Path: pravda.aa.msen.com!news1.best.com!nntp04.primenet.com!news.shkoo.com!nntp. primenet.com!news.mathworks.com!news.kei.com!news.texas.net!vixen.cso.uiuc.edu !not-for-mail From: cvotter@prairienet.org (Gary Sutton) Newsgroups: comp.sys.cbm Subject: Re: VIC-20 Date: 7 Aug 1996 06:50:41 GMT Organization: Prairienet Lines: 18 Message-ID: <4u9ec1$e5f@vixen.cso.uiuc.edu> References: <4ts63e$pj8@vixen.cso.uiuc.edu> <4u90tm$7o3@news.indy.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: firefly.prairienet.org X-Newsreader: TIN [UNIX 1.3 950824BETA PL0] WaD (padge@indy.net) wrote: : >Mindi is the name of the 128 sitting on the desk next to her). I would : >really like to program for her and provide support to other VIC users : >eventually. : Woohoo! Feel free! I am an avid supporter of VIC software and : would love to see some new stuff for it! (What is this demo Qed was : telling me about at TP95/94??) :) : : later... : I'll be starting to tinker around with Vicki as soon as I can get my paws on an assembler (preferably on disk) and an assembly language book. Yerf! Otter #! rnews 1076 Path: pravda.aa.msen.com!news1.best.com!nntp04.primenet.com!news.shkoo.com!nntp. primenet.com!news.mathworks.com!newsfeed.internetmci.com!vixen.cso.uiuc.edu!no t-for-mail From: cvotter@prairienet.org (Gary Sutton) Newsgroups: comp.sys.cbm Subject: Re: VIC-20/C64 Game Paddles Date: 7 Aug 1996 06:53:54 GMT Organization: Prairienet Lines: 17 Message-ID: <4u9ei2$e5f@vixen.cso.uiuc.edu> References: <4u8vdg$9k5@dfw-ixnews10.ix.netcom.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: firefly.prairienet.org X-Newsreader: TIN [UNIX 1.3 950824BETA PL0] Joe Bedard (gamesrme@ix.netcom.com) wrote: : I need to know the schematics and parts list of the VIC-20/C64 game paddles. I : need to make a set and would rather buy new parts than get an old one. : : Thanks : Joe You can save yourself some real headaches if you just go to your local thrift store/garage sales/pawn shop/etc. and shell out 50 cents for a set of Atari paddles. It seems almost any controller that works on the old Atari 2600 will also work on Commodores (VIC/64/128/Amiga) Also, Sega control pads work nicely too. Yerf! Otter #! rnews 1786 Path: pravda.aa.msen.com!spool.mu.edu!usenet.eel.ufl.edu!news-res.gsl.net!news. gsl.net!hunter.premier.net!op.net!news.mathworks.com!newsfeed.internetmci.com!i n3.uu.net!spstimes.sps.mot.com!newsdist.sps.mot.com!newsgate.sps.mot.com! seneca!jeffh From: jeffh@oakhill-csic.sps.mot.com (Jeff Hunsinger) Newsgroups: comp.sys.cbm Subject: Re: Programmers wanted! Date: 7 Aug 1996 14:51:43 GMT Organization: Motorola Semiconductor Products Sector Lines: 27 Distribution: world Message-ID: <4uaahv$13ju@newsgate.sps.mot.com> References: Reply-To: jeffh@oakhill-csic.sps.mot.com NNTP-Posting-Host: seneca.sps.mot.com In article 96Aug6154553@ese.UCSC.EDU, hermit@cats.UCSC.EDU (William R. Ward) writes: > > The talk about a new version of GEOS does lead to an interesting > question: Who owns GEOS 64/128 these days? Berkeley Softworks changed > their name to GeoWorks, and now only sell for the PC, as far as I can > tell. Do they support the Commodore software at all? If not, could > one of "us" manage somehow to get them to release the source code? > Somehow I doubt it, even though it isn't getting them anything... GeoWorks/Berkeley doesn't even sell the PC/GEOS product any more AFAIK. They are focusing on the embedded & PDA markets at the moment, appearantly with some success. I doubt they'd simply release the rights to the C64 code, though they may license it for next to nothing. I recently fired up the old C64 GEOS product not too long ago. It really shows its age. It feels archaic and obtuse to use. I tried the PC version recently, too. It wasn't too impressive anymore, either. Maybe it's time for a new idea... ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Jeff Hunsinger jeffh@oakhill-csic.sps.mot.com #! rnews 3497 Path: pravda.aa.msen.com!news1.best.com!news.texas.net!news.kei.com!newsfeed. internetmci.com!in3.uu.net!news.mc.net!news.netins.net!phdss From: phdss@worf.netins.net (Phd Software Systems) Newsgroups: comp.sys.cbm Subject: SCPU Multitasking 16megOS Date: 7 Aug 1996 07:33:22 GMT Organization: INS Info Services, Des Moines, Iowa, USA Lines: 64 Message-ID: <4u9gs2$cta@insosf1.netins.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: worf.netins.net One thing that has been overlooked in the discussion of the debut of the Super CPU computer is the ram expansion possibilities (Rocket Socket). With the price of simple memory modules (SIMMS) going through the floor in the last 6 months, adding 8 meg to a SCPU is going to be cheaper than buying a used 512k REU. (I just surfed a place that had 8meg simms for $55!). So what good is a 4, 8, or 16 meg C64? To understand that, you have to understand a bit about the heart of the accelerator cartridge, the 65816 CPU. The 65816 can address up to 16meg - in order to retain compatiblity with the 6502, the 65816 merely added 2 registers. The two registers are the Data Bank Register (DBR) and Program Bank Registers (PBR). Not to get to technical for a light discussion, but the Program Bank register gets appended to what ever the execution address is, and the Data Bank Register gets added to a load or store address. What this all boils down to is that a C64 program written for 64k, doesn't even know about the new registers (or care) - meaning the program and data bank registers can be set for anything from bank 0 to bank 255 and the program will run fine out of any of them. Which leads to the potential for a multitasking operating system without to much work. The Power of What COULD BE: For example, without a great deal of modification, a multitasking Geos operating system is not out of the question at all. Suppose you run Geos Desktop out of bank 0, Geo Paint in Bank 1, Geo Write in Bank 2, Geo Publish in Bank 3, Geo Fax in Bank 4, Geo xxx in bank 5...etc. All running at faster than full speed! Modifications to the various programs would be minimal - the main programming thrust would be an interrupt routine to save the screen between task swaps and to massage i/o so that various programs weren't bickering over the same device. Something such as just described, is not out of the question at all - certainly possible - and probably easier than even I think. Writing a multitasker for Basic programs would be such cake is wouldn't be funny. I'm surprised someone has spouted off about it already. With 16meg of address space, imagine all those programs that require overlays, they could be written to reside in memory at the same time - no more waiting for loads in the the middle of a sensitive function. Going from a 64k environment to a 16meg environment, is going to take an entirely new approach to programming. I just wanted to bring memory expansion into the discussion. Every thing has been so focused on speed, speed, speed, that the 'ol Rocket Socket (ram expansion board) has been forgotten. Sorry, I got a bit windy for this forum - but, actually I was just getting warmed up. Brett Tabke ]------------------------------------------------------[ ] PHD Software Systems : NET: phdss@worf.netins.net [ ] PO Box 23 : [ ] Moville, IA. USA 51039 : Home of Karma Assembler 128 [ ]------------------------------------------------------[ #! rnews 1601 Path: pravda.aa.msen.com!news1.best.com!news.texas.net!news.kei.com!newsfeed. internetmci.com!in3.uu.net!EU.net!sun4nl!fwi.uva.nl!hermes.fwi.uva.nl! not-for-mai l From: mdekker@fwi.uva.nl (Martijn Dekker) Newsgroups: comp.sys.cbm Subject: Re: CMD web????? Date: 7 Aug 1996 09:57:28 +0200 Organization: FWI, University of Amsterdam Lines: 33 Distribution: world Message-ID: <4u9i98$qcu@banaan.fwi.uva.nl> References: <4u2gh8$crc@news.us.net> <4u8kf3$epu@news.us.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: banaan.fwi.uva.nl mhall59@us.net wrote: :Wow its funny that 2 people have given me the same address as I posted. :I thought I could assume that everyone knows http:// comes before a web :page. and if I cant get to www.the-spa.com then I cant get to :www.the-spa.com/cmd. : :In article :, :jfenn@spartacus.hula.net says... :-> :-> :-> :->On 4 Aug 1996, Michael W. Hall wrote: :-> :->Why is www.the-spa.com does work? Whenever I try it Netscape says this :->does not have a DNS entry. is that the right address? :-> :->Think you got it wrong try this one :->http://www.the-spa.com/cmd/ :-> ***** kilroy ***** :-> :-> : sometimes, netscapes gives a DNS error, even though the URL is correct. try again later sometimes helps. -- Martijn Dekker [ mailto:mdekker@fwi.uva.nl ] http://www.fwi.uva.nl/~mdekker/ PFF [ Linux, X, Games, Java ] http://www.fwi.uva.nl/~mdekker/pff.html Xcogitate [X11/Java game] http://turing.fwi.uva.nl/~mdekker/xcogitate.html #! rnews 1366 Newsgroups: comp.sys.cbm Path: pravda.aa.msen.com!news1.best.com!news.texas.net!news.kei.com!newsfeed. internetmci.com!in2.uu.net!news.maz.net!cls.net!deceiver!hades.cls.de!pluton From: pluton@hades.cls.de (Jens Ellerbrock) Subject: Re: Problems reading 1541 with the X1541 cable X-Newsreader: TIN [UNIX 1.3 BETA-950824-color-rfc1342 PL0] Organization: Organized ? Me ?!? Message-ID: References: <32056912.56AA@eos.ncsu.edu> Date: Tue, 6 Aug 1996 19:33:37 GMT Lines: 19 Marc Eric Haynes (mehaynes@eos.ncsu.edu) wrote: > I have just built the X1541 type cable. When I ran it using Star > commander and again with Trans64, the drive would access but I got 3 > knocks and the error message 20. I am absolutely certain that the cable > is correct! Also, the drive works fine plugged into a real C64. Any > ideas or suggestions to what the problem might be? Try adjusting the delay value in star commander. Jens -- Jens Ellerbrock * Holtenauer Str 162 * 24105 Kiel * pluton@hades.cls.de "BELIEVE AND DECEIVE!" * Tel: +49 (0) 431 / 806890 * Modem/X.75: 0431 / 84749 * ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- frueher kam der wolf im schafspelz, heute kommt der sexist im oeko-schafwollpullover. -- Eva Kroecher in /cl/frauen/diskussion -- #! rnews 1478 Newsgroups: comp.sys.cbm Path: pravda.aa.msen.com!news1.best.com!news.texas.net!news.kei.com!newsfeed. internetmci.com!in2.uu.net!news.maz.net!cls.net!deceiver!hades.cls.de!pluton From: pluton@hades.cls.de (Jens Ellerbrock) Subject: Re: d64 X-Newsreader: TIN [UNIX 1.3 BETA-950824-color-rfc1342 PL0] Organization: Organized ? Me ?!? Message-ID: References: <838526412.AA00402@cloud.apana.org.au> <1996Jul31.182343@nyssa.swt.edu> Date: Tue, 6 Aug 1996 19:38:10 GMT Lines: 22 Bo wrote: > > Wrong. There IS a program that one can compile under Unix to convert a > > .d64 file to Zip-Code (disk) format. I just leeched it from frodo.hiof.no. > > > > So there! > > However, DOS, Windows, Os/2 and other operating systems are out of luck > it seems. I tried compiling that puppy once under Borland C for DOS with > no luck-- even after rewriting parts to clear up errors. Ah well. Then have a look at starcommanders starzip. Jens -- Jens Ellerbrock * Holtenauer Str 162 * 24105 Kiel * pluton@hades.cls.de "BELIEVE AND DECEIVE!" * Tel: +49 (0) 431 / 806890 * Modem/X.75: 0431 / 84749 * ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- frueher kam der wolf im schafspelz, heute kommt der sexist im oeko-schafwollpullover. -- Eva Kroecher in /cl/frauen/diskussion -- #! rnews 1562 Path: pravda.aa.msen.com!news1.best.com!nntp04.primenet.com!news.shkoo.com!nntp. primenet.com!news.mathworks.com!fu-berlin.de!irz401!news1.urz.tu-dresden.de!ne ws From: "Ch.Nitsche" Newsgroups: comp.sys.cbm Subject: Re: 1571 problems solved Date: Wed, 07 Aug 1996 09:08:39 +0200 Organization: TU Dresden (URZ) Lines: 20 Message-ID: <320840F7.41C6@math.tu-dresden.de> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: nnmw01.math.tu-dresden.de Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 2.02 (X11; I; AIX 2) Dennis Brew wrote: > > I have a 1571 disk drive that has a problem going into 1571 mode and once > it's in 1571 mode it has a hard time when you directory a disk. > I had the same problem 10 years ago with my 1571, and had the following work-around: Everytime i wanted to read a one-sided disk and the drive began to rattle, i opened the front lever a bit, maybe 30 degrees. Then the drive begins to clatter much faster about a second, and then you hear the sound of the head stepping over the tracks to re- initialize. Close the lever fast now (your hand has to stay on lever all the time)!!! The drive will start clattering again, so you open the lever again a bit, and when the head is stepping over the tracks the second time, close it again - and you are done ! I know, it sounds crazy, but with a little practice, it worked fine for me for about five years. Did anyone the same ? Hope this helps - Christoph #! rnews 635 Path: pravda.aa.msen.com!news1.best.com!news.texas.net!news.kei.com!newsfeed. internetmci.com!torn!news.ccs.queensu.ca!kone!nott!cunews!freenet-news.carleton. c a!FreeNet.Carleton.CA!df465 From: df465@FreeNet.Carleton.CA (Onno Ebbinge) Newsgroups: comp.sys.cbm Subject: 6502 pin configuration Date: 6 Aug 1996 20:10:42 GMT Organization: National Capital Freenet, Ottawa, Canada Lines: 7 Sender: df465@freenet2.carleton.ca (Onno Ebbinge) Message-ID: <4u88s2$q3b@freenet-news.carleton.ca> NNTP-Posting-Host: freenet2.carleton.ca Could someone please send me the 6502 pin configuration or tell me where I can find this info. Thanx, Onno #! rnews 2618 Path: pravda.aa.msen.com!spool.mu.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!nntp.coast.net! oleane!in2p3.fr!swidir.switch.ch!swsbe6.switch.ch!news.belnet.be!news.vub.ac.be! is 1e!twproj2 From: "Sorex/W.O.W" Newsgroups: comp.sys.cbm Subject: Re: VIC-20 Date: Wed, 7 Aug 1996 18:45:05 +0200 Organization: Brussels Free Universities VUB/ULB Lines: 40 Message-ID: References: <4ts63e$pj8@vixen.cso.uiuc.edu> <4u90tm$7o3@news.indy.net> <4u9ec1$e5f@vixen.cso.uiuc.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: is1.bfu.vub.ac.be Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: QUOTED-PRINTABLE X-Sender: twproj2@is1e In-Reply-To: <4u9ec1$e5f@vixen.cso.uiuc.edu> On 7 Aug 1996, Gary Sutton wrote: > : =09Woohoo! Feel free! I am an avid supporter of VIC software and > : would love to see some new stuff for it! (What is this demo Qed was > : telling me about at TP95/94??) :) Do you mean that Wild Compo entry? it was VIC with some kind of mandelbrot zoomer.... Sorex/WOW =C4=C4=C4=C4=C4=C4=C4=C4=C4=C4=C4=C4=C4=C4=C4=C4=C4=C4=C4=C4=C4= =C4=C4=C4=C4=C4=C4=C4=C4=C4=C4=C4=C4=C4=C4=C4=C4=C4=C4=C4=C4=C4=C4=C4=C4=C4= =C4=C4=C4=C4=C4 --------------------------------------------------- =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D= =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D= =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D =C4=C4=BF =C4=C4=BF =C4=C4=BF=C4=C4=BF=C4=C4=BF = =C4=C4=BF =C4=C4=BF =C4=C4=BF =C4=C4=BF =C4=C4=BF =C4=C4=BF =C4= =C4=BF =C4=C4=BF =C4=C4=BF =C4=C4=BF =C4=C4=BF =C4=C4=BF =C4= =C4=BF =C4=C4=BF =C4=C4=BF =C4=C4=BF =C4=C4=BF =C4=C4=BF =C4=C4=BF = =C4=C4=BF =C4=C4=BF =C4=C4=BF =C4=C4=BF=C4=C4=BF =C4=C4=BF=C4=C4=BF =C4=C4=BF =C4= =C4=BF =C4=C4=BF=C4=C4=BF =C4=C4=BF=C4=C4=BF =C4=C4=BF =C4=C4=BF =C4=C4=BF=C4=C4=BF=C4=C4=BF = =C4=C4=BF =C4=C4=BF Warriors Of Wasteland =20 -=3D>WOW<=3D- -=3D*>The Pride Of Belgium!<*=3D- -=3D>WOW<=3D- =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D= =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D= =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D --------------------------------------------------- =C4=C4=C4=C4=C4=C4=C4=C4=C4=C4=C4=C4=C4=C4=C4=C4=C4=C4=C4=C4=C4= =C4=C4=C4=C4=C4=C4=C4=C4=C4=C4=C4=C4=C4=C4=C4=C4=C4=C4=C4=C4=C4=C4=C4=C4=C4= =C4=C4=C4=C4- #! rnews 4315 Path: pravda.aa.msen.com!news1.best.com!newshub.sdsu.edu!newsfeeder.sdsu.edu! news.sgi.com!enews.sgi.com!news.mathworks.com!newsfeed.internetmci.com!in3.uu. net !nntp.inet.fi!news.csc.fi!ousrvr3.oulu.fi!news From: Jouko Valta Newsgroups: comp.sys.cbm,comp.emulators.cbm Subject: Re: Need of documentation ... Followup-To: comp.sys.cbm Date: 07 Aug 1996 15:16:43 +0300 Organization: University of Oulu, Department of Electrical Engineering, Finland Lines: 121 Sender: jopi@stekt24.oulu.fi Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: stekt24.oulu.fi Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit In-reply-to: "Ricardo \"Storm\" Marques Ferreira"'s message of Wed, 7 Aug 1996 04:26:56 +0100 X-Newsreader: Gnus v5.1 Xref: pravda.aa.msen.com comp.sys.cbm:59167 comp.emulators.cbm:13115 Ricardo \"Storm\" Marques Ferreira writes: Ricardo> If you got any sort of documentation on any of the C64 Ricardo> components (SID,VIC,6510,CIAs,1541 and inner circuits, Ricardo> anything...), MAIL IT TO ME! Ricardo> Thanks in advance! Ricardo Ferreira --- Your message was not delivered to storm96@isec.pt for the following reason: Unknown Address MTA 'isec.pt' gives error message ... User unknown --- Help yourself: Project C64 http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/pcgeek/proj64.htm (includes Programmers Reference guide) All Memory Maps ftp://ftp.funet.fi /pub/cbm/maps/ ftp://x2ftp.oulu.fi /pub/cbm/maps/ Hardware info ftp://ftp.funet.fi /pub/cbm/documents/ 14. FURTHER READING 14.1 VICE Documents The following documents come with the VICE: x64.{man,cat} X64 manpage petcat.{man,cat} petcat manpage recomment.doc recomment manpage README X64 installation guide README.RUN x64run front-end guide Emulation Details on the VICE and different file formats DIN_charset DIN and ASCII charsets for serial printers Star.codes Printer control code list serial.doc CBM Serial Bus Protocol drive_info CBM Disk Drives cbm_basic_tokens BASIC token code list pal.timing VIC-II timing revealed 64doc Extensive CPU documentation PETdoc Some notes on the PET series 14.2 Other Documents The files listed below are available via FTP on x2ftp.oulu.fi:/pub/cbm/ and ftp.funet.fi:/pub/cbm/ if not stated otherwise. Memory All memory maps are at: x2ftp.oulu.fi:/pub/cbm/maps/ and ftp.funet.fi:/pub/cbm/maps/ c128-basic.diffs c128-kernel.diffs c64-kernel.diffs vic20-kernel.diffs c64.pla.equations c64.pla.functions 32K Internal VIC-20 Memory expansion are located at ftp://x2ftp.oulu.fi:/pub/cbm/docs/VIC-32K-expansion Internal C64/C128 Memory expansions The comp.sys.cbm General FAQ ftp://ftp.funet.fi:/pub/cbm/documents/1028/ ftp://ftp.funet.fi:/pub/cbm/documents/256kB/ Video Timing pal.timing SID SID related documents: x2ftp.oulu.fi:/pub/cbm/docs/sid/ http://stud1.tuwien.ac.at/~e9426444/sidtech.html Disk Drives Full 1541 manual ftp.funet.fi:/pub/cbm/documents/oc-118.manual 1541.tricks Printer DIN_charset Star.codes Miscellaneous cbm_basic_tokens csg.chips.info hidden_secrets 14.3 FAQs For full collection of FAQs, visit rtfm.mit.edu or the nearest of its mirrors (e.g. ftp.sunet.se) comp.sys.cbm Commodore FTP Sites List comp.sys.cbm General FAQ comp.emulators.cbm FAQ comp.emulators.misc FAQ comp.sys.sinclair FAQ (For Zilog Z80 info.) #! rnews 664 Path: pravda.aa.msen.com!spool.mu.edu!munnari.OZ.AU!ihnp4.ucsd.edu!sdcc12.ucsd. edu!sdcc13!ckaiser From: ckaiser@sdcc13.ucsd.edu (Po-Ching Lives!) Newsgroups: comp.sys.cbm Subject: BLITZ! question for you compiler wizards Date: 7 Aug 1996 18:43:31 GMT Organization: University of California, San Diego Lines: 8 Message-ID: <4uao4j$7aa@sdcc12.ucsd.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: sdcc13.ucsd.edu I'm too lazy to try to look this up. Anyone know a quick way to tell a BLITZ! compiled program to limit its memory occupancy (like POKE 52, X: POKE 56, X: CLR but in BLITZ!.) Is there a compiler directive, or something else? Thanks in advance, Cameron Kaiser ckaiser@ucsd.edu #! rnews 1666 Path: pravda.aa.msen.com!spool.mu.edu!news.sgi.com!enews.sgi.com!news.mathworks. com!newsfeed.internetmci.com!in3.uu.net!news1.cwix.net!news.cwi.net!news.net-g ate.com!ns1.net-gate.com!jezzydee From: jezzydee@ns1.net-gate.com (Jezebel Rebecca Delilah) Newsgroups: comp.sys.cbm Subject: ?: CMD HD and Geos Date: 7 Aug 1996 07:12:01 GMT Organization: InterNET-GATEway Lines: 32 Message-ID: <4u9fk1$htj@ns1.net-gate.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: ns1.net-gate.com X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Okay, I have a question for the CMD HD users out there :) I am considering buying a CMD HD for my 128. I use Geos a lot for stuff. My question is this: Does the new desktop (I forget it's name) have a way for you to select current path ( change directories ) while inside a application? I assume this would be a new disk/drive selcetion window, or under Geos in the button bar. At any rate, if there is NO way to select path from inside a application, how does one get in and out of directories in the HD? Or must everything you want accessed by GEOS be in the GEOS directory? Thank in advance... [] - [] Please, allow me to introduce myself..... I am a person of wealth and taste..... __ __ __ ___ __ __ ______ __ _ / /_ ___ __/ / __ / // _ \__/ / __ __________ / \__ / ( ) /___/ / / / /-_)_ / -_).\/-_) // /-_).\/-_) _/ _/ _ // / /-_) / / / _ / \ \__/\_//__/\_/__/\_/_//_/| |\_/__/\_/\_/\_/\_,//___/\_/_/_/_/\_,/_/_/ | | |/ jezzydee@ns1.net-gate.com #! rnews 1011 Newsgroups: comp.sys.cbm Path: pravda.aa.msen.com!news1.best.com!news.texas.net!news.kei.com!newsfeed. internetmci.com!in3.uu.net!nntp.wwwi.com!news.genuity.net!news.lafn.org!lafn. org! lafn.org!ar249 From: ar249@lafn.org (Tim Phelps) Subject: Re: CMD web????? X-Nntp-Posting-Host: lafn.org Message-ID: <1996Aug7.142817.28970@lafn.org> Sender: news@lafn.org Reply-To: ar249@lafn.org (Tim Phelps) Organization: The Los Angeles Free-Net References: <4u2gh8$crc@news.us.net> Date: Wed, 7 Aug 1996 14:28:17 GMT Lines: 16 In a previous article, mhall59@mail.us.net (Michael W. Hall) says: > >Why is www.the-spa.com does work? Whenever I try it Netscape says this >does not have a DNS entry. is that the right address? > It should. Try accessing it from my Commodore page at http://www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/Park/4645 -- Tim Phelps -- The comments I made above are my own. T.Phelps4@genie.com / ar249@lafn.org / http://www.geocities.com/Colosseum/3284/ http://www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/Park/4645 #! rnews 2254 Path: pravda.aa.msen.com!news1.best.com!nntp04.primenet.com!news.shkoo.com!nntp. primenet.com!news.cais.net!hunter.premier.net!op.net!news.mathworks.com!newsfe ed.internetmci.com!in2.uu.net!ott.istar!istar.net!tor.istar!east.istar!news. nstn.ca!coranto.ucs.mun.ca!InfoNET.st-johns.nf.ca!abe0084 From: abe0084@InfoNET.st-johns.nf.ca (Adam Vardy) Newsgroups: comp.sys.cbm Subject: Re: 1571 problems Date: 7 Aug 1996 15:20:55 GMT Organization: St. John's InfoNET Lines: 44 Message-ID: <4uac8n$clj@coranto.ucs.mun.ca> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: infonet.st-johns.nf.ca X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Dennis Brew (dennis@efn.org) wrote: : I have a 1571 disk drive that has a problem going into 1571 mode and once : it's in 1571 mode it has a hard time when you directory a disk. : In the 1541 mode it is fine. : When it does directory it does ok but then I change the disk it has a : hard time again. As others have suggested, it seems fairly clear that your 1571 must have the old ROM. Looking around here right now, I can't seem to find the information for its serial number. If you wanted to look inside the drive and tell me the serial number on the ROM, I could confirm this. I think it ends in 03. I was unlucky enough to have the old ROM for 10 years that I had my drive before I replaced it. I can give you any tips I can on coping with your drive. The main thing is to try and rely on double sided disks mostly, because you only get slow accesses with flippy disks. I even had my wordprocessor which came on a flippy copied onto a double sided disk with a nibble copier. The main trick I learned was using the U0>RA command. This sets the drive error retry setting to its minimum value. This cuts down on the time the drive takes to initialize a flippy disk. Say if you are using Desterm or some such program, just send that command to the disk drive at the start of your session, and you won't have long delays when you insert flippy disks. The only thing else is to get a new ROM. - Adam : Can anybody tell me whatthe problem might be? : I was wondering if it could be an IC ship, and what one it might be? : PLEASE HELP : Thanks : dennis@efn.org #! rnews 4211 Path: pravda.aa.msen.com!news1.best.com!news.texas.net!news.kei.com!newsfeed. internetmci.com!in2.uu.net!ott.istar!istar.net!tor.istar!east.istar!news.nstn. ca! coranto.ucs.mun.ca!InfoNET.st-johns.nf.ca!abe0084 From: abe0084@InfoNET.st-johns.nf.ca (Adam Vardy) Newsgroups: comp.sys.cbm Subject: Re: "More" text viewer for REUless users Date: 7 Aug 1996 15:38:13 GMT Organization: St. John's InfoNET Lines: 93 Message-ID: <4uad95$clj@coranto.ucs.mun.ca> References: <4u37h9$rte@coranto.ucs.mun.ca> <3205559C.46DC@orl.mindspring.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: infonet.st-johns.nf.ca X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Radioactive Warrior (radwar@orl.mindspring.com) wrote: : My first thought is a program that would chain through the file pulling : out track/sector pairs into c64 memory then have the computer show you : a sector at a time the text like it was a virtual window, scrolling for- : ward or back... This would also allow the user to easily sever the Isn't this just what a track and sector editor does? This gives you a pretty small window. Not something one would prefer to read from. In ACE on a 128 you can set the display to 80*50 if you want to. More takes up the whole screen. As I said before, what I really needed was a way to seek forward a considerable distance through a massive text file. Skipping articles you've already read in an e-zine is the main thing I wanted to do without too much waiting. As for Browser, I don't recall it having an ability to do this. Did I miss anything? BTW, the CRC32 for "more" = 45bc5b8d. Here's the instructions to it if anyone wants to read it here. Slightly revised MORE command for ACE ----------------------------------------------- The commands I added to it are not quite up to Unix standard, but I don't think it can get too much better. The nice thing about ACE is that ACE programs automatically work on both the 64 and 128. One command line argument added. This lets you skip lines in the text file. "+" argument skips approximately 1000 lines. MORE + FILE This reads the file in until it gets ~1000 lines into the file and then displays a screenful. "+" can be used multiple times (up to six). MUST be separated by spaces. When viewing multiple files, "+" will only apply to the first one. Here is a longer example to show what is possible. MORE + ACE15.DOC DISC + + + DISC Skips ~1000 lines into file "ACE15.DOC". Once you've finished viewing that, it displays file "DISC" from the first line. Press N now, and it will skip ~3000 lines into the same file and display it then. --------------------------- New Sub-commands --------------------------- H - While viewing, skips about a Hundred lines into the file (4 screenfuls). D - Move forward half a screen into the file. I've nicknamed this "Dive". It dives forward into the file. C - Move 3 lines forward into the file. I've nicknamed this "Creep". It creeps ahead 3 lines at a time. J - Moves forward 1 line into file. G - Go back to beginning of file and display from line 1. / - This is a search command. It is more limited than in Unix More. It will search for one character, which must be on the beginning of a line. Once found, it displays a screenful of text starting with the line where it is found. Example: press /+ searches the file for a line beginning with "+". The search begins at the bottom of the screen, not the top of the screen as in Unix More. If the search fails, it takes you to the end of the file. If you press / and then Return, the search will never succeed. It will always take you to the end of the file, which is useless unless you want to know the numbers of lines in the file. --------------------------------------------------------------- This version of MORE will accept filenames beginning with "-", if you ever run into any. All commands work the same or similarly to Unix's More except for H and C, which are my idea. One comment about DisC=overy. This file contains "/" characters. Because of how they are placed, you can hit // to conveniently go to the next article. - Adam #! rnews 1309 Path: pravda.aa.msen.com!news1.best.com!nntp04.primenet.com!news.shkoo.com!nntp. primenet.com!news.mathworks.com!newsfeed.internetmci.com!malgudi.oar.net!usene t From: "Jerry Kurtz" Newsgroups: comp.emulators.cbm,comp.emulators.misc,comp.sys.cbm Subject: Re: Legacy Of The Ancients - LOTA Date: 7 Aug 1996 15:48:50 GMT Organization: Tekmar-Dohrmann Lines: 11 Message-ID: <01bb8478$c6085f40$14c71ec6@teksco.tekmar.com> References: <4t4khf$93o@ds2.acs.ucalgary.ca> <4t69m3$3gn@ddi2.digital.net> <4ttqjt$6lh@sjx-ixn4.ix.netcom.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: user020.tekmar.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Newsreader: Microsoft Internet News 4.70.1141 Xref: pravda.aa.msen.com comp.emulators.cbm:13118 comp.emulators.misc:12656 comp.sys.cbm:59173 Wow -- I solved that game a LONG time ago... Whew, the memories that just flashed by... > >: > cmjohann@acs1.acs.ucalgary.ca (Corby Michael Johanneson) wrote: > >: > > >: > >Unfortunately, we still havn't found a working copy of this > >: > >wicked EA classic - and you better not be holding out on > > > I got the original around here somewhere. Missing the codewheel though! > #! rnews 1616 Path: pravda.aa.msen.com!news1.best.com!newshub.sdsu.edu!newsfeeder.sdsu.edu! news.sgi.com!enews.sgi.com!news.mathworks.com!newsfeed.internetmci.com!in3.uu. net !server-b.cs.interbusiness.it!qualcuno.nettuno.it!sirio.cineca.it!NewsWatcher! user From: milocco@elettra.trieste.it (ANDREA MILOCCO) Newsgroups: comp.sys.cbm Subject: SEARCHING: REU schematics Date: Wed, 07 Aug 1996 14:50:56 +0100 Organization: Sincrotrone Trieste Lines: 19 Message-ID: NNTP-Posting-Host: mac-linac-1.elettra.trieste.it X-Newsreader: Yet Another NewsWatcher 2.1.2 I would like to find out the schematic of a REU of any kind. I don't know the complexity of a REU but I would like to try to clone it (I would prefer this is not forbidden). As REUs upgrades already exists I hope also REU's schematics are available. Would you be so kind to help me in this search? Many thanx, Andrea. ################################################################ # /\ |\/| # #/--\ndrea | |ILOCCO Trieste, ITALY # # # # ELETTRA, Syncrotron Facility # # # # e-mail: milocco@elettra.trieste.it # # http://superciuk.elettra.trieste.it:8080/~tomicich/team.html # # # # office: ++39/40/375.8244 # ################################################################ #! rnews 1386 Path: pravda.aa.msen.com!news1.best.com!news.sgi.com!enews.sgi.com!news. mathworks.com!newsfeed.internetmci.com!in3.uu.net!spstimes.sps.mot.com!newsdist. sps.mo t.com!newsgate.sps.mot.com!seneca!jeffh From: jeffh@oakhill-csic.sps.mot.com (Jeff Hunsinger) Newsgroups: comp.sys.cbm Subject: C128-D Keyboard Connections Date: 7 Aug 1996 16:10:04 GMT Organization: Motorola Semiconductor Products Sector Lines: 24 Distribution: world Message-ID: <4uaf4s$13ju@newsgate.sps.mot.com> Reply-To: jeffh@oakhill-csic.sps.mot.com NNTP-Posting-Host: seneca.sps.mot.com I have pin-out information for the C64, C64c, and C128 keyboards, but I lack information on the C128D's external keyboard. I believe it connects via a DB-25. Could someone verify this and send me the pin-outs of that connector? I plan to make a PC/XT/AT keyboard adapter that will support all the C64/128 computers (it will probably work on the +4 and C16 as well, since I think they use the same keyboard connector as the C64). I have a prototype working with my C64 at the moment, but I do not have a cost estimate at this time. I'm hoping to keep it under $25. While I'm at it, does anyone have a source for user port connectors? I have a couple sitting around, but I could use some more. Thanks! Jeff ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Jeff Hunsinger jeffh@oakhill-csic.sps.mot.com #! rnews 3012 Path: pravda.aa.msen.com!news1.best.com!nntp04.primenet.com!news.shkoo.com!nntp. primenet.com!news.mathworks.com!newsfeed.internetmci.com!uwm.edu!alpha2.csd.uw m.edu!meneses From: "Reggie Meneses a.k.a. Thespian" Newsgroups: comp.sys.cbm Subject: I'm glad I found this newsgroup. Date: Wed, 7 Aug 1996 11:54:52 -0500 Organization: University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee Lines: 52 Message-ID: NNTP-Posting-Host: 129.89.169.2 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII I glad that I found this page. I was looking to subscribe to more newsgroups since I find myself addicted to them. Anyway, I usually skip through the comp.sys newsgroups using TIN because I read mostly social and entertainment/arts stuff. However, I noticed the "cbm" in the title of this newsgroup and thought "naa, it couldn't be, could it?" And sure enough, Commodore users are alive and kicking. Truthfully, I haven't been using my old C64 for over 6 years now. I keep it safely stored though and have not given or sold any of my old programs or files. Some of the disks have some word processing files that I'll print out and retype in my current PC machine. The C64 saved my butt during term paper time in high school and college, and I don't think I'll ever part with it. Unfortunately, my C64 will need to repaired one day. The video chip won't output color anymore, and the keyboard needs a good cleaning. Also, my Okidata printer (forgot the model but it's the one that is made only for the C64) won't work. I thought it was the fuse, but it looks more serious than that. My joysticks broke a long time ago, and I never got new ones. So those old games are unplayable at the moment. My 1541 disk drive still works fine as well as does the FASTLOAD cartridge. One day I'll get the computer and printer repaired, and I'll also get a joystick. My favorite games were ZORK and DEFENDER OF THE CROWN. Remembering those games makes me appreciate the great strides made in gaming. Compare those two oldies with today's QUAKE and WARCRAFT II. Wow. And since the Olympic game were just held, I went back and hooked up the C64 briefly just to see the opening title screen for Epyx's SUMMER GAMES. I just shook my head and thought, those were the good ol' days. I also used to login to QLink for about a year. I understand they're AOL now. I got some good music files via QLink. And I remember winning a word processor from Dan Gutman. What's he doing today? Well, folks, it's nice to see this newsgroup. I'm afraid I can't contribute much to discussions, but I'll check in once in a while to say "Hi" or to reminisce the glory days of the C64. --Reggie -------------------------------------------------------- Visit my homepage!Snail Mail: http://www.uwm.edu/~meneses3400 N. Maryland Avenue Sandburg Box 2015 Milwaukee, WI 53211-2953 (414) 229-7198 #! rnews 3508