Parcel Force 
> > gave it to
> > me at least... :)
> 
> What's the cost?

Farnell usually only deal with companies, not individuals.

RS deal with individuals and companies, although you have to pay
delivery costs if you are not a company.

Hi Nick,

> I reckon it's a great idea for us to donate money to a wortyhy cause;
> and we could get one of those heeeerrrrruge :) cheques from the banks
> which could have the money, signed by 'Amiga Format' :)  Hee Hee. =

> Seriously, I reckon it's a really nice idea, and something I would
> support greatly.  Usual address Ben? :)

It'd be a cheque signed by me (if it's like last year) on behalf of afb
members all over the world. My personal choice for a charity would be
Mozambique right now - some of those folk have never even seen a
helicopter, so I don't think many are AF subscriber, but since their
government is doing nothing to help its own people, perhaps we should...
 =

>> I'd like to think we could raise double that original =A350 this year.=


> I'd like to think that 200 out of the 900 could donate at least =A31 ea=
ch
> for a total of =A3200 minus the ad removal costs, it'd be great!

It would, wouldn't it...

All the best,
-- =

Ben Vost (x2337)        /PGP key available/        T: (+44) 01225 442244
Editor, Amiga Format                             F: (+44) 01225 732275
++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
"I organised that big party for the prisoners," Tom confessed.

Hi Robert,

> > I know someone who did likewise, albeit a little while ago. 
Otherwise
> > give Farnell a ring, or request a set of catalogues from there web
> > pages, I did, what i didn't realise was that I would have an instant
> > library on my doorstep :)  Well, the bloke from Parcel Force 
> > gave it to
> > me at least... :)
> 
> What's the cost?

This is the best bit, c'est gratuit! :)  FREE! :)  Delivered in about a
week and you have an instant library to impress visitors... :)
> 
> > Oh and Farnell have some lovely 100MHz Crystal Oscillators and some
> > super duper fans and heatsinks quoted as ideal for Motorola 68040-
> > might be worth a go! :)) 
> 
> Wooohooo! What's the cost?!?!?! :)

Well, not cheap admitedly, though most 40MHz 68040s (true XC68040RC40)
can indeed cope at 50MHz with the right cooling precautions.  With a
stonking great big heatsink and fan; you're away! :)

Okay, the oscillator is 100MHz (if you have a WarpEngine you can get a
cheaper 50MHz clock because the clock rate is not split), that's what
is needed on my 040/40 Apollo for A1200T, since the clock rate is
double.  The price, urrrm, =A316. :)  Free next day delivery...  After
all it's not every day you find a stockist of these osscillators at
this speed! :)  Also there are 125MHz ones, anyone wanting to cook a
68040 at 62.5MHz? :)
 
Ahh well; if it works reliably, it should tide me over till i get a
G3/300... :)

All the best,

Nick.