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#: 11892 S10/OS9/6809 (CoCo)
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22-Aug-91 20:39:01
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Sb: #Interbank & HD
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Fm: Bob Archambault 76506,3544
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To: ALL
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Hi Folks,
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Would anybody know a way that I can get "The Interbank Incident" which is a
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Level One game, to run on my 10 meg hard drive, which is running under Level
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Two???
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The HD installer utility "Copybank" on the Interbank disk worked great, it put
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all the files on the HD perfectly, it's just that the Title screen won't come
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up (looks like a mess!). It does the same thing when I try to run the game from
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floppy under Level Two, so I assume it's some incompatibility between Level One
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and Level Two.
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Any Ideas???
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Thanx in advance!
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Bob
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#: 11932 S10/OS9/6809 (CoCo)
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24-Aug-91 23:46:11
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Sb: #11892-#Interbank & HD
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Fm: Sunny Lowe 72447,1037
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To: Bob Archambault 76506,3544 (X)
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Since the game is a level one game, it probably runs in an old style vdg
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screen. The key probably is to run the game in a vdg type screen. Try that!
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#: 11941 S10/OS9/6809 (CoCo)
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25-Aug-91 16:54:25
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Sb: #11932-Interbank & HD
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Fm: Bob Archambault 76506,3544
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To: Sunny Lowe 72447,1037
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Thanx for the suggestion, Sunny, but I did use a VDG screen when attempting to
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run it. I don't know where else the problem might be!
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Bob
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#: 11893 S6/Applications
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22-Aug-91 21:10:14
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Sb: #11887-x10
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Fm: Steve Wegert 76703,4255
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To: Pete Lyall 76703,4230 (X)
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FYI Pete .... it's also available online here at HEATH. Look under the Home
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Automation section. There prices on the modules are also better than the
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Shacks.
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Steve
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#: 11909 S6/Applications
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23-Aug-91 18:12:26
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Sb: #11888-#x10
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Fm: Bill Dickhaus 70325,523
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To: PHIL SCHERER 71211,2545 (X)
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Yes, only the serial X10 (like in Crutchfields, Heath Online used to sell it
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too)
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Bill
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#: 11938 S6/Applications
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25-Aug-91 14:26:52
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Sb: #11909-x10
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Fm: PHIL SCHERER 71211,2545
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To: Bill Dickhaus 70325,523 (X)
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Thanks for the reply Bill
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#: 11907 S6/Applications
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23-Aug-91 17:18:40
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Sb: #11890-x10
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Fm: PHIL SCHERER 71211,2545
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To: Pete Lyall 76703,4230 (X)
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Thanks Pete--Crutchfields is a discount mailorder place and they advertise x10
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s for IBM and Apple. Hugo said he was going to ask you but I never heard.
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Thanks a lot Pete!
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#: 11910 S6/Applications
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23-Aug-91 18:14:04
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Sb: #11890-x10
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Fm: Bill Dickhaus 70325,523
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To: Pete Lyall 76703,4230 (X)
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Pete,
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FYI, Hugo uploaded the X10 stuff to Delphi as soon as you told him it was OK to
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do so.
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Bill
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#: 11894 S1/General Interest
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22-Aug-91 21:15:16
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Sb: #11875-Host Name
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Fm: Steve Wegert 76703,4255
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To: Paul Hanke 73467,403 (X)
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Paul,
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The CompuServe Network supports a ton of hosts. I understand that they handle
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(or have handled in the past) all Visa point of sale transactions as well as
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Red Roof Inns Reservation systems.
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You can connect to the WELL via the net (Use WELL as the HOST prompt) and get
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some information on that public Unix system...but suffice it to say, if you
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don't know what to type in response to the HOST prompt ... you don't belong
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there! :-)
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Steve
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#: 11895 S7/Telecommunications
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22-Aug-91 21:50:46
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Sb: #11849-#large STERM downloads
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Fm: Rick Ulland 70540,3305
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To: Steve Wegert 76703,4255 (X)
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Steve,
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Beginning to suspect hardware myself, since there is no rhyme or reason to the
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crash. At one time I thought it was Tymnet, since it never happened here. Then
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it happened here. Then it started on smaller files! Seems as thou all input is
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blocked, both keyboard and serial port, although the hotkey still works and
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other shells seem normal. Procs doesn't show any weird signals or dead stuff.
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Oh yea... sometimes with a buffer capture going things stop and I have to ESC C
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off and ESC C back on to get things moving again. If anyone else has seen this,
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please drop me a line. Already reheated all 120 solder joints to no avail so
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I'm stuck.Unless the ROM thats still in the modempak? CS is tied hi, but I
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think I read somewhere to pull it?
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Thanks for the response -Rick
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#: 11923 S7/Telecommunications
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24-Aug-91 09:38:50
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Sb: #11895-#large STERM downloads
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Fm: Steve Wegert 76703,4255
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To: Rick Ulland 70540,3305 (X)
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Which driver are you using, ACIAPAK or MODPAK? And refresh my memory .... do
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you have th IRQ hack installed?
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Steve
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#: 11929 S7/Telecommunications
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24-Aug-91 20:00:59
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Sb: #11923-#large STERM downloads
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Fm: Rick Ulland 70540,3305
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To: Steve Wegert 76703,4255 (X)
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In using ACIAPAK, and at one time had a diode hak, but yanked it because it
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even crashed RomPaks. I tried to find the 'old style' IRQ hack, but guess I
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gave up, since it's not on any of the 15 or 20 floppies here! Everything is on
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a Y-board (one hand drawn %#&$'$ labor of love), so I guess the IRQ's are tied
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together, but not hacked inside.
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-Rick
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#: 11934 S7/Telecommunications
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25-Aug-91 09:41:53
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Sb: #11929-#large STERM downloads
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Fm: Steve Wegert 76703,4255
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To: Rick Ulland 70540,3305 (X)
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The lack of the hack (grin) could be the culprit. Never did like the diode
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approach, as I had much more success with the 'classic' solution.
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See IRQHAK.TXT in LIB 10 for the details.
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Steve
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#: 11948 S7/Telecommunications
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25-Aug-91 22:39:12
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Sb: #11934-large STERM downloads
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Fm: Rick Ulland 70540,3305
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To: Steve Wegert 76703,4255 (X)
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Thanks- Guess I'll warm up the iron, download the HACK, and tack to my tracks!
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{
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grin(grin) }
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-Rick
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#: 11897 S15/Hot Topics
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23-Aug-91 00:24:38
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Sb: #11842-MM/1 delivery
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Fm: GLEN HATHAWAY 71446,166
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To: Paul K. Ward 73477,2004
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Hi Paul... Right On! As for phoning me, if you can't catch me, keep trying. I
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can be hard to reach at times. Business is quite good right now - keeps me
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hopping! I manage a plumbing/heating/gasfitting business - Leask Mechanical
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Ltd. Try to reach me at around 7 A.M. my time (Pacific), before my day takes
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off - after that, things get hectic! Talk to ya later...
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#: 11953 S15/Hot Topics
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25-Aug-91 22:59:06
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Sb: #11634-#MM/1 delivery
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Fm: Mike Knudsen 72467,1111
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To: GLEN HATHAWAY 71446,166
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Hey Glen, just a reminder that verrrry soon there will be an ULTIMUSE for that
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MM/1 of yours. I recall you were too busy to do much music recently, but if
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you got time to play with an MM/1, sooner or later you'll want some software to
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run on it, grins -- mike k
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#: 11972 S15/Hot Topics
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26-Aug-91 19:27:03
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Sb: #11953-MM/1 delivery
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Fm: James Jones 76257,562
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To: Mike Knudsen 72467,1111
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How soon is soon, and do you need beta testers? (Sigh...I shouldn't volunteer,
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because I doubt that I'd have time to really exercise it properly.)
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#: 11899 S12/OS9/68000 (OSK)
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23-Aug-91 01:57:57
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Sb: #11884-#Questions
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Fm: Scott t. Griepentrog 72427,335
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To: Mark Wuest 74030,332 (X)
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Actually, I like the features like that. And the one where you can pre-set
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optional arguments. I figure that should be available in all C compilers. What
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I have trouble with is when the C++'ers get really wacked out and the code has
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all these strange ::'s and other odd constructs in them. All I can say is,
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when we have it in OSK, I'll learn it. Till then, like, why bother.
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But by all means, let's get it available soon. I hate to think of all the code
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I'm going to have to go back and re-write when it does come out...
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StG
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#: 11902 S12/OS9/68000 (OSK)
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23-Aug-91 08:14:57
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Sb: #11899-#Questions
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Fm: Mark Wuest 74030,332
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To: Scott t. Griepentrog 72427,335 (X)
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Scott,
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Maybe when I have finished coding a couple of the classes I designed for our
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project I'll upload them, "::"'s and all <g>. I can think of a couple where the
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data hiding concept is really kinda nice - users of the class don't have to
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allocate storage or anything. One is a fifo message buffer that buffers up to
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10 messages in ram, then starts putting them to the disk. All users of the
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class have to know is
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msgbuf.putmsg();
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... and ...
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msgbuf.getmsg();
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without knowing what it does or how it does it. And just by declaring a
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"msgbuf", all the memory is allocated for you, the msg queues are created, and
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the file is opened. Either way, you'll learn it when you need to (as in, when
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it's forced on you, like me). :)
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Mark
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#: 11918 S12/OS9/68000 (OSK)
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24-Aug-91 01:08:20
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Sb: #11902-#Questions
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Fm: Scott t. Griepentrog 72427,335
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To: Mark Wuest 74030,332 (X)
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I never said it wan't great. I'm sure I'll even like it when I take the time
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to learn it. But woe on he who is within audible range when I do...
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StG
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#: 11964 S12/OS9/68000 (OSK)
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26-Aug-91 09:42:13
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Sb: #11918-Questions
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Fm: Mark Wuest 74030,332
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To: Scott t. Griepentrog 72427,335
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You should have heard the language while three of my Unix-oriented co-workers
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attempted development under OS9 a couple of years ago. They eventually got used
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to all the limitations, but it was awful for a couple of months!
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Mark
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#: 11901 S10/OS9/6809 (CoCo)
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23-Aug-91 07:45:24
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Sb: #11891-DS-69B
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Fm: Lee Veal 74726,1752
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To: Mike Haaland 72300,1433 (X)
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That's not what I wanted to hear, but I'm inclined to accept the truth of your
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observations and experiences. Kevin or someone else mentioned that a Jim Omura
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might have developed some software drivers for the digitizers, and that it
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might be over on BIX. A friend who accessed BIX for me sent me a directory of
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OS-9 files that are on BIX, and Omura's name is on just about every other file,
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but none of the files seem to be drivers for the DS-69x family of devices.
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I figured that a major addressing conflict was socking it to the OS9 Boot
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process.
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Thanks for the info. Lee
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P.S. What's the latest release level of MVCanvas that's available for the OS-9
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Level 2 system? I have 2.0, and it seems to be extremely clean except for a
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squashing/unsquashing problem scrambled print outs (when a lot of dithering
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appears in the graphic.) [D [D LV
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#: 11939 S10/OS9/6809 (CoCo)
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25-Aug-91 15:23:31
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Sb: #11891-#DS-69B
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Fm: Mike Haaland 72300,1433
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To: Mike Haaland 72300,1433
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Lee,
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I wasn't aware that anoyone was working on Drivers for the DS-69b. Let me know
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if you find anything. The main reson I looked into it was, at the time, I
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couldn't get a Rascan, and I put my CoCo in a PC case and didn't like having to
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take the case apart just to use the DS-69. I finally purchased bought another
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CC3 with a disk drive, so I gave up on getting it to work with the B&B HD
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setup.
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And yes, 2.0 is the latest version, I'm glad you like the program.
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#: 11955 S10/OS9/6809 (CoCo)
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25-Aug-91 23:53:54
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Sb: #11939-DS-69B
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Fm: Lee Veal 74726,1752
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To: Mike Haaland 72300,1433
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Mike, I almost didn't find your reply to me. Somehow, you'd addressed it to
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yourself.
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Have you had any trouble reports on the items that I mentioned?
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(sqaush/unsquaash), dithered screens causing unpredictable results when
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printed)
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Lee
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#: 11906 S10/OS9/6809 (CoCo)
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23-Aug-91 16:48:30
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Sb: #BASIC09
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Fm: Brother Jeremy, CSJW 76477,142
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To: PAUL HANKE 73467,403 (X)
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There was a mistake in the code that Kevin uploaded. Instead of type stack: in
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the first line, it should be as follows:
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PROCEDURE GetSType
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TYPE stack=CC,A,B,DP:BYTE; X,Y,U:INTEGER
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DIM reg:stack
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DIM SS_ScTyp:BYTE \SS_ScTyp=$93
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DIM I_GetStt:BYTE \I_GetStt=$8D
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reg.A=1 \(* path = stdout
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reg.B=SS_ScTyp
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RUN syscall(I_GetStt,reg)
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PRINT "Screen Type = "; reg.A
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END
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I can't believe that I actually could look at code and notice that there was a
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mistake in it.
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Not bad for a guy who until recently said "I should have bought the hat with
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the light instead of the computer."
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Br. Jeremy CSJW
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#: 11913 S10/OS9/6809 (CoCo)
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23-Aug-91 22:09:44
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Sb: #11906-#BASIC09
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Fm: Paul Hanke 73467,403
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To: Brother Jeremy, CSJW 76477,142 (X)
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Thanks; I caught the missing '=' sign too (after the first crash). -ph-
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p.s. Were you looking for the windex.ar file? If you haven't found it, I
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believe I have a copy somewhere.
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#: 11914 S10/OS9/6809 (CoCo)
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23-Aug-91 22:45:26
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Sb: #11913-#BASIC09
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Fm: Brother Jeremy, CSJW 76477,142
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To: Paul Hanke 73467,403 (X)
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Yes I am looking for WINDEX.AR and followup files WINDX2.TXT and WINDEX.TXT.
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(At least I think that they are followup files to WINDEX.AR. Thank you for any
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help you might be in this matter.
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With all best wishes, Br. Jeremy, CSJW
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#: 11931 S10/OS9/6809 (CoCo)
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24-Aug-91 21:29:40
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Sb: #11914-#BASIC09
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Fm: Paul Hanke 73467,403
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To: Brother Jeremy, CSJW 76477,142 (X)
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Well, ok. I'll try to locate it and send it to your mailbox tomorrow. I think
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it'll work altho I haven't tried it yet. I'll check in here before I do in case
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someone can tell me before hand that it won't work (or mebbe I should just
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upload it to the forum?) -ph-
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#: 11937 S10/OS9/6809 (CoCo)
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25-Aug-91 11:12:32
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Sb: #11931-BASIC09
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Fm: Brother Jeremy, CSJW 76477,142
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To: Paul Hanke 73467,403 (X)
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Thank you Paul, I just received it a few minutes ago. --Br. Jeremy, CSJW
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#: 11908 S12/OS9/68000 (OSK)
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23-Aug-91 18:08:41
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Sb: #11859-#Beloved Ar.c on the MM/1
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Fm: Keith H. March 70541,1413
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To: James Jones 76257,562 (X)
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Again:
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How do I compile the 68k C source code called AR.C from the file AR.AR on the
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MM/1?
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I get a few warnings, but it goes on to compile, is that ok
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Keith
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#: 11921 S12/OS9/68000 (OSK)
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24-Aug-91 06:34:09
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Sb: #11908-Beloved Ar.c on the MM/1
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Fm: James Jones 76257,562
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To: Keith H. March 70541,1413 (X)
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Hmmmm...depends on the warnings. Easiest way to check would be to just try it
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out--create a few .ar files and see if you can extract the files back from
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them, and download a .ar file and see whether you can extract the files from
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it. If you can, it should be OK.
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#: 11911 S10/OS9/6809 (CoCo)
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23-Aug-91 21:12:27
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Sb: #basic09
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Fm: Brother Jeremy, CSJW 76477,142
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To: Kevin Darling 76703,4227 (X)
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See msg # 11906
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Br. Jeremy, CSJW
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#: 11916 S10/OS9/6809 (CoCo)
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24-Aug-91 00:02:40
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Sb: #11911-#basic09
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Fm: Kevin Darling 76703,4227
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To: Brother Jeremy, CSJW 76477,142 (X)
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Heh-heh. Thanks for spotting that mistake in the message! That's what I get
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for being cute and trying out (and fixing) the program first... but forgetting
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to correct my posting also!
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Just another example that multitasking gets more dangerous as you get older.
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#: 11936 S10/OS9/6809 (CoCo)
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25-Aug-91 11:11:35
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Sb: #11916-#basic09
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Fm: Brother Jeremy, CSJW 76477,142
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To: Kevin Darling 76703,4227 (X)
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I know about getting older.
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PS> Br Stephen came back from a rummage sale at the parish where he is
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stationed yesterday with a surprise. I NOW HAVE THE HAT WITH THE LIGHT!!!
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Br. Jeremy, CSJW
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#: 11940 S10/OS9/6809 (CoCo)
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25-Aug-91 15:32:56
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Sb: #11936-#basic09
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Fm: Kevin Darling 76703,4227
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To: Brother Jeremy, CSJW 76477,142 (X)
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The "Hat with the light"???? I think you lost me? :-)
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#: 11945 S10/OS9/6809 (CoCo)
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25-Aug-91 21:59:09
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Sb: #11940-#basic09
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Fm: Brother Jeremy, CSJW 76477,142
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To: Kevin Darling 76703,4227 (X)
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Sometime around 1987 or so, Radio Shack used to sell this fire mans hat with a
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flashing light and siren built into it. Every time I have a problem with my
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COCO I would say "I should have bought the hat with the light." Instead of the
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computer. Little did I know that the Brothers have been scouring yard sales and
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rummage sales, looking for one. When I got back from Mass today, there by my
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computer desk with THE HAT. --If people thought that I looked strange before...
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Br. Jeremy, CSJW.
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#: 11951 S10/OS9/6809 (CoCo)
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25-Aug-91 22:53:09
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Sb: #11945-basic09
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Fm: Rick Ulland 70540,3305
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To: Brother Jeremy, CSJW 76477,142
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Now you can say 'I should'a bought batteries for THWTL' or get some 3D glasses
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-Rick
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#: 11959 S10/OS9/6809 (CoCo)
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26-Aug-91 01:33:06
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Sb: #11945-#basic09
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Fm: Kevin Darling 76703,4227
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To: Brother Jeremy, CSJW 76477,142
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Heh-heh. I *thought* you might mean the RS fireman hat, but just couldn't
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visualize you in one <grin>. They sold that hat off and on for years.
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I remember when I was doing apartment maintenance back in college, the boss
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told us we had to respond more quickly to calls. So we all got one of those
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hats on sale, and the next time he yelled for us, we showed up with light
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flashing and siren screaming. Fortunately, he laughed too :-)
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You'll have to wear it to the next fest :-) :-)
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#: 11966 S10/OS9/6809 (CoCo)
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26-Aug-91 13:06:44
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Sb: #11959-basic09
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Fm: Lee Veal 74726,1752
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To: Kevin Darling 76703,4227 (X)
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It would be unusual to see the Bro. in fireman's hat, but that's easy to
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understand, old "habits" are hard to break.
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Lee
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#: 11912 S10/OS9/6809 (CoCo)
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23-Aug-91 22:06:04
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Sb: basic09
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Fm: Paul Hanke 73467,403
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To: Kevin Darling 76703,4227 (X)
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It worked fine and does the job. Thanks for the tip on the syscall tutorial.
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-ph-
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#: 11915 S12/OS9/68000 (OSK)
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23-Aug-91 23:36:42
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Sb: #TOPS Games
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Fm: Colin J. Smith 73777,1360
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To: Mark Wuest 74030,332 (X)
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Has anyone gotten any of the TOPS games to work? The ones I'm particularly
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interested in are Moria and Nethack3. When I try to run them I get a 'Unknown
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Terminal Type: vsc' or some such error message.
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I'm trying to run them on an MM/1.
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Thanks,
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--Colin
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#: 11919 S12/OS9/68000 (OSK)
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24-Aug-91 01:12:14
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Sb: #11915-#TOPS Games
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Fm: Scott t. Griepentrog 72427,335
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To: Colin J. Smith 73777,1360 (X)
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That's curious. I don't have the games, so I don't know what the exact problem
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is (I can't test for it). But assuming that umacs works, then the TOPS games
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must be using a different termcap library routine, which must be looking in a
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different place for the termcap file. Try looking around for a file that has
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termcap entries (would be called termcap) in another directory. If you find
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it, save it off and copy our (/dd/sys/termcap) termcap in it's place. But
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first you might just try setting your TERM var to 'ansi' first. If the termcap
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file the game is looking for contains ansi, which it might, that would be the
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easiest fix.
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StG
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#: 11922 S12/OS9/68000 (OSK)
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24-Aug-91 09:20:22
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Sb: #11919-#TOPS Games
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Fm: Colin J. Smith 73777,1360
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To: Scott t. Griepentrog 72427,335 (X)
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Actually, the disk (I downloaded it from here) contains nothing but the three
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games files and a couple of readme's - no termcaps of any sort. I've tried
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copying the termcap from my system disk, but to no avail. Is there something
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on one of the other disks I need to get?
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Thanks,
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Colin
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#: 11933 S12/OS9/68000 (OSK)
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25-Aug-91 01:11:22
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Sb: #11922-TOPS Games
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Fm: Scott t. Griepentrog 72427,335
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To: Colin J. Smith 73777,1360 (X)
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Hmm.. You have a /dd/sys/termcap that has 'vsc' in it right? Oh, wait a sec,
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maybe those programs are looking for the vsc in a differnt place. Let me get a
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hold of a copy and I'll check it out for myself...
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StG
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#: 11943 S12/OS9/68000 (OSK)
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25-Aug-91 20:06:45
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Sb: #11915-#TOPS Games
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Fm: Bob van der Poel 76510,2203
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To: Colin J. Smith 73777,1360 (X)
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Your message re getting the TOPS games to work sounded pretty familiar. They
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would not work on my system either. So I did a bit of sleuthing.
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Most of the TOPS stuff uses a port of curses (called ncurses) which has been
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modified to use termcap instead of terminfo. The folks who did the port wrote
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their own termcap functions, which are not quite as robust as the microware
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ones. The TOPS termcap routine insists that the first name listed in a name
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line be two characters long (actually, my reference states that it should be
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so...). All you need to do is change the termcap name line from
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vsc!k1!signetics...
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to
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k1!vsc!signetic...
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Note, the !s should be bars, but I'm typing this off line and I'm not sure what
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CIS does with bars.
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Guess we should fix all of our termcap entries. The microware stuff will handle
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either form, so no problem.
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#: 11944 S12/OS9/68000 (OSK)
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25-Aug-91 21:38:58
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Sb: #11943-TOPS Games
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Fm: Colin J. Smith 73777,1360
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To: Bob van der Poel 76510,2203
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Ah, thank you. Found out Nethack3 won't fit in my 1 meg o' RAM, and I don't
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have all the files for Wanderer2. Will keep trying, though.
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Thanks again,
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--Colin
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#: 11963 S12/OS9/68000 (OSK)
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26-Aug-91 09:39:24
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Sb: #11915-TOPS Games
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Fm: Mark Wuest 74030,332
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To: Colin J. Smith 73777,1360
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Colin,
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All I ever got working was the "cookie"-like program. I forgot what it was
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called. Many of the TOP programs had blown pointers and would not run at all on
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my memory protected system. I no longer run public domain software for which I
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do not have source. :(
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Mark
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#: 11917 S12/OS9/68000 (OSK)
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24-Aug-91 00:17:27
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Sb: #MM/1 Monitors
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Fm: Ernest Withers Jr. 71545,1117
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To: ALL
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Just thought I'd upload the pin-outs of the monitor cables I've made
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to connect my MM/1 to my monitors. One monitor is a Packard Bell model
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PB8530MS multifrequency with the TTL/Analog switch in the Analog
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position. The other is a Magnavox model 8CM515.
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MM/1 DB9 Pin # Signal PB8530MS DB9 Pin # 8CM515
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-------------- ------ ------------------ ------
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1 & 2 GND 6, 7, 8, & 9 3
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3 R 1 4
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4 G 2 1
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5 B 3 5
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6 N/C
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7 SOUND
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8 H-SYNC 4 2
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9 V-SYNC 5 6
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Note that I'm not sure about SOUND being on pin #7 of the MM/1 connector
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but it is on the CoCo3 and the pin-outs for the MM/1 are the same.
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Hope this is of interest to some of you.
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Ernest Withers.
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#: 11920 S12/OS9/68000 (OSK)
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24-Aug-91 05:53:03
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Sb: #11917-MM/1 Monitors
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Fm: Kevin Darling 76703,4227
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To: Ernest Withers Jr. 71545,1117 (X)
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Great! Thanks!
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#: 11924 S12/OS9/68000 (OSK)
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24-Aug-91 09:52:10
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Sb: #11917-#MM/1 Monitors
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Fm: Steve Wegert 76703,4255
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To: Ernest Withers Jr. 71545,1117 (X)
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Ernest,
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Hope you don't mind that I've captured your message and placed it in the OSK
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library. It's tips like these that make working with computers a whole lot
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easier!
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Thanks for the effort!
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Steve
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#: 11930 S12/OS9/68000 (OSK)
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24-Aug-91 20:25:46
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Sb: #11924-MM/1 Monitors
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Fm: Ernest Withers Jr. 71545,1117
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To: Steve Wegert 76703,4255 (X)
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Steve (and Kevin),
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No problem. After I made the cables I thought someone else might need the
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info so I posted it here and on Delphi.
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Ernie.
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#: 11925 S15/Hot Topics
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24-Aug-91 10:49:26
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Sb: Troubles and Woe
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Fm: Jim Peasley 72726,1153
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To: Paul Ward 73477,2004
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Paul;
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Trouble... right here in River City!! The fan in the PS shot craps 2 days
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ago. It runs (very noisily) for 2-3 minutes and then locks up. The MM/1 is
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now totally inoperable.
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How do I go about getting a replacement?
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adThanksvance,
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...Jim
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#: 11927 S9/Utilities
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24-Aug-91 15:39:52
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Sb: #SWise
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Fm: Chuck Watters 70115,536
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To: 72177,1762 (X)
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Thanks for the response. My upload was garbled. I changed printers to a Oki 293
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which I run with a parallel interface as it is an IBM compatible printer. I was
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contacting you regarding a printer driver for Sidewise for the Oki 293. In the
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meantime I hacked the Epson driver in the SWise.b09 file and am up and running
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SWise with my new printer. Thanks anyway.b09
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#: 11958 S9/Utilities
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26-Aug-91 01:11:13
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Sb: #11927-SWise
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Fm: Ian Hodgson 72177,1762
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To: Chuck Watters 70115,536
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Chuck: Glad you got it working. I wouldn't have been able to do much for you
|
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anyway, since I have no info on that printer and since I have pretty limited
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time lately (most of my free time has been spent in hospital, I'm sorry to
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say). In fact, I find Sidewise OS9 such an incredible pain in the butt to use
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that I convert my files to DECB format and print them using the other version
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of Sidewise. That way I don't have to break up the files manually, calculate
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things, etc. See you. Ian.
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#: 11928 S10/OS9/6809 (CoCo)
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24-Aug-91 16:54:27
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Sb: for Sale
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Fm: Sunny Lowe 72447,1037
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To: all
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These are some Items I have for sale.
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Burke and Burke Hard disk interface with clock/cal $50
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Burke and Burke Auto Boot Rom $30
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Puppo IBM Keyboard Interface $50
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Original Large White Multipak $50
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White COCO 2 $25
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White FD-501 Floppy case with 2 720k drives and short controler $125
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Radio Shack serial pak Black case $40
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almost every piece of COCO software ever writen $5-$30 /per
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512k COCO $Make reasonable offer CM8 Color
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Monitor RGB $100
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All equipment is in original cases and will be shipped COD or apon check
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clearing. If prices seem out of line, make offer. It will be considered.
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Please make offers with E-Mail so I will get them before these messages scroll.
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|
Lewis (Sunny) Lowe
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72447,1037
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#: 11942 S12/OS9/68000 (OSK)
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25-Aug-91 19:14:05
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Sb: Termcap - MM1
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Fm: John R. Wainwright 72517,676
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To: ALL
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Was playing around with the "NEWCAL.AR" file from lib 12. It's a little
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calendar utility - works fine, but it wants to find entries for "se" and "so"
|
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in your termcap file. Before I figured out how to put those entries in termcap,
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I killed all the lines that used termcap from the source and recompiled it
|
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(that works too, but no highlight on today's date). Anyhoo, after digging
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around in the books, I added the following to the end of the termcap file
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:se=\037\041:so=\037\040: (those are the octal codes for reverse video start
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and end). As an added bonus, uemacs now displays its status line in reverse
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video. How bout that?.
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#: 11946 S4/MIDI and Music
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25-Aug-91 22:33:20
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Sb: #11628-Bad Download
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Fm: Mike Knudsen 72467,1111
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To: Lester Hands 70135,430
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|
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OK Les, thjanks. Is there a magazine where I can find an ad for the Covox
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system? The software would work on my 2nd-hand COmpaq sewwing machine PC. BTW,
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Delmar and IMS are selling only 68K-based machines; only Frank Hogg is selling
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any 6809 processors. Just thought I'd clear that up -- the "coco 4" field is
|
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pretty confusing these days -- ain't it wonderful! --mike k
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#: 11947 S4/MIDI and Music
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25-Aug-91 22:37:46
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Sb: #11663-#UMUSE3
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Fm: Mike Knudsen 72467,1111
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To: Paul K. Ward 73477,2004
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OK Paul, glad they loved it. Must have, with all those Coco-patible window
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features. I could probably send them the little MIDI board, or maybe you could
|
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get Kev P to make another, if he remembers how, grin. I just got back from
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vacation and Eddie Kuns still has my MM/1 with iuts MIDI card. Remember, the
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existing ACIA driver hangs up at random places in a piece. Fun to watch the
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'Bow staff playing musical chairs with it, grin!
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The latest Rainbow reviewed the DelMar -- didn't say much about its lack of
|
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window grafix so far. --mike k
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#: 11971 S4/MIDI and Music
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26-Aug-91 19:25:04
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Sb: #11947-UMUSE3
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Fm: James Jones 76257,562
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To: Mike Knudsen 72467,1111
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Nice article in RAINBOW, eh? In view of the PT hardware having been around the
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longest of the three systems that people canonically think of as successors to
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the CoCo, I think the title "A New Era" is a bit ironic. :-)
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#: 11949 S4/MIDI and Music
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25-Aug-91 22:42:33
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Sb: #11664-UMUSE3
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Fm: Mike Knudsen 72467,1111
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To: Paul K. Ward 73477,2004
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I don't like the brass or solo strings on the MT32 -- most of the woodwinds are
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great. I know ROland has done a lot since, like the U-110, but I haven't heard
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any of it so can't comment. Seems like everyone raves about the Proteus box as
|
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bang for buck. But if you want a real surprise, find a Yamaha PSR-300 -- a
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**topuch8responsive** 5-octave keyboard and 100-patch synth with 28
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simultaneous voices, 15 different instrument polyphony, for three hunnnert
|
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bucks! You can't diddle the sounds tho -- they're canned samples. Nice
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percussion set too.
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What the MT-32 really needs is better firmware in its control section-whoever
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programmed that probably got fired as janitor from the Gortrtlieb pinball
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company. THat's Gottlieb on a non-Puppo keyboard :-)
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#: 11950 S14/misc/info/Soapbox
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25-Aug-91 22:44:28
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Sb: #11667-PCoid keyboards & CTRL
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Fm: Mike Knudsen 72467,1111
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To: Scott t. Griepentrog 72427,335
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OK Scott. I've been thinking of composing an article on 101 Ways to get hosed
|
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over when converting C programs from 6809 to 68K. Well, maybe only 50. But yes
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I'd like to write for you sometime, and will try to get my subscription in.
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--mike k
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#: 11952 S15/Hot Topics
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25-Aug-91 22:56:33
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Sb: #11880-Serial ports?
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Fm: Mike Knudsen 72467,1111
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To: Scott t. Griepentrog 72427,335
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As I understand it, the MIDI-able port can be software setup to take clock from
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an external source on one of the header poins, so the built-in crystal is
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ignored. The MIDI crystal to supply that external clock is on the paddle
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board. At least that's how the prototype qwquickie hack MIDI paddle board I
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have works, tho I think it goes into one of the extra serial ports on the I/O
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board, tho I might be wrong there.
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Anyway, that ability to accept external buad rate clock could let you use a
|
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serial port for *lots* of things... mike k
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#: 11954 S7/Telecommunications
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25-Aug-91 23:36:24
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Sb: #%&#$&" y cable
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Fm: Rick Ulland 70540,3305
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To: 76703,4255 (X)
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O.K. I've dug thru all my books, and with 24 pages of 6809 pinouts I can't find
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anything on the 6551.Not having a '232 pak, but a modem pak the empirical data
|
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in the IRQHAK text doesn't quite help.Short of getting out the microscope, I
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need someone to tell me where the 6551's IRQ is. Can you (or anyoe) blame the
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corect pin? (I could send the missin chars later).
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-Rick
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#: 11960 S7/Telecommunications
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26-Aug-91 08:08:56
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Sb: #11954-%&#$&" y cable
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Fm: Steve Wegert 76703,4255
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To: Rick Ulland 70540,3305
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Rick,
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I'm without my modem pak manual, but as I recall, there is a schematic in the
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back that should give you what you need.
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Steve
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#: 11956 S8/BBS Systems/TSMon
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26-Aug-91 00:14:39
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Sb: #ZModem
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Fm: Lee Veal 74726,1752
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To: All
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Are there any OS-9 Communications programs that implement ZModem? (Lvl 2,
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CoCo3)
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Lee
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There is 1 Reply.
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#: 11961 S8/BBS Systems/TSMon
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26-Aug-91 08:10:51
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Sb: #11956-#ZModem
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Fm: Steve Wegert 76703,4255
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To: Lee Veal 74726,1752 (X)
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Lee ... I picked up an external zmodem module from the CoCo List that I use
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from within Sterm.
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Much like using Kermit, I just shell out and fire up the appropriate syntax.
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It's a scream watching the lights on my modem glow solid!
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If you can't lay hands on it... give me a shout. I'll put it up.
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Steve
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There is 1 Reply.
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#: 11965 S8/BBS Systems/TSMon
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26-Aug-91 13:03:50
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Sb: #11961-ZModem
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Fm: Lee Veal 74726,1752
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To: Steve Wegert 76703,4255
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Thanks for the reply. I'll look around, but I don't call many boards and/or
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services except for our club's board [and I know that we don't have it] and
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CI$. Lee
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#: 11957 S15/Hot Topics
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26-Aug-91 01:06:00
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Sb: MM/1 & floppies
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Fm: William Phelps 75100,265
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To: ALL
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Have any MM/1 owners successfully used a 5 1/4" floppy drive with the MM/1? If
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so, how did you do it?
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William
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#: 11962 S3/Languages
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26-Aug-91 08:49:53
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Sb: #Copyright?
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Fm: John Semler 70324,633
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To: Sysop (X)
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I have a "copyright" question.
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My program "Scientific Calculator" uses some of the library routines from Carl
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Kreider "CLIBT.L" (OS9/6809 version) .
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Is his library copyrighted?
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Any conditions for using "CLIBT.L"?
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May I display a copyright message at the start of execution of my program?
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Are there any issues to be aware of when using the Microware C Library?
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I only want copyright protection for the concept "Scientific Calculator".
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A vastly improved version of Scientific Calculator will be uploaded soon!
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John
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There is 1 Reply.
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#: 11973 S3/Languages
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26-Aug-91 19:31:22
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Sb: #11962-Copyright?
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Fm: James Jones 76257,562
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To: John Semler 70324,633 (X)
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I know of no license requirements on programs compiled using Microware's
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libraries. (It's not like GNU, though it looks like they may be changing their
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copyleft so that linking with their libraries does not make your compiled
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program a "derived work" and hence subject to their imposition of copyleft on
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your code.)
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One can't copyright concepts, just particular works. (Otherwise, someone would
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have copyrighted, say, 12-bar blues, and have LOTS of $$$. :-)
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#: 11969 S1/General Interest
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26-Aug-91 15:55:34
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Sb: curses.ar
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Fm: Semi-Gas Systems 76047,151
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To: curses.ar
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Howdy,
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Has anyone successfully unarchived CURSES.AR (dated 12-Nov-89)? Our version of
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ARC complains that the file is damaged. And the version available on-line
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doesn't seem to work (It bombs when run). Any help you can provide will be
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greatly appreciated!
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Corey Yee Semi-Gas Systems, Inc. San Jose, CA 408-929-0373
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#: 11970 S12/OS9/68000 (OSK)
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26-Aug-91 17:53:46
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Sb: OSK
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Fm: Dave Philipsen 73627,710
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To: ALL
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I'm just getting started in the OS9/68000 world as I just bought a PT68K4
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computer a couple of weeks ago. Even though the PT comes with four serial
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ports, I went ahead and bought an IBM-compatible 2400 baud modem card mostly so
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I could try my hand at writing a device driver and to see just how easy it
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would be to make the thing work. I verified that the card DOES work by setting
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it up in DEBUG. It is programmed as if it were a standard 8250 com port chip.
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What I need is any information that anyone might have on writing device drivers
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for OS9/68000. I'm also looking for info. on getting the thing set up with the
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interrupt system. I'm hoping that maybe someone has already written some sort
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of SCF device driver that I could play around with. Any ideas?????
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-Dave Philipsen
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