#! rnews 1217 Path: pravda.aa.msen.com!news1.best.com!news.sgi.com!enews.sgi.com!news.m= athworks.com!newsfeed.internetmci.com!info.ucla.edu!agate!howland.erols.n= et!surfnet.nl!news.unisource.nl!news.worldonline.nl!usenet From: spy@worldonline.nl (Jeroen van Drongelen) Newsgroups: comp.sys.cbm Subject: Vic-20 software offered part ][ Date: Sat, 10 Aug 1996 18:00:47 GMT Organization: Da Vinci College Lines: 16 Message-ID: <4uiiqh$ndd@mars.worldonline.nl> NNTP-Posting-Host: drdt1-p91.worldonline.nl X-Newsreader: Forte Free Agent 1.0.82 Ok, my VIC-20 disks are making their way to ftp.funet.fi, into the directory /pub/cbm/incoming/vic20, named VIC_DISK.LZH. I don't know how the system administrators there are going to name it, but they're about 25 disks in VICDISKx.D64 (x=3Dascending number/letter) so you know how to look for them. The archive is 1,8 MB. They're mostly disks for vix with expansion (wish I had one) but also a couple for unexpanded vix. The programs contain games (many of 'em) but also address progs, WP's, etc. (don't have index, sorry). I know there'll be lots of programs among them that most of you have already, but also a few that I type in from old Dutch VIc game books, so who knows... Have fun. #! rnews 1871 Path: pravda.aa.msen.com!nntp.coast.net!lll-winken.llnl.gov!uwm.edu!math.= ohio-state.edu!howland.erols.net!vixen.cso.uiuc.edu!newsfeed.internetmci.= com!in3.uu.net!news00.sunet.se!sunic!news99.sunet.se!cph-1.news.DK.net!dk= uug!dknet!usenet From: kwed@pip.dknet.dk (Jan Lund Thomsen) Newsgroups: comp.sys.cbm Subject: Re: OVER 30000 C64 PROGRAMS!!! Date: Fri, 09 Aug 1996 22:05:34 GMT Organization: Triangle - The Solution To Your Confuzion! Lines: 26 Message-ID: <320bb0e5.8661140@news.dknet.dk> References: <4tlt0b$4br@rubens.telebyte.nl> <4tqart$kk1@login.freenet.col= umbus.oh.us> <4tu90m$ni7@news.us.net> <320B34F0.7584@ts.umu.se> Reply-To: kwed@pip.dknet.dk NNTP-Posting-Host: aarh22.pip.dknet.dk X-Newsreader: Forte Agent .99e/32.227 [ Jonas Hult=E9n :] >> Are you seroius?!?!?!? Who is being deprived here. No programmer is >> collecting money on any C=3D software. Anything being sold is probably >> used anyway. If anyone out there is still looking for their earnings >> from original copies of River Raid, they are going to be poor for a lo= ng >> time. > >I heard that Activision is currently selling a CD with old classics=20 >like Pitfall I&II, H.E.R.O and others for emulators. I believe that=20 >they are pretty serious about collecting money... So what you're saying is that I'm violating Activision by having a pirated copy of H.E.R.O on my real C64 instead of buying the PC version? I don't think so. What if I didn't even own a PC? Should I run out and buy one, just so I could play legitimate copies of the game? -------------------------------------------------------------------------= ---- Jan Lund Thomsen (aka Qed/Triangle 3532) Lystrup, Den= mark C64/RPG/INWO/Warner Bros/Disney/Anthro/Comics-addict and all-around nice = guy. ----------- Email: Kwed@pip.dknet.dk ---------- Fido: 2:238/128.11 ------= ---- #! rnews 1068 Path: pravda.aa.msen.com!news1.best.com!news.sgi.com!enews.sgi.com!news.m= athworks.com!newsfeed.internetmci.com!mr.net!news.mr.net!cronkite.polaris= tel.net!news From: damborn@hutchtel.net (Dan Amborn) Newsgroups: comp.sys.cbm Subject: anyone have the companion disk for 128 Machine Language for Begi= nners Date: Sat, 10 Aug 1996 19:28:49 GMT Organization: Mustangs International, Inc. Lines: 14 Message-ID: <320ce121.3201997@news.polaristel.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: 206.9.115.5 X-Newsreader: Forte Agent .99e/32.227 Does anyone have the companion disk for the book: 128 Machine Language for Beginners I recently purchased this book from someone and I would like the companio= n disk so that I can get the Lads128 source code. If no one has it I can probably modify = the Lads64 source code because that is what it looks like Richard Mansfield did in the firs= t place and then compile it on my C64 to get Lads128. But...it sure would be nice if some= one out there had a copy. It would save a lot of errors and definely finger strain. =20 -- Dan Amborn damborn@hutchtel.net #! rnews 1267 Newsgroups: comp.sys.cbm Path: pravda.aa.msen.com!nntp.coast.net!news-res.gsl.net!news.gsl.net!new= s.mathworks.com!newsfeed.internetmci.com!in2.uu.net!news2.interlog.com!ne= ws1.io.org!torfree!fjb From: fjb@torfree.net (Jim Butterfield) Subject: Re: Programming Message-ID: Organization: Toronto Free-Net X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] References: <31FFEBCE.5064@NRCan.gc.CA> <3200DC1B.7594@ix.netcom.com> Date: Sat, 10 Aug 1996 23:14:19 GMT Lines: 31 : Rene Guillas pondered: : >=20 : > IBM BASIC has LOCATE n,n and APPLE BASIC has HPOS n and VPOS n , what= is the POKE : > equivalent on the C=3D64? : >=20 : > -- : > Colin Guillas Easiest way is to set up a "vertical" string V$, defined like this: 10 V$=3D"[home][down][down][down]...." (You of course press the HOME key rather than typing [home] and press the= =20 cursor-down key rather than typing [down] .. and try to get about 24=20 [down] keys into the string). The line as you see it will have those=20 "inverted" characters on it... Now, to set the cursor to line V, column H, you'd code: 100 PRINT LEFT$(V$,V);TAB(H); or to print an X at line 15, column 25, the code would be: 300 PRINT LEFT$(V$,15);TAB(25);"X" .. get the idea? It's surpisingly fast. --Jim #! rnews 873 Path: pravda.aa.msen.com!nntp.coast.net!oleane!jussieu.fr!math.ohio-state= .edu!howland.erols.net!surfnet.nl!news.unisource.nl!news.worldonline.nl!u= senet From: spy@worldonline.nl (Jeroen van Drongelen) Newsgroups: comp.sys.cbm Subject: Re: VIC-20 Date: Sun, 11 Aug 1996 00:35:48 GMT Organization: Da Vinci College Lines: 11 Message-ID: <4uj9v7$rqf@mars.worldonline.nl> References: <3202B7A3.466B@NRCan.gc.CA> NNTP-Posting-Host: drdt1-p44.worldonline.nl X-Newsreader: Forte Free Agent 1.0.82 fjb@torfree.net (Jim Butterfield) wrote: > Well, there is a SUPERMON+VIC available, which will do tiny assemblies,= =20 > etc. And Commodore did, at one time, put out a cartridge MLM that woul= d=20 > do a similar job. Jim Butterfield? I remember your name from early PET B. Exchange.. didn't you write for Compute! ? Sorry for being off-topic here..:) #! rnews 1241 Newsgroups: comp.sys.cbm Path: pravda.aa.msen.com!spool.mu.edu!howland.erols.net!vixen.cso.uiuc.ed= u!newsfeed.internetmci.com!newshub.csu.net!newsserver.sdsc.edu!news.cerf.= net!mvb.saic.com!eskimo!fungus From: Scott Brockway Subject: Re: Vic-20 software offered In-Reply-To: <4uft6f$7er@mars.worldonline.nl> X-Nntp-Posting-Host: eskimo.com Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=3DUS-ASCII Message-ID: To: Jeroen van Drongelen Originator: fungus@eskimo.com Sender: news@eskimo.com (News User Id) Organization: Eskimo North (206) For-Ever References: <4uft6f$7er@mars.worldonline.nl> Mime-Version: 1.0 Date: Sun, 11 Aug 1996 00:27:47 GMT Lines: 22 On Fri, 9 Aug 1996, Jeroen van Drongelen wrote: >=20 > Hi VIC lovers, >=20 > I've just completed the .D64 conversion of all my VIC20 software. It's > not that many disks (25) so if anyone's interested, let me know, so I > can perhaps upload it to an FTP site, or post it. >=20 > Does anybody know of a VIC-specialized area on an FTP site, or > website, or anywhere? >=20 >=20 >=20 Yessir, Funet has a Vic-20 area . ftp.funet.fi and so does one in germany. get the ftp.sites.cbm or whatever file from funet. Fungus #! rnews 1330 Newsgroups: comp.sys.cbm Path: pravda.aa.msen.com!nntp.coast.net!lll-winken.llnl.gov!enews.sgi.com= !news.mathworks.com!newsfeed.internetmci.com!newsreader.sprintlink.net!ne= ws.sprintlink.net!news-ana-24.sprintlink.net!eskimo!fungus From: Scott Brockway Subject: Re: VIC-20 In-Reply-To: <32093E91.634@islandnet.com> X-Nntp-Posting-Host: eskimo.com Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=3DUS-ASCII Message-ID: To: Ian Campbell Originator: fungus@eskimo.com Sender: news@eskimo.com (News User Id) Organization: Eskimo North (206) For-Ever References: <4ts63e$pj8@vixen.cso.uiuc.edu> <4u90tm$7o3@news.indy.net> <4= u9ec1$e5f@vixen.cso.uiuc.edu> <32093E91.634@islandnet.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Date: Sat, 10 Aug 1996 23:57:50 GMT Lines: 15 Vic-20 Demo!? Where!? I wanna see that. I am an avid collector of VIC-20 stuff. I am currently writing an article for DisC=3Dovery magazine of some of the features of t= he vic-20 and how to use it for demo and game purposes.=20 Sorex, anybody. point me in the right direction please! Hehehe , I've got a 1x1 smooth scroller in 16 colors happening for the ol= d bugger. Read the next DisC=3Dovery to find out how it works :) BTW about = 30% of the vic PRG is wrongo! #! rnews 1720 Path: pravda.aa.msen.com!nntp.coast.net!swidir.switch.ch!swsbe6.switch.ch= !surfnet.nl!howland.erols.net!vixen.cso.uiuc.edu!newsfeed.internetmci.com= !zdc-e!news-out.microserve.net!news-in.microserve.net!news.sprintlink.net= !news-dc-2.sprintlink.net!news.us.net!usenet From: mhall59@us.net (Michael W. Hall) Newsgroups: comp.sys.cbm Subject: Re: OVER 30000 C64 PROGRAMS!!! Date: 11 Aug 1996 00:09:16 GMT Organization: US Net, Incorporated Lines: 26 Message-ID: <4uj8bc$7jd@news.us.net> References: <4tlt0b$4br@rubens.telebyte.nl> <4tqart$kk1@login.freenet.col= umbus.oh.us> <4tu90m$ni7@news.us.net> <320B34F0.7584@ts.umu.se> <4ugr71$q= 01@news.us.net> <9608102134.AA005g9@cosine.demon.co.uk> NNTP-Posting-Host: host198.laurel.us.net Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=3DUS-ASCII X-Newsreader: WinVN 0.99.8 (beta 2) I think maybe you should call up Activision and ask them how much you=20 owe them for converting the .d64 file over to your C64. In article <9608102134.AA005g9@cosine.demon.co.uk>,=20 tmr@cosine.demon.co.uk says... > >I don't have '95 so I just converted the D64's back to C64 disks and >played the "background" .WAVs on my Amiga! =3D-) > >Jason =3D-) > =20 _______________________________________________________________________ >TMR / / / / / / / =20 /\ > / /__/ / / /__/ / / / /__/ Email: tmr@cosine.demon.co.uk=20 / / > / /\_/ / /__ / / / / __// Cosine Homepage: =20 / / > / /__/ / / / / / / / / / http://www.cosine.demon.co.uk =20 / / >/_____/_____/_____/__/__/__/_____/_____________________________________ / / >\_____\_____\_____\__\__\__\_____\_____________________________________ \/ #! rnews 1063 Path: pravda.aa.msen.com!nntp.coast.net!news-res.gsl.net!news.gsl.net!new= s.mathworks.com!newsfeed.internetmci.com!mr.net!news.ios.com!tribeca.ios.= com!aperotti From: aperotti@tribeca.ios.com (Anthony R Perotti) Newsgroups: comp.sys.cbm Subject: Re: 1902A Problem Date: 11 Aug 1996 02:22:08 GMT Organization: Internet Online Services Lines: 15 Message-ID: <4ujg4g$jur@news.ios.com> References: <4uibsr$icf@vixen.cso.uiuc.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: tribeca.ios.com X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] I have successfully repaired 2 monitors that exhibited this problem. One= =20 is a Magnavox 40 col and the other is a 1902A. The Magnavox has been working fine for about 2 years since the repair and= =20 the 1902 was just done last week. =20 I have a set of instructions for this repair that I refered to, I'll=20 type them up and post them withing the next couple of days. -- ____ ,^o | aperotti@us.net=20 / _ ._ | C=3D128D,JD,Swiftlink,CMD HD40,RAMLink, /_(_)_| )_\/ | Boccamodem 14.4,1581,fun,fun,fun. Perotti / | -=3D8 bits should be enough for anyone=3D- #! rnews 699 Path: pravda.aa.msen.com!nntp.coast.net!news-res.gsl.net!news.gsl.net!new= s.mathworks.com!newsfeed.internetmci.com!news.nidlink.com!usenet From: kroberts@rand.nidlink.com (kroberts) Newsgroups: comp.sys.cbm Subject: SX-64 prob. Date: 11 Aug 1996 01:39:42 GMT Organization: NetLink, Inc. Lines: 8 Message-ID: <262.6796T332T270@rand.nidlink.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: pm3-13.nidlink.com X-Newsreader: THOR 2.22 (Amiga;TCP/IP) *UNREGISTERED* Anybody got an idea which chip may be at fault in an SX-64 that cannot communicate with either it's internal disk drive or any external drives? The screen just freezes up after a load command is executed and no drive activity occurs. =20 Thanks for any help, Ken #! rnews 732 Path: pravda.aa.msen.com!news1.best.com!news.texas.net!news.kei.com!newsf= eed.internetmci.com!newsxfer2.itd.umich.edu!portc01.blue.aol.com!newstf01= .news.aol.com!newsbf02.news.aol.com!not-for-mail From: wshrake@aol.com (WShrake) Newsgroups: comp.sys.cbm Subject: Re: Vic-20 software offered Date: 10 Aug 1996 22:35:21 -0400 Organization: America Online, Inc. (1-800-827-6364) Lines: 6 Sender: root@newsbf02.news.aol.com Message-ID: <4ujgt9$17f@newsbf02.news.aol.com> References: Reply-To: wshrake@aol.com (WShrake) NNTP-Posting-Host: newsbf02.mail.aol.com Two known Vic20 sites: ftp.funet.fi (/pub/CBM/vic20/) =20 ftp.hrz.uni-kassel.de (/pub3/vic-20) =20 Just FWIW... #! rnews 2918 Path: pravda.aa.msen.com!nntp.coast.net!swidir.switch.ch!01-newsfeed.univ= ie.ac.at!Austria.EU.net!EU.net!usenet2.news.uk.psi.net!uknet!usenet1.news= .uk.psi.net!uknet!psinntp!psinntp!psinntp!usenet From: wanderer_rtc@usa.pipeline.com(R. T. Cunningham) Newsgroups: comp.sys.cbm Subject: Re: Programming Date: 11 Aug 1996 02:19:20 GMT Organization: BBS SysOp Extraordinaire Lines: 78 Message-ID: <4ujfv8$7ej@news2.h1.usa.pipeline.com> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: 38.8.231.2 X-PipeUser: wanderer_rtc X-PipeHub: usa.pipeline.com X-PipeGCOS: (R. T. Cunningham) X-Newsreader: Pipeline v3.5.0 On Aug 10, 1996 23:14:19 in article , 'fjb@torfree.net (Jim Butterfield)' wrote:=20 =20 >: Rene Guillas pondered:=20 >: > =20 >: > IBM BASIC has LOCATE n,n and APPLE BASIC has HPOS n and VPOS n , wha= t is =20 >the POKE=20 >: > equivalent on the C=3D64?=20 >: > =20 >: > --=20 >: > Colin Guillas=20 >=20 >Easiest way is to set up a "vertical" string V$, defined like this:=20 >=20 >10 V$=3D"[home][down][down][down]...."=20 >=20 >(You of course press the HOME key rather than typing [home] and press th= e=20 >cursor-down key rather than typing [down] .. and try to get about 24 =20 >[down] keys into the string). The line as you see it will have those =20 >"inverted" characters on it...=20 >=20 >Now, to set the cursor to line V, column H, you'd code:=20 >=20 >100 PRINT LEFT$(V$,V);TAB(H);=20 >=20 >or to print an X at line 15, column 25, the code would be:=20 >=20 >300 PRINT LEFT$(V$,15);TAB(25);"X"=20 >=20 >.. get the idea? It's surpisingly fast.=20 >=20 > --Jim=20 =20 There are a couple of routines that can be used if you want to use pokes = to emulate locate. However, and anyone can correct me if I'm wrong, the 64'= s line links can get messed up by printing to the last column of each line.= =20 Make sure the lines are all separate by using:=20 =20 for i=3D217to242:poke i,peek(i)o or128:next=20 =20 or in assembly:=20 =20 LDY #24=20 CLEAR: LDA 217,Y=20 ORA #128=20 STA 217,Y=20 DEY=20 BPL CLEAR=20 RTS=20 =20 Then you can use either:=20 =20 poke211,column:poke214,row:sys58732 (print at routine)=20 =20 or=20 =20 poke781,row:poke782,column:poke783,0:sys65520 (plot routine)=20 =20 or in assembly: =20 =20 LDX ;row=20 LDY ;column=20 CLC ;clear the carry=20 JSR PLOT ;65520 =20 =20 I can't remember if it has to end with RTS - somewhere in the back of my mind I seem to recall that plot will return to BASIC on it's own. But anyway, you'd call the clear links routine by doing a simply sys(address) and then the plot routine by sys(address),(row),(column) Of course, thes= e can be combined to clear the links prior to the plot routine every time.=20 =20 I'm a bit rusty with this assembly stuff, please forgive any errors.=20 =20 Richard T. Cunningham (a.k.a. Wanderer)=20 SysOp of the Desert Oasis BBS in Phoenix, AZ=20 A Commodore 128 BBS, 602-849-2892 #! rnews 1415 Path: pravda.aa.msen.com!nntp.coast.net!chi-news.cic.net!ddsw1!news.mcs.n= et!nntp04.primenet.com!news.shkoo.com!nntp.primenet.com!tank.news.pipex.n= et!pipex!usenet2.news.uk.psi.net!uknet!usenet1.news.uk.psi.net!uknet!psin= ntp!psinntp!psinntp!usenet From: wanderer_rtc@usa.pipeline.com(R. T. Cunningham) Newsgroups: comp.sys.cbm Subject: Re: VIC-20 Date: 11 Aug 1996 02:22:30 GMT Organization: BBS SysOp Extraordinaire Lines: 24 Message-ID: <4ujg56$7mq@news2.h1.usa.pipeline.com> References: <4uj9v7$rqf@mars.worldonline.nl> NNTP-Posting-Host: 38.8.231.2 X-PipeUser: wanderer_rtc X-PipeHub: usa.pipeline.com X-PipeGCOS: (R. T. Cunningham) X-Newsreader: Pipeline v3.5.0 On Aug 11, 1996 00:35:48 in article , 'spy@worldonline.nl (Jeroen van Drongelen)' wrote:=20 =20 >fjb@torfree.net (Jim Butterfield) wrote:=20 >=20 >> Well, there is a SUPERMON+VIC available, which will do tiny assemblies= ,=20 >> etc. And Commodore did, at one time, put out a cartridge MLM that wou= ld =20 >> do a similar job.=20 >=20 >Jim Butterfield? I remember your name from early PET B. Exchange..=20 >didn't you write for Compute! ?=20 >=20 >Sorry for being off-topic here..:)=20 =20 I'll be guilty of being off topic too. Jim is the man, the myth, one of the earliest PET, 64 and 128 programmers in the history of Commodore.=20 =20 --=20 =20 Richard T. Cunningham (a.k.a. Wanderer)=20 SysOp of the Desert Oasis BBS in Phoenix, AZ=20 A Commodore 128 BBS, 602-849-2892 #! rnews 1246 Path: pravda.aa.msen.com!news1.best.com!news.texas.net!news.kei.com!newsf= eed.internetmci.com!news.sprintlink.net!news-stk-200.sprintlink.net!news.= rain.org!not-for-mail From: bnholmes@rain.org (Ben Holmes) Newsgroups: comp.sys.cbm Subject: Re: Zak McKracken & RAMLink Date: 11 Aug 1996 02:45:34 GMT Organization: RAIN Public Access Internet (805) 967-RAIN Lines: 11 Message-ID: <4ujhge$1qf@news.rain.org> References: <4ue2up$glm@news.ios.com> <4uegg3$ot1@news2.h1.usa.pipeline.c= om> <4uivcq$6sq@news.ios.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: bnholmes@coyote.rain.org X-Newsreader: TIN [UNIX 1.3 950824BETA PL0] Anthony R Perotti (aperotti@tribeca.ios.com) wrote: > I have a RAMLink w/ no RAMCard but I do have a 1750 Clone REU. I had i= t=20 > plugged into the RAM port and my Swiftlink plugged into the pass throug= h=20 > port. What I noticed is that some programs do not recognize the REU in= =20 > the RAm port. Specifically, Dialogue and CS-DOS don't work quite right= . =20 > So I plugged both the Clone and the Swiftlink back into my Skyles 2+1 a= nd=20 > then into the pass through port and now those programs work better. I frequently use CS-DOS with RamLink, REU, Swiftlink configuration: Just throw that first toggle switch to the 'direct' position... works fine! #! rnews 781 From: Indian@Microserve.com (Indian) Path: pravda.aa.msen.com!nntp.coast.net!news-res.gsl.net!news.gsl.net!new= s.mathworks.com!newsfeed.internetmci.com!news-out.microserve.net!news-in.= microserve.net!microserve.com!INDIAN Newsgroups: comp.sys.cbm Subject: 64 'Prospecting' Software Message-ID: <96081083412@microserve.com> Date: Sat, 10 Aug 1996 23:10:12 EST Reply-To: Indian@Microserve.com (Indian) Organization: Microserve Information Systems (800)380-INET=20 Distribution: world Lines: 13 Yes.... we still have our Gold Prospecting and Treasure Hunting C64 Software available. Come on over to our WWW Site at- www.stroudsburg.com/apache When there, select 'OTHER PRODUCTS' from the main menu. You'll see the Software section. >>>---Indian----> #! rnews 1788 Path: pravda.aa.msen.com!news1.best.com!news.texas.net!news.kei.com!newsf= eed.internetmci.com!uwm.edu!math.ohio-state.edu!jussieu.fr!rain.fr!news.s= printlink.net!news-dc-9.sprintlink.net!EU.net!usenet2.news.uk.psi.net!ukn= et!usenet1.news.uk.psi.net!uknet!psinntp!psinntp!psinntp!usenet From: wanderer_rtc@usa.pipeline.com(R. T. Cunningham) Newsgroups: comp.sys.cbm Subject: Re: CMD Hard Drive replacement Date: 11 Aug 1996 02:26:55 GMT Organization: BBS SysOp Extraordinaire Lines: 28 Message-ID: <4ujgdf$84b@news2.h1.usa.pipeline.com> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: 38.8.231.2 X-PipeUser: wanderer_rtc X-PipeHub: usa.pipeline.com X-PipeGCOS: (R. T. Cunningham) X-Newsreader: Pipeline v3.5.0 On Aug 11, 1996 00:05:16 in article , 'Scott Brockway ' wrote:=20 =20 >Speaking of this. I just bought a SyQuest EZ135 to hook up to my CMD and= =20 >I'm having problems...=20 >=20 >I have a friend who bought one and had no trouble hooking it up and=20 >getting the thing working. But I am having major problems... When I run=20 >add drive or llformat the programs find the SyQuest as DVN #4 but when i= t=20 >starts looking for the LUN it never finds it. Grrrrr :[ I have the lates= t=20 >DOS installed and the newest old older HDutils disks but nothing seems t= o=20 >work. =20 >=20 >I took it to another friends who has a PC and it worked flawlessly for=20 >him. But still won't work for me... Help!=20 >=20 >fungus@eskimo.com=20 =20 Well, FUNGI :-)=20 =20 Have you tried change the device number of the SYQUEST to 1 instead of 4.= =20 It might solve your problem (but then again, maybe not). The CMD is 0. =20 =20 --=20 =20 Richard T. Cunningham (a.k.a. Wanderer)=20 SysOp of the Desert Oasis BBS in Phoenix, AZ=20 A Commodore 128 BBS, 602-849-2892 #! rnews 1527 Path: pravda.aa.msen.com!news1.best.com!news.sgi.com!enews.sgi.com!news.m= athworks.com!news.kei.com!newsfeed.internetmci.com!in3.uu.net!news.ios.co= m!tribeca.ios.com!aperotti From: aperotti@tribeca.ios.com (Anthony R Perotti) Newsgroups: comp.sys.cbm Subject: Re: 1902A Problem Date: 11 Aug 1996 03:00:32 GMT Organization: Internet Online Services Lines: 24 Message-ID: <4ujicg$n26@news.ios.com> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: tribeca.ios.com X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Fred G. Athearn (fga@sover.net) wrote: : I just got a reconditioned 1902A Video Monitor from CMD and after : working fine for about six weeks it has this problem of just : going black very quickly in 80 column mode. Then if you bump the : monitor hard it will come back on dim and out of focus at first : and the after a few seconds it is OK again until the next time, : but it seems to be happening more and more often and taking a : harder and harder bump to fix. : Anyone got a clue as to where the problem would be? : BTW I have heard that you can use a CGA monitor with the=20 : 128 in 80 column mode. How do you hook that up? Is there an : adaptor or something? : --=20 : Fred G. Athearn fga@sover.net http://www.sover.net/~fga : Rockingham, VT, USA finger for pgp key (802) 869-2003 =20 -- ____ ,^o | aperotti@us.net=20 / _ ._ | C=3D128D,JD,Swiftlink,CMD HD40,RAMLink, /_(_)_| )_\/ | Boccamodem 14.4,1581,fun,fun,fun. Perotti / | -=3D8 bits should be enough for anyone=3D- #! rnews 1055 Path: pravda.aa.msen.com!news1.best.com!news.sgi.com!enews.sgi.com!news.m= athworks.com!newsfeed.internetmci.com!in3.uu.net!news.ios.com!tribeca.ios= .com!aperotti From: aperotti@tribeca.ios.com (Anthony R Perotti) Newsgroups: comp.sys.cbm Subject: Re: Zak McKracken & RAMLink Date: 11 Aug 1996 03:03:19 GMT Organization: Internet Online Services Lines: 11 Message-ID: <4ujihn$nck@news.ios.com> References: <4ue2up$glm@news.ios.com> <4uegg3$ot1@news2.h1.usa.pipeline.c= om> <4uivcq$6sq@news.ios.com> <4ujhge$1qf@news.rain.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: tribeca.ios.com X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Ben Holmes (bnholmes@rain.org) wrote: : I frequently use CS-DOS with RamLink, REU, Swiftlink configuration: Jus= t : throw that first toggle switch to the 'direct' position... works fine! I tried that but it didn't work for me. Maybe because I have no RAM card= ? -- ____ ,^o | aperotti@us.net=20 / _ ._ | C=3D128D,JD,Swiftlink,CMD HD40,RAMLink, /_(_)_| )_\/ | Boccamodem 14.4,1581,fun,fun,fun. Perotti / | -=3D8 bits should be enough for anyone=3D- #! rnews 2893 Path: pravda.aa.msen.com!news1.best.com!news.sgi.com!enews.sgi.com!news.m= athworks.com!newsfeed.internetmci.com!in3.uu.net!news.ios.com!tribeca.ios= .com!aperotti From: aperotti@tribeca.ios.com (Anthony R Perotti) Newsgroups: comp.sys.cbm Subject: 1902 Monitor repair Date: 11 Aug 1996 03:10:50 GMT Organization: Internet Online Services Lines: 46 Message-ID: <4ujivq$ng0@news.ios.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: tribeca.ios.com X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] This is a set of instructions for fixing 1900 series monitors with the fl= yback=20 transformer cold solder joint problem. It was posted on Genie sometime a= go as=20 you can see from the date. Mike Neus was the originator, thanks Mike! Category 4, Topic 21 Message 4 Sun Jun 20, 1993 M.NEUS [Neusoft] at 19:45 EDT The Commodore 1900 series monitors (made by Magnavox, by the way) are ver= y subje ct to cold solder joints on the flyback transformer. While trouble won't= show u p immediately, a few years of use will likely bring intermitant operation= to eve ntual complete failure. I had a Magnovox RGB monitor 80 that had the sam= e probl em. It started out as the screen would very briefly blank out. Slowly, = it went out longer and more frequently. Eventually, I had to hit the monitor to= get it to come back to life. It finally died and wouldn't come back no matter = how har d I hit it. This is a known manufacturing defect. Any Magnavox service = center=20 should be able to fix it on the spot for a small fee. Don't let them tel= l you t he flyback is bad, because its not!!! If you're handy with a soldering iron, you can fix it yourself....First, = unplug=20 the darned thing cause you'll knock yourself into the next room if the fl= yback s tarts working again. Open up the monitor. Place the monitor so the fron= t faces you. On the left side of the tube, you will see a plunger like device a= ttached to the tube, and a wire leading to a relatively large device mounted ont= o the P CB. Flip the monitor over, remove the foil back if necessary. Use a sol= dering=20 iron and heat the joint until the solder reflows. Hold it there for a wh= ile to=20 be sure all solder is melted...if you don't you'll have another cold join= t to de al with later. 10-15 seconds after the solder starts melting should be g= ood eno ugh. In the case of my monitor, I felt there wasn't even enough solder t= o begin with so I added some. Do this for all the joints that go to the flyback= (the l arge component on the other side of the PCB I mentioned earlier). Reassemble and viola! By the way, 1084 monitors are also susceptible (essentially the same as a= 1902), but I know nothing about the internal configuration... Mike -- ____ ,^o | aperotti@us.net=20 / _ ._ | C=3D128D,JD,Swiftlink,CMD HD40,RAMLink, /_(_)_| )_\/ | Boccamodem 14.4,1581,fun,fun,fun. Perotti / | -=3D8 bits should be enough for anyone=3D- #! rnews 961 Path: pravda.aa.msen.com!news1.best.com!news.sgi.com!swrinde!news-res.gsl= .net!news.gsl.net!news-penn.gsl.net!news.gsl.net!duke.telepac.pt!news.tel= epac.pt!dux.isec.pt!storm96 From: "Ricardo \"Storm\" Marques Ferreira" Newsgroups: comp.sys.cbm Subject: Re: Silly question #1 Date: Sat, 10 Aug 1996 22:44:37 +0100 Organization: TELEPAC, SA Lines: 12 Message-ID: References: <320698D2.118B@iquest.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: dux.isec.pt Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=3DUS-ASCII In-Reply-To: <320698D2.118B@iquest.com>=20 On Mon, 5 Aug 1996, Bill Cotter wrote: > Hopefully, I won't get laughed out of house and home, but is there a me= thod > of converting a Commodore .d64 file to an executable file for DOS?=20 >=20 > Bill >=20 >=20 No, not right now... But it would be a great feature for the emulator. To play TURRICAN you would execute the file TURRICAN.EXE :) Ricardo Ferreira #! rnews 2225 Path: pravda.aa.msen.com!news1.best.com!news.sgi.com!enews.sgi.com!news.m= athworks.com!newsfeed.internetmci.com!in2.uu.net!EU.net!usenet2.news.uk.p= si.net!uknet!usenet1.news.uk.psi.net!uknet!dispatch.news.demon.net!demon!= mail2news.demon.co.uk!gate.demon.co.uk From: Jason Newsgroups: comp.sys.cbm Subject: Re: OVER 30000 C64 PROGRAMS!!! Date: Sat, 10 Aug 96 21:34:32 GMT Organization: Cosine Systems Lines: 30 Message-ID: <9608102134.AA005g9@cosine.demon.co.uk> References: <4tlt0b$4br@rubens.telebyte.nl> <4tqart$kk1@login.freenet.col= umbus.oh.us> <4tu90m$ni7@news.us.net> <320B34F0.7584@ts.umu.se> <4ugr71$q= 01@news.us.net> X-NNTP-Posting-Host: gate.demon.co.uk X-Newsreader: TIN [AMIGA 1.3 950726BETA PL0] X-Mail2News-Path: relay-1.mail.demon.net!gate.demon.co.uk Jonas: : I heard that Activision is currently selling a CD with old classics : like Pitfall I&II, H.E.R.O and others for emulators. I believe that : they are pretty serious about collecting money... Michael W. Hall: : Too bad what you are talking about is a CD full of Atari 2600 classic=20 : that we released in there original format for the IBM. Perhaps the=20 : emulator you are refering to it the Atari 2600 emulator that they all=20 : run on. Bzzzz! Sorry, wrong answer! =3D-) Jonas is referring to Activision's "Commodore 64 15 Pack", the box of whi= ch is balanced on my lap as I type (I'm leaning the mouse on it!). The game= s on the CD are .D64 files and run thru Win95 using an emulator and you hav= e the option of having "authentic" background interuptions playing. I don't have '95 so I just converted the D64's back to C64 disks and played the "background" .WAVs on my Amiga! =3D-) Jason =3D-) ____________________________________________________________________= ___ TMR / / / / / / / = /\ / /__/ / / /__/ / / / /__/ Email: tmr@cosine.demon.co.uk = / / / /\_/ / /__ / / / / __// Cosine Homepage: = / / / /__/ / / / / / / / / / http://www.cosine.demon.co.uk /= / /_____/_____/_____/__/__/__/_____/_____________________________________/ = / \_____\_____\_____\__\__\__\_____\_____________________________________\/ #! rnews 1976 Path: pravda.aa.msen.com!news1.best.com!news.sgi.com!enews.sgi.com!news.m= athworks.com!newsfeed.internetmci.com!in3.uu.net!news00.sunet.se!sunic!ne= ws99.sunet.se!cph-1.news.DK.net!dkuug!dknet!usenet From: kwed@pip.dknet.dk (Jan Lund Thomsen) Newsgroups: comp.sys.cbm Subject: Re: OVER 30000 C64 PROGRAMS!!! Date: Fri, 09 Aug 1996 22:05:32 GMT Organization: Triangle - The Solution To Your Confuzion! Lines: 27 Message-ID: <320bb4e0.9679469@news.dknet.dk> References: <4u33d7$89e@newsbf02.news.aol.com> <4u4ppo$gka@news2.h1.usa.p= ipeline.com> Reply-To: kwed@pip.dknet.dk NNTP-Posting-Host: aarh22.pip.dknet.dk X-Newsreader: Forte Agent .99e/32.227 [ <5 Aug 1996 12:35:04 GMT> R. T. Cunningham :] >Ward says it so well. I think the point is that if you want original >software without any defects, you have to buy it. Most of the "cracks" = and >"demos" have bugs generated by trying to get around the original copy >protection or drive specific information. I would pay $50.00 for an=20 >original software product over 100 whacked copies of the same product.=20 Depends on the cracker in question. It's true that a lot of stuff was put out by crackers who just wanted a quick release and didn't even bother about quality. On the other hand, a number (I won't speculate on percentage) of pirates were dedicated to releasing quality rather than quantity. Good quality cracks often took up a lot less diskspace and were compatible with Jiffy/Dolphin/etc fastloaders. I would also like to point out the difference between "crackers" and "pirates". Whereas anyone with access to the post office or a modem can be a pirate, it takes actual talent to be a good cracker. -------------------------------------------------------------------------= ---- Jan Lund Thomsen (aka Qed/Triangle 3532) Lystrup, Den= mark C64/RPG/INWO/Warner Bros/Disney/Anthro/Comics-addict and all-around nice = guy. ----------- Email: Kwed@pip.dknet.dk ---------- Fido: 2:238/128.11 ------= ---- #! rnews 1338 Path: pravda.aa.msen.com!news1.best.com!news.sgi.com!enews.sgi.com!news.m= athworks.com!newsfeed.internetmci.com!in3.uu.net!news00.sunet.se!sunic!ne= ws99.sunet.se!cph-1.news.DK.net!dkuug!dknet!usenet From: kwed@pip.dknet.dk (Jan Lund Thomsen) Newsgroups: comp.sys.cbm Subject: Re: VIC-20 Date: Fri, 09 Aug 1996 22:05:35 GMT Organization: Triangle - The Solution To Your Confuzion! Lines: 16 Message-ID: <320bb099.8584958@news.dknet.dk> References: <4ts63e$pj8@vixen.cso.uiuc.edu> <4u90tm$7o3@news.indy.net> Reply-To: kwed@pip.dknet.dk NNTP-Posting-Host: aarh22.pip.dknet.dk X-Newsreader: Forte Agent .99e/32.227 [ WaD :] >Woohoo! Feel free! I am an avid supporter of VIC software and >would love to see some new stuff for it! (What is this demo Qed was >telling me about at TP95/94??) :) Unfortunately I can't remember it's title. As far as I remember it runs on a 192K ROM/24K RAM expanded VIC20. Had some pretty impressive effects for a Vic. Now where did I put that videotape with it? :) -------------------------------------------------------------------------= ---- Jan Lund Thomsen (aka Qed/Triangle 3532) Lystrup, Den= mark C64/RPG/INWO/Warner Bros/Disney/Anthro/Comics-addict and all-around nice = guy. ----------- Email: Kwed@pip.dknet.dk ---------- Fido: 2:238/128.11 ------= ---- #! rnews 1521 Path: pravda.aa.msen.com!news1.best.com!news.sgi.com!enews.sgi.com!news.m= athworks.com!newsfeed.internetmci.com!in3.uu.net!news00.sunet.se!sunic!ne= ws99.sunet.se!cph-1.news.DK.net!dkuug!dknet!usenet From: kwed@pip.dknet.dk (Jan Lund Thomsen) Newsgroups: comp.sys.cbm Subject: Re: VIC-20 Date: Fri, 09 Aug 1996 22:05:36 GMT Organization: Triangle - The Solution To Your Confuzion! Lines: 16 Message-ID: <320bb08e.8573779@news.dknet.dk> References: <4ts63e$pj8@vixen.cso.uiuc.edu> <4u90tm$7o3@news.indy.net> <4= u9ec1$e5f@vixen.cso.uiuc.edu> Reply-To: kwed@pip.dknet.dk NNTP-Posting-Host: aarh22.pip.dknet.dk X-Newsreader: Forte Agent .99e/32.227 [ <7 Aug 1996 06:50:41 GMT> Gary Sutton :] >I'll be starting to tinker around with Vicki as soon as I can get my paw= s=20 >on an assembler (preferably on disk) and an assembly language book. Can't help you with the assembler. As for a book on assembly language get anything that covers the 6502/6510 series, like Andreas Driepke's "Machine Code with 6502"(or something like that). It doesn't concentrate on any specific computer, so it won't unlock any of the Vic's secrets for you. Which is why I also recomend you get hold of the VIC20 Programmers Reference Guide. -------------------------------------------------------------------------= ---- Jan Lund Thomsen (aka Qed/Triangle 3532) Lystrup, Den= mark C64/RPG/INWO/Warner Bros/Disney/Anthro/Comics-addict and all-around nice = guy. ----------- Email: Kwed@pip.dknet.dk ---------- Fido: 2:238/128.11 ------= ---- #! rnews 1258 Path: pravda.aa.msen.com!news1.best.com!news.sgi.com!enews.sgi.com!news.m= athworks.com!newsfeed.internetmci.com!in3.uu.net!news00.sunet.se!sunic!ne= ws99.sunet.se!cph-1.news.DK.net!dkuug!dknet!usenet From: kwed@pip.dknet.dk (Jan Lund Thomsen) Newsgroups: comp.sys.cbm Subject: Re: VIC-20 Date: Fri, 09 Aug 1996 22:05:37 GMT Organization: Triangle - The Solution To Your Confuzion! Lines: 13 Message-ID: <320bb08a.8569693@news.dknet.dk> References: <4ts63e$pj8@vixen.cso.uiuc.edu> <4u90tm$7o3@news.indy.net> <4= u9ec1$e5f@vixen.cso.uiuc.edu> Reply-To: kwed@pip.dknet.dk NNTP-Posting-Host: aarh22.pip.dknet.dk X-Newsreader: Forte Agent .99e/32.227 [ Sorex/W.O.W :] >>: (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 mandelbr= ot >zoomer.... Not to mention the samples and the morphing. :) -------------------------------------------------------------------------= ---- Jan Lund Thomsen (aka Qed/Triangle 3532) Lystrup, Den= mark C64/RPG/INWO/Warner Bros/Disney/Anthro/Comics-addict and all-around nice = guy. ----------- Email: Kwed@pip.dknet.dk ---------- Fido: 2:238/128.11 ------= ---- #! rnews 2658 Path: pravda.aa.msen.com!news1.best.com!news.sgi.com!spool.mu.edu!howland= .erols.net!news-e2a.gnn.com!pop.gnn.com!Eyeth From: Eyeth@gnn.com (Todd Elliott) Newsgroups: comp.sys.cbm Subject: Re: OVER 30000 C64 PROGRAMS!!! Date: Sat, 10 Aug 1996 18:01:51 Organization: GNN Lines: 41 Message-ID: <4uj0ru$j23@news-e2c.gnn.com> References: <4tlt0b$4br@rubens.telebyte.nl> <4tqart$kk1@login.freenet.col= umbus.oh.us> <4tu90m$ni7@news.us.net> <4u2g77$crc@news.us.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: 36-80.client.gnn.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=3D"us-ascii" X-GNN-NewsServer-Posting-Date: 10 Aug 1996 22:01:34 GMT X-Mailer: GNNmessenger 1.3 >And one of things that probably irks me the most is that piracy in the >Commodore market was at an all-time low until ex-Commodore turned PC >pirates got bored. Suddenly we had emulators, whose main source of >software is cracked and pirated disk images that are easily moved to the= ir >PC's. It didn't take long for remaining Commodore pirates to make >utilities to make use of these images on the Commodore itself. Now we've >got CD-ROMs filled with thousands of such images, made to cater to the >whims of people who don't even use our computer platform. The presence o= f >these have turned countless BBS's and Internet sites into instant >Commodore warez distribution hubs. Real Commodore users now Email me >asking when our company will come out with CD-ROM drive for the Commodor= e >so that they can get these CD's instead of having to download the stuff. >All while I sit and watch our software sales go from reasonable to almos= t >non-existant. > How True! There was a BBS (which shall go un-named) that had the latest E= uro games such as Creatures I & II, Mayhem in Monsterland, Lemmings, etc. etc. Anyone could dial up the BBS during the early 1990s and d/l these excelle= nt games. (Some were NTSC fixed.) But, there were zero downloads! Now, the emulator market really has contributed to the decline of the C=3D software market made prior to 1994. After 1994, unless it is a good utili= ty, games just simply do not sell well. Granted these c64 emulator guys would never buy the real product- Chances that they have the real products stacked in some closet somewhere, but wa= nt to relive their memories for a moment. The guys that do count are the ones using the classic C=3D computers! And= there are not that a lot which would sustain new software on a regular basis li= ke the 1980's. Todd {.sig starts here!} Todd Elliott C128D Nirvana Enthusiast! telliott@ubmail.ubalt.edu University of Baltimore School of Law #! rnews 798 Path: pravda.aa.msen.com!news1.best.com!news.sgi.com!spool.mu.edu!howland= .erols.net!news.sprintlink.net!new-news.sprintlink.net!newsreader.sprintl= ink.net!news.sprintlink.net!news-ana-24.sprintlink.net!news.us.net!usenet From: mhall59@us.net (Michael W. Hall) Newsgroups: comp.sys.cbm Subject: Wanted 1902 or 1084 monitors Date: 10 Aug 1996 21:45:24 GMT Organization: US Net, Incorporated Lines: 5 Message-ID: <4uivtk$684@news.us.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: host198.laurel.us.net Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=3DUS-ASCII X-Newsreader: WinVN 0.99.8 (beta 2) I need a monitor that will work on a C=3D128. I would prefer a 1084 since= =20 I have an amiga also, but which ever models have 40/80 columns. Would like to get one with all cables and the original box if possible. mhall59@us.net #! rnews 1018 Path: pravda.aa.msen.com!news1.best.com!news.sgi.com!news.msfc.nasa.gov!n= ewsfeed.internetmci.com!news.mathworks.com!news-res.gsl.net!news.gsl.net!= news-dc.gsl.net!news.gsl.net!duke.telepac.pt!news.telepac.pt!dux.isec.pt!= storm96 From: "Ricardo \"Storm\" Marques Ferreira" Newsgroups: comp.sys.cbm Subject: Re: CMD's web address Date: Sat, 10 Aug 1996 23:14:42 +0100 Organization: TELEPAC, SA Lines: 13 Message-ID: References: <4uemia$se1@ns1.net-gate.com> <320C04E4.5BFD@iee.tu-clausthal= .de> NNTP-Posting-Host: dux.isec.pt Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=3DUS-ASCII In-Reply-To: <320C04E4.5BFD@iee.tu-clausthal.de>=20 On Fri, 9 Aug 1996, Matthias Kirchner wrote: > Jezebel Rebecca Delilah wrote: > >=20 > > Hmmm... Subject says it all, what's CMD's web address :)Try http://w= ww.cmd.com >=20 > -- >=20 >=20 No! Thats the address of CMD for MicroShit Windows! The address of C64's CMD is http://www.the-spa.com/cmd/=20 Ricardo Ferreira #! rnews 565 Path: pravda.aa.msen.com!news1.best.com!news.sgi.com!news.msfc.nasa.gov!n= ewsfeed.internetmci.com!news.igc.net!discovery.igc.net!allura From: allura@igc.net (Christine Argeros) Newsgroups: comp.sys.cbm Subject: 1571 with jiffy dos $60 Date: 10 Aug 1996 22:40:21 GMT Organization: Internet Gateway Connections - 800-IGC-WEBB Lines: 2 Message-ID: <4uj34l$83o@news.igc.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: discovery.igc.net X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] i have for sale 5 1571 drives all in perfect working order (were realigned) and come with jiffy dos installed $60 each =END=