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49575. Anthony Prime             Serves me right (slightly OT)
49576. Oliver Esberger           Re: Commodore started it...
49577. Will                      Re: Am I missing the point ?
49578. Arran Smalley             Re: Welcome
49579. Arran Smalley             Re: PSP and IFF
49580. Carl Berry                Re: Commodore started it...
49581. Will                      Re: Am I missing the point ?
49582. Peter Gordon              Re: Commodore started it...
49583. George Davis              Re: PPC Emulation
49584. Carl Berry                Re: R=?iso-8859-1?q?=E8v=F3lo=FCti=F5n=E2r=FF?= (
49585. Will                      BT
49586. Oliver Masters            Re: hosts
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From: "Anthony Prime" <[e-mail]>
Date: 1 Mar 2000 19:28:01 +0000
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Subject: [afb] Serves me right (slightly OT)
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Hi

I aquired a modem for my Psion series 5 and was struggling to set it
up.

The manual was as useful as an ashtray on a motorbike, so I sent Psion
an email that was, in hindsight, a little curt (Heck, it could have
been written by Neil Bothwick himself ;)

In the meantime I sorted it out, but the guys at Psion were more than
a match for me. I've just had to download a 2mb PDF file, over my
standard A1200 serial port :(

Bah.
--
Anthony Prime
>>Powered by Amiga in Crewe
[e-mail]


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From: Oliver Esberger <[e-mail]>
Date: Wed, 01 Mar 2000 21:36:41 +0100
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Hello Mash,

On 23-Feb-99, you wrote:

> Workbench 3.0 User's Guide, page xv, paragraph 4, 4th from last word.
>
> Did we start we start the term _multimedia_ for a computer which move
> gfx and make a bleep at the same time?
>
> Mash

The term "Multimedia" was introduced by Apple at the end of the
eighties, it was part of a campaign. But the things they were showing
have been done by Commodore's A2000 (and a bit later the A3000) earlier
and better... only they called it "Desktop Video (DTV)"

Mind you, those were the eighties.

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



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Date: Wed, 01 Mar 2000 12:51:33 -0800
From: "Will" <[e-mail]>
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"gerald mellor" <[e-mail]> wrote:
original article:http://www.egroups.com/group/afb/?start=49214

>
> > As there isn`t any real News why not drop the section and devote the
> > resouces elsewhere. The only News I will believe is a working model
> > comming off a production line.
>
> You wouldn't call Amiga being bought by another company "real
> News"? I think most people want to know what's going on with the
> Amiga, even if you don't.
>
> Gerry

I have followed the Amiga news stories for over a decade and just feel
that I have seen/heard it all before. If most people wanted to know
what is going on at Amiga then magazine sales would not keep dropping,
perhaps a lot of people are fed up of listening to promises and would
like articles full of practical electronics projects and advice.


Cheers

Will.



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Date: Wed, 01 Mar 2000 20:46:06 +0000
From: Arran Smalley <[e-mail]>
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Matthew O'Neill wrote:
>
> On 01-Mar-00, Paul Laycock wrote:
>
> >>> Cue Vikings ...
>
> >> Lovely Spam, Wonderful Spam!
> >> Lovely Spam, Wonderful
> >> Spam, spaaaaaam, Spaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaam, spaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaam,
> >> spaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaam, SPAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA
> >> M!!!
>
> > <VOICE PITCH="HIGH">"Shut up! Shut up!"</VOICE>
>
> BRING OUT YER DEAD!
>

Where-so-ever computer type people shall gather, there shall eventually
be the quoting of the great Monty Python.

Geek rule no. 462 ;P

Arran (an ex-computer science student)

saying Nee!




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Date: Wed, 01 Mar 2000 20:51:39 +0000
From: Arran Smalley <[e-mail]>
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Peter Hutchison wrote:
>
> >    You could try Paint shop pro. I use it quiet allot and its ok. The
> >best
> >thing about it is you usually find a free trial version on Mag cover
> >disks
> >so you can get the feel of it B4 you buy. It has most of the features
> >you
> >could need, eg Layers etc and Version 6 also has vector graphic support.
> >Plus It can read / write Amiga Iff files :-)
>
> BTW, the so called Amiga (.IFF) file format isn`t a true ILBM format and I
> couldn`t get
> Multiview to open them. The DPaint (.LBM) format is definately compatible.
>

Save your work as GIF or JPG format, it's quite easy to get the Amiga to
read these. If you use PPaint, you can also try PNG files.
Forget IFF-ILBM's, the lack of decent compression means that any
decently sized image will take up a huge amount of space on disc.

Arran



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From: "Carl Berry" <[e-mail]>
Date: 1 Mar 100 20:56:27 +0000
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> Hi
>
> Workbench 3.0 User's Guide, page xv, paragraph 4, 4th from last word.
>
> Did we start we start the term _multimedia_ for a computer which move gfx
> and make a bleep at the same time?
>

Oh god I hope not.  I don't think we want to be blamed for that as
well do we ?

Anyway as it was pointed out to me in a lecture a couple of years ago
it isn't even correct, it should be multi-medium.  Media is a plural
and why would you have multiple plurals ?

Carl


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Date: Wed, 01 Mar 2000 13:03:23 -0800
From: "Will" <[e-mail]>
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"james potter" <[e-mail]> wrote:

> Only occasional news items about a new dawn, not constant :) There
*are*
> things happening that are concrete and tangible. Maybe you should
give it a
> year, then come back and see if anything's changed. If nothing has
and we're
> all off to use Windows 2000 Service Pack 68 then you can say "I told
you so"
> :)
>
> TTFN,
> James.

I don`t think anything will change and I have no interest is saying I
told you so. I see Amiga a bit like the Rover car company, the old
Rovers and Wolseys were really something (I know I owned a six cylinder
beauty.) However, after various ownerships and re-packaging I don`t see
any new Rover being anything to get excited about and I would be very
wary about spares availability pending the next take over. If I still
owned a classic car I would want my classic car magazine to concentrate
on my model, not the promised new range.


Cheers

Will.



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From: Peter Gordon <[e-mail]>
Date: Wed, 01 Mar 2000 21:02:13 +0000
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Hi,

> The term "Multimedia" was introduced by Apple at the end of the
> eighties, it was part of a campaign. But the things they were showing
> have been done by Commodore's A2000 (and a bit later the A3000) earlier
> and better... only they called it "Desktop Video (DTV)"

And now Apple are going on about Desktop Movies :) hmmm....


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

... (0x2B|!0x2B), that is the question.




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From: George Davis <[e-mail]>
Date: Wed, 01 Mar 2000 21:06:14 +0000
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On 01-Mar-00, Allen Kong wrote:

> I think you have to have a file in your ENVARC:ppc drawer called
> "nopatch" with the number 1 in it. =


Yeah,I've set the env variables 'PowerPC/nopatch - 1' and 'PowerPC/termin=
ator - not 2'
I still can't execute PowerUp programs..
Any /other/ ideas?
-- =

<sb>Geo=



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From: "Carl Berry" <[e-mail]>
Date: 1 Mar 100 21:13:03 +0000
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Hi Matt

> > >
> > > Go and search for the "Ottoman" PC - it's like a footstool with
> > > a PC inside it!
> >

http://sozodesign.com/ottoman.html

Ohhhhh pretty, but Matt what would you sit on ? ;)

Carl.


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Date: Wed, 01 Mar 2000 13:19:06 -0800
From: "Will" <[e-mail]>
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For anybody who is interested.

BT have, as from today, reduced the monthly subscription to 9.99 and
have activated the free access line each evening from 6.00pm as well as
weekends.

I haven`t tried to log on with an Amiga but the help line did tell me
(some time ago,) that although they don`t officially support Amiga
there are some Amiga news groups on BT and it is possible to configure
a 1200 to log on.


Cheers

Will.



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From: "Oliver Masters" <[e-mail]>
Date: Wed, 1 Mar 2000 21:25:42 -0000
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Mash said this:

> Are they gonna check every page looking for a redirection? if
> they just scan
> the document s for the redirection tags, then I could just but the
> redirection page on bigwig, then have a link to it on
> freenetname? :) ee by
> gum I'm crafty is me!
>
> > Check out http://uk2.net/ they do UK domains for 1.99 inc. web
> and email
> > forwarding. Don't take my word for it though, check the details for
> > yourself.
>
> What about the monthly payments?

Neil Bothwick has since pointed out a number of complaints directed at
uk2.net. The one Matt Sealey recommends looks pretty good though
http://www.gradwell.com slightly more expensive but you get what you pay for
I guess. Personally I use dreamhost http://www.dreamhost.com not especially
cheap, but they do the job properly, which is what you want for your money.

As for the redirect thing, dunno, you'd have to try it and see if FNN throw
you off :)

See ya later,

Oll



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