eGroups Daily Digest: afb has 100 new messages. Click here http://www.eGroups.com/list/afb/?start=46397 to read them. ----------------------------------------------------------------- 46397. Carl Berry Re: MUI 46398. Neil Bothwick Re: alt.binaries? 46399. Andy Kinsella Re: A crappy announcement to have to make 46400. Peter Gordon Re: alt.binaries? 46401. Ian Vidi 12 46402. Eddie Maddock Re: POLL: Are you taking part in the spending fre 46403. Eddie Maddock Spending frenzy prize draw 46404. Mark Wilson Re: PIRACY-SUCKS 46405. Gerald Mellor Re: MUI - was: A crappy announcement... 46406. Gerald Mellor Re: Internet costs 46407. Gerald Mellor Re: (OT) Astronomical figures (was Heart106.2 (Wa 46408. Gerald Mellor Re: A4000 High Density Floppy Problems 46409. Gerald Mellor Re: MUI 46410. Robert Johnston Re: TCP by Serial 46411. Robert Johnston Re: TCP via Serial 46412. Robert Johnston Re: G3/G4 cards 46413. Robert Johnston Re: Advertising the Amiga. 46414. Nick Lamburn Re: A4000 High Density Floppy Problems 46415. Robert Johnston Re: MUI 46416. Paul Laycock Flickerfixer fun 46417. Paul Laycock Screenmode problems 46418. Robert Johnston Re: Flickerfixer fun 46419. Kevin Fairhurst Re: Spending frenzy prize draw 46420. Ben Vost Re: alt.binaries? 46421. Kevin Fairhurst Re: A4000 High Density Floppy Problems 46422. Ben Vost Re: iSpell probs 46423. Kevin Fairhurst Re: MUI 46424. Ben Vost Re: AFCD50 46425. Ben Vost Re: PIRACY-SUCKS 46426. Ben Vost Re: Centuries 46427. Robert Johnston Re: MUI 46428. Kevin Fairhurst Re: Centuries 46429. Kevin Fairhurst Re: MUI 46430. Robert Johnston Re: Centuries 46431. Richard Drummond Re: MUI 46432. Robert Johnston Corporate Signatures... 46433. Ben Vost Re: Centuries 46434. Ben Vost Re: Corporate Signatures... 46435. Ben Vost phase 5 lives! 46436. riksweeney@hotmail.com Re: phase 5 lives! 46437. Robert Johnston Re: Corporate Signatures... 46438. Ben Vost Re: phase 5 lives! 46439. Kevin Fairhurst Re: Centuries 46440. Robert Johnston Re: phase 5 lives! 46441. Nick Lamburn Re: A4000 High Density Floppy Problems 46442. Kevin Fairhurst Re: A4000 High Density Floppy Problems 46443. Ben Vost Re: phase 5 lives! 46444. Robert Johnston Re: phase 5 lives! 46445. Ben Vost Re: phase 5 lives! 46446. Paul Laycock Re: Flickerfixer fun 46447. Nick Lamburn Re: A4000 High Density Floppy Problems 46448. Paul Laycock Re: phase 5 lives! 46449. Robert Johnston Re: Flickerfixer fun 46450. Robert Johnston Re: phase 5 lives! 46451. Neil Bothwick Re: Zippity do da, Zippity Day 46452. Neil Bothwick Re: Phase5 46453. Neil Bothwick Re: alt.binaries? 46454. Neil Bothwick Re: MUI 46455. Neil Bothwick Re: THOR in my side.... 46456. Neil Bothwick Re: Internet costs 46457. D Race Phase5 Pre-orders 46458. Ben Vost Re: Phase5 Pre-orders 46459. Kevin Fairhurst Re: Phase5 Pre-orders 46460. Mark Bond Re: Phase5 Pre-orders 46461. Ben Vost Re: Phase5 Pre-orders 46462. Robert Johnston Re: Phase5 Pre-orders 46463. Ben Vost Re: Phase5 Pre-orders 46464. Nick Lamburn Re: Phase5 Pre-orders 46465. Kevin Fairhurst Re: Phase5 Pre-orders 46466. Robert Johnston Re: Phase5 Pre-orders 46467. Samuel Byford Re: Internet costs 46468. Nick Lamburn Re: Phase5 Pre-orders 46469. Samuel Byford Re: Screenmode problems 46470. Ben Vost Re: Screenmode problems 46471. Samuel Byford Re: Screenmode problems 46472. Ben Vost Re: Screenmode problems 46473. Paul Laycock Re: Screenmode problems 46474. Robert Johnston Re: Screenmode problems 46475. Paul Laycock Re: Phase5 Pre-orders 46476. Samuel Byford Re: Screenmode problems 46477. Neil Bothwick Re: PIRACY-SUCKS 46478. Paul Laycock Re: Screenmode problems 46479. Paul Laycock Latest on BoXeR!!! 46480. Ben Vost Re: Latest on BoXeR!!! 46481. Paul Laycock Re: Latest on BoXeR!!! 46482. Chris Green Re: Phase5 Pre-orders 46483. Rick Hodger Re: DF1: as DF0: 46484. Rick Hodger Re: A4000 High Density Floppy Problems 46485. Rick Hodger Re: This Hard Drive will self destruct in 10...9. 46486. Rick Hodger Re: YAM PPC patch is a fake! 46487. Rick Hodger Re: Phase5 46488. Rick Hodger Re: Death of Phase5 - can DCE continue? 46489. Rick Hodger Re: PIRACY-SUCKS 46490. Pekka Sippola Re: This Hard Drive will self destruct in 10...9. 46491. Mark Bond Re: Phase5 Pre-orders 46492. Ben Vost Re: Phase5 Pre-orders 46493. Peter Bell Unexplained gurus 46494. Chris Green Re: A4000 High Density Floppy Problems 46495. Ben Vost Re: A4000 High Density Floppy Problems 46496. Robert Johnston Re: This Hard Drive will self destruct in 10...9. ----------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------ message 46397 ------------------------------ http://www.eGroups.com/list/afb/?start=46397 From: "Carl Berry" Date: 9 Feb 100 22:21:20 +0000 In-Reply-To: X-Mailing-List: afb@egroups.com Subject: [afb] Re: MUI MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Hi Mash, > > > Why would Stefan even consider working on it when there are people that > > have been using 3.x for years without paying? > > Why would I consider paying when there wont be a new version? works both > ways. > Yeah I'd like 3 A1200s and a A4000 delivered to my house please ohhh and a Triumph TR7 whilst your at it (I mean no-ones making them anymore are they ? so no new developments then). You have a basic working version of the program, the author says "give me some money if you want to keep using it" theres your motivation. Actually, I'm just wondering here, but what does anyone want from MUI 4 ? I mean in my case I installed 3.8 (and registered it :) ) and forgot about it, some of my software uses it, some of it doesn't and to be honest I can't actually remember off-hand which is which. I generally consider the registration price to be part of the cost of the software that uses it, the programmers knew exactly what the situation with MUI was before they used it didn't they. Carl. Accy, Lancs. (haven't written it for a bit so...) ------------------------------ message 46398 ------------------------------ http://www.eGroups.com/list/afb/?start=46398 Date: 9 Feb 2000 23:31:10 +0000 From: "Neil Bothwick" In-Reply-To: X-Mailing-List: afb@egroups.com Subject: [afb] Re: alt.binaries? MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Kevin Fairhurst said, > On 9 Feb 2000 21:28:14 +0000, Neil Bothwick (neil@wire.net.uk) wrote: >> HTTP: Helps Transfer The Porn >> FTP: Find The Porn >> NNTP: Nude & Nasty Type Porn > ROTFL ... is this going to appear in a future magazine article? I don't have any articles planned for Future magazines :) Neil -- Neil Bothwick - Connected via Wirenet The UK's first Amiga-only internet access provider http://www.wire.net.uk -- Idaho - It's not the end of the world, but you can see it from there. ------------------------------ message 46399 ------------------------------ http://www.eGroups.com/list/afb/?start=46399 From: Andy Kinsella Date: Wed, 09 Feb 2000 19:46:59 +0000 In-Reply-To: X-Mailing-List: afb@egroups.com Subject: [afb] Re: A crappy announcement to have to make MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Greetings Matthew = On 08-Feb-00, you wrote: > On 08-Feb-00, Ben Vost wrote: >>> Month in view: you say about not having enough to write about, but >>> then you give V=B3 a 1 page review!!? >> Yessss, that's the point surely? > V=B3, thousands will use, but has a 1 page review > PS4, hundereds will use, has a 4 page review Maybe because there's only so much you can write about a web browser? I've just finished reading the Voyager review; and it told me everything i'd want to know about Voyager. PageStream is easily worthy of 4 pages. More, even. It's effing brilliant (it will be better in the finished version when the pdf export works :)). The Documentation with the current (pre) release = is for v3.3. v4 will have a nice new printed manual and stuff. > Mash - = Regards Andy -- = Imagine textures and a few pictures@ /PGP Key available on request/ Whenever you find that you are on the side of the majority, it is time to reform. -- Mark Twain ------------------------------ message 46400 ------------------------------ http://www.eGroups.com/list/afb/?start=46400 From: Peter Gordon Date: Thu, 10 Feb 2000 00:43:02 +0000 In-Reply-To: <607.74T545T14112931neil@wire.net.uk> X-Mailing-List: afb@egroups.com Subject: [afb] Re: alt.binaries? MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Hi, >>> HTTP: Helps Transfer The Porn >>> FTP: Find The Porn >>> NNTP: Nude & Nasty Type Porn >> ROTFL ... is this going to appear in a future magazine article? > I don't have any articles planned for Future magazines :) I'd want royalties for the first two anyway :) -- =================================== so long and thanks for all the fish http://fly.to/Mr_Tickle =================================== Real meanings #17: WWW: World Wide Waste ------------------------------ message 46401 ------------------------------ http://www.eGroups.com/list/afb/?start=46401 Date: Wed, 09 Feb 2000 17:11:13 -0800 From: "Ian" X-Mailing-List: afb@egroups.com Subject: [afb] Vidi 12 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Hi I was wondering if anyone new if there is a way of connecting a vidi 12 to a pc ie is it possible and what software would I need.Although I use my a1200 I find it dificult to trancfer files to the pc.any help appreciated or even away of connecting my amiga to the pc serial or parallel ports. ------------------------------ message 46402 ------------------------------ http://www.eGroups.com/list/afb/?start=46402 From: "Eddie Maddock" Date: 9 Feb 100 23:30:04 -0500 In-Reply-To: X-Mailing-List: afb@egroups.com Subject: [afb] Re: POLL: Are you taking part in the spending frenzy? MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Hi Paul, > > > Isn't the empty Zip drive box I'm sending you reward enough ? Gosh, I > > > don't know, some people... ;) > > > Well that sounds like a really good pressy... ;-) > > Well seeing as you chucked yours out when you got it, what could I do > ;) I sent it off earlier today (Wednesday) and decided it'd be a waste of postage to just send the box on it's own, so I stuck an Amiga CD in there as well. You'll have to wait to see what, but it's nowt special, just something I've already got that turned up as part of a Weird Science bundle last year ;) > And it's not a pressy as such - Eddie gets a reward, y'know. Could it be ?... surely not ?.... am I finally getting my Mars bar ? ;) Cheers, Eddie (I've added a couple more prizes to my `spending frenzy' friday draw as well. See seperate mail) ------------------------------ message 46403 ------------------------------ http://www.eGroups.com/list/afb/?start=46403 From: "Eddie Maddock" Date: 10 Feb 100 00:38:41 -0500 In-Reply-To: <488.69T1450T7435451tom.hurst@clara.net> X-Mailing-List: afb@egroups.com Subject: [afb] Spending frenzy prize draw MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Hi all, With two days officially left I figured I'd add a few more items to my prize draw on Friday night. I came across the original Virtual Karting in a box of discounted goodies I picked up a while back. It's hardly a great game, but it's going into the draw as I already have it. Then there's the platform game Ruffian. "Actually... a bloody good game" said CU Amigas Matt Broughton on the packaging. Well, maybe a few years back it was. At least it didn't seem bothered running on my Blizzard 060 which is good. The funny thing is, I didn't even know I had this game. When Epic sent me my analogue steering wheel they used three Ruffian boxes to pad the box out. I thought they were empty games boxes until I opened one of them a couple of weeks back ! So the prize draw that I'm doing this Friday night (after the pub) will win someone the following :- One Amiga mouse (with logo) Camcontrol software (and manual) One Star Wars Imperial Stormtrooper keyring (makes authentic sounds) Virtual Karting Ruffian I think I've got the names of most people who said they'd bought / be buying something this week. Anyone who's not spoken up, or is worried they might have been missed out, then send me an email direct stating just one thing you've bought during the spending frenzy and from where, and I'll chuck your name in the hat (the BIG hat). For everyone else who's totally bemused by the whole thing... don't panic, it'll be over by the weekend (then I'll go back into lurk mode) Cheers, Eddie (right, let's see if there's anything else I can chuck out... erm... ahem, I mean `give away' ;)) ------------------------------ message 46404 ------------------------------ http://www.eGroups.com/list/afb/?start=46404 From: Mark Wilson Date: Thu, 10 Feb 2000 01:34:53 +0000 In-Reply-To: X-Mailing-List: afb@egroups.com Subject: [afb] Re: PIRACY-SUCKS MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On 09-Feb-00, Daniel wrote this: >> Voyager 3 is stable, if you have a gfx card, Poor old AGA users seem t= o >> loose out though, but I'm sure that Olli and everyone at vaporware do >> their very best in the current market to make *good* products. > V=B3 is very stable in AGA if you disable flash. Using FBlit helps as > well, because V loves chip-ram. Voyager uses no chip ram here, none at all, thank god for a gfx card -- = Mark 'tecno' Wilson = Team Member of AmiBench Web: http://www.AmiBench.org Email: mark@amibench.org ------------------------------ message 46405 ------------------------------ http://www.eGroups.com/list/afb/?start=46405 From: "Gerald Mellor" <9745589@tiree.sms.ed.ac.uk> Date: Thu, 10 Feb 2000 04:00:30 +0000 In-reply-to: <87sj0l+kkl2@eGroups.com> X-Mailing-List: afb@egroups.com Subject: [afb] Re: MUI - was: A crappy announcement... MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit On 9 Feb 00, at 20:25, Jonathan M. Dudley wrote: > As far as I can make out, MUI offers programmers an easier GUI development > environment. In that case, doesn't that make it a developer tool? If so, > surely the developers should pay for it, not the consumers. > > As you pointed out, "the programmer may not have to use [MUI]", but if they > do, should they alone not have to bear the full cost of that decision? Yeah I agree, but unfortunately that's not the way they chose to do it. And I'm grateful for those programmers who did choose to use MUI, imho it makes everything look so much nicer, and the configurability it gives you over your applications is what AmigaOS should be about. Bauglir ------------------------------ message 46406 ------------------------------ http://www.eGroups.com/list/afb/?start=46406 From: "Gerald Mellor" <9745589@tiree.sms.ed.ac.uk> Date: Thu, 10 Feb 2000 04:31:27 +0000 In-reply-to: References: <200002071924.TAA29752@renko.ucs.ed.ac.uk> X-Mailing-List: afb@egroups.com Subject: [afb] Re: Internet costs MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On 9 Feb 00, at 21:55, Ken Walsh wrote: >> For 1 hour Monday-Friday 8:00-18:00 - =A32.40 >> For 1 hour Monday-Friday before 8:00 & after 18:00 - =A30.90 > > I thought they had changed there rate to 1p now after 6pm M-F (min 5p) Not according to their website. But maybe it just hasn't been updated. Bauglir ------------------------------ message 46407 ------------------------------ http://www.eGroups.com/list/afb/?start=46407 From: "Gerald Mellor" <9745589@tiree.sms.ed.ac.uk> Date: Thu, 10 Feb 2000 04:59:44 +0000 References: In-reply-to: <2653.74T2440T4125915T.A.S@bigpond.com> X-Mailing-List: afb@egroups.com Subject: [afb] Re: (OT) Astronomical figures (was Heart106.2 (Was: Exams)) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit On 9 Feb 00, at 6:52, Tim Seifert wrote: > I just don't beleive in this speed of light limit nonsense (other than > it be nearly impossible to find a harnessable energy source to acheive > it). If the speed of light is the limit, and anything travelling at the > speed of light slows down. Then light, itself, could not travel at the > speed that it does. I think the trouble here is that you have *some* knowledge of the physics, and assume you have *all* the knowledge. Light can travel at the speed it does, because photons are massless, so they aren't subject to the same rules as you would be, for instance. I'm not exactly sure what you mean by "anything travelling at the speed of light slows down", though. Bauglir ------------------------------ message 46408 ------------------------------ http://www.eGroups.com/list/afb/?start=46408 From: "Gerald Mellor" <9745589@tiree.sms.ed.ac.uk> Date: Thu, 10 Feb 2000 04:59:59 +0000 In-reply-to: References: <87r9l7$gerr@eGroups.com> X-Mailing-List: afb@egroups.com Subject: [afb] Re: A4000 High Density Floppy Problems MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit On 9 Feb 00, at 9:09, Kevin Fairhurst wrote: > What you should have done is bought Power Computings A1200 HD drive > instead. This comes with a software utility that patches the OS and allows > you to use HD disks fully - without the patch you cannot write to HD disks. Or get one from Blittersoft, which doesn't require the software patch. That's if they're still selling them, they don't display them on their website and they don't advertise in AF anymore. Bauglir ------------------------------ message 46409 ------------------------------ http://www.eGroups.com/list/afb/?start=46409 From: "Gerald Mellor" <9745589@tiree.sms.ed.ac.uk> Date: Thu, 10 Feb 2000 05:00:09 +0000 In-reply-to: References: <705.73T1540T10304318neil@wire.net.uk> X-Mailing-List: afb@egroups.com Subject: [afb] Re: MUI MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit On 9 Feb 00, at 16:03, Matthew O'Neill wrote: >> Why would Stefan even consider working on it when there are people that >> have been using 3.x for years without paying? > > Why would I consider paying when there wont be a new version? works both > ways. You don't know there won't be a new version. You don't know that your registration fee wouldn't be the one to make him decide it's worth developing the system further. As to why you would consider paying, if you're using it, you should pay for it, same as any other software. Bauglir ------------------------------ message 46410 ------------------------------ http://www.eGroups.com/list/afb/?start=46410 From: Robert Johnston Date: Thu, 10 Feb 2000 08:03:46 -0000 X-Mailing-List: afb@egroups.com Subject: [afb] Re: TCP by Serial MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit > What I can't manage, is to get the PC to hold two DUNs at once (the > second one will never connect, and sometimes cause the first > to hang up > too). So I can't dial the net on the PC, link up the Amiga to the PC, > and use both computers off the one MODEM. It wants a network (LAN) > adaptor installed to do that. You need to install a SECOND dial-up Adapter (Add New Hardware -> Choose from List -> Microsoft -> Dial-Up Adapter) Then it'll work... -- ------------------------------ message 46411 ------------------------------ http://www.eGroups.com/list/afb/?start=46411 From: Robert Johnston Date: Thu, 10 Feb 2000 08:43:59 -0000 X-Mailing-List: afb@egroups.com Subject: [afb] Re: TCP via Serial MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit > > What you need to do is to set up a "Login Script" in Miami that says > > something like "Send 'RING\nRING' Wait 'ATA' Send 'CONNECT 115200'". > > Then set up "Dial-up Server" on the PC, and set it running on the > > Null-modem. > > THEN "Dial-in" using Miami on the Amiga, and voila! one > working TCP/IP > > connection! > > I could do with something like this, to connect to Quake on > my dad's laptop. > Unfortuantely, this was supplied by his company, and so I don't have a > Win95 CD to set up the server with. Is there another way? Well, Dial-up Server is part of '98, not '95... but I'm sure there are a number of shareware alternatives. Try http://www.winfiles.com of http://www.shareware.com -- ------------------------------ message 46412 ------------------------------ http://www.eGroups.com/list/afb/?start=46412 From: Robert Johnston Date: Thu, 10 Feb 2000 08:47:59 -0000 X-Mailing-List: afb@egroups.com Subject: [afb] Re: G3/G4 cards MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable > > >> Yes that's a possiblity. However, if it's securely protected = then > > >> nothing but a specific updater will be able to edit it. > >=20 > > >> Yeah....it's not like secure software has even=20 > been hacked > > >> before or anything... > >=20 > > > Then (as someone les has pointed out) ship the boars with=20 > a write protect > > > jumper :-=20 > >=20 > > Yeah, but I sent this before he said that... >=20 > Not the sarcasm thing. he replied to your original "ooh, someone = will > crack it and spread a virus" post. But what if they used a 64 bit > encryption key? Given the amount of time RC5-64 is taking=20 > no-one would > crack that until a new board was out to supercede it anyway!! Why not go the whole hog... 3074-Bit PGP Encryption anyone? > > > Actually, it's not just the programmers fault - if something goes > > > wrong you blame the beta-test team ;) > >=20 > > heheh....end users won't usually accept that as an excuse tho :) >=20 > It shouldn't get as far as the end users, but sometimes they=20 > get nominated > to join teh beta test team without realising it .... It's called prereleasing (v=B3 anyone?) > > > Kev, who has got many programs right first time > >=20 > > Yeah...okay :) >=20 > It's true - I didn't have much choice as I was working on a lot of = Y2k > stuff in COBOL. A hell of a lot of my seat-of -the-pants=20 > changes worked > first time and still work. Some didn't I admit. Hell, a lot=20 > didn't. The > thing is, I made sure myself that it worked before shouting=20 > that I'd fixed > it. Gave me more time and a better understanding of the=20 > problem *grin* Sounds like how I used to fly my F-16 in the game of the same name on = the C=3D64... "What does 'Unable to land' mean? I'm on the runway..." /me pulls 2 threads together... --=20 ------------------------------ message 46413 ------------------------------ http://www.eGroups.com/list/afb/?start=46413 From: Robert Johnston Date: Thu, 10 Feb 2000 08:57:30 -0000 X-Mailing-List: afb@egroups.com Subject: [afb] Re: Advertising the Amiga. MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit > I have had an idea of how the members of afb list can make an > advert for the > Amiga. > > My idea is that each of the 800+ members of the afb sends a picture of > themselves to Ben. When he has everyones mugshot a picture or a symbol > (something Amiga) can be made out of all the seperate > images, something > similar to the E.T. BT billboards that can be seen around the > UK at the > moment can be made and attached to the outside of the AF > office building. I > am sure Ben would like to spend his dinner hour in the car > park positioning > the photos so that he can go on the roof and see his > masterpiece from a > distance (and probably see a gust of wind destroy it). Pictures of people on Red, White and Blue Backgrounds (a Boing ball against a cloudy blue sky)? -- ------------------------------ message 46414 ------------------------------ http://www.eGroups.com/list/afb/?start=46414 Date: Thu, 10 Feb 2000 01:00:59 -0800 From: "Nick Lamburn" In-Reply-To: <200002100500.FAA07306@renko.ucs.ed.ac.uk> X-Mailing-List: afb@egroups.com Subject: [afb] Re: A4000 High Density Floppy Problems MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Hi, > > What you should have done is bought Power Computings A1200 HD drive > > instead. This comes with a software utility that patches the OS and allows > > you to use HD disks fully - without the patch you cannot write to HD disks. > > Or get one from Blittersoft, which doesn't require the software patch. > That's if they're still selling them, they don't display them on their > website and they don't advertise in AF anymore. Just a slightly related spin on this; but the patch that power's HD drives use is called in the startup-sequence; and Micronik's drives require no patch. This must mean that you cannot boot a 1.76Mb HD Amiga floppy; which is not a problem for me; only if I wish to fire up a game or something which is not often at all. :) Unless of course Power's patch makes it resident in one of the Amiga's boot vectors (is that what it is? :) and the patch is resident until it's flushed from memory? Anyway - for me I don't need Amiga disk booting on 1760K disks. :) One related question; the PC0 DOS Driver (and PC1, PC2....) is set up for a DD PC disk; what do I need to change in the mountlist to get it to recognise both PC 720K and 1440K? I'm not sure if it's the tracks or sectors that increases (/me suspects both); I know surfaces stays 2 doesn't it? Or do I have to make a mountlist one for 720K and one for 1440K. Also; The Power XL HD drive; if that's mounted via the Amiga's external disk drive port; it's mounted as DF1:, yes? Or is it another name? Like umm, dunno really! :) I'll have to get the drive in my tower though, which was easy enough with my other DD external drive... :) All the best, Nick. ------------------------------ message 46415 ------------------------------ http://www.eGroups.com/list/afb/?start=46415 From: Robert Johnston Date: Thu, 10 Feb 2000 09:02:54 -0000 X-Mailing-List: afb@egroups.com Subject: [afb] Re: MUI MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit > Actually, I'm just wondering here, but what does anyone want from MUI > 4 ? I mean in my case I installed 3.8 (and registered it :) ) and > forgot about it, some of my software uses it, some of it doesn't and > to be honest I can't actually remember off-hand which is which. I > generally consider the registration price to be part of the cost of > the software that uses it, the programmers knew exactly what the > situation with MUI was before they used it didn't they. o Speed o Fastmem-Blitting o Reduction in size o Greater User Customisation o And more... -- ------------------------------ message 46416 ------------------------------ http://www.eGroups.com/list/afb/?start=46416 Date: Thu, 10 Feb 2000 01:15:55 -0800 From: "Paul Laycock" X-Mailing-List: afb@egroups.com Subject: [afb] Flickerfixer fun MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Hi ppl, I recieved my new external Scanmagic scandoubler and flicker-fixer yesterday, to be used with my new Belinea 17" monitor. However, I've noticed some strange occurences. Before I go screaming to technical support, I thought someone here might have a quick-fix solution. It seems as though there is quite a lot of interference around my house, as I get strange "waves" (sorry I can't be more descriptive) running up the screen. To combat this, I have wrapped the scandoubler in an anti-static bag to shield it a bit. Any ideas? Thanks for any assistance, Paul Laycock ------------------------------ message 46417 ------------------------------ http://www.eGroups.com/list/afb/?start=46417 Date: Thu, 10 Feb 2000 01:16:21 -0800 From: "Paul Laycock" X-Mailing-List: afb@egroups.com Subject: [afb] Screenmode problems MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Hi ppl, OS3.5 was going so nicely over the past couple of months that I thought nothing would go wrong. But now, for no apparent reason, my Amiga hangs when quit Screenmode. I haven't installed anything new, so what could be the problem? On a possibly similar note, QuakeWorldWOS (and QuakeWOS) won't open a screen anymore thus failing to run. It used to work fine, when all of a sudden, "unable to open AGA screen". Whats going on?! Paul Laycock ------------------------------ message 46418 ------------------------------ http://www.eGroups.com/list/afb/?start=46418 From: Robert Johnston Date: Thu, 10 Feb 2000 09:18:30 -0000 X-Mailing-List: afb@egroups.com Subject: [afb] Re: Flickerfixer fun MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable > -----Original Message----- > From: Paul Laycock [mailto:amipal@yahoo.com] > Sent: 10 February 2000 09:16 > To: afb@eGroups.com > Subject: [afb] Flickerfixer fun > I recieved my new external Scanmagic scandoubler and flicker-fixer > yesterday, to be used with my new Belinea 17" monitor. However, I've > noticed some strange occurences. Before I go screaming to technical > support, I thought someone here might have a quick-fix solution. > It seems as though there is quite a lot of interference around my > house, as I get strange "waves" (sorry I can't be more descriptive) > running up the screen. To combat this, I have wrapped the scandoubler > in an anti-static bag to shield it a bit. Any ideas? A couple'a RF chokes on the Cabling..? This should help/solve the Moir=E9 Fringe you're seeing. --=20 ------------------------------ message 46419 ------------------------------ http://www.eGroups.com/list/afb/?start=46419 From: "Kevin Fairhurst" Date: 10 Feb 2000 09:45:04 +0000 In-Reply-To: X-Mailing-List: afb@egroups.com Subject: [afb] Re: Spending frenzy prize draw MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit On 10 Feb 100 00:38:41 -0500, Eddie Maddock (eddie@maddock.prestel.co.uk) wrote: > Hi all, > So the prize draw that I'm doing this Friday night (after the pub) Oh God no ... is that a good thing or a bad thing, Eddie? ;-) > will win someone the following :- > > One Amiga mouse (with logo) > Camcontrol software (and manual) > One Star Wars Imperial Stormtrooper keyring (makes authentic sounds) They sampled an authentic Imperial Stormtrooper?? > Virtual Karting > Ruffian > > I think I've got the names of most people who said they'd bought / be > buying something this week. Anyone who's not spoken up, or is > worried they might have been missed out, then send me an email direct > stating just one thing you've bought during the spending frenzy and > from where, and I'll chuck your name in the hat (the BIG hat). As well as the other stuff I ordered I'm now gonna order a couple more things, but I guess I'm in the hat already, right? ;-) Kev -- Kevin "Redvers" Fairhurst - ICQ 56332267, redver5 on AIM ------------------------------ message 46420 ------------------------------ http://www.eGroups.com/list/afb/?start=46420 From: "Ben Vost" Date: Thu, 10 Feb 2000 09:46:11 +0000 In-Reply-To: <1265.74T999T11063969neil@wire.net.uk> X-Mailing-List: afb@egroups.com Subject: [afb] Re: alt.binaries? MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Hi Neil, > Only the ones that shouldn't be distributed freely. MP3 are the main > user of usenet bandwidth, warez second and pron third. And I suppose that people who steal other peoples' and re-post it illegally to Usenet are actually pron crackers? All the best, -- Ben Vost (x2337) /PGP key available/ T: (+44) 01225 442244 Editor, Amiga Format F: (+44) 01225 732275 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ ------------------------------ message 46421 ------------------------------ http://www.eGroups.com/list/afb/?start=46421 From: "Kevin Fairhurst" Date: 10 Feb 2000 09:48:20 +0000 In-Reply-To: <87tuob$qaoi@eGroups.com> X-Mailing-List: afb@egroups.com Subject: [afb] Re: A4000 High Density Floppy Problems MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit On Thu, 10 Feb 2000 01:00:59 -0800, Nick Lamburn (oruk-amigan@excite.com) wrote: > Hi, > > > > What you should have done is bought Power Computings A1200 HD drive > > > instead. This comes with a software utility that patches the OS > and allows > > > you to use HD disks fully - without the patch you cannot write to > HD disks. > > > > Or get one from Blittersoft, which doesn't require the software > patch. > > That's if they're still selling them, they don't display them on > their > > website and they don't advertise in AF anymore. > > Just a slightly related spin on this; but the patch that power's HD > drives use is called in the startup-sequence; and Micronik's drives > require no patch. This must mean that you cannot boot a 1.76Mb HD > Amiga floppy; which is not a problem for me; only if I wish to fire up > a game or something which is not often at all. :) Unless of course > Power's patch makes it resident in one of the Amiga's boot vectors (is > that what it is? :) and the patch is resident until it's flushed from > memory? The PowerC patch merely lets you write to disks - you can read (and boot from) HD disks without the patch ... > Anyway - for me I don't need Amiga disk booting on 1760K disks. :) > > One related question; the PC0 DOS Driver (and PC1, PC2....) is set up > for a DD PC disk; what do I need to change in the mountlist to get it > to recognise both PC 720K and 1440K? I'm not sure if it's the tracks > or sectors that increases (/me suspects both); I know surfaces stays 2 > doesn't it? Or do I have to make a mountlist one for 720K and one for > 1440K. Nope. It's clever enough to recognise a HD disk when it sees one, and will read this fine! I found out that it also works fine as it is for 360k PC disks when I had to get some data of an ex-girlfriends' mums very ancient PC ... > Also; The Power XL HD drive; if that's mounted via the Amiga's external > disk drive port; it's mounted as DF1:, yes? Or is it another name? > Like umm, dunno really! :) I'll have to get the drive in my tower > though, which was easy enough with my other DD external drive... :) An external drive is DF1, yes. You can get an internal one though, if they still have them ... kev -- Kevin "Redvers" Fairhurst - ICQ 56332267, redver5 on AIM ------------------------------ message 46422 ------------------------------ http://www.eGroups.com/list/afb/?start=46422 From: "Ben Vost" Date: Thu, 10 Feb 2000 09:49:34 +0000 In-Reply-To: <716.74T1000T11573804Nyk@tomobiki.u-net.com> X-Mailing-List: afb@egroups.com Subject: [afb] Re: iSpell probs MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Hi Nyk, >> I've got iSpell working in YAM now, but is there a kind soul that can >> tell me how to create a user dictionary, or how to add words to user >> dictionary, etc.? > Can't remember how I installed it (in August 97...) but the user > dictionary is ispell:lib/.ispell_english and it's one word per line > sort of thing.. Yep, got that, but iSpell doesn't respond to it... All the best, -- Ben Vost (x2337) /PGP key available/ T: (+44) 01225 442244 Editor, Amiga Format F: (+44) 01225 732275 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ ------------------------------ message 46423 ------------------------------ http://www.eGroups.com/list/afb/?start=46423 From: "Kevin Fairhurst" Date: 10 Feb 2000 09:49:49 +0000 In-Reply-To: <1AF46531C3DCD3119F6500D0B723B4B24EFBED@THE_EXCHANGE> X-Mailing-List: afb@egroups.com Subject: [afb] Re: MUI MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit On Thu, 10 Feb 2000 09:02:54 -0000, Robert Johnston (RJohnston@SIMPLY.CO.UK) wrote: > > Actually, I'm just wondering here, but what does anyone want from MUI > > 4? > > o Speed > o Fastmem-Blitting > o Reduction in size > o Greater User Customisation > o And more... Processor specific executables? :-) Kev -- Kevin "Redvers" Fairhurst - ICQ 56332267, redver5 on AIM ------------------------------ message 46424 ------------------------------ http://www.eGroups.com/list/afb/?start=46424 From: "Ben Vost" Date: Thu, 10 Feb 2000 09:51:31 +0000 In-Reply-To: <87sj0m+go8t@eGroups.com> X-Mailing-List: afb@egroups.com Subject: [afb] Re: AFCD50 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Hi Jonathan, > I can't say I've ever checked... > You having a bad week there Ben? > You seem slightly more caustic than usual. :/ *Every* week is a bad week in AmigaMagazineLand these days... :( All the best, -- Ben Vost (x2337) /PGP key available/ T: (+44) 01225 442244 Editor, Amiga Format F: (+44) 01225 732275 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ ASCII stupid question, get a stupid ANSI ------------------------------ message 46425 ------------------------------ http://www.eGroups.com/list/afb/?start=46425 From: "Ben Vost" Date: Thu, 10 Feb 2000 09:53:08 +0000 In-Reply-To: X-Mailing-List: afb@egroups.com Subject: [afb] Re: PIRACY-SUCKS MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Hi Daniel, > V=B3 is very stable in AGA if you disable flash. Using FBlit helps as > well, because V loves chip-ram. *All* picture-intensive programs do. All the best, -- = Ben Vost (x2337) /PGP key available/ T: (+44) 01225 442244 Editor, Amiga Format F: (+44) 01225 732275 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Excuse for the day: runt packets ------------------------------ message 46426 ------------------------------ http://www.eGroups.com/list/afb/?start=46426 From: "Ben Vost" Date: Thu, 10 Feb 2000 09:55:52 +0000 In-Reply-To: <559.74T510T12992704neil@wire.net.uk> X-Mailing-List: afb@egroups.com Subject: [afb] Re: Centuries MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Hi Neil, > No. it should be > 0-99 is the first hundred, 2900-2999 is the thirtieth hundred. Isn't there a slight problem with this when it comes to Christian calendar dates though? After all, there never was a year zero in "our" calendar. All the best, -- Ben Vost (x2337) /PGP key available/ T: (+44) 01225 442244 Editor, Amiga Format F: (+44) 01225 732275 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Evil Surgeons Demand Black Smocks ------------------------------ message 46427 ------------------------------ http://www.eGroups.com/list/afb/?start=46427 From: Robert Johnston Date: Thu, 10 Feb 2000 09:54:20 -0000 X-Mailing-List: afb@egroups.com Subject: [afb] Re: MUI MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit > > > Actually, I'm just wondering here, but what does anyone > want from MUI > > > 4? > > > > o Speed > > o Fastmem-Blitting > > o Reduction in size > > o Greater User Customisation > > o And more... > > Processor specific executables? :-) Of course! MUI-PPC anyone? -- ------------------------------ message 46428 ------------------------------ http://www.eGroups.com/list/afb/?start=46428 From: "Kevin Fairhurst" Date: 10 Feb 2000 10:03:33 +0000 In-Reply-To: X-Mailing-List: afb@egroups.com Subject: [afb] Re: Centuries MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit On Thu, 10 Feb 2000 09:55:52 +0000, Ben Vost (ben.vost@futurenet.co.uk) wrote: > Hi Neil, > > > No. it should be > > > 0-99 is the first hundred, 2900-2999 is the thirtieth hundred. > > Isn't there a slight problem with this when it comes to Christian calendar > dates though? After all, there never was a year zero in "our" calendar. And then there was Pope Gregory shifting things around left right and centre, and all the Roman leaders vying for as many days in their own months as possible, and all the missed leap year days ... And you think you're calendar is still accurate enough to say when the millennium happend? ;-) Kev -- Kevin "Redvers" Fairhurst - ICQ 56332267, redver5 on AIM ------------------------------ message 46429 ------------------------------ http://www.eGroups.com/list/afb/?start=46429 From: "Kevin Fairhurst" Date: 10 Feb 2000 10:03:59 +0000 In-Reply-To: <1AF46531C3DCD3119F6500D0B723B4B24EFBF0@THE_EXCHANGE> X-Mailing-List: afb@egroups.com Subject: [afb] Re: MUI MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit On Thu, 10 Feb 2000 09:54:20 -0000, Robert Johnston (RJohnston@SIMPLY.CO.UK) wrote: > > > > Actually, I'm just wondering here, but what does anyone > > want from MUI > > > > 4? > > > > > > o Speed > > > o Fastmem-Blitting > > > o Reduction in size > > > o Greater User Customisation > > > o And more... > > > > Processor specific executables? :-) > > Of course! MUI-PPC anyone? Me please. I'll pay to upgrade to it from my registered 3.8 version too! Kev -- Kevin "Redvers" Fairhurst - ICQ 56332267, redver5 on AIM ------------------------------ message 46430 ------------------------------ http://www.eGroups.com/list/afb/?start=46430 From: Robert Johnston Date: Thu, 10 Feb 2000 10:08:20 -0000 X-Mailing-List: afb@egroups.com Subject: [afb] Re: Centuries MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit > > > No. it should be > > > > > 0-99 is the first hundred, 2900-2999 is the thirtieth hundred. > > > > Isn't there a slight problem with this when it comes to > Christian calendar > > dates though? After all, there never was a year zero in > "our" calendar. > > And then there was Pope Gregory shifting things around left right and > centre, and all the Roman leaders vying for as many days in their own > months as possible, and all the missed leap year days ... > > And you think you're calendar is still accurate enough to say when the > millennium happend? ;-) Which is all besides the point anyway.... Jesus was Born in the Reign of King Herod... ... Whose Reign ended in 6BC Ho hum... -- ------------------------------ message 46431 ------------------------------ http://www.eGroups.com/list/afb/?start=46431 From: "Richard Drummond" Date: Thu, 10 Feb 2000 10:07:11 +0000 (GMT) In-Reply-To: X-Mailing-List: afb@egroups.com Subject: [afb] Re: MUI MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Hi Kev On 10-Feb-00, you wrote: > On Thu, 10 Feb 2000 09:02:54 -0000, Robert Johnston > (RJohnston@SIMPLY.CO.UK) wrote: >>> Actually, I'm just wondering here, but what does anyone want from MUI >>> 4? (SNIP) > Processor specific executables? :-) This would make less difference than people imagine. The general purpose integer instruction set does not differ much between the 68020 and 68060. Most compilers produce nearly identical code when compiling (non-FPU code) for either processor. I don't think any Amiga compiler is smart enough to optimize properly for the 040/060. 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After all, no-one thinks he was around in the crossover between BC and AD... All the best, -- Ben Vost (x2337) /PGP key available/ T: (+44) 01225 442244 Editor, Amiga Format F: (+44) 01225 732275 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Just want the news on what's going to be in the next issue of Amiga Format? Go to http://www.egroups.com/list/afb-announce ------------------------------ message 46434 ------------------------------ http://www.eGroups.com/list/afb/?start=46434 From: "Ben Vost" Date: Thu, 10 Feb 2000 10:16:50 +0000 In-Reply-To: <1AF46531C3DCD3119F6500D0B723B4B24EFBF5@THE_EXCHANGE> X-Mailing-List: afb@egroups.com Subject: [afb] Re: Corporate Signatures... MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Hi Robert, > If you think the (ex) Simply Signature was bad, have a look at this one... (snip huge sig) > As on every E-mail from T-Mi Plc!!! yeah, but I bet they don't have the cheek to put v-cards on everything... :) All the best, -- Ben Vost (x2337) /PGP key available/ T: (+44) 01225 442244 Editor, Amiga Format F: (+44) 01225 732275 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Good Science: Increasing the size of everything in Britain by 250% to aid the sight impaired ------------------------------ message 46435 ------------------------------ http://www.eGroups.com/list/afb/?start=46435 From: "Ben Vost" Date: Thu, 10 Feb 2000 10:18:36 +0000 X-Mailing-List: afb@egroups.com Subject: [afb] phase 5 lives! MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Hi, This is from Czech Amiga News: "Oberursel, 02/09/2000: On January 26., 2000 application for insolvency was made about the property of phase 5 digital production, and the application proceedings has been established by a decee made by the competent county court at the same day. During the regular application procedure there are negotiations about assumption, and continuation of the Amiga technology field with among others prospective buyers. By that, continuation of the current development and products shall be attained, espacially as for the new G4 acceleration boards. Every customer who did product preordering from and product prepayment to phase5 digital products will become informed about their objective rights in writing, once the insolvency proceeding will be established. " All the best, -- Ben Vost (x2337) /PGP key available/ T: (+44) 01225 442244 Editor, Amiga Format F: (+44) 01225 732275 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ "I'm trying to get some air circulating in the loft", said Tom fanatically. ------------------------------ message 46436 ------------------------------ http://www.eGroups.com/list/afb/?start=46436 Date: Thu, 10 Feb 2000 02:25:50 -0800 From: riksweeney@hotmail.com In-Reply-To: X-Mailing-List: afb@egroups.com Subject: [afb] Re: phase 5 lives! MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit [see previous thread] I have no idea what any of that meant Ben, could you explain it for the more stupid among us, such as me? ------------------------------ message 46437 ------------------------------ http://www.eGroups.com/list/afb/?start=46437 From: Robert Johnston Date: Thu, 10 Feb 2000 10:21:51 -0000 X-Mailing-List: afb@egroups.com Subject: [afb] Re: Corporate Signatures... MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit > yeah, but I bet they don't have the cheek to put v-cards on > everything... :) Sorry about that. It only goes on "New" messages I send, and as soon as the window went away, I said "D'oh!" coz I usually delete it before I send a "New" message to AFB (NOT very often) -- ------------------------------ message 46438 ------------------------------ http://www.eGroups.com/list/afb/?start=46438 From: "Ben Vost" Date: Thu, 10 Feb 2000 10:29:24 +0000 In-Reply-To: <87u3ne$871p@eGroups.com> X-Mailing-List: afb@egroups.com Subject: [afb] Re: phase 5 lives! MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Hi riksweeney@hotmail.com, > I have no idea what any of that meant Ben, could you explain it for the > more stupid among us, such as me? Well it doesn't really mean anything. FWIW I've known about p5 for about three weeks, and the major concern was what to do about folk who'd actually stumped up the deposit and so on. While there may not be a G4 in the works, people who did pay a deposit should get their money back... however, since DCE paid for a licence to manufacturer some of the p5 products, they may also pay a small sum to be able to finalise the G4 boards that p5 *was* developing... All the best, -- Ben Vost (x2337) /PGP key available/ T: (+44) 01225 442244 Editor, Amiga Format F: (+44) 01225 732275 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ "*I* manufacture those worktops", said Tom counterproductively. ------------------------------ message 46439 ------------------------------ http://www.eGroups.com/list/afb/?start=46439 From: "Kevin Fairhurst" Date: 10 Feb 2000 10:38:18 +0000 In-Reply-To: X-Mailing-List: afb@egroups.com Subject: [afb] Re: Centuries MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit On Thu, 10 Feb 2000 10:15:21 +0000, Ben Vost (ben.vost@futurenet.co.uk) wrote: > Hi Kevin, 'lo > > And then there was Pope Gregory shifting things around left right and > > centre, and all the Roman leaders vying for as many days in their own > > months as possible, and all the missed leap year days ... > > > And you think you're calendar is still accurate enough to say when the > > millennium happend? ;-) > > Or even when Christ was born! After all, no-one thinks he was around in the > crossover between BC and AD... The latest theory is that if he was born, it'd be 7BC, cos that's when there was a significant event in the night sky that could correlate to something the wise men would have seen as happening over Bethlehem ... Kev -- Kevin "Redvers" Fairhurst - ICQ 56332267, redver5 on AIM ------------------------------ message 46440 ------------------------------ http://www.eGroups.com/list/afb/?start=46440 From: Robert Johnston Date: Thu, 10 Feb 2000 10:39:43 -0000 X-Mailing-List: afb@egroups.com Subject: [afb] Re: phase 5 lives! MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit > "*I* manufacture those worktops", said Tom counterproductively. I want these Taglines!! All of 'Em! It's the high point of my day, to see what Ben's Tagline Generator's going to come out with next... :) Once I got that, I need a Tagline selector for Outlook :P Yeuch! -- ------------------------------ message 46441 ------------------------------ http://www.eGroups.com/list/afb/?start=46441 Date: Thu, 10 Feb 2000 03:08:30 -0800 From: "Nick Lamburn" In-Reply-To: X-Mailing-List: afb@egroups.com Subject: [afb] Re: A4000 High Density Floppy Problems MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Hello Kevin, > > Just a slightly related spin on this; but the patch that power's HD > > drives use is called in the startup-sequence; and Micronik's drives > > require no patch. This must mean that you cannot boot a 1.76Mb HD > > Amiga floppy; which is not a problem for me; only if I wish to fire up > > a game or something which is not often at all. :) Unless of course > > Power's patch makes it resident in one of the Amiga's boot vectors (is > > that what it is? :) and the patch is resident until it's flushed from > > memory? > > The PowerC patch merely lets you write to disks - you can read (and boot > from) HD disks without the patch ... Interesting. Well that's good to know. :) I suppose the patch has something to do with the buffers on PowerC's drives; so that data is written at the correct speed? > > Anyway - for me I don't need Amiga disk booting on 1760K disks. :) > > > > One related question; the PC0 DOS Driver (and PC1, PC2....) is set up > > for a DD PC disk; what do I need to change in the mountlist to get it > > to recognise both PC 720K and 1440K? I'm not sure if it's the tracks > > or sectors that increases (/me suspects both); I know surfaces stays 2 > > doesn't it? Or do I have to make a mountlist one for 720K and one for > > 1440K. > > Nope. It's clever enough to recognise a HD disk when it sees one, and will > read this fine! I found out that it also works fine as it is for 360k PC > disks when I had to get some data of an ex-girlfriends' mums very ancient > PC ... Excellent! :) In fact on an off-note; the A4K floppy drive I had sometimes said when I put a disk in to try (before I knew it wouldn't work) and format it as MS-DOS type; it stated a HD disk was 360K; a DD 5.25" floppy format! :-) > > Also; The Power XL HD drive; if that's mounted via the Amiga's external > > disk drive port; it's mounted as DF1:, yes? Or is it another name? > > Like umm, dunno really! :) I'll have to get the drive in my tower > > though, which was easy enough with my other DD external drive... :) > > An external drive is DF1, yes. You can get an internal one though, if they > still have them ... Well I have done a deal with Tudor 'wheeling dealing' Davies, and I will just stick my old DD Chinnon drive as Df0: and the HD drive as Df1:. All the best, Nick. > kev > > -- > Kevin "Redvers" Fairhurst - ICQ 56332267, redver5 on AIM > ------------------------------ message 46442 ------------------------------ http://www.eGroups.com/list/afb/?start=46442 From: "Kevin Fairhurst" Date: 10 Feb 2000 11:16:35 +0000 In-Reply-To: <87u67e$i335@eGroups.com> X-Mailing-List: afb@egroups.com Subject: [afb] Re: A4000 High Density Floppy Problems MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit On Thu, 10 Feb 2000 03:08:30 -0800, Nick Lamburn (oruk-amigan@excite.com) wrote: > Hello Kevin, 'lo > > The PowerC patch merely lets you write to disks - you can read (and boot > > from) HD disks without the patch ... > > Interesting. Well that's good to know. :) I suppose the patch has > something to do with the buffers on PowerC's drives; so that data is > written at the correct speed? Urghh .... I dunno! IIRC it just patches something in OS about writing to HD disks ... > > An external drive is DF1, yes. You can get an internal one though, if they > > still have them ... > > Well I have done a deal with Tudor 'wheeling dealing' Davies, and I > will just stick my old DD Chinnon drive as Df0: and the HD drive as > Df1:. Actually, on an A4000, there is a jumper on the m/b which sets whether DF1: is internal or external. So if it's a normal A4000 drive you could have it as DF1 internally, but if it's one that plugs into the floppy port like on the back of an A1200 then it'll either be DF1: or DF2: depending upon the jumper ... Kev -- Kevin "Redvers" Fairhurst - ICQ 56332267, redver5 on AIM ------------------------------ message 46443 ------------------------------ http://www.eGroups.com/list/afb/?start=46443 From: "Ben Vost" Date: Thu, 10 Feb 2000 11:21:13 +0000 In-Reply-To: <1AF46531C3DCD3119F6500D0B723B4B24EFBF9@THE_EXCHANGE> X-Mailing-List: afb@egroups.com Subject: [afb] Re: phase 5 lives! MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Hi Robert, >> "*I* manufacture those worktops", said Tom counterproductively. > I want these Taglines!! All of 'Em! It's the high point of my day, to see > what Ben's Tagline Generator's going to come out with next... :) > Once I got that, I need a Tagline selector for Outlook :P Yeuch! Well, most of them are stolen, like most people's, but I try not to have any Star Trek ones (since I don't like Star Trek), ones relating to American politics (since I'm not American) or long ones. However, my newest batch, shown below is a *bit* long, but pretty funny, I think. 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)/ Your shock upon learning where veal comes from is nothing. Wait til you learn where babies come from. ------------------------------ message 46444 ------------------------------ http://www.eGroups.com/list/afb/?start=46444 From: Robert Johnston Date: Thu, 10 Feb 2000 11:24:33 -0000 X-Mailing-List: afb@egroups.com Subject: [afb] Re: phase 5 lives! MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit > >> "*I* manufacture those worktops", said Tom counterproductively. > > > I want these Taglines!! All of 'Em! It's the high point of > my day, to see > > what Ben's Tagline Generator's going to come out with next... :) > > > Once I got that, I need a Tagline selector for Outlook :P Yeuch! > > Well, most of them are stolen, like most people's, but I try > not to have any > Star Trek ones (since I don't like Star Trek), ones relating > to American > politics (since I'm not American) or long ones. However, my > newest batch, > shown below is a *bit* long, but pretty funny, I think. I want I want I want!!!! :)) And anyone know of a Tagline selector plugin for Outlook '98 (ver 8.5.5104.6) -- ------------------------------ message 46445 ------------------------------ http://www.eGroups.com/list/afb/?start=46445 From: "Ben Vost" Date: Thu, 10 Feb 2000 11:26:18 +0000 In-Reply-To: <1AF46531C3DCD3119F6500D0B723B4B24EFBFD@THE_EXCHANGE> X-Mailing-List: afb@egroups.com Subject: [afb] Re: phase 5 lives! MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Hi Robert, > I want I want I want!!!! :)) Then do what I do and steal them from people's emails... :) > And anyone know of a Tagline selector plugin for Outlook '98 (ver > 8.5.5104.6) Not really the place for this kind of discussion, ne? All the best, -- Ben Vost (x2337) /PGP key available/ T: (+44) 01225 442244 Editor, Amiga Format F: (+44) 01225 732275 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Sony unveils matt-black box of red and green lights ------------------------------ message 46446 ------------------------------ http://www.eGroups.com/list/afb/?start=46446 Date: Thu, 10 Feb 2000 03:28:24 -0800 From: "Paul Laycock" In-Reply-To: <1AF46531C3DCD3119F6500D0B723B4B24EFBEF@THE_EXCHANGE> X-Mailing-List: afb@egroups.com Subject: [afb] Re: Flickerfixer fun MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Hi Robert, > > I recieved my new external Scanmagic scandoubler and flicker-fixer > > It seems as though there is quite a lot of interference around my > > house, as I get strange "waves" (sorry I can't be more descriptive) > > running up the screen. To combat this, I have wrapped the scandoubler > A couple'a RF chokes on the Cabling..? > > This should help/solve the Moir=E9 Fringe you're seeing. Any idea where I could find such a device? Thanks for your help, Paul Laycock ------------------------------ message 46447 ------------------------------ http://www.eGroups.com/list/afb/?start=46447 Date: Thu, 10 Feb 2000 03:31:31 -0800 From: "Nick Lamburn" In-Reply-To: X-Mailing-List: afb@egroups.com Subject: [afb] Re: A4000 High Density Floppy Problems MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Hello Kevin, > > > The PowerC patch merely lets you write to disks - you can read (and boot > > > from) HD disks without the patch ... > > > > Interesting. Well that's good to know. :) I suppose the patch has > > something to do with the buffers on PowerC's drives; so that data is > > written at the correct speed? > > Urghh .... I dunno! IIRC it just patches something in OS about writing to > HD disks ... I know there was a bug in Kickstart 37.175 (2.04) regarding HD floppy detection; but I don`t know; does anyone know what the patch does regarding writing HD disks? :) > > > An external drive is DF1, yes. You can get an internal one though, if they > > > still have them ... > > > > Well I have done a deal with Tudor 'wheeling dealing' Davies, and I > > will just stick my old DD Chinnon drive as Df0: and the HD drive as > > Df1:. > > Actually, on an A4000, there is a jumper on the m/b which sets whether DF1: > is internal or external. So if it's a normal A4000 drive you could have it > as DF1 internally, but if it's one that plugs into the floppy port like on > the back of an A1200 then it'll either be DF1: or DF2: depending upon the > jumper ... Since the A1200 can't have Df1: on the internal floppy header I guess running DF1: from the internal header is no go. :) All the best, Nick. ------------------------------ message 46448 ------------------------------ http://www.eGroups.com/list/afb/?start=46448 Date: Thu, 10 Feb 2000 03:33:01 -0800 From: "Paul Laycock" In-Reply-To: X-Mailing-List: afb@egroups.com Subject: [afb] Re: phase 5 lives! MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit > > I want I want I want!!!! :)) > > Then do what I do and steal them from people's emails... :) > > > And anyone know of a Tagline selector plugin for Outlook '98 (ver > > 8.5.5104.6) > > Not really the place for this kind of discussion, ne? Kinda gone a bit OT, doncha think? Paul Laycock ------------------------------ message 46449 ------------------------------ http://www.eGroups.com/list/afb/?start=46449 From: Robert Johnston Date: Thu, 10 Feb 2000 11:30:54 -0000 X-Mailing-List: afb@egroups.com Subject: [afb] Re: Flickerfixer fun MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable > > > I recieved my new external Scanmagic scandoubler and = flicker-fixer > > > It seems as though there is quite a lot of interference around my > > > house, as I get strange "waves" (sorry I can't be more=20 > descriptive) > > > running up the screen. To combat this, I have wrapped the > scandoubler >=20 > > A couple'a RF chokes on the Cabling..? > >=20 > > This should help/solve the Moir=E9 Fringe you're seeing. >=20 > Any idea where I could find such a device? Tandy/Maplin/CPC/Any major electrical/electronic parts retailer --=20 ------------------------------ message 46450 ------------------------------ http://www.eGroups.com/list/afb/?start=46450 From: Robert Johnston Date: Thu, 10 Feb 2000 11:33:51 -0000 X-Mailing-List: afb@egroups.com Subject: [afb] Re: phase 5 lives! MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit > > > I want I want I want!!!! :)) > > > > Then do what I do and steal them from people's emails... :) > > > > > And anyone know of a Tagline selector plugin for Outlook '98 (ver > > > 8.5.5104.6) > > > > Not really the place for this kind of discussion, ne? > > Kinda gone a bit OT, doncha think? /me goes off and starts AFB-Outlook immediately... :) -- ------------------------------ message 46451 ------------------------------ http://www.eGroups.com/list/afb/?start=46451 Date: 10 Feb 2000 9:50:52 +0000 From: "Neil Bothwick" In-Reply-To: <1032.74T2747T6805882T.A.S@bigpond.com> X-Mailing-List: afb@egroups.com Subject: [afb] Re: Zippity do da, Zippity Day MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Tim Seifert said, > I have inserted a RDB Zip disk, which mounts itself, removed it, and the > next disk inserted, gets the same parameters (i.e. the next disk doesn't > need a RDB). But if the second disk does have an RDB (a different one) it will be mounted as a different device, with a different name. If the names clash, a number is appended to the second one. Neil -- Neil Bothwick - Connected via Wirenet The UK's first Amiga-only internet access provider http://www.wire.net.uk -- New sig wanted good price paid. ------------------------------ message 46452 ------------------------------ http://www.eGroups.com/list/afb/?start=46452 Date: 10 Feb 2000 9:43:3 +0000 From: "Neil Bothwick" In-Reply-To: <87s1km$bcrs@eGroups.com> X-Mailing-List: afb@egroups.com Subject: [afb] Re: Phase5 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit David McMinn said, > Apparently their mail serves have been bouncing for 3 weeks and they > ain't been replying to White Knight (neither would I though ;). So > someone came up with the great idea that they've went bust, but they're > actually just on holiday or something until they get the bits they need > for the G4 cards. That's not what http://www.amiga-news.de/archiv/0037.shtml says. However, Ralph Schmidt has stated "The last Phase5's Amiga products are and will be continued by DCE". What happens to the G4 cards depends on how advanced the development was and whether anyone wants to pick up on it. Neil -- Neil Bothwick - Connected via Wirenet The UK's first Amiga-only internet access provider http://www.wire.net.uk -- Whip me! Beat me! Make me run Windows on an XT! ------------------------------ message 46453 ------------------------------ http://www.eGroups.com/list/afb/?start=46453 Date: 10 Feb 2000 9:45:34 +0000 From: "Neil Bothwick" In-Reply-To: X-Mailing-List: afb@egroups.com Subject: [afb] Re: alt.binaries? MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Peter Gordon said, >>>> HTTP: Helps Transfer The Porn >>>> FTP: Find The Porn >>>> NNTP: Nude & Nasty Type Porn >>> ROTFL ... is this going to appear in a future magazine article? >> I don't have any articles planned for Future magazines :) > I'd want royalties for the first two anyway :) Considering they've been in my tagfile for about five years, you'd have a job proving ownership... > WWW: World Wide Waste Considering the subject, shouldn't that be: World Wide Wan"%"% NO CARRIER Neil -- Neil Bothwick - Connected via Wirenet The UK's first Amiga-only internet access provider http://www.wire.net.uk -- Nixon's Principal: If 2 wrongs don't make a right, try 3. ------------------------------ message 46454 ------------------------------ http://www.eGroups.com/list/afb/?start=46454 Date: 10 Feb 2000 9:47:26 +0000 From: "Neil Bothwick" In-Reply-To: X-Mailing-List: afb@egroups.com Subject: [afb] Re: MUI MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Matthew O'Neill said, > Hi Neil >> Why would Stefan even consider working on it when there are people that >> have been using 3.x for years without paying? > Why would I consider paying when there wont be a new version? works both > ways. Because you use it. you pay for the version you use, not any potential future release. Those are paid for if and when they are released and you choose to use them. Neil -- Neil Bothwick - Connected via Wirenet The UK's first Amiga-only internet access provider http://www.wire.net.uk -- We secretly replaced the dilithium with Folgers Crystals ------------------------------ message 46455 ------------------------------ http://www.eGroups.com/list/afb/?start=46455 Date: 10 Feb 2000 9:51:32 +0000 From: "Neil Bothwick" In-Reply-To: <038e01bf7325$92c79200$a408f3d0@default> X-Mailing-List: afb@egroups.com Subject: [afb] Re: THOR in my side.... MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sean Courtney said, > Well, I was able to send e-mails successfully, but after looking at them > carefully I noticed that Thor had 'em dated as "06-March-36" !! Your using an old version, upgrade. Neil -- Neil Bothwick - Connected via Wirenet The UK's first Amiga-only internet access provider http://www.wire.net.uk -- Stop tagline theft! Copyright your tagline (c) ------------------------------ message 46456 ------------------------------ http://www.eGroups.com/list/afb/?start=46456 Date: 10 Feb 2000 9:53:10 +0000 From: "Neil Bothwick" In-Reply-To: <200002100431.EAA23904@renko.ucs.ed.ac.uk> X-Mailing-List: afb@egroups.com Subject: [afb] Re: Internet costs MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Gerald Mellor said, >>> For 1 hour Monday-Friday 8:00-18:00 - 2.40 >>> For 1 hour Monday-Friday before 8:00 & after 18:00 - 0.90 >> >> I thought they had changed there rate to 1p now after 6pm M-F (min 5p) > Not according to their website. But maybe it just hasn't been updated. With BT Together, you get 1p per minute evening calls. You lose PremierLine but keep F&F/BF. But the bastards won't make it available to Home Highway users. Neil -- Neil Bothwick - Connected via Wirenet The UK's first Amiga-only internet access provider http://www.wire.net.uk -- What do you get if you cross an agnostic, an insomniac and adyslexic? Someone who lies awake at night wondering if there really is a dog. ------------------------------ message 46457 ------------------------------ http://www.eGroups.com/list/afb/?start=46457 Date: Thu, 10 Feb 2000 03:53:54 -0800 From: "D Race" X-Mailing-List: afb@egroups.com Subject: [afb] Phase5 Pre-orders MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Ben, do you think that someone who has pre-ordered a G4 & SCSI card should sit tight or try and find a used PPC card for an A1200 pronto. If, as I have, they've pre-ordered Fusion PPC, sourcing a PPC card is quite important. Cheers ------------------------------ message 46458 ------------------------------ http://www.eGroups.com/list/afb/?start=46458 From: "Ben Vost" Date: Thu, 10 Feb 2000 11:55:12 +0000 In-Reply-To: <87u8si$ip3n@eGroups.com> X-Mailing-List: afb@egroups.com Subject: [afb] Re: Phase5 Pre-orders MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Hi D, > Ben, do you think that someone who has pre-ordered a G4 & SCSI card > should sit tight or try and find a used PPC card for an A1200 pronto. > If, as I have, they've pre-ordered Fusion PPC, sourcing a PPC card is > quite important. I would hang fire for a while at least. FusionPPC still isn't quite ready (problems with a bug in WarpUp according to Joe Fenton), so there's time to see what will happen yet... All the best, -- Ben Vost (x2337) /PGP key available/ T: (+44) 01225 442244 Editor, Amiga Format F: (+44) 01225 732275 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ *Pisces*: /(Feb 19-Mar 20)/ You will be spiritually and emotionally unprepared for the events of next Thursday, though nothing particularly notable is expected to happen. ------------------------------ message 46459 ------------------------------ http://www.eGroups.com/list/afb/?start=46459 From: "Kevin Fairhurst" Date: 10 Feb 2000 11:56:42 +0000 In-Reply-To: X-Mailing-List: afb@egroups.com Subject: [afb] Re: Phase5 Pre-orders MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit On Thu, 10 Feb 2000 11:55:12 +0000, Ben Vost (ben.vost@futurenet.co.uk) wrote: > Hi D, > > > Ben, do you think that someone who has pre-ordered a G4 & SCSI card > > should sit tight or try and find a used PPC card for an A1200 pronto. > > If, as I have, they've pre-ordered Fusion PPC, sourcing a PPC card is > > quite important. > > I would hang fire for a while at least. FusionPPC still isn't quite ready > (problems with a bug in WarpUp according to Joe Fenton), so there's time to > see what will happen yet... Wait a minute, it's going to be using WOS? So I have to install that to use FusionPPC? Why didn't they tell me this before? ;-) Kev -- Kevin "Redvers" Fairhurst - ICQ 56332267, redver5 on AIM ------------------------------ message 46460 ------------------------------ http://www.eGroups.com/list/afb/?start=46460 Date: Thu, 10 Feb 2000 12:03:00 +0000 From: Mark Bond References: X-Mailing-List: afb@egroups.com Subject: [afb] Re: Phase5 Pre-orders MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit > > I would hang fire for a while at least. FusionPPC still isn't quite ready > (problems with a bug in WarpUp according to Joe Fenton), so there's time to > see what will happen yet... > Hey Ben, That statement has the ring of an NDA type of I know something you don't type of thing... I do hope somebody picks these up, because I was thinking of getting one and the AmiJoe's were a bit under powered what with being G3 and only the possibility of graphics/scsi. Mark ------------------------------ message 46461 ------------------------------ http://www.eGroups.com/list/afb/?start=46461 From: "Ben Vost" Date: Thu, 10 Feb 2000 12:02:57 +0000 In-Reply-To: <38A2A8F4.B12FE908@kibris.u-net.com> X-Mailing-List: afb@egroups.com Subject: [afb] Re: Phase5 Pre-orders MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Hi Mark, > That statement has the ring of an NDA type of I know something you don't > type of thing... > I do hope somebody picks these up, because I was thinking of getting one > and the AmiJoe's were a bit under powered what with being G3 and only the > possibility of graphics/scsi. Oh yeah, G3s are woefully underpowered. Let's face it *I'd* rather have an 020... :) All the best, -- Ben Vost (x2337) /PGP key available/ T: (+44) 01225 442244 Editor, Amiga Format F: (+44) 01225 732275 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Bad Science: Misaligned beams ------------------------------ message 46462 ------------------------------ http://www.eGroups.com/list/afb/?start=46462 From: Robert Johnston Date: Thu, 10 Feb 2000 12:05:22 -0000 X-Mailing-List: afb@egroups.com Subject: [afb] Re: Phase5 Pre-orders MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit > Oh yeah, G3s are woefully underpowered. Let's face it *I'd* > rather have an > 020... :) Give me a 6510 (Or a 6502) anyday. Assmebler's much cleaner for 'em... :) -- ------------------------------ message 46463 ------------------------------ http://www.eGroups.com/list/afb/?start=46463 From: "Ben Vost" Date: Thu, 10 Feb 2000 12:07:24 +0000 In-Reply-To: <1AF46531C3DCD3119F6500D0B723B4B24EFC03@THE_EXCHANGE> X-Mailing-List: afb@egroups.com Subject: [afb] Re: Phase5 Pre-orders MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Hi Robert, >> Oh yeah, G3s are woefully underpowered. Let's face it *I'd* >> rather have an >> 020... :) > Give me a 6510 (Or a 6502) anyday. Assmebler's much cleaner for 'em... :) Leave it! Or we'll have people saying they'd much rather have 4004s and then folk saying that their Babbage machine is easier to code for and so on... All the best, -- Ben Vost (x2337) /PGP key available/ T: (+44) 01225 442244 Editor, Amiga Format F: (+44) 01225 732275 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Hilarious: http://www.freeyellow.com/members7/geraldholmes/ ------------------------------ message 46464 ------------------------------ http://www.eGroups.com/list/afb/?start=46464 Date: Thu, 10 Feb 2000 04:10:10 -0800 From: "Nick Lamburn" In-Reply-To: X-Mailing-List: afb@egroups.com Subject: [afb] Re: Phase5 Pre-orders MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Hi, > Oh yeah, G3s are woefully underpowered. Let's face it *I'd* rather have an > 020... :) Actually I'd prefer a 7MHz 68000 please because those 400MHz G3s are pathetic; and they can hardly power anything. This 68000 though can achieve Pentium 200 performance on IBeM and Pentium III 700 on PC-Task 4.2; and it out strips any Apple Mac ever; even those G4s.... :) G3s are VERY powerful, just that G4s are Powerfuller.... :) All the best, Nick. ------------------------------ message 46465 ------------------------------ http://www.eGroups.com/list/afb/?start=46465 From: "Kevin Fairhurst" Date: 10 Feb 2000 12:08:29 +0000 In-Reply-To: X-Mailing-List: afb@egroups.com Subject: [afb] Re: Phase5 Pre-orders MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit On Thu, 10 Feb 2000 12:07:24 +0000, Ben Vost (ben.vost@futurenet.co.uk) wrote: > Hi Robert, > > >> Oh yeah, G3s are woefully underpowered. Let's face it *I'd* > >> rather have an > >> 020... :) > > > Give me a 6510 (Or a 6502) anyday. Assmebler's much cleaner for 'em... :) > > Leave it! Or we'll have people saying they'd much rather have 4004s and then > folk saying that their Babbage machine is easier to code for and so on... or how they'd prefer a slab of rock, a hammer and a chisel ... Kev, leaving it now ... -- Kevin "Redvers" Fairhurst - ICQ 56332267, redver5 on AIM ------------------------------ message 46466 ------------------------------ http://www.eGroups.com/list/afb/?start=46466 From: Robert Johnston Date: Thu, 10 Feb 2000 12:09:44 -0000 X-Mailing-List: afb@egroups.com Subject: [afb] Re: Phase5 Pre-orders MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit > >> Oh yeah, G3s are woefully underpowered. Let's face it *I'd* > >> rather have an > >> 020... :) > > > Give me a 6510 (Or a 6502) anyday. Assmebler's much cleaner > for 'em... :) > > Leave it! Or we'll have people saying they'd much rather have > 4004s and then > folk saying that their Babbage machine is easier to code for > and so on... /me mumbles about his Abacus out-calculating the SGI machine that's in our showroom, and wanders OT -- ------------------------------ message 46467 ------------------------------ http://www.eGroups.com/list/afb/?start=46467 Date: Thu, 10 Feb 2000 04:10:49 -0800 From: "Samuel Byford" In-Reply-To: X-Mailing-List: afb@egroups.com Subject: [afb] Re: Internet costs MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit > >> how much are the Internet phone rate in the UK??? > > I use Cable & Wireless and pay slightly over 1p a minute off-peak and 3 times that peak (3p). So 1 hour of time peak is 60*3 - 90p and 1 hour of time off-peak is 60p both give or take.000 amounts. TTFN Bifford the Youngest. ------------------------------ message 46468 ------------------------------ http://www.eGroups.com/list/afb/?start=46468 Date: Thu, 10 Feb 2000 04:12:23 -0800 From: "Nick Lamburn" In-Reply-To: X-Mailing-List: afb@egroups.com Subject: [afb] Re: Phase5 Pre-orders MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Hi, > >> Oh yeah, G3s are woefully underpowered. Let's face it *I'd* > >> rather have an > >> 020... :) > > > Give me a 6510 (Or a 6502) anyday. Assmebler's much cleaner for 'em... :) > > Leave it! Or we'll have people saying they'd much rather have 4004s and then > folk saying that their Babbage machine is easier to code for and so on... Awww, I was gonna say I was gonna use my Honeywell 516 and 316 and my PDP-7 :). But I could use that abacus of course; now that will get about Pentium 166 performance..... :) All the best, Nick. ------------------------------ message 46469 ------------------------------ http://www.eGroups.com/list/afb/?start=46469 Date: Thu, 10 Feb 2000 04:15:27 -0800 From: "Samuel Byford" In-Reply-To: <87tvl5$dvks@eGroups.com> X-Mailing-List: afb@egroups.com Subject: [afb] Re: Screenmode problems MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit > OS3.5 was going so nicely over the past couple of months that I thought > nothing would go wrong. But now, for no apparent reason, my Amiga hangs > when quit Screenmode. I haven't installed anything new, so what could > be the problem? Hiya, Are you running Dopus Magellan II by any chance??? Cause if so, before you change anything in WB`s screenmode you have to turn the background off in Dopus (just hit the use button, you dont have to save it) Then change your sceenmode prefs then turn the background back on in Dopus. Voila. Bifford the Youngest. Starting to panic about his 8000 word dissertation to be written for 1 week 4 days time.......(100 words written so far) ------------------------------ message 46470 ------------------------------ http://www.eGroups.com/list/afb/?start=46470 From: "Ben Vost" Date: Thu, 10 Feb 2000 12:15:29 +0000 In-Reply-To: <87ua4v$ipbr@eGroups.com> X-Mailing-List: afb@egroups.com Subject: [afb] Re: Screenmode problems MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Hi Samuel, > Starting to panic about his 8000 word dissertation to be written for 1 > week 4 days time.......(100 words written so far) Don't worry about it. Rich and I manage to write at least 10,000 words each in the last week of the magazine's production... :) All the best, -- Ben Vost (x2337) /PGP key available/ T: (+44) 01225 442244 Editor, Amiga Format F: (+44) 01225 732275 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ try: http://www.cucug.org/amiga.html ------------------------------ message 46471 ------------------------------ http://www.eGroups.com/list/afb/?start=46471 Date: Thu, 10 Feb 2000 04:21:18 -0800 From: "Samuel Byford" In-Reply-To: X-Mailing-List: afb@egroups.com Subject: [afb] Re: Screenmode problems MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit > > Starting to panic about his 8000 word dissertation to be written for 1 > > week 4 days time.......(100 words written so far) > > Don't worry about it. Rich and I manage to write at least 10,000 words each > in the last week of the magazine's production... :) > Ah, but is it good words?? Or drivel? Hmm. I wonder if its possible to figure out which parts of the mags are written closest to the deadline.......:) Biff. ------------------------------ message 46472 ------------------------------ http://www.eGroups.com/list/afb/?start=46472 From: "Ben Vost" Date: Thu, 10 Feb 2000 12:21:45 +0000 In-Reply-To: <87uafu$ft06@eGroups.com> X-Mailing-List: afb@egroups.com Subject: [afb] Re: Screenmode problems MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Hi Samuel, > Ah, but is it good words?? Or drivel? How dare you suggest such a thing?! > Hmm. I wonder if its possible to figure out which parts of the mags are > written closest to the deadline.......:) It's not too difficult... All the best, -- Ben Vost (x2337) /PGP key available/ T: (+44) 01225 442244 Editor, Amiga Format F: (+44) 01225 732275 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Whose cruel idea was it to put an s in the word "Lisp"? ------------------------------ message 46473 ------------------------------ http://www.eGroups.com/list/afb/?start=46473 Date: Thu, 10 Feb 2000 04:27:18 -0800 From: "Paul Laycock" In-Reply-To: <87ua4v$ipbr@eGroups.com> X-Mailing-List: afb@egroups.com Subject: [afb] Re: Screenmode problems MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit > > But now, for no apparent reason, my Amiga hangs > > when quit Screenmode. I haven't installed anything new, so what could > > be the problem? > Are you running Dopus Magellan II by any chance??? Yup. > Cause if so, before you change anything in WB`s screenmode you have to > turn the background off in Dopus (just hit the use button, you dont > have to save it) But it worked fine before! Talk about artificial intelligence! Paul Laycock ------------------------------ message 46474 ------------------------------ http://www.eGroups.com/list/afb/?start=46474 From: Robert Johnston Date: Thu, 10 Feb 2000 12:26:43 -0000 X-Mailing-List: afb@egroups.com Subject: [afb] Re: Screenmode problems MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit > > > Starting to panic about his 8000 word dissertation to be written > for 1 > > > week 4 days time.......(100 words written so far) > > > > Don't worry about it. Rich and I manage to write at least 10,000 > words each > > in the last week of the magazine's production... :) > > > > Ah, but is it good words?? Or drivel? > > Hmm. I wonder if its possible to figure out which parts of > the mags are > written closest to the deadline.......:) That's easy. They're the ones written messily, with lots of crossings-outs and corrections... -- ------------------------------ message 46475 ------------------------------ http://www.eGroups.com/list/afb/?start=46475 Date: Thu, 10 Feb 2000 04:30:06 -0800 From: "Paul Laycock" In-Reply-To: X-Mailing-List: afb@egroups.com Subject: [afb] Re: Phase5 Pre-orders MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Hi Kevin, > > I would hang fire for a while at least. FusionPPC still isn't quite ready > > (problems with a bug in WarpUp according to Joe Fenton), so there's time to > > see what will happen yet... > > Wait a minute, it's going to be using WOS? So I have to install that to > use FusionPPC? Why didn't they tell me this before? ;-) What is wrong with WarpOS? I find it much cleaner than all that dodgy ELF stuff phase5 (rest in peace) decided to use. But then again, at least Songplayer worked with PowerUP ;) Paul Laycock ------------------------------ message 46476 ------------------------------ http://www.eGroups.com/list/afb/?start=46476 Date: Thu, 10 Feb 2000 04:33:37 -0800 From: "Samuel Byford" In-Reply-To: <87uar6$ouf9@eGroups.com> X-Mailing-List: afb@egroups.com Subject: [afb] Re: Screenmode problems MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit > > Are you running Dopus Magellan II by any chance??? > > Yup. > Thats the problem in a nutshell. > > Cause if so, before you change anything in WB`s screenmode you have to > > turn the background off in Dopus (just hit the use button, you dont > > have to save it) > > But it worked fine before! Talk about artificial intelligence! > Silly isnt it? I still have problems with my music cd icons. They just wont play ball - see my screen grabs in this months readers section. They stay as final writer icons for some reason. (and yes, i do have the update installed) Oh well. Bifford the youngest. P.S. Thanks for putting mine and Ady`s screens on the CD this issue Ben. Although, as mine was the only non-graphics card one it was kinda overshadowed - but I still think it looks tons better than a lot of the workbenches you`ve had on there before now. :) And my documentation was the best there (ok, perhaps a slight overkill but if your gonna do something, you might as well go the whole hog, eh?) Only thing is, those screen grabs are now seriously out of date as Ive scaled the icon bars icons down somewhat and played with MUI. time to re-send some new screengrabs me thinks. P.P.S. Might have a "demo" style animation to send in soon - only 10 seconds long, but its taken a day and a half to render the 150 frame in C4D. !!!!!! Yawn. Thats me done. TTFN ------------------------------ message 46477 ------------------------------ http://www.eGroups.com/list/afb/?start=46477 Date: 10 Feb 2000 11:15:26 +0000 From: "Neil Bothwick" In-Reply-To: <1611.74T916T3994319T.A.S@bigpond.com> X-Mailing-List: afb@egroups.com Subject: [afb] Re: PIRACY-SUCKS MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Tim Seifert said, > I'm more of the opinion that software authors often have an over > inflated opinion of their softwares worth and charge too much for some > it, and make it damn near impossible to register it; That's true of some, but by no means all, shareware authors. Many software packages are easily registered online, such as Miami, THOR, the Vapor range, AK products. Many more would be if more shareware authors made use of the existing systems available for online credit card transactions, such as RegNet. However, none of this applies to commercial software bought through normal retail channels, if it hasn't been pirated first. Neil -- Neil Bothwick - Connected via Wirenet The UK's first Amiga-only internet access provider http://www.wire.net.uk -- "Doing it right is no excuse for not meeting the schedule." ------------------------------ message 46478 ------------------------------ http://www.eGroups.com/list/afb/?start=46478 Date: Thu, 10 Feb 2000 04:47:48 -0800 From: "Paul Laycock" In-Reply-To: <87ub71$hdd6@eGroups.com> X-Mailing-List: afb@egroups.com Subject: [afb] Re: Screenmode problems MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Hi Sam, > > > Are you running Dopus Magellan II by any chance??? > > > > Yup. > Thats the problem in a nutshell. > > But it worked fine before! Talk about artificial intelligence! > Silly isnt it? I still have problems with my music cd icons Well, Greg Perry; ya listening? > Thanks for putting mine and Ady`s screens on the CD this issue Ben. > Although, as mine was the only non-graphics card one it was kinda > overshadowed - but I still think it looks tons better than a lot of the > workbenches you`ve had on there before now. :) I'd send a few pics of my Workbench in, but I feel that, as you say, they would be overshadowed. It looks all right though, even if I have to but up with only 8 colours! ;) > P.P.S. Might have a "demo" style animation to send in soon - only 10 > seconds long, but its taken a day and a half to render the 150 frame in > C4D. !!!!!! I've been working on a massive (believe me when I say massive: roughly fifty separate animations, comprised of about a hundred frames each!) space battle anim in C4D for ages, but I never really have the time to work on it properly. Paul Laycock ------------------------------ message 46479 ------------------------------ http://www.eGroups.com/list/afb/?start=46479 Date: Thu, 10 Feb 2000 04:52:21 -0800 From: "Paul Laycock" X-Mailing-List: afb@egroups.com Subject: [afb] Latest on BoXeR!!! MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Hi ppl, Visit Blittersoft. I would post it here, but there is too much info! http://www.blittersoft.com Paul Laycock ------------------------------ message 46480 ------------------------------ http://www.eGroups.com/list/afb/?start=46480 From: "Ben Vost" Date: Thu, 10 Feb 2000 12:52:20 +0000 In-Reply-To: <87uca5$2jtc@eGroups.com> X-Mailing-List: afb@egroups.com Subject: [afb] Re: Latest on BoXeR!!! MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Hi Paul, > Visit Blittersoft. I would post it here, but there is too much info! > http://www.blittersoft.com You could at least have put the precise URL: http://www.blittersoft.com/cgi-bin/2/webc.cgi/~bsoft/BoXeR.html?sid=3D9XN= HV600L08T1oF All the best, -- = Ben Vost (x2337) /PGP key available/ T: (+44) 01225 442244 Editor, Amiga Format F: (+44) 01225 732275 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ "My stereo's half-fixed", said Tom monotonously. ------------------------------ message 46481 ------------------------------ http://www.eGroups.com/list/afb/?start=46481 Date: Thu, 10 Feb 2000 04:59:08 -0800 From: "Paul Laycock" In-Reply-To: X-Mailing-List: afb@egroups.com Subject: [afb] Re: Latest on BoXeR!!! MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Hi Ben, > You could at least have put the precise URL: > > http://www.blittersoft.com/cgi-bin/2/webc.cgi/~bsoft/BoXeR.html?sid=9 XNHV600L08T1oF Sorry! Half-fevered attempt to be the first to post. Don't worry, I won't do it in future. Paul Laycock ------------------------------ message 46482 ------------------------------ http://www.eGroups.com/list/afb/?start=46482 From: "Chris Green" Date: Thu, 10 Feb 2000 13:00:18 -0000 In-Reply-To: <87u9r2$fsso@eGroups.com> X-Mailing-List: afb@egroups.com Subject: [afb] Re: Phase5 Pre-orders MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Hi Nick > Actually I'd prefer a 7MHz 68000 please because those 400MHz G3s are > pathetic; and they can hardly power anything. Pah! give me back my 4MHz Z80B any day - now that was a processor you could depend on :) Chris Green Technical Editor - Computing VNU Business Publications, 32-34 Broadwick Street, London, W1A 2HG .................................................................. Fax: +44 (0)207 316 9160 Email: chris_green@vnu.co.uk ICQ: 10921400 URL: http://computing.vnunet.com .................................................................. ------------------------------ message 46483 ------------------------------ http://www.eGroups.com/list/afb/?start=46483 From: Rick Hodger Date: Wed, 09 Feb 2000 19:42:10 +0000 In-Reply-To: <1045.74T2853T4706040T.A.S@bigpond.com> X-Mailing-List: afb@egroups.com Subject: [afb] Re: DF1: as DF0: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit I watched as Tim Seifert hammered "[afb] Re: DF1: as DF0:" out on their keyboard... > _Replying to a message_: > By: Rick Hodger > To: afb > On: 30-Jan-00 23:06:32 > Re: [afb] Re: DF1: as DF0: > Hi Rick, >> As to your installer script thing, simply load the script into a >> decent text editor and tell it to "Find & Replace" any DF0: with DF1: >> ...simple :) > So what sort of pain writes an installer script that insists on > installing from DFanything: instead of using the volume name of the > disk? Some of us do have more than one disk drive! It's just as bad as > various things insisting on unpacking to RAM: Even better is to let the > script run from the current working directory, that way people can > install something from any location. Yea gods! That was 8 days ago! Anyway, the guy who originally wrote the mail, was trying to make the emergency boot disk for OS3.5, but OS3.5's instaler script is hard coded to DF0: with the assumption that everyone is going to have a DF0: - but he didn't, it was broken I think...or summit. -- Rick Hodger - rick . thehub @ bigfoot . com Anti Spam Sig - Remove the spaces He thought the formula for water was H-I-J-K-L-M-N-O, H-to-O. ------------------------------ message 46484 ------------------------------ http://www.eGroups.com/list/afb/?start=46484 From: Rick Hodger Date: Wed, 09 Feb 2000 19:49:40 +0000 In-Reply-To: <87rn5o$b847@eGroups.com> X-Mailing-List: afb@egroups.com Subject: [afb] Re: A4000 High Density Floppy Problems MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit I watched as Nick Lamburn hammered "[afb] Re: A4000 High Density Floppy Problems" out on their keyboard... > Hi, >> A good point, but do they still sell them? I've noticed that they have >> disappeared from Power's web site and adverts. It would be a shame if > they >> have stopped doing them as I'd have thought demand for such a device > would >> be very strong right now. > No, Power don't sell them anymore. It seems the only viable option > (but ultimately the best) is to get a Catweasel controller and PC > floppy drive. I think I'll get a Catweasel and HD floppy drive, and > then connect my Amiga DD floppy drive as DF0:. Catweasel configures > its drives as PF0 or something; what is it. Is the Catweasel > compatible with PC-Task? I know it is on ShapeShifter is; is Fusion?? Eyetech (I think) sell an extra adaptor (Kwalda or summit) that lets you use the Catweasel to boot a HD disk....don't ask me how tho. -- Rick Hodger - rick . thehub @ bigfoot . com Anti Spam Sig - Remove the spaces If a program is useful, it will have to be changed. ------------------------------ message 46485 ------------------------------ http://www.eGroups.com/list/afb/?start=46485 From: Rick Hodger Date: Wed, 09 Feb 2000 19:55:44 +0000 In-Reply-To: X-Mailing-List: afb@egroups.com Subject: [afb] Re: This Hard Drive will self destruct in 10...9...8...7... MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit I watched as Matthew O'Neill hammered "[afb] Re: This Hard Drive will self destruct in 10...9...8...7..." out on their keyboard... > On 09-Feb-00, Ben Vost wrote: >>> I've just partitioned a new (well, old) drive with FFS, and when I saved >>> the changes, it popped up an amber message: >>> ***OS developer group warning, you are using a (something something >>> version)*** > something something = beta >> It's because you downloaded a beta version of FFS from Amiga Inc's >> website and put it in the RDB of your drives. > hmmmm, is there a newer one which wont threaten to eliminate my drive? The one on OS3.5 should...but I haven't summoned the guts to try formatting one of my precious partitions yet... -- Rick Hodger - rick . thehub @ bigfoot . com Anti Spam Sig - Remove the spaces Nice guys don't finish nice. ------------------------------ message 46486 ------------------------------ http://www.eGroups.com/list/afb/?start=46486 From: Rick Hodger Date: Wed, 09 Feb 2000 19:58:15 +0000 In-Reply-To: X-Mailing-List: afb@egroups.com Subject: [afb] Re: YAM PPC patch is a fake! MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit I watched as Matthew O'Neill hammered "[afb] Re: YAM PPC patch is a fake!" out on their keyboard... > On 08-Feb-00, Rick Hodger wrote: >> massive amount of speed...why try to make it work on a PPC other than for >> a future G4-native version? > Just answered your own question Yeah....I wonder what on earth I was drinking... Not that it really matters now anyway, seeing as it's being left up to Met@box to produce the goods...no offense to them like, but they've been planning their PPC card for ages now... -- Rick Hodger - rick . thehub @ bigfoot . com Anti Spam Sig - Remove the spaces Death is the consequence of being alive. ------------------------------ message 46487 ------------------------------ http://www.eGroups.com/list/afb/?start=46487 From: Rick Hodger Date: Wed, 09 Feb 2000 19:59:41 +0000 In-Reply-To: X-Mailing-List: afb@egroups.com Subject: [afb] Re: Phase5 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit I watched as Kevin Fairhurst hammered "[afb] Re: Phase5" out on their keyboard... > On Wed, 09 Feb 2000 15:16:59 +0100, Matthew O'Neill > (mash@myamiga.freeserve.co.uk) wrote: >> Shit > I'm sorry? Is this some sort of announcement as to what you think of them? It's about the fact that phase5 filed for bankruptcy on 26-1-2000. Hence why Whiteknight etc haven't heard anything from them concerning the G4 cards. -- Rick Hodger - rick . thehub @ bigfoot . com Anti Spam Sig - Remove the spaces The new baby is like royalty, he's the prince of wails. ------------------------------ message 46488 ------------------------------ http://www.eGroups.com/list/afb/?start=46488 From: Rick Hodger Date: Wed, 09 Feb 2000 20:01:10 +0000 In-Reply-To: <20000209173756.A13066@high5.net> X-Mailing-List: afb@egroups.com Subject: [afb] Re: Death of Phase5 - can DCE continue? MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit I watched as Tudor Davies hammered "[afb] Death of Phase5 - can DCE continue?" out on their keyboard... > On Wed, Feb 09, 2000 at 05:08:59PM +0100, Tudor Davies wrote: > Just read the news from ann timed at 14:26 - hadn't seen this yet. > Bummer! > Question is - did DCE get the right to manufacture cards outright or was > it a license I think it was just a license. > ie - without Phase5 can they still make them? Depends....apparently phase5 are looking for someone to continue producing their products, hopefully DCE will get it. -- Rick Hodger - rick . thehub @ bigfoot . com Anti Spam Sig - Remove the spaces Death is the consequence of being alive. ------------------------------ message 46489 ------------------------------ http://www.eGroups.com/list/afb/?start=46489 From: Rick Hodger Date: Wed, 09 Feb 2000 20:07:08 +0000 In-Reply-To: X-Mailing-List: afb@egroups.com Subject: [afb] Re: PIRACY-SUCKS MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit I watched as Mark Wilson hammered "[afb] Re: PIRACY-SUCKS" out on their keyboard... > On 09-Feb-00, Tim wrote this: >>>> I have read on the latest Amiga Active what piracy is doing to >>>> Vaporware > >> Better programming might actually help, rather than hideously buggy and >> seriously outdated web browsers. > I think as it stands Voyager 3 is one of the most advanced Web browsers on > the Amiga (What didnt help in my opinion was Amozilla which all but killed > off serious web browser development) > Voyager 3 is stable, if you have a gfx card, Poor old AGA users seem to > loose out though, but I'm sure that Olli and everyone at vaporware do > their very best in the current market to make *good* products. V3 looks awful on AGA, out of the box. A bit of fiddling under the "Images" section of the Prefs fixes that tho, mine are as follows: Dithering = Floyd-Steinberg Color Quantization = Two Pass DCT Processing = Floating point Takes a bit longer than normal to load most images, but they look far better than they do when you first load it up... > >>> Tell me about it. The amount of times I, and Mark, have seen people >>> come on IRC with pirate keyfiles is pretty horrifying tbh. > >> Making it possible to register software without putting a huge burden on >> the customer also helps. It's stupid when Amiga owners can't use Amiga >> software to register their software over the net. If I have to use a PC >> to register Amiga software that has half the functionality of the PC >> software, I may as well not bother. > Well, You can buy online, you can use the Vaporware Reg tool, or online > via Actives website, I really dont see what the problem is, can you Do > better?, No I thought not, now go reg that software. The problem is that a lot of people don't have credit cards (myself included, and the reason why I still haven't registered Miami; noone in the UK seems to sell it anymore) and a lot of people aren't very happy about sending cash in the post. -- Rick Hodger - rick . thehub @ bigfoot . com Anti Spam Sig - Remove the spaces Schizophrenia beats being alone. ------------------------------ message 46490 ------------------------------ http://www.eGroups.com/list/afb/?start=46490 From: Pekka Sippola Date: Thu, 10 Feb 2000 11:22:08 +0200 In-Reply-To: X-Mailing-List: afb@egroups.com Subject: [afb] Re: This Hard Drive will self destruct in 10...9...8...7... MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Hello Kevin >> Get FFS43.19_patch.lha from Aminet! > Nooooooooooooo!!!!!!! > Get WB3.5 which comes with FS45.1! Of course, but First Aid is sometimes needed! Regards -- Zipper, naturally with 3.5! proud owner of A500 powerhouse ala '91 now cooking with A4000/233PPC ------------------------------ message 46491 ------------------------------ http://www.eGroups.com/list/afb/?start=46491 Date: Thu, 10 Feb 2000 13:07:08 +0000 From: Mark Bond References: X-Mailing-List: afb@egroups.com Subject: [afb] Re: Phase5 Pre-orders MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit > > Oh yeah, G3s are woefully underpowered. Let's face it *I'd* rather have an > 020... :) > Hey nice evasion of the original point ;-) and yes they are underpowered compared to G4's (I've got a 350Mhz G3 imac and a 400Mhz G4 Powermac on my desk at the mo and the speed difference is quite a bit - by observation only you understand). Plus there was the lack of Scsi on the Amijoes. There was also a complete lack of ;-) which were missed in the hurry to send the e-mail ;-). Mark ------------------------------ message 46492 ------------------------------ http://www.eGroups.com/list/afb/?start=46492 From: "Ben Vost" Date: Thu, 10 Feb 2000 13:05:07 +0000 In-Reply-To: <000501bf73c6$c83ca640$f0870b0a@chris.vnu.co.uk> X-Mailing-List: afb@egroups.com Subject: [afb] Re: Phase5 Pre-orders MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Hi Chris, >> Actually I'd prefer a 7MHz 68000 please because those 400MHz G3s are >> pathetic; and they can hardly power anything. > Pah! give me back my 4MHz Z80B any day - now that was a processor you > could depend on :) Blimey, I said to leave this thread alone and we've had, what? Five? ten? emails about it since. Stop it now! All the best, -- Ben Vost (x2337) /PGP key available/ T: (+44) 01225 442244 Editor, Amiga Format F: (+44) 01225 732275 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Excuse for the day: bad ether in the cables ------------------------------ message 46493 ------------------------------ http://www.eGroups.com/list/afb/?start=46493 Date: Thu, 10 Feb 2000 05:08:39 -0800 From: "Peter Bell" X-Mailing-List: afb@egroups.com Subject: [afb] Unexplained gurus MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Hey I am sometimes getting software failures on bootup on my amiga. I have a 1d4 revision motherboard with 8mb of ram. There is a quantum fireball harddisk connected by the4 new elbox ide 4way buffered ide interface. Sometimes i connect a 8x cdrom to the ide interface but most of the time i leave it disconnected because the power supply i have isn't powerful enough to support the harddisk and cdrom drive at the same time. That isn't the problem though, its that when i boot up without the cdrom I get the error message saying 'An atapi device has been detected at unit 3 but does not semm to be fuctioning properly' Sometimes when i boot up before that message comes up there is a software failure, sometimes ther is an error when i click on the 'ok' button on the message and sometimes the message doesn't appear at all and the computer freezes. If you know the problem or how to sort it out please reply Thanks Peter ------------------------------ message 46494 ------------------------------ http://www.eGroups.com/list/afb/?start=46494 From: "Chris Green" Date: Thu, 10 Feb 2000 13:12:16 -0000 In-Reply-To: X-Mailing-List: afb@egroups.com Subject: [afb] Re: A4000 High Density Floppy Problems MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Hi Rick > Eyetech (I think) sell an extra adaptor (Kwalda or summit) that > lets you use > the Catweasel to boot a HD disk....don't ask me how tho. The Kylwalda lets you use a bog-standard PC High-density floppy drive as a direct replacement for an actual Amiga-compatible floppy drive - but it only works as a DD drive, so you will only be able to use disks as DD 880K ones alas. I really wish someone would some up with a Kylwalda-like interface that gives us HD capability using PC HD floppy drives. I'm certain that enough demand exists and the Power XL drive is proof that it can be done! Even bringing that interface back into production would be a good move! Chris Green Technical Editor - Computing VNU Business Publications, 32-34 Broadwick Street, London, W1A 2HG .................................................................. Fax: +44 (0)207 316 9160 Email: chris_green@vnu.co.uk ICQ: 10921400 URL: http://computing.vnunet.com .................................................................. ------------------------------ message 46495 ------------------------------ http://www.eGroups.com/list/afb/?start=46495 From: "Ben Vost" Date: Thu, 10 Feb 2000 13:12:44 +0000 In-Reply-To: <000601bf73c8$73bbbc80$f0870b0a@chris.vnu.co.uk> X-Mailing-List: afb@egroups.com Subject: [afb] Re: A4000 High Density Floppy Problems MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Hi Chris, > The Kylwalda lets you use a bog-standard PC High-density floppy drive as a > direct replacement for an actual Amiga-compatible floppy drive - but it > only works as a DD drive, so you will only be able to use disks as DD 880K > ones alas. > I really wish someone would some up with a Kylwalda-like interface that > gives us HD capability using PC HD floppy drives. I'm certain that enough > demand exists and the Power XL drive is proof that it can be done! Even > bringing that interface back into production would be a good move! If you read Simon's review of the Kylwalda, you'll see that it can be used in conjunction with the Catweasel to give you a booting High Density Amiga floppy drive. All the best, -- Ben Vost (x2337) /PGP key available/ T: (+44) 01225 442244 Editor, Amiga Format F: (+44) 01225 732275 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Atheism is a non-prophet organization. ------------------------------ message 46496 ------------------------------ http://www.eGroups.com/list/afb/?start=46496 From: Robert Johnston Date: Thu, 10 Feb 2000 13:14:02 -0000 X-Mailing-List: afb@egroups.com Subject: [afb] Re: This Hard Drive will self destruct in 10...9...8... 7... MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit > The one on OS3.5 should...but I haven't summoned the guts to > try formatting > one of my precious partitions yet... You shouldn't have to. Just replace the "fastfilesystem" on the RDB from within HD Toolbox. -- ----------------------------------------------------------------- -- View the full archives, subscribe/unsubscribe, use the group calendar at http://www.eGroups.com/list/afb Manage your subscriptions at http://eGroups.com Free e-mail groups by eGroups.com.