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e: Msg 86059)
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From: RICKULAND To: COCOKIWI
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Thats what impressed me about the package- of course _somebody_ has to d
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o a
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phys. format
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but hio dont care who- a refreshing change from ease the drive
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then install these partitions.... Anyway, I saw a post describing the
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pains taken to set up tis drive and wanted to yell before hdfrmt or
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whatever it's called had taken it's toll.
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-ricku
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86104 8-MAR 00:39 General Information
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RE: HYPER I/O (Re: Msg 86055)
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From: TAULBORG To: RICKULAND
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Well I got both Os9 and Hyper I/O to work on my hard drive but now i have
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a big problem getting OS9 to boot!
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86103 8-MAR 00:32 Games & Graphics
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RE: new user hard drive (Re: Msg 86053)
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From: TAULBORG To: RICKULAND
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After cleaning the contacts on my whole computer it seems that my os9 boot
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or it's backup would work!It seems to die about halfway through the boot
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process and gives me a 32 column green screen with os9 boot failed.
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Hyper I/O works fine on the hard drive so my os9 stuff should still be there
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so if someone could help me make a new boot for my hard drive with the
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stuff that is on the old boot disks it would help a lot!!!!!
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It seems that for some reason the boot or starup file is messed up!!
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86105 8-MAR 01:07 Games & Graphics
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RE: new user hard drive (Re: Msg 86103)
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From: RICKULAND To: TAULBORG (NR)
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Ouch! You may have injured your old os9 installing hio. Try this-
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turn on everything except the hard drive and boot. About 1/2 the boot
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comes from the hard drive, if it's on. If it's not, OS9 will try to
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boot straight off a floppy (most folks don't know they are using
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the alternate method!) With luck, your boot floppy has enuf to get going.
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If no boot with drive off, check for CMDS/shell and CMDS/grfdrv on the floppy.
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Hopefully you can get os9 going from floppy, then turn on the hard drive
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and look around for more clues. Waiting for status check...........
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-good luck -ricku
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86106 8-MAR 04:53 General Information
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RE: MM/1A Mouse Mysteries Revealed?? (Re: Msg 86091)
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From: BROWN80 To: BOISY (NR)
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I don't know if this will reveal any mysteries but I had much the same problem
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with the Kix\30. The mouse I bought from a friend didn't work. I took it to
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work where it worked fine. I brought the mouse they were using at work (it
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looked just like the one I had bought with a brand name stamped on it.) and it
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worked on the Kix\30. I remember way back when FHL was first putting out the
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TC70 that Frank said something about having better luck with elcheapo mice, so
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I stopped by Wal Mart on the way home and got the cheapest rodent they had -
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you guessed it - an identity mouse and I've been using it ever since. I don't
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know if Frank ever figured out why some mice work and some don't but I
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suspect that your observation about the other descriptor might have something
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to do with it. Heck, it was only after your message that I bothered to turn
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the mouse over and found that mine has a switch, too. It was switched to PC AT
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I lucked out on that. The other side of the switch on mine says MS AM. Oh!
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I see it says in the instruction (something else I haven't read 'til now) about
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mouse systems mode etc. Sounds like there are several standards for mouse
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communications and we might be using an older one developed for programs like
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autocad. Wow did write all that? I've watching too many political adds!
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John Brown
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86109 8-MAR 07:09 General Information
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RE: MM/1A Mouse Mysteries Revealed?? (Re: Msg 86091)
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From: MARKGRIFFITH To: BOISY (NR)
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Boisy,
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> Deciding I couldn't live without a mouse for my new MM/1A any longer,
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> I went out and bought two different mice.
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> At this point, only the el cheapo mouse works, and then only in "Mouse
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> Systems Mode." I thought that the MM/1A handled Microsoft mice ok.
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> The Logitech Trackman does not work.
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Mice are all different. The serial data stream is different and some are
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very sensitive to power conditions. The /t2 port on the MM/1 was designed
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for a mouse since it is the only port that offers a full +12volts. Some
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mice won't work without this, some will.
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Your problem is probably due to the data stream coming from the mouse.
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A new driver would have to be made to handle this. I have a generic mouse
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that works fine on the MM/1, but not on the MM/1a. Keith March has the
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same problem with his Trackman as you.
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What we need to do is get someone who can write drivers for these mice.
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Actually, a driver is the wrong word. The ms.901 and ms.070 "drivers"
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are really only interrupt handlers and pass the data on to functions
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within windio (hence the need for a new driver for each version of windio).
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If someone can figure out what Kevin was doing, that would be very helpful.
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There are three other people besides K. Darling that have his code. Kevin
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Pease is one, but he write the mouse drivers for the accelerator and he only
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has a Logitech mouse, so he wrote it for that mouse. Anyother is Eddie
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Kuns, but he is working on the sound drivers now. The other is a member
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of this forum, but prefers to remain incognito. Maybe he will help out.
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This is one of the problems that Paul Ward was counseled against....a OS
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built around code that is not supported and no one has source to. Oh well.
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86107 8-MAR 06:35 General Information
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Am I in the right place?
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From: WEINSCHENK To: ALL
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I am looking for advice on specific OS2 tools for developing online
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help, online coaching, etc. Is this the right place to send out a
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message about such tools? Is OS9 an OS2 group? Am I in the wrong
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place? Where should I go to send such a message? Any help would
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be appreciated.
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86108 8-MAR 07:04 Programmers Den
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RE: C's stack (Re: Msg 86096)
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From: JEJONES To: BANANAMAN (NR)
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> It certainly sounds like a compiler problem to me.
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Well, maybe, but...in general, the compiler can't tell how much stack is
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going to be needed--it can't tell a priori how deep a recursive routine
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will go, and one could set up a situation in which it would have to, say,
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solve the halting problem to tell how much stack a program needs. So
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what *should* it do?
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(Short diversion into computer science: the *halting problem* is a famous
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problem shown to be insoluble by Alan Turing. The problem is: can someone
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write a function, halt(), that takes a function as parameter and (say by
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looking at the source code and analyzing it) return TRUE if the function
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will always return a value and FALSE if there are some situations in which
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it won't. To sort of give the idea of the solution in C, the answer is,
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no, nobody can write such a function, because it won't work on
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int
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paradox()
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{
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while (halt(paradox))
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;
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}
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paradox() halts if and only if halt() says it doesn't, so there can be
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no such function as halt() that works for *every* function you hand it.)
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Opinions herein are those of their respective authors, and not necessarily
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those of any organization.
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86110 8-MAR 07:09 Telecom (6809)
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RE: 9600 on a CoCo... (Re: Msg 86092)
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From: MARKGRIFFITH To: CBJ
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Carl,
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> Ah but Dieter, you have modified your serial port. I am talking about an
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> unmodi
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> unmodified pak and running NO patches such as powerboost or Nitros.
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I ran a CoCo3 at 9600 baud between my MM/1 for a long time. Never had a
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problem. Why do you say it can't handle 9600 baud? It can't display it
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on the screen that fast, but the serial port CAN handle it.
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86111 8-MAR 10:43 Telecom (6809)
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RE: 9600 on a CoCo... (Re: Msg 86110)
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From: CBJ To: MARKGRIFFITH (NR)
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I've never been able to get 9600 baud working reliably on a CoCo under StG
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netxfr doing bidirectional transfer of data. Errors start piling up after
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the first couple of packets. It get so bad that 4800 baud is actually
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faster than 9600 baud as far as CPS when the transfer is complete. This is
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exactly the same problem Boisy had and every other Sysop on the net except
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for Paul Jerkatis and Dieter. They both made modifications to the serial
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paks to obtain 9600 baud. I think the key here is the fact that the data
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is being sent bidirectional. One way probably works OK. I'm sure that the
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software being run also has something to do with this as well. We are also
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talking about a BBS.
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Carl
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