

#: 13009 S15/Hot Topics
    12-Nov-91  23:47:50
Sb: #13001-#MM/1 delivery
Fm: GLEN HATHAWAY 71446,166
To: James Jones 76257,562 (X)

Hi James... Oooooooh! Sounds nice! I ordered an 80 Meg HD with mine - had
enough of always being out of room on my 30 Meg. 105 must be lovely! Oh well,
you know that data always expands to fill all available space, though... How's
all the sound I/O stuff work? Do you have any MIDI stuff?

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#: 13024 S15/Hot Topics
    13-Nov-91  07:33:05
Sb: #13009-MM/1 delivery
Fm: James Jones 76257,562
To: GLEN HATHAWAY 71446,166 (X)

Sound I/O works fine.  <pause to play "I've fallen, and I CAN'T GET UP!"
sample>  No MIDI yet; I'm on the list to be notified when Mike Knudsen and Kala
Software have the OS-9/68000 Ultimuse ready to go.

#: 13016 S15/Hot Topics
    13-Nov-91  00:39:20
Sb: #12967-MM/1 delivery
Fm: Mike Haaland 72300,1433
To: Colin J. Smith 73777,1360


Huh?  What do you mean you had to crank up a window to view 'em?  Who did the
GIFShow your using?  I never released any version that only handled 320 x 200. 
But they will "squish" the image onto a 320 x 200 or 320 x 400 screen in the
original GIFShow.  Also the one you probably have did NOT support the palette
chip, cause I wrote it on a prototype that didn't have a palette.  (Boy am I
glad they everyone nudged IMS into having Kev Pease put on eon the board) <g>.
Most 256 color GIF's really suck with only the stock boot up colors.  Now with
8 bits of R-G-B each, instead of 3 bits red, 3 bits green and 2 bits blue, you
can get some very realistic colors.

I guess I should release the latest version that handles GIF89a files. It'll
display ANY GIF and use the correct colors, plus do plain text rendering,
multi-image files.   Best bonus is the speed optimizing done by James Jones. 
(Thanks again JJ!)

Coming to a Lib 12 near you.....

Mike

BTW - I saw Glen mention ViewGIF.  He started with the same basic code I
started with too.  A GIF(TM) to Postscript(R) convertor by Scott Hempill. I
think it's in the Libs here as GIF2PS.C  or something like that.

#: 13010 S7/Telecommunications
    13-Nov-91  00:00:03
Sb: #12997-#Quick-B Problems
Fm: Paul Rinear 73757,1413
To: Erich Schulman 75140,3175 (X)

    I guess that thing with backup was a fluke since I've used it a few more
times with no problem. I've got a copy of backup lightning also but I don't
leave OS9 and reboot. Alot of disk swapping to back up a 720k disk with one
drive. I like to copy them to a 720k ramdisk and then back out. Did you look at
a disassembled clock yet?
                              Paul

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#: 13014 S7/Telecommunications
    13-Nov-91  00:38:12
Sb: #13010-Quick-B Problems
Fm: Erich Schulman 75140,3175
To: Paul Rinear 73757,1413

I can't use a 720K RAMdisk as I have only 512K total and I start up on 360K
(and usually take off another 256K for RAMdisk).  I still have yet to be able
to install my 720K drive.  I'm beginning to think that I'll Backup my 720K
disks by WCopy'ing dir-by-dir to RAMdisk and then to 720K as I remember all the
disk swapping I did with 360K that drove me to Backup Lightning.  I'm going to
see about disassembling the clock today; I've had a lot on my queue(g).

#: 13011 S1/General Interest
    13-Nov-91  00:02:45
Sb: #13003-The Computer Chronicles
Fm: Paul Rinear 73757,1413
To: Kevin Darling 76703,4227 (X)

    Thanks Kev,
               If I find it I will set the old VCR to grab it. Don't watch
hardly any TV; just the Simpsons basically.
                                                   Paul

#: 13028 S1/General Interest
    13-Nov-91  18:33:47
Sb: #12996-The Computer Chronicles
Fm: Toni Long 73517,2713
To: Paul Rinear 73757,1413

Hi handsome In CT it appears on the CCIT network; I get it on my cable on Mon
11:30 am and Fri 9:30 am. I've seen it on public tv here and there, no
consistency. That's all I know. Toni

#: 13029 S1/General Interest
    13-Nov-91  18:36:37
Sb: #13007-#The Computer Chronicles
Fm: Toni Long 73517,2713
To: Keith H. March 70541,1413 (X)

Hi handsome I plan to tape it Fri. I may sell it to the highest bidder. I
figure I should try to get something out of this, since I have not yet found
ONE old rich man in os9land. WAIT! how old are you? are you rich?  hehehehe 
Toni

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#: 13030 S1/General Interest
    13-Nov-91  19:27:05
Sb: #13029-The Computer Chronicles
Fm: Kevin Darling 76703,4227
To: Toni Long 73517,2713

Toni -

You're shameless!  <grin>

PS: I told Marsha about your "8" comment on the phone... she said, "What? Out
of 100?"

sigh

#: 13012 S7/Telecommunications
    13-Nov-91  00:08:01
Sb: #Finally!
Fm: Paul Rinear 73757,1413
To: Steve Wegert

     Just wanted to thank you for your help. Everything is working well
finally. Wound up with SACIA and Disto's CC3Disk.irq with the patch you found,
along with the Pete Lyall irq hack. The error rate at last check was 3 errors
in 180k using Quick-B. Not perfect, but better by a factor of 6. And there have
been NO lockups.
                                      Paul

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#: 13025 S7/Telecommunications
    13-Nov-91  07:55:01
Sb: #13012-#Finally!
Fm: Steve Wegert 76703,4255
To: Paul Rinear 73757,1413

Paul,

THAT is great news!

Not to toss any cold water on your success.... but I'm still concerned about
those 3 errors in 180K. I rarely get errors ... perhap your phone lines? Who
serves you ....  one of the Bell's, GTE ... are you dialing in direct to a CIS
node or via an alternate gateway.

Steve

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#: 13027 S7/Telecommunications
    13-Nov-91  08:50:54
Sb: #13025-Finally!
Fm: Pete Lyall 76703,4230
To: Steve Wegert 76703,4255

Hey bub, watch that anti-GTE talk...<g>. Say, just what _is_ your number?
Nevermind... we have ways of finding out <g><g><g>.

Pete

#: 13013 S9/Utilities
    13-Nov-91  00:32:45
Sb: #13004-#Using DMode
Fm: Erich Schulman 75140,3175
To: Kevin Darling 76703,4227 (X)

I remember seeing a message in this forum a long time ago about how you can do
something like dmode /d0 sid=2 to access the back of a flippy in /d0 as though
it were a /d2 (just as you might do in DECB).  As the message has scrolled off
long ago I thought I might ask how this could be done.  (At the time that
message was around, I was still struggling with getting a download of Ar 1.2 to
work, so DMode'ing was among the least of my concerns; hence, I never took note
of what was said then.)

I ought have a Disto SC2 on the way soon if not even now.  Can that controller
step at 3mS?  If so, what DMode would do it?  Who offers drivers that do cache
(and the software to set it up), or do I need to use hardware caching as some
PC's use?

Except for clock speed, I keep getting this CoCo3 closer to a 386SX:-)

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#: 13034 S9/Utilities
    13-Nov-91  20:41:44
Sb: #13013-Using DMode
Fm: Brother Jeremy, CSJW 76477,142
To: Erich Schulman 75140,3175

There was a chache program over on Delphi that was uploaded a few months back.
I will see if it can be uploaded here. If not I will see
 about getting you a copy. --Br. Jeremy, CSJW

#: 13015 S12/OS9/68000 (OSK)
    13-Nov-91  00:38:40
Sb: #12970-C++ Compiler sought
Fm: Mike Haaland 72300,1433
To: Robert Heller 71450,3432


Yessir!  You can get GNU C++ from hermit.cs.wisc.edu via the internet link in
email.  I just grabbed it and haven't had time to play with it yet. It was
ported by Stephan Paschedag in Switzerland.

Send a one line message to ftp@hermit.sc.wisc.edu saying:

 help

And you'll get a file back telling you how to use the new file server. The full
address from CISMail is:

 >INTERNET: ftp@hermit.cs.wisc.edu

Mike

#: 13017 S1/General Interest
    13-Nov-91  00:39:33
Sb: 286 motherboard
Fm: Pete Lyall 76703,4230
To: All'

I realize this is probably heresy here, but in case anybody wanted to
slap together a cheap PC/AT for use as a terminal or whatever.....

=======================================================================

286 Motherboard:

                o - 1 megabyte of 0 wait state RAM on board configured
                    as 640k conventional, and 384 extended.

                o - Phoenix BIOS

                o - Can be switched (software or switch) to run at
                    6MHZ.

                o - Quality full sized motherboard (STANDARD).

I just pulled this out to install a 386/33. It runs very well - never
any problems with it.

First $75 takes it.

Pete Lyall
(805) 372-5493
CIS: 76703,4230
Internet: pete@wlbr.imsd.contel.com


#: 13018 S9/Utilities
    13-Nov-91  00:48:34
Sb: snap.ar
Fm: GLEN HATHAWAY 71446,166
To:  76703,376

Hi Wayne... I just uploaded Snap.ar the other day. I was messing with it today
and found that after the last batch of additions, I forgot to re-test the
modify section. It now has some nasty bugs in it that I am fixing right now.
Could you pull the current version off the database ASAP? I'll have this fixed
real soon and re-upload. Meanwhile, I don't think the bug is fatal, but it is
ugly and confusing. I guess we should warn against modifying any files with it
until I fix it, just in case.

#: 13019 S9/Utilities
    13-Nov-91  00:52:51
Sb: snap.ar
Fm: GLEN HATHAWAY 71446,166
To: all

Hi all... I just uploaded 'snap.ar' to the utilities database the other day. I
just realized that after the new additions, I forgot to re-test the modify
routines. They now have a nasty, ugly bug in them - I hope it's harmless, but
until I re-upload a fixed version, it would be safest not to use the modify
command. If you have downloaded it, either scrap it and get another copy when I
re-upload, or use it only to view files and diddle file lengths. I'll reupload
ASAP.   Glen Hathaway COMPER 71446,166

#: 13020 S9/Utilities
    13-Nov-91  02:15:06
Sb: #snap.ar
Fm: GLEN HATHAWAY 71446,166
To:  76703,376

Hi again Wayne... Disregard my earlier message. I've already fixed and
reuploaded snap.ar. There were 2 people who downloaded the buggy file. If you
can tell who, please inform them of the problem. If you can't, I guess they'll
figure it out...

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#: 13022 S9/Utilities
    13-Nov-91  06:34:11
Sb: #13020-snap.ar
Fm: Mike Ward 76703,2013
To: GLEN HATHAWAY 71446,166 (X)

Glen, there's no way for us to know who's downloaded the file but we'll get the
new upload posted here shortly. Thanks!




#: 13021 S9/Utilities
    13-Nov-91  02:17:37
Sb: snap.ar
Fm: GLEN HATHAWAY 71446,166
To: all

Hi all... Please disregard my earlier message about my Snap.ar upload. It has
been de-bugged and re-uploaded. The bug was pretty trivial, but potentially
quite dangerous. If you downloaded the earlier version, delete it and get the
current one. Works much better when ya can read the modify screen!

#: 13023 S10/OS9/6809 (CoCo)
    13-Nov-91  07:31:15
Sb: #13008-#Hard Drive
Fm: James Jones 76257,562
To: Brother Jeremy, CSJW 76477,142 (X)

That's what I meant.  64 is the ASCII equivalent of 'd', and e4 is 64 + 80,
i.e. 'd' with the most significant bit set.  That's the way OS-9 recognizes the
end of the name.

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#: 13033 S10/OS9/6809 (CoCo)
    13-Nov-91  20:38:32
Sb: #13023-Hard Drive
Fm: Brother Jeremy, CSJW 76477,142
To: James Jones 76257,562

OH....Gee I guess I know more than I thought. I will try it and let you know
what happens. I got a new toy today. A friend of mine gave me a Bernoulli Box.
From what I gather, it is basically a 10mb "floppy", or more like a removeable
hard drive. It needs some work on it, but I think I can get it up and running,
after all I managed to fix my hard drive. Although dropping it down a flight of
stairs is not the normal way one
 fixes a hard drive. I will probably have a host of questions about the B_BOX.
Thank you for your help, With all best wishes, Br. Jeremy, CSJW

#: 13026 S12/OS9/68000 (OSK)
    13-Nov-91  08:05:17
Sb: #12988-It's working!
Fm: Jim Peasley 72726,1153
To: Kevin Darling 76703,4227 (X)

Kev;

  First thing I did after getting the MM/1 was to purchase another 3.5" drive -
almost an identical twin to /d0 - for moving files around. I HATE swapping
floppies!!!  I backed up all the distribution disks to brand new 2.0 M disks
and was using them until the MM/1 blew up - well, more like a loud POP,
actually.
  Now, I can only read one out of the 8 or so disks that I have data on. It's
beginning to look like the stepper in the drive took a dump, as it doesn't want
to read much past sector 0.  I will play around with it some more and get back
with detailed errata.  What's got me worried is that 'format' won't work on
this drive - it gets almost done and then errors out with a '246' (I think)
seek error.

  re: nylon spacers
  Yep, the kit has some in there, but using them with the aluminum standoffs
puts the board about 1/16" too high for the rear connectors - and also there's
nothing in the installation docs about using them. Lesson learned the hard way!

  ...Jim

#: 13031 S11/OS9/6809 (Non-CoCo)
    13-Nov-91  19:32:54
Sb: #Non-CoCo 6809's?
Fm: Erich Schulman 75140,3175
To: ALL

What 6809-based computer systems other than the CoCo exist, whether they run
OS-9 or not?

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#: 13032 S11/OS9/6809 (Non-CoCo)
    13-Nov-91  19:41:02
Sb: #13031-Non-CoCo 6809's?
Fm: Jim Sutemeier 70673,1754
To: Erich Schulman 75140,3175

The 6809 GIMIX Computer, from what I've read, predates the CoCo and it's OS9
system.

I read somewhere when 6809/CoCo/OS9 started populating the OS9 SIG's, the GIMIX
people complained about those new upstarts  (grin)

Now, 6809/OS9/CoCo people over on Delphi are complaining about the "new" OSK
users, and how OSK seems to be taking a larger share of 'their' Operating
System.

{Wasn't there a saying that history repeats itself????

jim Sutemeier



#: 13035 S12/OS9/68000 (OSK)
    13-Nov-91  21:02:34
Sb: FAX SOFTWARE?
Fm: Keith H. March 70541,1413
To: ALL

Who is working on a software package (fax send/receive software) for use on the
OSK Machines?

Keith

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