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- From: Aric.Caley@ofa123.fidonet.org
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy
- Subject: Re: Dan got the Amiga 10
- X-Sender: newtout 0.02 Nov 17 1992
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- Date: 23 Dec 92 07:13:00
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- > Organization: University of Southwestern Louisiana
- > From: das9674@usl.edu (Stephenson Daniel A)
- > Message-ID: <1992Dec23.053811.10127@usl.edu>
- > Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy
- >
- > Okay, here are some first impression, and some question. You Amigans
- > *barely* advocated the Amiga enough for me to see about getting one,
- > and I have: an Amiga1000, with half Meg, a 1080 monitor with a broken
- > speaker, and an extra floppy drive. I almost gave up on
- > this group, what with Amigoid Whackos telling me, a DUMB PC USER,
- > to 'go away' and all.
- >
- > Yea, verily, this about the rock-bottom as far as Amigas go, and surely
- > isn't representational, say, of Dan Barrett's mega-Amiga (wanna let me
- > borrow it? 8) ), and some of you will tell me to compare it to a
- > 1985 PC, etc etc. Go ahead and waste your time; I'll ignore those
- > replies.. it is trivial to type 'd' at the end of you email...
- >
- > Anyway, here are my First Impressions:
- >
- > 1) FLICKER-O-RAMA
- > 2) They should have orange and blue as the default colors.
- > 3) The windowing is rather adnaced for way back then. A Shell resizes
- > fine and all.
- > 4) The scrollbars *are* proportional after all! Yay!
- > 5) The pointer looks goofy.
- > 6) Real Low Res-Like.
-
- I'm sure lots of people will respond to this, but I've just downed a cup of
- coffee after an unusualy short sleep so I'm real wired this morning...
-
- Of course you know, points 1,2,5 and 6 are quite fixed on new machines like
- the 2 year old A3000, A1200, A4000, and any Amiga with a flicker fixer. So
- I wont flame ya for that. :)
-
- > Question, please:
-
- Sure.
-
- > How in hell do I kill a Shell?! (for example) Some things have that
- > square-with-a-dot in the top left, you click on it and it goes away.
- > But sometimes there isn't one...and it just stays there.
-
- type Endcli.
-
- > Why can't I drag a window DOWN so that part of it 'hangs' off the side or
- > bottom?
-
- Because thats not suported. That is one thing I kinda like about the Mac
- and Windows. It seems like it could be supported, perhaps even possible as
- a PD utility. If you had AmigaOS 2.x, you could make large screens that
- are bigger than the display area and achieve a similar, and more usefull,
- result.
-
- > I am Deluxe Paint II here. I can 'drag' the screen down in it... is that
-
- Eww. We're on IV now.. But of course you knew that..
-
- > supposed to do something? How do I toggle from the paint program
- > and the WorkBench (which is 1.3.2, by the way)
-
- I guess DPaint is closing the Workbench or something? There is an option
- in DPaint's menus to Open/Close Workbench. Amiga-M and N will bring the
- Workbench screen to the front or send it back.
-
- > Real quick like - how do I change the resolution of the workbench, and
- > the colors?
-
- Get Workbench 2.x.
-
- > Also does someone know how I might hook this baby up to my 386 (which has
- > an internal modem) and use a term program FROM the AMiga? You know,
- > route it through my PC, going straight to the modem? That way I
- > can download stuff.
-
- If there was (is?) a version of parnet for the IBM, you could do it that
- way (parnet lets two Amigas form a small network through the parallel
- ports, allowing the machines to access each other's drives and ports). All
- it would require is the right software on the IBM, but I don't know if it
- exists yet.
-
- You can, however, download on the IBM with an IBM term program, and then
- transfer the files to the Amiga through the parallel ports - there is
- software for that on both ends (I recall something called "Twin" with Amiga
- and IBM executeable programs to allow such transfers. It was PD).
-
- > Where can I get the Work Bench Lander thing? Peter da Silva, you know what
- > I mean?
-
- You got me.
-
- > --
- > Dan Stephenson das9674@usl.edu
- > "Yes Dan, I have heard of Ultima Underworld. From my point of view it
- > appears to be a rather large stick which you seem to be using to beat
- > everbody in this group with." -Mark Steyn, comp.sys.amiga.advocacy
-
- -Dances With Coyotes - World's slowest programer-Given that God is infinate-
- -AKA Dances V2.0, Coyote, Critter, Magnet, Major-and that the universe is-
- -- Former Net-Lurker - YES, an AMIGA godammit! --also infinate, would you-
- --- Still limping along with AmigaOS 1.3 :( ---like a toasted tea cake?-
-
-
- --- Maximus 2.01wb
-