From: "Paul Webb"
From: Mark Sayers
From: Eoghann Irving
From: Eoghann Irving
From: Dex Kennedy
Date: 03 Apr 98 01:19:49 +0000
From: "Taz"
Date: Fri, 3 Apr 1998 16:39:52 +0100
From: Eoghann Irving
From: Eoghann Irving
From: Eoghann Irving
From: Dave James
From: Dave Fisher
From: Dave Fisher
From: Dave Fisher
From: Steve Bashforth
From: ""
Date: Sat, 04 Apr 1998 13:53:08 +0200
From: Eoghann Irving
From: Eoghann Irving
Date: Sat, 04 Apr 1998 15:51:26 +0200
From: Steve Haigh
From: Steve Haigh
Date: 04 Apr 98 10:17:37 +0100
From: bml@thenet.co.uk (bml)
From: bml@thenet.co.uk (bml)
From: "Taz"
From: "Taz"
From: Dex Kennedy
From: Dave Fisher
From: Dave Fisher
From: Dave Fisher
From: Quark
From: "Paul Dixon"
From: ""
From: Paul Ferguson
From: "Taz"
From: Eoghann Irving
From: "Taz"
From: Dex Kennedy
From: "Paul Webb"
From: Ralph Twiss
From: Dave Fisher
From: Eoghann Irving
From: Eoghann Irving
From: Eoghann Irving
From: Eoghann Irving
From: Eoghann Irving
From: Bill Eaves
Date: Tue, 07 Apr 1998 02:30:36 +0200
From: "Daryl Smith"
Date: Tue, 07 Apr 1998 14:31:52 +0200
Date: Tue, 07 Apr 1998 15:39:17 +0100
From: Richard Drummond
From: Richard Drummond
From: Richard Drummond
From: Dave Fisher
From: Dave Fisher
From: Dave Fisher
From: Dave Fisher
From: Eoghann Irving
From: Eoghann Irving
From: Eoghann Irving
From: Eoghann Irving
From: Eoghann Irving
From: Steve Haigh
From: "Taz"
Date: 05 Apr 98 11:47:00 +0000
From: Mark Sayers
From: bml@thenet.co.uk (bml)
From: Bill Eaves
From: Eoghann Irving
From: Eoghann Irving
From: Eoghann Irving
From: Mark Sayers
From: Dave James
Date: 08 Apr 98 19:44:43 +0100
From: Bill Eaves
From: "Paul Dixon"
Date: 2 Apr 98 18:53:07 +0100
Subject: Re: testing 1 2 3
In reply to what Eoghann Irving said about "testing 1 2 3"...
> Hi :)
>
> Not much point to this message, just seeing who's got here already.
>
> Promise I'll make the next post more exciting. ;)
I can't wait :)
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Date: Thu, 02 Apr 1998 22:47:40 +0000
Subject: Not a test
Hi All ( at least 4)
I realise that there is probablly a better list than this to to ask a
a shapeshifter question but someone has to start the ball rolling
other than test 123.
I've a Blizzard 2040/40 Plus 1meg mac rom Plus SS. Result nil,
either solid
grey or more usually spectacular graphic crash. I've removed hacks,
gone bare wb3.1 half a dozen different bootfiles. No success.
So does anyone know of a successful SS installation with a Blizzard
2040/40?
thks for your consideration Mark
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Date: Thu, 02 Apr 1998 23:03:12 +0100
Subject: Re[2]: testing 1 2 3
Hi :)
On 02-Apr-98, Dave Fisher wrote:
> On 02-Apr-98, You Wrote About The Subject testing 1 2 3,
>> Not much point to this message, just seeing who's got here already.
> /me waves at Ego ;^)
You're on the CU list. Feeling brave? ;)
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Date: Thu, 02 Apr 1998 23:02:31 +0100
Subject: Re[2]: testing 1 2 3
Hi :)
On 02-Apr-98, Paul Webb wrote:
> In reply to what Eoghann Irving said about "testing 1 2 3"...
>> Hi :)
>>
>> Not much point to this message, just seeing who's got here already.
>>
>> Promise I'll make the next post more exciting. ;)
> I can't wait :)
Errr...
My YAM problems seem to have miraculously disappeared. I guess that
new texteditor.mcc must have done the trick after all. :)
Oh. I see that they've released a price for one of the new BoXeR
based amigas. Round about $1500 for the Alien one.
"Anti-Gravity's Alien Amiga clone will cost $1495, and comes with a
060,
16 Meg of RAM, a CD-ROM drive, 2 GIG hard drive and mini-tower case.
The
Alien Amiga is based upon a BoXer motherboard. Anti-Gravity already
has
50-60 pre-orders for this system, but there is a 6-8 week waiting
period."
Not cheap by PC standards, but a lot better than the price for the
A4000T anyway
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Date: Thu, 02 Apr 1998 23:22:21 +0000
Subject: Re[2]: testing 1 2 3
#On 02-Apr-98 Dave Fisher wrote regarding: Re: testing 1 2 3#
Hi Dave,
> Hi Eoghann,
> On 02-Apr-98, You Wrote About The Subject testing 1 2 3,
> > Not much point to this message, just seeing who's got here already.
> /me waves at Ego ;^)
Hello all :-) I expect we'll see most of the FCIers turning up here. Anyone
posted (spamed :)) other lists to announce the list?
Dex.
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From: "Colin Pritchard"
Subject: Re: testing 1 2 3
On 02-Apr-98 19:25:09, Eoghann Irving
happy knowledge he's probably wrong the following garble:
>Hi :)
>Not much point to this message, just seeing who's got here already.
>Promise I'll make the next post more exciting. ;)
...and me:)...
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Date: 2 Apr 98 19:07:07 +0200
Subject: Hello
Status: U
Hi,
So has anyone else joined this list?
Okay assuming I am not talking to myself, has anyone else tried the demo of
webftp? seems to work okay, possible another addition to the "To be
registered" after Res Evil 2 been bought :-)
Taz
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From: drifter@thenet.co.uk
Subject: Hiya - Gateway dev info ?
Yet another body gets dumped in the arrivals lounge. (Nice one Eden)
Cor! Bit too tidy around here as yet.
Has anyone got a url for a gateway site that deals with their development
of our trusty Miggy's ???
I'm thinking of doing a tower job on my 1200 but erm
if there's something in the pipeline from gateway i'll sit on my cash and
wait patiently.
All I need is some info....
Done a web search but could'nt find Gateways Amiga related page.
Any help appreciated,regards,Drifter.
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Date: Fri, 03 Apr 1998 18:41:34 +0100
Subject: Re: Hello
Hi :)
On 02-Apr-98, Taz wrote:
> So has anyone else joined this list?
Nope, you're all on your own. ;)
> Okay assuming I am not talking to myself, has anyone else tried the
demo of
> webftp? seems to work okay, possible another addition to the "To be
> registered" after Res Evil 2 been bought :-)
I've used the WebFTP demo a few times but I find that the heavy
restrictons on it make it hard to test properly. Several of the
options don't work and its pretty slow.
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Date: Fri, 03 Apr 1998 19:15:13 +0100
Subject: Re: Hiya - Gateway dev info ?
Hi :)
On 03-Apr-98, drifter@thenet.co.uk wrote:
> Has anyone got a url for a gateway site that deals with their
development
> of our trusty Miggy's ???
Well the two sites you need to check are.
http://www.amiga.de/ for the Amiga International site, and
http://www.amigainc.com for Amiga Inc
> I'm thinking of doing a tower job on my 1200 but erm
> if there's something in the pipeline from gateway i'll sit on my
cash and
> wait patiently.
You aren't going to see a new machine from Amiga itself for some time
if at all, but there are constant developments like the A5000, the
BoXeR and the BoXeR based Alien.
Whether towering your A1200 is worthwhile rather depends on what
peripherals you currently have and what you plan to do in the future.
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Date: Fri, 03 Apr 1998 19:15:23 +0100
Subject: Re[3]: testing 1 2 3
Hi :)
On 03-Apr-98, Dex Kennedy wrote:
> Hello all :-) I expect we'll see most of the FCIers turning up here.
Anyone
> posted (spamed :)) other lists to announce the list?
Well I'll leave that to others, but I will offer to use the program I
wrote to create stats and a digest of the fsf-list on here and stick
that up on my web pages along with the subsctiption info.
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Date: Fri, 03 Apr 1998 19:49:17 +0000
Subject: Mortal Kombat II
Hello Everyone!
Just wondering if anyone can help me. I got Mortal Kombat II
cheap from our local second hand games shop, and it plays fine
from floppy disk, but I'm fed up of the swapping.
I downloaded a HD installer this evening, but it seems to be
having problems with disk one, saying there's a read error. The
installer is called mkiihd.lha by Jean-François Fabre, has anyone
successfully installed the game using this? Or is there another
one I can use that'll work?
TIA,
Dave
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Date: Fri, 03 Apr 1998 19:49:17 +0100
Subject: E-Mail addresses.
Hi all,
You know this mailing list address is chatter@amiga.co.uk ? Is there anyway
that something could be setup like Bigfoot, so I could be vader@amiga.co.uk
or something ? That would be way cool :)
Obviously, knowing nothing about mailing lists/domains etc, I'm clueless
here, but thought it sounds good !
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Date: Fri, 03 Apr 1998 19:44:49 +0100
Subject: Spreading The Word (Was:Re: testing 1 2 3)
Hi Eoghann,
On 02-Apr-98, You Wrote About The Subject Re[2]: testing 1 2 3,
> You're on the CU list. Feeling brave? ;)
LOL. After the crash, they are only upto about 100 subscribers :)
I'll gladly pass on the word, as long as its not classed as SPAMMING or
anything simular. I'll add details to my _*#WEBSITE#*_ later :)
Best Regards,
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Date: Fri, 03 Apr 1998 21:20:15 +0100
Subject: WOA98
Hi all,
More details of WOA98 are available from the CU site.
http://www.cu-amiga.co.uk/
Best Regards,
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Date: Fri, 03 Apr 1998 22:40:24 +0100
Subject: Re: E-Mail addresses.
Hello Dave
On 03-Apr-98, you wrote:
>» Hi all,
>»
>» You know this mailing list address is chatter@amiga.co.uk ? Is there
anyway
>» that something could be setup like Bigfoot, so I could be
vader@amiga.co.uk
I think the address of this list is Eden trying to tell us something, I was
speaking to him sometime ago on #FCI and it sounds like FCI have the rights
to the amiga domain ie JoeBlogss@*amiga.co.uk*
at the time FCI UK didn't know but Eden said to expect an annoncement in
April, way hay its April. (I hope he didn't mean April 1st.)
Bashy ...[RETURN TO TOP]
Date: 4 Apr 98 07:55:44 +0100
Subject: Hello
Hello, anybody there?
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From: Eden Akhavi
Subject: Re: E-Mail addresses.
At 07:49 PM 4/3/98 +0100, you wrote:
>Hi all,
>
>You know this mailing list address is chatter@amiga.co.uk ? Is there anyway
>that something could be setup like Bigfoot, so I could be vader@amiga.co.uk
>or something ? That would be way cool :)
This is planed using a service we have in Sweden called Email/Web for Life,
but it
is not free over here; so I am not sure whether there will be charge for it
in the UK.
>Obviously, knowing nothing about mailing lists/domains etc, I'm clueless
>here, but thought it sounds good !
The other idea that is being banded around is to provide it as an alternate
domain to thenet
for FCI subscribers.
I'll keep you all informed as I hear about it.
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Date: Sat, 04 Apr 1998 02:46:30 +0100
Subject: Re: Spreading The Word (Was:Re: testing 1 2 3)
Hi :)
On 03-Apr-98, Dave Fisher wrote:
> I'll gladly pass on the word, as long as its not classed as SPAMMING
or
> anything simular.
I don't see how it could be classed as spmmming. Not if you just send
a single brief mail. After all you're a regular on that list and
you're merely telling those people of the existence of another similar
resource.
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Date: Sat, 04 Apr 1998 02:48:52 +0100
Subject: Re[2]: E-Mail addresses.
Hi :)
On 03-Apr-98, Steve Bashforth
> On 03-Apr-98, you
>> » You know this mailing list address is chatter@amiga.co.uk ? Is
there
> anyway
>> » that something could be setup like Bigfoot, so I could be
> vader@amiga.co.uk
> I think the address of this list is Eden trying to tell us
something, I was
> speaking to him sometime ago on #FCI and it sounds like FCI have the
rights
> to the amiga domain ie JoeBlogss@*amiga.co.uk*
Yes I'd say that was the most likely explanation. In order to use
amiga.co.uk you'd have to either own or have a deal with the owner of
that domain.
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From: Eden Akhavi
Subject: Re: Re[2]: E-Mail addresses.
At 02:48 AM 4/4/98 +0100, you wrote:
>Hi :)
> On 03-Apr-98, Steve Bashforth
>> On 03-Apr-98, you
>
>>> » You know this mailing list address is chatter@amiga.co.uk ? Is
>there
>> anyway
>>> » that something could be setup like Bigfoot, so I could be
>> vader@amiga.co.uk
>
>> I think the address of this list is Eden trying to tell us
>something, I was
>> speaking to him sometime ago on #FCI and it sounds like FCI have the
>rights
>> to the amiga domain ie JoeBlogss@*amiga.co.uk*
>
>Yes I'd say that was the most likely explanation. In order to use
>amiga.co.uk you'd have to either own or have a deal with the owner of
>that domain.
FCI owns the domain :-)
I think that there will be a service soon, in Sweden most email addresses
are like johan.johansson@mbox1234.swipnet.se. Which is too long - first of
all what if you can't remmeber your mbox number,etc. So the result is Email
for Life where they can get xyz@swed.com and then point it to their pop3
account on an ISP. When they change ISP's they just change their destination.
Easy really. But they charge 55SEK or about £4.50/Year for the service.
Then for
Web for Life http://www.swed.com/~xyz they charge 110SEK including the EFL
so about
£9-10/Year.
Its resonable if you want the address, otherwise hotmail/bigfoot is
cheaper. It would
be interested to get an idea who is interested in these addresses, then I
can go and
harass people to find out when and how much.
Regards
Eden
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Date: Sat, 04 Apr 1998 17:30:36 -0000
Subject: Re: E-Mail addresses.
On 04-Apr-98, Eden Akhavi carefully put 2 fingers to the keyboard and picked
out the following letters
>The other idea that is being banded around is to provide it as an alternate
>domain to thenet
>for FCI subscribers.
>I'll keep you all informed as I hear about it.
Strange but true... I actually *like* haighy@thenet.co.uk :-)
Steve
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Date: Sat, 04 Apr 1998 17:42:11 -0000
Subject: Re: Re[2]: E-Mail addresses.
On 04-Apr-98, Eden Akhavi carefully put 2 fingers to the keyboard and picked
out the following letters
>Its resonable if you want the address, otherwise hotmail/bigfoot is
>cheaper. It would
>be interested to get an idea who is interested in these addresses, then I
>can go and
>harass people to find out when and how much.
>Regards
>Eden
See earlier about my thoughts on haighy@thenet.co.uk but it is so
cheap to do this that I may be interested in some other ones.
haighy@uk.co would be nice (but I guess that one is taken).
There is a large resource here, maybe we could think of a domain
name that hasn't been registered and then FCI could reg it and
we could all use it ?
Of course someone with the same letter at the beginning of his
name as at the 3rd position would have to explain a few things
1) Is this idea a load of crap ?
2) Simple rules about domain registering
3) Would FCI be likely to do this if :
a) We came up with a cool name and
b) Enough people were prepared to subscribe
4) See (1)
Steve (who thinks it may just be a fun game for the list anyway)
PS I like this list :-) ... Good call Eden.
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From: "Norman Shearer"
Subject: Re: Hello
Hi , on 04-Apr-98 07:55:44 you caught my attention with the following prose:
> Hello, anybody there?
Nope. ;)
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Subject: Hello
Date: 04 Apr 1998 19:51:32
Taz, you have been found guilty of saying 'Hello'. What have you to say in
your defence?
T> So has anyone else joined this list?
Yup,looks like I made it OK :)
T> Okay assuming I am not talking to myself, has anyone else tried the demo
T> of webftp?
Nope cant say I have. I use Magellan's FTP module of AmFTP :|
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Subject: We've Moved!
Date: 04 Apr 1998 19:46:22
marylynn1@earthlink.net, you have been found guilty of saying 'We've Moved!'. What have you to say in your defence?
men> FOR ADULTS ONLY
men> WE MOVED..CHECK US OUT
Bloody hell, spam already?
Simon Archer[RETURN TO TOP]
Date: 4 Apr 98 17:27:08 +0200
Subject: Re: E-Mail addresses.
> Its resonable if you want the address, otherwise hotmail/bigfoot is
> cheaper. It would
> be interested to get an idea who is interested in these addresses, then I
> can go and
> harass people to find out when and how much.
Hotmail has become notorious on a number of mailinglists/newsgroups I am on
as a few people use them to generally cause chaos and send abuse to people
on there. Maybe it would be better to keep a small charge, as if I remember
hotmail is a freebie service. Maybe if they pay something for it they might
think twice about using it to abuse people.
Still it would be a nice address A1200@amiga.co.uk sounds rather good :-)
Taz
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Date: 4 Apr 98 17:29:26 +0200
Subject: Re: Spreading The Word (Was:Re: testing 1 2 3)
> I don't see how it could be classed as spmmming. Not if you just send
> a single brief mail. After all you're a regular on that list and
> you're merely telling those people of the existence of another similar
> resource.
Yeh there are a few ex FCI users who use IRC that I am sure would be
interested in this list, ie Baldrick for one. Must remember to tell people
when I see them.
Taz
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Date: Sat, 04 Apr 1998 23:45:14 +0000
Subject: Re[2]: Spreading The Word (Was:Re: testing 1 2 3)
#On 04-Apr-98 Taz wrote regarding: Re: Spreading The Word (Was:Re: testing
1 2 3)#
Hi Taz,
> Taz@devil.u-net.com
> Http://www.devil.u-net.com/psx.html
I see you've got your index page up, looks well. A black background would
look better. Top GFX by the way :))
Dex.
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Date: Sat, 04 Apr 1998 23:46:49 +0100
Subject: Re: E-Mail addresses.
Hi Eden,
On 04-Apr-98, You Wrote About The Subject Re: E-Mail addresses.,
> The other idea that is being banded around is to provide it as an alternate
> domain to thenet for FCI subscribers.
Now this I like :)
> I'll keep you all informed as I hear about it.
Brilliant. Thanks Eden. Again ;^)
Best Regards,
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Date: Sat, 04 Apr 1998 23:45:21 +0100
Subject: Re: Spreading The Word (Was:Re: testing 1 2 3)
Hi Eoghann,
On 04-Apr-98, You Wrote About The Subject Re: Spreading The Word (Was:Re:
testing 1 2 3),
> I don't see how it could be classed as spmmming. Not if you just send
> a single brief mail. After all you're a regular on that list and
> you're merely telling those people of the existence of another similar
> resource.
OK, I'll send it now. Wish me luck !
Best Regards,
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Date: Sat, 04 Apr 1998 23:51:06 +0100
Subject: Re: E-Mail addresses.
Hi Eden,
On 04-Apr-98, You Wrote About The Subject Re: Re[2]: E-Mail addresses.,
> FCI owns the domain :-)
Yipppeee :)
> Its resonable if you want the address, otherwise hotmail/bigfoot is
> cheaper.
Hotmail is owned by MicroSoft now. Amiga users hate MicroSoft. I see a little
problem :) hehe
> It would be interested to get an idea who is interested in these addresses,
> then I can go and harass people to find out when and how much.
I'd certainly be interested.
Oops, I breaking rules here ! This should be on AmigaFCI. Sorry :)
End of thread !
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Date: Sun, 05 Apr 1998 00:49:07 +0500
Subject: Re: Hello
On the 04-Apr-98, the warm, pink, moist and fluffy korhonen@zetnet.co.uk
purred...
k>Hello, anybody there?
No!
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Date: 5 Apr 98 01:13:37 +0100
Subject: Re: Hello
> On the 04-Apr-98, the warm, pink, moist and fluffy korhonen@zetnet.co.uk
> purred...
> k>Hello, anybody there?
>
> No!
>
> NO!, why.
> --
>
> Today's quiz...
>
> What film has the line "Dry hair's for squids"?
>
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>
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Date: 5 Apr 98 09:23:22 +0100
Subject: New Horizons - Programmer Wanted
2260 Designs needs a programmer for its first games title, New Horizons.
The person we are looking for must have experience in system friendly utility/games
programming, GFX card support, 3D coding and if possible TCP/IP support.
Anyone who wants to apply must be able to dedicate a lot of their free time to
the project. Information on any previous projects is required.
The person will be expected to do the majority of the programming for the game
and will also be required to co-ordinate a small group of coders who will help
with various tasks.
Anyone interested should email us at korhonen@zetnet.co.uk, or visit our
website, for information about the game, at
http://www.users.zetnet.co.uk/korhonen/nh/
Below is some information about the game itself...
New Horizons - Setting
=======================
The year is 2237. The Largest of the MegaCorperations are at war, the Mutants
are on the prowl and the galaxy is desperate for peace. You control a space station
in orbit of Delta Eridanus 4. Its purpose - to contain the Galactic Assembly. From
t his Spacestation the fate of the galaxy lies in your hands!
In 2234 AmiCorp CEO Eddie Collins started the Corporate Wars. The MegaCorporations
are fighting amongst themselves, you can stop the war, through force or through diplomacy.
Or you can allow the war to continue, until it extinguishes itself, at the cost
of millions of lives.
In 2235 the Mutants came out of hiding. After being driven from Earth two hundred years
ago, they are back. Wanting only one thing - Revenge! The Earth colonies on Luna 7 and
Peradene have fallen, Delta Eridanus 4 could be next.
It is up to you to:
-Defend Delta Eridanus 4
-Prepare for the arrival of the Galactic assembly
-Avoid being caught in the crossfire of the MegaCorperations
-Keep the Spacestation Operational
You can do this on your own, with only the stations resources. You can ask for support
from Earth. Or, you can negoitiate with any of the alien races who will give you military
support, aid, supplies, ships, pilots etc..
New Horizons - Features
========================
New Horizons is a Management game from 2260 Designs. It will be set in the TWF Universe,
as featured in Explorer 2260 and Maim & Mangle..
Upon starting the game you can create yourself a character, with its own unique background.
You control the day to day running of the station, which could involve:
-Hireing and fireing staff
-Building a fleet to defend the station or for your own purposes..
-Setting docking fees
-Ordering goods, legally or otherwise
-Opening shops
-Defending the station from attack
-Upgrading the stations weapons and facilities
-Taking Charge of docking procedures
-Negotiating with alien ambassadors
-and more....
At the moment the system requirements are aimed at an Amiga, 68020 or better, 6Mb RAM,
Hard Drive, CD-ROM Drive, and a modem for TCP/IP play. We are also planning to include
support for GFX cards and possibly PPC boards.
We are considering producing a network version of the game! But there are no details
at present.
New Horizons - Mailing List
============================
A mailing list for New Horizons exists, to subscribe send a mail to majordomo@ninemoons.com,
with the following in the body of the message:
subscribe horizon
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Date: Sun, 05 Apr 1998 11:10:14 +0100
Subject: Re: Spreading The Word (Was:Re: testing 1 2 3)
Hi All :)
On 04-Apr-98, Taz wrote:
> Yeh there are a few ex FCI users who use IRC that I am sure would be
> interested in this list, ie Baldrick for one. Must remember to tell people
> when I see them.
And just like a bad smell....here I am :)))
Paul
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Date: 5 Apr 98 08:50:51 +0200
Subject: Re: Spreading The Word (Was:Re: testing 1 2 3)
> I see you've got your index page up, looks well. A black background would
> look better. Top GFX by the way :))
> Dex.
Thanks LOL
Still a long way to go to keep up with your high standard, see you have made
some more changes, looking good.
One thing I tried a black background and the M of MDK kinda disappears,
any ideas anyone?
Taz
PS: oh before anyone says I know The Links page is missing :-) Oh and does
anyone using or have access to a PC see any problem with the index page?
seems I got a mail from one bloke who says it don't load properly or
summit.
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Date: Sun, 05 Apr 1998 18:58:01 +0100
Subject: Re[2]: The Amiga Dead or Not ?
Hi :)
Thought I'd move this over since its not FCI related in anway. :)
On 05-Apr-98, Dave Fisher wrote:
> On 04-Apr-98, You Wrote About The Subject Re[2]: The Amiga Dead or
Not ? :)
> (Was: Re: IB1.2),
>> There was an interesting thread recently on the ICOA list about
making
>> multi-platform development easier. The idea that was floated was
to
>> create an Amiga API for windows thus making the job of porting
>> software much more straightforward. This is an approach that Paul
>> Nolan is very much in favour of and I suspect it may be a step that
is
>> used with the Siamese at some point.
> Hmm. Certainly sounds interesting. I know a lot of ex-Amiga users
that curse
> the lack of utilities on the PC compared to the Amiga. Even saying
that, I'd
> find some of use for work.
There are some strange gaps in PC software. On the other hand there
is a lot of PC software which doesn't exist in any form on the Amiga
either. I'd love a decent "remote URL link checker" it would make
keeping my links pages up to date so much more easy.
On the Amiga you tend to have to make do with cobbled together scripts
for these things.
> Yeah, thats something AI need to decide on really. Maybe thats part
of this
> announcement at WOA ? And I don't think I'll say anything about
H&P/P5 on the
> list, as I'm likely to be flamed from here to eternity, as the
transcript from
> Petro is available to all, and he does clearly say that :-/
AI can't really decide. They don't make the PPC boards or the
software so they have no say in it.
OS4 should be ported to another processor at which point the
PPC.library fight becomes irrelevant anyway. So in the mean time the
only thing they can really do is not take sides.
>> As for the Netscape stuff. Its bull pure and simple. The Netscape
>> code has now been released, but its big. Compiling it on a PPC Mac
>> took about two hours and produced a *huge* piece of code. Its
going
>> to take a fair amount of work to cut it down to size.
> I thought it was a bit funny when I heard about it. But again, Petro
does
> suggest this strongly in his speech. Most weird.
He has to say something in his speaches, so he just grabs on to
anything he's heard discussed by the R&D people and promptly leaks it.
There are realy two ways of looking at what he's done. Either he's
just over-eager, in which case thats a rather big flaw for someone in
charge of sales and marketing.
Or, the nasty alternative is that its deliberate.
He could be trying to secure his position by getting the press and
fans
onside. Thats certainly how it looks. He announces various things
and then Amiga Inc "fail" to live up to them. He gets off looking
fine, Amiga Inc suffers the bad publicity.
Given his recent "blunders" with Index. Who just happen to be the
only other company who can produce Amiga motherboards and as such
could be seen as a threat to Petro's company. That looks increasingly
likely.
I know Olaf Barthel and others who worked for Amiga Technologies have
little nice to say about the man. :-/
>> There is a business plan and those who've seen it say its really
cool.
>> The only downside is that there are some damn big obstacles between
us
>> and the end of that business plan.
> I'm fairly confident. I was a bit worried, but I think 98 could see
some good
> things happen.
I remain hopeful. Not enough to bet money on it, but hopeful. :)
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Date: 5 Apr 98 18:38:27 +0200
Subject: Re: New Horizons - Programmer Wanted
Should we have a charter that says no cross posting or adverts or summit. I
know people like this trying to find programmers need to post somewhere,
but I have seen in the past when people cross post to so many groups you
can end up with loads of spam mail, and other mail replying to the mesage
in not soo pleasant way.
Just an idea, I will go away now :-)
PS: hi Baldrick
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Date: Sun, 05 Apr 1998 22:51:55 +0000
Subject: Re[2]: Spreading The Word (Was:Re: testing 1 2 3)
#On 05-Apr-98 Taz wrote regarding: Re: Spreading The Word (Was:Re: testing
1 2 3)#
Hi Taz,
> Still a long way to go to keep up with your high standard, see you have
> made some more changes, looking good.
Yeah, done a new logo and stuff. Been getting praise for the site on the
PSX list.
Before someone starts yelling. All pages were done on my Amiga using Ced &
PPaint :-)
> One thing I tried a black background and the M of MDK kinda disappears,
> any ideas anyone?
Weird it looks ok in black here.
> Oh and does anyone using or have access to a PC see any problem with
> the index page? seems I got a mail from one bloke who says it don't
> load properly or summit.
Sorry, know a few PC owners but they ain't on the net. You should get Gav
(DHill) in IRC to check it for you.
Dex.
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Date: 5 Apr 98 22:24:14 +0100
Subject: Re: testing 1 2 3
In reply to what Eoghann Irving said about "Re[2]: testing 1 2 3"...
>
> My YAM problems seem to have miraculously disappeared. I guess that
> new texteditor.mcc must have done the trick after all. :)
>
> Oh. I see that they've released a price for one of the new BoXeR
> based amigas. Round about $1500 for the Alien one.
That's almost as much as Phase5 want for their pre/box (if it ever
sees the light of day).
> "Anti-Gravity's Alien Amiga clone will cost $1495, and comes with a
> 060,
> 16 Meg of RAM, a CD-ROM drive, 2 GIG hard drive and mini-tower case.
> The
> Alien Amiga is based upon a BoXer motherboard. Anti-Gravity already
> has
> 50-60 pre-orders for this system, but there is a 6-8 week waiting
> period."
>
> Not cheap by PC standards, but a lot better than the price for the
> A4000T anyway
>
How much for the BoXeR MB alone? I want to build my own machine from
scratch and this seems the best way to do it.
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Date: Mon, 06 Apr 1998 11:07:49 +0000
Subject: hello
Hi,
just a quick note to say hello to all on the list , I was a former 'thenet'
list subscriber till a dispute with accounts got me cut off in my prime
;-)
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Date: Mon, 06 Apr 1998 17:38:30 +0100
Subject: Re: The Amiga Dead or Not ?
Hi Eoghann,
On 05-Apr-98, You Wrote About The Subject Re[2]: The Amiga Dead or Not ?,
> Thought I'd move this over since its not FCI related in anway. :)
hehehe, no probs.
> There are some strange gaps in PC software. On the other hand there
> is a lot of PC software which doesn't exist in any form on the Amiga
> either. I'd love a decent "remote URL link checker" it would make
> keeping my links pages up to date so much more easy.
Can't you use the ones online ? I'm sure some check the URLs within the HTML.
I thought you'd say, "but then I need to be online", but surely you would
anyway :) Or am I missing something ?
The one thing I do find with the Amiga, is when something like this is the
case, there are so many Shareware authors, one of them often takes up the
challenge.
I'm going to get Blitz running again over the Bank Holiday, and as Paul
Burkely has some seriously funky stuff on OS programming and TCP/IP
programming, I may just take this up. I'll let you know if I can sort it out,
then you can tell me what exactly you want. I need something to get my teeth
into. But I'm not promising anything. Look what happened to my MPEGA GUI :)
> On the Amiga you tend to have to make do with cobbled together scripts
> for these things.
Ah, but more Joe Bloggs can cobble together scripts on the Amiga, than on the
PC :)
> AI can't really decide. They don't make the PPC boards or the
> software so they have no say in it.
Hmm. But surely some one needs to ? I mean (and I don't really know the ins
and outs of this), but someone on one of the lists said they wanted to do a
PPC version of their program, but until AI say which system to go with, they
wouldn't. Won't there be other programmers in that situation ? Won't this
split the market further ? Or will programmers have to do two versions like
they do for multiple CPUs anyway ?
> OS4 should be ported to another processor at which point the
> PPC.library fight becomes irrelevant anyway. So in the mean time the
> only thing they can really do is not take sides.
Ah right, I see. I don't really understand all this so ... :) Ah hang on. We
have 68040.library & 68060.library's so I assume as it stands now, there is a
PPC.library, but one is Phase5, and one H&P ? And this is the problem, which
one does the programmer of X use ? But when AI port OS4 to PPC, then there
won't be a library in the same way as there isn't a 68000/68020/68030.library,
or am I barking up the wrong tree entirely ! :)
> He has to say something in his speaches, so he just grabs on to
> anything he's heard discussed by the R&D people and promptly leaks it.
LOL. One way of putting it. Mind you, its the same at work. You hear one
thing and can't wait to tell everyone else, even though you don't know the
full story.
> He could be trying to secure his position by getting the press and
> fans onside. Thats certainly how it looks. He announces various
> things and then Amiga Inc "fail" to live up to them. He gets off
> looking fine, Amiga Inc suffers the bad publicity.
Hmmm, thats true I suppose. Bit worrying really !
> Given his recent "blunders" with Index. Who just happen to be the
> only other company who can produce Amiga motherboards and as such
> could be seen as a threat to Petro's company. That looks increasingly
> likely.
Oooh dear. What blunders are these then. I think I may have missed them ?
> I know Olaf Barthel and others who worked for Amiga Technologies have
> little nice to say about the man. :-/
Its a shame. I'd rather hear from Olaf, Fleecy etc, than Petro, but he is the
only one that speaks out. Or is he the only one at AI not under an NDA :)
> I remain hopeful. Not enough to bet money on it, but hopeful. :)
LOL
Best Regards,
*Dave Fisher - Team AMIGA*
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Date: Mon, 06 Apr 1998 17:39:22 +0100
Subject: Re: Hello
Hi :)
On 04-Apr-98, bml wrote:
Not this bit he didn't, that was Taz. I think I must have snipped too
much. ;)
>> Okay assuming I am not talking to myself, has anyone else tried the
demo
>> of webftp?
> Nope cant say I have. I use Magellan's FTP module of AmFTP :|
Um, unless there's been an upgrade I don't know about, WebFTP does
stuff that neither AmFTP or the FTP module in Magellan do.
It specifically tailored to maintaining a website.
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Date: Mon, 06 Apr 1998 19:17:00 +0100
Subject: Re[2]: testing 1 2 3
Hi :)
On 05-Apr-98, Paul Webb wrote:
> In reply to what Eoghann Irving said about "Re[2]: testing 1 2 3"...
>> Oh. I see that they've released a price for one of the new BoXeR
>> based amigas. Round about $1500 for the Alien one.
> That's almost as much as Phase5 want for their pre/box (if it ever
> sees the light of day).
Well even assuming it appears (towards the end of 1998 I think) I have
some doubts about their stated price. You also have to remember that
the 060 is a *very* expensive chip. Out of all proportion to its
capabilities.
This particular machine is shipping now. Its not really fair to
compare it with the /possible/ cost of a machine shipping in 9 months
time.
Which is precisely why I don't like Phase 5 making vapourware
announcements like that. Its sharp practice IMHO.
> How much for the BoXeR MB alone? I want to build my own machine from
> scratch and this seems the best way to do it.
I haven't seen a price, but check out Blittersoft's web pages. They
will be selling both the MB and pre-built machines using the MB.
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Date: Mon, 06 Apr 1998 19:16:44 +0100
Subject: Re[2]: New Horizons - Programmer Wanted
Hi :)
On 05-Apr-98, Taz wrote:
> Should we have a charter that says no cross posting or adverts or
summit. I
> know people like this trying to find programmers need to post
somewhere,
> but I have seen in the past when people cross post to so many groups
you
> can end up with loads of spam mail, and other mail replying to the
mesage
> in not soo pleasant way.
There is a solution (if Eden's software allows it) which is to only
let those who have subscribed to the list post to it.
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Date: Mon, 06 Apr 1998 19:16:20 +0100
Subject: Re[4]: E-Mail addresses.
Hi :)
On 04-Apr-98, Steve Haigh wrote:
> See earlier about my thoughts on haighy@thenet.co.uk but it is so
> cheap to do this that I may be interested in some other ones.
> haighy@uk.co would be nice (but I guess that one is taken).
uk.co isn't possible under the current domain name structure. Or,
indeed, the proposed additional top level names.
uk.com might be possible, I'm not sure.
I'll fill in for Eden on the next bit, just in case he didn't figure
out that wondefully obscure hint. ;)
> 1) Is this idea a load of crap ?
No, its workable. FCI already have amiga.co.uk for a start.
Registering domains is actually very straightforward.
> 2) Simple rules about domain registering
Basically you pay a small fee to register either in this country or in
America depending on the name. I think the initial fee covers two
years ownership and then you pay on a yearly basis.
> 3) Would FCI be likely to do this if :
> a) We came up with a cool name and
> b) Enough people were prepared to subscribe
Well they would want to make some sort of profit on the deal I guess,
But that shouldn't be to difficult. Owning a domain is not expensive.
Anyone who can afford to pay an ISP for an account could register a
domain, although that in itself wouldn't do them much good.
In the case of amiga.co.uk, FCI already have it so there is no
additional cost there at all.
All you're left with are the administrative costs of mapping the name
to an individuals "real" email address.
Get fifty people prepared to shell out £5 and I'd say you were in
business. Just a guess mind you.
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Date: Mon, 06 Apr 1998 22:16:08 +0100
Subject: Re[2]: The Amiga Dead or Not ?
Hi :)
On 06-Apr-98, Dave Fisher wrote:
>> There are some strange gaps in PC software. On the other hand
there
>> is a lot of PC software which doesn't exist in any form on the
Amiga
>> either. I'd love a decent "remote URL link checker" it would make
>> keeping my links pages up to date so much more easy.
> Can't you use the ones online ? I'm sure some check the URLs within
the HTML.
> I thought you'd say, "but then I need to be online", but surely you
would
> anyway :) Or am I missing something ?
Yes I could use the ones online, but this is the procedure I have to
go through to do that. And remember while I'm doing this the online
timer is ticking away...
1) Start up browser
2) Go to link checker page
3) type in the URL I want linkchecked
4) wait....
5) save the results to disk, often multiple pages to be saved
6) onto next URL
And so on. Its not fast. I have about 10 pages on my Solar Flare
site with external links, and a links page on my FSF site.
What I could do with is a program where I can create a database of
pages to link check, then just run it in the background while I'm
online.
> The one thing I do find with the Amiga, is when something like this
is the
> case, there are so many Shareware authors, one of them often takes
up the
> challenge.
Only if they see the gap. Very often with these things they don't
> I'm going to get Blitz running again over the Bank Holiday, and as
Paul
> Burkely has some seriously funky stuff on OS programming and TCP/IP
> programming, I may just take this up. I'll let you know if I can
sort it out,
> then you can tell me what exactly you want. I need something to get
my teeth
> into. But I'm not promising anything. Look what happened to my MPEGA
GUI :)
The TCP/IP stuff is very good. I had a look at it some months back
because I was thinking of creating a program that would monitor URLS
for changes and download the new page for offline viewing.
Its an idea I still like but seeing as I'm still miles from finishing
AmiBar there's not much I can do about it.
>> On the Amiga you tend to have to make do with cobbled together
scripts
>> for these things.
> Ah, but more Joe Bloggs can cobble together scripts on the Amiga,
than on the
> PC :)
Thats more to do with the way the PC is marketed than an inherant
advantage of the Amiga. :)
>> AI can't really decide. They don't make the PPC boards or the
>> software so they have no say in it.
> Hmm. But surely some one needs to ? I mean (and I don't really know
the ins
> and outs of this), but someone on one of the lists said they wanted
to do a
> PPC version of their program, but until AI say which system to go
with, they
> wouldn't. Won't there be other programmers in that situation ? Won't
this
> split the market further ? Or will programmers have to do two
versions like
> they do for multiple CPUs anyway ?
Programmers can do whatever they want. If you have a PowerUp then
obviously Phase 5's library is going to work for you. But if H&P do
their job properly then so will their library, and both are free so
there really isn't a problem.
AI won't say go with H&P or go with P5 because doing that will put one
of the key Amiga developers offside.
Programmers are really free to support both or to pick the one they
prefer and just support that one. Its only going to be a problem if
developers are silly about it.
>> OS4 should be ported to another processor at which point the
>> PPC.library fight becomes irrelevant anyway. So in the mean time
the
>> only thing they can really do is not take sides.
> Ah right, I see. I don't really understand all this so ... :) Ah
hang on. We
> have 68040.library & 68060.library's so I assume as it stands now,
there is a
> PPC.library, but one is Phase5, and one H&P ? And this is the
problem, which
> one does the programmer of X use ? But when AI port OS4 to PPC, then
there
> won't be a library in the same way as there isn't a
68000/68020/68030.library,
> or am I barking up the wrong tree entirely ! :)
Thats about it. There are two libraries, P5 and H&P, they are (I
understand) able to co-exist now so you don't need to choose which you
have on your system.
Libraries like that exist purely to patch gaps in the OS. When we get
a new OS, there shouldn't be a gap anyway.
In many ways its a mountain out of a molehill.
>> Given his recent "blunders" with Index. Who just happen to be the
>> only other company who can produce Amiga motherboards and as such
>> could be seen as a threat to Petro's company. That looks
increasingly
>> likely.
> Oooh dear. What blunders are these then. I think I may have missed
them ?
He "announced" at Amiga98 that Index Information had gone bankrupt. I
believe the explanation that was eventually forthcoming (never saw an
appology mind you) was that he had confused Index with Hi-Q. That
upset HiQ who aren't bankrupt but are effectively closing down that
company and transfering the assets to a new one since they are
concentrating purely on the Siamese and its varients now.
>> I know Olaf Barthel and others who worked for Amiga Technologies
have
>> little nice to say about the man. :-/
> Its a shame. I'd rather hear from Olaf, Fleecy etc, than Petro, but
he is the
> only one that speaks out. Or is he the only one at AI not under an
NDA :)
Actually Petro is under an NDA, he just doesn't seem to care. :))
Its a weird setup, Petro is totally independant of Amiga Inc. I guess
he answers to someone at Gateway, but Amiga Inc and Amiga Int are
independant companies.
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Date: Mon, 06 Apr 1998 22:45:02 +0100
Subject: Re: The Amiga Dead or Not ?
On 06-Apr-98, Dave Fisher wrote:
#All Dave's rubbish snipped# ;-)
I must say that all that stuff looked far better and was much easier to read
on a
good email programme like Yam2 (preview) than it did on the M$ mailer I picked
it up on earlier today at work !
As far as email programmes go the Amiga is here to stay :-)
I use 4 different mail proggies on the PCs at work and none are half as good
as a yet to be released beta version of YAM, says it all really ;-)
Regards,
Bill.
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From: Eden Akhavi
Subject: Amiga.co.uk addresses
I have found out the deal with amiga.co.uk addresses. It will be a free
service for FCI subscribers, but there will be a one-off charge to do the
change. Non-FCI customers pay a yearly subscription fee.
In the meantime if you want to reserve your address then email
efl@amiga.co.uk with the following information:
1. Current Email Address..:
2. Full Name..............:
3. Desired Email Address..:
4. Desired Password.......:
5. FCI Customer?..........:
The costs I understand will be:
FCI Customer moving from thenet.co.uk -> amiga.co.uk £10 one off charge
(includes Email & web address)
Non-FCI Customer who wants mail diversion £15 / year
Non-FCI Customer who wants web diversion £15 / year (must have mail as well)
The names are on a first come, first served basis - there is no
name-dispute policy so if someone has stolen your favorite nick or your
current address (eg xyz@thenet.co.uk) is not available under amiga.co.uk
(eg xyz@amiga.co.uk). The subscription service (for non-FCI customers), you
have the use of a website to change the destination of your email and web
at will.
FCI customers who want to be able to change the destination of their email
or wish to have an extra email address can just purchase the Non-FCI service.
No expletives, no trademarks, normal legal spiel. We cannot guarantee
availability of a name, but we'll see what we can do.
Any questions let me know.
Regards
Eden
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Date: Tue, 7 Apr 1998 12:42:59 +0000
Subject: Re: Amiga.co.uk addresses
> I have found out the deal with amiga.co.uk addresses. It will be a free
> service for FCI subscribers, but there will be a one-off charge to do the
> change. Non-FCI customers pay a yearly subscription fee.
So if I decide to switch to this new domain name would I have to re-sub
to all the mailing lists, inform people of my new email address etc or
would mail to amiga.co.uk default to my thenet.co.uk mailbox???
> FCI customers who want to be able to change the destination of their email
> or wish to have an extra email address can just purchase the Non-FCI service.
Oh I see. So it would cost me £15 a year to keep both email addresses :-/
Is this worth it..............
How many others are thinking of changing????
Daryl[RETURN TO TOP]
From: Eden Akhavi
Subject: Re: Amiga.co.uk addresses
At 12:42 PM 4/7/98 +0000, you wrote:
>> I have found out the deal with amiga.co.uk addresses. It will be a free
>> service for FCI subscribers, but there will be a one-off charge to do the
>> change. Non-FCI customers pay a yearly subscription fee.
>
>So if I decide to switch to this new domain name would I have to re-sub
>to all the mailing lists, inform people of my new email address etc or
>would mail to amiga.co.uk default to my thenet.co.uk mailbox???
Yes, but as you rightly stated you can purchase the add-on service.
>> FCI customers who want to be able to change the destination of their email
>> or wish to have an extra email address can just purchase the Non-FCI
service.
>
>Oh I see. So it would cost me £15 a year to keep both email addresses :-/
Yes, the advantage is that you can always keep the address, so if you decide
to change provider, you can just change the mail destination. Your mail
address
always remains the same.
>Is this worth it..............
Depends on how you look at it, If you want the domain name, then yes; if
not no. The
other way of looking at is that if you want to change provider, you have an
email address
that will remain the same, you just repoint the mail address.
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From: Brian Kupris
Subject: programming
My 9 year old son is an Amiga aficiondo and is very keen to write some
games. For you folk out there that have trodden the path please give us
some advice. What software package would be most suitable for a
beginner. A manual with example scripts etc. is a must. What is
available that will keep his interest and fuel his drive.
Brian Kupris[RETURN TO TOP]
Date: Tue, 07 Apr 1998 15:50:34 +0100
Subject: Re: programming
You wrote today:
>My 9 year old son is an Amiga aficiondo and is very keen to write some
>games. For you folk out there that have trodden the path please give us
>some advice. What software package would be most suitable for a
>beginner. A manual with example scripts etc. is a must. What is
>available that will keep his interest and fuel his drive.
The route that most people take when starting programming is to learn the
language BASIC (Beginners All-Purpose Symbolic Instruction Code). It is very
easy to learn - and very flexible. It usually has extensions which makes it
easy to program games.
There have been several versions of BASIC for the Amiga over the years but
AFAIK the only one still being supported is Blitz BASIC. This is a very
powerful system - in fact, it has been used to create commericial games for
the Amiga. The current version, Blitz BASIC 2.1, is available on floppy disk
or on CD for about £17.95 (I recomment going for the CD version if you have a
CD-ROM drive). Contact, for example, Weird Science (0116) 246 3800, e-mail
sales@weirdscience.co.uk
Good Luck,
Richard
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Date: Tue, 07 Apr 1998 15:50:34 +0100
Subject: Re: programming
You wrote today:
>My 9 year old son is an Amiga aficiondo and is very keen to write some
>games. For you folk out there that have trodden the path please give us
>some advice. What software package would be most suitable for a
>beginner. A manual with example scripts etc. is a must. What is
>available that will keep his interest and fuel his drive.
The route that most people take when starting programming is to learn the
language BASIC (Beginners All-Purpose Symbolic Instruction Code). It is very
easy to learn - and very flexible. It usually has extensions which makes it
easy to program games.
There have been several versions of BASIC for the Amiga over the years but
AFAIK the only one still being supported is Blitz BASIC. This is a very
powerful system - in fact, it has been used to create commericial games for
the Amiga. The current version, Blitz BASIC 2.1, is available on floppy disk
or on CD for about £17.95 (I recomment going for the CD version if you have a
CD-ROM drive). Contact, for example, Weird Science (0116) 246 3800, e-mail
sales@weirdscience.co.uk
Good Luck,
Richard
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Date: Tue, 07 Apr 1998 15:50:34 +0100
Subject: Re: programming
You wrote today:
>My 9 year old son is an Amiga aficiondo and is very keen to write some
>games. For you folk out there that have trodden the path please give us
>some advice. What software package would be most suitable for a
>beginner. A manual with example scripts etc. is a must. What is
>available that will keep his interest and fuel his drive.
The route that most people take when starting programming is to learn the
language BASIC (Beginners All-Purpose Symbolic Instruction Code). It is very
easy to learn - and very flexible. It usually has extensions which makes it
easy to program games.
There have been several versions of BASIC for the Amiga over the years but
AFAIK the only one still being supported is Blitz BASIC. This is a very
powerful system - in fact, it has been used to create commericial games for
the Amiga. The current version, Blitz BASIC 2.1, is available on floppy disk
or on CD for about £17.95 (I recomment going for the CD version if you have a
CD-ROM drive). Contact, for example, Weird Science (0116) 246 3800, e-mail
sales@weirdscience.co.uk
Good Luck,
Richard
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Date: Tue, 07 Apr 1998 17:44:03 +0100
Subject: Re: Amiga.co.uk addresses
Hi Daryl,
On 07-Apr-98, You Wrote About The Subject Re: Amiga.co.uk addresses,
> How many others are thinking of changing????
Having read everything, although my head is doing ten to the dozen trying to
get round domains etc, I am :)
I'm off on holiday soon, so I'll have to unsubscribe from my 10 odd mailing
lists anyway, so it won't really bother me.
Best Regards,
*Dave Fisher - Team AMIGA*
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Date: Tue, 07 Apr 1998 17:41:00 +0100
Subject: Mailers (Was: Re: The Amiga Dead or Not ?)
Hi Bill,
On 06-Apr-98, You Wrote About The Subject Re: The Amiga Dead or Not ?,
> On 06-Apr-98, Dave Fisher wrote:
> #All Dave's rubbish snipped# ;-)
Excuse me ! Pick on my mail why don't you !
/me wanders off sulking .... :)
> I use 4 different mail proggies on the PCs at work and none are half as
> good as a yet to be released beta version of YAM, says it all really ;-)
I haven't really used any PC mailers, and I know a few PC users that have
never used Amiga mailers. Yet somehow, they all *hate* the PC mailers anyway !
Best Regards,
*Dave Fisher - Team AMIGA*
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Date: Tue, 07 Apr 1998 17:38:52 +0100
Subject: Re: The Amiga Dead or Not ?
Hi Eoghann,
On 06-Apr-98, You Wrote About The Subject Re[2]: The Amiga Dead or Not ?,
> Yes I could use the ones online, but this is the procedure I have to
> go through to do that. And remember while I'm doing this the online
> timer is ticking away...
> 1) Start up browser
> 2) Go to link checker page
> 3) type in the URL I want linkchecked
> 4) wait....
> 5) save the results to disk, often multiple pages to be saved
> 6) onto next URL
Ooh, I'm sure one of the HTML checkers I used in the past, had the facility to
check the links within the page, ie. I used it to verify the addresses in my
old AmigaFCI YellowPages-type page. That had hundreds of addresses in it, and
the HTML checker just said which were valid.
> And so on. Its not fast. I have about 10 pages on my Solar Flare
> site with external links, and a links page on my FSF site.
Yeah thats the kind of thing I used it for. I can't remember the checker I
used now. I'll have a look later tonight if I remember.
> What I could do with is a program where I can create a database of
> pages to link check, then just run it in the background while I'm
> online.
I see, I understand what you want now, but I'm positive I did this on one of
the checkers. All I did was enter MY URL into the checker, and it checked the
HTML, and verified the links were valid.
> Only if they see the gap. Very often with these things they don't
LOL, we've had this conversation before ....
> The TCP/IP stuff is very good. I had a look at it some months back
> because I was thinking of creating a program that would monitor URLS
> for changes and download the new page for offline viewing.
... and it was about that ;)
> Its an idea I still like but seeing as I'm still miles from finishing
> AmiBar there's not much I can do about it.
*If* I can get Blitz running again on this bloody machine, I'll have a tinker
at the weekend. I'll see what I can do. I really want to do some programming
again.
> Thats about it. There are two libraries, P5 and H&P, they are (I
> understand) able to co-exist now so you don't need to choose which you
> have on your system.
Righty, I see how it all works now. Basically, if you have both systems
installed, if it requires PowerUP it'll use that, if it requires WarpUP, it'll
use that. Correct ?
> In many ways its a mountain out of a molehill.
Now I understand it, I agree :)
> He "announced" at Amiga98 that Index Information had gone bankrupt. I
LOL, erm right.
> upset HiQ who aren't bankrupt but are effectively closing down that
> company and transfering the assets to a new one since they are
> concentrating purely on the Siamese and its varients now.
Hehehehe, he gets worse ! Ohwell.
> Actually Petro is under an NDA, he just doesn't seem to care. :))
Why am I not suprised :)
> Its a weird setup, Petro is totally independant of Amiga Inc. I guess
> he answers to someone at Gateway, but Amiga Inc and Amiga Int are
> independant companies.
Ahh, I thought Petro worked at/for Amiga Int. I'm lost. I wish someone would
do a list of who is who, who works where, and what their effective job is.
Hey, thats an idea for CU :)
Cheers Ego,
Best Regards,
*Dave Fisher - Team AMIGA*
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Date: Tue, 07 Apr 1998 19:17:48 +0100
Subject: Re: Amiga.co.uk addresses
Hi Eden,
On 07-Apr-98, You Wrote About The Subject Amiga.co.uk addresses,
> The costs I understand will be:
> FCI Customer moving from thenet.co.uk -> amiga.co.uk £10 one off charge
> (includes Email & web address)
> Non-FCI Customer who wants mail diversion £15 / year
> Non-FCI Customer who wants web diversion £15 / year (must
> have mail as well)
> FCI customers who want to be able to change the destination of their email
> or wish to have an extra email address can just purchase the Non-FCI
> service.
If I understood that correctly, if I choose option 1, I pay £10 and have the
following ... eg. davef@amiga.co.uk & www.amiga.co.uk/~davef, but loose
davef@thenet.co.uk & www.thenet.co.uk/~davef ?
But as someone pointed out, I'd need to resubscribe to all the mailing lists
etc. However, using this, I effectively get E-mail/WWW for life eg. Bigfoot ?
However, if I choose to keep davef@thenet.co.uk, I can purchase an additional
address, eg. davef@amiga.co.uk for £15/year, but I won't get WWW. Then if I
leave FCI, I'd loose davef@thenet.co.uk, but keep davef@amiga.co.uk (not that
I plan to leave BTW !)
Or, I could purchase the WWW option, and have www.amiga.co.uk/~davef but then
I must have davef@amiga.co.uk aswell ? And thats £30 ? hehe, I'm lost, is that
right ? :)
If I have an @amiga.co.uk account, any mail sent there is effectively
forwarded to my "real" address in the same way Bigfoot works now, but if I
choose option 1 and loose @thenet.co.uk, all mail must be directed to
@amiga.co.uk, unless I get it as an additional address ? Is that right ?
Sorry for all the questions, I just got a wee bit confused reading all that!
Best Regards,
*Dave Fisher - Team AMIGA*
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Date: Tue, 07 Apr 1998 19:42:05 +0100
Subject: Re[2]: The Amiga Dead or Not ?
Hi :)
On 06-Apr-98, Bill Eaves wrote:
> I must say that all that stuff looked far better and was much easier
to read
> on a
> good email programme like Yam2 (preview) than it did on the M$
mailer I picked
> it up on earlier today at work !
> As far as email programmes go the Amiga is here to stay :-)
Its funny you should say this since I just made a similar comment to
an ex-Amiga owning friend of mine the other day. neither of us could
think of an email program (free or bought) which matches YAM 1 for
ease of use, or Thor for power.
Personally I think that YAM2 when finished will be *the* best email
client on any platform.
Its getting harder and harder for me to find things to object to in
it. ;)
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Date: Tue, 07 Apr 1998 19:42:16 +0100
Subject: Re[2]: Amiga.co.uk addresses
Hi :)
On 07-Apr-98, Daryl Smith wrote:
> Oh I see. So it would cost me £15 a year to keep both email
addresses :-/
£15 isn't really very much. Its about the same as the VAT on your
current subscription.
> Is this worth it..............
Depends what you want I guess. If you just want a second email
address then there are hundreds of options. Some of them will even
forward the mail to existing adresses for free.
On the other hand if you want a cool amiga.co.uk address either for
personal or business reasons then £15 is really nothing.
> How many others are thinking of changing????
I'm seriously considering it at the price. I find the general thenet
address good for business (i.e. PC) stuff, but I wouldn't mind using
amiga.co.uk for other things.
I'm just trying to make up my mind if I want web forwarding as well.
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Date: Tue, 07 Apr 1998 19:42:31 +0100
Subject: Lambda
Hi :)
If you haven't already seen it, I strongly recommend you download the
Lambda games demo on aminet. There is virtually no gameplay in the
demo, but I guarantee you will be absolutely gobsmacked when you run
it, even on an 030.
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Date: Tue, 07 Apr 1998 19:42:52 +0100
Subject: list digest/website
Hi :)
I said a little while ago that I would put a digest of this list on my
website.
However I've been thinking, perhaps it would be better to get a
tripod/geocities site set up for the list.
They offer about 5Mb of room which means I could hold more digests
there, plus doing it as a separate website would allow it to be
submitted to the Amiga Web Directory which would give a lot of
additional publicity.
Thoughts anyone?
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Date: Tue, 07 Apr 1998 19:42:42 +0100
Subject: Re[2]: programming
Hi :)
On 07-Apr-98, Richard Drummond wrote:
[summary of advantages of basic snipped cos I agree with them anyway
;)]
> There have been several versions of BASIC for the Amiga over the
years but
> AFAIK the only one still being supported is Blitz BASIC. This is a
very
> powerful system - in fact, it has been used to create commericial
games for
> the Amiga. The current version, Blitz BASIC 2.1, is available on
floppy disk
> or on CD for about £17.95 (I recomment going for the CD version if
you have a
> CD-ROM drive). Contact, for example, Weird Science (0116) 246 3800,
e-mail
> sales@weirdscience.co.uk
There are some problems though.
1) Blitz has a truely dire manual. Its -10 out of 10. So you would
need to look at getting a book on Blitz as well.
2) The CD version of Blitz was compiled without the knowledge or
consent of a number of people who's code was placed on the CD. These
people have not been paid for the use of their code.
For a real beginner, grabbing a copy of something like EasyAMOS (or
any version of AMOS) might be an answer. AMOS development has started
again I'm told.
But overall I'm a big fan of Blitz as a language and there is strong
support for it in the form of the Blitz mailing list and some very
active developers.
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Date: Tue, 07 Apr 1998 23:58:14 -0000
Subject: Re: Re[2]: The Amiga Dead or Not ?
On 07-Apr-98, Eoghann Irving carefully put 2 fingers to the keyboard and
picked out the following letters
>Personally I think that YAM2 when finished will be *the* best email
>client on any platform.
>Its getting harder and harder for me to find things to object to in
>it. ;)
Keep thinking Ego, you'll find something :-)
Steve (Who can't get out into the WWW and is bored)
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Date: 8 Apr 98 16:33:56 +0200
Subject: Genetic Species
Hi,
Got an email from Vulcan Software telling me that Genetic Species should be
available soon, shame it could be a long time if ever before they release
another game.
Taz
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From: "Jim Burns"
Subject: Re: Hello
Hi Norman
In a message of 04-Apr-98 09:17:37, Norman Shearer wrote:
NS> P.S. Any Abackup users out there using LZX to compress their backups?
Personally I use XPK, I use this for everything. I`m sure I tried LZX but
never could get it configured right. I seem to have a default setting for
LHA, is that of any help ??.
That reminds me I never did upgrade to the full /free/ version of Lzx, must
do that soon.
Surf you soon
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Date: Wed, 08 Apr 1998 18:51:42 +0000
Subject: Shapeshifter ML
Hi all,
does anyone know of a shapeshifter mailing list, or info on
getting reg'd SS to read iso 9660 cd's
Ta, Mark[RETURN TO TOP]
Subject: Shapeshifter ML
Date: 08 Apr 1998 18:49:13
Mark Sayers, you have been found guilty of saying 'Shapeshifter ML'. What have you to say in your defence?
MS> getting reg'd SS to read iso 9660 cd's
I've not had any problems. My Aminet CD's show up nicely on the Mac desktop :)
Care to explain?
Simon Archer[RETURN TO TOP]
Date: Wed, 08 Apr 1998 20:07:42 +0100
Subject: TEST.
Sorry if this is off topic ;-)
I posted a few replies to this list last night but all were returned ?
Just testing.
Bill.[RETURN TO TOP]
Date: Wed, 08 Apr 1998 20:45:44 +0100
Subject: Re: TEST.
Hi :)
On 08-Apr-98, Bill Eaves wrote:
> Sorry if this is off topic ;-)
> I posted a few replies to this list last night but all were returned
?
This is probably because of the work that FCI carried out on their
network, cutting us off from the net temporarily
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Date: Wed, 08 Apr 1998 20:46:20 +0100
Subject: Re: Genetic Species
Hi :)
On 08-Apr-98, Taz wrote:
> Hi,
> Got an email from Vulcan Software telling me that Genetic Species
should be
> available soon, shame it could be a long time if ever before they
release
> another game.
Oh??
I know that Vulcan have branched out into PC games, but was under
the impression that they were still prepared to publish Amiga games,
they just weren't going to develope them.
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Date: Wed, 08 Apr 1998 20:46:29 +0100
Subject: Re[4]: The Amiga Dead or Not ?
Hi :)
On 08-Apr-98, Steve Haigh wrote:
> On 07-Apr-98, Eoghann Irving carefully put 2 fingers to the keyboard
and
> picked out the following letters
>> Personally I think that YAM2 when finished will be *the* best email
>> client on any platform.
>> Its getting harder and harder for me to find things to object to in
>> it. ;)
> Keep thinking Ego, you'll find something :-)
Well it doesn't have a "smart ass" filter. ;)
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Date: Wed, 08 Apr 1998 21:23:40 +0000
Subject: Re: Shapeshifter ML
b Mark Sayers, you have been found guilty of saying 'Shapeshifter ML'.
What have you to say in your defence?
b> getting reg'd SS to read iso 9660 cd's
b I've not had any problems. My Aminet CD's show up nicely on the Mac
desktop :)
b Care to explain?
I can read mac format coverdisks (HFS). Not any other. I'm currently
using the empcd.device. Should I swop to using direct scsi access ?
Am I answering my own question doctor :-))
Mark[RETURN TO TOP]
Date: Wed, 08 Apr 1998 21:39:08 +0000
Subject: If you're bored...
...visit The Lump On-Line!
I've updated my site a little over the past couple of days, so
if anyone's interested I've got some nice midi files, some art
work, reviews and the more macabre among you might get some
enjoyment from a teletubby decapitation animgif I did this
evening (I have too much time on my hands this week!).
The guestbook is looking a little lonely too ;)
http://www.thenet.co.uk/~djames/
Lumpy
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From: "Norman Shearer"
Subject: Re: Hello
Hi Jim Burns, on 05-Apr-98 12:47:00 you caught my attention with the following prose:
NS>> P.S. Any Abackup users out there using LZX to compress their backups?
> Personally I use XPK, I use this for everything. I`m sure I tried LZX but
> never could get it configured right. I seem to have a default setting for
> LHA, is that of any help ??.
I've heard of XPK but not tried it yet. Isn't that the packer that's best
for crunching mods? I did have the Abackup settings for LZX some time ago
and found it both faster and with better compression than LHA. I might be
able to work it out from the Abackup/LZX guides if I put in the time.
Abackup has moved on a few versions since I last scrutinised the guide
and..
> That reminds me I never did upgrade to the full /free/ version of Lzx,
> must do that soon.
..with LZX being the full version now I might be able to add a few more
options to speed up backups even further.
If I can't get anywhere with LZX then I might give XPK a try. I suppose I
don't really need to be too concerned about compression ratios nowadays.
Speed is what I really want more than anything.
BTW, I'm sending my CDRW drive back tomorrow. I got the external SCSI lead
I needed to connect it yesterday. That's when I discovered the tray
mechanism is somehow knackered. It doesn't wanna open - tries but only
manages to open a couple of mm before stopping. I forced it open but that
didn't help. It doesn't close with a nudge as it should and I had to push
it all the way back in. :-(
Regards
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Date: Thu, 09 Apr 1998 21:51:50 +0100
Subject: Digital Universe price drop.
Hi,
I just got some interesting news about what IMHO is one of the Amiga's best
pieces of software, and one of the best astronomy proggies on any platform.
Though very good, DU was a bit pricey so only die hard astronomers like me
would have bought it. Also installing from 14 floppy disks was quite a
daunting task.
Anyway version 1.03 - no new features :-( - is now being distributed on CD Rom
without the good but bulky and costly manual. The manual is only a reprint of
the online help so you do not lose out and DU is so intuitive you rarely need
to consult the help anyway !
The result is that this excellent programme is just about half the cost of the
floppy version. So now there is no excuse for those with even a borderline
interest in astronomy not to get it ;-)
The drawback is that you still have to get it directly from Canada as there is
no UK supplier. I contact the author a lot, usually bugging him to get a
PPC version out and version2 released, so I thought of the idea of a bulk
order for anyone who is interested which would cut the cost even more.
Anyone who is interested mail me and if there enough to persuade Syzygy to
do a bulk order then I will order the appropriate number of copies.
Note, I will *not* be buying a copy as I already have it at the old cost
:-( So why am I trying to arrange this:
1. DU is an excellent programme in its own right
2. The savings on a bulk order in postage from Canada may buy me a couple
of beers ;-)
3. It seems a good idea at the moment - just spent my beer money ;-)
4. Buying from Canada is a hassle and probably put off a few part time
astronomers who may have bought DU otherwise.
5. We may be able to negotiate a lower price for a bulk sale.
6. THE BIG REASON. I already have DU and it is brilliant. I want version 2
to come out ASAP and I have *no* intention of buying a Mac or a bl**dy PC
to run the next and more advanced version of this programme. I want it on
my Amiga or not at all!!! Buy DU 1.03 now and ensure future Amiga
development, that will save me a good few hundred quid on buying a PC :-)
7. A few CCD images I took at an astronomy centre in Portugal will be on
the v2 CD. Taken on a PC laptop :-( But the images were then created on an
A1200 with a proggie I knocked up with HiSoft Basic. I would really hate it
if only PC and Mac users were able to see them - unless of course Syzygy
release DUv2 for Amiga :-)
As you can see the last two reasons are purely selfish but anyone wanting
to get DU in a bulk order then mail me. It may take a while to get the CDs
to the UK and I would not approach Syzygy unless I had quite a few
requests.
Finally, DU needs extra memory to run so basic A1200 users need not apply.
It will work on a 68020 but even with an FPU is slow, for low end users I
would suggest using Distant Suns. However a 68030 even without FPU runs DU far
better than any version of 'Suns. On a 68060 DU flies, a PPC version would be
very nice, wouldn't it Dan ???
Regards,
Bill.
#Long live the Amiga#[RETURN TO TOP]
Date: 10 Apr 98 02:19:05 +0100
Subject: Re: Digital Universe price drop.
About how much are we talking about???????
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