#! rnews 974 Path: pravda.aa.msen.com!news1.best.com!nntp.primenet.com!news.mathworks.com! newsfeed.internetmci.com!news1.mnsinc.com!usenet From: Hector Ortiz Newsgroups: comp.sys.cbm Subject: 1541, 1571, 1581, and Datasette emulators? Date: Fri, 12 Jul 1996 22:46:40 -0400 Organization: Monumental Network Systems Lines: 10 Distribution: inet Message-ID: <31E70E10.3D8F0DAE@mnsinc.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: hortiz.mnsinc.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.0b5aGold (X11; I; Linux 1.2.13 i586) Anyone know if there is a disk/tape drive emulation program for the PC(linux/dos/windows)? I think it would be useful to use the PC as a floppy/tape drive and connect it to a C64/C128 via the PC's parallel port. This way you can use disk/tape images on a real C64 without having use a real 1541/datasette. If there is such a program, please tell me where and how to make a cable. thanx #! rnews 886 Path: pravda.aa.msen.com!news1.best.com!nntp.primenet.com!news.asu.edu!ennfs. eas.asu.edu!cs.utexas.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!nntp.coast.net!netnews. worldnet. att.net!ix.netcom.com!news From: "Jack Followay, Jr." Newsgroups: comp.sys.cbm Subject: Programming the Cassette Port Date: Fri, 12 Jul 1996 22:10:59 -0500 Organization: PowerHouse(XNET/CommNet) Lines: 5 Message-ID: <31E713C3.7CB3@ix.netcom.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: hou-tx14-05.ix.netcom.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-NETCOM-Date: Fri Jul 12 8:08:57 PM PDT 1996 X-Mailer: Mozilla 2.0 (Win95; I) Has anyone played with using the cassette port as an i/o point OTHER than the obvious use of the door stop/datassette player? I am looking for a means of communicating between 2/more C64/128's without using the USER/EXPANSION ports. -Jack #! rnews 1694 Path: pravda.aa.msen.com!news1.best.com!nntp.primenet.com!news.mathworks.com! hunter.premier.net!netnews.worldnet.att.net!ix.netcom.com!jamescha From: jamesch@ix.netcom.com (ChrisC) Newsgroups: comp.sys.cbm Subject: Re: How do I convert C64 Files to IBM PC format? Date: Sat, 13 Jul 96 04:25:52 GMT Organization: Netcom Lines: 34 Message-ID: <4s78fh$3t9@dfw-ixnews9.ix.netcom.com> References: <4s4auv$ipd@vixen.cso.uiuc.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: orl-fl2-09.ix.netcom.com X-NETCOM-Date: Fri Jul 12 11:25:21 PM CDT 1996 X-Newsreader: News Xpress 2.0 Beta #0 In article <4s4auv$ipd@vixen.cso.uiuc.edu>, tdward@prairienet.org (Thomas D. Ward) wrote: > > > Hi there. > > I have a number of word processing files on a Commodore 64 >that I'd like to convert into an IBM format. I still own a >64 and 1541 disk drive. What would be the best way to transfer >the files? (If necessary, I can turn the 64 files into ascii >format so I'm mainly concerned with getting files from the 64 >to the IBM rather than transferring from a specific word >processor program). > > > If anyone knows the best way to do this, I'd welcome the >advice. Please respond by e-mail as I don't get on this >newsgroup very often and might not be able to find it >again. 8-) > > >Thomas Ward > >p.s. Word Writer 3 was still the best word processor I've > had when it came to reformatting text. 8-) > > >P.p.s. Thanks for your help! > >-- Four ways. One: Hook up a modem to your C64 and one to the IBM and upload the files. Two: Build an X1541 cable and use StarCommander or some other such program. Three: modify your 1541 to read/write MFM disks. Four: buy a 1571/1581 or FD drive and use Big Blue Reader. #! rnews 1554 Path: pravda.aa.msen.com!news1.best.com!nntp.primenet.com!news.mathworks.com! hunter.premier.net!netnews.worldnet.att.net!ix.netcom.com!jamescha From: jamesch@ix.netcom.com (ChrisC) Newsgroups: comp.sys.cbm Subject: Re: 1702 monitor qestion Date: Sat, 13 Jul 96 04:34:11 GMT Organization: Netcom Lines: 21 Message-ID: <4s78v3$3t9@dfw-ixnews9.ix.netcom.com> References: <4s6c44$geo@news.istar.ca> NNTP-Posting-Host: orl-fl2-09.ix.netcom.com X-NETCOM-Date: Fri Jul 12 11:33:39 PM CDT 1996 X-Newsreader: News Xpress 2.0 Beta #0 In article <4s6c44$geo@news.istar.ca>, ouimetc@magi.com (Chris Ouimet) wrote: > >Before I purchase a 1702 monitor, do I need any special connections to hook it >up? Or does it just hook straight into one of the C64 ports on the back? >(they do have speakers in them too right??) > >Sorry to sound like a moron, but I just subscribed to this group, and dug out >my c64 after 12 years. I don't have a tv to hook it up to, and I know someone >that will sell me a 1702 monitor for 75$. I just want to make sure before I >purchase. > >Thanks for your patience. >Chris There are 2 ways to connect a 1702 monitor. You can get a 5 pin DIN to 2 RCA plugs. These will plug into the two plugs on the front of the monitor. Better though is an 8 pin DIN to three RCA which plugs into the back, it has seperate LUMA/CHROMA giving a much sharper picture. If you have problems finding one, I know where there is one available around here. Don't remember the cost, and I'm not sure what shipping will be, especially to Canada. #! rnews 686 Path: pravda.aa.msen.com!news1.best.com!nntp.primenet.com!news.mathworks.com! hunter.premier.net!netnews.worldnet.att.net!ix.netcom.com!jamescha From: jamesch@ix.netcom.com (ChrisC) Newsgroups: comp.sys.cbm Subject: Re: Name the most common post to comp.sys.cbm Date: Sat, 13 Jul 96 04:37:22 GMT Organization: Netcom Lines: 5 Message-ID: <4s7951$3t9@dfw-ixnews9.ix.netcom.com> References: <31D2C617.340E@softdisk.com> <4qv7v4$md@sdcc12.ucsd.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: orl-fl2-09.ix.netcom.com X-NETCOM-Date: Fri Jul 12 11:36:49 PM CDT 1996 X-Newsreader: News Xpress 2.0 Beta #0 Well, it now seems that the most common post is: Where can I get C=Scape? #! rnews 513 Path: pravda.aa.msen.com!news1.best.com!nntp.primenet.com!news.mathworks.com! newsfeed.internetmci.com!howland.reston.ans.net!vixen.cso.uiuc.edu!koutsos From: koutsos@students.uiuc.edu (koutsos angelo john) Newsgroups: comp.sys.cbm Subject: FS: Jumpman Jr. Cart. (NEVER OPENED) Date: 13 Jul 1996 05:35:07 GMT Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana Lines: 8 Message-ID: <4s7cib$bsa@vixen.cso.uiuc.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: ux5.cso.uiuc.edu Will take best offer!! must sell koutsos@students.uiuc.edu #! rnews 1483 Path: pravda.aa.msen.com!news1.best.com!news.texas.net!news.kei.com!newsfeed. internetmci.com!hunter.premier.net!news.uoregon.edu!arclight.uoregon.edu!news. bc. net!rover.ucs.ualberta.ca!news.ucalgary.ca!srv1.freenet.calgary.ab.ca!pdporth From: Phil Porth Newsgroups: comp.sys.cbm Subject: Re: downloading problem??? Date: Fri, 12 Jul 1996 23:30:10 -0600 Organization: Calgary Free-Net Lines: 22 Message-ID: References: <4rm6hn$p13@omnifest.uwm.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: pdporth@srv1.freenet.calgary.ab.ca Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII To: "Andrew R. McInnis" In-Reply-To: <4rm6hn$p13@omnifest.uwm.edu> On 6 Jul 1996, Andrew R. McInnis wrote: > hi again > i recently downloaded novaterm 9.5 from somewhere in a .sfx format > and i cant get it to run > i have All 3 parts copied on to one disk and when i run part 1 it turns to a > yellow screen and freezes up. If you want some answers you will need to provide more info. 1/ Are downloading from a BBS or an FTP site.? 2/ If an FTP site are you running from a Unix Dos Shell account? 3/ Are you downloading as a text file or binary download? 4/ What term program are you using for 64 or 128 and if a 128 is it in 64 mode? Phil Porth (aka Phone Man) From the land of the frozen North, Calgary Alberta Canada Home of the Calgary Stampede and Calgary Commodore Users Group #! rnews 1217 Path: pravda.aa.msen.com!news1.best.com!nntp.primenet.com!news.primenet.com! nickb From: nickb@primenet.com (Nick S Bensema) Newsgroups: comp.sys.cbm Subject: Re: Killing off the Little Computer Person? Date: 12 Jul 1996 23:02:04 -0700 Organization: Primenet (602)416-7000 Lines: 17 Message-ID: <4s7e4s$gn4@nnrp1.news.primenet.com> References: X-Posted-By: nickb@usr5.primenet.com In article , Barry Hom wrote: >Is it possible to kill off the guy in the Little Computer People program? >Every person I've talked to that has this program has tried to knock off >the poor guy. How cruel! :) I've heard of people leaving the gameon overnight, and waking up or returning home from work that afternoon, and he's in bed all green. It's slightly disturbing of a thought to me, and I don't even worry about blowing up Lemmings. -- N i c k B e n s e m a KUPD Red Card #710563 ,-._|\ " " " " " " " " " " " """""""""""""""""""" ''''''''''''''''''''' / \ On 22 July, 1996, at 6:00 pm GMT, everyone in the world Phoenix-->*_,--._/ just START HUMMING. Those who don't know will freak. Tucson-->v #! rnews 1451 Path: pravda.aa.msen.com!news1.best.com!nntp.primenet.com!news.asu.edu!ennfs. eas.asu.edu!cs.utexas.edu!uwm.edu!news-res.gsl.net!news.gsl.net!news.mathworks. co m!newsfeed.internetmci.com!in2.uu.net!ott.istar!istar.net!van.istar!west.istar! n1van.istar!van-bc!unixg.ubc.ca!news.bc.net!rover.ucs.ualberta.ca!news.ucalgar .ca!srv1.freenet.calgary.ab.ca!pdporth From: Phil Porth Newsgroups: comp.sys.cbm Subject: Re: Graphics program for C128 Date: Fri, 12 Jul 1996 23:44:49 -0600 Organization: Calgary Free-Net Lines: 17 Message-ID: References: <4rvk3v$p1n@ns1.net-gate.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: pdporth@srv1.freenet.calgary.ab.ca Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII To: Jezebel Rebecca Delilah In-Reply-To: <4rvk3v$p1n@ns1.net-gate.com> On 10 Jul 1996, Jezebel Rebecca Delilah wrote: > > Is there a simple program, not unlike doodle, that will display a > bit-map on the 128's 80col screen? Or is the one CMD sells the only one? Are you looking for a viewer? and what graphics format do you need? If you are referring to Godot (CMD) that is really a graphics converter utility, but can be used for a viewer, but is really a 64 program, not a 128. Phil Porth (aka Phone Man) From the land of the frozen North, Calgary Alberta Canada Home of the Calgary Stampede and Calgary Commodore Users Group #! rnews 832 Path: pravda.aa.msen.com!spool.mu.edu!sgigate.sgi.com!news.msfc.nasa.gov! newsfeed.internetmci.com!news.mathworks.com!nntp.primenet.com!news.primenet.com! nickb From: nickb@primenet.com (Nick S Bensema) Newsgroups: comp.sys.cbm Subject: SID format help Date: 13 Jul 1996 01:22:02 -0700 Organization: Primenet (602)416-7000 Lines: 9 Message-ID: <4s7mba$1h2@nnrp1.news.primenet.com> X-Posted-By: nickb@usr3.primenet.com Could someone help me out here, I need to know all about the format of SIDplayer (.mus) files. -- N i c k B e n s e m a KUPD Red Card #710563 ,-._|\ " " " " " " " " " " " """""""""""""""""""" ''''''''''''''''''''' / \ On 22 July, 1996, at 6:00 pm GMT, everyone in the world Phoenix-->*_,--._/ just START HUMMING. Those who don't know will freak. Tucson-->v #! rnews 1445 Path: pravda.aa.msen.com!news1.best.com!news.texas.net!news.kei.com!newsfeed. internetmci.com!news.dacom.co.kr!usenet.seri.re.kr!news.cais.net!van-bc!nntp. port al.ca!news.bc.net!rover.ucs.ualberta.ca!news.ucalgary.ca!srv1.freenet.calgary. ab.ca!pdporth From: Phil Porth Newsgroups: comp.sys.cbm Subject: Re: More C=Scape (was Re: How to connect to internet with a C64?) Date: Sat, 13 Jul 1996 00:12:54 -0600 Organization: Calgary Free-Net Lines: 18 Message-ID: References: <4s09ne$b9k@news.acns.nwu.edu> <4s0jp6$olc@newsbf02.news.aol.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: pdporth@srv1.freenet.calgary.ab.ca Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII To: El Phantas In-Reply-To: <4s0jp6$olc@newsbf02.news.aol.com> On 10 Jul 1996, El Phantas wrote: > or is this a joke to play on ignorant AOL'ers who don't know any better? > > By the way, what happened to The Wave? Wasn't that supposed to support > graphics? Anybody heard from Maurice on that one? > I think this has to be a leg stretcher, alrighty. I was chatting to Maurice Randall via E-Mail a few weeks ago, and the Wave is still coming. He is also working on getting the l8est version of GeoFax ready to ship. Phil Porth (aka Phone Man) From the land of the frozen North, Calgary Alberta Canada Home of the Calgary Stampede and Calgary Commodore Users Group #! rnews 1965 Path: pravda.aa.msen.com!news1.best.com!news.texas.net!news.kei.com!newsfeed. internetmci.com!swrinde!cs.utexas.edu!uwm.edu!news.moneng.mei.com!news.ecn.bgu. ed u!feenix.metronet.com!popi.net!fox From: fox@popi.net (Fuzzy Fox) Newsgroups: comp.sys.cbm Subject: Re: More I/O questions... This time, $DD00. Date: 13 Jul 96 06:24:11 GMT Organization: Bushy-tailed Critters of America Lines: 38 Message-ID: References: <156690821@orl.mindspring.com> <836978442@p71.f411.n201.z2.ftn> NNTP-Posting-Host: dal70.metronet.com Pontus Berg writes: >[Fastloader] > RW> LDA #$00 > RW> LDX #$04 > RW> STA $DD00 > RW> [loop] LSR > RW> LSR > RW> EOR $DD00 > RW> DEX > RW> BNE [loop] [...snip snip...] > # Set the two bits by EOR:ing them in, directly from the $DD00 > register to the accumulator. The lower 6 bits are zero so they won't > trash the bits already rolled into the accumulator. This is not true! Have you taken a look at the $DD00 register's usage? The lower bits are NOT zero! If they were, then you could easily use the ORA instruction instead of the more cryptic EOR. In particular, the last two bits are VIC memory bank select, and are not necessarily zero if you want to maintain the screen display while fast- loading. However, because of the principles of the exclusive-or operation, you CAN compensate for the process by right shifting and EOR-ing the initial value of $DD00, and then using that as the starting value instead of LDA #$00 at the beginning of the loop. My own fast-loader uses this technique, in fact; the $00 is in fact self-modified by some earlier code when the fast-loader is initialized. :) -- fox@metronet.com (Fuzzy Fox) || "If you view your problem closely sometimes known as David DeSimone || enough, you will recognize yourself http://www.metronet.com/~fox/ || as part of the problem." #! rnews 1244 Path: pravda.aa.msen.com!news1.best.com!news.texas.net!news.kei.com!newsfeed. internetmci.com!swrinde!cs.utexas.edu!uwm.edu!news.moneng.mei.com!news.ecn.bgu. ed u!feenix.metronet.com!popi.net!fox From: fox@popi.net (Fuzzy Fox) Newsgroups: comp.sys.cbm Subject: Re: JiffyDOS 128 Date: 13 Jul 96 06:41:05 GMT Organization: Bushy-tailed Critters of America Lines: 14 Message-ID: References: <4rn8u0$2js@news.sas.ab.ca> <4s24i8$iv3@tor-nn1-hb0.netcom.ca> <31E52545.7C5@orl.mindspring.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: dal70.metronet.com Radioactive Warrior writes: > Much more likely that the j-dos vector ($0330)was reset to use the > stock load routine, this would have caused the fastloader to be > bypassed... You probably have not used JDOS. It is a replacement ROM, and thus the fastloader cannot be reset to a slower one, because there isn't a slower one. The stock, default loader is the fast-loader. I love it. :) -- fox@metronet.com (Fuzzy Fox) || "If you view your problem closely sometimes known as David DeSimone || enough, you will recognize yourself http://www.metronet.com/~fox/ || as part of the problem." #! rnews 2523 Path: pravda.aa.msen.com!spool.mu.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!nntp.coast.net! news.kei.com!news.mathworks.com!nntp.primenet.com!news.cais.net!van-bc!nntp. portal .ca!news.bc.net!rover.ucs.ualberta.ca!news.ucalgary.ca!srv1.freenet.calgary.ab. ca!pdporth From: Phil Porth Newsgroups: comp.sys.cbm Subject: Re: C64 VideoTitling Software??? Date: Sat, 13 Jul 1996 02:49:14 -0600 Organization: Calgary Free-Net Lines: 37 Message-ID: References: <31CD972C.1C98@mail.bcpl.lib.md.us> <4qqr2q$gpl@news-2.csn.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: pdporth@srv1.freenet.calgary.ab.ca Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII To: "J. E. Sears" In-Reply-To: On Thu, 11 Jul 1996, J. E. Sears wrote: Thanks for the quote, unfortunately notice the great number of arrows separating my name from the original question. > Phil Porth writes: > > >> >>Anyone aware of some video titling software still available for the C64? > >> >>I still use mine occasionally with a sequencer program, but I wanted to > >> >>use it to create simple titles for videos. I've seen some titling > >> >>programs years ago that were availble in catalogs, but they are hard to > >> >>find today. I've also done a few Net searches with little luck. I have a > >> >>version of GEOS from '86, but that's not what I had in mind. > > There are several Geos programs that can put up "screens" to video tape. > PicShow can and you can use Scrapit to make GEOPaints into Koalas to > use in the "slideshow" > CMD sells a commercial one. > A program called Sid Writer is cool for putting jusr colored text > up and playing music with it. > On Genie there is a GeoBasic Demo program that can do a screen and > save and recall it. > Heck jusr remember what ever is on the screen can be recorded or > projected (with an LCD and overhead) on to a screen. > Even the old Autograph program could serve a a video titler if > you know where the pause button is on your recorder. > Hey even Stereo SID Player 10.? would do and yo could have music in > stereo. Gee best stop, the list can go on! > > Phil Porth (aka Phone Man) From the land of the frozen North, Calgary Alberta Canada Home of the Calgary Stampede and Calgary Commodore Users Group #! rnews 1744 Newsgroups: comp.sys.cbm Path: pravda.aa.msen.com!spool.mu.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!nntp.coast.net! news.kei.com!newsfeed.internetmci.com!in2.uu.net!news.maz.net!cls.net!deceiver! had es.cls.de!pluton From: pluton@hades.cls.de (Jens Ellerbrock) Subject: Re: Little Computer People X-Newsreader: TIN [UNIX 1.3 BETA-950824-color-rfc1342 PL0] Organization: Organized ? Me ?!? Message-ID: References: <4s0isd$qsp@twizzler.callamer.com> <4s3a2e$sde@ocean.CAM.ORG> Date: Fri, 12 Jul 1996 20:43:00 GMT X-Discordian-Date: Today is Pungenday, the 47th day of Confusion in the YOLD 3162 Lines: 21 Keith Pomakis (pomakis@CAM.ORG) wrote: > The behavior of a little computer person is determined by EIGHT BITS? And > all this time I thought my LCP was unique, one-in-a-million, specially > crafted with care by someone with a PhD in Psychology. I'm crushed. Next > you're probably gonna tell me that these eight bits are RANDOMLY chosen per > disk. No, don't - I just wouldn't be able to handle that. Well, it's hard, but you gotta face the fact... But believe me, those few bits are heavily compressed and expand to about 7 gigabyte of behaviour determination. I know, because i had to rent a cray 3 for a week to find out. Jens -- Jens Ellerbrock * Holtenauer Str 162 * 24105 Kiel * pluton@hades.cls.de "BELIEVE AND DECEIVE" ><> * Tel: 0431 / 806890 * Modem/x75: 0431 / 84749 ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Tired and bored of your operating system ? Just go ahead and write your own multitasking multiuser os ! Worked for me all the times. -- Linus Torvalds -- #! rnews 1865 Path: pravda.aa.msen.com!spool.mu.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!vixen.cso.uiuc.edu! uwm.edu!news-res.gsl.net!news.gsl.net!news.mathworks.com!nntp.primenet.com!new s.cais.net!van-bc!nntp.portal.ca!news.bc.net!rover.ucs.ualberta.ca!news. ucalgary.ca!srv1.freenet.calgary.ab.ca!pdporth From: Phil Porth Newsgroups: comp.sys.cbm Subject: Re: SuperCPU-64 status? Date: Sat, 13 Jul 1996 03:02:14 -0600 Organization: Calgary Free-Net Lines: 27 Message-ID: References: <31CF00A7.64A5@softdisk. com> <4raam5$51r@panix.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: pdporth@srv1.freenet.calgary.ab.ca Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII To: "J. E. Sears" In-Reply-To: On Thu, 11 Jul 1996, J. E. Sears wrote: > Phil Porth writes: > > >the 5 cent explanation ....A plug in 20 meghz. processor for the 64 > > > >Phil Porth (aka Phone Man) > > > >From the land of the frozen North, Calgary Alberta Canada > >Home of the Calgary Stampede > >and Calgary Commodore Users Group > > So when will it be shipped? I have sent a deposit in. Not mad > just impatient ;) Gee, thanx for the second misquoted statement today. I do not, nor have I ever professed to work for CMD although I have purchased a lot from them over the years. For shipping information why don't you try accessing their homepage? No, I don't happen to have it handy right now, but it was posted in a couple of messages in the last week. Phil Porth (aka Phone Man) From the land of the frozen North, Calgary Alberta Canada Home of the Calgary Stampede and Calgary Commodore Users Group #! rnews 1566 Path: pravda.aa.msen.com!spool.mu.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!newsfeed. internetmci.com!news.mathworks.com!nntp.primenet.com!news.cais.net!van-bc!nntp. portal.ca !news.bc.net!rover.ucs.ualberta.ca!news.ucalgary.ca!srv1.freenet.calgary.ab.ca! pdporth From: Phil Porth Newsgroups: comp.sys.cbm Subject: Re: stuff for sale Date: Sat, 13 Jul 1996 03:08:36 -0600 Organization: Calgary Free-Net Lines: 24 Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: pdporth@srv1.freenet.calgary.ab.ca Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII To: joy daidola In-Reply-To: On Thu, 11 Jul 1996, joy daidola wrote: > Hi! I have loads of commie stuff for > sale..If you need something ask I may > have it..all with docs or manuels,allin excellent condition..e-mail me with > wants..very likely I have it..keeping > my commie, but going to a 486..don't > need anything but a bare bones setup > for some work I do at home, and don't > want to store this great stuff in the > attic.. > [ :-( "sniff sniff"..... how very sad, if a commie falls into the attic, does it make a sound? another user bites the dust. I can't really believe that you couldn't find a work around to get by the ol' gotta switch to an IBM excuse. We'll miss ya. Phil Porth (aka Phone Man) From the land of the frozen North, Calgary Alberta Canada Home of the Calgary Stampede and Calgary Commodore Users Group #! rnews 3060 Path: pravda.aa.msen.com!spool.mu.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!math.ohio-state. edu!uwm.edu!news-res.gsl.net!news.gsl.net!hunter.premier.net!news.mathworks.com! u unet!in2.uu.net!news.delphi.com!usenet From: Lonnie McClure Newsgroups: comp.sys.cbm Subject: Re: Zip drive Date: Sat, 13 Jul 96 06:09:53 -0500 Organization: Delphi (info@delphi.com email, 800-695-4005 voice) Lines: 48 Message-ID: References: <96070621492543280@qcs.org> <4rrd1o$fos@mksrv1.dseg.ti.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: bos1b.delphi.com X-To: Mike Neus In a message dated 6-8-96, Mike Neus said: | | Only the future will tell, but I think it is a fad. | | Whether I agree with that assessment or not depends on the time frame for a "fad". In the world of computers, even many "standards" are fads, if not being a fad requires being around for 10 years. After all, the 1.44meg floppy drive standard on PC's is less than 10 years old (and yet, oddly, has lasted longer than the 5.25" 360K & 1.2meg "standards" put together). In my mind, computer "fads" have a much shorter lifetime, on the order of less than a year. Given that definition, I would say the Zip drive is not a fad. I expect it will be around for a few years as a mainstream market item, and depending on how extensible the format is, and how low Iomega (and others) can get the cost of manufacture, perhaps even to the end of the millenium. | | | | ...there is supposedly a new floppy disk standard from | a combination of Matsushita, 3M, and Compaq that will hold | 120MB but is still compatible with older 3.5" disks. | | The LS-120 you speak of is literally an update on the old Insite floptical drive technology (not a bad idea in itself, just too little too late, and at too high a price). Although the capacity, and very likely, the data transfer rate is greater than the old flopticals, it still shares the problem of price. As I understand it, if you want to add the LS-120 to an existing computer, Compaq will sell you one for about $200...about the same price as a ZIP. While the capacity is 20% greater for the LS-120, the fact that the ZIP has outsold the 135meg Syquest EZDrive shows that capacity is not everything. With a standard 1.44meg floppy mechanism available for about $30, I doubt the ability to read/write 3.5" floppies will be a big selling point, and that it will be primarily judged as a ZIP competitor. (I do, however, like the fact that it can read/write floppies at about 3x normal speed...like the old flopticals could). - From what I have been able to find out, the LS-120 uses an IDE interface, so unless something changes, this alone takes it off the option list for any Commodore 8-bit user. - With ZIP media already available from other companies (I've seen Fuji ZIP disks at several local stores), and the drives themselves due from other companies, it looks like the ZIP drive is already well on the road to becoming a "standard", which makes for another uphill battle for the LS-120. #! rnews 2188 Path: pravda.aa.msen.com!spool.mu.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!nntp.coast.net! news.kei.com!news.mathworks.com!uunet!in2.uu.net!news.delphi.com!usenet From: Lonnie McClure Newsgroups: comp.sys.cbm Subject: Re: Zip drive Date: Sat, 13 Jul 96 06:08:49 -0500 Organization: Delphi (info@delphi.com email, 800-695-4005 voice) Lines: 36 Message-ID: References: <96070621492543280@qcs.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: bos1b.delphi.com X-To: Alan Jones In a message dated 7-6-96, Alan Jones said: | | Recently I have seen the Syquest 135M dirve for $130 | (while the 100M Zip is still about $200). Is this an | indication that Syquest is taking the market away | from Zip or that Syquest is doing poorly and just dumping | stock? | | I have heard from several people online that the Zip drive currently has a $50 rebate available from Iomega. - As to the Syquest EZ135, I believe the low price you are seeing is a closeout price (that also has the side effect of making it more competitive with the ZIP), as Syquest is coming out with the $299 EZFlyer (230meg capacity), which unlike the EZ135, has a simple one-button eject system. I strongly suspect the EZ135 will disappear from the market once the current stocks are depleted. - Given that the carts are to be priced at only about 50% more than the EZ135 for an additional 100megs capacity, the cost per megabyte for media is also lower. For applications for which 100megs per cart for a ZIP drive is too small or slow, and the cost of a Iomega Jaz drive and media is too great, this puts the EZFlyer at a greater advantage than the EZ135 was. - Iomega, however, has apparently cut the price on their 1gig Jaz drive to about $399 for the internal version, $499 for the external. Syquest's large capacity removable, the 1.3gig SyJet, apparently still has not shipped. - I believe you also commented about the connectors on the ZIP and EZ-135. Both drives have two connectors to support SCSI daisy chaining. The ZIP, of course, uses two DB-25's, while I understand the external SCSI version of the EZ-135 uses two Centronics-50 connectors. #! rnews 1514 Path: pravda.aa.msen.com!news1.best.com!nntp.primenet.com!news.cais.net!hunter. premier.net!news-res.gsl.net!news.gsl.net!nntp.coast.net!news.sprintlink.net!ne ws-stk-200.sprintlink.net!news.sprintlink.net!news-stk-11.sprintlink.net!news. sprintlink.net!news-stk-3.sprintlink.net!news.sprintlink.net!news-fw-22.sprintl nk.net!news.sprintlink.net!news-fw-12.sprintlink.net!news.cwi.net!news. net-gate.com!ns1.net-gate.com!jezzydee From: jezzydee@ns1.net-gate.com (Jezebel Rebecca Delilah) Newsgroups: comp.sys.cbm Subject: Re: need help...PLEASE Date: 12 Jul 1996 23:09:02 GMT Organization: InterNET-GATEway Lines: 22 Message-ID: <4s6lue$vs@ns1.net-gate.com> References: <4s0im1$ijv@charnel.ecst.csuchico. edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: ns1.net-gate.com X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Phil Hoff (phoff@ecst.csuchico.edu) wrote: : joy daidola wrote: : >could someone please tell me which chip : >in the c128 is the 80 column chip : The 8564 : >how difficult would it be to extract it : >and put into my other 128? : Check it out. It's probably soldered in. If so, you'd be best to have a : shop do the work. I have a 128 flat, and it is socketed. It is located in the metal can where the VIC chip is. I believe it is in the compatment to the right. It had two smaller chips beside it (16 pins: 8/8). Those are the VRAM. Those are soldered in and INSANELY hard to remove... even with a solder sucker. I did it. Cursed a lot too.... :) - Jezzy becky Dee #! rnews 2756 Path: pravda.aa.msen.com!news1.best.com!nntp.primenet.com!news.asu.edu!ennfs. eas.asu.edu!cs.utexas.edu!uwm.edu!news-res.gsl.net!news.gsl.net!news.mathworks. co m!newsfeed.internetmci.com!uuneo.neosoft.com!insync!uunet!inXS.uu.net!gti.gti. net!apollo.gti.net!c128user From: "Glenn P.," Newsgroups: comp.sys.cbm Subject: Re: $20.00 REWARD: For *Documentation* To "AdventureWriter" For C-64... Date: Sat, 13 Jul 1996 06:27:13 -0400 Organization: GlobalNet Telecom Inc. Info: 1-(201)-285-9099 or Lines: 31 Distribution: world Message-ID: References: Reply-To: "Glenn P.," NNTP-Posting-Host: apollo.gti.net Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII In-Reply-To: Return-Path: "Glenn P.," X-Receipt-To: "Glenn P.," Receipt-To: "Glenn P.," X-Gibberish: The Elephant says "Tusk, tusk!". Contents: Reply To Usenet Post. Expiration: 31-Jul-1996 Precedence: Normal Priority: Normal On Mon., 08-Jul-1996, Bob Adams wrote: > In article , > "Glenn P.," writes >> I recently managed to lay my hands on a copy of "AdventureWriter" >> for my Commodore-64, but it came without any documentation. If >> anyone can help me out be furnishing me with the needed materials, >> I have a nice, crisp new $20.00 bill waiting for them...! > Have you tried looking on some "older" bulletin boards? I feel certain > that many bbs's would still have a copy of this prog lying around in > some forgotten dusty corner. Thanks for the suggestion, but I don't do BBS's; haven't for years... and in any event I don't know of ANY Commodore BBS's still up, certainly none in my local calling area! :( --_____ {~._.~} "There are a hundred ways in which a boy can injure -- if not _( Y )_ not indeed kill -- himself. The more advennturous he is and the (:_~*~_:) greater his initiative, the more ways he will find. If you protect (_)-(_) him from each of the hundred, he is sure to find the hundred-and- ========= first. Though most men can look back on their boyhood and tremble ========= at the narrowness of some of their escapes, most boys do in fact W.T.P. survive, more or less intact, and the wise father is the trusting ========= father." ===================================== :: --= Glenn P. =-- :: --"The Enchanted Places", Chapter 21, :: c128user@GTI.Net :: By: Christopher Robin Milne. #! rnews 798 Newsgroups: comp.sys.cbm Path: pravda.aa.msen.com!news1.best.com!news.texas.net!news.kei.com!newsfeed. internetmci.com!iglou!bmarcum From: bmarcum@iglou.iglou.com (Bill Marcum) Subject: Re: 1702 monitor qestion X-Nntp-Posting-Host: iglou Message-ID: Sender: news@iglou.com (News Administrator) Organization: IgLou Internet Services (1-800-436-4456) References: <4s6c44$geo@news.istar.ca> Date: Sat, 13 Jul 1996 13:27:24 GMT Lines: 10 You just need a cable with a DIN plug on one end and RCA plugs on the other. The present owner of the 1702 will probably have one unless he/she was using the monitor with a VCR. -- Bill Marcum bmarcum@iglou.com On 22 July, 1996, at 6:00 pm GMT, everyone in the world just START HUMMING. Those who don't know will freak. #! rnews 892 Path: pravda.aa.msen.com!news1.best.com!nntp.primenet.com!news.mathworks.com! fu-berlin.de!news.belwue.de!lf.net!news From: greima@alb.de (Marc Greisiger) Newsgroups: comp.sys.cbm Subject: Re: VDC 64K RAM upgrade on the 128 Date: Sat, 13 Jul 1996 13:55:29 GMT Organization: L+F GbR Internet Services, Stuttgart, Germany Lines: 14 Message-ID: <4s89mm$609@simcity.LF.net> References: <4s67b7$8hi@catapu lt.gatech.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: 194.163.172.5 X-Newsreader: Forte Free Agent 1.0.82 gt7357a@acmex.gatech.edu (Tp12a) wrote: >LINCARD 1000 (lincard@itsmac.waikato.ac.nz) wrote: >: Very shortly <> Im gonna get my flatbed 128 and my "D" vid > ^^^^^^^ >Remember that the Commodore 128D already has 64k of VRAM...! Not all 128D , the first ones sold here in Germany had only 16k VDC-Ram. Marc Greisiger, Germany. #! rnews 640 Newsgroups: comp.sys.cbm Path: pravda.aa.msen.com!news1.best.com!news.texas.net!news.kei.com!newsfeed. internetmci.com!howland.reston.ans.net!EU.net!sun4nl!sun4nl!surfnet.nl!news. uniso urce.nl!news.tip.nl!worldaccess.ns.worldaccess.nl!vincent.prins From: vincent.prins@tip.nl (Vincent) Subject: C-64c? X-Nntp-Posting-Host: utrecht19.pop.tip.nl Message-ID: Sender: news@tip.nl (The News User) Organization: louche bv. X-Newsreader: Trumpet for Windows [Version 1.0 Rev B final beta #4] Date: Sat, 13 Jul 1996 16:09:28 GMT Lines: 6 Is a C-64c the newer C-64 model, the beige, flatter one? Thanks, Vincent #! rnews 577 Path: pravda.aa.msen.com!news1.best.com!nntp.primenet.com!news.mathworks.com! newsfeed.internetmci.com!katbert.ipa.net!news From: Jim Self Newsgroups: comp.sys.cbm Subject: Re: input# unhung ? Date: 13 Jul 1996 16:57:55 GMT Organization: Internet Partners of America Lines: 6 Distribution: world Message-ID: <4s8kij$qin@katbert.ipa.net> References: <4ru3k6$dtb@katbert.ipa.net> <4s0grg$b3a@sdcc12.ucsd.edu> <4s5et7$7s6@d1o2.telia.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: ipa-171-29.ipa.net >already knew that, didn't you? No, I didn't know that. I'll try it. #! rnews 1422 Path: pravda.aa.msen.com!news1.best.com!news.texas.net!news.kei.com!newsfeed. internetmci.com!info.ucla.edu!nnrp.info.ucla.edu!agate!uclink.berkeley.edu! ocoope r From: ocooper@uclink.berkeley.edu (Owen Scott Cooper) Newsgroups: comp.sys.cbm Subject: FREE: C-128 System Date: 13 Jul 1996 17:58:21 GMT Organization: University of California at Berkeley Lines: 24 Distribution: us Message-ID: <4s8o3t$7b@agate.berkeley.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: uclink.berkeley.edu Hi, I have an almost complete Commodore 128 system for which I no longer have a use and would like to pass it on to someone who would find it useful. Although I would like to donate this equipment to an organization that wants it, I would also consider giving it to an individual. In either case, I am either looking for someone who is local to Berkeley, Ca or is willing to pay for the shipping of the equipment. I would like to give all of this equipment to one party, if possible. The equipment I have available is: 1 Commodore 128 CPU 1 1902 Monitor 1 1571 disk drive (may be broken) 1 1581 3.5" disk drive 1 okidata okimate 20 color printer (with 1 cartridge) 1 9 pin Epson printer (if you want it.... if not, I understand) Again, I would like to give this equipment to an organization or individual who would put it to good use. If you are interested, please send mail to ocooper@uclink.berkeley.edu Owen ocooper@uclink.berkeley.edu #! rnews 1551 Path: pravda.aa.msen.com!news1.best.com!sgigate.sgi.com!news-res.gsl.net!news. gsl.net!news.mathworks.com!newsfeed.internetmci.com!peach!atl1!phred From: phred Newsgroups: comp.sys.cbm Subject: Re: FREE: C64 hardware and software Date: Sat, 13 Jul 1996 13:31:00 -0500 Organization: America.Net, P.O. Box 1222, Alpharetta, GA 30239-1222 Lines: 23 Message-ID: References: <4s5qmg$sqc@bermuda.io.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: atl1.america.net Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII X-Sender: phred@atl1 In-Reply-To: <4s5qmg$sqc@bermuda.io.com> On 12 Jul 1996, Paul Ortega wrote: > 1541-II floppy drive > Okidata dot matrix printer w/ interface > cassette drive > misc software > > Leave message at 832-9197. > > Paul Ortega It's gonna be hard to leave a message with no area code... Did you think this echo was local or something? ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- * What, Me Clueless? I don't think so...I'm navigating * * the Internet on a Commodore 64, aren't I? * *Look for me in the following spots: phred_ on #c-64 (in IRC) * *Web Page - http://www.america.net/~phred * *(If I like you, I might even tell you where my secret links are...) >B-> * *This signature is subject to change at my whim. -- phred@america.net * ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ #! rnews 1486 Path: pravda.aa.msen.com!news1.best.com!news.texas.net!news.kei.com!newsfeed. internetmci.com!howland.reston.ans.net!EU.net!usenet2.news.uk.psi.net!uknet! usene t1.news.uk.psi.net!uknet!psinntp!psinntp!psinntp!usenet From: wanderer_rtc@usa.pipeline.com(R. T. Cunningham) Newsgroups: comp.sys.cbm Subject: Re: Graphics program for C128 Date: 13 Jul 1996 18:12:49 GMT Organization: BBS SysOp Extraordinaire Lines: 23 Message-ID: <4s8ov1$q94@news2.h1.usa.pipeline.com> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: 38.8.231.5 X-PipeUser: wanderer_rtc X-PipeHub: usa.pipeline.com X-PipeGCOS: (R. T. Cunningham) X-Newsreader: Pipeline v3.5.0 On Jul 12, 1996 23:44:49 in article , 'Phil Porth ' wrote: >On 10 Jul 1996, Jezebel Rebecca Delilah wrote: > >> >> Is there a simple program, not unlike doodle, that will display a >> bit-map on the 128's 80col screen? Or is the one CMD sells the only one? > >Are you looking for a viewer? and what graphics format do you need? If you >are referring to Godot (CMD) that is really a graphics converter utility, >but can be used for a viewer, but is really a 64 program, not a 128. Bitmaps...hmmm...How about I-Paint or BASIC-8's paint program. I think CMD sells those too. And they ARE for the 128's 80 column mode. Regards, Richard T. Cunningham (a.k.a. Wanderer) SysOp of the Desert Oasis BBS in Phoenix, AZ #! rnews 1895 Path: pravda.aa.msen.com!news1.best.com!news.texas.net!news.kei.com!newsfeed. internetmci.com!howland.reston.ans.net!EU.net!usenet2.news.uk.psi.net!uknet! usene t1.news.uk.psi.net!uknet!psinntp!psinntp!psinntp!usenet From: wanderer_rtc@usa.pipeline.com(R. T. Cunningham) Newsgroups: comp.sys.cbm Subject: Re: downloading problem??? Date: 13 Jul 1996 18:12:55 GMT Organization: BBS SysOp Extraordinaire Lines: 28 Message-ID: <4s8ov7$q97@news2.h1.usa.pipeline.com> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: 38.8.231.5 X-PipeUser: wanderer_rtc X-PipeHub: usa.pipeline.com X-PipeGCOS: (R. T. Cunningham) X-Newsreader: Pipeline v3.5.0 On Jul 12, 1996 23:30:10 in article , 'Phil Porth ' wrote: >On 6 Jul 1996, Andrew R. McInnis wrote: > >> hi again >> i recently downloaded novaterm 9.5 from somewhere in a .sfx format >> and i cant get it to run >> i have All 3 parts copied on to one disk and when i run part 1 it turns to a >> yellow screen and freezes up. > >If you want some answers you will need to provide more info. >1/ Are downloading from a BBS or an FTP site.? >2/ If an FTP site are you running from a Unix Dos Shell account? >3/ Are you downloading as a text file or binary download? >4/ What term program are you using for 64 or 128 and if a 128 is it in 64 >mode? If you downloaded it from an FTP site, try doing it again - making sure the transfer is binary not text. If you downloaded from the WWW, make sure it saved as a binary file (with Netscape, that's right click, save file as). If text characters in a message appeared, it came across as text and will definitely NOT work. On the other hand, if you downloaded it from a BBS, check and make sure you didn't use XModem. XModem has been notorious for causing problems with it's padding.