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49281. Sandy Brownlee            FTP Server
49282. Matthew O'Neill           TAO, TAO, tay light come an' me wan go 'ome
49283. Sandy Brownlee            Re: Hard Disks
49284. Mark Wilson               Re: FTP Server
49285. Rick Hodger               Re: A question for the Mac fraternity...
49286. Rick Hodger               Re: OS3.5 Emergency disk
49287. Rick Hodger               Re: hosts
49288. Jason Murray              Wormy Wackiness (was New Amiga website)
49289. Maarten Draijer           Re: Looking for Amigans in the SW
49290. Sean FT                   Amiga in Germany the official numbers!
49291. Jonathan M. Dudley        Re: limit
49292. Anthony Prime             Re: limit
49293. Anthony Prime             Re: test, any help
49294. Oliver Esberger           Re: Amiga in Germany the official numbers!
49295. Adam James                User Groups
49296. Kevin Fairhurst           Re: User Groups
49297. Simon Mason               Re: Amiga in Germany the official numbers!
49298. Andy Mills                Re: User Groups
49299. Steven Holmes             Re: OS3.5 Emergency disk
49300. Thomas Hurst              Re: Shocking news!
49301. Thomas Hurst              Re: MP3 streaming
49302. Thomas Hurst              Re: GLQuake
49303. Adam James                Amiga Active
49304. Mark Wilson               Re: Amiga Active
49305. Bert Volders              Re: Amiga in Germany the official numbers!
49306. Kevin Fairhurst           Re: Shocking news!
49307. Kevin Fairhurst           Re: GLQuake
49308. Jim Spratt                ADF Probs
49309. Daniel Thornton           Re: Amiga Active
49310. Mark Wilson               Re: Amiga Active
49311. Tony                      Re: Amiga in Germany the official numbers!
49312. Gerald Mellor             Re: Amiga Active
49313. Mark Wilson               Re: Amiga Active
49314. Gerald Mellor             Re: Amiga in Germany the official numbers!
49315. Daniel Thornton           Re: Amiga Active
49316. Tony                      Re: Amiga in Germany the official numbers!
49317. Andy Mills                Re: Amiga Active
49318. Adam James                Re: Amiga Active :-(
49319. Gerald Mellor             Re: Amiga Active
49320. David Plunkett            No answer
49321. D Race                    A4000 Query
49322. Nick Lamburn              A 68030 just waiting to burst... :)
49323. Nick Lamburn              Re: A4000 Query
49324. Adam James                Re: User Groups
49325. Kevin Fairhurst           Re: A4000 Query
49326. Daniel Pearson            Re: GLQuake
49327. Sealey, M.                Re: FTP Server
49328. Sealey, M.                Re: Amiga Active
49329. Ben Vost                  A bit late, but...
49330. xatiminey                 Re: FTP Server
49331. Chris Green               Re: A4000 Query
49332. xatiminey                 Re: C vs BlitzBasic and Tutorials
49333. Robert Johnston           Re: Amiga Active
49334. Alan L.M. Buxey           Re: GLQuake
49335. Alan L.M. Buxey           Re: Revenge Of The Mutant Camels. Wanted!
49336. Alan L.M. Buxey           Re: MUI - was: A crappy announcement...
49337. Sealey, M.                Re: Amiga Active
49338. Sealey, M.                Re: FTP Server
49339. Sealey, M.                Re: A bit late, but...
49340. Sealey, M.                Re: GLQuake
49341. Sealey, M.                Re: hosts
49342. Toffypops                 Amiga MCC???
49343. Toffypops                 Z2/z3 SCSI
49344. Rick Hodger               Re: Hard Disks
49345. xatiminey                 Re: FTP Server
49346. Alkis Tsapanidis          Re: GLQuake
49347. Rick Hodger               Re: MP3 streaming
49348. Rick Hodger               Re: OS3.5 Emergency disk
49349. Matthew Garrett           Re: GLQuake
49350. Robert Johnston           Re: FTP Server
49351. Paul Laycock              Re: GLQuake
49352. Matthew O'Neill           Re: New Amiga website
49353. Mikey C                   Re: OS3.5 Emergency disk
49354. Daniel Pearson            Re: GLQuake
49355. Robert Johnston           Re: GLQuake
49356. Matthew O'Neill           Re: Fillums (was: More A1200 Qs)
49357. Robert Johnston           Re: Fillums (was: More A1200 Qs)
49358. Ben Vost                  Re: Fillums (was: More A1200 Qs)
49359. Robert Johnston           Re: Fillums (was: More A1200 Qs)
49360. David McMinn              Re: Fillums (was: More A1200 Qs)
49361. Rick Hodger               Re: FTP Server
49362. Daniel Thornton           Re: Fillums (was: More A1200 Qs)
49363. Neil Bothwick             Re: Amiga MCC???
49364. =?iso-8859-1?q?Mirrorball?= Re: Amiga Active
49365. Christopher Ross-Gill     Re: Fillums (was: More A1200 Qs)
49366. Tony                      Re: Amiga MCC???
49367. Sean Courtney             Re: Amiga Active
49368. Sealey, M.                Re: Fillums (was: More A1200 Qs)
49369. Sealey, M.                Re: OS3.5 Emergency disk
49370. Robert Johnston           Re: Fillums (was: More A1200 Qs)
49371. [e-mail]   POLL: BT Flat Rate Internet Access
49372. Kevin Fairhurst           Re: POLL: BT Flat Rate Internet Access
49373. eGroups.com Poll Results  Voting Results: How do you create AmigaGuide file
49374. roger buckley             hardfiles
49375. Oliver Esberger           Re: OS3.5 Emergency disk
49376. Phil Allen                Your favourite computer
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From: Sandy Brownlee <[e-mail]>
Date: Mon, 28 Feb 2000 19:47:10 +0000
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Subject: [afb] FTP Server
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Hello,

I've got a TCP/IP connection on a null modem between my miggy and my dad's
laptop, and though Quake is great, I would like to transfer files too. Does
anyone know of a good FTP server for the Amiga? Or is there a better way of
transferring files between the two?

Regards

        Sandy

--
Sandy Brownlee, connected from rural Aberdeenshire in Scotland
OS3.5 & PPC Powered!
Email: [e-mail]
Website: http://www.brownlee99.freeserve.co.uk
Sent using YAM 2.0
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From: Matthew O'Neill <[e-mail]>
Date: Sun, 27 Feb 2000 22:44:19 +0100
In-Reply-To: <[e-mail]>
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Subject: [afb] TAO, TAO, tay light come an' me wan go 'ome
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Hi Neil

> Well, the question related to the content of an article in the mag. As
> I've said many times before, I'd rather not discuss it in here.

Its still news thoguh?

>> I think that the TAO guy looks like Alexi Sayle, but just
>> because I first saw his picture in AA doesn't mean I'm not allowed to
>> discuss it here does it?

> It's fine to discuss that, because you're wrong :)

t'was still in AA

> Francis Charig looks nothing like Alexi Sayle. He did look rather like
> an East End Gangster when we met him in Reading...

The pictures ruined it! All through it I had the voice of the posh English
guy from buffy the vampire slayer for the techy guy and Alexi Sayle's
"allight den wots dis?, a new OS? ya must be kiddin' me like!" accent for
the other....

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

Groucho Borg:  "That's the silliest thing I ever assimilated..."







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From: Sandy Brownlee <[e-mail]>
Date: Mon, 28 Feb 2000 19:08:25 +0000
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Subject: [afb] Re: Hard Disks
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Hello Stephen

On 25-Feb-00, you wrote:

> Anybody know of a supplier of reasonably priced SCSI hard drives for my=

> Power Tower?  I've bodged an adaptor for my BPPC SCSI so that I can use=
 an
> internal 32x CDROM, and I'd like to add another hard drive to install
> Linux.  I'm just looking for a bg standard SCSI II, but not wide scsi o=
r
> Uwide scsi, as I don't want to try and fudge any more adaptors.

Try Analogic if a pc dealer search fails- I got a great 1Gb disk from the=
m
(=A365- remember that you pay for SCSI). Just watch out though- my disk w=
as
3.5" width, but the height of a CD-ROM.

Regards

        Sandy

-- =

Sandy Brownlee, connected from rural Aberdeenshire in Scotland
OS3.5 & PPC Powered!
Email: [e-mail]
Website: http://www.brownlee99.freeserve.co.uk
Sent using YAM 2.0
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Life is dangerous. You could die.





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Date: Mon, 28 Feb 2000 19:57:13 GMT
From: Mark Wilson <[e-mail]>
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On Mon, 28 Feb 2000 19:47:10 +0000
Sandy Brownlee <[e-mail]> wrote:

> I've got a TCP/IP connection on a null modem between my miggy and my dad's
> laptop, and though Quake is great, I would like to transfer files too. Does
> anyone know of a good FTP server for the Amiga? Or is there a better way of
> transferring files between the two?

Yes, set file and print sharing, and then downlaod the SMB-Handler from
aminet, it allows you to mount the pc drives on the amiga.

Works very well
--
Mark 'tecno' Wilson : Team Member of AmiBench

Web: http://www.AmiBench.org
Email: [e-mail]
ICQ Number: 39814816




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From: Rick Hodger <[e-mail]>
Date: Mon, 28 Feb 2000 19:46:41 +0000
In-Reply-To: <[e-mail]>
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I watched as Sealey, M. hammered "[afb] Re: A question for the Mac
fraternity..." out on their keyboard...

>>> But [Mac]IE5 really trounces them by being 100% STANDARDS
>>> compliant, and also 100% compliant with Microsoft's
>>> extensions *too*.
>>
>>> 200% compliant, then :)
>>
>> ...except for the Java VM that comes with it, I'm told by a
>> friend that it *still* has that nasty DLL support that MS added
>> in, thereby defeating the entire purpose of Java in the first
>> place.

> So use the Apple MRJ then.. you can easily get rid of the Microsoft
> Java VM, it's just an extension easily deleted. The Apple one is
> slower, but more compliant with the standards.

I don't really need Java at home anyway, the only time I use the Java VM is
in work...and then it's only for the nasty RealServer monitor, as Real seem
to insist that they can't make a proper program to do the same job.

> And it's not like the Microsoft JVM isn't compliant with the standards
> ANYWAY, it just adds things in that aren't specced by Sun, which
> people use and then break other Javas. Sun are stopping it anyway..

But by adding that stuff in, Microsoft broke the standard...which went
against the license agreement, and was frankly just plain bloody stupid.
Anyways, lets not get upset over it :)

--
<sb>Rick Hodger - rick . thehub @ bigfoot . com
<sb>Anti Spam Sig - Remove the spaces
<sb>
<sb>Never eat more than you can lift.




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From: Rick Hodger <[e-mail]>
Date: Mon, 28 Feb 2000 19:59:48 +0000
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I watched as Steven Holmes hammered "[afb] OS3.5 Emergency disk" out on
their keyboard...

> Hi all,

> Needed my OS3.5 emergency disk today after using ReOrg on my boot
> partition (don't do it, reorganising under 3.5 will *screw* your boot
> partition!!).
> Trouble was, the bloody thing didn't work! Firstly it wouldn't mount
> CD0: (which I fixed with the help of my CD   boot disk), then once it
> mounted CD0: I realised that my HD was nowhere to be seen!!

Don't panic...I had this as well when I accidently deleted my
startup-sequence (don't ask ;) ..afaik it's to do with the new icon system,
the icon disappears from your desktop but the drive is still there, I just
copied the icons off the CD again and it was fine.

> Why is this happening? My HD just disappears after the startup-sequence
> has loaded the system updates (it isn't there after the reset).
> Also, why does the computer take so bloody long to reboot after the
> floppy reset?

Dunno about that, you don't have a SCSI bus or anything do you?

> Good job I had my old HD as before to rely upon, although that wasn't
> straight forward due to both the old and new physical names being DHx:

> I am running a Fujitsu 4.3Gb 3.5" HD, and a Memorex IDE CDRW 2216.


--
<sb>Rick Hodger - rick . thehub @ bigfoot . com
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<sb>It doesn't matter how hard you've studied;
the material won't be on the exam anyway.




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From: Rick Hodger <[e-mail]>
Date: Sun, 27 Feb 2000 21:04:58 +0000
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I watched as Matthew O'Neill hammered "[afb] hosts" out on their keyboard...

> On 26-Feb-00, Alan Anthony wrote:

>> Who's hosting your site for you, and is it expensive.

> http://www.freenetname.co.uk

> and I daren't answer the second part of the question for fear of making
> you look silly ;) Once you've regged, just wait 24 hours and blam! done :)
> You have to dial in using their isp to upload pages though, which is a
> fair enough deal.

Plus if you want to transfer the domain to another ISP, you have to pay for
it (the domain I mean).

> Thing is though, amftp and dopus ftp apparently send the html files with
> the wrong datatype, so you get a *403 - permission denied* error when you
> try to view the page (so the friendly tech support tell me) I'll upload a
> new page and see if it still happens...

I'll tell you this, I think he's talking bollocks.  FTP only has two "data
types" or methods of transfer, those being ASCII and BINARY.  Only time you
should use ASCII is for CGI and Perl scripts (it changes the linefeeds),
any FTP client will default to BINARY when uploading.  A 403 error implies
that the server is setup incorrectly, in the the "World" permissions for
your files have had the read flag taken off them, or the HTTP daemon itself
is set up wrongly.

--
<sb>Rick Hodger - rick . thehub @ bigfoot . com
<sb>Anti Spam Sig - Remove the spaces
<sb>
<sb>If everything is coming your way, then you're in the wrong lane.




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From: "Jason Murray" <[e-mail]>
Date: 29 Feb 2000 07:18:22 +1000
In-Reply-To: <1AF46531C3DCD3119F6500D0B723B4B24EFDA0@THE_EXCHANGE>
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[ Worms moves snipped ]
> I don't know... kids these days... Don't know what they've *!!!!!BLAM!!!!!*

Well I enjoy the GameBoy version, as cut-down as it is - worms on the
go!!!! :)

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



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Date: Mon, 28 Feb 2000 12:31:31 -0800
From: "Maarten Draijer" <[e-mail]>
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Hello Nick

Thanx for the info
> Where abouts near Lyme Regis?  Charmouth?  Lyme Regis is a lovely
place
> in the Summer! :)

Up Lyme (1 mile from Lyme Regis.
And yes it's nice over there.

Might see you someday.

maarten



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From: [e-mail] (Sean FT)
Date: Mon, 28 Feb 2000 21:33:13 +0200
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Subject: [afb] Amiga in Germany the official numbers!
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Hi All,
      After some of the mails in the last few days talking about how many
machines are avaliable
and what is best to buy.I found this on a ex-Commodore employee's site:

_*Number of Units sold for Commodore Deutschland upto 31.12.93 (from
Marketing department Commodore Frankfurt)*_.

            _*AMIGA  ALL VERSIONS. _                  _UNITS SOLD*_.

*                AMIGA CD32                             25.000*
*          *
*                AMIGA CDTV                             25.800*
* *
*                AMIGA 500                           1.081.000*

*                AMIGA 500+                             79.500*

*                AMIGA 600                             193.000*

*                AMIGA 1000                             27.500*

*                AMIGA 1200                             95.500*

*                AMIGA 2000                            124.500*

*                AMIGA 3000                              8.300*

*                AMIGA 4000/030                          7.500*

                *AMIGA 4000/040                          3.800*

*                _*_
*                AMIGA 3000(T)                         CA.6000          _NO
EXACT NUMBERS RECORDED._*
*               *
*                AMIGA 3000(T)040(no 030 CPU onboard)  CA.  80          _NO
EXACT NUMBERS RECORDED._*--ACCORDING TO THE

                      SERIAL NUMBERS.
*                A1060 SIDECAR                       CA.3-5000          _NO
EXACT NUMBERS RECORDED.*_

I know this was only for Germany,but you can see there were quite a few
machines sold here.What surprised me was the number of A3000+A3000(T)that
were sold,maybe they ain't so rare as people recon and the owners realise
what a good machine they have(probably why they won't sell them!).So world
wide or even in England,they must have sold a hell of a lot of machines!.

I hope it makes interesting reading,
                                   Cheers,
                                         Sean.



                             POWERED BY:

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

*=Still looking for a sound daughter board DB50XG from Yamaha to fit onto
it! (Any offers!)




Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler.
-- Albert Einstein




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Date: Mon, 28 Feb 2000 20:22:04 +0000
From: "Jonathan M. Dudley" <[e-mail]>
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Subject: [afb] Re: limit
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fool wrote:

> We have eaten your solicitor (well, we fed him to the yeti (tastes like
> ol^H^Hchicken, apparently)).  Please attend in person, or send beer next
> time.

OK, one beer coming up (bleuurgh)...

 _____
/-----\
|OOOOO|-\
|OOOOO| |
|OOOOO|-/
\_____/

Do say, if you need more.  :)

Regards,
Jonny.

--
Gravity is a myth =AD the earth sucks!


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From: "Anthony Prime" <[e-mail]>
Date: 28 Feb 2000 21:10:06 +0000
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in a fit of rage Jonathan M. Dudley said something about [afb] Re: limit

> OK, one beer coming up (bleuurgh)...

>  _____
> /-----\
> |OOOOO|-\
> |OOOOO| |
> |OOOOO|-/
> \_____/

> Do say, if you need more.  :)


<me clicks fingers> In a thin glass!
--
Anthony Prime
>>Powered by Amiga in Crewe
[e-mail]


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From: "Anthony Prime" <[e-mail]>
Date: 28 Feb 2000 17:53:30 +0000
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Matthew O'Neill said something about [afb] Re: test, any help

[snip]

> > Which network are you using? GSM900 can theoretically radiate twice
> > the power of 1800, and if you are a long way from your local cell
> > sites and in a well shielded building (for example a caravan) the
> > phone could be turning the wick all the way up (though it's unlikely
> > and you'd have probably noticed the smell of your eyebrows catching
> > light ;)?

> Ummmm?........ yes, no, maybe?

Very decisive :)

> I'm about 200 yards away from the nearest transmitter. I read in the manual
> not to shew the arial 'as it may cause sevre burning' !!!!

Only if you ring a hotline </poor gag>

> > As this is a new handset, what was your experience previously?

> Its my mates, but he virtually lives here anyway. I've never had any trouble
> with the brick, just his sodding nokia thing.

If it's on Orange blag a replacement out of them in case the handset
is faulty.

> Mash - who hasn't accidentally lost his mobile down the back of an old sofa
> on the way to a skip, then narrowly missed getting it crushed by an
> industrial thingummy.

I'm glad to hear it. Only a prize prat would do that ;))
--
Anthony Prime
>>Powered by Amiga in Crewe
[e-mail]


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From: Oliver Esberger <[e-mail]>
Date: Mon, 28 Feb 2000 22:45:38 +0100
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Hello Sean,

On 28-Feb-00, you wrote:


> Hi All,
>      After some of the mails in the last few days talking about how
> many machines are avaliable
> and what is best to buy.I found this on a ex-Commodore employee's
> site:
>
> [lots of figures]
>
> I know this was only for Germany,but you can see there were quite a
> few machines sold here.What surprised me was the number of
> A3000+A3000(T)that were sold,maybe they ain't so rare as people recon
> and the owners realise what a good machine they have(probably why they
> won't sell them!).So world wide or even in England,they must have sold
> a hell of a lot of machines!.
>
> I hope it makes interesting reading,
>                                   Cheers,
>                                         Sean.

I don't know any figures for the UK, but the A1200 sold way better in
Great Britain than in Germany. The other thing I've heard is that higher
spec Amigas sold better in Germany, but that's maybe just a rumour.

Regards
--
Oliver Esberger - mailto:[e-mail]



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From: Adam James <[e-mail]>
Date: Mon, 28 Feb 2000 21:37:44 +0000
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Hello, all

does anyone know if there is a user group in NW Manchester , i have
tried the one if AF but no matter when i call the answer machine is on.

--
Adam James

(PGP key avail)








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From: "Kevin Fairhurst" <[e-mail]>
Date: 28 Feb 2000 22:15:35 +0000
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On Mon, 28 Feb 2000 21:37:44 +0000, Adam James ([e-mail]) wrote:
> Hello, all
>
> does anyone know if there is a user group in NW Manchester , i have
> tried the one if AF but no matter when i call the answer machine is on.

How close are you to the Wigan & West Lancs user group?

Kev

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



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From: Simon Mason <[e-mail]>
Date: Wed, 01 Mar 2000 22:41:33 +0000
In-Reply-To: <[e-mail]>
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Hello Oliver

On 28-Feb-00, you wrote:

> I don't know any figures for the UK, but the A1200 sold way better in
> Great Britain than in Germany. The other thing I've heard is that higher
> spec Amigas sold better in Germany, but that's maybe just a rumour.

I can confirm from personal experiance that (it seemed to me) higher spec
miggys sold better in Germany. I got posted back from Germany in Dec 98 and
a lot of my civvy German friends had A3000's + A4000's. In fact, more had
Amigas than PCs at the time.
As a whole, I was amazed at how well known and used Amigas were out there.
Mind you, hardware was a lot cheaper there too. My first hard drive I had
was fitted FREE for me by a local computer shop dealing in Amigas and Macs
for 110 DM - about 33, and that was for a 1.2GB (3.5") IDE AND he put on
OS3.0 and that was in 1996!


Cheers,
            Simon




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Date: 28 Feb 2000 22:21:27 +0000
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Hello Adam James, on 28-Feb-00 21:37:44 you said about:
  [afb] User Groups

>Hello, all

>does anyone know if there is a user group in NW Manchester , i have
>tried the one if AF but no matter when i call the answer machine is on.

Have a look at:

http://uk.amigasoc.org

--
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Date: Mon, 28 Feb 2000 14:42:02 -0800
From: "Steven Holmes" <[e-mail]>
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rick hodger <[e-mail]> wrote:
original article:http://www.egroups.com/group/afb/?start=49286

> > Needed my OS3.5 emergency disk today after using ReOrg on my boot
> > partition (don't do it, reorganising under 3.5 will *screw* your
boot
> > partition!!).
> > Trouble was, the bloody thing didn't work! Firstly it wouldn't mount
> > CD0: (which I fixed with the help of my CD   boot disk), then once
it
> > mounted CD0: I realised that my HD was nowhere to be seen!!
>
> Don't panic...I had this as well when I accidently deleted my
> startup-sequence (don't ask ;) ..afaik it's to do with the new icon
system,
> the icon disappears from your desktop but the drive is still there, I
just
> copied the icons off the CD again and it was fine.

Nope, I mean the drive literally disappeared. Not present in early
startup and invisible to HDToolBox...

> > Why is this happening? My HD just disappears after the
startup-sequence
> > has loaded the system updates (it isn't there after the reset).
> > Also, why does the computer take so bloody long to reboot after the
> > floppy reset?
>
> Dunno about that, you don't have a SCSI bus or anything do you?

I have a Surf Squirrel and 12x Hitachi SCSI CD ROM drive. But surely if
the drive isn't mounted, the Amiga doesn't even know it's there?...


Steven Holmes




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Date: 24 Feb 2000 11:37:19 +0000
From: "Thomas Hurst" <[e-mail]>
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Hi

On 23-Feb-00 16:13:59, Kevin Fairhurst ([e-mail]) wrote:

> It's true! I've got a PC in my room!!

> Yeah, it's a sad day, I know.  It's not through choice - work have
> forced it onto me as my Amiga is unable of handling MS formatted
> documents  :(

Who cares? It's not as if PC's are the rarest things on earth. I have 3 in
the house :P

> The thing is, I wouldn't mind if it was a decent machine, but it's a P75
> with 32Mb RAM!

Ouch, that's nasty.

> Now where did I put my TurboPrint disk? ...

Did I ever mention how (iirc) Wizard Developments sent me a TurboPrintn 7
disk with my mouse instead of the software for the MMB? Can't remember who
it was registered to... incompetent goits.

> PS  I just had to reinstall the modem on the thing because for some
> reason, it couldn't see it there ... </bashing>

Personally I blame the operator :P

Regards

Tom
--
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Date: 24 Feb 2000 11:30:31 +0000
From: "Thomas Hurst" <[e-mail]>
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Hi

On 23-Feb-00 22:55:24, Andrew Crowe ([e-mail]) wrote:

> Hi Everybody,
>
>> After reading about streaming MP3 files off the internet I installed
>> 'StreamMP3' and have it working (almost).  Unfortunately the sound that
>> comes when playing these streams is a very broken.

That's because StreamMP3 has pretty pathetic buffering. I wrote my own which
was a little better (partly because it also used a different version of pipe
with a setable block size etc), but there's only so much you can do without
asyncio in arexx; async socket operations is the best you can get.

What I don't understand is why AmigaAMP et all doesn't support ShoutCast
internally, it's not exactly a complex protocol ffs (basically, connect to
server, pipe what it throws at you to MP3 decoder, buffer as you play)

>> My question is, how can I reconfigure the 'StreamMP3.rx' file so that
>> it uses a lower quality hence resulting is continuous sound?  I tried
>> editing the file using 'ed' but then the file didn't work.

Quality is set server side. Try playing about with the buffer settings, or
using something like cURL to dump lots of it to disk first.

Hmm, reminds me, I really should finish the Amiga port... 6.2's a little
ripe on the miggy.

>> My system is A1200 '040 25Mhz.

*Cough*. A Celeron 466 might be able to decode an mp3 using 0.5% CPU, but an
'040 certainly can't... your best bet is to download the mp3 entirely using
cURL, then convert it to WAV or IFF or whatever and play it using play16 or
similar... if it's that important :)

>> BTW, isn't 'Prayer2.0' great!  Just wish it was easier to register!

I wasn't impressed with the last version I used (a while ago now), seemed a
bit unstable. Think I'll stick with mpega, xmms and WinAMP :)

>   Ah yes, you won't be able to play mp3's full quality on your 040 (i
>   know, I have one, but I have a ppc in there as well ;)

Depends, most ShoutCast streams are quite low quality.. might be able to
manage it. Just.

>   Basically, look through the rexx file, find (I presume it uses mpega)
>   the mpega command line and use the -d 4 option.

BTW, you can use AmigaAMP, and practically any other player with it if you
get a decent pipe device... dunno what the one I use is called, but it has a
settable block size and you can list it's contents.

Regards

Tom
--
Thomas 'Freaky' Hurst - On  ARCNet - http://arcnet.vapor.com/
Team Member of AmiBench            - http://www.amibench.org/
--
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by academics and others whose brains have been ruined by overexposure to Pascal.



------------------------------ message 49302 ------------------------------
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Date: 24 Feb 2000 11:20:38 +0000
From: "Thomas Hurst" <[e-mail]>
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Hi

On 23-Feb-00 22:47:11, Andrew Crowe ([e-mail]) wrote:

>> What's the difference between GLQuake & normal Quake?

>   GLQuake uses hardware 3d accelleration. On a PC it displays at ~60fps
>   as opposed to ~30fps normal quake.

175FPS as opposed to 60FPS here ;)

I've not had a chance to try the Amiga version yet, not really got the disk
space for the paks... well, I would, if SFS wasn't so shite at preventing
fragmentation meaninf if it gets low on disk space it gets
sloooooooooow(er). Sigh.

>   I can't try it (no 3d gfx card) but from what I've heard on the
>   powerup list, amiga glquake runs fine on some peoples amigas, but
>   crashes other peoples...

Sounds like QuakeGL... it's a bit old, written back when GL and Glide were
just getting off the ground.  There's at least one project which involves
rewriting the GL bits, but they've decided to stick two fingers up at the
GPL and are refusing to release any src...

Regards

Tom
--
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Team Member of AmiBench            - http://www.amibench.org/
--
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   (1) Be content with what you've got.
   (2) Be sure you've got plenty.



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From: Adam James <[e-mail]>
Date: Mon, 28 Feb 2000 21:32:36 +0000
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Hello, all

is it true there is another amiga mag called Amiga Active ?

is so where can i get it from ?

--
Adam James

(PGP key avail)








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Date: Mon, 28 Feb 2000 22:53:46 GMT
From: Mark Wilson <[e-mail]>
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On Mon, 28 Feb 2000 21:32:36 Adam James <[e-mail] wrote

> is it true there is another amiga mag called Amiga Active ?

Yes

> is so where can i get it from ?

W H Smiths, or http://www.amigactive.com

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From: Bert Volders <[e-mail]>
Date: Mon, 28 Feb 2000 23:46:21 +0100
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Hey Simon

On 01-maa-00, you wrote:

> Mind you, hardware was a lot cheaper there too. My first hard drive I h=
ad
> was fitted FREE for me by a local computer shop dealing in Amigas and M=
acs
> for 110 DM - about 33, and that was for a 1.2GB (3.5") IDE AND he put o=
n
> OS3.0 and that was in 1996!

I bought my A3000 brandnew back in 1991 (yes I know the A4000 where for s=
ale at the same time) via mail-order from a German retailer. Compared to =
dutch dealers this machine was mine at about 50% of the price!! Talking a=
bout savings. And that A3000 is still in my everyday use. Even the 3640, =
PIV and 850MB Trailblazer came from germany. See, dutch are cheap ;-)
> =

> =

> Cheers,
>            Simon
> =

> =

> =

> -----------------------------------------------------------------------=
-
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> sell use AmiBench! http://www.amibench.org/ Read previously posted
> messages before you add to a thread!
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> -----------------------------------------------------------------------=
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> =

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From: "Kevin Fairhurst" <[e-mail]>
Date: 28 Feb 2000 22:58:08 +0000
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On 24 Feb 2000 11:37:19 +0000, Thomas Hurst ([e-mail]) wrote:

> > It's true! I've got a PC in my room!!
>
> > Yeah, it's a sad day, I know.  It's not through choice - work have
> > forced it onto me as my Amiga is unable of handling MS formatted
> > documents  :(
>
> Who cares? It's not as if PC's are the rarest things on earth. I have 3 in
> the house :P

The point of the email is that it was a joke.  Not meant to be taken
seriously  :-)

> > The thing is, I wouldn't mind if it was a decent machine, but it's a P75
> > with 32Mb RAM!
>
> Ouch, that's nasty.

Very much so!  Try loading NetScape on it ...  :-(

> > Now where did I put my TurboPrint disk? ...
>
> Did I ever mention how (iirc) Wizard Developments sent me a TurboPrintn 7
> disk with my mouse instead of the software for the MMB? Can't remember who
> it was registered to... incompetent goits.

Did you complain?  Randomize sent me the Pablo with my Paloma.

> > PS  I just had to reinstall the modem on the thing because for some
> > reason, it couldn't see it there ... </bashing>
>
> Personally I blame the operator :P

Someone at work had set it all up so all I had to do was plug & play.
Except the PC refused to see the modem, even though it was all installed.
So I had to run "find new hardware" and lo, it said i'd plugged a modem in
that wasn't there before ....

Kev

--
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From: "Kevin Fairhurst" <[e-mail]>
Date: 28 Feb 2000 22:58:56 +0000
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On 24 Feb 2000 11:20:38 +0000, Thomas Hurst ([e-mail]) wrote:

> I've not had a chance to try the Amiga version yet, not really got the disk
> space for the paks... well, I would, if SFS wasn't so shite at preventing
> fragmentation meaninf if it gets low on disk space it gets
> sloooooooooow(er). Sigh.

Then buy PFS3!

Kev

--
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From: Jim Spratt <[e-mail]>
Date: Mon, 28 Feb 2000 23:20:07 +0000
In-Reply-To: <1AF46531C3DCD3119F6500D0B723B4B24EFD8E@THE_EXCHANGE>
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I've Downloaded Turrican, but can't get it to run.  Does this need UAE.  The
ADF has been unpacked and the disk mounts as df0:UAE.
Also R-Type always guru's (also an unpacked adf) - even under relokick 1.3 -
What gives?????

Any help much appreciated.

Don't tell me I have to run UAE to play Amiga games on an AMiga 1200!!

BYE!!!!

Jim

[e-mail]

PS.  Could anyone sell me a copy of Turrican 1-3, or know where I can get
copies?  (Originals only) - Say 5 each



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From: "Daniel Thornton" <[e-mail]>
Date: 28 Feb 2000 23:28:39 +0000
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On Mon, 28 Feb 2000 21:32:36 +0000, [e-mail] wibbled...

> is it true there is another amiga mag called Amiga Active ?

Adam, you seem to delight in attempting to cause trouble on this list.
You did it a few weeks ago, but claimed it was someone else, and now
you're doing it again. You know full well that there is a magazine
called AA, as there was a thread about it earlier. You also know full
well that asking about buying a product from a competitor on here will
not go down very well with the staff of AF, and indeed AA to an
extent.

A little bit of research on any search engine, or in any non-magazine
connected newsgroup or mailing list would give you the answer.

If it was a genuine mistake on your part, then fair enough, have some
milk and cookies. But if you're trying to cause annoyance, go away.

Daniel
(completely sick of idiots and trolls)

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Date: Tue, 29 Feb 2000 00:14:30 GMT
From: Mark Wilson <[e-mail]>
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On 28 Feb 2000 "Daniel Thornton" <[e-mail]> wrote:

> Daniel
> (completely sick of idiots and trolls)

Sadly this list seems to be full of idiots who crawl out of the woodwork
every few days.

--
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From: "Tony" <[e-mail]>
Date: 7 Jan 78 01:59:56 +0000
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Hi Sean,

> Hi All,
>       After some of the mails in the last few days talking about how many
> machines are avaliable
> and what is best to buy.I found this on a ex-Commodore employee's site:
>

It would be nice if anyone could track down the sales figures for the
UK.
I've got some numbers off the top of my head.I can't remember the
source or how accurate they are,but the fact I can remember them at
all must mean they may be near the mark.Soooo sales in UK

A500(+) 1.5 mil  (plus 600)
A1200    250,000
cd32       50,000(Around this mark.I remember someone saying figures
were hard to find for cd32 with the banckruptcy and all)
cdtv        45,000 (was this uk sales or total?)

As for the bigbox Amigas I'm drawing a blank.

These figures could turn out to be complete cack!If they are sorry.I
don't have a clue about the 100,000 A1200 produced by ESCOM although
if memory serves me correct 60,000 were to be sold in the UK.I think
20,000 A4000 were manufactured as well,they probably did all get
sold..

Bye now
Tony.
--
*******************
       AMIGA                 *
1200T 030 32fastram      *
3,5 GIG HD  24 CDROM      *
RUNNING ON OS3.5          *
EPSON 740 TURBOPRINT 7  *
SURF WITH VOYAGER 3      *
NETCONNECT 3              *
*******************



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From: "Gerald Mellor" <[e-mail]>
Date: Tue, 29 Feb 2000 00:28:35 +0000
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On 29 Feb 00, at 0:14, Mark Wilson wrote:

> Sadly this list seems to be full of idiots who crawl out of the woodwork
> every few days.

There are 916 people on this list, in any group that large there are
bound to be a few idiots :)

Bauglir


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Date: Tue, 29 Feb 2000 00:33:26 GMT
From: Mark Wilson <[e-mail]>
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On Tue, 29 Feb 2000 "Gerald Mellor" <[e-mail]> wrote:

> > Sadly this list seems to be full of idiots who crawl out of the woodwork
> > every few days.

> There are 916 people on this list, in any group that large there are
> bound to be a few idiots :)

I suppose its that classic case of how do you define what an idiot is.
:)

Its the one word replys, and the constant flamings that annoy me, I
thought amiga users were supposed to be over that kinda newbie thing.

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

Web: http://www.AmiBench.org
Email: [e-mail]
ICQ Number: 39814816




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From: "Gerald Mellor" <[e-mail]>
Date: Tue, 29 Feb 2000 00:32:30 +0000
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On 7 Jan 78, at 1:59, Tony wrote:

> *******************
>        AMIGA                 *
> 1200T 030 32fastram      *
> 3,5 GIG HD  24 CDROM      *
> RUNNING ON OS3.5          *
> EPSON 740 TURBOPRINT 7  *
> SURF WITH VOYAGER 3      *
> NETCONNECT 3              *
> *******************

But no battery backed RTC? I'm not having a go at you, but could
you please try to set your clock before you send an email to a list
like this. There are plenty of scripts that will do it automatically for
you when you go online.

Cheers,
Gerry


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From: "Daniel Thornton" <[e-mail]>
Date: 29 Feb 2000 00:48:57 +0000
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On Tue, 29 Feb 2000 00:14:30 GMT, [e-mail] wibbled...

> Sadly this list seems to be full of idiots who crawl out of the woodwork
> every few days.

It's not just this list; two of my favourite newsgroups have just
attracted a few ignorant trolls (alt.digitiser and
alt.radio.uk.talk-radio, if you're interested), AFB has been filling
with idiots, and to cap it all, somebody reported me to my ISP for
spamming (which I have never done), and my ISP warned me that they'd
close my account. A sharply (but politely) worded mail to my ISP got
no response, so I think that I'm justified in being just a little
pissed off right now :/

--
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    New game, Gran Tourettes Syndome is advertised on the front page...
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From: "Tony" <[e-mail]>
Date: 29 Feb 100 01:10:12 +0100
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Hi Gerry,
>
> But no battery backed RTC? I'm not having a go at you, but could
> you please try to set your clock before you send an email to a list
> like this. There are plenty of scripts that will do it automatically for
> you when you go online.
>
> Cheers,
> Gerry

should be sorted now, if not I'm going to be flamed,
New Tower and mother board last week, still sorting things out.
Cheers, Tony

--
*******************
       AMIGA                 *
1200T 030 32fastram      *
3,5 GIG HD  24 CDROM      *
RUNNING ON OS3.5          *
EPSON 740 TURBOPRINT 7  *
SURF WITH VOYAGER 3      *
NETCONNECT 3              *
*******************



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Date: 29 Feb 2000 1:35:35 +0000
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Hello Mark Wilson, on 29-Feb-00 00:14:30 you said about:
  [afb] Re: Amiga Active

>On 28 Feb 2000 "Daniel Thornton" <[e-mail]> wrote:

>> Daniel
>> (completely sick of idiots and trolls)

>Sadly this list seems to be full of idiots who crawl out of the woodwork
>every few days.

Oi! I resemble that remark....

;)

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From: Adam James <[e-mail]>
Date: Tue, 29 Feb 2000 01:50:31 +0000
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Hello Daniel

On 28-Feb-00 at 23:28:39, you wrote about [afb] Re: Amiga Active =


> On Mon, 28 Feb 2000 21:32:36 +0000, [e-mail]
> wibbled...
> =

>> is it true there is another amiga mag called Amiga Active ?
> =

> Adam, you seem to delight in attempting to cause trouble on this list.
> You did it a few weeks ago, but claimed it was someone else, and now
> you're doing it again. =


WOW calm down i am not causing trouble i just asked a simple question
:-(

>You know full well that there is a magazine called AA, as there was a >t=
hread about it earlier. You also know full well that asking about
>buying a product from a competitor on here will
> not go down very well with the staff of AF, and indeed AA to an
> extent.

I did not read the thread about it and i have been buying AF since issue
21 so i will still continue buying AF even if there is another mag :-) =


> If it was a genuine mistake on your part, then fair enough, have some
> milk and cookies. But if you're trying to cause annoyance, go away.

WTF i have done stupid things in the past but i am not trying to attack
AFB or AF staff in anyway, i am not a troll i just wanted a simple answer=
 to the question? =

 =

AF is still the best mag =


END OF THREAD

-- =

Adam James

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From: "Gerald Mellor" <[e-mail]>
Date: Tue, 29 Feb 2000 00:39:37 +0000
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On 29 Feb 00, at 0:33, Mark Wilson wrote:

> I suppose its that classic case of how do you define what an idiot is.

I could give you a few examples... ;)

> Its the one word replys, and the constant flamings that annoy me, I
> thought amiga users were supposed to be over that kinda newbie thing.

Not at all, I'm sure there are plenty of Amiga users who are new to
the Internet. I don't get annoyed by that kind of stuff, it gives me a
laugh, sometimes. What I get annoyed with is poor quoting and poor
English, basically anything that makes it difficult to read an email.

Hopefully, it's lists like this that will teach people better netiquette :)

Gerry


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Date: Mon, 28 Feb 2000 22:03:05 -0800
From: "David Plunkett" <[e-mail]>
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Okay, it's probably the price I pay for posting on a weekend at a time
when most Northern Hemisphere readers are asleep, but as no-one
answered my PCX question I'll ask it again.

Has anyone managed to get the PCX on the current AF CD to read a hard
drive partition that has DOS/Windows 3.1 on it, that works fine under
PC Task?

I thought it might be interesting to compare the two products, but I
can't get PCX to recognise the partition.


I just know someone has tried this.....

Regards

David

Oh, and I hope this message lays out okay.  I can never tell how AWeb
will handle it!!



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Date: Tue, 29 Feb 2000 00:42:00 -0800
From: "D Race" <[e-mail]>
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This may seem like a really silly question but (as I've never seen one
I don't know) does the A4000 come with a TV output as per the A1200, or
do you have to use a monitor at all times ??

Many Thanks
Duncan



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Date: Tue, 29 Feb 2000 00:56:41 -0800
From: "Nick Lamburn" <[e-mail]>
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Hi,

I have a little problem, as usual.  And once again; as usual
it is to do with something I have bought new.  In the past year or so;
I haven't been able to buy a single item that causes me grief!  However
every second hand piece of equipment I have purchased over the time has
been fine!   This time; it's not my Ateo Tower, or the tower's
components, neither is it the Ateo Bus or even the A1200T at all;
but my A600. :)

I have in fact diagnosed the problem myself and I need to know what
exactly I can do about it.  The simple answer is to buy my way out
but consider that I have got a 16Meg SIMM on order, second hand
because I cannot afford a new one (=A310 compared to =A330!).  So what's
the problem; it's an A600 going too fast! :)  I purchaced an
Apollo A630 last week from Power which duly arrived the next day;
Tuesday.  Since then it has given me grief!

The problem is that the 8Meg SIMM in it at the moment is too slow
(which is strange since I have never heard of 80ns 8Mb SIMMs!)
for the card, and the 68030 40MHz in the end trips over a few things
like Fusion (the pivotal reason for expanding the A600), and 3D
DOOM games, like Citadel, Gloom Deluxe and DOOM itself.  The
board has a jumper to add wait states to the memory interface since the
40MHz board (there are apparently 33MHz and 50MHz ones!) requires
a 60ns SIMM or faster without the jumper set and 70ns with the
jumper set.  The 33MHz one can cope with 80ns SIMMs with added
wait states.

So what is so strange, well I assumed my 32Meg SIMM in my A1200T was
60ns, I mean, 80ns 8Mb SIMMs are rare i should imagine and 80ns 32Mb
SIMMs cannot exist, surely?! :)  I'm saying this because the same
thing happens with the 32Mb SIMM installed on the A630!  I have
attempted to disable to 68030's burst cache, with CPU NOBURST and that
seems to do very little.

The symptoms are quite typical; a demanding program will eventually
freeze up, causing a crash or a reboot because it really has frozen
up.  I have wired up a 100Watt PC PSU to see if it was a power
supply problem, no difference.  I have wired up a fan to cool it;
no difference.  I know it's a memory interface problem because the
freezing occurs a lot quicker with the WAIT jumper disabled and occurs
but not as quickly with it enabled.  Removing or disabling the RAM
leaving
the RC68030 and 68882 alone removes the problem; indicating
that the A630 is not really at fault just that it seems to be
driving the RAM i/face too hard!

I will try the 16Mb SIMM when it arrives and with any luck it will
solve the problem. (pah!  since when was anything solved that easy
for me! :)  Between now and then; how can I possibly 'relax' the
memory bus on this card?

I understand that having a slower 68030 at 33MHz would help a great
deal,
which I think would be great.  I would far prefer stability and
a marginally slower Amiga 600; rather than a boy racer that's tripping
up all over the damned place! :)  I cannot replace the oscillator since
that would void the guarantee I'd guess.  Would Power Computing
possibly degrade the speed of the card for me if I sent it back?

The only thing is that I would need a crowbar to lever it off the
68000, talk about A600 accelerators that are very unstable; this one
is hanging on for dear life! :)

Please Help!

All the best,

Nick.

/me is pis*ed off by the fact the college's internet connection is so
damned unreliable.  I wanted to send this aaaaaages ago but the
connection
was up a certain creek.... :)



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Date: Tue, 29 Feb 2000 00:58:55 -0800
From: "Nick Lamburn" <[e-mail]>
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Hi,

> This may seem like a really silly question but (as I've never seen one
> I don't know) does the A4000 come with a TV output as per the A1200,
or
> do you have to use a monitor at all times ??

The only silly question is the unanswered question; as I always say...
:)

The only TV compatible output an A4k has is the composite output i
think, is that right?  Otherwise get an old A520 from an A500 (get one
for a fiver.. :) and stick it in the RGB video port, that'll sort you
out! :)

All the best,

Nick.



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From: Adam James <[e-mail]>
Date: Tue, 29 Feb 2000 01:53:30 +0000
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Hello Kevin

On 28-Feb-00 at 22:15:35, you wrote about [afb] Re: User Groups

> On Mon, 28 Feb 2000 21:37:44 +0000, Adam James
> ([e-mail]) wrote:
>> Hello, all
>>
>> does anyone know if there is a user group in NW Manchester , i have
>> tried the one if AF but no matter when i call the answer machine is
>> on.
>
> How close are you to the Wigan & West Lancs user group?
>

I have no idea :( i will get a A-Z

--
Adam James

(PGP key avail)








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From: "Kevin Fairhurst" <[e-mail]>
Date: 29 Feb 2000 09:27:00 +0000
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On Tue, 29 Feb 2000 00:58:55 -0800, Nick Lamburn ([e-mail]) wrote:

> The only TV compatible output an A4k has is the composite output i
> think, is that right?  Otherwise get an old A520 from an A500 (get one
> for a fiver.. :) and stick it in the RGB video port, that'll sort you
> out! :)

No that is NOT right ... there is NO composite output on an A4000 :-)

So you either have to get an A520 as Nick said, OR you could get yourself
one of those RGB -> Scart adaptors that Tandy used to sell ...

Kev

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



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Date: Tue, 29 Feb 2000 02:02:14 -0800
From: "Daniel Pearson" <[e-mail]>
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"thomas hurst" <[e-mail]> wrote:
original article:http://www.egroups.com/group/afb/?start=49302
> Hi
>
> On 23-Feb-00 22:47:11, Andrew Crowe ([e-mail])
wrote:
>
> >> What's the difference between GLQuake & normal Quake?
>
> >   GLQuake uses hardware 3d accelleration. On a PC it displays at
~60fps
> >   as opposed to ~30fps normal quake.
>
> 175FPS as opposed to 60FPS here ;)
>
I've had a e-mail from Massimiliano Tretene (the author of the QuakeGL
port), and he seems to think that 60fps will be next to impossible with
the port he has...sigh...



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From: "Sealey, M." <[e-mail]>
Date: Tue, 29 Feb 2000 09:15:37 -0000
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> Yes, set file and print sharing, and then downlaod the
> SMB-Handler from aminet, it allows you to mount the
> pc drives on the amiga.

Oh no you don't, SMB-Handler is a travesty of programming,
for it will gladly make your machine explode at the slightest
nudge (and verily it doth cause much of a muchness of
Enforcer and GuardianAngel hits!)

> Works very well

Or he could get an FTP client? :)

--
Matt Sealey [e-mail]
Distributed Systems Support
Computer Centre
University of Leicester


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From: "Sealey, M." <[e-mail]>
Date: Tue, 29 Feb 2000 09:23:18 -0000
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> On 29 Feb 00, at 0:14, Mark Wilson wrote:
>
> > Sadly this list seems to be full of idiots who crawl out of
> > the woodwork every few days.
>
> There are 916 people on this list, in any group that large there are
> bound to be a few idiots :)

Even conservative estimates show that the proportion is unnervingly
high: dare I say almost a third of the people on the list are either of
the "idiotic" category?

I suppose when the subscriber list is drawn from the biggest bunch
of raving loonies on the planet, you're bound to get it that high, though.

*sigh* the burden of being an Amiga owner, eh?

--
Matt Sealey [e-mail]
Distributed Systems Support
Computer Centre
University of Leicester


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From: "Ben Vost" <[e-mail]>
Date: Tue, 29 Feb 2000 11:32:16 +0000
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Hi all,

You should all be reading NTK. It's not a nice place to visit, nor is it
very forgiving of mistakes, but it has absolutely hilarious things sent to
it. There are plenty on last week's (it comes out on a Friday night), but
this one is the funniest:

http://www.ntk.net/2000/02/25/moscow.gif

NTK can be found at the aforementioned http://www.ntk.net/ URL.

All the best,
--
Ben Vost (x2337)        /PGP key available/        T: ([phone]
Editor, Amiga Format                             F: ([phone]
++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
Family Fortunes answers:  Q. Name a sign of the zodiac
                          A. April




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Date: Tue, 29 Feb 2000 10:57:10 -0800
From: "xatiminey" <[e-mail]>
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Sealey, M. wrote:
> Oh no you don't, SMB-Handler is a travesty of programming,
> for it will gladly make your machine explode at the slightest
> nudge (and verily it doth cause much of a muchness of
> Enforcer and GuardianAngel hits!)
>
> Or he could get an FTP client? :)
>
For a client to work, you also need a server, do ye not?
In which case ftp4all should do the trick, as it was what I used.

http://ftp.unina.it/pub/aminet/comm/tcp/FTP4ALL226a.lha

alternatively, you could use pc2amiga which was on AACD4, IIRC.

-curry
--
Switch on the box, Mr Spock is on the table.
Doctor McCoy is unable to connect his brain.
Sweating and straining, well it seemed so simple at the time...


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From: "Chris Green" <[e-mail]>
Date: Tue, 29 Feb 2000 11:56:36 -0000
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Hi Duncan

> This may seem like a really silly question but (as I've never seen one
> I don't know) does the A4000 come with a TV output as per the A1200, or
> do you have to use a monitor at all times ??

Afraid there is no RF or composite video output. However, you can use one of
those cables that connects to the monitor socket and the audio outputs and
has a Scart plug at the end.

Chris Green
Technical Editor - Computing
VNU Business Publications, 32-34 Broadwick Street, London, W1A 2HG
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Date: Tue, 29 Feb 2000 10:20:40 -0800
From: "xatiminey" <[e-mail]>
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> I'm sure Ben will thank you for suggesting a programming tutorial
> again, given that he nearly tore the last guy, who suggested a
> programming tutorial, a new ar....

I didn't know, I've not been here for the last week.

Its not a programming tutorial like the rest, though - they're "hoe to
use this language" tutorials. This idea is for "what the heck is XXX and
how to use XXX to do YYY"

-curry
--
Switch on the box, Mr Spock is on the table.
Doctor McCoy is unable to connect his brain.
Sweating and straining, well it seemed so simple at the time...


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From: Robert Johnston <[e-mail]>
Date: Tue, 29 Feb 2000 11:38:12 -0000
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Sealey, M. [mailto:[e-mail]]
> Sent: 29 February 2000 09:23
> To: '[e-mail]'
> Subject: [afb] Re: Amiga Active
>
> > > Sadly this list seems to be full of idiots who crawl out of
> > > the woodwork every few days.
> >
> > There are 916 people on this list, in any group that large
> there are
> > bound to be a few idiots :)
>
> Even conservative estimates show that the proportion is unnervingly
> high: dare I say almost a third of the people on the list are
> either of
> the "idiotic" category?
>
> I suppose when the subscriber list is drawn from the biggest bunch
> of raving loonies on the planet, you're bound to get it that
> high, though.
>
> *sigh* the burden of being an Amiga owner, eh?

*ERROR* <SARCASM></SARCASM> tag not present, Insult/Offense taken. Please
Remedy with a Free drink...
--
Robert Johnston (A.C.P.)
Customer Response Operative, Simply Computers
0870 727 4020 x657
Free delivery on the Web @ http://www.simply.co.uk


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Date: Tue, 29 Feb 2000 11:39:55 +0000 (GMT)
From: "Alan L.M. Buxey" <[e-mail]>
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On Mon, 28 Feb 2000, Alkis Tsapanidis wrote:

> ONLY 20? Use Fast Quake 5.It is MUCH fast and rocky stable.
> It may be still illegal and using PowerUP but you SHOULD try
                  ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

2 good reasons not to use it.


also GLQuake at that speed is not only very playable, but it looks damn
nice too! ;-)

alan



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Date: Tue, 29 Feb 2000 11:36:10 +0000 (GMT)
From: "Alan L.M. Buxey" <[e-mail]>
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On Sun, 27 Feb 2000, Steven Lewis wrote:

> Hello,
>
> Has anyone got Jeff Minter's Mutant Camels game?  Originally on an Amiga
> Format "Down at the arcade" cover disk (sorry disk doesn't have a
> number/date).

yes, I've got it..nice game

alan



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Date: Tue, 29 Feb 2000 11:26:55 +0000 (GMT)
From: "Alan L.M. Buxey" <[e-mail]>
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On 26 Feb 2000, Daniel Pimley wrote:

> Alan L.M. Buxey wrote the following:
>
>
> > > If AWeb can make a browser that uses a GUI we don't have to pay for,
> > > then it can be done.
> >
>
> I think we have a serious case of RTFM here. Stefan Stuntz does not
> demand that you register. If you are happy to use MUI in its limited
> form, then you are free to do so.

I did NOT write the above statement. Please quote properly in future

Alan - Supporter of MUI



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From: "Sealey, M." <[e-mail]>
Date: Tue, 29 Feb 2000 12:32:01 -0000
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> > *sigh* the burden of being an Amiga owner, eh?
>
> *ERROR* <SARCASM></SARCASM> tag not present, Insult/Offense
> taken.

If I enclosed it with <sarcasm> tags, it would cease to be sarcasm.

If anyone DOES take offense: then you've just proven my case quite
well, methinks.

> Please Remedy with a Free drink...

And I hope that means you'll buy *me* a drink, as opposed to me
buying *you* a drink ;)

--
Matt Sealey [e-mail]
Distributed Systems Support
Computer Centre
University of Leicester


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From: "Sealey, M." <[e-mail]>
Date: Tue, 29 Feb 2000 11:52:40 -0000
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> Sealey, M. wrote:
> > Oh no you don't, SMB-Handler is a travesty of programming,
> > for it will gladly make your machine explode at the slightest
> > nudge (and verily it doth cause much of a muchness of
> > Enforcer and GuardianAngel hits!)
> >
> > Or he could get an FTP client? :)
>
> For a client to work, you also need a server, do ye not?

You know what I meant ;)

> alternatively, you could use pc2amiga which was on AACD4, IIRC.

Which breaks the TCP/IP link, does it not?

--
Matt Sealey [e-mail]
Distributed Systems Support
Computer Centre
University of Leicester


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From: "Sealey, M." <[e-mail]>
Date: Tue, 29 Feb 2000 11:37:22 -0000
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> Hi all,
>
> You should all be reading NTK. It's not a nice place to
> visit

Damned right, it huuurttss my eyeyyyyyyeeesss!!!!

--
Matt Sealey [e-mail]
Distributed Systems Support
Computer Centre
University of Leicester


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From: "Sealey, M." <[e-mail]>
Date: Tue, 29 Feb 2000 10:19:25 -0000
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> > >> What's the difference between GLQuake & normal Quake?
> >
> > >   GLQuake uses hardware 3d accelleration. On a PC it displays at
> > >   ~60fps as opposed to ~30fps normal quake.
> >
> > 175FPS as opposed to 60FPS here ;)
>
> I've had a e-mail from Massimiliano Tretene (the author of the QuakeGL
> port), and he seems to think that 60fps will be next to impossible with
> the port he has...sigh...

Why is that big a deal? It's dumb to cite figures higher than the sync of
your monitor anyway, for instance the highest usable frequency on this
monitor here is 120Hz, but that's at 320x200. At 1024x768 that drops
down to a lowly 72Hz - hence any "fps" above 72 will be WASTED, and
is probably an artefact of crap timing code rather than optimised
rendering.

--
Matt Sealey [e-mail]
Distributed Systems Support
Computer Centre
University of Leicester


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From: "Sealey, M." <[e-mail]>
Date: Tue, 29 Feb 2000 09:18:34 -0000
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> I watched as Matthew O'Neill hammered "[afb] hosts" out on
> their keyboard...
>
> > On 26-Feb-00, Alan Anthony wrote:
>
> >> Who's hosting your site for you, and is it expensive.
>
> > http://www.freenetname.co.uk
>
> > and I daren't answer the second part of the question for
> > fear of making you look silly ;) Once you've regged, just
> > wait 24 hours and blam! done :) You have to dial in using
> > their isp to upload pages though, which is a fair enough
> > deal.
>
> Plus if you want to transfer the domain to another ISP, you
> have to pay for
> it (the domain I mean).

FreeNetName sucks ass, bigtime. It would be better to go and
get a domain and some basic email/webforwarding to another
Free ISP from a reputable company: that way the domain stays
with you and you can move ISP's all you like.

Someone pointed me at a lovely place: http://www.gradwell.com

--
Matt Sealey [e-mail]
Distributed Systems Support
Computer Centre
University of Leicester


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Date: Tue, 29 Feb 2000 06:15:52 -0800
From: "Toffypops" <[e-mail]>
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Anyone here who know how FAR the MCC dezign had developed when
it was canceled?...

Looking back at pictures of the old possible miggy makes me wonder
how much more work had to be done to get it on the marked...

I know it't not in develop, but it seemed like everything went ok until
they pulled the money from the project...

I just wish it could become a reality...one day...

*sighn*


Toffy



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Date: Tue, 29 Feb 2000 06:17:33 -0800
From: "Toffypops" <[e-mail]>
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Anyone know of any FAST SCSI 2/3 for Zorro out there?...

Toffy



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From: Rick Hodger <[e-mail]>
Date: Tue, 29 Feb 2000 10:01:51 +0000
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I watched as Sandy Brownlee hammered "[afb] Re: Hard Disks" out on their
keyboard...

>> Anybody know of a supplier of reasonably priced SCSI hard drives for my
>> Power Tower? I've bodged an adaptor for my BPPC SCSI so that I can use an
>> internal 32x CDROM, and I'd like to add another hard drive to install
>> Linux. I'm just looking for a bg standard SCSI II, but not wide scsi or
>> Uwide scsi, as I don't want to try and fudge any more adaptors.

> Try Analogic if a pc dealer search fails- I got a great 1Gb disk from them
> ( 65- remember that you pay for SCSI). Just watch out though- my disk was
> 3.5" width, but the height of a CD-ROM.

Even better, try Micromart.  The companies in there usually have no end of
shiney cheap kit....I got my 1Gb SCSI Hewlett-Packard drive (very good
quality, HP used to use them in their servers) for 35 quid, and that was
about this time last year.

--
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Date: Tue, 29 Feb 2000 15:08:41 -0800
From: "xatiminey" <[e-mail]>
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Sealey, M. wrote:

>
> > alternatively, you could use pc2amiga which was on AACD4, IIRC.
>
> Which breaks the TCP/IP link, does it not?
>
Well, it wouldn't use, but if you used a custom parallel cable it
wouldn't break the TCP/IP link, either. Plus you get a much higher
transfer rate (around 40kBps instead of 5kBps). Windows might not like
having the resident program hanging around and thus crash or kill it,
but if it does work, and you have spare parallel ports on either machine
and can get a suitable cable I would consider this a better way than
phaffing about with ftp servers.


--
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From: Alkis Tsapanidis <[e-mail]>
Date: Tue, 29 Feb 2000 15:31:03 +0300
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Hi

> also GLQuake at that speed is not only very playable, but it looks damn
> nice too! ;-)

He said the other ports run at 20fps.Idon't mean GLQuake
AND why not use a program only because it's using PowerUP?
I just have both WarpUP and PowerUP an I terminate the ppc
lib only when I run wos progs
             Bye
--
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From: Rick Hodger <[e-mail]>
Date: Tue, 29 Feb 2000 09:58:02 +0000
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I watched as Thomas Hurst hammered "[afb] Re: MP3 streaming" out on their
keyboard...

> *Cough*. A Celeron 466 might be able to decode an mp3 using 0.5% CPU, but
> an '040 certainly can't... your best bet is to download the mp3 entirely
> using cURL, then convert it to WAV or IFF or whatever and play it using
> play16 or similar... if it's that important :)

A funny wee thing I found, is that mpega.library automatically takes the
filter off, put it on in your options and the CPU usage drops by about 10%
...at least it does here.

>>> BTW, isn't 'Prayer2.0' great!  Just wish it was easier to register!

> I wasn't impressed with the last version I used (a while ago now), seemed
> a bit unstable. Think I'll stick with mpega, xmms and WinAMP :)

The really, really annoying thing about WinAMP, was that on a miggy without
a soundcard it absoloutly cannot play in stereo because it insists on using
AHI (the paula drivers don't play in stereo, it takes some jiggery pokery
by the programmer to make it work).

>>   Ah yes, you won't be able to play mp3's full quality on your 040 (i
>>   know, I have one, but I have a ppc in there as well ;)

> Depends, most ShoutCast streams are quite low quality.. might be able to
> manage it. Just.

Maybe....I'd suspect you'd probably need a 060 tho...

>>   Basically, look through the rexx file, find (I presume it uses mpega)
>>   the mpega command line and use the -d 4 option.

> BTW, you can use AmigaAMP, and practically any other player with it if you
> get a decent pipe device... dunno what the one I use is called, but it has
> a settable block size and you can list it's contents.

I'll have to go looking on AMinet for it...

--
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From: Rick Hodger <[e-mail]>
Date: Tue, 29 Feb 2000 10:08:12 +0000
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I watched as Steven Holmes hammered "[afb] Re: OS3.5 Emergency disk" out on
their keyboard...

> rick hodger <[e-mail]> wrote:
> original article:http://www.egroups.com/group/afb/?start=49286

>>> Needed my OS3.5 emergency disk today after using ReOrg on my boot
>>> partition (don't do it, reorganising under 3.5 will *screw* your
> boot
>>> partition!!).
>>> Trouble was, the bloody thing didn't work! Firstly it wouldn't mount
>>> CD0: (which I fixed with the help of my CD   boot disk), then once
> it
>>> mounted CD0: I realised that my HD was nowhere to be seen!!
>>
>> Don't panic...I had this as well when I accidently deleted my
>> startup-sequence (don't ask ;) ..afaik it's to do with the new icon
> system,
>> the icon disappears from your desktop but the drive is still there, I
> just
>> copied the icons off the CD again and it was fine.

> Nope, I mean the drive literally disappeared. Not present in early
> startup and invisible to HDToolBox...

Yargh....sounds like the drive is either buggered, or doesn't like the new
scsi.device

>>> Why is this happening? My HD just disappears after the
> startup-sequence
>>> has loaded the system updates (it isn't there after the reset).
>>> Also, why does the computer take so bloody long to reboot after the
>>> floppy reset?
>>
>> Dunno about that, you don't have a SCSI bus or anything do you?

> I have a Surf Squirrel and 12x Hitachi SCSI CD ROM drive. But surely if
> the drive isn't mounted, the Amiga doesn't even know it's there?...

Nah, that wouldn't bother it.  Try using your old hard-disk and your OS3.0
setup disk, see if you can get it to appear in that, if not I think the
drive may be knackered...you could always try formatting it in a PC and
then reformatting it in your miggy...that's a last resort tho.

--
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Date: Tue, 29 Feb 2000 14:20:41 +0000
References: <[e-mail]>
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On Tue, Feb 29, 2000 at 10:19:25AM -0000, Sealey, M. wrote:

> Why is that big a deal? It's dumb to cite figures higher than the sync of
> your monitor anyway, for instance the highest usable frequency on this
> monitor here is 120Hz, but that's at 320x200. At 1024x768 that drops
> down to a lowly 72Hz - hence any "fps" above 72 will be WASTED, and
> is probably an artefact of crap timing code rather than optimised
> rendering.

Of course, /real/ Quake players turn off the vsync on their cards with the
result that the bottom part of the picture is displaying a different frame
to the top one. Apparantly this does produce a noticable difference
without too much picture degredation.

Personally I'd lump it with unidirectional audio cables and the like, but
still...

--
Matthew Garrett | [e-mail]


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From: Robert Johnston <[e-mail]>
Date: Tue, 29 Feb 2000 08:10:52 -0000
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Sandy Brownlee [mailto:[e-mail]]
> Sent: 28 February 2000 19:47
> To: [e-mail]
> Subject: [afb] FTP Server
>
> Hello,

Hi!,

> I've got a TCP/IP connection on a null modem between my miggy
> and my dad's
> laptop, and though Quake is great, I would like to transfer
> files too. Does
> anyone know of a good FTP server for the Amiga? Or is there a
> better way of
> transferring files between the two?

Samba'd prolly be your best bet, It's GPL, but a real b!tch to set up...
--
Robert Johnston (A.C.P.)
Customer Response Operative, Simply Computers
0870 727 4020 x657
Free delivery on the Web @ http://www.simply.co.uk


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Date: Tue, 29 Feb 2000 07:40:04 -0800
From: "Paul Laycock" <[e-mail]>
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Hi Alkis,

> > also GLQuake at that speed is not only very playable, but it looks
damn
> > nice too! ;-)
>
> He said the other ports run at 20fps.Idon't mean GLQuake
> AND why not use a program only because it's using PowerUP?
> I just have both WarpUP and PowerUP an I terminate the ppc
> lib only when I run wos progs

While I don't bother with termination; PowerUp emulation! However,
FastQuake doesn't work with this :( Hope Frank Wille gets QuakeWOS
using total conversions soon.

Paul Laycock



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From: Matthew O'Neill <[e-mail]>
Date: Sun, 01 Jan 1978 01:17:26 +0100
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On 28-Feb-00, Ben Vost wrote:


>> Is there any need for this? AmigActive may be a rival publication but
>> personally I think that without it, AF could have found itself sitting

> I'm sorry, but "sitting on our laurels"? That has really offended me. I

COULD!!!, not would, could.....shhh, and relax.....

Mash -
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Date: Tue, 29 Feb 2000 07:48:39 -0800
From: "Mikey C" <[e-mail]>
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rick hodger <[e-mail]> wrote:
original article:http://www.egroups.com/group/afb/?start=49348

Bummer, I have had similar problems with OS3.5 and my hard disk.
I lost everything a while back when my hard drive refused to appear
either on the early startup menu or on a friends Amiga.

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

In the end, I had to have the drive formated on a PC in order to get it
back.

Sadly I lost everything then as I had no back ups.

Everything worked fine until I tried to add a new partition by making
an existing one smaller. Bummer Drive crashed again kept asking for
ramlib which is in the OS31 rom.

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

BTW we are not the only ones, There have been a few people in CSAM with
the same problem.

Regards

Mikey C





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Date: Tue, 29 Feb 2000 07:55:35 -0800
From: "Daniel Pearson" <[e-mail]>
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"sealey, m." <[e-mail]> wrote:
original article:http://www.egroups.com/group/afb/?start=49340

> >
> > I've had a e-mail from Massimiliano Tretene (the author of the
QuakeGL
> > port), and he seems to think that 60fps will be next to impossible
with
> > the port he has...sigh...
>
> Why is that big a deal? It's dumb to cite figures higher than the
sync of
> your monitor anyway, for instance the highest usable frequency on this
> monitor here is 120Hz, but that's at 320x200. At 1024x768 that drops
> down to a lowly 72Hz - hence any "fps" above 72 will be WASTED, and
> is probably an artefact of crap timing code rather than optimised
> rendering.
>

So...at 640x480, 60fps should be perfectly possible?  It is certainly
much more fun to play than the 20 fps jerk-o-vision I am getting at the
mo, wasted frames or not.

Dan.




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From: Robert Johnston <[e-mail]>
Date: Tue, 29 Feb 2000 16:02:29 -0000
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Daniel Pearson [mailto:[e-mail]]
> Sent: 29 February 2000 15:56
> To: [e-mail]
> Subject: [afb] Re: GLQuake
>
> > >
> > > I've had a e-mail from Massimiliano Tretene (the author of the
> QuakeGL
> > > port), and he seems to think that 60fps will be next to impossible
> with
> > > the port he has...sigh...
> >
> > Why is that big a deal? It's dumb to cite figures higher than the
> sync of
> > your monitor anyway, for instance the highest usable
> frequency on this
> > monitor here is 120Hz, but that's at 320x200. At 1024x768 that drops
> > down to a lowly 72Hz - hence any "fps" above 72 will be WASTED, and
> > is probably an artefact of crap timing code rather than optimised
> > rendering.
> >
>
> So...at 640x480, 60fps should be perfectly possible?  It is certainly
> much more fun to play than the 20 fps jerk-o-vision I am
> getting at the
> mo, wasted frames or not.

/me smiles at his monitor Specs... 75Hz@1600x1200, 60Hz@2048x1536!!

I love my Monitor!!
--
Robert Johnston (A.C.P.)
Customer Response Operative, Simply Computers
0870 727 4020 x657
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From: Matthew O'Neill <[e-mail]>
Date: Sun, 01 Jan 1978 01:13:16 +0100
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On 28-Feb-00, Ben Vost wrote:

> Since no-one has replied to this, I shall. TV programs aren't broadcast at
> 50fps if you mean Frames Per Second by fps. If you mean 50 Fields per
> Second, then yes they do, but a field is only half a frame, which is why
> TV programmes are interlaced. Believe it or not, that's a frequency thing
> too.

not quite. What if the second field of each normal frame were a picture
somewhere between the current frame and the next? thats what they do.
Basically its 2, 25fps (frames) video images being shown in between each
other which gives the illusion of 50 fps (frames)

Watch a new news program and then an old episode of dad's army, you'll see
the news is much smoother

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

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From: Robert Johnston <[e-mail]>
Date: Tue, 29 Feb 2000 16:11:10 -0000
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Matthew O'Neill [mailto:[e-mail]]
> Sent: 01 January 1978 00:13
> To: [e-mail]
> Subject: [afb] Re: Fillums (was: More A1200 Qs)
>
> Watch a new news program and then an old episode of dad's
> army, you'll see
> the news is much smoother

Also, a Cheap TV-Movie has the same "Feel" to it, as they're shot at 25fps
to save on production costs (Half the Video Tape, y'see)...

Maybe...
--
Robert Johnston (A.C.P.)
Customer Response Operative, Simply Computers
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From: "Ben Vost" <[e-mail]>
Date: Tue, 29 Feb 2000 16:11:57 +0000
In-Reply-To: <1AF46531C3DCD3119F6500D0B723B4B2BA9EE3@THE_EXCHANGE>
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Hi Robert,

>> Watch a new news program and then an old episode of dad's
>> army, you'll see
>> the news is much smoother

> Also, a Cheap TV-Movie has the same "Feel" to it, as they're shot at 25fps
> to save on production costs (Half the Video Tape, y'see)...

No, not really.

All the best,
--
Ben Vost (x2337)        /PGP key available/        T: ([phone]
Editor, Amiga Format                             F: ([phone]
++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
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From: Robert Johnston <[e-mail]>
Date: Tue, 29 Feb 2000 16:17:19 -0000
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Ben Vost [mailto:[e-mail]]
> Sent: 29 February 2000 16:12
> To: [e-mail]
> Subject: [afb] Re: Fillums (was: More A1200 Qs)
>
> >> Watch a new news program and then an old episode of dad's
> >> army, you'll see
> >> the news is much smoother
>
> > Also, a Cheap TV-Movie has the same "Feel" to it, as
> they're shot at 25fps
> > to save on production costs (Half the Video Tape, y'see)...
>
> No, not really.

I'm sure I've seen some TV shows that appeared to only have half the
frames... Prolly my eyes, tho...
--
Robert Johnston (A.C.P.)
Customer Response Operative, Simply Computers
0870 727 4020 x657
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Date: Tue, 29 Feb 2000 08:32:39 -0800
From: "David McMinn" <[e-mail]>
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> > > Also, a Cheap TV-Movie has the same "Feel" to it, as
> > they're shot at 25fps
> > > to save on production costs (Half the Video Tape, y'see)...
> >
> > No, not really.
>
> I'm sure I've seen some TV shows that appeared to only have half the
> frames... Prolly my eyes, tho...

The slow motion camera on Match of the Day (possibly only the English
games) probably works at 50 frames per second, although they are only
50 half frames. Still smooth.

Contrast that to (if anyone is lucky enough ;) the cameras used by
scottish TV for the games up here, they'll be 25 full frames per
second, and jerk-o-vision.





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From: Rick Hodger <[e-mail]>
Date: Tue, 29 Feb 2000 15:05:54 +0000
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I watched as xatiminey hammered "[afb] Re: FTP Server" out on their
keyboard...

> Sealey, M. wrote:
>> Oh no you don't, SMB-Handler is a travesty of programming,
>> for it will gladly make your machine explode at the slightest
>> nudge (and verily it doth cause much of a muchness of
>> Enforcer and GuardianAngel hits!)
>>
>> Or he could get an FTP client? :)
>>
> For a client to work, you also need a server, do ye not?
> In which case ftp4all should do the trick, as it was what I used.

> http://ftp.unina.it/pub/aminet/comm/tcp/FTP4ALL226a.lha

Pah! You want to use that nice Unix port of wu-ftpd that I'm using :)

> alternatively, you could use pc2amiga which was on AACD4, IIRC.

Of course, there is a simpler answer.  Why not use one of the freeware (and
somewhat easier to setup) FTP servers for the PC (WarFTPd was one I think)
and then just use an FTP client on the miggy?

--
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From: "Daniel Thornton" <[e-mail]>
Date: 29 Feb 2000 16:33:00 +0000
In-Reply-To: <1AF46531C3DCD3119F6500D0B723B4B2BA9EE3@THE_EXCHANGE>
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On Tue, 29 Feb 2000 16:11:10 -0000, [e-mail] wibbled...

> Also, a Cheap TV-Movie has the same "Feel" to it, as they're shot at 25fps
> to save on production costs

Most TV movies are shot on video to save money, and the grainy,
film-like effect is added in post-production. For an example of how
to do this really badly, see Grange Hill in about half an hour.

(Peeps interested in this type of thing are urged to join the MHP Chat
mailing list; http://www.meldrum.co.uk/mhp/)
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Date: 29 Feb 2000 15:51:4 +0000
From: "Neil Bothwick" <[e-mail]>
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Toffypops said,

> Anyone here who know how FAR the MCC dezign had developed when
> it was canceled?...

> Looking back at pictures of the old possible miggy makes me wonder
> how much more work had to be done to get it on the marked...

The case was finished, they only had to make the silicon stuff that goes
inside :-/


Neil
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Date: Tue, 29 Feb 2000 08:58:55 -0800 (PST)
From: =?iso-8859-1?q?Mirrorball?= <[e-mail]>
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Hey!

> is it true there is another amiga mag called Amiga
> Active ?

Yep, and darn fine mag it is too.

>
> is so where can i get it from ?

Any local Newsagent, WH Smiths (if it's not on the
shelf they can order it)

DAN


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Date: Tue, 29 Feb 2000 16:54:39 +0000
From: Christopher Ross-Gill <[e-mail]>
References: <89gsb6$[e-mail]>
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David McMinn wrote:
>
> Contrast that to (if anyone is lucky enough ;) the cameras used by
> scottish TV for the games up here, they'll be 25 full frames per
> second, and jerk-o-vision.

Conjures up images of Only an Excuse's take on Football First :-)
(Scottish First Division TV show for the uninitiated)

- Chris



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From: "Tony" <[e-mail]>
Date: 29 Feb 100 17:00:06 +0100
In-Reply-To: <89gkao$[e-mail]>
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Hi Toffy,


> Anyone here who know how FAR the MCC dezign had developed when
> it was canceled?...
>
> Looking back at pictures of the old possible miggy makes me wonder
> how much more work had to be done to get it on the marked...
>
> I know it't not in develop, but it seemed like everything went ok until
> they pulled the money from the project...
>
> I just wish it could become a reality...one day...
>
> *sighn*
>
>
> Toffy
>
A friend of mine was in Birmingham the other week and went into a
Gateway store there and reckons he saw a picture of a new Gateway pc
due to be released that  looked very familiar?Perhaps the money spent
on designing the mould is more important to the big G than offending
this community.
Bye now
Tony.
--
*******************
       AMIGA                 *
1200T 030 32fastram      *
3,5 GIG HD  24 CDROM      *
RUNNING ON OS3.5          *
EPSON 740 TURBOPRINT 7  *
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From: "Sean Courtney" <[e-mail]>
Date: Tue, 29 Feb 2000 12:02:25 -0500
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>> is it true there is another amiga mag called Amiga
>> Active ?
>
>Yep, and darn fine mag it is too.
>
>>
>> is so where can i get it from ?
>
>Any local Newsagent, WH Smiths (if it's not on the
>shelf they can order it)


Nobody carries it here in the states; not even the WH Smith shops here. :(

[At least I have a subscription! And AF can be purchased at Borders and B&N,
albeit the issue that was on their shelves last weekend was the one with the
PDAs on the cover!]



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From: "Sealey, M." <[e-mail]>
Date: Tue, 29 Feb 2000 16:25:31 -0000
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> I'm sure I've seen some TV shows that appeared to only have half the
> frames... Prolly my eyes, tho...

Ha! Like your eyes are good enough to see the difference anyway!

--
Matt Sealey [e-mail]
Distributed Systems Support
Computer Centre
University of Leicester


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From: "Sealey, M." <[e-mail]>
Date: Tue, 29 Feb 2000 16:18:18 -0000
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> I'm sure it's the poxy new HDTOOLBOX. :(

I'm sure it could be, there are things I miss from the OLD
HDToolbox...

> Everything worked fine until I tried to add a new partition by making
> an existing one smaller. Bummer Drive crashed again kept asking for
> ramlib which is in the OS31 rom.

Huh?? "asking for ramlib"?

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

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

> BTW we are not the only ones, There have been a few people in
> CSAM with the same problem.

There are very few people on CSAM who aren't total idiots, I wouldn't
use that as a guage of the problem :)

--
Matt Sealey [e-mail]
Distributed Systems Support
Computer Centre
University of Leicester


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From: Robert Johnston <[e-mail]>
Date: Tue, 29 Feb 2000 17:14:04 -0000
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Sealey, M. [mailto:[e-mail]]
> Sent: 29 February 2000 16:26
> To: '[e-mail]'
> Subject: [afb] Re: Fillums (was: More A1200 Qs)
>
> > I'm sure I've seen some TV shows that appeared to only have half the
> > frames... Prolly my eyes, tho...
>
> Ha! Like your eyes are good enough to see the difference anyway!

They are! Like my Ears are able to tell (Within 10 Hz) what frequency
Feedback is...

Mind you, I did work as a On-Stage Sound Engineer, so I had to.
--
Robert Johnston (A.C.P.)
Customer Response Operative, Simply Computers
0870 727 4020 x657
Free delivery on the Web @ http://www.simply.co.uk


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Date: Tue, 29 Feb 2000 09:51:24 -0800
From: [e-mail]
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Subject: [afb] POLL: BT Flat Rate Internet Access
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Is the BT Flat Rate Internet access at =A335 per month good value for money? =
 Would you use it instead of Telewests cheaper flat rate service?

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Please select one of the following:

   o Yes, Definitely
   o Maybe
   o No
   o Definitely not


by going to the following Web form:

   http://www.egroups.com/vote?id=3D951846684929&listname=3Dafb

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From: "Kevin Fairhurst" <[e-mail]>
Date: 29 Feb 2000 17:50:52 +0000
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On Tue, 29 Feb 2000 09:51:24 -0800,  ([e-mail]) wrote:
> Is the BT Flat Rate Internet access at 35 per month good value for money?  Would you use it instead of Telewests cheaper flat rate service?

> AFB: All polls MUST have dates

Need I say more/   You also worded it wrong becuase i'm already on
Telewest's SurfUnlimited offering  :-)

Kev

--
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Date: Tue, 29 Feb 2000 09:56:04 -0800
From: "eGroups.com Poll Results" <[e-mail]>
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Here are the results of the vote:

1. What are AmigaGuide files?            1
2. I use Heddley but then optimize by hand            2
3. I use a utility such as Heddley            2
4. I use both, depending on how I feel            2
5. I use something else            2
6. I hand-code them            15
7. I don't create AmigaGuide files            23




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From: roger buckley <[e-mail]>
Date: Tue, 29 Feb 2000 17:27:02 +0000
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Hi everyone,

Anyone any ideas how to mount a hardfile with the suffix .hdf?.

Kind regards
--
Roger

Amiga 1200, Viper 68030 Mk V Accel with 50Mhz FPU and 8 MBFast, Seagate 410MB
2.5" internal HD and 800MB SCSI HD in a midi tower with 4xCDRom. 56k Modem,
Power Port Junr Serial IF G.Image Hand Scanner & Citizen Swift Printer.
Website:-http://callnetuk.com/home/rogerbu
ICQ-62990780 Robuck2
Anyone can make mistakes, but only an idiot persists in his error.
-- Cicero




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From: Oliver Esberger <[e-mail]>
Date: Tue, 29 Feb 2000 19:08:57 +0100
In-Reply-To: <[e-mail]>
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Hello Matt,

On 29-Feb-00, you wrote:

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

Of course it does. I'm using PFS2 with OS3.5 without any problems. And
maybe it is indeed buggy, but strangely I've never noticed... Oh, and
several times I've lost data due to invalidated FFS partitions, but
since I've installed PFS2 not even the worst crash could do harm to my
data...

Honestly, why do you say things about PFS2/3 that are simply untrue?
(Did I just ask Matt /this/ question? Bad idea :)

Regards
--
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Date: Tue, 29 Feb 2000 10:26:38 -0800
From: "Phil Allen" <[e-mail]>
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Whoops.
Anyway. I am forced to break my self imposed silence to relay news I
viewed on another list. Check out:
http://www.internet-support.net/cgi-bin/vote_ask.pl

Yes, the Amiga is running away with over 70% of the vote so far. :)

Regards, Phil




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