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47496. Matthew O'Neill           where ya java* gone..... wheres ya java*gone!? (*
47497. Matthew O'Neill           Re: Where's Tudor (broken leg) was  Sorry for bei
47499. Matthew O'Neill           Re: Someone mention FTPMount
47500. Daniel Thornton           Re: AF135
47501. Neil Bothwick             Re: Character counting on Final Writer 97....
47502. Jani =??Q?M=E4kitalo?=    V and tables (was AFB addiction)
47503. Philip Alan Ellis         MUI
47504. Philip Alan Ellis         Re: MUI was( V)
47505. Philip Alan Ellis         Re: Guess what's on AF135?
47506. Matthew Garrett           Re: Someone mention FTPMount
47507. William                   Re: Pirated OS3.5
47508. William                   Re: Stop the piracy
47509. Bill                      Re: AFCDFind
47510. Bill                      Re: Those were the days...etc.
47511. Steve Pike                Re: Sorry for being a little OT but I'm worried..
47512. Paul Cundle               Re: (Fwd) AF submissions
47513. Paul Cundle               Re: Guess what's on AF135?
47514. Jules                     Re: Suggestions
47515. Neil Bullock              Re: Suggestions
47516. William                   Aweb Newicon
47517. Maarten Draijer           Re: Pirated OS3.5
47518. Maarten Draijer           Re: Pirated OS3.5
47519. Maarten Draijer           Re: Pirated OS3.5
47520. Neil Bullock              Re: Pirated OS3.5
47521. Steven Holmes             A quick burning question...
47522. William                   Re: Pirated OS3.5 (Make sure)
47523. Andy Kinsella             Re: what do u use ur miggy 4???
47524. Andy Kinsella             Re: what do u use ur miggy 4???
47525. Jonathan Day              Re: Hello, I'm new !
47526. Jonathan Day              Re: Guess what's on AF135?
47527. Jonathan Day              Re: Last years` (?) reader surveys
47528. Jonathan Day              Re: Guess what's on AF135?
47529. William                   Re: A quick burning question...
47530. James Luscombe            Re: A quick burning question...
47531. William                   Aminet FTP to Email
47532. Neil Bothwick             Re: (Fwd) AF submissions
47533. Jonathan Day              Re: Suggestions
47534. Jonathan Day              Re: Where's Colin gone?
47535. Jonathan Day              Re: AFB addiction
47536. Neil Bothwick             Re: Aweb Newicon
47537. johannes berkhout         QuickCam
47538. Peter Lewis               Re: what do u use ur miggy 4???
47539. Matthew Garrett           Re: Stop the piracy
47540. Matthew Garrett           Re: Stop the piracy
47541. Peter Lewis               help?
47542. William                   Re: AFB addiction
47543. William                   Re: Aweb Newicon
47544. Peter Lewis               Re: AFB addiction
47545. Gerald Mellor             Re: AFB addiction
47546. Gerald Mellor             Re: browsers
47547. Gerald Mellor             Re: Pirated OS3.5
47548. Gerald Mellor             Re: Where's Tudor (broken leg) was  Sorry for bei
47549. Gerald Mellor             Re: Pirated OS3.5
47550. Gerald Mellor             Re: what do u use ur miggy 4???
47551. Peter Lewis               Re: what do u use ur miggy 4???
47552. Tony                      Hello everyone.
47553. Tim Seifert               Re: (OT) Astronomical figures (was Heart106.2 (Wa
47554. Tim Seifert               Re: (OT) Astronomical figures (was Heart106.2 (Wa
47555. Tim Seifert               Re: MUI - was: A crappy announcement...
47556. Tim Seifert               Re: (OT) Astronomical figures (was Heart106.2 (Wa
47557. Tim Seifert               Re: Flickerfixer fun
47558. Tim Seifert               Re: PIRACY-SUCKS
47559. Tim Seifert               Re: New ABC
47560. Tim Seifert               Re: tag!
47561. Tim Seifert               Re: Spoon-bending supremos
47562. Tim Seifert               Re: (OT) Astronomical figures (was Heart106.2 (Wa
47563. Tim Seifert               Re: PIRACY-SUCKS
47564. Tim Seifert               Re: The falling circulation numbers.
47565. Tim Seifert               Re: This Hard Drive will self destruct in 10...9.
47566. Tim Seifert               Re: TCP by Serial
47567. Tim Seifert               Re: Welcome message
47568. Tim Seifert               Re: Zippity do da, Zippity Day
47569. Tim Seifert               Re: V
47570. Kevin Fairhurst           Re: Aweb Newicon
47571. Ben Vost                  Re:   Pirated OS3.5 (fwd) (fwd)
47572. Nick Lamburn              Ameeeeega 600s :) (was Sorry for being a little O
47573. Ben Vost                  Re:  Pirated OS3.5 (fwd) (fwd)
47574. Nick Lamburn              Re: Speculation (was Guess what's on AF135?)
47575. Nick Lamburn              Re: AFB addiction
47576. Ben Vost                  Re: MUI - was: A crappy announcement...
47577. Nick Lamburn              Re: I love AMIGA Inc. (A4000T rails and workbench
47578. Ben Vost                  Re: PIRACY-SUCKS
47579. Ben Vost                  Re: PIRACY-SUCKS
47580. Ben Vost                  Re: Amiga Format on a diet!
47581. Erol Ismael               which one is the best?
47582. Kevin Fairhurst           Re: help?
47583. Kevin Fairhurst           Re: The falling circulation numbers.
47584. Kevin Fairhurst           Re: This Hard Drive will self destruct in 10...9.
47585. Alan Anthony              Re: Speculation (was Guess what's on AF135?)
47586. Ben Vost                  Re: where ya java* gone..... wheres ya java*gone!
47587. Ben Vost                  Re: Guess what's on AF135?
47588. Ben Vost                  Re: :Helllooo
47589. Ben Vost                  Mail Server Down Time (fwd)
47590. Paul Laycock              Re: Speculation (was Guess what's on AF135?)
47591. Robert Johnston           Re: tag!
47592. D Race                    No Subject
47593. Ben Vost                  Re: Suggestions
47594. Matthew Wise              A1200 Qs
47595. Ben Vost                  Re: Hello everyone.
47596. Kevin Fairhurst           Re: A1200 Qs
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From: Matthew O'Neill <[e-mail]>
Date: Wed, 16 Feb 2000 17:21:05 +0100
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Hi

Dunno if the last mail got through, but is there any chance of having this
month's missing js drawer on the next CD?

Mash
--
Matthew O'Neill - MashMan
HTTP://www.bigwig.net/mash

"The Vorlons?  I don't know what can pose a threat to them" - G'kar.







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From: Matthew O'Neill <[e-mail]>
Date: Wed, 16 Feb 2000 17:22:55 +0100
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On 16-Feb-00, Tudor Davies wrote:

> I fell down the stairs on Wednesday night carrying a 29" TV and broke my
> right leg/ankle in 4 places.

*PHEW*! thank god for that. If could've been one of the 4000's ;D

Now all we gotta do is find sealey...

Mash - relieved
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Matthew O'Neill - MashMan
HTTP://www.bigwig.net/mash

Does the name Pavlov ring a bell?







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From: Matthew O'Neill <[e-mail]>
Date: Wed, 16 Feb 2000 17:10:31 +0100
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Hi Sam

Maybe the servers dont like you telling them its 1980?

Mash -
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Matthew O'Neill - MashMan
HTTP://www.bigwig.net/mash

We love Deep Space Nine: It's not TNG, but it's fun to see!







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From: "Daniel Thornton" <[e-mail]>
Date: 16 Feb 2000 20:31:48 +0000
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On Wed, 16 Feb 2000 16:04:33 +0000, [e-mail] was largin' it with these words...

> > Ooh you're close, but it's not her. I'm afraid the prize money has to go
> > down to a fiver...
> It couldn't be STFax4 could it?

No, that's the wrong answer. Sorry, you don't win five pounds, but I
expect simply appearing on AFB was prize enough for you. The correct
answer was, of course... Gagh! (dies).

--
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  Featuring: The latest magazine from Felcher Plundering, "Ladmag"... the
     adventures of The New Famous Five... and Drinks You Never See...
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Date: 16 Feb 2000 20:40:34 +0000
From: "Neil Bothwick" <[e-mail]>
In-Reply-To: <004f01bf78b4$fb6f8760$c008f3d0@default>
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Dauber said,

> Besides, if you charge by words -- especially when doing a scientific paper
> [which I'm NOT, btw] -- some of those words can be long-ass words,
> especially when there's a list of 'em...that can be kinda,
> well..."inconvenient."

Medical documents have a longer than average word length, many people
charge more for these to compensate. Other scientific documents also
have long words, but often have tables of figures too. Each number
counts as a word which helps to bring the average back down.


Neil
--
Neil Bothwick - Connected via Wirenet
The UK's first Amiga-only internet access provider
http://www.wire.net.uk
--
Multitasking?? But I only have one PC!



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From: Jani =??Q?M=E4kitalo?= <[e-mail]>
Date: Wed, 16 Feb 2000 19:29:37 +0300
In-Reply-To: <88e96j$[e-mail]>
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Subject: [afb] V and tables (was AFB addiction)
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On 16-Feb-00 Nick Lamburn wrote:

> Same here. :) I have to use IE, Nutscrape or V3. V3 is a pain because
> it's table layout goes all manky in V3... :)

Which is a shame - I tested the V3 that was on the latest AFCD (the NET
directory had no default icon BTW) and found it a very nice program
indeed -except for the abysmal handling of tables! Out of six programs
I have tested my site on (IE, NN, Opera, IBrowse, AWeb, V) only Voyager
effs the tables, and doesnt even appear to recognise BACKGROUND=""
-command. :( Too bad - V even felt faster than its competitors.

> Nick.

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



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Date: 16 Feb 00 21:28:30 +0000
From: "Philip Alan Ellis" <[e-mail]>
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>On Tue, 8 Feb 2000, David McMinn wrote:

>> Originally Classact was sort of opposite to this wasn't it? Make the
>> developers pay if they use the system in their programs and it was free
>> to users. Only thing I can see wrong with this is the lower number of
>> registrations, although developers would be charged more.

>yes, nice idea...charge the developers for making Amiga
>applications. not!

>I dont see the MUI problem. pay ONCE and all programs which use MUI can
>be customised or setup to exactly how you want them to be. no wonder why
>so many people have problems with their software. I can change my
>settings in any of the MUI-using programs and go back to that setup when
>i next load the program up.

>Alan


>------------------------------------------------------------------------
>AFB: All polls MUST have dates, and if you have something to
>sell use AmiBench! http://www.amibench.org/

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All the best,
Phil
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Phil Ellis Amiga 4000/040 PIV Magellan II ICQ 38892967
For information on Cystic Fibrosis
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Date: 16 Feb 00 21:32:08 +0000
From: "Philip Alan Ellis" <[e-mail]>
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On the subject of MUI. Does anyone know where I can find preference files for
MUI. I've tried the 4 preferences that came with untalented in the visual
department I'd like to see what others have managed to do.

All the best,
Phil
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Phil Ellis Amiga 4000/040 PIV Magellan II ICQ 38892967
For information on Cystic Fibrosis
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Date: 16 Feb 00 21:45:35 +0000
From: "Philip Alan Ellis" <[e-mail]>
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>Hi All

>> Another thought, PFS3 seeing as it had quite bad sales from what I
>remember?

Let's be honest, we are going to get a pretty long list if we mention all Amiga
software with disappointing sales :-(


All the best,
Phil
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Phil Ellis Amiga 4000/040 PIV Magellan II ICQ 38892967
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Date: Wed, 16 Feb 2000 21:54:00 +0000
References: <[e-mail]> <[e-mail]>
In-Reply-To: <[e-mail]>; from Matthew O'Neill on Wed, Feb 16, 2000 at 05:10:31PM +0100
From: Matthew Garrett <[e-mail]>
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On Wed, Feb 16, 2000 at 05:10:31PM +0100, Matthew O'Neill wrote:
> Maybe the servers dont like you telling them its 1980?

FTP transactions don't involve sending any sort of time information.

--
Matthew Garrett | [e-mail]


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From: William <[e-mail]>
Date: Wed, 16 Feb 2000 22:00:02 +0000
In-Reply-To: <[e-mail]>
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Hi Sean
You wrote about [afb] Re: Pirated OS3.5 on 16-Feb-00, =



> I wrote a e-mail to Marcus Nerding(Haage&Partner) today regarding this
> site which i also stumbled across last night.
>                                   =

>                                            =


Nice one, why do people still support amiga piracy, its killing the
machine but stupid morons seem to get a errection when they put it on web=
 sites. =


i have had my amiga since the early 80s and piracy was still there and
people are still using it.

if i find out who is doing this i will report you =

 =

William =


C A User











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From: William <[e-mail]>
Date: Wed, 16 Feb 2000 22:08:56 +0000
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Hi Adam

I saw your comments about the Playstation games so i checked the
original message and it was a total fake , the headers was so wierd it
looked like a prank post in somebody~s sad taste.

I have tried to trace where the message came from originally but no luck
So chin up and good look to you in Londen and remember to keep the
spirit alive

William

C A User











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From: "Bill" <[e-mail]>
Date: 16 Feb 100 21:17:35 +0000
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Re Rik's question:

> When I try to add for CDs to the filter on the new AFCD, it will not go
> below 40.
> I can select them but they won't be added to the custom list. Can
> anyone help?

Hi Rik,

It may seem obvious but have you unarchived the AFCD1_20.lzx and the
AFCD21_40.lzx files?

I have all the files just mentioned installed as they were produced
individually, not from the .lzx sets, and all are OK.

Cheers

Bill




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From: "Bill" <[e-mail]>
Date: 16 Feb 100 22:09:51 +0000
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Hi Everyone,

I started off on computers by purchasing the Tandy TRS80-II=2E

I plumbed for a real keyboard machine rather than the Sinclair ZX80=2E

After spending nearly =A3700 upgrading with extra memory, a green screen co=
arse
resolution monitor and various other bits and pieces, I was poised to purch=
ase
a HD unit=2E=2E=2E=2E=2E=2E=2E=2E=2E=2E=2E=2E=2E=2E=2E=2E=2E=2Ethen the Ams=
trad 464 made its appearance so I
changed over to that=2E

From there I progressed to the Amstrad 6128 (Wow! how fast a floppy disk wa=
s
against a tape-based machine!)=2E

I remember my brother-in-law and I enthusing over a Tandy dot matrix printe=
r at
a =A31000!

Although I cannot program via m/c I become quite a dab hand at doing so in
Basic=2E

Videography, being another hobby, set me on the Amiga path and although it
took 8 years to build up, my system includes Scala 400, 2 Panasonic vcrs, a=
 G2
genlock and of course my trusty A1200=2E

Under the same roof we have 2 more A1200's, 1 owned by my 19yr old son for =
his
media work plus music and website design interests and the other owned by m=
y
wife, mainly for playing games and typing the odd letter on behalf of the
school P=2ET=2EA=2E

Regarding "Old fogies" being  associated with a certain age, I say 'No way!=
'
The mind conditions how we are=2E

If fashion dictates that waistcoates are worn with the buttons being in lin=
e
with the left side of the body and that the buttonholes align with the righ=
t
side then I shall fish my real doeskin handstitched, pearl button job (=A31=
=2E50
old money , 1956) out of the wardrobe and wear it with pride=2E

Because my job enforces the retire at 65 rule, I shall have time on my hand=
s as
from this coming December and am looking forward to really enjoying it=2E

When you think of the history of aviation, television and of course, comput=
ers,
we have made great strides in the history of these events and I envy the yo=
ung
of today who will see greater things to come=2E

Cheers

Bill




=20







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From: Steve Pike <[e-mail]>
Date: Wed, 16 Feb 2000 22:10:57 +0000
In-Reply-To: <88dor7$[e-mail]>
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Hello Nick

On 16-Feb-00, you wrote:


<snip>


>
>> A600,  Apollo 68030 33Mhz,  16mb Fast Ram,
>> Running OS3.5
>> 800mb IDE hard drive, 4x IDE Mitsumi CDrom drive
>> Amiga Fax Modem, Epson LQ100+ Printer
>> Commodore MPS 1270 Inkjet Printer
>> Cumana Second Disk Drive.
>
> Ooooh, nifty A600, I'm gonna do the same with my A600 (all the bits are
> ordered and are one the way! :) and use it as a portable Amiga and Mac
> (Fusion! :)

Looks good, got a problem with it though, keeps
bl**dy crashing, can't find out what it is, when
i'm online either Miami or Yam keeps on crashing,
it was "Miami Downton" just now:O((

Its bl**dy annoying especialy when getting my
e-mails.

>
>> Getting an A1200, at last!
>
> But make sure you keep the A600 with all the gear;

Won't get rid of it, my boy my want to have a go
when he's older! Much older!


stick it in a
> briefcase and you have a portable Miggy...  Like me :)

How'd you do that then? What sort of screen? What power?


Now all I need
> is a CD-ROM, maybe a Reno Mediavision iirc or a slimline power
> computing one... :)
>
> I do have an A1240T btw... :)
>
> All the best,
>
> Nick.
>

--
Regards Steve




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From: "Paul Cundle" <[e-mail]>
Date: 16 Feb 2000 19:08:45 +0000
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MSGTO: Ben Vost
SUBJECT: [afb] Re: (Fwd) AF submissions

> > I actually got around to sending my contribution for the AFCDs, and
> > got it returned with the following. I was just wondering: WHY? What
> > does it mean exactly?

> Firstly, why send this to the list? Do you really think that Future's mail
> server operators will be on here?

Like I said in my reply to a reply (I think), I was really more
interested in what causes it to happen. It wasn't supposed to be one
of those "Oi, Ben, fix this will you" mails, it's just I've had a
similar thing a couple of times before (not futurenet) and never
really understood why.

> Secondly, the message is just saying that your mail has been
> delayed, not that it can't be delivered, so hang on.

Don't worry, I did. I read the reply all the way through but it didn't
actually give an explanation - only that it didn't get through.

> Thirdly, the ISP we're currently using is crap.

:)

> Ben Vost

Paul C, with 800 unread mails in 3 days in 3 lists :(
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From: "Paul Cundle" <[e-mail]>
Date: 16 Feb 2000 19:16:08 +0000
In-Reply-To: <[e-mail]>
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I was just going to bed, when Kevin Fairhurst wrote this and I just HAD to read it:

> > I don't like putting full software on the cover, but
> > since so few people bought this software, he's pretty much left
> > anyway and we've got the very last version of his stuff on our
> > next CD... stay tuned!

> What's the betting it's something that I've already bought?   ;-)

/me concocts a plan to make Ben reveal the identity...

If you don't tell us, no-one will buy anything until the mag is out
just in case they buy whatever you're giving away. So you'd better
tell us so we know what we're allowed to buy.

> Kev

Paul C, back home
--
... When everything's coming your way, you're in the wrong lane.


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From: "Jules" <[e-mail]>
Date: 16 Feb 2000 17:10:10 +0100
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Ben

  As money is tight, why not get rid of the 'Gallery' and 'Your stuff!', prizes,
it must wipeout the profit of a fair few copies per month.

  Now that we have a rough idea of the future direction, I for one would find a
more technical article about IBM-Pop. Getting the opinion of someone who
understands motherboard layouts, strengths, weaknesses and the bottle-necks,
will be important.
  We need someone from Tao to speak about 'Elate' and what it has to offer,
including developer information. If this thing is going to arrive, people have
got to know the way it works, structures, and where to get the information, so
we, the users and programmers, can make plans for what we want to do.

--
Regards
  Jules
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From: "Neil Bullock" <[e-mail]>
References: <[e-mail]>
Date: Wed, 16 Feb 2000 23:14:55 -0000
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Subject: [afb] Re: Suggestions
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>   As money is tight, why not get rid of the 'Gallery' and 'Your stuff!',
prizes,
> it must wipeout the profit of a fair few copies per month.

Or why not get rid of the Christmas edition? How many other mags have that?
It'd give you a tad more time to work on each issue, and might help cut
costs.

Who'd prefer if AF died, as opposed to losing the *extra* issue in each year?
:) </flame protection>

--
Neil Bullock
URL: http://www.trogsoft.co.uk  Email: [e-mail]
ICQ: 27873010                   IRC: frodo.afternet.org/#trogsoft
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From: William <[e-mail]>
Date: Wed, 16 Feb 2000 22:33:36 +0000
X-Mailing-List: [e-mail]
Subject: [afb] Aweb Newicon
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Hi

Has anybody got a newicon for Aweb 3.2 , i have looked on Aminet but
most of them are Aweb directory icons

cheers


William

C A User











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Date: Wed, 16 Feb 2000 15:24:57 -0800
From: "Maarten Draijer" <[e-mail]>
In-Reply-To:  <88e7po$[e-mail]>
X-Mailing-List: [e-mail]
Subject: [afb] Re: Pirated OS3.5
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Hello Paul


> I looked on the site (plus source) to see if there was anyway of
> contacting this fool, but found nothing. Dang.

Under Top Amiga Links there was a e-mail addreaa. I asked the guy to
remove OS3.5
PLease do the same.

maarten



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Date: Wed, 16 Feb 2000 15:34:31 -0800
From: "Maarten Draijer" <[e-mail]>
In-Reply-To:  <[e-mail]>
X-Mailing-List: [e-mail]
Subject: [afb] Re: Pirated OS3.5
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Here's the guy's email-address.
[e-mail]

If anyone outhere knows a way of mailbombing him, pleez let me know.

thanx
maarten



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Date: Wed, 16 Feb 2000 15:36:52 -0800
From: "Maarten Draijer" <[e-mail]>
In-Reply-To:  <[e-mail]>
X-Mailing-List: [e-mail]
Subject: [afb] Re: Pirated OS3.5
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Hello William


> if i find out who is doing this i will report you

Her is his address.

[e-mail]

mail ya
maarten



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From: "Neil Bullock" <[e-mail]>
References: <88fc67$[e-mail]>
Date: Wed, 16 Feb 2000 23:37:56 -0000
X-Mailing-List: [e-mail]
Subject: [afb] Re: Pirated OS3.5
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> Here's the guy's email-address.
> [e-mail]
> If anyone outhere knows a way of mailbombing him, pleez let me know.

What'll that achieve? It might get you into big trouble with your ISP, but
other than that..

--
Neil Bullock
URL: http://www.trogsoft.co.uk  Email: [e-mail]
ICQ: 27873010                   IRC: frodo.afternet.org/#trogsoft
--




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Date: Wed, 16 Feb 2000 15:44:40 -0800
From: "Steven Holmes" <[e-mail]>
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Subject: [afb] A quick burning question...
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Hi all,

Just a quick one...

I am shortly upgrading my HDD, and will be using a CDRW disc to back up
my current HD.
My question is, how do I copy my 3 partitions into 3 drawers in the
root of the CD?
I have already backed up my HD to CDRW before for re-copying to another
HD, but even if I drag an entire partition to MakeCD, when the disc is
burnt, all the drawers inside my partitions become root (ie I get the
contents of each partition in the root of the CD).
It's an annoying one, as it means I have to try to remember which set
of drawers were in which partition when rebuilding to HDD.


Steven Holmes



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From: William <[e-mail]>
Date: Wed, 16 Feb 2000 23:50:51 +0000
In-Reply-To: <88fc67$[e-mail]>
X-Mailing-List: [e-mail]
Subject: [afb] Re: Pirated OS3.5 (Make sure)
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Hi Maarten
You wrote about [afb] Re: Pirated OS3.5 on 16-Feb-00,

> Here's the guy's email-address.
> [e-mail]
>
> If anyone outhere knows a way of mailbombing him, pleez let me know.

If anyone is thinking of email bombing him make sure he/she is the right
person before doing anything.

1 mistake has already happened dont make it 2

imho no one would put there own email address on pirate sites unless
they are dumb

but if he/she has done it tell Amiga Format and report them

William

C A User











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From: Andy Kinsella <[e-mail]>
Date: Wed, 16 Feb 2000 19:51:55 +0000
In-Reply-To: <[e-mail]>
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Subject: [afb] Re: what do u use ur miggy 4???
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Greetings  Neil

On 16-Feb-00, you wrote:

> Nick Lamburn said,

>> Oh but it is, you could in fact if you had seven Zorro Slots 16 IDE
>> channels with a master and slave giving 32 IDE devices in theory!
>> :) Something called a Power Flyer 4000 or Buddha IDE will add lots
>> of IDE interfaces.. :)

> Each Bhudda card has 3 IDE interfaces, 6 devices. So you could run a
> total of 44 devices, which would at least keep you warm.

You'd need to keep them in a freezer methinks.

> Neil
Regards

Andy
--
<[e-mail]>
Imagine textures and a few pictures@<http://esox.cjb.net>
/PGP Key available on request/




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From: Andy Kinsella <[e-mail]>
Date: Wed, 16 Feb 2000 19:50:45 +0000
In-Reply-To: <1AF46531C3DCD3119F6500D0B723B4B24EFCB3@THE_EXCHANGE>
X-Mailing-List: [e-mail]
Subject: [afb] Re: what do u use ur miggy 4???
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Greetings  Robert

On 16-Feb-00, you wrote:

>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Peter Lewis [mailto:[e-mail]]
>> Sent: 16 February 2000 02:13
>> To: [e-mail]
>> Subject: [afb] Re: what do u use ur miggy 4???
>>
>> I have...
>>
>> Amiga A4000
>> 1 of IDE Zip Drive
>> 1 of 8x SCSI2 Plextor CD ReWriter
>> 3 of UDMA-66 Hard drives (1 6.4Gb IBM, 1 3.2Gb Samsung, 1 2.1Gb
>> Quantumn)
>> 3 of IDE CDROM Drives (1 48x Creative, 1 32x LG, 1 36x Sony)
>> 19" Digital IBM flatscreen monitor
>> other stuff aswell...but that's all i can be arsed to say at 2am!
>>
>> more when I feel like it!

> /me scratches his head, Counts IDE devices, counts them again, and
> asks "Huh? By my count that's 7 IDE devices in that system... AFAIK,
> that's not possible, but I'd love to be proved wrong..."

Depends how many IDE headers you got? Motherboard takes two devices;
and iirc the zorro budha has 3 ide headers, So I suppose you could
have 8 ide devices if you where that way inclined.

Regards

Andy
--
<[e-mail]>
Imagine textures and a few pictures@<http://esox.cjb.net>
/PGP Key available on request/

I like pigs. Dogs look up to us. Cats look down on us. Pigs treat
us as equals.
-- Winston Churchill



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From: "Jonathan Day" <[e-mail]>
References: <[e-mail]>
Date: Wed, 16 Feb 2000 23:13:38 -0000
X-Mailing-List: [e-mail]
Subject: [afb] Re: Hello, I'm new !
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Hi

> > Hello! I'm new on this list, so I would like to introduce my self.
My name
> > is Grzegorz (Gregory or something like that), I'm from Poland. I'm
amiga
> > user - my config is like in signature.  So.... OK, I have nothing
else to
> > say... Bye ;D
>
> > PS. I don't know that it's forbiden to send mails like this, so if
it is -
> > I'm sorry. And sorry about my strange english - but I'm still
learning ;D
>
> Welcome, and don't worry about your english - it's better than some of
the
> other english on here, and that's from people from the UK!
>
Aint that a fact ;-)

Jon



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From: "Jonathan Day" <[e-mail]>
References: <[e-mail]>
Date: Wed, 16 Feb 2000 23:44:35 -0000
X-Mailing-List: [e-mail]
Subject: [afb] Re: Guess what's on AF135?
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Hi Errol

> -> Is that a big grin because you know, or because it`s a hellofa
proggy?
> -> Or both?
>
> Both! I know, because I'm the AFCD compiler and I put it on the CD
this
> morning, and it's also "a hellofa proggy" ;-)

Yeah I knew you compiled the CD, but you could have been grinning purely
cos you knew rather than because of what it is.  But if it`s both, great
:-)

> -> Jon, *wondering* if you`ve signed a NDA
>
> Come to think of it, I haven't! ;-)
>
> So technically I'm not bound to a legal agreement am I? I'm probably
going
> to face the "Wrath of Vost" for this but... wait for it... it's a
program
> and it works on Amigas! ;-)

Oh good, it could have been for the macs we can now all emulate ;-)
>
> Don't worry guys, I've just sent the AFCD51 masters off today so you
won't have
> to wait long now... ;-)

So then it`ll continue with what`s the biggy on the next CD ;-)
This is all very enjoyable looking at the suggestions, but I hope
no-ones delaying buying anything incase it`s the 'one'...

Could it be the most recent EMC CD perhaps?

Jon



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From: "Jonathan Day" <[e-mail]>
References: <[e-mail]>
Date: Wed, 16 Feb 2000 23:20:16 -0000
X-Mailing-List: [e-mail]
Subject: [afb] Re: Last years` (?) reader surveys
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Hi
>
> With the GB keymap you get ' by hitting the key at the top-left of the
> keyboard marked with a ` and ~. To get a backtick, you hit alt+`.
>
So there you go then, you can blame Amiga for me using " ` " instead of
" ' ", and for not knowing there`s (there I go again) a difference ;-)

Jon



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From: "Jonathan Day" <[e-mail]>
References: <[e-mail]>
Date: Wed, 16 Feb 2000 23:55:20 -0000
X-Mailing-List: [e-mail]
Subject: [afb] Re: Guess what's on AF135?
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Hi

> >> But what about the fact that the software may act as competition
> >> against other pieces of software in the market?
>
> > Not much chance of that for any of the three(/four) titles that we
have
> > had, or will have...
>
> Its not miami, that would kill genesis, cant really be any gfx program
> because there are so many. I'm starting to think pfs or WW7.....

I thought of Wordworth, but they`ve left officially haven`t they?  Also,
it would hurt that new word processor (Amiga Writer?).  It would be
really nice if Digita looked into allowing someone to develop Ww
themselves though.

PFS certainly hasn`t got any competition, at least none that I can think
of.  I can`t really imagine that tho unless it was v2 not v3.  But you`d
have thought they`d try cutting the v3 price first.

I don`t think any one has brought this up yet, but what about the
software distributers, aren`t they going to loose out by having
unsellable stock?

Jon



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From: William <[e-mail]>
Date: Thu, 17 Feb 2000 00:03:38 +0000
In-Reply-To: <88fcp8$[e-mail]>
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Subject: [afb] Re: A quick burning question...
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Hi Steven
You wrote about [afb] A quick burning question... on 16-Feb-00,

> Hi all,
>
> Just a quick one...
>
> I am shortly upgrading my HDD, and will be using a CDRW disc to back
> up my current HD.
> My question is, how do I copy my 3 partitions into 3 drawers in the
> root of the CD?
> I have already backed up my HD to CDRW before for re-copying to
> another HD, but even if I drag an entire partition to MakeCD, when the
> disc is burnt, all the drawers inside my partitions become root

if you are using makecd TICK image path for each partition and it will
make the directory , if this is not clear to you i will send you a .MCD
file to look at

William

C A User











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From: James Luscombe <[e-mail]>
Date: Thu, 17 Feb 2000 00:13:38 +0100
In-Reply-To: <88fcp8$[e-mail]>
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Subject: [afb] Re: A quick burning question...
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Hello Steven

On 17-Feb-00, Steven Holmes wrote:

> My question is, how do I copy my 3 partitions into 3 drawers in the
> root of the CD?
> I have already backed up my HD to CDRW before for re-copying to another
> HD, but even if I drag an entire partition to MakeCD, when the disc is
> burnt, all the drawers inside my partitions become root (ie I get the
> contents of each partition in the root of the CD).

Right, firstly, in the Current Project window click Add to add a track.

The Track Options window will pop up. In this window set the source type to
File System, then click the down arrow below it.

This pops up the ISO image prefs window. Now add each of your partitions as
Sources. For each one of these, select each one in turn and click the check
box at the bottom for Image Path, put in the name of the drawer you want that
partition to be in, in the form name/.

Voila - each partition will be in it's own drawer.

Cheers.
--
 James Luscombe                   Amiga 3000T, A3640, Picasso IV
 [e-mail]         Amiga 1200, 040/40

 Oxymoron: Public school education.




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From: William <[e-mail]>
Date: Thu, 17 Feb 2000 00:16:01 +0000
X-Mailing-List: [e-mail]
Subject: [afb] Aminet FTP to Email
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Hi

Does ne1 know the commands to get files from Aminet by email , i have
tried to get files from [e-mail] but the commands always fail

William

C A User











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Date: 16 Feb 2000 22:44:21 +0000
From: "Neil Bothwick" <[e-mail]>
In-Reply-To: <[e-mail]>
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Subject: [afb] Re: (Fwd) AF submissions
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Paul Cundle said,

>> Secondly, the message is just saying that your mail has been
>> delayed, not that it can't be delivered, so hang on.

> Don't worry, I did. I read the reply all the way through but it didn't
> actually give an explanation - only that it didn't get through.

That's all the server know, that it tried to deliver but couldn1't get
through to the destination mail server.

If you knock on someone's door and they don't answer, all you know is
that they didn't answer. You don't know whether it's because they were
out, in the bath or upstairs sha^H^H^leeping.


Neil
--
Neil Bothwick - Connected via Wirenet
The UK's first Amiga-only internet access provider
http://www.wire.net.uk
--
You may have mail.



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From: "Jonathan Day" <[e-mail]>
References: <[e-mail]> <03ac01bf78d3$a4bfd090$64f331d4@trogsoft>
Date: Thu, 17 Feb 2000 00:27:13 -0000
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Subject: [afb] Re: Suggestions
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Hi Neil

> >   As money is tight, why not get rid of the 'Gallery' and 'Your
stuff!',
> prizes,
> > it must wipeout the profit of a fair few copies per month.

But there`s so few entries already...  Maybe if the prize was cut to "We
will register the shareware program of your choice"?
>
> Or why not get rid of the Christmas edition? How many other mags have
that?
> It'd give you a tad more time to work on each issue, and might help
cut
> costs.

Hold on a minute, AF`s supposed to be profitable, so wouldn`t loosing an
issue mean less profit?  I`m sure the advertisers don`t get the
Christmas issue as a freebie, and staff, or at least Ben and Richard who
do much of the work, will be paid by salary, so I don`t think they`d be
much of a cost saving.
>
> Who'd prefer if AF died, as opposed to losing the *extra* issue in
each year?
> :) </flame protection>

Not me, but I don`t think it would work, unfortunately.

Jon




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From: "Jonathan Day" <[e-mail]>
References: <[e-mail]>
Date: Thu, 17 Feb 2000 00:59:55 -0000
X-Mailing-List: [e-mail]
Subject: [afb] Re: Where's Colin gone?
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Hi

> > > Please?
> >
> > Uh-uh, not even if you say "pretty please with sugar on top".
>
> and currants in the middle??     ;)

Not forgetting the hundreds-and-thousands ;-)

Jon




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From: "Jonathan Day" <[e-mail]>
References: <[e-mail]>
Date: Thu, 17 Feb 2000 00:59:58 -0000
X-Mailing-List: [e-mail]
Subject: [afb] Re: AFB addiction
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Hi Matthew

> >> /me quickly quits IE, whilst in Media (A Level), I'm adicted to
AFB!
> > :)
>
> > Your not the only one. I've had to cut down on my AFB usage beacuse
of
> > an astronomically high phone bill  at work! ;)
>
> You should take computing, its much easier to stay hidden ;) although
I
> couldnt read it today becasue some swine subbed me to the erotic toons
> mailing list and the dirty website-o-meter went off the scale :/

Where`s that then? ;-)

Jon




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Date: 17 Feb 2000 1:4:12 +0000
From: "Neil Bothwick" <[e-mail]>
In-Reply-To: <[e-mail]>
X-Mailing-List: [e-mail]
Subject: [afb] Re: Aweb Newicon
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William said,

> Has anybody got a newicon for Aweb 3.2 , i have looked on Aminet but
> most of them are Aweb directory icons

Yes, but it would be ingenuous of me to tell you where to find it :)


Neil
--
Neil Bothwick - Connected via Wirenet
The UK's first Amiga-only internet access provider
http://www.wire.net.uk
--
The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it.



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Date: Wed, 16 Feb 2000 17:45:25 -0800
From: "johannes berkhout" <[e-mail]>
X-Mailing-List: [e-mail]
Subject: [afb] QuickCam
MIME-Version: 1.0
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I am looking for a way to connect a Connectix Qcam to my A1200.
I know there is a connector for this but have not been able to find it
any where.
any help welcome.




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Date: Wed, 16 Feb 2000 17:54:20 -0800
From: "Peter Lewis" <[e-mail]>
In-Reply-To:  <88e8lh$[e-mail]>
X-Mailing-List: [e-mail]
Subject: [afb] Re: what do u use ur miggy 4???
MIME-Version: 1.0
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> > /me scratches his head, Counts IDE devices, counts them again, and
> asks
> > "Huh? By my count that's 7 IDE devices in that system... AFAIK,
> that's not
> > possible, but I'd love to be proved wrong..."

i have a PowerFlyer A4000 - and the Sony 36x isn't actually connected
cos it don't work!

:o)



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Date: Thu, 17 Feb 2000 02:01:27 +0000
References: <[e-mail]>
In-Reply-To: <[e-mail]>; from William on Wed, Feb 16, 2000 at 10:08:56PM +0000
From: Matthew Garrett <[e-mail]>
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On Wed, Feb 16, 2000 at 10:08:56PM +0000, William wrote:

> I saw your comments about the Playstation games so i checked the
> original message and it was a total fake , the headers was so wierd it
> looked like a prank post in somebody~s sad taste.

How did you get the EGroups thing to give you the message headers? I'm
buggered if I can get it to, which is somewhat annoying when it comes to
tracing spam. Sigh.

--
Matthew Garrett | [e-mail]


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Date: Thu, 17 Feb 2000 02:34:32 +0000
References: <[e-mail]> <[e-mail]>
In-Reply-To: <[e-mail]>; from Matthew Garrett on Thu, Feb 17, 2000 at 02:01:27AM +0000
From: Matthew Garrett <[e-mail]>
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On Thu, Feb 17, 2000 at 02:01:27AM +0000, Matthew Garrett wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 16, 2000 at 10:08:56PM +0000, William wrote:
>
> > I saw your comments about the Playstation games so i checked the
> > original message and it was a total fake , the headers was so wierd it
> > looked like a prank post in somebody~s sad taste.
>
> How did you get the EGroups thing to give you the message headers? I'm
> buggered if I can get it to, which is somewhat annoying when it comes to
> tracing spam. Sigh.

Oh, found it. Why on earth they feel that "source" is a terribly
descriptive term for it, I've no idea. I'm not sure why you think the
headers are dodgy, though - the strangest thing is the sender's date being
6 years slow, although that looks like some sort of Y2K avoidance-type
measure. Received straight from an Easynet dialup (Eidosnet appears to be
Easynet by another name) by the Easynet mail server (aliased as
smtp.eidosnet.co.uk) and from there straight to the EGroups servers. No
extraneous headers to suggest that it was sent by anything other than YAM
- whoever sent this was either using YAM 2.0 or did their SMTP by
hand. Without asking Easynet who was on that dialup at that point, there's
no way whatsoever of proving that it's a forgery. It's a damn good one if
it is - no mistakes at all.

Shall I just pretend to rant about people apparantly believing that HTML
is the format that God intended mail to be sent in, and text is merely
HTML that someone hasn't got round to marking up yet and save everyone the
trouble of hearing me complain about how much better things were even 18
months ago? Sigh. Again.

--
Matthew Garrett | [e-mail]


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Date: Wed, 16 Feb 2000 18:47:42 -0800
From: "Peter Lewis" <[e-mail]>
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Subject: [afb] help?
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can anyone help me here...

I have an Oktagon 2008 SCSI2 Zorro2 board on my Amiga which I use soley
for the purpose of my 8x SCSI2 Plextor CDRW (Had to say it!...:o)

anyway, because this board does NOT use DMA (AFAIK) I would like to
call upon anyone that has any idea on which bloody Zorro 2/3 boards
*DO* have TRUE DMA and is a bloody SCSI board.

y'see, I have a Powerflyer, and a shite processor ('o3o), now my
UDMA/66 HD's can pull 7Mb/sec Raw, so I don't think these are the
reasons why I am getting a buffer underrun at 2x write!

Now, on the Oktagon box, it says transfers of 500Kb/sec - 2Mb/sec are
possible - SO WHERE ARE THEY????!!!!?!?!?!?!?

I understand this is an old board, but anyway, to the point...

Is it better for me to get an 'o4o CPU upgrade or a TRUE DMA SCSI board
to reach the higher speeds of the Writer?

I will obviously eventually get both when the G4 comes out but untill
then...:o)

also, whatever choice you reckon I should make,, please tell me of
someone who is actually selling either/both of these add-ons! :o)

anyways, I have to go play with my Motorola v.3688 Mobile phone's Voice
Recognition thingy now...(Write TXT MSGS hands free!)

thanx in advance!

PEte.



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From: William <[e-mail]>
Date: Thu, 17 Feb 2000 02:40:11 +0000
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Hi Jonathan

You wrote about [afb] Re: AFB addiction on 17-Feb-00,

> Hi Matthew
>
>>>> /me quickly quits IE, whilst in Media (A Level), I'm adicted to
> AFB!
>>> :)
>>
>>> Your not the only one. I've had to cut down on my AFB usage
>> beacuse
> of
>>> an astronomically high phone bill  at work! ;)
>>
>> You should take computing, its much easier to stay hidden ;)
>> although
> I
>> couldnt read it today becasue some swine subbed me to the erotic
>> toons mailing list and the dirty website-o-meter went off the scale
>> :/

AFB is not that addictive but its nice for all C A Users to have a chat
and a laugh & joke, and get reply~s from the guys behind UK~s best mag
pc format lol just kidding Amiga Format :) .

Just do a survey about the amout of time people spends on AFB

AFB is better than a woman , at least you can always turn on AFB

William

C A User











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From: William <[e-mail]>
Date: Thu, 17 Feb 2000 02:41:50 +0000
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Hi Neil
You wrote about [afb] Re: Aweb Newicon on 17-Feb-00,

> William said,
>
>> Has anybody got a newicon for Aweb 3.2 , i have looked on Aminet but
>> most of them are Aweb directory icons
>
> Yes, but it would be ingenuous of me to tell you where to find it :)

I will give you my mouse ball for the newicon :>


William

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Date: Wed, 16 Feb 2000 19:03:26 -0800
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> AFB is better than a woman , at least you can always turn on AFB
>
No, it's getting rid of a woman after you've turned them on is the hard
part - to get rid of AFB all you have to do is unplug your modem - to
get rid of a woman that you've turned on, you have to flirt with their
sister!
(Well, it's horrible when thay have an ugly sister! (Not happened to me
though...I've usually prefered the sister anyway...:o) ))

PEte.



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From: "Gerald Mellor" <[e-mail]>
Date: Thu, 17 Feb 2000 03:12:16 +0000
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On 17 Feb 00, at 2:40, William wrote:

> AFB is not that addictive but its nice for all C A Users to have a chat
> and a laugh & joke, and get reply~s from the guys behind UK~s best mag
> pc format lol just kidding Amiga Format :) .

What's this *C* A? Amigas haven't been "C" Amigas for the past 7
years or so :)

Bauglir


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From: "Gerald Mellor" <[e-mail]>
Date: Thu, 17 Feb 2000 03:18:53 +0000
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On 15 Feb 00, at 18:08, Matthew O'Neill wrote:

>>> Dunno 'bout V3, though, cos
>>> there doesn't seem to be a demo available for testing.
>
>> Try ftp.ch.vapor.com/voyager/
>> (I only say the Swiss one because i usually find that's fastest for me)
>
> You haven't actually looked have you? there are demos on their site and on
> aminet

What? I *know* there are demos, I gave the URL to find them. Read
your emails more carefully before replying to them, please.

Bauglir


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From: "Gerald Mellor" <[e-mail]>
Date: Thu, 17 Feb 2000 03:30:00 +0000
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On 16 Feb 00, at 15:34, Maarten Draijer wrote:

> Here's the guy's email-address.
> [e-mail]

  ----- The following addresses had permanent fatal errors -----
<[e-mail]>

   ----- Transcript of session follows -----
... while talking to mailgw.swip.net.:
>>> RCPT To:<[e-mail]>
<<< 553 <[e-mail]>... There is no user mosmens in
domain
get2net.dk. 550 <[e-mail]>... User unknown


Bauglir


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From: "Gerald Mellor" <[e-mail]>
Date: Thu, 17 Feb 2000 03:32:02 +0000
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On 16 Feb 00, at 17:22, Matthew O'Neill wrote:

> Now all we gotta do is find sealey...

Why so eager? Do you know how long it took us to *lose* him? ;)

Bauglir


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From: "Gerald Mellor" <[e-mail]>
Date: Thu, 17 Feb 2000 03:31:48 +0000
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On 16 Feb 00, at 3:07, Mad Matt wrote:

> I think I`ve just come across a pireted version of OS3.5.
>
> Take a look at this UAE site: www.amiga.2y.net/uae.html.
>
> It is stored in a ADF hardfile.
>
> Im not sure what I can really do about stopping the piracy of this
> software

A good start would be not to post it's location to a list of almost 1000
people... Oops, too late!

Bauglir


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From: "Gerald Mellor" <[e-mail]>
Date: Thu, 17 Feb 2000 03:31:55 +0000
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On 16 Feb 00, at 14:03, Neil Bothwick wrote:

> Each Bhudda card has 3 IDE interfaces, 6 devices. So you could run a
> total of 44 devices, which would at least keep you warm.

You'd need a bloody big tower case, though.

Bauglir


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Date: Wed, 16 Feb 2000 19:38:00 -0800
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...

>
> You'd need a bloody big tower case, though.
>
> Bauglir

My A4000 is a desktop - without a top, and all the HD's and CDROM
drives spilling outside the edge.
The only thing INTERNAL about my CDRW is the name! (And where it SHOULD
be!)

quite usefull though as the CPU doesn't over heat...(The Fan on the
back of the Plextor CDRW flows air over the CPU card!)

and yes, I think THAT describes how mashed up my amiga must look!

I could do with a tower case though if anyone has one for sale...:o)
/me being serious.

Laters!

PEte.



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From: "Tony" <[e-mail]>
Date: 17 Feb 100 04:07:46 +0000
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Hi one and all,
I'm new to the group & a complete newbie |-O.
I've been lurking for the past two days(like many others i imagine).
Anyway i 'm going to have a stab at what's on next issues cd.
Ben is it........Amiga Writer?
Bye now Tony.


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Date: 15 Feb 2000 12:46:39 +0900
From: "Tim Seifert" <[e-mail]>
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 _Replying to a message_:

 By:  Gerald Mellor <[e-mail]>
 To:  afb <[e-mail]>
 On:  10-Feb-00 13:59:44
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Hi Gerald,

> I'm not exactly sure what you mean by "anything travelling at the
> speed of light slows down", though.

But that's been the central point of everyone who believes in the
limiting factor, that as you approach that speed, time slows down.

Bye,
Tim.  (B.A. T.L.M.N.)

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Date: 15 Feb 2000 12:59:53 +0900
From: "Tim Seifert" <[e-mail]>
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 By:  Edward Rowley <[e-mail]>
 To:  afb <[e-mail]>
 On:  10-Feb-00 23:40:15
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Hi Edward,

>> According to your interpretation, if I were able to be flying at some
>> speed close to the speed of light, and somewhere else somebody
>> started doing the same sort of thing, but in the opposite direction.
>> My flight speed would magically slow down, because we're not allowed
>> to fly apart from each other at any speed faster than light.
>>
>> 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.

> Relativity is simple when you thick about it. First imagine you are
> looking at a clock, this clock tells you the time in the Lab FOR
> (Frame Of Referance) you know the time beause you are reciving
> information from it at the speed of light (photons) light travels at
> c no matter what FOR you are in.  You also have a wrist watch which
> tells you the time in your FOR. Now start moving away from the clock,
> it takes longer for the photons to reach you as they have to travel
> longer so time in the Lab FOR time appers to slow down. You look at
> your watch and it is not slowing down becase it is moving with you it
> is in your FOR. If someone was standing in the Lab FOR they would see
> the opposite becuse your watch is moving away photons take long to
> reach them. To them time is slowing in your FOR hence everything is
> relative.

That's not time slowing down, just your vision is seeing something that
takes longer to get there.  It's exactly the same as a long distance
phone call, there's a delay, but things don't run slower.

If you're looking, as you're moving away, you'll perceive a slow down,
as part of the doppler effect (which is purely your reception of sound
or vision, not actual time slowing down), but when you stop, and stay a
static distance, you'll then be aware that there is simply a fixed delay
between you.

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Date: 15 Feb 2000 13:36:46 +0900
From: "Tim Seifert" <[e-mail]>
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 By:  Jonathan M. Dudley <[e-mail]>
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 On:  11-Feb-00 05:16:35
 Re:  [afb] Re: MUI - was: A crappy announcement...

Hi Jonathan,

>> Most of the internet software available for the miggy simply wouldn't
>> be possible without MUI, it's all well and good arguing about
>> it...but Gadtools is very dated and limited...hell, it doesn't even
>> have font sensitivity...it's up to the programmer to put that in.

Really, just how ESSENTIAL is MUI to making a graphical user interface?

If AWeb can make a browser that uses a GUI we don't have to pay for,
then it can be done.

Prettiness of MUI aside, I just don't beleive that MUI is the only way
they could have been programmed.  After all, the rest of the programming
has got to be far more complicated than just getting the GUI looking
nice.

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Date: 15 Feb 2000 12:57:15 +0900
From: "Tim Seifert" <[e-mail]>
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 By:  Matthew Garrett <[e-mail]>
 To:  afb <[e-mail]>
 On:  10-Feb-00 04:46:14
 Re:  [afb] Re: (OT) Astronomical figures (was Heart106.2 (Was: Exams))

Hi Matthew,

>> According to your interpretation, if I were able to be flying at some
>> speed close to the speed of light, and somewhere else somebody
>> started doing the same sort of thing, but in the opposite direction.
>> My flight speed would magically slow down, because we're not allowed
>> to fly apart from each other at any speed faster than light.

> Your speed wouldn't change. Their speed wouldn't change. It's just
> that your relative speeds wouldn't exceed the speed of light, because
> relative speed is not just the sum of the speed of the objects
> involved. On Earth, where we're talking about speeds that are somewhat
> low compared to the speed of light, you can get away with assuming
> that it's that simple. It's still an approximation, though. The main
> problem is that people assume that because something looks like it
> behaves one way on the small scale that it behaves the same way on the
> large scale. Sadly relativity doesn't follow this assumption - if you
> try to model it using traditional Newtonian physics then you'll just
> end up confusing yourself and saying things like "The relative speed
> will be twice the speed of light" (which it won't).

It's still a load of codswallop though.  Lets, for the sake of the
argument say that I'm whizzing away from the Earth at almost the speed
of light (I am 1km an hour under it, so I don't get a ticket from
Einstein), but so damn close it doesn't matter, and to make this example
as simple as possible.

Then, someone else comes screaming towards me at exactly the same speed,
and they go past me (without us colliding, we're both good pilots).

We are now travelling away from each other, at almost twice the speed of
light, relative to each other, (remember, we're both doing 1 under the
limit here), and neither of us slowed down to avoid the other person.

Now, assuming that it were possible for us to acheive that speed in the
first place, it is impossible for us not to be going faster than light
away from each other.

But according to some people, it's impossible to be going faster than
light, relative to anything.

You cannot convince me that velocity, no matter what the scale, is
suddenly differently measurable.

Bye,
Tim.  (B.A. T.L.M.N.)

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Date: 15 Feb 2000 13:19:18 +0900
From: "Tim Seifert" <[e-mail]>
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 By:  Robert Johnston <[e-mail]>
 To:  '[e-mail]' <[e-mail]>
 On:  10-Feb-00 18:18:30
 Re:  [afb] Re: Flickerfixer fun

Hi Robert,

>> 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?

An anti-static bag isn't likely to help, all they are is slightly
conductive, to bleed away static charge build up.

If you were trying to shield from interference, you'd have to wrap it
with something far more conductive, like aluminium foil (Tim envisages a
computer wrapped in foil, like some paranoid UFO nut might do, to stop
spying).  Don't do this, by they way, you'll overheat it.  The cable to
the monitor will already be shielded, and shielding the monitor itself
would not be a task to take lightly.

> A couple'a RF chokes on the Cabling..?
>
> This should help/solve the Moir Fringe you're seeing.

And if the problem is caused by other means, don't have your monitor
near another monitor (or TV), or other appliance with motors (like
airconditioners and washing machines), or any cabling carrying a strong
current (heaters, etc) and ensure there aren't any breaks in the cable
shielding.  And run all the computer appliances from the same outlet,
and other appliances from a different outlet.

Bye,
Tim.  (B.A. T.L.M.N.)

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Date: 15 Feb 2000 18:12:41 +0900
From: "Tim Seifert" <[e-mail]>
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 By:  Mark Wilson <[e-mail]>
 To:  afb <[e-mail]>
 On:  10-Feb-00 03:22:52
 Re:  [afb] Re: PIRACY-SUCKS

Hi Mark,

>>>> 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.

As it stands, for me, Voyager is the least stable, every version of
Voyager that I've tried crashes very quickly, or doesn't even start up.
Likewise with other of the Vapor software.

>>> 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.

Well, lets see, over an hour to get through their website to order
on-line, and that was after several weeks of trying.  I just didn't have
the patience leaving a browser on one site for that long.  And then,
what if you don't have credit cards, or no internet access?  And going
to a library, or other public access provider, doesn't always work, as
you need an ISP (not Hotmail) based e-mail address to register some
things.

And then, on top of that, various software that you register this way,
still has a massive delay before it actually gets registered.  In this
day and age, fully automatic credit card billing and keyfile generation,
ought to go hand in hand.

Disregarding any trouble with registering, I wouldn't buy Voyager in a
fit.  Quite apart from it's bugginess, it's still backward in an only
partial support of common HTML codes.

Bye,
Tim.  (B.A. T.L.M.N.)

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Date: 15 Feb 2000 13:41:43 +0900
From: "Tim Seifert" <[e-mail]>
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 By:  Robert Johnston <[e-mail]>
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 On:  11-Feb-00 23:16:15
 Re:  [afb] Re: New ABC

Hi Robert,

> And where abouts in this wide world do I have to go to collect this
> Prized Pat on the back?

I suppose you could go to the nearest farm, and lay under a cow... ;-)

Bye,
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Date: 15 Feb 2000 14:18:54 +0900
From: "Tim Seifert" <[e-mail]>
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 By:  Robert Johnston <[e-mail]>
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 Re:  [afb] Re: tag!

Hi Robert,

> What? No RTF? No CSV? What group of Amateurs d'you work for? :))

Only the other day I tried to find a Windoze program that would import a
comma seperated values file, and damned if I could find one.

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------------------------------ message 47561 ------------------------------
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Date: 15 Feb 2000 14:14:29 +0900
From: "Tim Seifert" <[e-mail]>
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 By:  Neil Bothwick <[e-mail]>
 To:  Alex Furmanski <[e-mail]>
 On:  11-Feb-00 04:59:54
 Re:  [afb] Re: Spoon-bending supremos

Hi Neil,

>> Perusing, as you do, the various gubbins on the web (notably the CSS
>> spec) I came across the abbreviation URI.  At first I thought it must
>> be a typo but then I saw it was like that all the way throughout the
>> whole of everything ever.  So what's the difference between a URI and
>> a URL?

> URI - Universal Resource Indicator
> URL - Universal Resource Locator

> The first is a more generic term. Put another way, URL is a specific
> instance of a URI. However, last time I looked, there were no other
> instances of a URI so the two terms are often used interchangeably.

The official HTML 4.0 specifications state that a URI stands for a
"Universal Resource Identifier" and that URLs form a subset of the more
general URI naming scheme.  And then proceeds to always use the term URI
for any web address, or other identifier (FTP, mailto links, etc),
throughout the rest of the document.

The explanation that I was told years ago, sounds good to me, that a URI
was a filepath, and the gadget that everyone calls the URL in your
browser locates the file you enter into it.  It's not stricly true of
course, but gramatically speaking, makes more sense that you type an
address into a locator, than type a locator into a locator gadget.

Either term can be applied to the usual kind of addresses you'll see,
though I use the term URI, because I tend to follow standards and
conventions properly, rather than ad hoc.  It's just the engineer in me.

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Date: 15 Feb 2000 12:51:34 +0900
From: "Tim Seifert" <[e-mail]>
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 By:  Sandy Brownlee <[e-mail]>
 To:  afb <[e-mail]>
 On:  10-Feb-00 02:35:11
 Re:  [afb] Re: (OT) Astronomical figures (was Heart106.2 (Was: Exams))

Hi Sandy,

>> 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.

> Relativistic motion: (Turn off YAM text styles with RAmiga- T)

> ...[huge snip]...

Well, you can prove anything with figures.  ;-)  But seriously, fancy
theories do not a fact make.  Thus far, all explanations I've heard on
the matter (and I don't mean just here), have relied on believing other
unbelievable and unprovable theories.

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Date: 15 Feb 2000 13:55:53 +0900
From: "Tim Seifert" <[e-mail]>
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 By:  Daniel Thornton <[e-mail]>
 To:  afb <[e-mail]>
 On:  10-Feb-00 05:37:39
 Re:  [afb] Re: PIRACY-SUCKS

Hi Daniel,

>> 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.

> V is very stable in AGA if you disable flash. Using FBlit helps as
> well, because V loves chip-ram.

Voyager, AWeb too, should be programmed properly to not require hacks
like FBlit to make the program usable.  There's no good reason why a
program can't be properly coded to make better user of memory.  How is
an external program supposed to know what something else is doing to
manage it for it?

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Date: 15 Feb 2000 18:1:4 +0900
From: "Tim Seifert" <[e-mail]>
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 By:  Kevin Fairhurst <[e-mail]>
 To:  afb <[e-mail]>
 On:  10-Feb-00 02:48:06
 Re:  [afb] Re: The falling circulation numbers.

Hi Kevin,

>> And why should we?  Why does everyone have this rampant capitialist
>> attitude that we should be forever giving other people our money,
>> just for the sake of it?

> Why should they continue developing/writing stuff, "for the sake of
> it" ?

That's their choice, if they want to be capitalists.

I will not accept being told that I have to go around spending my money
for the sake of other people.  If someone wants me to spend money on
them, they have to come up with a good reason for it, and produce
something worth buying.  And even then, I'm still not going to buy
something for the sake of it, I actually have to have a justifiable
reason for it.  I'm not a social security fund.

People who go around moaning, "nobody buys my software, all the pirates
are ruining may," may just have the wrong end of the stick.  There may
not be a market for their product, their product may be genuine crap.

Or do you go around madly buying all those crappy trinkets from every
souvenir shop you walk past, just to keep the locals employed?

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Date: 15 Feb 2000 18:5:25 +0900
From: "Tim Seifert" <[e-mail]>
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 By:  Kevin Fairhurst <[e-mail]>
 To:  afb <[e-mail]>
 On:  10-Feb-00 23:16:31
 Re:  [afb] Re: This Hard Drive will self destruct in 10...9...8...7...

Hi Kevin,

>>>> hmmmm, is there a newer one which wont threaten to eliminate my
>>>> drive?

>>> Yes, the one with OS3.5.

>> If I had 3.1roms then I might consider it, but 60 for old rom chips
>> and little added functionality doesn't sound like fun

> It's 50, and you'll be getting a fully working TESTED non beta of the
> FS.  You wouldn't want your hard drive dying would you?

A new file system will not prevent a dying hard drive from dying.  This
sounds like a conman salesman patter.

> And there's far more to it than that - what with glowicons (they're
> not just newicons), an arexx port on workbench, a shed full of bug
> fixes (okay it's a small shed), latest versions of programs, and then
> there's the plethora of extras on the CD and the little things like
> being able to drag a drawer from ram to the same root where that
> drawer already exists, and it'll update all the files in sub dirs!
> That in itself is a real time saver - no more having to wade through
> the hierarchy just to get to the files you want ...

Glowicons, whoopidoo.  Just fancy frilly rubbish.

And new bugs, which may be worse than your old bugs.  Upgrade if you
need to, not because someone is telling you to do it.

And how safe is updating file this way?  Does it check for newer file
versions?

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Date: 15 Feb 2000 17:56:47 +0900
From: "Tim Seifert" <[e-mail]>
In-Reply-To: <1AF46531C3DCD3119F6500D0B723B4B24EFBE7@THE_EXCHANGE>
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 By:  Robert Johnston <[e-mail]>
 To:  '[e-mail]' <[e-mail]>
 On:  10-Feb-00 17:03:46
 Re:  [afb] Re: TCP by Serial

Hi Robert,

>> 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...

Tried that, it didn't.  It won't install a second Dial-Up adaptor, what
it will do is install the next one as a VPN (virtual private network),
which doesn't help.  Trying to use this results in the computer
continually asking to reconnect, even though it is already connected.

I'm using Win98SE, by the way, if that makes any difference.

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Date: 17 Feb 2000 18:42:2 +0900
From: "Tim Seifert" <[e-mail]>
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 By:  Ben Vost <[e-mail]>
 To:  afb <[e-mail]>
 On:  11-Feb-00 02:08:51
 Re:  [afb] Re: Welcome message

Hi Ben,

>> <thunderbirds> Too...many...exclamation...marks.... can't....
>> concentrate....</thuderbirds> :)

> I know, there are in that first para, but I wanted to get across to
> folk that they *shouldn't* delete the message...

Don't some mail clients count excessive exlamation marks, and use that
as one of the criteria for declaring a message to be junk mail?  ;-)

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Date: 15 Feb 2000 18:19:2 +0900
From: "Tim Seifert" <[e-mail]>
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 By:  Neil Bothwick <[e-mail]>
 To:  Tim Seifert <[e-mail]>
 On:  10-Feb-00 18:50:52
 Re:  [afb] Re: Zippity do da, Zippity Day

Hi Neil,

>> 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.

You'd think that'd help, but it doesn't on my DKB Cobra accellerator and
Ferret SCSI host combination.  It sometimes does the Zip.2: routine,
sometimes doesn't.  But even if it does, the Zip: is still accessible,
when it shouldn't be.  And behaves in a dangerous manner.

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Date: 15 Feb 2000 18:11:33 +0900
From: "Tim Seifert" <[e-mail]>
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 By:  Rick Hodger <[e-mail]>
 To:  afb <[e-mail]>
 On:  09-Feb-00 20:46:01
 Re:  [afb] Re: V

Hi Rick,

> The other thing of course, is that the MUI system has a lot more going
> for it in the programmer's eyes.  A quick look at aminet reveals no
> end to the number of MCC's for doing little jobs, thereby saving the
> programmer a good deal of time and effort.  IMO, it also looks a hell
> of a lot nicer.  ClassAct looks kinda...nasty...

And a whole swag of files that can cause nasty bugs (Class Act isn't
immune from this either).  MUI is badly organised.  Anybody can make a
MCC, and spread it about, no matter how badly programmed it is.  Authors
go around patching MCCs to hack them into their programs, breaking their
operation with other MUI programs.  Users often have to update half a
dozen MUI files when installing a new program, then go hunting around
for bug fixes for all the newly installed MCCs.

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From: "Kevin Fairhurst" <[e-mail]>
Date: 17 Feb 2000 08:34:17 +0000
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On 17 Feb 2000 1:4:12 +0000, Neil Bothwick ([e-mail]) wrote:
> William said,
>
> > Has anybody got a newicon for Aweb 3.2 , i have looked on Aminet but
> > most of them are Aweb directory icons
>
> Yes, but it would be ingenuous of me to tell you where to find it :)

You're not implying that he look into the drawers, are you?   ;-)

Kev

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From: "Ben Vost" <[e-mail]>
Date: Thu, 17 Feb 2000 08:50:24 +0000
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Hi,

I'll probably get shot for breaking NDA and posting this here, but I thought
you should know...

*** Forwarded from Martin Steigerwald on 16-Feb-00 ***

> I confirm that http://www.egroups.com/group/afb posting.
>
> Here is the page:
> (as rendered into text by httx)

Oh well I am sooooo sick of it! For every page that is removed there
are 3 new pages which offer a pirated version of AmigaOS 3.5.

And then for example GeoCities answered that we have to prove our
ownership first before they can do anything - would MicroSoft have to
prove their ownership to Windows? I get the impression that they tend
to believe the pirates even more than the owners of the software in
question. So I had to get some documents ready and fax them and mail
them and do stuff usually a lawyer would do but we cant pay one and so
on.

Maybe we should concentrate all activities on hunting piracy and
telling the users --> sorry, no developments, cause we have to hunt
piracy all the time, no time for developments.

Please contact Juergen Haage, Petro Tyschtschenko or Bill McEven or
Fleecy Moss directly. I am out of resources on this one. I myself
can't do much more than writing a email to the provider.

I am really fed up with this piracy issue.

*** End of forwarded message ***

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Date: Thu, 17 Feb 2000 00:53:10 -0800
From: "Nick Lamburn" <[e-mail]>
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Hello Steve,

> >> A600,  Apollo 68030 33Mhz,  16mb Fast Ram,
> >> Running OS3.5
> >> 800mb IDE hard drive, 4x IDE Mitsumi CDrom drive
> >> Amiga Fax Modem, Epson LQ100+ Printer
> >> Commodore MPS 1270 Inkjet Printer
> >> Cumana Second Disk Drive.
> >
> > Ooooh, nifty A600, I'm gonna do the same with my A600 (all the bits
are
> > ordered and are one the way! :) and use it as a portable Amiga and
Mac
> > (Fusion! :)
>
> Looks good, got a problem with it though, keeps
> bl**dy crashing, can't find out what it is, when
> i'm online either Miami or Yam keeps on crashing,
> it was "Miami Downton" just now:O((
>
> Its bl**dy annoying especialy when getting my
> e-mails.

Could be one of a few things:

* Bad cooling/ventilation
* Insufficient Power Supply (most A600 bricks are 23Watts)
* An Apollo 630 throwing a wobbly... :)  (coming loose)
* Lack of memory (computer memory that is :)

> >> Getting an A1200, at last!
> >
> > But make sure you keep the A600 with all the gear;
>
> Won't get rid of it, my boy my want to have a go
> when he's older! Much older!

Guess he's about two then... :)

> stick it in a
> > briefcase and you have a portable Miggy...  Like me :)
>
> How'd you do that then? What sort of screen? What power?

Well, it's a half way house; I use it when I'm away from home; like
holiday or when I have some college work to be done etc.  What I do is
this: take an RF lead and a PSU in a shoe box... :)  The briefcase is
modified to hold the A600, Mouse, RF Lead, Hard Drive (it's outside)
and a CD-ROM.  It all fits in great, I even have a compartment for a
scandoubler and flicker-fixer ready so that when I can afford one; I
can hook it up to any VGA/SVGA monitor, Amiga 15KHz Video Monitor or
TV.  It's not a laptop like Simon Archer's Suzanne, but pretty close
and very nice.

Of course, I can even fit the modem in there; so I can continue my
correspondance when I am away; so long as there is a telephone
socket... :)

The coolest feature is by far the Amiga and Mac emulation on it though;
because I was gonna buy a Mac laptop; but decided to spend out on the
Mac laptop waiting to be, the A600 under the bed... :)  Besides, it's
only cost me about =A3140 to do, unlike =A3250 odd for a 68K Colour Mac
laptop... :)  (=A3140 for Accelerator, RAM, Hard Disk, New Keyboard,
Amiga OS 2.1, new LEDs, but not the A600 since I had it already... :)

All the best,

Nick.



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From: "Ben Vost" <[e-mail]>
Date: Thu, 17 Feb 2000 08:52:59 +0000
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Hi,

Then there's this one... :)

*** Forwarded from Joanne Dow on 17-Feb-00 ***

I have to observe, Allan, that this episode of "cracking" or software piracy
really took some hairy chested cracking work. I am about as impressed with
them as I am if a baby wiggles. It takes guts, mental strength, and
incredible intestinal fortitude to wrap up the "OS-Version3.5" directory
from the distribution CDROM and make it into a UAE .HDF file. These are
very clever, far sighted, wonderous beings who can do this kind of thing.
It must have taken them whole minutes of hard work.

The assholes.
{`,'}
    They even remarked in the files they added that it was not copy
    protected at all. Then they go on to remark that with Gateway
    selling the Amiga this is probably the last of their work on
    the Amiga, it has gotten too boring. God how I feel sorry for
    their sorry asses. They don't need imprisonment. They need a
    very well publicized very public bare bottomed well prolonged
    spanking. They are not adult enough to imprison.

*** End of forwarded message ***

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Date: Thu, 17 Feb 2000 00:58:34 -0800
From: "Nick Lamburn" <[e-mail]>
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Hello,

> You evil bastard! You've really opened a can of worms with this one!
What,
> do you like watching them squirm? Maybe we should put them out of
their
> misery? No, perhaps not! hehehe

Meanie! :-P :)

> Go on, tell them it's a big wind-up. The only thing that's going to
be on
> AF135 is a CD (or 2 floppies) perhaps what these guys should really be
> talking about is what "bonus" is contained on AFCD51!!!

Wow, it posts! :))  I thought you (Errol) was meant to lurk... :)
Errol you wouldn't be playing it down would ya? :)

My vote still goes for Draw Studio 2.... :)

All the best,

Nick.



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Date: Thu, 17 Feb 2000 01:00:06 -0800
From: "Nick Lamburn" <[e-mail]>
In-Reply-To:  <[e-mail]>
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Hi,

> You should take computing, its much easier to stay hidden ;) although
I
> couldnt read it today becasue some swine subbed me to the erotic toons
> mailing list and the dirty website-o-meter went off the scale :/

I already take computer science; have it today - so between 11:15am and
1:00pm you'll see a lot of me today :)...

/me does no proper work in computing, like the rest of the group... :)

All the best,

Nick.



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From: "Ben Vost" <[e-mail]>
Date: Thu, 17 Feb 2000 08:58:56 +0000
In-Reply-To: <[e-mail]>
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Hi Tim,

>>> Most of the internet software available for the miggy simply wouldn't
>>> be possible without MUI, it's all well and good arguing about
>>> it...but Gadtools is very dated and limited...hell, it doesn't even
>>> have font sensitivity...it's up to the programmer to put that in.

> Really, just how ESSENTIAL is MUI to making a graphical user interface?

At the moment, I'd say, as a non-programmer, that it's pretty damned
essential if you want something usable in the shortest time possible.

All the best,
--
Ben Vost (x2337)        /PGP key available/        T: ([phone]
Editor, Amiga Format                             F: ([phone]
++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
Suborbital Ballistic-Propulsion Engineer Not Exactly A Rocket
Scientist




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Date: Thu, 17 Feb 2000 01:02:25 -0800
From: "Nick Lamburn" <[e-mail]>
In-Reply-To:  <[e-mail]>
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Subject: [afb] Re: I love AMIGA Inc. (A4000T rails and workbench.library)
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Hi Tudor 'i broke my ankle' Davies... :))

> Following on from a couple of threads a couple of weeks ago, I
decided that
> the best course would be to get the drive rails and the A4000T
software
> direct from AMIGA themselves - at least I would know they were the
right
> bits :)

Good idea... :)

> Anyway, I sent of an email to orders requesting the above and asking
for
> details of the right bits to order so that I could place an order.
Today I
> received this:
>
> ======
>
> Please give us your postal address, we will send the rails
> and one set of diskets for free.
>
> Best Regards
>
> Andreas Steep
> AMIGA International, Inc.
>
> ======
>
> Is that brilliant service or what?
>
> I love these guys :)

So do I, eh! :))  Why can't i have anything free? :)  Do you reckon I
could ask them for an A4000T and get it free? :)

Well, you can't get a nicer service than that IMO, imagine IBM or
Compaq or Gateway :) doing that....

All the best,

Nick.



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From: "Ben Vost" <[e-mail]>
Date: Thu, 17 Feb 2000 09:01:16 +0000
In-Reply-To: <[e-mail]>
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Hi Tim,

>> V=B3 is very stable in AGA if you disable flash. Using FBlit helps as
>> well, because V loves chip-ram.

> Voyager, AWeb too, should be programmed properly to not require hacks
> like FBlit to make the program usable.  There's no good reason why a
> program can't be properly coded to make better user of memory.  How is
> an external program supposed to know what something else is doing to
> manage it for it?

So you'd like Voyager and AWeb to hack the system too? What will happen i=
f
you are already running FBlit and you run a program that tries to patch t=
he
same thing? I foresee problems, and I'm sure that Olli and Yvon did too,
which is why they left the hacks to the hacks and just wrote the most
stable programs they could. Besides which, I'd hate it if V had FBlit bui=
lt
into it. I don't need it on my gfx card, and I don't want it.

All the best,
-- =

Ben Vost (x2337)        /PGP key available/        T: ([phone]
Editor, Amiga Format                             F: ([phone]
++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
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From: "Ben Vost" <[e-mail]>
Date: Thu, 17 Feb 2000 09:04:34 +0000
In-Reply-To: <[e-mail]>
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Hi Tim,

> Disregarding any trouble with registering, I wouldn't buy Voyager in a
> fit.  Quite apart from it's bugginess, it's still backward in an only
> partial support of common HTML codes.

But if you couldn't use Voyager for any length of time, how do you know that
Tim?

All the best,
--
Ben Vost (x2337)        /PGP key available/        T: ([phone]
Editor, Amiga Format                             F: ([phone]
++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
Want to send something for the CD? Read Submissions Advice on the
AFCD first.




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From: "Ben Vost" <[e-mail]>
Date: Thu, 17 Feb 2000 09:05:49 +0000
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Hi Matthew,

> What do you get?.......SUB! along with almost half price issues delivered
> to your front door days before they're in the shops...

About a week actually...

All the best,
--
Ben Vost (x2337)        /PGP key available/        T: ([phone]
Editor, Amiga Format                             F: ([phone]
++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
Excuse for the day: bad ether in the cables




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Date: Thu, 17 Feb 2000 01:09:49 -0800
From: "Erol Ismael" <[e-mail]>
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A3000  16/50     6MB ram  (1 w/Doubletalk)
A3000  25/100 10MB ram
A3000  16/50   14MB ram (040 Accel., Picasso II, Doubletalk)
A3000  25/50   18MB ram  (VLAB)

Also is =A3800 pounds a good price for the A3000T with 486 Bridge card
and sound card. Comes with normal accesories plus WB 3.5 installed.


Please can anyone help?


Erol



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From: "Kevin Fairhurst" <[e-mail]>
Date: 17 Feb 2000 08:43:45 +0000
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On Wed, 16 Feb 2000 18:47:42 -0800, Peter Lewis ([e-mail]) wrote:
> can anyone help me here...
>
> I have an Oktagon 2008 SCSI2 Zorro2 board on my Amiga which I use soley
> for the purpose of my 8x SCSI2 Plextor CDRW (Had to say it!...:o)

[Snip buffer underruns problems]

What software are you running the Oktagon off?  If you are using the boot
rom, have you tried using the replacement software from
http://www.elaborate-bytes.com ? It might help improve access speeds.

Also you need to have a shed load of RAM as a buffer to help matters  ;-)

If you're using MakeCD ask about on the MakeCD mailing-list ....

Kev

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



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From: "Kevin Fairhurst" <[e-mail]>
Date: 17 Feb 2000 08:53:10 +0000
In-Reply-To: <[e-mail]>
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On 15 Feb 2000 18:1:4 +0900, Tim Seifert ([e-mail]) wrote:
> Hi Kevin,

'lo

> >> And why should we?  Why does everyone have this rampant capitialist
> >> attitude that we should be forever giving other people our money,
> >> just for the sake of it?
>
> > Why should they continue developing/writing stuff, "for the sake of
> > it" ?
>
> That's their choice, if they want to be capitalists.

Isn't it the same for everyone?   :-)

> I will not accept being told that I have to go around spending my money
> for the sake of other people.

It wasn't quite that.  It wasn't aimed at you in particular, but at
everyone.  If we (as a whole) don't buy software, why should they bother
writing it?

>  If someone wants me to spend money on
> them, they have to come up with a good reason for it, and produce
> something worth buying.

I agree whole-heartedly.

>  And even then, I'm still not going to buy
> something for the sake of it, I actually have to have a justifiable
> reason for it.  I'm not a social security fund.

Neither am I!  The point of all this was to prove that there still is an
Amiga market.  It wasn't a case of "go buy something for the sake of it"
because that isn't the point.  The whole idea was to encourage people to
actually spend money on that game they've been thinking of buying, or
registering that shareware they've been meaning to register.  It was NEVER
a case of "go spend money for the sake of it" ...

> People who go around moaning, "nobody buys my software, all the pirates
> are ruining may," may just have the wrong end of the stick.  There may
> not be a market for their product, their product may be genuine crap.

True, or people might think "well I can't be bothered buying it, though I
would like it" and thus although there is a market, there aren't sales.  I
have been after buying VirtualGP for a while, and never got around to it.
So I bought it in the "spending frenzy" ...

> Or do you go around madly buying all those crappy trinkets from every
> souvenir shop you walk past, just to keep the locals employed?

Don't be daft, isn't that what girlfriends/sisters are for?  *grin*

Kev

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



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From: "Kevin Fairhurst" <[e-mail]>
Date: 17 Feb 2000 08:58:57 +0000
In-Reply-To: <[e-mail]>
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On 15 Feb 2000 18:5:25 +0900, Tim Seifert (T=2EA=2ES@bigpond=2Ecom) wrote:

> Hi Kevin,

'lo again

> >>>> hmmmm, is there a newer one which wont threaten to eliminate my
> >>>> drive?
>=20=20
> >>> Yes, the one with OS3=2E5=2E
>=20=20
> >> If I had 3=2E1roms then I might consider it, but =A360 for old rom chi=
ps
> >> and little added functionality doesn't sound like fun
>=20
> > It's =A350, and you'll be getting a fully working TESTED non beta of th=
e
> > FS=2E  You wouldn't want your hard drive dying would you?
>=20
> A new file system will not prevent a dying hard drive from dying=2E  This
> sounds like a conman salesman patter=2E

The hard drive wasn't dying=2E  The only problem with the hard drive is tha=
t
a beta version of FFS is saying "you're using a beta, don't blame is if it
all goes FUBAR" =2E=2E=2E which would be solved if he upgraded to OS3=2E5,
naturally=2E

> Glowicons, whoopidoo=2E  Just fancy frilly rubbish=2E

But the new icon format is more than that=2E  Convert all your old icons to=
i
the new format and save hard drive space =2E=2E=2E

> And new bugs, which may be worse than your old bugs=2E  Upgrade if you
> need to, not because someone is telling you to do it=2E

What new bugs?  In my opinion, anyone with a heavily patched system should
upgrade as it provides a lot of much needed stability and incorporates a
lot of said patches internally=2E  My system is a lot more stable than it
used to be with the installation of OS3=2E5 =2E=2E=2E

> And how safe is updating file this way?  Does it check for newer file
> versions?

Well it did when I upgraded my PFS3 filesystem on the RDB, IIRC=2E

Kev

--=20
Kevin "Redvers" Fairhurst - ICQ 56332267, redver5 on AIM



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From: "Alan Anthony" <[e-mail]>
Date: Thu, 17 Feb 2000 09:20:41 -0000
In-Reply-To: <88gd7q$[e-mail]>
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Hi All,
My vote goes to Siamese.



Regards,

Alan Anthony.
Brown Goods Purchasing Controller.
Bennetts Retail Ltd.
East Anglia's Largest
Independent Electrical Retailer.




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From: "Ben Vost" <[e-mail]>
Date: Thu, 17 Feb 2000 09:20:32 +0000
In-Reply-To: <[e-mail]>
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Hi Matthew,

> Dunno if the last mail got through, but is there any chance of having this
> month's missing js drawer on the next CD?

It's there.

All the best,
--
Ben Vost (x2337)        /PGP key available/        T: ([phone]
Editor, Amiga Format                             F: ([phone]
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From: "Ben Vost" <[e-mail]>
Date: Thu, 17 Feb 2000 09:23:07 +0000
In-Reply-To: <[e-mail]>
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Hi Paul,

> If you don't tell us, no-one will buy anything until the mag is out
> just in case they buy whatever you're giving away. So you'd better
> tell us so we know what we're allowed to buy.

I already said that this was the teaser, that the trailer would follow
shortly and that all would be revealed soon. Don't even bother thinking
about it, it wastes bandwidth on here...

All the best,
--
Ben Vost (x2337)        /PGP key available/        T: ([phone]
Editor, Amiga Format                             F: ([phone]
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From: "Ben Vost" <[e-mail]>
Date: Thu, 17 Feb 2000 09:24:28 +0000
In-Reply-To: <[e-mail]>
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Hi Sean,

>           I joined afb a few days ago and would just like to say hello to
> all the afb users everywhere.I have had a Amiga since the first A500s came

Welcome!

All the best,
--
Ben Vost (x2337)        /PGP key available/        T: ([phone]
Editor, Amiga Format                             F: ([phone]
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From: "Ben Vost" <[e-mail]>
Date: Thu, 17 Feb 2000 09:25:20 +0000
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Hi,

I don't want to see any mails to the list asking why their messages haven't
got through to Future. Okay?

*** Forwarded from Helpdesk on 17-Feb-00 ***

Dear All,

Due to an upgrade the mail server will be down from 6pm this evening
until 9am tomorrow morning, this will stop both mail and calendar
services.

Apologies for any inconvenience caused,

Computer Services

*** End of forwarded message ***

All the best,
--
Ben Vost (x2337)        /PGP key available/        T: ([phone]
Editor, Amiga Format                             F: ([phone]
++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
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results in your being accepted into the Legion Of Superherpes.




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Date: Thu, 17 Feb 2000 01:31:04 -0800
From: "Paul Laycock" <[e-mail]>
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Hi Alan,

> My vote goes to Siamese.

And *thats* what we have to get excited about? ;)

Paul Laycock



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From: Robert Johnston <[e-mail]>
Date: Thu, 17 Feb 2000 09:34:54 -0000
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Tim Seifert [mailto:[e-mail]]
> Sent: 15 February 2000 05:19
> To: Robert Johnston
> Subject: [afb] Re: tag!
>
> Hi Robert,

Hi, Tim!

> > What? No RTF? No CSV? What group of Amateurs d'you work for? :))
>
> Only the other day I tried to find a Windoze program that
> would import a
> comma seperated values file, and damned if I could find one.

Excel does... all you need do is "Open -> Text files (File type box)", then
it'll give you all the import options you need.
--
Robert Johnston (A.C.P.)
Customer Response Operative, Simply Computers
0870 727 4020 x657
Free delivery on the Web @ http://www.simply.co.uk
MS sucks, but it DOES do everything you'd want... just badly.


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Date: Thu, 17 Feb 2000 01:40:29 -0800
From: "D Race" <[e-mail]>
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Can anyone offer any advice on whether its safe to user the os 3.1
version of the ASL.Lib with OS 3.5..  I use MasterISO which gives a
recoverable alert if the new version is used, but works fine under the
old one...

Many Thanks
Duncan



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From: "Ben Vost" <[e-mail]>
Date: Thu, 17 Feb 2000 09:39:44 +0000
In-Reply-To: <03ac01bf78d3$a4bfd090$64f331d4@trogsoft>
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Hi Neil,

>>   As money is tight, why not get rid of the 'Gallery' and 'Your stuff!=
',
> prizes,
>> it must wipeout the profit of a fair few copies per month.

It's not exactly much cash - =A3150 at the most.

> Or why not get rid of the Christmas edition? How many other mags have
> that? It'd give you a tad more time to work on each issue, and might he=
lp
> cut costs.

It would, but it would also cut down on the profits, since we would then
only get 12 x =A35.99, instead of 13 x =A35.99.

All the best,
-- =

Ben Vost (x2337)        /PGP key available/        T: ([phone]
Editor, Amiga Format                             F: ([phone]
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A:  Pantene




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From: "Matthew Wise" <[e-mail]>
Date: Thu, 17 Feb 2000 09:41:54 -0000
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Hi fellow Amiga owning ppl,

A couple of weeks ago I posted some questions about a bargain 1200 I was go=
ing to buy.  Well a couple of days ago that bargain arrived. (=A360+=A310 p=
&p for an A1200, Blizzard 1230 030/50MHz accelerator card with 8Mb, 170Mb H=
DD, Multisync monitor, external 1.76Mb XL floppy drive (whatever this is - =
HD floppy drive even?), several leads, joysticks, mice etc. and a sh*tload =
of floppy disks in disk boxes!)

I hadn't seen a 1200 before this, so I opened it up.  (Amigas have personal=
ities y'know, and I always open the computer to kinda 'get to know it'...)

I have some questions about it that I would like to ask you more knowledgea=
ble ppl:
    Port on LHS of 1200 - PCMCIA?
    The 22-pin array by the expansion port that looks like it should have b=
een 40-pin - Clock port?
    The rev. is 1d4 - what does this mean in terms of those problems that E=
yetech etc. will fix for U?
    On the 3.0 ROMS, pins 3->9 (from top left) of both chips have been wire=
d together.  Why?  Is this supposed to be done?
    What can ppl tell me about the Blizzard 1230 card, i.e. max. RAM, what =
type, SCSI or not (there is a 50-pin array in one of the corners...), what =
has been left out with the MC68030RC, does it have an MMU (it has an FPU)..=
.
    What is this external floppy drive (see above)?

Thnx in advance to anyone who can help me out.  I'll probably have some mor=
e questions soon!
Matt W - looking fwd to half term with his 'new' Amiga...


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<DIV><FONT size=3D2>Hi fellow Amiga owning ppl,</FONT></DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=3D2>A couple of weeks ago I posted some questions about a b=
argain =

1200 I was going to buy.  Well a couple of days ago that bargain arriv=
ed. =

(=A360+=A310 p&p for an A1200, Blizzard 1230 030/50MHz accelerator card=
 with =

8Mb, 170Mb HDD, Multisync monitor, external 1.76Mb XL floppy drive =

(whatever this is - HD floppy drive even?), several leads, joysticks, mice =
etc. =

and a sh*tload of floppy disks in disk boxes!)</FONT></DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=3D2>I hadn't seen a 1200 before this, so I opened it up.&nb=
sp; =

(Amigas have personalities y'know, and I always open the computer to kinda =
'get =

to know it'...)</FONT></DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=3D2>I have some questions about it that I would like to ask=
 you =

more knowledgeable ppl:</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=3D2>    Port on LHS of 1200 - PCMCIA?</FONT>=
</DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=3D2>    The 22-pin array by the expansion po=
rt that =

looks like it should have been 40-pin - Clock port?</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=3D2>    The rev. is 1d4 - what does this mea=
n in =

terms of those problems that Eyetech etc. will fix for U?</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=3D2>    On the 3.0 ROMS, pins 3->9 (from =
top =

left) of both chips have been wired together.  Why?  Is this supp=
osed =

to be done?</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=3D2>    What can ppl tell me about the Blizz=
ard =

1230 card, i.e. max. RAM, what type, SCSI or not (there is a 50-pin array i=
n one =

of the corners...), what has been left out with the MC68030RC, does it have=
 an =

MMU (it has an FPU)...</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=3D2>    What is this external floppy drive (=
see =

above)?</FONT></DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=3D2>Thnx in advance to anyone who can help me out.  I'=
ll =

probably have some more questions soon!</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=3D2>Matt W - looking fwd to half term with his 'new' =

Amiga...</FONT></DIV>

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From: "Ben Vost" <[e-mail]>
Date: Thu, 17 Feb 2000 09:46:37 +0000
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Hi Tony,

> Hi one and all,
> I'm new to the group & a complete newbie |-O.
> I've been lurking for the past two days(like many others i imagine).
> Anyway i 'm going to have a stab at what's on next issues cd.
> Ben is it........Amiga Writer?
> Bye now Tony.

Welcome Tony, and no (not that I'd say if it *were* the correct answer).

All the best,
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From: "Kevin Fairhurst" <[e-mail]>
Date: 17 Feb 2000 09:50:40 +0000
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On Thu, 17 Feb 2000 09:41:54 -0000, Matthew Wise (matthew@wise25=2Eswintern=
et=2Eco=2Euk) wrote:
> Hi fellow Amiga owning ppl,

1)  Hello
2)  Please don't post with HTML attatched

> A couple of weeks ago I posted some questions about a bargain 1200 I was =
going to buy=2E  Well a couple of days ago that bargain arrived=2E (=A360+=
=A310 p&p for an A1200, Blizzard 1230 030/50MHz accelerator card with 8Mb, =
170Mb HDD, Multisync monitor, external 1=2E76Mb XL floppy drive (whatever t=
his is - HD floppy drive even?), several leads, joysticks, mice etc=2E and =
a sh*tload of floppy disks in disk boxes!)

Only =A310 P&P??

> I hadn't seen a 1200 before this, so I opened it up=2E  (Amigas have pers=
onalities y'know, and I always open the computer to kinda 'get to know it'=
=2E=2E=2E)

true enough =2E=2E=2E

> I have some questions about it that I would like to ask you more knowledg=
eable ppl:
>     Port on LHS of 1200 - PCMCIA?

Yes=2E

>     The 22-pin array by the expansion port that looks like it should have=
 been 40-pin - Clock port?

Yes

>     The rev=2E is 1d4 - what does this mean in terms of those problems th=
at Eyetech etc=2E will fix for U?

There might be timing faults that'll affect the clock port when used in
conjunction with faster CPU cards, I'm not sur ewhat other problems there
may be=2E  Of course, the m/b might have already been fixed =2E=2E=2E

>     On the 3=2E0 ROMS, pins 3->9 (from top left) of both chips have been =
wired together=2E  Why?  Is this supposed to be done?

Dunno about that - maybe it's an early m/b revision and it's there to fix a
problem?

>     What can ppl tell me about the Blizzard 1230 card, i=2Ee=2E max=2E RA=
M, what type, SCSI or not (there is a 50-pin array in one of the corners=2E=
=2E=2E), what has been left out with the MC68030RC, does it have an MMU (it=
 has an FPU)=2E=2E=2E

That all depends on if it is a Mark I, Mark II, Mark III or Mark IV board
=2E=2E=2E Have you actually tried running ShowConfig cos that'll tell you a=
bout
the MMU=2E  Look on aminet for details about RAM and stuff (in text/review =
?)
or maybe check out the BBOAHW=2E  Oh and the 50 pins sounds like a SCSI
interface to me =2E=2E=2E

>     What is this external floppy drive (see above)?

It is a HD floppy drive - you can read and (with a suitable patch running)
write to HD disks, including PC 1=2E44Mb disks with CrossDOS =2E=2E=2E=2E

> Thnx in advance to anyone who can help me out=2E  I'll probably have some=
 more questions soon!
> Matt W - looking fwd to half term with his 'new' Amiga=2E=2E=2E

Enjoy!

Kev

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



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