eGroups Daily Digest: afb has 12 new messages. Click here http://www.eGroups.com/list/afb/?start=49575 to read them. ----------------------------------------------------------------- 49575. Anthony Prime Serves me right (slightly OT) 49576. Oliver Esberger Re: Commodore started it... 49577. Will Re: Am I missing the point ? 49578. Arran Smalley Re: Welcome 49579. Arran Smalley Re: PSP and IFF 49580. Carl Berry Re: Commodore started it... 49581. Will Re: Am I missing the point ? 49582. Peter Gordon Re: Commodore started it... 49583. George Davis Re: PPC Emulation 49584. Carl Berry Re: R=?iso-8859-1?q?=E8v=F3lo=FCti=F5n=E2r=FF?= ( 49585. Will BT 49586. Oliver Masters Re: hosts ----------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------ message 49575 ------------------------------ http://www.eGroups.com/list/afb/?start=49575 From: "Anthony Prime" Date: 1 Mar 2000 19:28:01 +0000 X-Mailing-List: afb@egroups.com Subject: [afb] Serves me right (slightly OT) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Hi I aquired a modem for my Psion series 5 and was struggling to set it up. The manual was as useful as an ashtray on a motorbike, so I sent Psion an email that was, in hindsight, a little curt (Heck, it could have been written by Neil Bothwick himself ;) In the meantime I sorted it out, but the guys at Psion were more than a match for me. I've just had to download a 2mb PDF file, over my standard A1200 serial port :( Bah. -- Anthony Prime >>Powered by Amiga in Crewe anthony@prime.clara.co.uk ------------------------------ message 49576 ------------------------------ http://www.eGroups.com/list/afb/?start=49576 From: Oliver Esberger Date: Wed, 01 Mar 2000 21:36:41 +0100 In-Reply-To: X-Mailing-List: afb@egroups.com Subject: [afb] Re: Commodore started it... MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Hello Mash, On 23-Feb-99, you wrote: > Workbench 3.0 User's Guide, page xv, paragraph 4, 4th from last word. > > Did we start we start the term _multimedia_ for a computer which move > gfx and make a bleep at the same time? > > Mash The term "Multimedia" was introduced by Apple at the end of the eighties, it was part of a campaign. But the things they were showing have been done by Commodore's A2000 (and a bit later the A3000) earlier and better... only they called it "Desktop Video (DTV)" Mind you, those were the eighties. Regards -- Oliver Esberger - mailto:oliver@websale.de ------------------------------ message 49577 ------------------------------ http://www.eGroups.com/list/afb/?start=49577 Date: Wed, 01 Mar 2000 12:51:33 -0800 From: "Will" In-Reply-To: <200002280000.AAA11503@renko.ucs.ed.ac.uk> X-Mailing-List: afb@egroups.com Subject: [afb] Re: Am I missing the point ? MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit "gerald mellor" <974558-@tiree.sms.ed.ac.uk> wrote: original article:http://www.egroups.com/group/afb/?start=49214 > > > As there isn`t any real News why not drop the section and devote the > > resouces elsewhere. The only News I will believe is a working model > > comming off a production line. > > You wouldn't call Amiga being bought by another company "real > News"? I think most people want to know what's going on with the > Amiga, even if you don't. > > Gerry I have followed the Amiga news stories for over a decade and just feel that I have seen/heard it all before. If most people wanted to know what is going on at Amiga then magazine sales would not keep dropping, perhaps a lot of people are fed up of listening to promises and would like articles full of practical electronics projects and advice. Cheers Will. ------------------------------ message 49578 ------------------------------ http://www.eGroups.com/list/afb/?start=49578 Date: Wed, 01 Mar 2000 20:46:06 +0000 From: Arran Smalley References: X-Mailing-List: afb@egroups.com Subject: [afb] Re: Welcome MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Matthew O'Neill wrote: > > On 01-Mar-00, Paul Laycock wrote: > > >>> Cue Vikings ... > > >> Lovely Spam, Wonderful Spam! > >> Lovely Spam, Wonderful > >> Spam, spaaaaaam, Spaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaam, spaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaam, > >> spaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaam, SPAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA > >> M!!! > > > "Shut up! Shut up!" > > BRING OUT YER DEAD! > Where-so-ever computer type people shall gather, there shall eventually be the quoting of the great Monty Python. Geek rule no. 462 ;P Arran (an ex-computer science student) saying Nee! ------------------------------ message 49579 ------------------------------ http://www.eGroups.com/list/afb/?start=49579 Date: Wed, 01 Mar 2000 20:51:39 +0000 From: Arran Smalley References: <000101bf83b0$84fcb560$0100000a@peterspc> X-Mailing-List: afb@egroups.com Subject: [afb] Re: re: PSP and IFF MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Peter Hutchison wrote: > > > You could try Paint shop pro. I use it quiet allot and its ok. The > >best > >thing about it is you usually find a free trial version on Mag cover > >disks > >so you can get the feel of it B4 you buy. It has most of the features > >you > >could need, eg Layers etc and Version 6 also has vector graphic support. > >Plus It can read / write Amiga Iff files :-) > > BTW, the so called Amiga (.IFF) file format isn`t a true ILBM format and I > couldn`t get > Multiview to open them. The DPaint (.LBM) format is definately compatible. > Save your work as GIF or JPG format, it's quite easy to get the Amiga to read these. If you use PPaint, you can also try PNG files. Forget IFF-ILBM's, the lack of decent compression means that any decently sized image will take up a huge amount of space on disc. Arran ------------------------------ message 49580 ------------------------------ http://www.eGroups.com/list/afb/?start=49580 From: "Carl Berry" Date: 1 Mar 100 20:56:27 +0000 In-Reply-To: X-Mailing-List: afb@egroups.com Subject: [afb] Re: Commodore started it... MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit > Hi > > Workbench 3.0 User's Guide, page xv, paragraph 4, 4th from last word. > > Did we start we start the term _multimedia_ for a computer which move gfx > and make a bleep at the same time? > Oh god I hope not. I don't think we want to be blamed for that as well do we ? Anyway as it was pointed out to me in a lecture a couple of years ago it isn't even correct, it should be multi-medium. Media is a plural and why would you have multiple plurals ? Carl ------------------------------ message 49581 ------------------------------ http://www.eGroups.com/list/afb/?start=49581 Date: Wed, 01 Mar 2000 13:03:23 -0800 From: "Will" In-Reply-To: <009d01bf7bd9$6c645e60$3542063e@richardp> X-Mailing-List: afb@egroups.com Subject: [afb] Re: Am I missing the point ? MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit "james potter" wrote: > Only occasional news items about a new dawn, not constant :) There *are* > things happening that are concrete and tangible. Maybe you should give it a > year, then come back and see if anything's changed. If nothing has and we're > all off to use Windows 2000 Service Pack 68 then you can say "I told you so" > :) > > TTFN, > James. I don`t think anything will change and I have no interest is saying I told you so. I see Amiga a bit like the Rover car company, the old Rovers and Wolseys were really something (I know I owned a six cylinder beauty.) However, after various ownerships and re-packaging I don`t see any new Rover being anything to get excited about and I would be very wary about spares availability pending the next take over. If I still owned a classic car I would want my classic car magazine to concentrate on my model, not the promised new range. Cheers Will. ------------------------------ message 49582 ------------------------------ http://www.eGroups.com/list/afb/?start=49582 From: Peter Gordon Date: Wed, 01 Mar 2000 21:02:13 +0000 In-Reply-To: X-Mailing-List: afb@egroups.com Subject: [afb] Re: Commodore started it... MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Hi, > The term "Multimedia" was introduced by Apple at the end of the > eighties, it was part of a campaign. But the things they were showing > have been done by Commodore's A2000 (and a bit later the A3000) earlier > and better... only they called it "Desktop Video (DTV)" And now Apple are going on about Desktop Movies :) hmmm.... -- =================================== so long and thanks for all the fish http://fly.to/Mr_Tickle =================================== ... (0x2B|!0x2B), that is the question. ------------------------------ message 49583 ------------------------------ http://www.eGroups.com/list/afb/?start=49583 From: George Davis Date: Wed, 01 Mar 2000 21:06:14 +0000 In-Reply-To: <89jkcl$kj9c@eGroups.com> X-Mailing-List: afb@egroups.com Subject: [afb] Re: PPC Emulation MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On 01-Mar-00, Allen Kong wrote: > I think you have to have a file in your ENVARC:ppc drawer called > "nopatch" with the number 1 in it. = Yeah,I've set the env variables 'PowerPC/nopatch - 1' and 'PowerPC/termin= ator - not 2' I still can't execute PowerUp programs.. Any /other/ ideas? -- = Geo= ------------------------------ message 49584 ------------------------------ http://www.eGroups.com/list/afb/?start=49584 From: "Carl Berry" Date: 1 Mar 100 21:13:03 +0000 In-Reply-To: X-Mailing-List: afb@egroups.com Subject: [afb] Re: R=?iso-8859-1?q?=E8v=F3lo=FCti=F5n=E2r=FF?= (W as: What's on AFCD51?) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Hi Matt > > > > > > Go and search for the "Ottoman" PC - it's like a footstool with > > > a PC inside it! > > http://sozodesign.com/ottoman.html Ohhhhh pretty, but Matt what would you sit on ? ;) Carl. ------------------------------ message 49585 ------------------------------ http://www.eGroups.com/list/afb/?start=49585 Date: Wed, 01 Mar 2000 13:19:06 -0800 From: "Will" X-Mailing-List: afb@egroups.com Subject: [afb] BT MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit For anybody who is interested. BT have, as from today, reduced the monthly subscription to 9.99 and have activated the free access line each evening from 6.00pm as well as weekends. I haven`t tried to log on with an Amiga but the help line did tell me (some time ago,) that although they don`t officially support Amiga there are some Amiga news groups on BT and it is possible to configure a 1200 to log on. Cheers Will. ------------------------------ message 49586 ------------------------------ http://www.eGroups.com/list/afb/?start=49586 From: "Oliver Masters" Date: Wed, 1 Mar 2000 21:25:42 -0000 In-Reply-To: X-Mailing-List: afb@egroups.com Subject: [afb] Re: hosts MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Mash said this: > Are they gonna check every page looking for a redirection? if > they just scan > the document s for the redirection tags, then I could just but the > redirection page on bigwig, then have a link to it on > freenetname? :) ee by > gum I'm crafty is me! > > > Check out http://uk2.net/ they do UK domains for 1.99 inc. web > and email > > forwarding. Don't take my word for it though, check the details for > > yourself. > > What about the monthly payments? Neil Bothwick has since pointed out a number of complaints directed at uk2.net. The one Matt Sealey recommends looks pretty good though http://www.gradwell.com slightly more expensive but you get what you pay for I guess. Personally I use dreamhost http://www.dreamhost.com not especially cheap, but they do the job properly, which is what you want for your money. As for the redirect thing, dunno, you'd have to try it and see if FNN throw you off :) See ya later, Oll ----------------------------------------------------------------- -- 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.