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- From: bloc1469@ee.ee.uwm.edu (Gregory R Block)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy
- Subject: Re: Some Amiga questions!
- Date: 24 Dec 1992 03:34:13 GMT
- Organization: Electrical Engineering Dept. University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee
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- In article <1992Dec23.064455.14012@usl.edu> das9674@usl.edu (Stephenson Daniel A) writes:
- >I found where to change the point... I made something a lot better...
- >but now when I click on the desktop, or something, it changes into
- >the number '1016' with a red band on the top and bottom if it...
- >and THAT acts as the '
- >pointer!
- >
- >What gives?
-
- God question. My best guess is that you did something wrong. :)
-
- >Also, the way it recognizes when there is a floppy in the drive is neat, just
- >like the Mac.
-
- Doesn't every system? ;) It only requires that the disk drives
- (chinon, in this case) signal when a diskchange occurs. Most drives
- have the capability to do this, and of course, the system supports it.
- :) Actually, a diskchange signal actually creates a "diskchange"
- event within the OS.
-
- >Hey, I figured out the 'screens' trick! Granted, I'd rather just iconize
- >something, perhaps... hey, how DO I iconize something?! Anyway,
- >I 'dragged' the Dpain II screen down and saw the workbench!
-
- There is no standard for iconizing. Other than AppIcons, perhaps,
- under 2.0, but that's not exactly it. 2.04 does have a standard for
- shrinking windows into nothing more than a title bar, though. :)
-
- >Also, did you guys know that if you fold down the feet on the keyboard it
- >can fit snugly *under* the Amiga 1000? Nice to get it out ofthe way sometime
- >I cannot imagine why C= would make the A500..well, AT ALL with the nice
- >looks and detached keyboard ofthe Amiga1000. The A1000 looks a lot
- >'better' than the A500, IMO.
-
- You'd be amazed how many people think the 1000 is the best looking
- Amiga made, me included. And the thing you talk about is the
- "keyboard garage" that gets referred to so often by us old folks.
-
- >What's this 'F -> E' scrollbar thing on the left of my windows? What is it?
-
- Full -> Empty? It tells you how full your disks are, if I remember.
- Umm, that's gone as of 2.0, thank god. ;)
-
- >Hmm... ohm regarding the usefulness of screens, since windows do not
- >seem to move off the screen edge, you sorta need them. In my OS/2,
- >for example, I can drag down a full screen app by the title bar. Drag it down
- >to the side, any where, and it is still 'full screen'. Now, it can't
- >be some weird resolution or color difference like on the Amiga, but real close
- >and better in some respects. And the 640X400-type mode (
- >640X480) on my my PC doesn't flicker so bad. Wow!
-
- :) That's an artifact of non-AGA/ECS chipsets. 70ns pixels is it,
- boy. :D Which means, 640x400 interlaced. AGA/ECS machines support a
- 640x480 "Productivity" non-interlaced on 31.5KHz screens. AGA
- machines support DBLPal/DBLNTSC resolutions, which are near identical
- to the Hires-interlaced, but they're not interlaced. ;)
-
- >Well, lemme go try to find Lemmings in this box..... 8)
-
- Well, it's about TIME you played lemmings on the machine it was
- designed to be played on. No jerky lemmings, no sounds just a little
- bit off. ;)
-
- Greg
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