From spectre at stockholm.ptloma.edu Mon Apr 1 10:25:48 2002 From: spectre at stockholm.ptloma.edu (Cameron Kaiser) Date: Sun, 31 Mar 2002 16:55:48 -0800 (PST) Subject: [Homestead] HLPP v1.1.9 Message-ID: <200204010055.QAA24730@stockholm.ptloma.edu> HLPP version 1.1.9 has been released. This is a maintenance update to the HyperLink Parsing Proxy, the server-side proxy that enables Internet access for HyperLink 2.5a. The update is free and works for both the registered and unregistered versions of HL2.5a. ** This update is already available on VideoCam; VideoCam telnet users who use HyperLink for Web access do not need to do anything further. ** For best results, use the 'installhlpp' front-end to automatically update your software. If you have previously uploaded it to your server, just type csh installhlpp Or, you may download it directly from ftp://ftp.armory.com/pub/user/spectre/UNIX/hlpp It is a Perl script. The following changes have been made: * Colours can now be referenced by name (suggested by John Elliott). This is actually preferable to using the rrggbb notation from HLPP's point of view, as the colour cube subsystem need not be involved. See http://www.chebucto.ns.ca/%7Eap721/csamples.html * The colour cube subsystem has been improved slightly for better fidelity with darker shades. This is still a black art (turning a 24-bit colour value into one of only 16 possible shades). * Primitive compression system implemented for image display (works best for large tracts of blank space). Hardly noticible >= 28.8k but may be helpful for slower modems. * Pages delimited with only \r for a newline were mishandled. Fixed. * aware -- doesn't do anything with it yet except throw it away. * ALT text expansion bug with ' in the text fixed. * Overly long URLs used to hang up the download process due to a buffer overrun. This now doesn't happen (the URL is just suppressed, though, so this isn't a real fix and the issue will be revisited). * Slightly improved faux table support. * One reported instance of an image display overrunning the hires screen and crashing HL2.5a. Better bounds checking implemented. Please report any technical support issues to spectre at deepthought.armory.com. Happy surfing. -- ----------------------------- personal page: http://www.armory.com/~spectre/ -- Cameron Kaiser, Point Loma Nazarene University * ckaiser at stockholm.ptloma.edu -- /etc/motd: /earth is 98% full. please delete anyone you can. --------------- From rbernardo at mail.value.net Wed Apr 3 14:04:20 2002 From: rbernardo at mail.value.net (rbernardo) Date: Tue, 2 Apr 2002 20:34:20 -0800 (PST) Subject: [Homestead] CommodoreOne Prototype Picture Message-ID: ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Tue, 2 Apr 2002 16:10:30 -0800 (PST) From: Jeri Ellsworth Reply-To: CommodoreOne at yahoogroups.com To: CommodoreOne at yahoogroups.com Subject: [CommodoreOne] Prototype Picture Hi, For those interested I have posted a picture of a nearly assembled prototype board under the news section of my site. I'm waiting on a few parts before I can fire it up. Jeri www.commodoreone.com From rbernardo at mail.value.net Wed Apr 3 15:04:02 2002 From: rbernardo at mail.value.net (rbernardo) Date: Tue, 2 Apr 2002 21:34:02 -0800 (PST) Subject: [Homestead] Midwest Classic June 8, 2002 Message-ID: Hey, the following announces that Commodore will be at the show! Truly, Robert Bernardo Fresno Commodore User Group http://videocam.net.au/fcug ------------ Midwest Classic Announcement Martin Scott Goldberg Newsgroups: rec.games.video.classic On June 30, 2001, the GOAT Store, LLC and Marty Goldberg teamed together to bring Atari Jaguar Festival to Milwaukee, and it was considered by many to be the best Jaguar Festival ever. This year, the GOAT Store, LLC and Marty Goldberg are getting back together to bring gamers the biggest classic gaming show of its type in the Midwest -- the Midwest Classic. The Midwest Classic promises to offer visitors an incredible amount of things to see and do. From pinball, to video games, to classic computers, the Midwest Classic is shaping up to be a real classic event! Pinball Pinball was born in the Midwest, so it is only appropriate that the event will feature the classic ball and flipper game. Not one to settle with just being able to play pinball at the event, The Goat Store, LLC will be offering the chance to see how a pinball works from the inside! The Video Games One of the features to many classic gaming events is the ability to see, and play with, many rare systems and items, and the Midwest Classic will be no exception. Marty Goldberg's Classic Gaming Museum will be vastly expanded this year featuring everything from PONG to the machines currently on the market. "At Atari Jaguar Festival 2001, Marty Goldberg's gaming collection proved to be one of the biggest attractions," stated Gary Heil of the GOAT Store, LLC. "This year, the Classic Gaming Museum will be larger and more comprehensive. We can't wait!" The Classic Gaming Museum will feature nearly every video game system ever released in the United States, as well as seldom seen video game promotional materials fomr the 70's and 80's. The Midwest Classic will also feature many video game related tournaments which attendees will be encouraged to participate in during the day for lots of systems like the Atari 2600, Colecovision, Nintendo Entertainment System, Sega Genesis and more! The Computers As classic computer collectors know, sometimes there is nothing better than an old computer. The Midwest Classic will feature many classic personal computers from the first mid 70's microcomputers, to commercial computers and peripherals by Atari, Commodore, Apple, Tandy and more! Revisit the ways computers began. Visitors are encouraged to see if they can remember what their favorite computer games were... and why attendees who don't still have them need to get their old computers back! And Much Much More! The GOAT Store, LLC and Marty Goldberg promise that there will be a lot more surprises in store for visitors to the Midwest Classic! Announcements about exclusive Midwest Classic editions of some homebrew games, special tournament prizes, and more will be coming in the next few weeks! "The Midwest Classic is going to be a great event for anybody who wants to learn a little bit about both video gaming and computer gaming history, compete against new friends, trade games or just enjoy the day playing great games," stated Dan Loosen of the GOAT Store, LLC. "The Midwest Classic is going to be a true classic." -------------------------------------------------------------------------- The Midwest Classic is scheduled for June 8, 2002. Tickets are currently on sale at the GOAT Store, LLC Web site (http://www.goatstore.com). If you would like to help with the show, or if you have any questions about it, feel free to email Dan Loosen (loosen at goatstore.com) or Gary Heil (heil at goatstore.com). From rharris1 at videocam.net.au Wed Apr 3 15:48:05 2002 From: rharris1 at videocam.net.au (Randy Harris) Date: Wed, 3 Apr 2002 15:48:05 +0930 (CST) Subject: [Homestead] April 6th GEOS Programming seminar. Message-ID: This is just a reminder that the GEOS/Wheels Programming seminar is THIS Saturday, April 6th! NOTE!! PLEASE let me know if you are coming so I have an idea as to how many people are coming! Thanks!! For all the details, and directions, go to the SWRAP web site at: http://swrap.net Click on the NEWS link from the Home Page, or go directly to: http://members.aol.com/rgharris/news.htm The info is near the bottom under MEETINGS. Randy Harris Using a Commodore 128 with 'The Wave.' Bringing the Internet to GEOS users! ------------------------------------ Visit the SWRAP Commodore web site at: http://swrap.net From rbernardo at mail.value.net Wed Apr 3 16:14:31 2002 From: rbernardo at mail.value.net (rbernardo) Date: Tue, 2 Apr 2002 22:44:31 -0800 (PST) Subject: [Homestead] Commodore web chat on Wednesdays Message-ID: Last Wednesday I visited the following Commodore web chat. Populated by kindly Commodorians/Atarians, the chat was very nice. Because it is on the World Wide Web, you don't need IRC. Just enter the site as you would normally enter any website. Because I entered the chat with my C128D, running Desterm 2.01 and using Lynx 2.8.8 on my ISP, I could only view it without frames. I would input a line of text and "submit", and then the page would refresh itself with my response and any replies. I'd have to continue clicking on "submit" without inputting a line of text in order to refresh the page and see more replies. I'd do this every 15-30 seconds, a cumbersome way to chat, but it worked. See you at the C= web chat, Robert Bernardo Fresno Commodore User Group http://videocam.net.au/fcug ------------ Joy Smith writes: Hello! I would like to invite any Commodore lovers to come join us in a Chat Room on Wednesday nights starting around 8-9PM CST. I'm Joy and I usually come in late (around 11PM) but others come earlier. The url is http://stargate.cs.swau.edu/atari Don't let the atari name in the url scare you. They chat on Thursday nights. You can peek in on them to get an idea of what we are trying to do on Wednesday night. I would really love to have you come and join us. Have a great day! Joy From billnacu at king.igs.net Wed Apr 3 23:40:15 2002 From: billnacu at king.igs.net (Greg/DAC) Date: Wed, 3 Apr 2002 09:10:15 -0500 (EST) Subject: [Homestead] Commodore web chat on Wednesdays In-Reply-To: Message-ID: <20020403090734.L63784-100000@megahost.igs.net> On Tue, 2 Apr 2002, rbernardo wrote: > Lynx 2.8.8 on my ISP, I could only view it without frames. I would You could use Links or W3M, both are text based Unix WebBrowsers that support Frames. Links is by far the most feature filled of The 3, but w3m is not bad. > itself with my response and any replies. I'd have to continue clicking > on "submit" without inputting a line of text in order to refresh the > page and see more replies. I'd do this every 15-30 seconds, a cumbersome > way to chat, but it worked. Whoa. That IS cumbersome. I remember years ago I used to go to the Park Chat web chat rooms with my C64 and NovaTerm, But ever since I discovered how easy it is to use IRC, I've never gone back. Greg\DAC From t_raymond at tcinc.net Fri Apr 5 11:18:48 2002 From: t_raymond at tcinc.net (Terry Raymond) Date: Thu, 4 Apr 2002 18:48:48 -0700 Subject: [Homestead] Apple IIGS Message-ID: <000f01c1dc44$0844d4a0$ab9d0a0c@teraymon> Hi to everyone on Homestead, I know this is a little off subject so I wont spend much time with this request: One of my relatives a couple of years back got a second hand Apple IIGS computer and a few things: Im wanting to sell this computer for a fair price but not really sure what it is worth? I have the following: APPLE IIGS COMPUTER (WORKS) 1MB INTERNAL RAM (HAS NO EXTRA RAM CARDS) 1 INSTALLED SUPER SERIAL CARD (FOR PRINTERS ETC). APPLE COLOR RGB MONITOR 4 APPLE "EXTERNAL" 5.25 FLOPPY DRIVES 1 APPLE 3.5 FLOPPY DRIVE (NOT AN APPLE UNI 3.5) 2 APPLE IMAGEWRITER II PRINTERS STILL WORK. PACKAGE OF BLACK RIBBONS FOR THE IMAGEWRITER II PRINTER 2 USED COLOR IMAGEWRITER RIBBONS 1 OR 2 NEW COLOR RIBBONS FOR IMAGE WRITER. COVOX VOICE MASTER- VOICE SYNTHESIZER SOME COMMERCIAL BOUGHT SOFTWARE A FEW ASSORTED GAMES ETC. I ALSO HAVE THIS APPLE COMPUTER: APPLE IIC HAS BUILT IN 5.25 FLOPPY DRIVE (THIS COMPUTER STILL WORKS) 128K RAM APPROXMATELY. APPLE IIC GREEN MONOCHROME MONITOR. I ALSO HAVE AN PANASONIC 24 PIN PRINTER WITH A COLOR KIT (THIS ENABLES THE PRINTER TO PRINT IN COLOR) I JUST MAINLY WANT TO KNOW APPROXIMATELY WHAT THIS IS WORTH. Im going to try and sell both these computers locally here in Riverton, WY if they dont sell I will let whomever is interested know if they dont sell. You can reach me by mail at: Terry Raymond 1315 S. Federal Blvd. Lot#41 Riverton, WY 82501 PHONE: (307) 856-9221 if Im not at home just leave a message on my answering machine (PLEASE).... EMAIL: t_raymond at tcinc.net Im sorry for posting a NON commodore subject but dont know how else I can get an estimate on what this stuff is worth if anything. :o) or priceless.... I guess to stay on subject does anyone know how I could go about finding the latest upgrades to Godot on Arndt Dettke's website. I found where you can download the MINI Godot and the FULL version, but what I want is to download the latest module and savers to Godot. BTW Im very excited about this I have been studying very hard since about 1999, I have been taking a Correspondence course in PC Repair & Computer Repairs, Im nearly to the end of my lessons and feel that I have accomplished a lot since I started my course. Im planning on hopefully taking a Non credit College class to get my Microsoft (sorry for that word here) A+ certification. With this you do extensive studying of course and eventually take the main test. My local college Central Wyoming College has a good education program and offers some real experience with working on computers. I just wanted to share this news have studied hard and cant wait to start this new Career, if I can find a job afterwards especially in Wyoming. :o)) I recall there is a young person that is on this list that sells Apple hardware etc, but I can recall his name at this moment, I will have to look at Notebook of URL's. Thanks all, Terry Raymond t_raymond at tcinc.net From t_raymond at tcinc.net Fri Apr 5 12:23:37 2002 From: t_raymond at tcinc.net (Terry Raymond) Date: Thu, 4 Apr 2002 19:53:37 -0700 Subject: [Homestead] cmd Message-ID: <000501c1dc4d$15ef95a0$c09d0a0c@teraymon> Hello everyone, CMD has moved on to PC's and MAC computers, etc has anyone checked out their website lately, they have some SCSI hardware etc, Mac stuff. Doug Cotton does a very nice job of Web design, Good job Doug. CMD even has a picture of their building if you click on "about us" will explain how they started their business etc, they really dont mention Commodore even once though, how sad. All has been quiet I just wanted to share this, Im not really sure if Wave can acess their website anymore or not, if you have a PC you can see how colorful it is. Cheers, Terrant Raymond t_raymond at tcinc.net From spectre at stockholm.ptloma.edu Fri Apr 5 12:43:38 2002 From: spectre at stockholm.ptloma.edu (Cameron Kaiser) Date: Thu, 4 Apr 2002 19:13:38 -0800 (PST) Subject: [Homestead] cmd In-Reply-To: <000501c1dc4d$15ef95a0$c09d0a0c@teraymon> from Terry Raymond at "Apr 4, 2 07:53:37 pm" Message-ID: <200204050313.TAA26616@stockholm.ptloma.edu> > All has been quiet I just wanted to share this, Im not really sure if Wave > can acess their website anymore or not, if you have a PC you can see how > colorful it is. Seems okay on HyperLink 2.5a. Their Mac selection is a little underwhelming :-/ -- ----------------------------- personal page: http://www.armory.com/~spectre/ -- Cameron Kaiser, Point Loma Nazarene University * ckaiser at stockholm.ptloma.edu -- FORTUNE: Make your own advancement opportunity. Blackmail your boss. ------- From billnacu at king.igs.net Fri Apr 5 12:46:49 2002 From: billnacu at king.igs.net (Greg/DAC) Date: Thu, 4 Apr 2002 22:16:49 -0500 (EST) Subject: [Homestead] cmd In-Reply-To: <000501c1dc4d$15ef95a0$c09d0a0c@teraymon> Message-ID: <20020404221253.V32474-100000@megahost.igs.net> On Thu, 4 Apr 2002, Terry Raymond wrote: > CMD has moved on to PC's and MAC computers, etc has anyone checked out their > website lately, they have some > SCSI hardware etc, Mac stuff. CMD was doing stuff for PC and MAC While they were still doing stuff for Commodore. > Doug Cotton does a very nice job of Web design, Good job Doug. Unfortunatly (or not?) Doug Doesn't work for CMD anymore. > CMD even has a picture of their building if you click on "about us" will > explain how they started their business etc, they really dont mention > Commodore even once though, how sad. I agree. That totally sucks. They used to be unique. Now they are just some other Company that I couldn't care less about. > All has been quiet I just wanted to share this, Im not really sure if Wave > can acess their website anymore or not, if you have a PC you can see how > colorful it is. How is the wave doing these days? haven't heard much about it recently. I'll start using the wave again when my SuperRam card arrives in the mail. Greg\DAC From keymaster14 at yahoo.com Sat Apr 6 12:09:31 2002 From: keymaster14 at yahoo.com (Nelse) Date: Fri, 05 Apr 2002 21:39:31 -0500 Subject: [Homestead] cmd In-Reply-To: <200204050313.TAA26616@stockholm.ptloma.edu> References: <000501c1dc4d$15ef95a0$c09d0a0c@teraymon> Message-ID: <5.1.0.14.0.20020405213758.009f0090@pop.mail.yahoo.com> -- [ Picked text/plain from multipart/alternative ] At 07:13 PM 4/4/2002 -0800, you wrote: > > All has been quiet I just wanted to share this, Im not really sure > if Wave > > can acess their website anymore or not, if you have a PC you can see how > > colorful it is. > >Seems okay on HyperLink 2.5a. > >Their Mac selection is a little underwhelming :-/ > >-- >----------------------------- personal page: >http://www.armory.com/~spectre/ -- > Cameron Kaiser, Point Loma Nazarene University * > ckaiser at stockholm.ptloma.edu >-- FORTUNE: Make your own advancement opportunity. Blackmail your boss. >------- >_______________________________________________ I kind of thing that the PC prices are a bit too high as well, specially for used/refurbished equipment. Nelse nelse23 at comcast.net keymaster14 at yahoo.com keymaster14 at netzero.net ICQ 100951374 -- _________________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com From gaelyne at videocam.net.au Sat Apr 6 23:42:08 2002 From: gaelyne at videocam.net.au (Gaelyne Gasson) Date: Sat, 6 Apr 2002 23:42:08 +0930 Subject: [Homestead] Online 'Garage Sale' Message-ID: <20020406234208.I4574@camera.vcsweb.com> G'day Everyone, Australia Ebay had a 'Free Listing' day, so Rod and I decided to have a bit of a clean up and have listed 28 Commodore items (hardware, software and programming books) on Ebay. The downside is that the prices had to be listed in Australian dollars, but that's OK as Ebay gives the US equivalent on the information pages. I have the items listed with links to the Ebay pages at: http://gaelyne.com/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=38 Here's the list: Hardware: Commodore C64/C128 Remote Control Joystick - RMT122 by Challenger. This is an InfaRed type joystick with all attachments and original box. http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=2015200696 Commodore C64/C128 6581 SID Chips 4 chips - 3 new, 1 soldered. Also includes 4 pre-etched stereo SID chip PC Boards for making stereo cartridges. Please note that the only documentation for this is the print out used for the photo. This printout will be included with the chips. http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=2015201899 Software: CADPAK-64 http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=2015193526 SuperBase 128 http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=2015193731 SuperScript 128 http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=2015193865 PaperClip III for the C64 http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=2015194027 BASIC Compiler 128 http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=2015194231 GEOCALC 128 http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=2015194427 GEOPROGRAMMER http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=2015194579 Hack-Pack for the C128 http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=2015194838 SkyFox - C64 game http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=2015195055 Home Designer - CAD for the C128 http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=2015195183 C64 Macro Assembler http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=2015195491 Books: 128 Internals http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=2015196048 Tricks and Tips for the C128 http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=2015196179 Peeks and Pokes for the C64 http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=2015196267 Commodore 64 Tricks and Tips http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=2015196390 64 Sound and Graphics http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=2015196590 The Second Book of Machine Language http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=2015196850 C64 Programmers Reference Guide http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=2015197900 http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=2015197984 Commodore 128 Reference Guide for Programmers http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=2015198143 Commodore 128 Programmers Reference Guide http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=2015198327 C64 Machine Language for the Absolute Beginnner http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=2015198550 Commodore 128 Programming Secrets http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=2015198759 The Commodore 64 ROMS Revealed http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=2015198908 Inside Commodore DOS (1541 Drives) http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=2015199088 Commodore 64 Color Graphics: An Advanced Guide http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=2015199233 Cheers, Gaelyne //\ /\\ Gaelyne R. Gasson gaelyne at videocam.net.au ||*\ . . /*|| 90 Hillier Rd Reynella, S.A. 5161, Australia \\____\X/____// Phone: +61 8 8322-2716 ICQ: 5069384 / * /O\ * \ http://Gaelyne.com \__/ " \__/ From b_thomas at telusplanet.net Sun Apr 7 02:09:44 2002 From: b_thomas at telusplanet.net (Bruce Thomas) Date: Sat, 6 Apr 2002 09:39:44 -0700 Subject: [Homestead] GEOS Photo Mover 3.0 now Public Domain Message-ID: <003501c1dd89$a88f34a0$0102a8c0@telusplanet.net> While working on an article about Rick Coleman's Mover 3.0 disk I contacted Rick to find out the current status of this fantastic collection for GEOS users. Below is Rick's answer. The article will appear in the October 2001 issue of the LUCKY Report. This disk collection has previously been reviewed in Commodore World #5 and #25. I have made the files available on the CUE web site at http://www.edmc.net/cue. ----- Original Message ----- From: Rick Coleman To: Bruce Thomas Sent: Sunday, March 31, 2002 8:32 PM Subject: RE: Photo Mover Hi Bruce, I have decided to release Photo Mover and the other programs on the Photo Mover disk to the public domain. I would appreciate it if you would go ahead and upload Photo Mover to the appropriate places. I wouldn't even know where to start. If you can, include my contact info, I am still available to answer questions. Could you send me the text of the article you will be writing? Thanks, Rick Coleman P.O. Box 44 Sheridan, WY, U.S.A. 82801 From colinjt at videocam.net.au Sun Apr 7 03:43:38 2002 From: colinjt at videocam.net.au (Colin J Thomson) Date: Sun, 7 Apr 2002 03:43:38 +0930 (CST) Subject: [Homestead] GEOS Photo Mover 3.0 now Public Domain In-Reply-To: <003501c1dd89$a88f34a0$0102a8c0@telusplanet.net> Message-ID: Hi Bruce, On Sat, 6 Apr 2002, Bruce Thomas wrote > While working on an article about Rick Coleman's Mover 3.0 disk I contacted > Rick to find out the current status of this fantastic collection for GEOS > users. I couldn't agree more, I bought this disk collection from Rick a many years ago (he was shocked people still wanted to use it) and the Utils are very handy indeed, and works fine in Wheels/MP3 with no problems :) Cheers, Colin. -- ___________________________________________________________________ | My Geos/SCPU/WAVE News Homepage * colinjt at videocam.net.au | | | | http://videocam.net.au/~colinjt * colin at g6avk.demon.co.uk | | **Online using a C128D CMD Power System** | ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ From billnacu at king.igs.net Sun Apr 7 06:01:25 2002 From: billnacu at king.igs.net (Greg/DAC) Date: Sat, 6 Apr 2002 15:31:25 -0500 (EST) Subject: [Homestead] Problems with the Wave. Message-ID: <20020406152425.Y17273-100000@megahost.igs.net> Hey Maurice and other Wave Users/Testers. I got my superRam card in the mail today! woohoo! It rocks Maurice. Anyway, I am having some interesting problems. I ran the superRam test and it passes with flying colours. And I can boot JOS no problem. So I know the Card and the Ram work fine. I got online and downloaded the wave64 v1, and the wave128 v1, aswell as the wave64 B2.9 and the wave128 B2.9. I put the Wave128 stuff in a seperate partition from the wave64 stuff. I ran the install program of the wave64, it installed the v1 files and I had it update the toolbox. Upon running it, I crashed rightout to a frozen screen that had the ready prompt on it. So I rebooted. Ran it again, and it locked up after Semi Rendering the Help page. Everything just froze, and the buttons at the top lost their bitmap data, but kept their colour data. I tried several other times and it always froze. So I unconverted the beta file, and renamed them so the beta was called wave64 and the v1 was called wave64.v1. The beta didn't even start to render the page before it froze. What's goin on?? Once again. I'm certain the card and Ram are working. I've ran the hardware test program, and tested it all in practice with JOS. There is probably some known issue, that is just unknown to me. Like... I have an old font file still kickin around my system and it's screwing things up, or... ? Thanks! I gotta test my new website with the Wave! Greg\DAC From thndrbrd at one.net Sat Apr 6 00:42:20 2002 From: thndrbrd at one.net (Roger Hoyer) Date: Fri, 05 Apr 2002 20:12:20 +0500 Subject: [Homestead] Re: Homestead digest, Vol 1 #613 - 4 msgs In-Reply-To: <200204051415.g35EFWQ7011235@mail.vcsweb.com> Message-ID: Hello homestead-request at videocam.net.au On 05-Apr-02, you wrote: > Message: 1 > From: "Terry Raymond" > Date: Thu, 4 Apr 2002 18:48:48 -0700 > Subject: [Homestead] Apple IIGS > > Hi to everyone on Homestead, > > I know this is a little off subject so I wont spend much time with this > request: > > One of my relatives a couple of years back got a second hand Apple IIGS > computer and a few things: > > Im wanting to sell this computer for a fair price but not really sure what > it is worth? > > I have the following: > > APPLE IIGS COMPUTER (WORKS) > 1MB INTERNAL RAM (HAS NO EXTRA RAM CARDS) > 1 INSTALLED SUPER SERIAL CARD (FOR PRINTERS ETC). > APPLE COLOR RGB MONITOR > 4 APPLE "EXTERNAL" 5.25 FLOPPY DRIVES > 1 APPLE 3.5 FLOPPY DRIVE (NOT AN APPLE UNI 3.5) > 2 APPLE IMAGEWRITER II PRINTERS STILL WORK. > PACKAGE OF BLACK RIBBONS FOR THE IMAGEWRITER II PRINTER > 2 USED COLOR IMAGEWRITER RIBBONS > 1 OR 2 NEW COLOR RIBBONS FOR IMAGE WRITER. > COVOX VOICE MASTER- VOICE SYNTHESIZER > SOME COMMERCIAL BOUGHT SOFTWARE > A FEW ASSORTED GAMES ETC. > > > > > > I ALSO HAVE THIS APPLE COMPUTER: > > APPLE IIC HAS BUILT IN 5.25 FLOPPY DRIVE (THIS COMPUTER STILL WORKS) > 128K RAM APPROXMATELY. > APPLE IIC GREEN MONOCHROME MONITOR. > > > > > I ALSO HAVE AN PANASONIC 24 PIN PRINTER WITH A COLOR KIT (THIS ENABLES THE > PRINTER TO PRINT IN COLOR) I JUST MAINLY WANT TO KNOW APPROXIMATELY WHAT > THIS IS WORTH. > > > Im going to try and sell both these computers locally here in Riverton, WY > if they dont sell I will let whomever is interested know if they dont > sell. > > You can reach me by mail at: > > Terry Raymond > 1315 S. Federal Blvd. > Lot#41 > Riverton, WY 82501 > PHONE: (307) 856-9221 if Im not at home just leave a message on my > answering machine (PLEASE).... > EMAIL: t_raymond at tcinc.net There is a MAC group in Cincinnati called the Applesiders who may be able to help you with prices. From rbernardo at mail.value.net Mon Apr 8 17:42:39 2002 From: rbernardo at mail.value.net (rbernardo) Date: Mon, 8 Apr 2002 01:12:39 -0700 (PDT) Subject: [Homestead] CommodoreOne Prototype Picture now labeled Message-ID: ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Sat, 6 Apr 2002 21:34:04 -0800 (PST) From: Professor Dredd Reply-To: CommodoreOne at yahoogroups.com To: CommodoreOne at yahoogroups.com Subject: [CommodoreOne] RE: Prototype Picture It's on my web page Bo. Just copy+paste the URL below into your web browser. http://8bit.at/go6502 I optimized the image for speed, so it should download in under a minute at 56K. Some detail was lost but not enough to make a difference. --- Bo Zimmerman wrote: > Would anyone be interested in labeling the major parts > and ports for those > of us who are uneducated about such things? > > - Bo From maddog at videocam.net.au Tue Apr 9 07:46:29 2002 From: maddog at videocam.net.au (Ray Allen) Date: Tue, 9 Apr 2002 07:46:29 +0930 (CST) Subject: [Homestead] a file/disk copier... Message-ID: Hey all! Is there a file or disk copier that can copy a whole FD2000 disk (included CMD subdirectories)? Something like Big Gulp for the 1581? Big Gulp reads all 80 tracks out to an REU then tells you to switch the disk and it copies everything back to the new disk. --Ray. If you can do it on a PC....... .......Remember, a Commodore 8-bit has been doin' it longer! From eyeth at videocam.net.au Tue Apr 9 08:41:22 2002 From: eyeth at videocam.net.au (Todd Elliott) Date: Tue, 9 Apr 2002 08:41:22 +0930 (CST) Subject: [Homestead] a file/disk copier... In-Reply-To: Message-ID: On Tue, 9 Apr 2002, Ray Allen wrote: > Is there a file or disk copier that can copy a whole FD2000 disk (included > CMD subdirectories)? Something like Big Gulp for the 1581? Big Gulp > reads all 80 tracks out to an REU then tells you to switch the disk and it > copies everything back to the new disk. > Hello. Would MCOPY do the trick? I myself programmed a SuperCPU routine that does exactly what Big Glup does; It reads in an entire FD-2000 disk image into SuperRAM, using burst serial routines of the 128 mode. The source code listing is at the Fridge, at www.ffd2.com/fridge Also, Wheels' Dashboard could copy an entire FD2000 disk? I haven't tried it under Wheels. I did use Wheels to make copies of 1581 disks, but it required disk swapping. Enjoy. -- Todd Elliott From t_raymond at tcinc.net Tue Apr 9 10:32:02 2002 From: t_raymond at tcinc.net (Terry Raymond) Date: Mon, 8 Apr 2002 19:02:02 -0600 Subject: [Homestead] SCSI "internal" CD-ROM drive Message-ID: <000901c1df62$294a2a80$c19d0a0c@teraymon> Hello Homesteaders, My message goes to Dave Elliott: Hi Dave, I have an Internal Sanyo 254S(made in 1995) SCSI 4X CD-ROM drive that Im not sure how to terminate it. It does have 5 pins (2 rows) for jumpers, is it true that this is for the Device SCSI number and sometimes for terminating? If you know something about this I would appreciate any information, I had heard that you are an experienced guru in these areas so I welcome any suggestions you may have. Of course this CD-ROM drive is an "internal" 50 pin SCSI, right now the only way I could connect it to my CMD HD is by using a SCSI Ribbon cable with the 3 IDC connectors. I used the 2 IDC connectors that are the closest together, connect one end to the HD controller board. Then connect the Middle IDC connector to the HD Mechanism. The remaining connector extend over the "back end" of the HD the cover goes right over the cable and wont pinch the cable. Im using a beta version that Torsten Baade let me try that read the TOC on a music CD, but my drive is acting very erratic and acts like the signal is bouncing back up the cable. I havent been able to find hardly any information on this drive on the I-Net so I have no idea how to Terminate it. I have also looked online and in a few computer magazines and cant find any "Internal SCSI" terminators for an 50 PIN IDC connector. Anyway I welcome your expertise. Many thanks, Terry Raymond t_raymond at tcinc.net From jhoepker at shell.core.com Tue Apr 9 11:07:27 2002 From: jhoepker at shell.core.com (John L Hoepker) Date: Mon, 8 Apr 2002 20:37:27 -0500 (CDT) Subject: [Homestead] a file/disk copier... In-Reply-To: Message-ID: On Tue, 9 Apr 2002, Todd Elliott wrote: > Also, Wheels' Dashboard could copy an entire FD2000 disk? I haven't tried > it under Wheels. I did use Wheels to make copies of 1581 disks, but it > required disk swapping. I've copied entire 16 MB native partitions on my HD with Wheels. I set the ram device for the entire 16 MB superRAM, copied the partition to ramdisk, then copied it back to the new partition. I'm sure the same could be done on a ramlink as well. I'm just wondering how I'm going to do this when the extended native partitions are available- could make backing up huge partitions an interesting challenge. Any thoughts about a new Click Here / CMD RAID drive system? ;) Seriously, this situation does make the Jaz drive an appealing thought... JH From rharris1 at videocam.net.au Tue Apr 9 13:50:13 2002 From: rharris1 at videocam.net.au (Randy Harris) Date: Tue, 9 Apr 2002 13:50:13 +0930 (CST) Subject: [Homestead] a file/disk copier... In-Reply-To: Message-ID: On Tue, 9 Apr 2002, Ray Allen wrote: > Is there a file or disk copier that can copy a whole FD2000 disk (included > CMD subdirectories)? Something like Big Gulp for the 1581? Big Gulp > reads all 80 tracks out to an REU then tells you to switch the disk and it > copies everything back to the new disk. There was a type-in program in an issue of Commodore World that did that very thing, but it required a SuperCPU with SuperRAM (at least 4 Mb I think). This was a freebie program. I typed it in when it came out for the sake of my user group. Its only benefit is if you have no other way to copy a disk, in other words, if you have no other CMD devices in addition to the FD to do a two-drive copy. If anyone needs it and would rather not type it in, I could e-mail it to you. Randy Harris Using a Commodore 128 with 'The Wave.' Bringing the Internet to GEOS users! ------------------------------------ Visit the SWRAP Commodore web site at: http://swrap.net From rbernardo at mail.value.net Tue Apr 9 21:27:13 2002 From: rbernardo at mail.value.net (rbernardo) Date: Tue, 9 Apr 2002 04:57:13 -0700 (PDT) Subject: [Homestead] More news from Jeri Message-ID: Date: Tue, 9 Apr 2002 02:04:46 -0700 (PDT) From: Jeri Ellsworth Reply-To: CommodoreOne at yahoogroups.com To: CommodoreOne at yahoogroups.com Subject: [CommodoreOne] CBM Hackers All Over Again. Yikes! [snip] By the way I've tested the new prototype displaying 16 bit video in HAM, Half bright, Chunky, and CLUT(all in resolutions 1280x1024, 1280x480, 640x480, 320x400, 320x200, 160x200). I'm repartitioning the C=1 from one chip into two which is slowing the whole works down. I have to do a major rework on the SDRAM controller since it uses a full dimm now instead of two chips soldered down. I hope to have the good old ready prompt in less than a week. :) From maurice at ia4u.net Wed Apr 10 00:14:33 2002 From: maurice at ia4u.net (Maurice Randall) Date: Tue, 9 Apr 2002 10:44:33 -0400 Subject: [Homestead] a file/disk copier... In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <02040910443304.05657@localhost.localdomain> When copying disks in Wheels, the Wheels kernal will allocate ram for the data buffer. The more available ram, the bigger the buffer it will use. When using two disk drives, the data is read into the buffer from the source drive and then written from the buffer to the destination drive. If the buffer is large enough, this will be done in one pass. Likewise, if the single drive mode is invoked, one disk swap will take place if the buffer is large enough. In reality, two disk swaps will always take place. The first swap is used for checking the source and destination disks prior to the actual copying. In all cases, the destination disk must already be formatted. Unallocated ram is not the same as unused ram. If you completely fill the available ram space with the largest ramdisk you can possibly make, then you have allocated all available ram to the ramdisk and the disk copier will only be able to use a small buffer that's built into the kernal space. You can check to see how much free ram is available by loading up the Toolbox and in the options menu select reu usage to see the info. -Maurice -- ** Maurice Randall - Click Here Software Co. ** High-Performance software for your Commodore ** email: maurice at ia4u.net, support at cmdrkey.com ** web: www.ia4u.net/~maurice From kzito at optonline.net Wed Apr 10 01:35:58 2002 From: kzito at optonline.net (Ken Zito) Date: Tue, 09 Apr 2002 12:05:58 -0400 Subject: [Homestead] More news from Jeri References: Message-ID: <000501c1dfe0$6fd47ef0$0e65bd18@ken> Maybe I missed something here, but as I recall, the C=1 is/was supposed to fit in a standard ATX case design(?). The board picture layout does not look like it meets up with the external port holes of an ATX case. I know you can custom design the thin metal "port hole" shield and just slip it in place, but what's throwing me off is the IEC serial bus port which looks to be quite a bit down too low to fit on the metal strip. This leads me to beilieve that I must cut the hole to fit in the ATX case by one of the uppermost expansion card slot openeings. I have no problem doing this, but am I missing something here? I just joined the C=1 list and followed a bunch of threads but could not find any info on this. Thanks! Ken Zito From tannerlj at yahoo.com Wed Apr 10 08:21:19 2002 From: tannerlj at yahoo.com (linda tanner) Date: Tue, 9 Apr 2002 15:51:19 -0700 (PDT) Subject: [Homestead] More news from Jeri In-Reply-To: <000501c1dfe0$6fd47ef0$0e65bd18@ken> Message-ID: <20020409225119.10037.qmail@web13605.mail.yahoo.com> --- Ken Zito wrote: > Maybe I missed something here, but as I recall, the > C=1 is/was supposed to > am I missing something here? I just joined the C=1 > list and followed a bunch > of threads but could not find any info on this. I have been following C=1 since seeing Jeri's first presentation when it was then destined to be just a video card. It seems to keep evolving, so I guess, just stay tuned. L. __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Tax Center - online filing with TurboTax http://taxes.yahoo.com/ From chambers at compmore.net Wed Apr 10 09:31:36 2002 From: chambers at compmore.net (Dustin Chambers) Date: Tue, 09 Apr 2002 20:01:36 -0400 Subject: [Homestead] Commodore Manuals Message-ID: <3CB380E0.6080804@compmore.net> Hey all! The local computer store just gave me a box full of Commodore stuff. I now have a pile of manuals sitting in front of me that are free to any home. Taker pays shipping, and thats it! Computer Projects - For BBC, Electron, Commodore 64, Spectrum The Commodore 64 Survival Manual Commodore 64 User's Guide Commodore 64 Computer Programs For Beginners GEOS V1.3 (this is the manual, not the GEOS program itself) Commodore 64 Games for Kids Commodore 64 Program Pack Manual Vic 1525 Graphic Printer User's Manual Paperclip 3 From rharris1 at videocam.net.au Wed Apr 10 14:57:28 2002 From: rharris1 at videocam.net.au (Randy Harris) Date: Wed, 10 Apr 2002 14:57:28 +0930 (CST) Subject: [Homestead] Update - GEOS Programming Seminar April 6th! In-Reply-To: Message-ID: April 6, 2002 - GEOS Programming Seminar BRK! This was the last GEOS Prog. Seminar until after the Fall EXPO. We ended with a bang! It was a VERY productive and enjoyable day! Those that attended: Maurice Randall Randy Harris Brian Sutton Eric Kudzin Dave Ross Scott McCoy Brian had to leave at 2 PM when we broke for lunch, and Scott came after lunch. We started at 9 AM, and we ended about 2 AM (which due to the change to Daylight Savings Time actually made it 3 AM!). The primary focus of the day was learning how to program the various types of Dialogue Boxes that would be used in GEOS programs. While our last seminar was very difficult, hard core low-level programming, this seminar helped to see the easy side of GEOS programming! It was amazing to see how little code it took to incorporate the many necessary dialog boxes often found in GEOS programs. Much of the code for displaying them is built right in to the kernal, all we had to do was call it! Maurice took us on a coding tour of how to code both custom and default types of dialog boxes. At times we took detours to help Brian who is a returning Commodore user, and a new GEOS user. We also helped Scott get his new Wheels 128 installed. In the meantime, Maurice was helping Eric code his own Autoexec program to automatically redefine the key sequence necessary to generate a TAB in geoWrite 64. Eric disliked having to do a CTRL - I for a TAB, which is used frequently when programming in GEOS. That nifty little program is available from me for the asking. Dave Ross has been working on a Desk Accessory to print addresses on individual envelopes with PostScript printers, as suggested by Alan Dickey. He had much of it done, but had hit a brick wall over some bugs. Maurice helped him 'over the wall' and he well on his way to completing this program. Another list of Errata will be compiled be Dave Ross after this seminar and added to his last list. BTW, if anyone wants the current Errata list already formatted to be printed out in booklet form ona a PostScript printer, just let me know and I can e-mail it to you or post it on the SWRAP web site (swrap.net). We also discussed Disassemblers. While there is a good disassembler for GEOS (DISASSEMBLER), the output cannot be easily reassembled without a lot of editing. Maurice uses TSG (The Source Generator, found on Load Star) when he needs a disassembler. The output it generates can easily be reassembled. In fact, it was TSG that Maurice used to disassemble GEOS! Maurice also wrote a couple of programs to import assembler source code from other assemblers (like Buddy) into GeoAssembler/CONCEPT source code. While the programming was winding down, we did some hardware repair. Eric Kudzin resoldered cracked solder joints on a 1084 that I got tired of whacking to get it work, as well as a CMD Hard Drive power cable connector. Some Q-Tips and rubbing alcohol were all that was necessary to get my CMD Smart Trackballs working like new again. They just needed a good cleaning. Obviously there were so many ideas kicked around, so much information passed on, and too much fun and laughs to be shared in one short summary. But hopefully it gives you enough of an idea to whet your appetite to not want to miss the next one! At the very least, make sure you come to the Spring EXPO in New Albany, IN. You'll be sorry if you do! Randy Harris Using a Commodore 128 with 'The Wave.' Bringing the Internet to GEOS users! ------------------------------------ Visit the SWRAP Commodore web site at: http://swrap.net From rbernardo at mail.value.net Wed Apr 10 16:34:28 2002 From: rbernardo at mail.value.net (rbernardo) Date: Wed, 10 Apr 2002 00:04:28 -0700 (PDT) Subject: [Homestead] Murder by Commodore Message-ID: Murder by Commodore Prologue "C'mon, Rich, do it again!" yelled the on-lookers in the crowd. Rich gave the audience a benevolent look and pressed a key on his souped- up Commodore. The room lights on the left side of the Expo room switched on. A keypress and they were off again. Then it was time for the right side of the room. On... off. A keypress on the Commodore and the mirrored, disco ball at the top of the room started spinning, a spotlight blazing on it, sending sparkles of light swirling around the room, the crowd oohing and ahhing. Another keypress and SID dance music started playing through the room's loudspeakers. The Commodorians enthusiastically started cheering, "Rich! Rich! Rich!" Rich stood up from his seat by the Commodore and bowed. ------ Rich Cooksey looked at his Commodore watch. The demo presenter kept droning on about the intricacies of CMD hard drives. Rich tried to stifle a yawn. "Yes, yes, CMD hard drives... tell me something I don't know," he thought. The Expo organizer edged his way around the audience and walked up to Rich. "R.C., have you seen Jeri?" That's one thing Rich didn't like -- how people who think they know you start calling you nicknames, like R.C.. He decided to ignore the organizer and feign interest in the hard drive demo. "R.C.!" "I haven't seen her in some time. Didn't she go up to her room to get the C=1 prototype?" "Yes, she did, but that was 2 hours ago, and she's not answering her phone. It's time for her demo," said the Expo organizer, worry in his voice. "I don't know what the hold-up could be." "I hope nothing's happened, R.C.." --- (To be continued in this month's Loadstar Disk #212. Contact Dave Moorman, revdave6(at)rmi.net for more Loadstar information or go to http://www.loadstar.com) From rbernardo at mail.value.net Wed Apr 10 17:20:14 2002 From: rbernardo at mail.value.net (rbernardo) Date: Wed, 10 Apr 2002 00:50:14 -0700 (PDT) Subject: [Homestead] The first Compleat Loadstar CD Message-ID: Yow, Fender Tucker has done it again! The very first Compleat Loadstar CD is up for auction at http://www.ebay.com . I did a search for fender at loadstar.com and found this remarkable CD, years and years of Loadstar, a veritable history of Commodore programs and articles not found in the public domain. Truly, Robert Bernardo Fresno Commodore User Group http://videocam.net.au/fcug ------------ Commodore - 240+ issues of LOADSTAR - Legit! Item # 2015568847 Currently US $26.00 First bid US $9.99 Quantity 1 # of bids 5 Time left 4 days, 15 hours + Location Shreveport LA Country USA Started Apr-07-02 15:34:27 PDT Ends Apr-14-02 15:34:27 PDT Seller (Rating) fender at loadstar.com (259) star Seller pays for shipping. Seller ships internationally (worldwide). No shipping charges. It's a LOADSTAR deal. Description LOADSTAR COMPLEAT ON CD! What you get: (1) .d64 files of the first 199 LOADSTAR issues. (2) .d64 files of the complete LS 128 issues (42 in all). (3) .d64 files of the five LOADSTAR EXTRA issues. (4) .d81 files of the six Walt Harned picture disks. (5) .txt files of over 100 of the LOADSTAR issues. These make it easy to use your PC's word processor to do fast searches of the total text found on the issues. (6) STAR LOADER, a Visual BASIC program that makes it easy to load any .d64 or .d81 as a Commodore directory inside VICE 1.7. (7) VICE 1.7. This is the AUTHORIZED compleat LOADSTAR collection. My wife has owned LOADSTAR from its beginning in 1984 and I edited it from 1987 through 2000. I checked the books and during those 14 years Softdisk (LS's parent company until 1994) paid home programmers like you over $300,000 for the programs and articles found on this CD. I guarantee there's more "stuff" to do and read on this CD than on ANY CD you'll ever buy. Dave Moorman, the editor of LOADSTAR since 2001, has helped me make this CD easy to use, especially if you were a LOADSTARite. This is the very first copy of the CD to be produced. I'll sign it as such. My thanks to all of the LOADSTARites for my 14 years of outstanding fun and games at the LOADSTAR Tower! Fender Tucker Grand Exalted Mojo From MagerValp at cling.gu.se Wed Apr 10 18:54:19 2002 From: MagerValp at cling.gu.se (MagerValp) Date: Wed, 10 Apr 2002 11:24:19 +0200 Subject: [Homestead] More news from Jeri In-Reply-To: <000501c1dfe0$6fd47ef0$0e65bd18@ken> References: <000501c1dfe0$6fd47ef0$0e65bd18@ken> Message-ID: <15540.1219.828224.972472@panini.cling.gu.se> >>>>> "KZ" == Ken Zito writes: KZ> Maybe I missed something here, but as I recall, the C=1 is/was KZ> supposed to fit in a standard ATX case design(?). The board KZ> picture layout does not look like it meets up with the external KZ> port holes of an ATX case. As she wrote on March 12: "This design is a 6x8 inch 4 layer board with 1 DIMM socket, 1 PCI, 2 narrow Zorro slots, 2 ps-2 connectors, 1 Compact Flash, 2 Joy, 1 VGA, 1 LPT, 1 audio out, 1 ATX power, and lots of test points. I didn't bother with making them exactly ATX spec since it's not going to be the final design." -- ___ . . . . . + . . o _|___|_ + . + . + . Per Olofsson, arkadspelare o-o . . . o + MagerValp at cling.gu.se - + + . http://www.cling.gu.se/~cl3polof/ From rbernardo at mail.value.net Thu Apr 11 10:45:13 2002 From: rbernardo at mail.value.net (rbernardo) Date: Wed, 10 Apr 2002 18:15:13 -0700 (PDT) Subject: [Homestead] Re: Murder by Commodore Message-ID: On Wed, 10 Apr 2002, I wrote: > To be continued in this month's Loadstar Disk #212. Darn! I miscounted the issues. Murder by Commodore will be in Loadstar Disk #213, not #212. Meanwhile, the graphics and the music in M by C= are being tweaked right now. Truly, Robert Bernardo Fresno Commodore User Group http://videocam.net.au/fcug From rharris1 at videocam.net.au Thu Apr 11 13:39:21 2002 From: rharris1 at videocam.net.au (Randy Harris) Date: Thu, 11 Apr 2002 13:39:21 +0930 (CST) Subject: [Homestead] Re: Assistance please In-Reply-To: <5.1.0.14.2.20020410214126.00a05ec0@pop-server> Message-ID: On Wed, 10 Apr 2002, Sylvia Hatcher wrote: > Thank you for your reply. I am in the Melbourne, FL area (about 1 hour from > Orlando)Tried to search for a local or Florida club but I didn't have any > luck. Maybe you might be aware of one. That would be great. > > Thanks > Regards, > Sylvia Hatcher > > At 02:11 PM 04/10/2002 +0930, you wrote: > >On Sat, 6 Apr 2002, Sylvia Hatcher wrote: > > > > > I was searching the net & found information on SWRAP User Group . I have > > > data in my Commodore Flex File database program. Hopefully the disks are > > > readable and I am looking for someone that can run the program & print out > > > the information and if possible has a program that can convert that data > > > information into something that I can run on my PC . > > > Might you or anyone in your club be able to assist me? > > > >1. Where are you located? If not in the Chicago area, maybe we could find > >someone who could help you who is closer. > > > >2. Myself or someone should be able to run and print out the data at the > >very least. Converting the data so it could be used on a PC may be > >possible IF the Commodore program allows the data to be exported to an > >ASCII file. The manual for this program would be almost a must to learn > >how to do this. > > > >Regardless, it will take time. But we will try to help if we can. > > > >Randy Harris > > > >Using a Commodore 128 with 'The Wave.' > >Bringing the Internet to GEOS users! > >------------------------------------ > >Visit the SWRAP Commodore web site at: > > > >http://swrap.net > > Sylvia, I am passing this info on to others around the country in the hopes that there is someone in the Florida area near you that can help you. Hopeully someone will respond. If not, you will probably have to mail the disks and manual to someone willing to do the job. Randy Harris Using a Commodore 128 with 'The Wave.' Bringing the Internet to GEOS users! ------------------------------------ Visit the SWRAP Commodore web site at: http://swrap.net From torsten.baade at uni-jena.de Thu Apr 11 21:41:55 2002 From: torsten.baade at uni-jena.de (Torsten Baade) Date: Thu, 11 Apr 2002 14:11:55 +0200 Subject: [homestead] SCSI CD-ROM Drive References: <005601c1e0b4$a20ed260$d49d0a0c@teraymon> Message-ID: <002401c1e152$12b98300$5630238d@iao.unijena.de> Hi Terry, glad to hear about your success. > I have an "internal" SCSI Sanyo 254S 4X CD-ROM drive, I wasnt really sure if > it needed to be terminated, I set the jumpers on the SCSI ID jumper. In your configuration, the CD-ROM drive is the last device on the SCSI line and needs to be terminated. Yesterday I found some time to disassemble my C64 tower to have a look at my SANYO 254 SH drive (didn't remembered the kind of termination). Its a bit different to yours but I think (and hope) the termination is done in the same way. In spite to other drives there is no jumper for the termination. If you have a look at the rear panel of your drive you will find the termination under the SCSI-connector. There are two contact stripes, if there are resistor networks (flat components with about 10 pins (or so) in one row) connected to these stripes your drive is terminated. If there are no resistors, your drive is not terminated and may have some problems when reading (sending) data. > I booted up the Program that Randy and the Programmers programmed and it > worked okay. > I noticed that when I tried to go to a different "song track" that sometimes > the drive would just stop playing, and other times it would continue on to > the next track. Strange, I didn't noticed this with my copy of the GPSCDP (GEOS Programming Seminar CD Player ;-), the program works very well. > I had been trying a different Beta program for Torsten Baade, it wouldnt > work, my drive ran erraticly and wouldnt play anything. That's the problem with the SCSI-standard: audio-commands are 'optional' only. Some older drives don't have the full set of audio commands. If the drive has only track based commands implemented, my program will not word, it needs and uses block based information. Best regards, Torsten Baade From thndrbrd at one.net Thu Apr 11 17:09:03 2002 From: thndrbrd at one.net (Roger Hoyer) Date: Thu, 11 Apr 2002 12:39:03 +0500 Subject: [Homestead] Re: Homestead digest, Vol 1 #619 - 2nd msg In-Reply-To: <200204111416.g3BEGLQ7028571@mail.vcsweb.com> Message-ID: Hello Sylvia & Randy, On 11-Apr-02, you wrote: If Sylvia doesn't have the software for Flexfile anymore, the Cincinnati Commodore Club has a copy of v2.1 and Flexfile/Papermate in stock, either of which we would be glad to donate to Sylvia or whomever she finds to help her. Roger Hoyer CCCC Publicity 513/248-0025 > Message: 2 > Date: Thu, 11 Apr 2002 13:39:21 +0930 (CST) > From: Randy Harris > Subject: [Homestead] Re: Assistance please > > On Wed, 10 Apr 2002, Sylvia Hatcher wrote: > >> Thank you for your reply. I am in the Melbourne, FL area (about 1 hour >> from Orlando)Tried to search for a local or Florida club but I didn't >> have any luck. Maybe you might be aware of one. That would be great. >> >> Thanks >> Regards, >> Sylvia Hatcher >> >> At 02:11 PM 04/10/2002 +0930, you wrote: >>> On Sat, 6 Apr 2002, Sylvia Hatcher wrote: >>> >>>> I was searching the net & found information on SWRAP User Group . I >> have >>>> data in my Commodore Flex File database program. Hopefully the disks >> are >>>> readable and I am looking for someone that can run the program & >> print out >>>> the information and if possible has a program that can convert that >> data >>>> information into something that I can run on my PC . >>>> Might you or anyone in your club be able to assist me? >>> >>> 1. Where are you located? If not in the Chicago area, maybe we could >> find >>> someone who could help you who is closer. >>> >>> 2. Myself or someone should be able to run and print out the data at >> the >>> very least. Converting the data so it could be used on a PC may be >>> possible IF the Commodore program allows the data to be exported to an >>> ASCII file. The manual for this program would be almost a must to learn >>> how to do this. >>> >>> Regardless, it will take time. But we will try to help if we can. >>> >>> Randy Harris >>> >>> Using a Commodore 128 with 'The Wave.' >>> Bringing the Internet to GEOS users! >>> ------------------------------------ >>> Visit the SWRAP Commodore web site at: >>> >>> http://swrap.net >> >> > > Sylvia, > > I am passing this info on to others around the country in the hopes that > there is someone in the Florida area near you that can help you. Hopeully > someone will respond. If not, you will probably have to mail the disks > and manual to someone willing to do the job. > > Randy Harris > > Using a Commodore 128 with 'The Wave.' > Bringing the Internet to GEOS users! > ------------------------------------ > Visit the SWRAP Commodore web site at: > > http://swrap.net From rbernardo at mail.value.net Sat Apr 13 16:18:34 2002 From: rbernardo at mail.value.net (rbernardo) Date: Fri, 12 Apr 2002 23:48:34 -0700 (PDT) Subject: [Homestead] Re: Ethernet for the Commodore Message-ID: For your information... Truly, Robert Bernardo Fresno Commodore User Group http://videocam.net.au/fcug ------------ "Ethernet, TCP/IP, web server, and real-timestreaming audio on a C64" From: Adam Dunkels (adam at dunkels.net) Newsgroups: comp.sys.cbm Date: 2002-04-12 06:43:57 PST In the past, there have been numerous discussions in comp.sys.cbm and elsewhere about the possibility of connecting a standard Commodore 64 to an Ethernet network. There have even been a few attempts at designing Ethernet adapters for the C64. Those have not amounted much other than vigorous discussions, however - no working hardware has been produced. In the discussions, different people have viewed the idea of Ethernet for the C64 with different amounts of optimism. Some have proclaimed that connecting a C64 to an Ethernet is impossible and totally out of the question, whereas others have thought it to be quite simple to realize. Still, nobody has produced any hard facts to back up any of their their claims. This is no longer the case. We are proud to announce what we believe to be the world's first Commodore 64 Ethernet adapter - TFE - The Final Ethernet[*]. The TFE card plugs into the cartridge expansion port and does not require any extra hardware such as SuperCPU accelerators or RAM expansions. We have a TFE-equipped C64 connected to the global Internet, and it is of course running a TCP/IP stack and the obligatory web server. But we took the idea of running our C64 as an Internet server one step further. Our C64 web server not only serves web pages, but is also running a real-time audio streaming server. The audio server streams directly from a tape in a standard Datasette cassette player connected to the C64. The server has been tested with RealPlayer version 8, but other clients may work as well. We are currently playing remixes of famous C64 tunes from games such as Last Ninja, Delta and others (music taken from http://remix.kwed.org/). Because the cassette port only is capable of sampling 1-bit at a time, the quality of the audio is awfully bad. To reduce the load on the C64 server, we only allow one listener at a time and each listener is http://remix.kwed.org/4limited to listen for about 30 seconds. The server is located in Stockholm, Sweden, so Europeans might have a slightly better chance of getting the packets through. The C64 web- and real-time streaming server can be reached at http://tfe.c64.org/ and more information about this, including pictures and schematics of the hardware as well as all source code for the software can be found at http://dunkels.com/adam/tfe/. We who have done this are Peter Eliasson (hardware) and Adam Dunkels (software). Many thanks go to Mikael Nehlsen for providing us with the C64 that runs as the server, the Elab at the Swedish Royal Institute of Technology for making it possible for us to manufacture the two prototype cards, and to the Swedish Institute of Computer Science for providing the Internet connection and bandwidth for our C64 server. *** The Hardware *** The TFE cartridge plugs into the cartridge expansion port and consists of a custom made printed circuit board and the CS8900a based embedded Ethernet board from Systor Vest AS [http://www.embeddedethernet.com/]. The circuit board is equipped with a single 74LS139 decoder and one led indicating access to the CS8900a Ethernet chip. We have manufactured two prototype boards at a cost of approximately $100 a piece. The cost is dominated by the Embedded Ethernet board that costs $70. Currently, we don't have any plans to start producing TFE cards, but others are welcome to use our schematics as long as credit is given to the creators. Pictures of the TFE cartridge in action can be found at http://dunkels.com/adam/tfe/pictures.html. Full schematics of the hardware is available at http://dunkels.com/adam/tfe/hardware.html. *** The Software *** The TCP/IP stack and the web server is of course the uIP stack [http://dunkels.com/adam/uip/], which also is used to run the C64 web server at http://c64.cc65.org/. The HTTP server software at http://tfe.c64.org/ has been enhanced with a special kind of TCP/HTTP optimization in order to prevent overload. Note that this optimization only is used for the front page - the other pages are served by a regular HTTP daemon and will load slower than the front page. The optimized version of the HTTP server runs on TCP ports 80-85 and because it makes certain assumptions of the properties of the TCP implementation of the web client, it might fail for some people. If so, try regular web server running on port 6510 which is slower but will work with all clients: http://tfe.c64.org:6510/index2.html The streaming audio server is a very tiny implementation of the two protocols RTSP (Real-Time Streaming Protocol) and RTP (Real-Time Protocol). The sampled audio is sent out as 8-bit 8000 Hz PCMU data in RTP datagrams over UDP. To reduce CPU processing overhead, the UDP datagrams are sent with the checksum turned off. The RTSP implementation has not been widely tested and might fail to work correctly with other clients than RealPlayer version 8. The source code for all the software is available on the web site http://dunkels.com/adam/tfe/software.html *** Flipping the Tape *** During the testing of the C64 server we quickly found out that having a server running 24/7 would be impossible because the cassette tape would have to be flipped every 45 minutes. So how do we manage to have a server running 24/7? Well, we are cheating a little - we are using a kind of tape that is used to connect portable CD-players with older car stereos. The "tape" is equipped an audio input coord which we connect to the sound card of a nearby PC. The PC plays the MP3 music, fooling the C64 into believing that it samples an ordinary tape. *** Conclusions and Future Work *** We have shown that Ethernet connectivity for the Commodore 64 indeed is possible and that a TFE-equipped but otherwise unexpanded Commodore is capable of not only running a web server, but also stream real-time audio over the Internet. We plan on developing software for transfering disk images to and from the C64 over the network, and have vague plans on writing a simple web browser and email client for the C64. The cost of the hardware could be cut either by using another Ethernet controller chip, or by a custom design that doesn't use the Embedded Ethernet board, but the Ethernet chip directly. Adam Dunkels and Peter Eliasson April 12 2002, Stockholm, Sweden. Footnotes: [*] The name is obviously a pun on the name of The Final Cartridge, which despite its name was produced in at least three versions. --Adam Dunkels (Spambait) http://dunkels.com/adam/ From rbernardo at mail.value.net Sat Apr 13 16:35:02 2002 From: rbernardo at mail.value.net (rbernardo) Date: Sat, 13 Apr 2002 00:05:02 -0700 (PDT) Subject: [Homestead] Need help finding a C= game... :( (fwd) Message-ID: ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Fri, 12 Apr 2002 23:58:30 -0700 From: Paul Panks Reply-To: COMMODORE COMPUTERS DISCUSSION To: COMMODOR at LISTSERV.ACSU.BUFFALO.EDU Subject: Need help finding a C= game... :( Dear Commodore Users, I am making a final attempt to locate a missing software title which I created on the Commodore 128 in 1994-5. Below is a screenshot, recreated from memory, of how the game looked: http://members.tripod.com/~panks/wstf.gif Does anyone have this game that I may have sent them 4 or so years ago? Read below: The game itself had the title "Enchanter: West Front to Apse". It was approximately 206-210 blocks long, had some 70 rooms, 85 nouns, 32 or so verbs, and was WINDOWed in that the sprite graphic that you see in the link above was displayed above the actual room description. At the bottom were displayed highlighted Function Key commands, accessible by pressing the appropriate function key. I also used a sprite for the Long Range Mapping feature of the game, which displayed a blueish, 3-dimensional lined landscape with a flashing white dot that displayed the player location. The Short Range Mapping feature, depending on the room entered, would display the tavern interior, the shop interior and the church interior in multi-color, SHIFTed and COMMODORed Keyground-style Graphics. Much of the game revolved around exploring sections of Norway, including Oslo, Trondheim, Stavanger, Bergen and the Flora island. There was also a Smurf village in the game, and part of the game involved rescuing Smurfette and drugging Asriel (from one of Papa Smurf's potions) and bringing his hide back to Handy smurf (for some equipment and armor items). Hey, this wasn't a kid's game! Also, if memory serves me, the player was supposed to visit some fellow named Galin in a treehouse, read from one of his books, and have him explain worldly mysteries to the player helpful in finishing the game. Finally, the player took a boat to the Lighthouse on Flora Island and found several weapons, armor and possibly a backpack. There, they'd take the boat back to Bergen (I think), locate an open plain under a "deep blue sky", read from a scroll (either that, or incant a magical ring) and Mordimar the Evil Magician would appear. Looks like someone played the NES game Immortal, huh? :) Anyway, the player would win by defeating Mordimar and saving Smurf Village. Ok, so does any of this sound familiar to anyone? The game was written for the Commodore 128 in 40-column mode and the layout, color scheme and design was modeled after the Magnetic Scrolls game "The Pawn". Please reply here or send replies to me at: dunric at yahoo.com It is very important that I find this game, as I intend to release it to the rest of the Commodore community as Public Domain. There is also a reward for the person who helps me locate the game, which will be any five games in my software library for FREE! Regards, Paul Panks dunric at yahoo.com http://members.tripod.com/~panks/tcu.html The COMMODORE User ICQ# 12234336 From ca at hindmarsh-island.com Sat Apr 13 19:27:21 2002 From: ca at hindmarsh-island.com (Adam Crawford) Date: Sat, 13 Apr 2002 19:27:21 +0930 Subject: [Homestead] Re: Ethernet for the Commodore References: Message-ID: <018101c1e2d1$9c42f2c0$0901a8c0@ca> I must say this is very impressive.. i wonder how long it will be before someone like Maurice is selling or even making these little things.. It sure makes using a C= on the net much more fun Congratulations go out to Adam Dunkels and his team! ----- Original Message ----- From: "rbernardo" To: Sent: Saturday, April 13, 2002 4:18 PM Subject: [Homestead] Re: Ethernet for the Commodore > For your information... > > Truly, > Robert Bernardo > Fresno Commodore User Group > http://videocam.net.au/fcug > > ------------ > > "Ethernet, TCP/IP, web server, and real-timestreaming audio on a C64" > From: Adam Dunkels (adam at dunkels.net) > Newsgroups: comp.sys.cbm > Date: 2002-04-12 06:43:57 PST > > In the past, there have been numerous discussions in comp.sys.cbm and > elsewhere about the possibility of connecting a standard Commodore 64 > to an Ethernet network. There have even been a few attempts at > designing Ethernet adapters for the C64. Those have not amounted much > other than vigorous discussions, however - no working hardware has > been produced. In the discussions, different people have viewed the idea > of Ethernet for the C64 with different amounts of optimism. Some have > proclaimed that connecting a C64 to an Ethernet is impossible and totally > out of the question, whereas others have thought it to be quite simple to > realize. Still, nobody has produced any hard facts to back up any of > their their claims. > > This is no longer the case. > > We are proud to announce what we believe to be the world's first > Commodore 64 Ethernet adapter - TFE - The Final Ethernet[*]. The TFE > card plugs into the cartridge expansion port and does not require any > extra hardware such as SuperCPU accelerators or RAM expansions. > > We have a TFE-equipped C64 connected to the global Internet, and it is > of course running a TCP/IP stack and the obligatory web server. > But we took the idea of running our C64 as an Internet server one step > further. Our C64 web server not only serves web pages, but is also > running a real-time audio streaming server. The audio server streams > directly from a tape in a standard Datasette cassette player connected > to the C64. The server has been tested with RealPlayer version 8, but > other clients may work as well. We are currently playing remixes of > famous C64 tunes from games such as Last Ninja, Delta and others > (music taken from http://remix.kwed.org/). > > Because the cassette port only is capable of sampling 1-bit at a time, > the quality of the audio is awfully bad. To reduce the load on the C64 > server, we only allow one listener at a time and each listener is > http://remix.kwed.org/4limited to listen for about 30 seconds. The server > is located in Stockholm, Sweden, so Europeans might have a slightly better > chance of getting the packets through. > > The C64 web- and real-time streaming server can be reached at > http://tfe.c64.org/ and more information about this, including > pictures and schematics of the hardware as well as all source code for > the software can be found at http://dunkels.com/adam/tfe/. > > We who have done this are Peter Eliasson (hardware) and Adam Dunkels > (software). > > Many thanks go to Mikael Nehlsen for providing us with the C64 that > runs as the server, the Elab at the Swedish Royal Institute of > Technology for making it possible for us to manufacture the two prototype > cards, and to the Swedish Institute of Computer Science for > providing the Internet connection and bandwidth for our C64 server. > > *** The Hardware *** > > The TFE cartridge plugs into the cartridge expansion port and consists > of a custom made printed circuit board and the CS8900a based embedded > Ethernet board from Systor Vest AS [http://www.embeddedethernet.com/]. > The circuit board is equipped with a single 74LS139 decoder and one > led indicating access to the CS8900a Ethernet chip. > > We have manufactured two prototype boards at a cost of approximately > $100 a piece. The cost is dominated by the Embedded Ethernet board > that costs $70. Currently, we don't have any plans to start producing > TFE cards, but others are welcome to use our schematics as long as > credit is given to the creators. Pictures of the TFE cartridge > in action can be found at http://dunkels.com/adam/tfe/pictures.html. > Full schematics of the hardware is available at > http://dunkels.com/adam/tfe/hardware.html. > > *** The Software *** > > The TCP/IP stack and the web server is of course the uIP stack > [http://dunkels.com/adam/uip/], which also is used to run the C64 web > server at http://c64.cc65.org/. The HTTP server software at > http://tfe.c64.org/ has been enhanced with a special kind of TCP/HTTP > optimization in order to prevent overload. Note that this optimization > only is used for the front page - the other pages are served by a > regular HTTP daemon and will load slower than the front page. > The optimized version of the HTTP server runs on TCP ports 80-85 and > because it makes certain assumptions of the properties of the TCP > implementation of the web client, it might fail for some people. If > so, try regular web server running on port 6510 which is slower but > will work with all clients: http://tfe.c64.org:6510/index2.html > The streaming audio server is a very tiny implementation of the two > protocols RTSP (Real-Time Streaming Protocol) and RTP (Real-Time > Protocol). The sampled audio is sent out as 8-bit 8000 Hz PCMU data in > RTP datagrams over UDP. To reduce CPU processing overhead, the UDP > datagrams are sent with the checksum turned off. The RTSP > implementation has not been widely tested and might fail to work > correctly with other clients than RealPlayer version 8. > > The source code for all the software is available on the web site > http://dunkels.com/adam/tfe/software.html > > *** Flipping the Tape *** > > During the testing of the C64 server we quickly found out that having > a server running 24/7 would be impossible because the cassette tape would > have to be flipped every 45 minutes. > > So how do we manage to have a server running 24/7? Well, we are > cheating a little - we are using a kind of tape that is used to > connect portable CD-players with older car stereos. The "tape" is > equipped an audio input coord which we connect to the sound card of a > nearby PC. The PC plays the MP3 music, fooling the C64 into believing > that it samples an ordinary tape. > > *** Conclusions and Future Work *** > > We have shown that Ethernet connectivity for the Commodore 64 indeed > is possible and that a TFE-equipped but otherwise unexpanded Commodore > is capable of not only running a web server, but also stream > real-time audio over the Internet. > > We plan on developing software for transfering disk images to and from > the C64 over the network, and have vague plans on writing a simple web > browser and email client for the C64. > > The cost of the hardware could be cut either by using another Ethernet > controller chip, or by a custom design that doesn't use the Embedded > Ethernet board, but the Ethernet chip directly. > > Adam Dunkels and Peter Eliasson > April 12 2002, Stockholm, Sweden. > > Footnotes: > [*] The name is obviously a pun on the name of The Final Cartridge, > which despite its name was produced in at least three versions. > > --Adam Dunkels (Spambait) > http://dunkels.com/adam/ > > _______________________________________________ > Homestead mailing list > Homestead at videocam.net.au > http://cbm.videocam.net.au/mailman/listinfo/homestead From rbernardo at mail.value.net Sun Apr 14 11:44:44 2002 From: rbernardo at mail.value.net (rbernardo) Date: Sat, 13 Apr 2002 19:14:44 -0700 (PDT) Subject: [Homestead] [CommodoreOne] Help making key maps. (fwd) Message-ID: ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Sat, 13 Apr 2002 18:12:50 -0700 (PDT) From: Jeri Ellsworth Reply-To: CommodoreOne at yahoogroups.com To: CommodoreOne at yahoogroups.com Subject: [CommodoreOne] Help making key maps. Hi All, I'm going to define the key map that is to ship with the C=1 and wanted to get feed back on where people think the keys should go. The rules: 1. No fighting, yelling, whining or wall eyed fits.(especially if your key map isn't the default.) 2. The default map *MUST* have colon, semicolon, quote, and apostrophe in the same place as on the PC keyboard or I'll throw the wall-eyed-fit.(drives me nuts trying to typing on a C= these days) 3. Pause key doesn't repeat. 4. The run/stop restore key combo needs to be defined and will not be user changeable. 5. Key map LUT is 256 locations long. 6. Non-extended scan codes are directly address from location 0 - 127.(0xxxxxxx LSB) 7. Extended scan codes are address at scan code + 128. (1xxxxxxx LSB) 8. Some extended keys have multiple scan codes and if two entries into the matrix are not needed then all scan codes need to point to the same matrix location. 9. LUT data needs to be: Bits 7-6 "00" Normal operation to 8x8 matrix "01" Extended matrix operation (d02f bits 0-2, joy 1,2) "10" Block shift "11" Force Shift Bits 5-3 Column select 8X8 matrix operations Column of bit to set on key press Extended "000" - "010" (d02f extended column scan) "011" - Joy 1 "100" - Joy 2 Bits 2-0 Row Select 8x8 matrix operation Row of bit to be set on key press Extended "000" - "111" (d02f extended row scan) Joy Mode bit 0 - Joy 0 bit 1 - Joy 1 bit 2 - Joy 2 bit 3 - Joy 3 bit 4 - button1 bit 5 - button2 bit 6 - button3 bit 7 - button3 To set a bit in the 8x8 matrix simply assign the row and column in the LUT. You can disable the shift keys when you want to map a character to a none shifted location with the block shift command. Mapping a none shift character to a shifted location uses the force shift command. The block and force shifts can only be used in the 8x8 matrix. When in the extended matrix you can set bits in the do2f extended columns and the joystick bits. 10 Finally I'm working on a way to select the key map on start up, but this may not be in the first prototype. The controller is write protect-able protect-able and programmable from main system address space so "Dont whine if you don't like the map!!" :p Here is a good link with the scan codes to use: http://panda.cs.ndsu.nodak.edu/~achapwes/PICmicro/keyboard/scancodes2.html I can use the LUT file in raw 256 byte format or in this text format. 0 : 00111111; 1 : 00111111; 2 : 01111111; 3 : 00101111; 4 : 00111011; blah blah... ff : 10111111; For all of you who have wanted to help here is your chance. Have fun, Jeri From rbernardo at mail.value.net Sun Apr 14 18:04:18 2002 From: rbernardo at mail.value.net (rbernardo) Date: Sun, 14 Apr 2002 01:34:18 -0700 (PDT) Subject: [Homestead] More Chicago C= Expo 2001 news Message-ID: While cruising through http://www.google.com , I found that there was more Commodore news that may have been overlooked in the last few months. Jim Butterfield, veteran Commodore programmer and writer, gives his impressions of the Chicago Commodore Expo 2001, which was held last September. This was taken from http://www.icpug.org.uk/national/features/010930fe.htm (see below). Truly, Robert Bernardo Fresno Commodore User Group http://videocam.net.au/fcug ------------ 30th September 2001 THE SWRAP COMMODORE SHOW IN CHICAGO Jim Butterfield A couple of times a year, SWRAP (SouthWest Regional Association .. ) gather to talk about what's going on in the Commodore 8-bit world. This meeting was in the Chicago area in early September 2001, and here are some of the highlights. You can read more, (and see pictures), by going to the SWRAP web site at http://swrap.net/ . The hotel where this was held was redoing its telephone system; this cramped the style of some of the displays, since they couldn't show a live internet connection. Roger Lawhorn programmed a stereo SID system driver, which included options for the various configurations of dual-SID systems. Nick Coplin, from Perth, Australia, adding PC hard drives to his 64 by exploiting discarded 386-generation PCs. Nick is also doing AVI work. His web site at www.64hdd.com gives details. Nick told me that his next stop was the UK; I don't know if he'll be able to touch bases with ICPUG there, but I've tried to set up contacts. At the time of writing I don't know how it will work out. Jason Peterson repackaged his Commodore 64 into an old PC case, adapting the PC power supply for the job and including disk drives. Saves desk space and adds portability (luggability?) Maurice Randall is a name of fame in this area; he has, among other things, produced the GEOS upgrade called Wheels and has developed interfaces to the internet from both the 64 and 128. But the big news is that he has taken over the Commodore product line from CMD, who have shifted into other activities. CMD developed a considerable number of Commodore-compatible products, including JiffyDOS and a hard drive system. Maurice spent some time showing early prototypes from CMD; some of these ended up as products and some were "dead ends". When asked about future products, he indicated that he has some plans along this line, but his current priority is to satisfy the backlog of outstanding orders. Greg Nacu showed JOS, a multitasking operating system for enhanced Commodore, (SuperCPU), systems. It's fast and flexible, with something of a Unix flavour. Greg indicated that he has a new URL called gregdac.findhere.com, but I couldn't link up to it to look in on his work. http://www.king.igs.net/~billnacu/comhome.html works better for me. From there, you can link to the JOS website at http://jos.sweetcherrie.com/jolz64 . (Again, Greg had mentioned jos64.com, but I couldn't get that one working.) Dale Sidebottom demonstrated the handling of graphics, such as JPEG and PostScript, on Commodore 8-bit equipment. No, detailed graphic images can't be displayed, but they can be passed along to a printer, along with other formatting in Wheels. Dale has been using a PostScript compatible printer for this work, but now PostPrint allows PostScript images to be converted for use on an inkjet printer. Dale was demonstrating the formatting and printing of T-shirts from images taken at the show. Jeri Ellsworth is a relatively recent arrival to the CBM scene, but the projects she is working on are dramatic and exciting. She's more than just a pretty face; she's undertaking some remarkable designs at both the chip and board level to create a new super version of Commodore-style computers called the Commodore One! You can find pictures and design information at http://www.geocities.com/cm_easy/ , which includes photographs of some of the prototype equipment. The work is still a project in progress, but Jeri had some intensive discussions on possibilities and features with show attendees and she was able to demonstrate a partially working system - the video interface was shown and is relatively complete. I was asked to speak, and did so briefly, basing part of my presentation on the article I wrote long ago for ICPUG, now posted at http://www.icpug.org.uk/national/archives/010616ar.htm, which I called "nostalgia squared". When I wrote it back in 1991 it was nostalgia... now there's a whole new view of the same data. I closed the show by offering to sell my clothing as souvenirs to the attendees. The room emptied out rather quickly, I thought. But I did manage to give away my Commodore braces to Nick Coplin; possibly, you might see them being worn proudly during his visit to the UK. And, no, my trousers did not fall down, although I saw a number of digital cameras trained on me in case I should be wearing Commodore underwear. Sigh: isn't it true that there's always someone to lower the tone of a show? From rbernardo at mail.value.net Sun Apr 14 18:09:47 2002 From: rbernardo at mail.value.net (rbernardo) Date: Sun, 14 Apr 2002 01:39:47 -0700 (PDT) Subject: [Homestead] Dave Haynie mentions Jeri Message-ID: While researching through www.google.com, I found another C= reference. Here's brief Jeri Ellsworth report that may have been overlooked, this time from former Commodore Business Machines engineer, Dave Haynie. This was taken from: http://www.zdnet.com/tlkbck/comment/465/0,10732,115997-907791,00.html By the way, when you get to that website, you can read more nostalgic C= remembrances by others. Here's looking at you kid, Robert Bernardo Fresno Commodore User Group http://videocam.net.au/fcug ------------ Name: Dave Haynie Email: dhaynie at jersey.net Location: South Jersey Occupation: Computer Engineer The C64 is still the top selling single model of any personal computer, to the tune of some 25 million units. For some odd reason, there are legions of C64 programmers still around, many who've never touched a real C64, but program on the numerous C64 emulators for the PC (the very first C64 emulator ran on the Amiga). Last summer, I met a kid, Jeri Ellsworth, who's designed a whole new C64 using FPGAs (see http://www.geocities.com/cm_easy ). As a member of the Commodore 128 team at Commodore (try SYS32800,123,45,6 on a C128, if you have one), it's kind of funny to see this stuff still alive, at all, so many years later. The cool thing about designing a system in those days, and even in the Amiga days, was the lack of limitations. Sure, the technology was a big limit, but you actually had a hand in the system design, for better or for worse. These days, a PC is precisely what the CPU and system chips make it, there's virtually no room for real differentiation at the system level. And generally, each chip is just a small change from the previous one. Perhaps that's maturity, but think: when was the last time you were even moderately excited about the release of a new computer? From b_thomas at telusplanet.net Mon Apr 15 13:22:07 2002 From: b_thomas at telusplanet.net (Bruce Thomas) Date: Sun, 14 Apr 2002 21:52:07 -0600 Subject: [Homestead] Fw: Telnet service Message-ID: <002001c1e430$ea05db20$0102a8c0@telusplanet.net> I received the following note from a user who has some questions about connecting with his Commodore. Since I don't use the VideoCam Telnet service (I understand you would need an ISP to connect with first) I don't think I can offer much help. Also, was there not some discussion on here recently about using Juno with a Commodore or am I thinking of something else? Thanks for any assistance that can be provided to Maynard. I would think that a reply directly to him would be the best method of contact. Bruce ----- Original Message ----- From: "Maynard R Wright" Sent: Sunday, April 14, 2002 8:12 PM Subject: Telnet service > Hello, > This is Maynard Wright from Odum, Georgia USA. I am trying to get > to the point that I can use a Commodore 128 to read e-mail an have web > access without spending several hundred dollars buying the SCPU, Wheels, > the Wave and whatever else may be needed. I now have the T232 cartridge > and a 33.6K modem and can connect to the Juno phone but I can;t use Juno > because there is no software for the Commodore to run it. I have > Hyperlink 2,5 but so far I can not do anything with it. I have Novaterm > 9.6 registered version but I do not have version 10. I don't know how to > download it to a 3.5 inch disk on my PC and install it on the Commodore > because I don't have a 3.5 inch drive for it. > What I want to know is can I subscribe to the Videocam Telnet > service for e0mail and web access and if so how can I make contact with > my Commodore now? I do not have a dial up shell account and do not know > how to use the Linux or Linx programs that they use. I have e-mail access > now with the PC but I want to get to the point that I don't need to use > it any more than necessary, I want to do everything with the Commodore > but I am just now quite there yet and I don;t want to spend several more > hundred dollars to get there. > I hope that you can offer some helpful guidance and if so it will > be appreciated very much. > > Sincerely. > Maynard Wright From rbernardo at mail.value.net Mon Apr 15 15:21:05 2002 From: rbernardo at mail.value.net (rbernardo) Date: Sun, 14 Apr 2002 22:51:05 -0700 (PDT) Subject: [Homestead] Jeri and C=1 at Baltimore Amiga Expo Message-ID: John Harris, game designer/programmer and president of the Amiga Group Enthusiasts (of Fresno, California), reports that Jeri Ellsworth and the CommodoreOne prototype board made an appearance at the Baltimore (Maryland) Amiga Expo, which was held on March 29-31. Jeri gave a 1-hour presentation on the CommodoreOne, and throughout the Expo, the C=1 was on display at a table. At that time, the board was unpopulated, save for one chip. Perhaps because of this, the C=1 was not demoed. From levay at visi.com Tue Apr 16 10:34:43 2002 From: levay at visi.com (Craig LeVay) Date: Mon, 15 Apr 2002 20:04:43 -0500 (CDT) Subject: [Homestead] Un-.lbr-ing Centipede files on a CMD hard drive---HELP!!!! In-Reply-To: Message-ID: This message is in MIME format. The first part should be readable text, while the remaining parts are likely unreadable without MIME-aware tools. Send mail to mime at docserver.cac.washington.edu for more info. -- I sent this to Maurice some time ago and think he is busy. Maybe someone on Homestead or COPS can help me in my problem. Like to set up a small part time BBS here in the Twin Cities (down to zero C= boards and only one IBM board left here). Craig LeVay -- Content-Description: >From levay at visi.com Mon Apr 15 19:59:29 2002 Date: Sat, 6 Apr 2002 20:04:19 -0600 (CST) From: Craig LeVay To: Maurice Randall Cc: levay at visi.com Subject: Handling .lbr files in 128 mode on a CMD HD Dear Maurice, I have been using the CMD HD you sent last year for some time and it seems to be an excellent piece of well thought out machinery for my C=128. The problem I have been having is I have a partition 11 of approximately 10 meg in size where I unzipped Centipede for the possibility of starting a C= bbs down the road in the evening. After the files unzipped using Errol Smith unzip tools in 128 mode I have a large "centfree.lbr" file of approximately 4000 blocks. I have been trying to using Mr. Prountz 1.4 library utility for the 128 but development on this tool seems to have ended about 1986 from the REM copyright notice and only works with C= and LtKernel HD. Is this any other program that can "unwrapped" 128 library files that accommodates CMD HD DOS and it's system of partitions? Look forward to any help you can give or answers. Craig S. LeVay Oakdale, MN 55128 From rbernardo at mail.value.net Tue Apr 16 11:46:54 2002 From: rbernardo at mail.value.net (rbernardo) Date: Mon, 15 Apr 2002 19:16:54 -0700 (PDT) Subject: [Homestead] Re: Un-.lbr-ing Centipede files on a CMD hard drive---HELP!!!! In-Reply-To: Message-ID: Dear Craig, On Mon, 15 Apr 2002, you wrote: > I sent this to Maurice some time ago and think he is busy. Maybe someone > on Homestead or COPS can help me in my problem. Like to set up a small > part time BBS here in the Twin Cities (down to zero C= boards and only one > IBM board left here). Aren't .lbr files considered CPM files? You'd have to decompress this CPM file into the HD hard drive. However, I could be wrong, Robert Bernardo Fresno Commodore User Group http://videocam.net.au/fcug From possumknavel at yahoo.com Tue Apr 16 23:21:29 2002 From: possumknavel at yahoo.com (possum knavel) Date: Tue, 16 Apr 2002 06:51:29 -0700 (PDT) Subject: [Homestead] Re: Homestead digest, Vol 1 #623 - 2 msgs In-Reply-To: <200204151415.g3FEFdXK028641@mail.vcsweb.com> Message-ID: <20020416135129.94706.qmail@web10907.mail.yahoo.com> If there is a way to connect a C= to Juno, I would like to hear about it too. Thanks, John --- homestead-request at videocam.net.au wrote: > > > > ----------------------------------------------------- > Homestead Digest > Any Commodore Topic Goes List > ----------------------------------------------------- > List Admin: Bruce > Thomas > > homestead-admin at videocam.net.au > > Supported by: VideoCam > Services > http://cbm.videocam.net.au > > ----------------------------------------------------- > List Address > homestead at videocam.net.au > List URL > http://cbm.videocam.net.au/mailman/listinfo/homestead > > List Help > homestead-request at videocam.net.au > Add 'help' in the subject or message > body. > > Please edit the subject line when replying so it's > specific to your topic than the Digest name. > ----------------------------------------------------- > > > > Today's Topics: > > 1. Fw: Telnet service (Bruce Thomas) > 2. Jeri and C=1 at Baltimore Amiga Expo > (rbernardo) > > -------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Message: 1 > From: "Bruce Thomas" > Date: Sun, 14 Apr 2002 21:52:07 -0600 > Subject: [Homestead] Fw: Telnet service > > I received the following note from a user who has > some questions about > connecting with his Commodore. Since I don't use the > VideoCam Telnet service > (I understand you would need an ISP to connect with > first) I don't think I > can offer much help. > > Also, was there not some discussion on here recently > about using Juno with a > Commodore or am I thinking of something else? > > Thanks for any assistance that can be provided to > Maynard. I would think > that a reply directly to him would be the best > method of contact. > > Bruce > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Maynard R Wright" > Sent: Sunday, April 14, 2002 8:12 PM > Subject: Telnet service > > > > Hello, > > This is Maynard Wright from Odum, Georgia > USA. I am trying to get > > to the point that I can use a Commodore 128 to > read e-mail an have web > > access without spending several hundred dollars > buying the SCPU, Wheels, > > the Wave and whatever else may be needed. I now > have the T232 cartridge > > and a 33.6K modem and can connect to the Juno > phone but I can;t use Juno > > because there is no software for the Commodore to > run it. I have > > Hyperlink 2,5 but so far I can not do anything > with it. I have Novaterm > > 9.6 registered version but I do not have version > 10. I don't know how to > > download it to a 3.5 inch disk on my PC and > install it on the Commodore > > because I don't have a 3.5 inch drive for it. > > What I want to know is can I subscribe to > the Videocam Telnet > > service for e0mail and web access and if so how > can I make contact with > > my Commodore now? I do not have a dial up shell > account and do not know > > how to use the Linux or Linx programs that they > use. I have e-mail access > > now with the PC but I want to get to the point > that I don't need to use > > it any more than necessary, I want to do > everything with the Commodore > > but I am just now quite there yet and I don;t want > to spend several more > > hundred dollars to get there. > > I hope that you can offer some helpful > guidance and if so it will > > be appreciated very much. > > > > Sincerely. > > Maynard Wright > > > > > -------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Message: 2 > Date: Sun, 14 Apr 2002 22:51:05 -0700 (PDT) > From: rbernardo > Subject: [Homestead] Jeri and C=1 at Baltimore Amiga > Expo > > John Harris, game designer/programmer and president > of the Amiga Group > Enthusiasts (of Fresno, California), reports that > Jeri Ellsworth and > the CommodoreOne prototype board made an appearance > at the Baltimore > (Maryland) Amiga Expo, which was held on March > 29-31. > > Jeri gave a 1-hour presentation on the CommodoreOne, > and throughout the > Expo, the C=1 was on display at a table. At that > time, the board was > unpopulated, save for one chip. Perhaps because of > this, the C=1 was not > demoed. > > From a hardware point-of-view, John says that the > C=1 has good > "connectivity", i.e., good for connecting to other > devices via its various > ports. "I wish she had picked a better platform, > like the Atari 8-bit, > ;-) ", remarks John, a long-time Atari fan. He also > mentions what Jeri > had stated at last year's AmiWest Show -- that Jeri > wants to next do an > Amiga 500 a la C=1, followed by something new... an > Atari 8-bit a la > C=1. He says that Jeri will probably demo the C=1 > at the Sacramento > AmiWest Show 2002 on July 27-28. (Note that Jeri > will demo the C=1 at > the Louisville Commodore Expo on May 25-26.) > > In a mpeg video (240 megs, 24:02 minutes) that was > captured from a > camcorder and transferred directly to CD-ROM, Jeri > can also be seen > enjoying the "BattleBot" fighting that was held > later on in the parking > lot of the Expo. BattleBots -- armored, > remote-controlled, > "weapon-loaded", rolling robots -- are put into > competition, ramming and > battering each other to see which survives (kind of > like demolition > derby). The lightweight Amiga Boing Ball bot > survived even a 200+ > pound bot and Joe Torre's "briefcase" bot! > > O.K., the > last part was not > exactly > Commodore, :-) > Robert > Bernardo > Fresno > Commodore User Group > > http://videocam.net.au/fcug > > > > > End of Homestead Digest __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Tax Center - online filing with TurboTax http://taxes.yahoo.com/ From corrigan at pp.sbbs.se Tue Apr 16 23:33:51 2002 From: corrigan at pp.sbbs.se (corrigan@pp.sbbs.se) Date: Tue, 16 Apr 2002 16:03:51 +0200 Subject: [Homestead] Oops! Message-ID: Hi! Long time ago I wrote to the HOMESTEAD-list. Been busy doing all kind of strange stuff, and because of that I've had no time over for my poor commodores. I actually stopped using them when my 128DCR CMD-hardware-enriched tower stopped functioning (well actually I screw up and made a shortage on the 128DCR mainboard). Since then it's been standing on my room, and been trough one rough (I had it in my knee!) transport. The reason I'm actually writing here now is that I have an urge to start using it again, but then I have to buy a new mainboard and I'm actually a bit worried if all the hardware still is alive? How much can it take? I have been pretty easy on it but you never know. It's equipped with a SuperCPU, a Ramlink and a CMD HD, all wired up in a PC-tower with all sorts of strange hacks and modifications. Will it make me happy if I install a new 128DCR mainboard or will it just make me want to kill myself? :D Hard to say really, but what do you think? Best regards Jonas From tannerlj at yahoo.com Wed Apr 17 05:52:10 2002 From: tannerlj at yahoo.com (linda tanner) Date: Tue, 16 Apr 2002 13:22:10 -0700 (PDT) Subject: [Homestead] Oops! In-Reply-To: Message-ID: <20020416202210.96521.qmail@web13606.mail.yahoo.com> --- corrigan at pp.sbbs.se wrote: when my > 128DCR > CMD-hardware-enriched tower stopped functioning > (well actually I screw > up and made a shortage on the 128DCR mainboard). I have an > urge to start using it again, but then I have to buy > a new mainboard and > I'm actually a bit worried if all the hardware still > is alive? How much > can it take? ? > Best regards Jonas What happens when you turn the system on as it is now? Linda __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Tax Center - online filing with TurboTax http://taxes.yahoo.com/ From Greenmanml at aol.com Wed Apr 17 07:31:04 2002 From: Greenmanml at aol.com (Greenmanml@aol.com) Date: Tue, 16 Apr 2002 18:01:04 EDT Subject: [Homestead] Re: Un-.lbr-ing Centipede files on a CM Message-ID: <165.bc98a5c.29edf920@aol.com> -- [ Picked text/plain from multipart/alternative ] In a message dated 4/16/02 7:16:35 AM Pacific Daylight Time, homestead-request at videocam.net.au writes: > Re: [Homestead] Un-.lbr-ing Centipede files on a CMD hard drive---HELP!!!! > > Craig .lbr is an old C= method of combining many files for transferring via modem started (I think) by Genie. When you unzipped centfree.zip, you should have gotten two files, lib128.prg, a 21 block file and centfree.lbr, a 4572 block file. You use lib128.prg to desolve the centfree.lbr file. Just run it in 128 mode and answer the questions. Because of the room needed, you will have to desolve it to the same partition that centfree.lbr is in. You will get several .lbr files that you can later move to where you want them using fcopy. I would recommend studying the docs before you go to far. Mike University Place Commodore User Group (UPCHUG) From snogpitch at yahoo.com Wed Apr 17 12:08:01 2002 From: snogpitch at yahoo.com (David Witmer) Date: Tue, 16 Apr 2002 19:38:01 -0700 (PDT) Subject: [Homestead] Un-.lbr-ing Centipede files on a CMD hard drive---HELP!!!! In-Reply-To: Message-ID: <20020417023801.31628.qmail@web20005.mail.yahoo.com> I think I might have found the utility you could be looking for on Compuserve: Title: LIBRARY 7.0 - combining utility, allows 2 drives Filename: LIBR70.BIN Size: 13824 bytes Summary: This is the latest version of the Library Program found elsewhere in the Data Libraries. It allows two drives and is much faster. The author of this program is working on a Crunch, Uncrunch option. When selecting files:SPACE BAR selects files/A selects ALL/N view next screen/P view previous screen NOTE:this version will may not work with previous LBR files To find Compuserve's CBM library go to: http://forums.compuserve.com/gvforums/default.asp?SRV=VintageComputing The download link for the above file is: http://forums.compuserve.com/scripts/flisapi.dll/LIBR70.BIN?ViewFile&SRV=VintageComputing&FID=1231&FVF=1/LIBR70.BIN Anyone remember what the Genie file name was for the utility there? I couldn't find a dissolver/compressor utility in the listing I have. > > From levay at visi.com Mon Apr 15 19:59:29 2002 > Date: Sat, 6 Apr 2002 20:04:19 -0600 (CST) > From: Craig LeVay > To: Maurice Randall > Cc: levay at visi.com > Subject: Handling .lbr files in 128 mode on a CMD HD > > Dear Maurice, > I have been using the CMD HD you sent last year for some time and it > seems to be an excellent piece of well thought out machinery for my C=128. > > The problem I have been having is I have a partition 11 of approximately > 10 meg in size where I unzipped Centipede for the possibility of starting > a C= bbs down the road in the evening. > > After the files unzipped using Errol Smith unzip tools in 128 mode I > have a large "centfree.lbr" file of approximately 4000 blocks. I have > been trying to using Mr. Prountz 1.4 library utility for the 128 but > development on this tool seems to have ended about 1986 from the REM > copyright notice and only works with C= and LtKernel HD. Is this any > other program that can "unwrapped" 128 library files that accommodates CMD > HD DOS and it's system of partitions? > > Look forward to any help you can give or answers. > > Craig S. LeVay > Oakdale, MN 55128 __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Tax Center - online filing with TurboTax http://taxes.yahoo.com/ From keymaster14 at yahoo.com Wed Apr 17 12:18:19 2002 From: keymaster14 at yahoo.com (Nelse) Date: Tue, 16 Apr 2002 22:48:19 -0400 Subject: [Homestead] Re: Un-.lbr-ing Centipede files on a CMD hard drive---HELP!!!! In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <5.1.0.14.0.20020416224510.009f13a0@pop.mail.yahoo.com> -- [ Picked text/plain from multipart/alternative ] At 07:16 PM 4/15/2002 -0700, you wrote: >Dear Craig, > >On Mon, 15 Apr 2002, you wrote: > > > I sent this to Maurice some time ago and think he is busy. Maybe someone > > on Homestead or COPS can help me in my problem. Like to set up a small > > part time BBS here in the Twin Cities (down to zero C= boards and only one > > IBM board left here). > > Aren't .lbr files considered CPM files? You'd have to decompress >this CPM file into the HD hard drive. > > However, I could be wrong, > Robert Bernardo > Fresno Commodore User Group > http://videocam.net.au/fcug I believe what we are talking about here are lib (library archive) files. They are created/dissolved with Library 1.4. This runs on a 128. This is the archive method that Centipede is in. At the website there should be a file called lib1.4 or lib128 or something like that. This is the file which will dissolve the .lbr files. Nelse nelse23 at comcast.net keymaster14 at netzero.net ICQ 100951374 -- _________________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com From keymaster14 at yahoo.com Wed Apr 17 12:31:37 2002 From: keymaster14 at yahoo.com (Nelse) Date: Tue, 16 Apr 2002 23:01:37 -0400 Subject: [Homestead] Change subscription address Message-ID: <5.1.0.14.0.20020416225938.009e8bd0@pop.mail.yahoo.com> -- [ Picked text/plain from multipart/alternative ] After getting a note from Yahoo that unless I pay them $29.95, my Yahoo email address will cease to function on the 24th of April. How do I change the address from where it is sent now to a new address? Nelse nelse23 at comcast.net keymaster14 at netzero.net ICQ 100951374 -- _________________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com From b_thomas at telusplanet.net Wed Apr 17 12:57:56 2002 From: b_thomas at telusplanet.net (Bruce Thomas) Date: Tue, 16 Apr 2002 21:27:56 -0600 Subject: [Homestead] Re: Change subscription address References: <5.1.0.14.0.20020416225938.009e8bd0@pop.mail.yahoo.com> Message-ID: <008b01c1e5bf$de0a0f40$0102a8c0@telusplanet.net> Go to the web page at the bottom of the Homestead message footer. http://cbm.videocam.net.au/mailman/listinfo/homestead Bruce ----- Original Message ----- From: "Nelse" > [ Picked text/plain from multipart/alternative ] > After getting a note from Yahoo that unless I pay them $29.95, my Yahoo > email address will cease to function on the 24th of April. How do I change > the address from where it is sent now to a new address? > From profdredd at yahoo.com Thu Apr 18 02:58:43 2002 From: profdredd at yahoo.com (Professor Dredd) Date: Wed, 17 Apr 2002 10:28:43 -0700 (PDT) Subject: [Homestead] Change subscription address In-Reply-To: <200204171415.g3HEF9XK027468@mail.vcsweb.com> Message-ID: <20020417172843.97447.qmail@web20001.mail.yahoo.com> Why don't you just downgrade to Yahoo!'s free email service if you don't want to pay for it? I've never received any letter demanding payment from Yahoo! and I've been using their email, web hosting and other services for about 4 years now. It ain't perfect but it is free. --- Nelse wrote: > [ Picked text/plain from multipart/alternative ] > After getting a note from Yahoo that unless I pay them > $29.95, my Yahoo > email address will cease to function on the 24th of > April. How do I change > the address from where it is sent now to a new address? > > Nelse > nelse23 at comcast.net > keymaster14 at netzero.net > ICQ 100951374 ===== http://www.geocities.com/profdredd __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Tax Center - online filing with TurboTax http://taxes.yahoo.com/ From lordronin at videocam.net.au Thu Apr 18 10:05:30 2002 From: lordronin at videocam.net.au (Lord Ronin from Q-Link) Date: Thu, 18 Apr 2002 10:05:30 +0930 (CST) Subject: [Homestead] Un-.lbr-ing Centipede files on a CMD hard drive---HELP!!!! In-Reply-To: Message-ID: Hoi Craig: Couple days late in logging on, but I think that I can help you with your problem. As I am in contact with Voyager who runs the Centipede page. Along with Ken who does the hub. As I am slowly converting the Omni BBS I have to Centipede. You need to use the Centipede un-lbr file to open up all the files for Centipede. Also need to make the subdirectories. Where you put some of the files. Such as the System files. I used the 128 version of errol Smiths 2.15 unzipper running from a FD-2000 to partiton 45. Then copied that over to another FD. Well several as I collected all the game packs. As well as the manual and the source codes. The actuall BBS is sitting in a work area. Partition #53 on my HD. At 16MB and slowly being created. FWIW your CG screens that you create with the Centipede system. Will translate very closely to Ansi. just did a test on that for my board. If I can help contact me on or off the list. I'm near the transfer of one BBs to the Centipede for my group and callers. Congrats on your choice of BBS OS. BCNU -- ***** ****** **** Lord Ronin from Q-Link ** *** Sensei David O.E. Mohr {go-dan} ** Chancellor & Editor for ** *** Amiga-Commodore Users Group 447 ****** **** SysOp Vacuum Tube BBS ***** 503-325-2905 300-14.4k C/G-ascii-ansi From lordronin at videocam.net.au Thu Apr 18 10:08:16 2002 From: lordronin at videocam.net.au (Lord Ronin from Q-Link) Date: Thu, 18 Apr 2002 10:08:16 +0930 (CST) Subject: [Homestead] Re: [COPS] Re: Un-.lbr-ing Centipede files on a CMD hard drive---HELP!!!! In-Reply-To: Message-ID: Hoi Robert: Comments below: On Mon, 15 Apr 2002, rbernardo wrote: > Dear Craig, > > On Mon, 15 Apr 2002, you wrote: > > > I sent this to Maurice some time ago and think he is busy. Maybe someone > > on Homestead or COPS can help me in my problem. Like to set up a small > > part time BBS here in the Twin Cities (down to zero C= boards and only one > > IBM board left here). > > Aren't .lbr files considered CPM files? You'd have to decompress > this CPM file into the HD hard drive. This is the system I have been talkin about for a BBS network. Anyway there is a Tool with the Centipede files that is the un-lbr for all the files. IIRC it will also make specific Centipede LBR based files. I have never used it for that. just to open up the files. BCNU -- ***** ****** **** Lord Ronin from Q-Link ** *** Sensei David O.E. Mohr {go-dan} ** Chancellor & Editor for ** *** Amiga-Commodore Users Group 447 ****** **** SysOp Vacuum Tube BBS ***** 503-325-2905 300-14.4k C/G-ascii-ansi From rbernardo at mail.value.net Thu Apr 18 17:39:29 2002 From: rbernardo at mail.value.net (rbernardo) Date: Thu, 18 Apr 2002 01:09:29 -0700 (PDT) Subject: [Homestead] Re: Murder by Commodore Message-ID: Due in Loadstar Disk #213, Murder by Commodore is 99.9% done, a spelling correction here, a word added there. My thanks to Loadstar editor, Dave Moorman, for his advice, music, and artwork; and to Juan Chacon for his artwork. Truly, Robert Bernardo Fresno Commodore User Group http://videocam.net.au/fcug P.S. And it's being released just in time for the Louisville Commodore Expo on May 25-26! From gaelyne at videocam.net.au Thu Apr 18 21:09:17 2002 From: gaelyne at videocam.net.au (Gaelyne Gasson) Date: Thu, 18 Apr 2002 21:09:17 +0930 Subject: [Homestead] Delays in responding Message-ID: <20020418210917.O8242@camera.vcsweb.com> G'day Everyone, Thought I should mention I was in hospital for 5 days the last week. I was feeling rather 'ordinary' (an Aussie phrase for not well) and was running a slight fever for several days before this. They did a blood test and low and behold I had no white blood cells left. So they put me in isolation and gave me a couple of blood transfusions, a heap of antibiotics etc. The area of the hospital I was in had a room with a computer, so I was able to at least read Email, but as my arms were pin cushions and I was fairly fatigued, I was really only able to read mail as opposed to answering it. Still, it was a definite perk and helped while I was all alone (isolation isn't fun!). I'm still doing rads as well, and have been napping every afternoon - and actually sleeping too. The effect of this is that I'm only at the computer for a few hours every evening so I'm only barely keeping pace at this point. I'm looking forward to about a month from now when my levels should be more normal and the chemo (which I finished a few wks ago) should be completely out of my system. The medical term for what I have is 'neuropenic', and basically it means I have no defenses against virus' and infections so I have to be pretty antisocial and it also means I'm quite tired and worn down. So taking it easy is more than a good idea - it's required. I'm glad that Nelse was able to change his address for the list OK -- thanks to Bruce for giving him the link for it. And thanks to everyone who has helped out with answering Maynard Wright's queries about telnetting from Juno (which I don't think is possible). On another note, we've had a few queries about downloading from VideoCam. People have been using rb -- the better one to use is ry - which is a protocol that Maurice Randall wrote that works best on our system. Thanks Maurice. :-) Cheers, Gaelyne //\ /\\ Gaelyne R. Gasson gaelyne at videocam.net.au ||*\ . . /*|| 90 Hillier Rd Reynella, S.A. 5161, Australia \\____\X/____// Phone: +61 8 8322-2716 ICQ: 5069384 / * /O\ * \ http://Gaelyne.com \__/ " \__/ From maurice at ia4u.net Thu Apr 18 21:07:09 2002 From: maurice at ia4u.net (Maurice Randall) Date: Thu, 18 Apr 2002 07:37:09 -0400 Subject: [Homestead] Delays in responding In-Reply-To: <20020418210917.O8242@camera.vcsweb.com> References: <20020418210917.O8242@camera.vcsweb.com> Message-ID: <02041807370906.01552@localhost.localdomain> > On another note, we've had a few queries about downloading from VideoCam. > People have been using rb -- the better one to use is ry - which is a > protocol that Maurice Randall wrote that works best on our system. Thanks > Maurice. :-) A small correction to Gaelyne's typo (perfectly understandable, keep getting better Gaelyne...) ry is for "uploading" to VideoCam. If anybody would like a copy of "ry" just let me know and I'll email it to you. ry runs on a Linux system and is used in place of the rb command. For anyone connecting their Commodore (or any other machine for that matter) to a Linux box, this command can be used. It works better than rb due to the way its timeouts work. I've also made it function better with machines working through a telnet connection. It allows YModem uploads and will also detect when XModem is being used and will switch if needed. For those using shell accounts on ISP's running Linux, ry can be tranferred to your home directory and you can use it to upload files to your own shell account. -Maurice -- ** Maurice Randall - Click Here Software Co. ** High-Performance software for your Commodore ** email: maurice at ia4u.net, support at cmdrkey.com ** web: www.ia4u.net/~maurice From billnacu at king.igs.net Thu Apr 18 22:33:42 2002 From: billnacu at king.igs.net (Greg/DAC) Date: Thu, 18 Apr 2002 09:03:42 -0400 (EDT) Subject: [Homestead] rb, ry... In-Reply-To: <02041807370906.01552@localhost.localdomain> Message-ID: <20020418085644.E88242-100000@megahost.igs.net> On Thu, 18 Apr 2002, Maurice Randall wrote: hello. What does RY and RB stand for? They are both for Recieving right? So if you run them on the Unix side, it's for the unix side to recieve, and the commodore to send? When I used to use Novaterm, I used RZ and SZ. Is there an advantage to One modem protocol over another? (besides the obvious... like, automatic filenaming) Greg\DAC > ry is for "uploading" to VideoCam. If anybody would like a copy > of "ry" just let me know and I'll email it to you. ry runs on > a Linux system and is used in place of the rb command. For anyone > connecting their Commodore (or any other machine for that matter) > to a Linux box, this command can be used. It works better than > rb due to the way its timeouts work. I've also made it function > better with machines working through a telnet connection. It > allows YModem uploads and will also detect when XModem is being > used and will switch if needed. > > For those using shell accounts on ISP's running Linux, ry can > be tranferred to your home directory and you can use it to upload > files to your own shell account. > > -Maurice > > -- > ** Maurice Randall - Click Here Software Co. > ** High-Performance software for your Commodore > ** email: maurice at ia4u.net, support at cmdrkey.com > ** web: www.ia4u.net/~maurice > > > > _______________________________________________ > Homestead mailing list > Homestead at videocam.net.au > http://cbm.videocam.net.au/mailman/listinfo/homestead > From aromeu at merlin.fae.ua.es Fri Apr 19 00:40:56 2002 From: aromeu at merlin.fae.ua.es (Andres Romeu) Date: Thu, 18 Apr 2002 17:10:56 +0200 Subject: [Homestead] Re: Homestead digest, Vol 1 #626 - 7 msgs In-Reply-To: <200204181417.g3IEHjXK028474@mail.vcsweb.com> Message-ID: <3.0.5.32.20020418171056.00957100@merlin.fae.ua.es> >ry is for "uploading" to VideoCam. If anybody would like a copy >of "ry" just let me know and I'll email it to you. ry runs on >a Linux system and is used in place of the rb command. For anyone >connecting their Commodore (or any other machine for that matter) >to a Linux box, this command can be used. It works better than >rb due to the way its timeouts work. I've also made it function >better with machines working through a telnet connection. It >allows YModem uploads and will also detect when XModem is being >used and will switch if needed. > Just a curiosity. I am not still on line but assume I am and I open an account in Videocam, and conect there with The Wave/Telnet, then I ftp to some place and download a file from there. I guess that the file will be copied on my directory of the Videocam machine. How to transfer then to my Commodore 5000 kms. away? ry or rb work if you connect through modem dial-up, isn't it? But after reading the above it seems that will also work if you are connected through Telnet. ***************************************** Andres Romeu Santana Departament de Fonaments de l'An?lisi Econ?mica Universitat d'Alacant 03690 Campus San Vicent - Alacant - SPAIN aromeu at merlin.fae.ua.es Tlf: (+34) 965 90 34 00 (3225) "Tots jorns aprenc e desaprenc ensemps" COMMODORE COMPUTERS - Still alive... ******************************************* From maurice at ia4u.net Thu Apr 18 23:37:38 2002 From: maurice at ia4u.net (Maurice Randall) Date: Thu, 18 Apr 2002 10:07:38 -0400 Subject: [Homestead] rb, ry... In-Reply-To: <20020418085644.E88242-100000@megahost.igs.net> References: <20020418085644.E88242-100000@megahost.igs.net> Message-ID: <02041810073807.01552@localhost.localdomain> Hi Greg, > What does RY and RB stand for? They are both for Recieving right? So if > you run them on the Unix side, it's for the unix side to recieve, and the > commodore to send? I assume RZ to stand for "Receive Zmodem". The command I wrote "RY" stands for "Receive Ymodem". Not sure how someone came up with RB, but it's also used for "Receive Ymodem". There's also RX for Xmodem. To my understanding, there are at least two versions of rx, rb, and rz. One set is commercial and the other set is PD. The PD version doesn't work as good as the commercial version. So, I took the source code for the PD one and rewrote it to come up with the RY command. And I think it works better than both commercial and PD versions, especially when using a Telnet connection. On some systems, these commands merely call another command. I think some of the rb commands you'll find will actually call rz and pass parameters to it. This saves having to use rz with extra parameters to tell it to use YModem. The PD version of RB doesn't do this, though. In order to use the better commercial protocols, ISP's must pay a fee. Therefore, many of them opt to use the PD versions instead. They fail to realize they don't work as good. To clarify, RB, (or the better RY) standing for Receive means that since the command is actually running on the Linux machine, it is the Linux machine that is doing the receiving. Our Commodore machine is doing the sending. -Maurice -- ** Maurice Randall - Click Here Software Co. ** High-Performance software for your Commodore ** email: maurice at ia4u.net, support at cmdrkey.com ** web: www.ia4u.net/~maurice From maurice at ia4u.net Fri Apr 19 00:15:05 2002 From: maurice at ia4u.net (Maurice Randall) Date: Thu, 18 Apr 2002 10:45:05 -0400 Subject: [Homestead] Re: Homestead digest, Vol 1 #626 - 7 msgs In-Reply-To: <3.0.5.32.20020418171056.00957100@merlin.fae.ua.es> References: <3.0.5.32.20020418171056.00957100@merlin.fae.ua.es> Message-ID: <0204181045050A.01552@localhost.localdomain> Hi Andres, > Just a curiosity. I am not still on line but assume I am and I open an > account in Videocam, and conect there with The Wave/Telnet, then I ftp to > some place and download a file from there. I guess that the file will be > copied on my directory of the Videocam machine. How to transfer then to my > Commodore 5000 kms. away? For "sending" files from VideoCam to your Commodore, use 'sb'. The SB command doesn't seem to have the same problems that RB has. You can transfer files through telnet quite well with The Wave. Other systems might have problems, even Windows systems have problems. And believe it or not, I still haven't figured out how to transfer a file through telnet when using my Linux machine. Works great from the Commodore though. -Maurice -- ** Maurice Randall - Click Here Software Co. ** High-Performance software for your Commodore ** email: maurice at ia4u.net, support at cmdrkey.com ** web: www.ia4u.net/~maurice From maddog at videocam.net.au Fri Apr 19 02:20:47 2002 From: maddog at videocam.net.au (Ray Allen) Date: Fri, 19 Apr 2002 02:20:47 +0930 (CST) Subject: [Homestead] Re: Homestead digest, Vol 1 #626 - 7 msgs In-Reply-To: <0204181045050A.01552@localhost.localdomain> Message-ID: I simply FTP my files back to my Linux box with NCFTP -u -p videocam.net.au. This will dump you into your home directory and you can then use the "get" command to ftp your files. Telnetting through the Linux consol isn't necessary. :) --Ray. On Thu, 18 Apr 2002, Maurice Randall wrote: > And believe it or not, I still haven't figured out how to transfer > a file through telnet when using my Linux machine. If you can do it on a PC....... .......Remember, a Commodore 8-bit has been doin' it longer! From m_hogan at ripco.com Fri Apr 19 07:29:12 2002 From: m_hogan at ripco.com (Michael Hogan) Date: Thu, 18 Apr 2002 16:59:12 -0500 (CDT) Subject: [Homestead] Change subscription address In-Reply-To: <5.1.0.14.0.20020416225938.009e8bd0@pop.mail.yahoo.com> Message-ID: On Tue, 16 Apr 2002, Nelse wrote: > -- > [ Picked text/plain from multipart/alternative ] > After getting a note from Yahoo that unless I pay them $29.95, my Yahoo > email address will cease to function on the 24th of April. How do I change > the address from where it is sent now to a new address? > > Nelse > nelse23 at comcast.net > keymaster14 at netzero.net > ICQ 100951374 > -- > I also got that note; however, the note did not say they would cancel the account. It just stated that if I wanted to keep the POP mail function, I would have to pay. I just ignored the note. I guess I'll find out on the 24th. I rarely use that account anyway. Mike Hogan ******************************************************************************* hhhhhhhh m_hogan at ripco.com (home) hhhhhhhhh m_hogan at videocam.net.au (home- MM hh jjjjj// with click on tags.) _< I KK mmmmmmhh jjjjj// m_hogan at hotmail.com (school) < I EE mmmmmmhh kkkkk\\ HH hh kkkkk\\ hhhhhhhhh hhhhhhhh mhogan82001 at yahoo.com (school) The Mighty Commodore Harrier ********WEB PAGES********** http://communities.msn.com/harriershome http://geocities.com/mhogan82001/Harriers_home_2.html http://communities.msn.com/RobertoClementeKeyClub http://communities.msn.com/HarriersBritLit **********CALENDARS************ http://communities.msn.com/harriershome/theharriedharrier.html http://calendar.yahoo.com/mhogan82001 http://communities.msn.com/RobertoClementeKeyClub/calendar.msnw From rbernardo at mail.value.net Fri Apr 19 11:19:29 2002 From: rbernardo at mail.value.net (rbernardo) Date: Thu, 18 Apr 2002 18:49:29 -0700 (PDT) Subject: [Homestead] Re: VCF plans to have a Commodore 64 supercomputer In-Reply-To: <040201c1e742$127faea0$0494fea9@k63> Message-ID: On Thu, 18 Apr 2002, Joe Torre wrote: > The Vintage Technology Cooperative has plans to build a massively > parallel Commodore 64 supercomputer. > http://www.vintage.org/projects.php That's very strange. Look at this quote from the Vintage Computer Festival webpage of projects: It is hoped that the project can be completed in time for VCF 4.0. Well, VCF 4.0 was back in the year 2000 (VCF 5.0 which was supposed to happen in 2001 is moved to 2002). Just before VCF 4.0 I reported that about this supposed C= supercomputer. Rumor was that it was supposed to be sixty-four C64's connected in parallel (Larry Anderson, correct me if I'm wrong). I went to the show to man our club's table there, and I was expecting to see this marvel. Nothing ever came from it. The sixty-four C64's were not there; the group that was supposed to show it off at the show never appeared. I suppose that this announcement on the VCF website is just an overlooked bit that they forgot to take off or correct. To be sure, I can send an e-mail to Sellam "Sam" Ismail, organizer of VCF, and ask him about it. However, Sam is slow in replying. Truly, Robert Bernardo Fresno Commodore User Group http://videocam.net.au/fcug From rbernardo at mail.value.net Fri Apr 19 11:39:25 2002 From: rbernardo at mail.value.net (rbernardo) Date: Thu, 18 Apr 2002 19:09:25 -0700 (PDT) Subject: [Homestead] Re: VCF plans to have a Commodore 64 supercomputer In-Reply-To: <040201c1e742$127faea0$0494fea9@k63> Message-ID: On Thu, 18 Apr 2002, Joe Torre wrote: > (Would the C=1 count as "vintage"?) The Vintage Computer Festival would classify it under "Re-creation", i.e., when the awards are given at the end of the show, there would be an award for the "Best Re-creation of a Classic Computer". Or other words to that effect, Robert Bernardo Fresno Commodore User Group http://videocam.net.au/fcug From spectre at stockholm.ptloma.edu Fri Apr 19 13:54:48 2002 From: spectre at stockholm.ptloma.edu (Cameron Kaiser) Date: Thu, 18 Apr 2002 21:24:48 -0700 (PDT) Subject: [Homestead] Re: VCF plans to have a Commodore 64 supercomputer In-Reply-To: from rbernardo at "Apr 18, 2 06:49:29 pm" Message-ID: <200204190424.VAA24692@stockholm.ptloma.edu> > Well, VCF 4.0 was back in the year 2000 (VCF 5.0 which was supposed to > happen in 2001 is moved to 2002). Just before VCF 4.0 I reported that > about this supposed C= supercomputer. Rumor was that it was supposed to > be sixty-four C64's connected in parallel (Larry Anderson, correct me if > I'm wrong). > I went to the show to man our club's table there, and I was > expecting to see this marvel. Nothing ever came from it. The > sixty-four C64's were not there; the group that was supposed to show it > off at the show never appeared. > I suppose that this announcement on the VCF website is just an > overlooked bit that they forgot to take off or correct. To be sure, I can > send an e-mail to Sellam "Sam" Ismail, organizer of VCF, and ask him about > it. However, Sam is slow in replying. I remember this project because Sam asked me if I wanted to get involved (I think Hans Franke was in on it too). Some ideas were thrown around about how to get the machines to interchange data and I think some thought was given to using disk drive RAM as an "intelligent buffer" but eventually interest waned due to lack of time. I don't think it's active anymore, alas. Clever idea, however. -- ----------------------------- personal page: http://www.armory.com/~spectre/ -- Cameron Kaiser, Point Loma Nazarene University * ckaiser at stockholm.ptloma.edu -- Logic is the art of going wrong with confidence. -- George Bernard Shaw ---- From azloner at earthlink.net Fri Apr 19 15:25:45 2002 From: azloner at earthlink.net (Tim Allen) Date: Thu, 18 Apr 2002 22:55:45 -0700 Subject: [Homestead] Re: Homestead digest, Vol 1 #626 - 7 msgs References: <200204181416.g3IEGdXK028018@mail.vcsweb.com> Message-ID: <004e01c1e766$dca3fe60$030ddd18@phoenix.speedchoice.com> Yahoo is free only if you use it on thier system. But if you wish to have your messages forwarded - then they now charge you for that service. It used to be free. Just thought I would let you know about it since I have had to pay for the forwarding here in the last couple of weeks. > Date: Wed, 17 Apr 2002 10:28:43 -0700 (PDT) > From: Professor Dredd > Subject: [Homestead] Change subscription address > > Why don't you just downgrade to Yahoo!'s free email service > if you don't want to pay for it? > > I've never received any letter demanding payment from > Yahoo! and I've been using their email, web hosting and > other services for about 4 years now. It ain't perfect but > it is free. > > --- Nelse wrote: > > [ Picked text/plain from multipart/alternative ] > > After getting a note from Yahoo that unless I pay them > > $29.95, my Yahoo > > email address will cease to function on the 24th of > > April. How do I change > > the address from where it is sent now to a new address? > > > > Nelse > > nelse23 at comcast.net > > keymaster14 at netzero.net > > ICQ 100951374 > > ===== > http://www.geocities.com/profdredd > > __________________________________________________ > Do You Yahoo!? > Yahoo! Tax Center - online filing with TurboTax > http://taxes.yahoo.com/ > > -------------------------------------------------------------------------- > From azloner at earthlink.net Fri Apr 19 15:29:31 2002 From: azloner at earthlink.net (Tim Allen) Date: Thu, 18 Apr 2002 22:59:31 -0700 Subject: [Homestead] Re: Homestead digest, Vol 1 #626 - 7 msgs References: <200204181416.g3IEGdXK028018@mail.vcsweb.com> Message-ID: <005401c1e767$611999c0$030ddd18@phoenix.speedchoice.com> Sorry to hear about your delima, Gaelyne. I had acute anemea once, from donating blood. I had to have extra iron vitamin pills to bring my white blood cell count back up. Yours is rather more of a problem than mine was. Hope they manage to get you back to where you should be and able to stay that way without any more assistance! > Date: Thu, 18 Apr 2002 21:09:17 +0930 > From: Gaelyne Gasson > Subject: [Homestead] Delays in responding > > G'day Everyone, > > Thought I should mention I was in hospital for 5 days the last week. I was > feeling rather 'ordinary' (an Aussie phrase for not well) and was running a > slight fever for several days before this. They did a blood test and low and > behold I had no white blood cells left. So they put me in isolation and gave me > a couple of blood transfusions, a heap of antibiotics etc. The area of the > hospital I was in had a room with a computer, so I was able to at least read > Email, but as my arms were pin cushions and I was fairly fatigued, I was really > only able to read mail as opposed to answering it. Still, it was a definite perk > and helped while I was all alone (isolation isn't fun!). > > I'm still doing rads as well, and have been napping every afternoon - and > actually sleeping too. The effect of this is that I'm only at the computer for > a few hours every evening so I'm only barely keeping pace at this point. I'm > looking forward to about a month from now when my levels should be more normal > and the chemo (which I finished a few wks ago) should be completely out of my > system. > > The medical term for what I have is 'neuropenic', and basically it means I have > no defenses against virus' and infections so I have to be pretty antisocial and > it also means I'm quite tired and worn down. So taking it easy is more than a > good idea - it's required. > > > I'm glad that Nelse was able to change his address for the list OK -- thanks to > Bruce for giving him the link for it. And thanks to everyone who has helped out > with answering Maynard Wright's queries about telnetting from Juno (which I > don't think is possible). > > On another note, we've had a few queries about downloading from VideoCam. > People have been using rb -- the better one to use is ry - which is a protocol > that Maurice Randall wrote that works best on our system. Thanks Maurice. :-) > > > > Cheers, > Gaelyne > snip From azloner at earthlink.net Fri Apr 19 15:33:13 2002 From: azloner at earthlink.net (Tim Allen) Date: Thu, 18 Apr 2002 23:03:13 -0700 Subject: [Homestead] Re: Homestead digest, Vol 1 #626 - 7 msgs References: <200204181416.g3IEGdXK028018@mail.vcsweb.com> Message-ID: <005a01c1e767$eaf5a760$030ddd18@phoenix.speedchoice.com> As Nelse had stated, the Library 128 version 1.4 works very well with CMD equipment. I have already contacted Craig and told him that I will send it his way - via email attachment so that he will have it to work with. I use it all the time with my 128 BBS files and never have a problem with it. I also have it here with me on the 128 ComLink Hub. I will try to send it to him this evening. :) > From: Lord Ronin from Q-Link > Subject: [Homestead] Re: [COPS] Re: Un-.lbr-ing Centipede files on a CMD hard drive---HELP!!!! > > Hoi Robert: > > Comments below: > > On Mon, 15 Apr 2002, rbernardo wrote: > > > Dear Craig, > > > > On Mon, 15 Apr 2002, you wrote: > > > > > I sent this to Maurice some time ago and think he is busy. Maybe someone > > > on Homestead or COPS can help me in my problem. Like to set up a small > > > part time BBS here in the Twin Cities (down to zero C= boards and only one > > > IBM board left here). > > > > Aren't .lbr files considered CPM files? You'd have to decompress > > this CPM file into the HD hard drive. > > This is the system I have been talkin about for a BBS network. Anyway > there is a Tool with the Centipede files that is the un-lbr for all the > files. IIRC it will also make specific Centipede LBR based files. I have > never used it for that. just to open up the files. > > BCNU > > -- > ***** > ****** **** Lord Ronin from Q-Link > ** *** Sensei David O.E. Mohr {go-dan} > ** Chancellor & Editor for > ** *** Amiga-Commodore Users Group 447 > ****** **** SysOp Vacuum Tube BBS > ***** 503-325-2905 300-14.4k C/G-ascii-ansi > > From rharris1 at videocam.net.au Sat Apr 20 14:05:59 2002 From: rharris1 at videocam.net.au (Randy Harris) Date: Sat, 20 Apr 2002 14:05:59 +0930 (CST) Subject: [Homestead] Re: Expo date? In-Reply-To: <3CBF27B8.B5D484FC@psw.ca> Message-ID: On Thu, 18 Apr 2002, Robin Harbron wrote: > Hi Randy - wondering if you've got an idea when the Chicago > Expo will be this year. Looks like many of us will be travelling > to make it, and would like to start planning, even now. Friends > from Sweden and Mexico, and around Canada and the U.S. are planning > to be there this year. > > We'd really prefer it's *not* in October - mid September seems to > work well for many folks. The date for the Fall EXPO in Chicago has been set for Sept. 21, 2002. But that is about all that has been locked down. I was hoping to find an even better location for the EXPO, while maintaining easy access, with no success. So I have decided to keep it at the same place as the last two years. However, the hotel is once again under new managment and has only just now reopened under the name of 'Park Inn.' I no longer have the Bouslog's taking care of all the logistics of the EXPO for me, which places an added burden on my already full schedule. The bottom line is that I hope to have the conference rooms locked down by next week so people can make plans to attend. As soon as that has happened, it will be announced here on the Homestead list. Randy Harris Using a Commodore 128 with 'The Wave.' Bringing the Internet to GEOS users! ------------------------------------ Visit the SWRAP Commodore web site at: http://swrap.net From nathanb at gol.com Sat Apr 20 20:30:03 2002 From: nathanb at gol.com (Nathan Butcher) Date: Sat, 20 Apr 2002 20:00:03 +0900 Subject: [Homestead] Questions for Maurice... Message-ID: <000d01c1e85a$871b52a0$1751fea9@pcgxrseries> This is a multi-part message in MIME format. -- [ Picked text/plain from multipart/alternative ] I just subscribed to the Homestead list and I have been reading through the archives in relation to Maurice Randall's work on the HD-DOS, and I must say that I'm excited with the new possibilities. I'm taking special interest in the way emulator images can be accessed... very interesting. That's going to cause me to unpack all those zip-coded 1541 disks I have stored on it! And now some questions: How far are we off the actual shipping of the upgrade? (you can tell I'm impatient ! That and the fact that you've got a HD to send me yet! ;) ) Chances are I'll get another spare upgrade set too. Does the upgrade include ways of treating attached drives (like external and zip drives) as separate drives? Does it need to? I remember reading about a special CD-ROM partition. How does the new HD-DOS handle CD-ROM drives? Any differently? Does the HD print spooler work alongside GEO-cable II, or just the auxiliary port? Will "The Wave" one day support the Retro-Replay silver surfer? (allowing me to sell my Turbo232, rather than swapping my cartridges around like a nintendo user?) All the WCOPY talk got me thinking about FCOPY+ (Probably one of my most used utilities) Will the tiny bugs in FCOPY+ be ironed out in the future? I find that occasionally the "compare files" command tells me there is a copy error (length of file error usually), but when I re-compare the files... no problem. I do remember that the original FCOPY had issues on the C64 by on a rare occasion chopping off the ends of certain files. I was never sure how to reproduce the rare bug - only to say that the old FCOPY hacked some of my old files up and I know FCOPY was the culprit. Mind that this all happened on a C64. For some reason FCOPY and FCOPY+ liked to work flawlessly on a C128.... How about being able to automatically get FCOPY+ to compare without needing to ask? (I am scared about copying things with it - just in case - so I keep having to hit "compare files"each and every time to compare each and every copy I make) Otherwise FCOPY+ was a great piece of software. Will FCOPY+ get a "swap source and target" command? This is more of a request cause I like to shuttle files in between two directories back and forth, and it is a real pain to have to set the drive, source and target again, and scroll through all the drives/devices after wanting to send files the other way. Hands up anyone else who wants such a feature. How's the CMDRKEY website progressing? I think that's about it, other than to say that Wheels is great! Keep up the good work! (and it sure sounds you have a lot of it) Cheers, Nathan From t_raymond at tcinc.net Sun Apr 21 07:10:05 2002 From: t_raymond at tcinc.net (Terry Raymond) Date: Sat, 20 Apr 2002 15:40:05 -0600 Subject: [Homestead] Media Vision Message-ID: <001001c1e8b3$efb82fa0$f39d0a0c@teraymon> Hello all, This is Terry Raymond online: I have had a chance to get an External SCSI CD-ROM drive, it is a Media Vision is this a fairly compatible drive to use for playing music CD's and Data CD's? Thanks, Terry t_raymond at tcinc.net From rharris1 at videocam.net.au Sun Apr 21 08:22:58 2002 From: rharris1 at videocam.net.au (Randy Harris) Date: Sun, 21 Apr 2002 08:22:58 +0930 (CST) Subject: [Homestead] Media Vision In-Reply-To: <001001c1e8b3$efb82fa0$f39d0a0c@teraymon> Message-ID: On Sat, 20 Apr 2002, Terry Raymond wrote: > This is Terry Raymond online: > > I have had a chance to get an External SCSI > CD-ROM drive, it is a Media Vision is this a fairly compatible drive to use > for playing music CD's and Data CD's? I have had no experience with these. But a good general rule of thumb is to make sure the drive you are interested in is at least a 4X or better. The reason is that by the time 4X and faster drives came on the scene, the SCSI committee finally established Audio CD standards. Many pre-4X drives followed non-standard audio commands, only implemented SOME of the SCSI Audio commands, or are not capable of playing audio CD's at all! Just my two cents. Randy Harris Using a Commodore 128 with 'The Wave.' Bringing the Internet to GEOS users! ------------------------------------ Visit the SWRAP Commodore web site at: http://swrap.net From nathanb at gol.com Sun Apr 21 10:48:49 2002 From: nathanb at gol.com (Nathan Butcher) Date: Sun, 21 Apr 2002 10:18:49 +0900 Subject: [Homestead] Media Vision References: <001001c1e8b3$efb82fa0$f39d0a0c@teraymon> Message-ID: <001d01c1e8d2$82219660$e9b8fea9@pcgxrseries> > I have had a chance to get an External SCSI > CD-ROM drive, it is a Media Vision is this a fairly compatible drive to use > for playing music CD's and Data CD's? I tried to find a good CD drive a long time ago. I eventually settled by getting a SCSI-2 compatible brand new CD-RW drive and an external case to house it in. It works great connected to the CMD-HD. Plays music CDs as well as being useful with the CD Commander software. Plus, sometime in the future if somebody enables CD burning from the C64 - it can do that too. I am aware that some CD drives do not play music CDs. My advice is to steer clear of old Apple CD-ROM drives, because these have their own standards. The one I had (an AppleCD150 - it used those CD caddies) had couldn't play music - but had no problems using the CD-Commander. From donaldz at videocam.net.au Sun Apr 21 16:26:34 2002 From: donaldz at videocam.net.au (Donald Zerbe) Date: Sun, 21 Apr 2002 16:26:34 +0930 (CST) Subject: [Homestead] homestead homepage Message-ID: Hallo Gaelyne, When i'm browse to videocam with The Wave i can't login as member on the homestead site because i can't fill out the folder "Username" and "password". Will it be possible to make a special URL, where i can type in the name and password and login then automatically? So as "cbm.videocam.net.au/donaldz/homestead/username/password/" ? Or is another posibility available yet? I'm posted this also to homestead, may be any other user have a better idea...;-)) Greetings DonAlt ---------------------------------- ** donaldz at videocam.net.au ** ** Donald.Zerbe at t-online.de ** ** Donald_Zerbe at t-online.de ** ---------------------------------- Browse the Web with The Wave B2.9! `'`'`'`'`'`'`'`'`'`'`'`'`'`'`'`'`' From donaldz at videocam.net.au Sun Apr 21 17:14:34 2002 From: donaldz at videocam.net.au (Donald Zerbe) Date: Sun, 21 Apr 2002 17:14:34 +0930 (CST) Subject: [Homestead] The Wave Message-ID: Hallo Maurice, Will it be possible in one of the next versions from The Wave to build in an announcement about the available disk- or partitions space in that DB, that ask me where i'll save the file that i'll download? Greetings DonAlt ---------------------------------- ** donaldz at videocam.net.au ** ** Donald.Zerbe at t-online.de ** ** Donald_Zerbe at t-online.de ** ---------------------------------- Browse the Web with The Wave B2.9! `'`'`'`'`'`'`'`'`'`'`'`'`'`'`'`'`' From msc1983 at mac.com Sun Apr 21 18:11:45 2002 From: msc1983 at mac.com (Matthew S. Carpenter) Date: Sun, 21 Apr 2002 01:41:45 -0700 Subject: [Homestead] .t64 files Message-ID: <9CB9A76A-5503-11D6-9819-003065E0819C@mac.com> Hello, I'm assuming that a .t64 file is a tape image. Is it possible to write a .t64 file back to a tape? -- -MSC AIM: MSC1983MSC ICQ: 42442595 "Stand back! I have an open power supply and I'm not afraid to do something stupid with it!" From gaelyne at videocam.net.au Sun Apr 21 19:21:39 2002 From: gaelyne at videocam.net.au (Gaelyne Gasson) Date: Sun, 21 Apr 2002 19:21:39 +0930 Subject: [Homestead] Re: homestead homepage In-Reply-To: ; from donaldz@videocam.net.au on Sun, Apr 21, 2002 at 16:26:34 +0930 References: Message-ID: <20020421192139.C8242@camera.vcsweb.com> On 21 Apr 2002 04:26:34 PM Donald Zerbe wrote: > When i'm browse to videocam with The Wave i can't login as member on the > homestead site because i can't fill out the folder "Username" and > "password". Will it be possible to make a special URL, where i can type in > the name and password and login then automatically? So as > "cbm.videocam.net.au/donaldz/homestead/username/password/" ? > Or is another posibility available yet? The reason why it doesn't work is because the Wave doesn't yet know what to do with 'forms'. It will be nice when that aspect is finished. There was a great site that lets you pick and choose letters of the alphpabet and numbers for using a search engine that someone created for Wave users. If I can access the source files for that I might be able to create similar for logging in to the web site. But, I'm a looooooong way from being able to implement this type of thing at this point. Just reading mail is a big accomplishment at the moment. :-) Cheers, Gaelyne //\ /\\ Gaelyne R. Gasson gaelyne at videocam.net.au ||*\ . . /*|| 90 Hillier Rd Reynella, S.A. 5161, Australia \\____\X/____// Phone: +61 8 8322-2716 ICQ: 5069384 / * /O\ * \ http://Gaelyne.com \__/ " \__/ From hannibal at videocam.net.au Sun Apr 21 20:33:23 2002 From: hannibal at videocam.net.au (Mihai-WGS) Date: Sun, 21 Apr 2002 20:33:23 +0930 (CST) Subject: [Homestead] .t64 files In-Reply-To: <9CB9A76A-5503-11D6-9819-003065E0819C@mac.com> Message-ID: Hy You can write it back to a disk, you just need a T64 extractor. There is only one such program avaible for a native commodore (I think there is one for IDE64 too). You can grab this from http://www.geocities.com/TimesSquare/Lair/4664/t64ext.htm. Regards, Mihai > Hello, > > I'm assuming that a .t64 file is a tape image. > Is it possible to write a .t64 file back to a tape? > -- > -MSC > AIM: MSC1983MSC > ICQ: 42442595 > "Stand back! I have an open power supply and I'm not afraid to do > something stupid with it!" > > _______________________________________________ > Homestead mailing list > Homestead at videocam.net.au > http://cbm.videocam.net.au/mailman/listinfo/homestead > From maurice at ia4u.net Sun Apr 21 20:26:25 2002 From: maurice at ia4u.net (Maurice Randall) Date: Sun, 21 Apr 2002 06:56:25 -0400 Subject: [Homestead] The Wave In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <200204211401.g3LE1Kt04213@jupiter.ia4u.net> Hi Donald, > Will it be possible in one of the next versions from The Wave to build in > an announcement about the available disk- or partitions space in that DB, > that ask me where i'll save the file that i'll download? Yes, this can be done. -Maurice -- ** Maurice Randall - Click Here Software Co. ** High-Performance software for your Commodore ** email: maurice at ia4u.net, support at cmdrkey.com ** web: www.ia4u.net/~maurice From profdredd at yahoo.com Mon Apr 22 03:57:31 2002 From: profdredd at yahoo.com (Professor Dredd) Date: Sun, 21 Apr 2002 11:27:31 -0700 (PDT) Subject: [Homestead] .t64 files In-Reply-To: <200204211415.g3LEF4HI000499@mail.vcsweb.com> Message-ID: <20020421182731.26531.qmail@web20001.mail.yahoo.com> .T64 is not really a tape image. It is simply a standard PRG file with a small header attached at the beginning. The purpose of the header is to allow an emulator on a PC to dummy-up a "directory" of the "tape". Multiple PRGs may be stored in a .T64 by including their titles and byte offsets in the header. Programs in .T64s *CANNOT* access other files within the .T64. It was originally implimented in the earliest emulators as a kludge to give emulator users access to PRGs. All modern emulators have the ability to open PRGs directly from the PC hard disk, for example by automatically creating a dummy .D64 image to contain the PRG. That combined with the inability to access other files within the .T64 makes it a pretty worthless format. I wrote a simple BASIC program to extract PRGs from .T64 files about a year ago. I really hope .T64 will be abandoned completely because it's just not needed. Single-file CBM programs can be accessed directly from the PC hard disk in PRG format. Multi-file programs can be transferred to the PC hard disk in .D64 files. If you need a true tape image, you should use .TAP instead. .TAP is a bit-for-bit image of the original tape data and provides the most accurate duplication of Datasette tapes. For more information about image files, read Peter Scheper's "formats" document, which is PC-ZIPped at the following URL: http://www.fairlight.to/docs/ --- Matthew S. Carpenter wrote: > Hello, > > I'm assuming that a .t64 file is a tape image. > Is it possible to write a .t64 file back to a tape? ===== http://www.geocities.com/profdredd __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Games - play chess, backgammon, pool and more http://games.yahoo.com/ From rbernardo at mail.value.net Mon Apr 22 13:52:05 2002 From: rbernardo at mail.value.net (rbernardo) Date: Sun, 21 Apr 2002 21:22:05 -0700 (PDT) Subject: [Homestead] Bill autographs a 1581 Message-ID: Not Bill Gates! I'm talking about William Shatner (also known as Bill Shatner), Captain Kirk of Star Trek and star of other movies and television shows. Today in Del Mar, California, I was seated next to him at lunch, and he talked about his favorite subjects, his dogs, his horses, and his upcoming book, t.v., and film projects. Needless to say I was dumbfounded as he was talking; the other 19 or so members of the Shatner & Friends, International (the official William Shatner Fan Club) who attended this annual get-together were far more vocal than myself. Starstruck, what could I say when he was talking about his Dobermans? That I had guinea pigs when I was young? ;-) After his brief time at lunch with us, it was time for photos and autographs with Bill, the money raised from the photographs and autographs going to Bill's favorite charity, the Hollywood Charity Horse Show (which is next weekend), http://www.horseshow.org The others had their photos taken with Bill or their Star Trek or T.J. Hooker items autographed. But I wanted something more unusual. When it was my turn, I brought up one of my Commodore 1581 disk drives. The others laughed. Bill mentioned, "How am I going to sign this?" :-D Jane, one of the leaders of the SFI told him to just sign the top. Later, Jane repeatedly told me that I have the only disk drive in the world with William Shatner's signature! My thanks to Jane Singer and Sandy Moruzzi, the leaders of Shatner & Friends, International, for the fine weekend of Bill activities which we participated in (even though I came in late on Saturday due to a FCUG meeting). Out of this weekend, a total of $3,500 was raised for charity. And I met members from around the world -- England, Germany, Australia, and New Zealand. More information about SFI can be found at http://www.williamshatner.com And Bill was a print ad spokesman for Commodore in the 1980's, Robert Bernardo Fresno Commodore User Group http://videocam.net.au/fcug From gaelyne at videocam.net.au Mon Apr 22 15:50:55 2002 From: gaelyne at videocam.net.au (Gaelyne Gasson) Date: Mon, 22 Apr 2002 15:50:55 +0930 Subject: [Homestead] Bill autographs a 1581 In-Reply-To: ; from rbernardo@mail.value.net on Mon, Apr 22, 2002 at 13:52:05 +0930 References: Message-ID: <20020422155055.G8242@camera.vcsweb.com> WAY, *WAY* cool, Robert. :-) Which type of 1541 drive was it? Cheers, Gaelyne //\ /\\ Gaelyne R. Gasson gaelyne at videocam.net.au ||*\ . . /*|| 90 Hillier Rd Reynella, S.A. 5161, Australia \\____\X/____// Phone: +61 8 8322-2716 ICQ: 5069384 / * /O\ * \ http://Gaelyne.com \__/ " \__/ From msc1983 at mac.com Mon Apr 22 17:11:18 2002 From: msc1983 at mac.com (Matthew S. Carpenter) Date: Mon, 22 Apr 2002 00:41:18 -0700 Subject: [Homestead] My C64 isn't working Message-ID: <554FC1B4-55C4-11D6-8CEB-003065E0819C@mac.com> Hello, I was using my C64 last night when it locked up. I turned it off and then back on again. When I turned it back on again I got the normal JiffyDOS intro stuff that you get when you first turn it on. There was just one minor detail that just wasn't right. "Where's the cursor?" I asked myself, for there was no blinking cursor after the "READY" prompt. So, I tried to type with the keyboard but it just sat there saying "READY" . I couldn't get it to register a single key press. Then I pressed the reset button next to the power switch (this switch appears to be wired to the cart port). Again I was looking at the Ready prompt and no blinking cursor. I've tried disconnecting the disk drives and I've tried switching off JiffyDOS but nothing will make the cursor come back. I was going to try removing JiffyDOS from the C64 and installing the original ROM but I can't tell the difference Between the original ROMs from the C64 and 1541. Also, when I clicked RUN/STOP together with RESTORE It replaced the contents of the screen with just a READY prompt but still no cursor. This morning I turned on my C64 and found that it still wasn't going to work. If it means anything, it locked up right after it finished copying a few files using Tiny Yellow Brother. Anyone know if there's much I can do about this; or should I go find myself another C64? This was the first week in about 6 months that I've been able to use my C64, as I finally got a new video monitor for it. -- -MSC AIM: MSC1983MSC ICQ: 42442595 "Stand back! I have an open power supply and I'm not afraid to do something stupid with it!" From RolfMiller at aol.com Mon Apr 22 18:21:40 2002 From: RolfMiller at aol.com (RolfMiller@aol.com) Date: Mon, 22 Apr 2002 04:51:40 EDT Subject: [Homestead] My C64 isn't working Message-ID: In a message dated 02-04-22 03:46:13 EDT, you write: << no blinking cursor after the "READY" prompt >> It is probably one of the 6526 chips. Or it could be the 901226 BASIC ROM. Or....... Rolf From stryyker16 at hotkey.net.au Mon Apr 22 18:38:21 2002 From: stryyker16 at hotkey.net.au (Nathan Smith) Date: Mon, 22 Apr 2002 19:08:21 +1000 Subject: [Homestead] My C64 isn't working References: Message-ID: <000901c1e9dd$43b40500$790c32d2@klunker> ----- Original Message ----- From: To: ; Sent: Monday, April 22, 2002 6:51 PM Subject: Re: [Homestead] My C64 isn't working | In a message dated 02-04-22 03:46:13 EDT, you write: | | << no blinking cursor after the "READY" prompt >> | It is probably one of the 6526 chips. Or it could be the 901226 BASIC | ROM. Or....... | | Rolf I aggree with Rolf, I'd say the first CIA that is addressed in the $DCxx range. I cannot say which 6526 it is though. From rbernardo at mail.value.net Mon Apr 22 21:08:36 2002 From: rbernardo at mail.value.net (rbernardo) Date: Mon, 22 Apr 2002 04:38:36 -0700 (PDT) Subject: [Homestead] Bill autographs a 1581 In-Reply-To: <20020422155055.G8242@camera.vcsweb.com> Message-ID: On Mon, 22 Apr 2002, Gaelyne Gasson wrote: > Which type of 1541 drive was it? It was just an ordinary 1581 drive, Gaelyne, with JiffyDOS and the larger Commodore power supply. :-) Truly, Robert Bernardo Fresno Commodore User Group http://videocam.net.au/fcug From bpope at wordstock.com Mon Apr 22 21:20:53 2002 From: bpope at wordstock.com (Bryan Pope) Date: Mon, 22 Apr 2002 07:50:53 -0400 (edt) Subject: [Homestead] Bill autographs a 1581 In-Reply-To: from "rbernardo" at Apr 21, 02 09:22:05 pm Message-ID: <200204221150.HAA14532@wordstock.com> And thusly rbernardo spake: > > > The others laughed. Bill mentioned, "How am I going to sign > this?" :-D Jane, one of the leaders of the SFI told him to just sign > the top. Later, Jane repeatedly told me that I have the only disk drive > in the world with William Shatner's signature! You will have to put up a picture of this somewhere! This is very cool... > > More information about SFI can be found at http://www.williamshatner.com > > And Bill was a print ad spokesman > for Commodore in the 1980's, The VIC-20! :-D Check out Bill at http://www.classicgaming.com/vic20/melick/1.htm Cheers, Bryan From rbernardo at mail.value.net Mon Apr 22 21:25:44 2002 From: rbernardo at mail.value.net (rbernardo) Date: Mon, 22 Apr 2002 04:55:44 -0700 (PDT) Subject: [Homestead] Bill autographs a 1581 In-Reply-To: <200204221150.HAA14532@wordstock.com> Message-ID: RB > Later, Jane repeatedly told me that I have the only disk drive RB > in the world with William Shatner's signature! On Mon, 22 Apr 2002, Bryan Pope wrote: > You will have to put up a picture of this somewhere! This is very cool... Darn! I didn't think of that. Having used my film to photograph Bill horseback riding in competition and at the lunch, I had one more shot left in my camera when I rewound the film roll and turned it into Long's Drugstore for developing. (I hope those 3-D stills I took of him turn out.) > The VIC-20! :-D Check out Bill at > http://www.classicgaming.com/vic20/melick/1.htm Thanks for the link, but everytime I try to go there with my Commodore, I get something like "Trying to find www.classicgaming.com:10" and it doesn't load (I don't put in the 10). Truly, Robert Bernardo Fresno Commodore User Group http://videocam.net.au/fcug From maurice at ia4u.net Mon Apr 22 20:41:05 2002 From: maurice at ia4u.net (Maurice Randall) Date: Mon, 22 Apr 2002 07:11:05 -0400 Subject: [Homestead] My C64 isn't working In-Reply-To: <554FC1B4-55C4-11D6-8CEB-003065E0819C@mac.com> References: <554FC1B4-55C4-11D6-8CEB-003065E0819C@mac.com> Message-ID: <0204220711050N.03317@localhost.localdomain> Hi Matthew, > I was using my C64 last night when it locked up. I turned it off and > then back on again. When I turned it back on again I got the normal > JiffyDOS intro stuff that you get when you first turn it on. There was > just one minor detail that just wasn't right. "Where's the cursor?" I > asked myself, for there was no blinking cursor after the "READY" prompt. > So, I tried to type with the keyboard but it just sat there saying "READY" > .. I couldn't get it to register a single key press. Without seeing it personally, my guess will be the 6526 chip at U1. It sounds like IRQ interrupts aren't working which keeps the keyboard from being scanned and also keeps the cursor from blinking. The STOP/RESTORE combination works because hitting the RESTORE key generates an NMI interrupt and the routine that gets called will check to see if the STOP key is also being pressed. -Maurice -- ** Maurice Randall - Click Here Software Co. ** High-Performance software for your Commodore ** email: maurice at ia4u.net, support at cmdrkey.com ** web: www.ia4u.net/~maurice From maurice at ia4u.net Mon Apr 22 21:13:58 2002 From: maurice at ia4u.net (Maurice Randall) Date: Mon, 22 Apr 2002 07:43:58 -0400 Subject: [Homestead] Questions for Maurice... In-Reply-To: <000d01c1e85a$871b52a0$1751fea9@pcgxrseries> References: <000d01c1e85a$871b52a0$1751fea9@pcgxrseries> Message-ID: <0204220743580P.03317@localhost.localdomain> Hi Nathan (Butcher), > How far are we off the actual shipping of the upgrade? Originally, the HD-DOS+ upgrade should have been ready by now, but between Christmas time and about the first part of March I got so engrossed in software programming (HD-DOS+ and WCOPY) that I seemed to ignore other business things. I got way behind on building hardware. So, now I'm playing serious catchup with the hardware and am trying to get all old orders filled. > Does the upgrade include ways of treating attached drives (like external > and zip drives) as separate drives? No, however, you can disable the internal drive and use just the external one if you'd like. The HD-DOS will still only respond to one device number (not counting the print spooler as device 4 or 5) > I remember reading about a special CD-ROM partition. How does the new > HD-DOS handle CD-ROM drives? Any differently? The CD-ROM partition isn't implemented yet. So, until this gets further I can't say much about it. > Does the HD print spooler work alongside GEO-cable II, or just the > auxiliary port? The HD has no way of sending data back through the computer to the geoCable. It must go out it's own ports. One is the auxiliary port which works just like the Commodore serial bus. You will plug either a printer that can connect directly to a serial bus or you will use a serial bus interface (Xetec Super Graphics, MW-350, etc.) The HD also supports a geoCable-like interface which is yet to be manufactured. This interface connects to both the auxiliary port and the SCSI port on the back of the CMD-HD. The 8 data lines on the SCSI port are used for data transfer to the printer while the lines on the auxiliary port are used for the handshaking. This design won't interfere with any SCSI bus activity since HD-DOS+ will only send print data when there is no SCSI bus activity taking place. To the user, it will look like it's happening at the same time since it happens so fast. This part of HD-DOS+ is already finished. > Will "The Wave" one day support the Retro-Replay silver surfer? (allowing > me to sell my Turbo232, rather than swapping my cartridges around like a > nintendo user?) The Wave can be programmed to support any interface since the current SwiftLink/T232 routines are written to be loaded like a driver. The SL/T232 driver in The Wave has a jump table to handle everything that The Wave needs for sending and receiving bytes over a modem. A new driver can be written with routines to perform the same exact functions that are contained in this jump table. I don't have a Retro-Replay with silver surfer. I assume this combination gets along OK with the SCPU? > Will the tiny bugs in FCOPY+ be ironed out in the future? I find that > occasionally the "compare files" command tells me there is a copy error > (length of file error usually), but when I re-compare the files... no > problem. I guess I wasn't aware of this bug, but if it really does exist, I'll fix it. > I do remember that the original FCOPY had issues on the C64 by on a rare > occasion chopping off the ends of certain files. If I remember right, this one got fixed in later versions. > Will FCOPY+ get a "swap source and target" command? That's not a bad idea. WCOPY comes close to implementing this. When you select a source or target drive, it will automatically start you out in the partition and directory that the drive is currently active in. > How's the CMDRKEY website progressing? I'm planning the content to start filling up the store with now. So, you'll probably start seeing some products on the store shelves soon. In the meantime, anybody can still order via conventional means (phone, mail, email, walk-in, etc.) By the way, Nathan, it looks like your own long-awaited order is going to be ready today. -Maurice -- ** Maurice Randall - Click Here Software Co. ** High-Performance software for your Commodore ** email: maurice at ia4u.net, support at cmdrkey.com ** web: www.ia4u.net/~maurice From maddog at videocam.net.au Mon Apr 22 23:56:58 2002 From: maddog at videocam.net.au (Ray Allen) Date: Mon, 22 Apr 2002 23:56:58 +0930 (CST) Subject: [Homestead] Questions for Maurice... In-Reply-To: <0204220743580P.03317@localhost.localdomain> Message-ID: Another question..... Are you going to add support for 64HDD to Wheels? For those to who don't know what 64HDD is.....it's a Commodore Serial emulator that allows the user to connect a commie to a PC via an x1541 series cable and use the PC's hard drive as a commodore disk drive. Maybe for Wheels SC? :) --Ray. If you can do it on a PC....... .......Remember, a Commodore 8-bit has been doin' it longer! From MagerValp at cling.gu.se Tue Apr 23 00:52:36 2002 From: MagerValp at cling.gu.se (MagerValp) Date: Mon, 22 Apr 2002 17:22:36 +0200 Subject: [Homestead] Questions for Maurice... In-Reply-To: <0204220743580P.03317@localhost.localdomain> References: <000d01c1e85a$871b52a0$1751fea9@pcgxrseries> <0204220743580P.03317@localhost.localdomain> Message-ID: <15556.10940.265893.632382@panini.cling.gu.se> >>>>> "MR" == Maurice Randall writes: N> Will "The Wave" one day support the Retro-Replay silver surfer? N> (allowing me to sell my Turbo232, rather than swapping my N> cartridges around like a nintendo user?) Consider getting one of those spiffy expansion port splitters, it'll save a lot of wear and tear on the connectors. MR> The Wave can be programmed to support any interface since the MR> current SwiftLink/T232 routines are written to be loaded like a MR> driver. The SL/T232 driver in The Wave has a jump table to handle MR> everything that The Wave needs for sending and receiving bytes MR> over a modem. A new driver can be written with routines to perform MR> the same exact functions that are contained in this jump table. Could we have the details please? 16550 programming is pretty straight- forward, maybe someone will make a driver. MR> I don't have a Retro-Replay with silver surfer. I assume this MR> combination gets along OK with the SCPU? RR doesn't work with the SuperCPU, but it's supposed to work as a dumb RS-232 cart if you jumper it in "flash" mode (used for firmware upgrades, and disables the auto-boot code at $8000). So what's the deal with with the SuperCPU and utility carts? I remem- ber Doug saying something about /GAME or /EXROM, but I'm not sure and I can't find anything conclusive in the comp.sys.cbm archives. I have a 256K bank switching game cartridge (Fun Play), which maps 16K at a time and has a bank select register at $dexx (or maybe $dfxx?). It works just fine on the SuperCPU, so I don't see why an AR6 or TFC3 wouldn't work. In fact, the original announcement claimed that the TFC3 was compatible, but it won't boot with my SuperCPU/128. I need to test that some more though. -- ___ . . . . . + . . o _|___|_ + . + . + . Per Olofsson, arkadspelare o-o . . . o + MagerValp at cling.gu.se - + + . http://www.cling.gu.se/~cl3polof/ From maurice at ia4u.net Mon Apr 22 23:38:02 2002 From: maurice at ia4u.net (Maurice Randall) Date: Mon, 22 Apr 2002 10:08:02 -0400 Subject: [Homestead] Questions for Maurice... In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <0204221008020T.03317@localhost.localdomain> Hi Ray, > Are you going to add support for 64HDD to Wheels? For those to who don't > know what 64HDD is.....it's a Commodore Serial emulator that allows the > user to connect a commie to a PC via an x1541 series cable and use the PC's > hard drive as a commodore disk drive. Wheels SC can obviously support a much larger variety of storage devices than GEOS or Wheels can. But for now, there's no reason why a separate disk driver couldn't be written to support the 64HDD. It wouldn't even have to reside within the Toolbox. An auto-exec file could be run during bootup that would install the special disk driver. This can work because if the Toolbox doesn't recognize a device at boot time, it will simply ignore it. Then after the Toolbox installs the drivers for all the devices it knows about, the auto-exec can run and install the 64HDD driver. -Maurice -- ** Maurice Randall - Click Here Software Co. ** High-Performance software for your Commodore ** email: maurice at ia4u.net, support at cmdrkey.com ** web: www.ia4u.net/~maurice From maurice at ia4u.net Tue Apr 23 00:16:34 2002 From: maurice at ia4u.net (Maurice Randall) Date: Mon, 22 Apr 2002 10:46:34 -0400 Subject: [Homestead] Questions for Maurice... In-Reply-To: <15556.10940.265893.632382@panini.cling.gu.se> References: <000d01c1e85a$871b52a0$1751fea9@pcgxrseries> <0204220743580P.03317@localhost.localdomain> <15556.10940.265893.632382@panini.cling.gu.se> Message-ID: <0204221046340U.03317@localhost.localdomain> Hi Peter, > Could we have the details please? 16550 programming is pretty straight- > forward, maybe someone will make a driver. The details have been available for over a year. The complete source code is on my web site. The SL/T232 driver code should have enough comments in it to allow for making additional drivers. If there's something I overlooked or maybe something else within other parts of the software that needs changing, I'm right here to help. But I'm pretty sure that all the changes can be handled within the driver code itself. The Wave expects to load the communications driver from a VLIR record contained within the actual Wave file. So, once a driver is created, a utility will need to be written to install the new driver into The Wave. -Maurice -- ** Maurice Randall - Click Here Software Co. ** High-Performance software for your Commodore ** email: maurice at ia4u.net, support at cmdrkey.com ** web: www.ia4u.net/~maurice From MagerValp at cling.gu.se Tue Apr 23 01:35:27 2002 From: MagerValp at cling.gu.se (MagerValp) Date: Mon, 22 Apr 2002 18:05:27 +0200 Subject: [Homestead] Questions for Maurice... In-Reply-To: <0204221046340U.03317@localhost.localdomain> References: <000d01c1e85a$871b52a0$1751fea9@pcgxrseries> <0204220743580P.03317@localhost.localdomain> <15556.10940.265893.632382@panini.cling.gu.se> <0204221046340U.03317@localhost.localdomain> Message-ID: <15556.13511.560519.40416@panini.cling.gu.se> >>>>> "MR" == Maurice Randall writes: MV> Could we have the details please? 16550 programming is pretty MV> straightforward, maybe someone will make a driver. MR> The details have been available for over a year. The complete MR> source code is on my web site. The SL/T232 driver code should have MR> enough comments in it to allow for making additional drivers. D'oh, silly me. Should've checked that first of course. Hmm, I have no way of unpacking wraptor files though -- I'm not a GEOS user. -- ___ . . . . . + . . o _|___|_ + . + . + . Per Olofsson, arkadspelare o-o . . . o + MagerValp at cling.gu.se - + + . http://www.cling.gu.se/~cl3polof/ From maddog at videocam.net.au Tue Apr 23 02:27:29 2002 From: maddog at videocam.net.au (Ray Allen) Date: Tue, 23 Apr 2002 02:27:29 +0930 (CST) Subject: [Homestead] Questions for Maurice... In-Reply-To: <15556.13511.560519.40416@panini.cling.gu.se> Message-ID: I think Maurice has Wraptor on his site somewhere too. ...but then again, I haven't been there in awhile. --Ray. On Mon, 22 Apr 2002, MagerValp wrote: > >>>>> "MR" == Maurice Randall writes: > > MV> Could we have the details please? 16550 programming is pretty > MV> straightforward, maybe someone will make a driver. > > MR> The details have been available for over a year. The complete > MR> source code is on my web site. The SL/T232 driver code should have > MR> enough comments in it to allow for making additional drivers. > > D'oh, silly me. Should've checked that first of course. Hmm, I have no > way of unpacking wraptor files though -- I'm not a GEOS user. > > -- > ___ . . . . . + . . o > _|___|_ + . + . + . Per Olofsson, arkadspelare > o-o . . . o + MagerValp at cling.gu.se > - + + . http://www.cling.gu.se/~cl3polof/ > _______________________________________________ > Homestead mailing list > Homestead at videocam.net.au > http://cbm.videocam.net.au/mailman/listinfo/homestead > If you can do it on a PC....... .......Remember, a Commodore 8-bit has been doin' it longer! From maurice at ia4u.net Tue Apr 23 01:29:34 2002 From: maurice at ia4u.net (Maurice Randall) Date: Mon, 22 Apr 2002 11:59:34 -0400 Subject: [Homestead] Questions for Maurice... In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <0204221159340W.03317@localhost.localdomain> Hi Per, > > D'oh, silly me. Should've checked that first of course. Hmm, I have no > > way of unpacking wraptor files though -- I'm not a GEOS user. Wraptor is not a GEOS program, it gets launched from BASIC. It's on the Loadstar site where it originated from and there's also a link from my site in the Wave download area. Now that geoZip is available, the next source code release will be .zip'd. I'm curious, if you're not a GEOS user, why would it matter to you as to what kind of communications interface The Wave supports? Why not become a GEOS user? :) -Maurice -- ** Maurice Randall - Click Here Software Co. ** High-Performance software for your Commodore ** email: maurice at ia4u.net, support at cmdrkey.com ** web: www.ia4u.net/~maurice From MagerValp at cling.gu.se Tue Apr 23 02:46:27 2002 From: MagerValp at cling.gu.se (MagerValp) Date: Mon, 22 Apr 2002 19:16:27 +0200 Subject: [Homestead] Questions for Maurice... In-Reply-To: <0204221159340W.03317@localhost.localdomain> References: <0204221159340W.03317@localhost.localdomain> Message-ID: <15556.17771.139392.294079@panini.cling.gu.se> >>>>> "MR" == Maurice Randall writes: MR> Wraptor is not a GEOS program, it gets launched from BASIC. It's MR> on the Loadstar site where it originated from and there's also a MR> link from my site in the Wave download area. Ah, OK, I'll check that out. MR> I'm curious, if you're not a GEOS user, why would it matter to you MR> as to what kind of communications interface The Wave supports? Why not? The more people that can enjoy their Commodores, the better. I have some 16550 experience, and figured that I might have a spare hour or two somewhere in the not too distant future. MR> Why not become a GEOS user? :) I have a Mac with OS X, a Sun machine running Solaris, and a PC running Windows; I just don't need another desktop OS. -- ___ . . . . . + . . o _|___|_ + . + . + . Per Olofsson, arkadspelare o-o . . . o + MagerValp at cling.gu.se - + + . http://www.cling.gu.se/~cl3polof/ From profdredd at yahoo.com Tue Apr 23 05:23:36 2002 From: profdredd at yahoo.com (Professor Dredd) Date: Mon, 22 Apr 2002 12:53:36 -0700 (PDT) Subject: [Homestead] Detecting a SuperCPU Message-ID: <20020422195336.9524.qmail@web20007.mail.yahoo.com> Page 34 of the SuperCPU User's Guide to check bit 7 of $D0BC but page 36 says to PEEK(53433). Which is correct? This bit is supposed to flag the "DOS Extension". Does that mean it tracks the position of the JiffyDOS switch on the SuperCPU? ===== http://www.geocities.com/profdredd __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Games - play chess, backgammon, pool and more http://games.yahoo.com/ From maurice at ia4u.net Tue Apr 23 06:23:41 2002 From: maurice at ia4u.net (Maurice Randall) Date: Mon, 22 Apr 2002 16:53:41 -0400 Subject: [Homestead] Detecting a SuperCPU In-Reply-To: <20020422195336.9524.qmail@web20007.mail.yahoo.com> References: <20020422195336.9524.qmail@web20007.mail.yahoo.com> Message-ID: <0204221653410X.03317@localhost.localdomain> > Page 34 of the SuperCPU User's Guide to check bit 7 of > $D0BC but page 36 says to PEEK(53433). Which is correct? In a sense, both are correct. I always use $d0bc (53436). $d0b9 (53433) will also work, but I'd avoid it and use $d0bc instead. > This bit is supposed to flag the "DOS Extension". Does that > mean it tracks the position of the JiffyDOS switch on the SuperCPU? No, the JiffyDOS switch is detected at $d0b5 as indicated on page 35. -Maurice -- ** Maurice Randall - Click Here Software Co. ** High-Performance software for your Commodore ** email: maurice at ia4u.net, support at cmdrkey.com ** web: www.ia4u.net/~maurice From lordronin at videocam.net.au Tue Apr 23 08:51:34 2002 From: lordronin at videocam.net.au (Lord Ronin from Q-Link) Date: Tue, 23 Apr 2002 08:51:34 +0930 (CST) Subject: [Homestead] Bill autographs a 1581 In-Reply-To: Message-ID: Hoi Robert: On Mon, 22 Apr 2002, rbernardo wrote: > Darn! I didn't think of that. Having used my film to photograph > Bill horseback riding in competition and at the lunch, I had one more shot > left in my camera when I rewound the film roll and turned it into Long's > Drugstore for developing. (I hope those 3-D stills I took of him turn > out.) Bill with a C= product would have been a nice photo. Perhaps this idea would be good for the future. Bill signing a Vic-20? > > The VIC-20! :-D Check out Bill at > > http://www.classicgaming.com/vic20/melick/1.htm > > Thanks for the link, but everytime I try to go there with my > Commodore, I get something like "Trying to find > www.classicgaming.com:10" and it doesn't load (I don't put in the 10). I just returned from the site reading many pages of Vic-20 history and C= history. used Lynx through VCS. I was wondering if there is any place where photos in eps or JPG can be DL-ed of C= items and of Jack and maybe Bill with the Vic-20? There was nothing there at the above site that I could DL. Like to put one in the Newslketter and have them on the BBS for DL. BCNU -- ***** ****** **** Lord Ronin from Q-Link ** *** Sensei David O.E. Mohr {go-dan} ** Chancellor & Editor for ** *** Amiga-Commodore Users Group 447 ****** **** SysOp Vacuum Tube BBS ***** 503-325-2905 300-14.4k C/G-ascii-ansi From bpope at wordstock.com Tue Apr 23 09:14:17 2002 From: bpope at wordstock.com (Bryan Pope) Date: Mon, 22 Apr 2002 19:44:17 -0400 (edt) Subject: [Homestead] Bill autographs a 1581 In-Reply-To: from "Lord Ronin from Q-Link" at Apr 23, 02 08:51:34 am Message-ID: <200204222344.TAA01143@wordstock.com> And thusly Lord Ronin from Q-Link spake: > > > > The VIC-20! :-D Check out Bill at > > > http://www.classicgaming.com/vic20/melick/1.htm > > > I just returned from the site reading many pages of Vic-20 history and C= > history. used Lynx through VCS. I was wondering if there is any place > where photos in eps or JPG can be DL-ed of C= items and of Jack and maybe > Bill with the Vic-20? There was nothing there at the above site that I > could DL. Like to put one in the Newslketter and have them on the BBS for > DL. > Hey Lord Ronin, Did you see any pictures for download while you were at that site with Lynx? With my version of Lynx I can push shift-8 and it will show me embedded links. This shows me places where I can download any pictures that are on the webpage. Cheers, Bryan From msc1983 at mac.com Tue Apr 23 09:21:50 2002 From: msc1983 at mac.com (Matthew S. Carpenter) Date: Mon, 22 Apr 2002 16:51:50 -0700 Subject: [Homestead] My C64 isn't working In-Reply-To: <0204220711050N.03317@localhost.localdomain> Message-ID: On Monday, April 22, 2002, at 04:11 AM, Maurice Randall wrote: > Hi Matthew, > >> I was using my C64 last night when it locked up. I turned it off and >> then back on again. When I turned it back on again I got the normal >> JiffyDOS intro stuff that you get when you first turn it on. There was >> just one minor detail that just wasn't right. "Where's the cursor?" I >> asked myself, for there was no blinking cursor after the "READY" prompt. >> So, I tried to type with the keyboard but it just sat there saying >> "READY" >> .. I couldn't get it to register a single key press. > > Without seeing it personally, my guess will be the 6526 chip at U1. > It sounds like IRQ interrupts aren't working which keeps the keyboard > from being scanned and also keeps the cursor from blinking. The > STOP/RESTORE combination works because hitting the RESTORE key generates > an NMI interrupt and the routine that gets called will check to see > if the STOP key is also being pressed. > > -Maurice > If the culprit is one of the 6526 chips, what would it take to get a replacement chip? Another note, is there any particular reason that the chips in U1 and U2 are labeled differently? U1 is labeled: "6526 1884" U2 is labeled: "6526R-4 2484" My C64 has a repair sticker on the bottom that says it was serviced in 86' . -- -MSC AIM: MSC1983MSC ICQ: 42442595 "Stand back! I have an open power supply and I'm not afraid to do something stupid with it!" From msc1983 at mac.com Tue Apr 23 11:35:22 2002 From: msc1983 at mac.com (Matthew S. Carpenter) Date: Mon, 22 Apr 2002 19:05:22 -0700 Subject: [Homestead] Squealing 1084 monitor. Message-ID: <917422F4-565E-11D6-BEB8-003065E0819C@mac.com> Hello, Since I can't really use my C64 right now, I've been using the 1084 monitor I got last week with a VCR to watch TV. The picture is excellent but the high pitched squeal it makes is enough to give me a headache. I think it's getting worse; yesterday it was tolerable, but today it's absolutely unbearable. Is this something common problem with 1084 monitors? I've never had a Commodore monitor before. -- -MSC AIM: MSC1983MSC ICQ: 42442595 "Stand back! I have an open power supply and I'm not afraid to do something stupid with it!" From rbernardo at mail.value.net Tue Apr 23 15:29:39 2002 From: rbernardo at mail.value.net (rbernardo) Date: Mon, 22 Apr 2002 22:59:39 -0700 (PDT) Subject: [Homestead] Bill autographs a 1581 In-Reply-To: Message-ID: On Tue, 23 Apr 2002, Lord Ronin from Q-Link wrote: > Bill with a C= product would have been a nice photo. Perhaps this idea > would be good for the future. Bill signing a Vic-20? Perhaps at next year's William Shatner Weekend, Dave! :-) > I was wondering if there is any place > where photos in eps or JPG can be DL-ed of C= items and of Jack and maybe > Bill with the Vic-20? I'll send you the one with Bill and the VIC-20. > There was nothing there at the above site that I could DL. Did you press the asterisk key so that all images on the site would be loaded in with links to click on? Truly, Robert Bernardo Fresno Commodore User Group http://videocam.net.au/fcug From wcpat at iglou.com Wed Apr 24 06:09:48 2002 From: wcpat at iglou.com (WILLIS PATTEN) Date: Tue, 23 Apr 2002 16:39:48 -0400 (EDT) Subject: [Homestead] Questions for Maurice... In-Reply-To: <0204221159340W.03317@localhost.localdomain> Message-ID: On Mon, 22 Apr 2002, Maurice Randall wrote: > I'm curious, if you're not a GEOS user, why would it matter > to you as to what kind of communications interface The Wave > supports? > > Why not become a GEOS user? :) > > -Maurice > > -- Way to go, Maurice ! Better yet, WHEELS user! Best wishes, Willis > Rev. Willis C. Patten ** wcpat at iglou.com * GEOS Publication * 1 year $17.00 US , 2 years $30.00. 1 year $25.00 , 2 years $35.00 elsewhere * Write 915 Trout Lane, Shelbyville, KY 40065-9531 From wcpat at iglou.com Wed Apr 24 06:12:39 2002 From: wcpat at iglou.com (WILLIS PATTEN) Date: Tue, 23 Apr 2002 16:42:39 -0400 (EDT) Subject: [Homestead] Questions for Maurice... In-Reply-To: <15556.17771.139392.294079@panini.cling.gu.se> Message-ID: On Mon, 22 Apr 2002, MagerValp wrote: > >>>>> "MR" == Maurice Randall writes: > > MR> Why not become a GEOS user? :) > > I have a Mac with OS X, a Sun machine running Solaris, and a PC > running Windows; I just don't need another desktop OS. > You'd find Commodore Windows is much simpler to use than PC Windooz. I've used both. Best wishes, Willis Rev. Willis C. Patten ** wcpat at iglou.com * GEOS Publication * 1 year $17.00 US , 2 years $30.00. 1 year $25.00 , 2 years $35.00 elsewhere * Write 915 Trout Lane, Shelbyville, KY 40065-9531 From lordronin at videocam.net.au Wed Apr 24 09:12:59 2002 From: lordronin at videocam.net.au (Lord Ronin from Q-Link) Date: Wed, 24 Apr 2002 09:12:59 +0930 (CST) Subject: [Homestead] Bill autographs a 1581 In-Reply-To: <200204222344.TAA01143@wordstock.com> Message-ID: Hoi Bryan: On Mon, 22 Apr 2002, Bryan Pope wrote: > Hey Lord Ronin, > > Did you see any pictures for download while you were at that site with > Lynx? With my version of Lynx I can push shift-8 and it will show me > embedded links. This shows me places where I can download any pictures > that are on the webpage. There were some coloured sections. On my set up here that usually means I can cursor over the spot. Then DL or read if it is text. This was not the case on this site. I used the cursor to actually move from page to page. Rather than the space bar. Saw what looked like a .gif image to DL but it didn't reverse video when the cursor was used. In fact the cursor didn't stop at the spot. That is how I moved through the pages. Did book mark the site. BCNU -- ***** ****** **** Lord Ronin from Q-Link ** *** Sensei David O.E. Mohr {go-dan} ** Chancellor & Editor for ** *** Amiga-Commodore Users Group 447 ****** **** SysOp Vacuum Tube BBS ***** 503-325-2905 300-14.4k C/G-ascii-ansi From bpope at wordstock.com Wed Apr 24 09:26:49 2002 From: bpope at wordstock.com (Bryan Pope) Date: Tue, 23 Apr 2002 19:56:49 -0400 (edt) Subject: [Homestead] Bill autographs a 1581 In-Reply-To: from "Lord Ronin from Q-Link" at Apr 24, 02 09:12:59 am Message-ID: <200204232356.TAA14774@wordstock.com> And thusly Lord Ronin from Q-Link spake: > > Hoi Bryan: > > On Mon, 22 Apr 2002, Bryan Pope wrote: > > > Hey Lord Ronin, > > > > Did you see any pictures for download while you were at that site with > > Lynx? With my version of Lynx I can push shift-8 and it will show me > > embedded links. This shows me places where I can download any pictures > > that are on the webpage. > > There were some coloured sections. On my set up here that usually means I > can cursor over the spot. Then DL or read if it is text. This was not the > case on this site. I used the cursor to actually move from page to page. > Rather than the space bar. Saw what looked like a .gif image to DL but it > didn't reverse video when the cursor was used. In fact the cursor didn't > stop at the spot. That is how I moved through the pages. Did book mark the > site. > Lord Ronin, Then it looks like if you type shift-8 while viewing the page, it will allow you to select that .gif file and download it. Cheers, Bryan From lordronin at videocam.net.au Wed Apr 24 09:32:10 2002 From: lordronin at videocam.net.au (Lord Ronin from Q-Link) Date: Wed, 24 Apr 2002 09:32:10 +0930 (CST) Subject: [Homestead] Bill autographs a 1581 In-Reply-To: Message-ID: Hoi Robert: On Mon, 22 Apr 2002, rbernardo wrote: > Perhaps at next year's William Shatner Weekend, Dave! :-) That would be great to see and show around. > I'll send you the one with Bill and the VIC-20. Very Much Appreciated. > Did you press the asterisk key so that all images on the site > would be loaded in with links to click on? Ah no, never heard of that one before. Mainly that has been the case on the other sites I go to, like Lemon and others. Where I can dl the gif or jpg since it highlights with the cursor keys. Didn't know anything about the asterisk key before. Still learning so much. BCNU -- ***** ****** **** Lord Ronin from Q-Link ** *** Sensei David O.E. Mohr {go-dan} ** Chancellor & Editor for ** *** Amiga-Commodore Users Group 447 ****** **** SysOp Vacuum Tube BBS ***** 503-325-2905 300-14.4k C/G-ascii-ansi From lordronin at videocam.net.au Wed Apr 24 10:07:13 2002 From: lordronin at videocam.net.au (Lord Ronin from Q-Link) Date: Wed, 24 Apr 2002 10:07:13 +0930 (CST) Subject: [Homestead] Bill autographs a 1581 In-Reply-To: <200204232356.TAA14774@wordstock.com> Message-ID: Hoi Bryan: On Tue, 23 Apr 2002, Bryan Pope wrote: > Lord Ronin, > > Then it looks like if you type shift-8 while viewing the page, it will > allow you to select that .gif file and download it. That will be my next test. just now I am on the Traveller Mail List Where we are talking about the size of the Battlestar Galactica. A link was provided and I went there, same problem. So I thought to try Roberts idea of the asterik key. Bloddy bugger worked. Got a reformat msg and then the areas changed colour and I was able to grab a couple images for a test. Next I'll try the shift 8 test. New things to add to my list of understanding. My thanks to all for the assist. BCNU -- ***** ****** **** Lord Ronin from Q-Link ** *** Sensei David O.E. Mohr {go-dan} ** Chancellor & Editor for ** *** Amiga-Commodore Users Group 447 ****** **** SysOp Vacuum Tube BBS ***** 503-325-2905 300-14.4k C/G-ascii-ansi From raj at starbase-01.com Thu Apr 25 08:23:49 2002 From: raj at starbase-01.com (Raj Wurttemberg) Date: Wed, 24 Apr 2002 18:53:49 -0400 Subject: [Homestead] C64c ROM chip compatible with the C64? Message-ID: <000201c1ebe2$e75b2150$d201a8c0@starbase01.com> Are the ROM chips from a C64c compatible with the older C64 (breadbox)? I was just curious about switching them so I could have the newer chips in my old C64. Thanks, /*Raj*/ From maurice at ia4u.net Thu Apr 25 09:01:19 2002 From: maurice at ia4u.net (Maurice Randall) Date: Wed, 24 Apr 2002 19:31:19 -0400 Subject: [Homestead] C64c ROM chip compatible with the C64? In-Reply-To: <000201c1ebe2$e75b2150$d201a8c0@starbase01.com> References: <000201c1ebe2$e75b2150$d201a8c0@starbase01.com> Message-ID: <0204241931191J.03317@localhost.localdomain> Hi Raj, > Are the ROM chips from a C64c compatible with the older C64 (breadbox)? > I was just curious about switching them so I could have the newer chips > in my old C64. No, they are different. The old 64 board has a 24 pin "rom" while the 64C's "E" board uses 28 pins. The later rom contains both the kernal and BASIC, while the early one has only the kernal in it. BASIC is in a separate rom in the early boards. -Maurice -- ** Maurice Randall - Click Here Software Co. ** High-Performance software for your Commodore ** email: maurice at ia4u.net, support at cmdrkey.com ** web: www.ia4u.net/~maurice From raj at starbase-01.com Thu Apr 25 11:06:17 2002 From: raj at starbase-01.com (Raj Wurttemberg) Date: Wed, 24 Apr 2002 21:36:17 -0400 Subject: [Homestead] C64c ROM chip compatible with the C64? In-Reply-To: <0204241931191J.03317@localhost.localdomain> Message-ID: <000001c1ebf9$987b0e30$d201a8c0@starbase01.com> > No, they are different. The old 64 board has a 24 pin "rom" while the > 64C's "E" board uses 28 pins. The later rom contains both the kernal > and BASIC, while the early one has only the kernal in it. BASIC is in > a separate rom in the early boards. Thanks Maurice. As always, your technical expertise is much appreciated. Hmm... How about putting the C64c motherboard in the older C64? It should fit shouldn't it? That reminds me... I think I need to order JiffyDOS for the C64c. I'll have to check my C64c's and see if I had installed JiffyDOS on them in the past. :) If not... I'll be giving you a call. :) Thanks! /*Raj*/ From hvergara at videocam.net.au Thu Apr 25 12:01:09 2002 From: hvergara at videocam.net.au (Hernan Vergara) Date: Thu, 25 Apr 2002 12:01:09 +0930 Subject: [Homestead] Questions Message-ID: <200204250231.g3P2V9vU026853@videocam.net.au> To: homestead at videocam.net.au Hi Maurice, MH> I'm curious, if you're not a GEOS user, why would it matter MH> to you as to what kind of communications interface The Wave MH> supports? MH> MH> Why not become a GEOS user? :) Ahem... you meant Wheels user? :-D Hernan ... QWKRR128 - Read 'n' Reply offline with a C=128 ___ QWKRR128 V5.10 [R] From RolfMiller at aol.com Thu Apr 25 15:01:03 2002 From: RolfMiller at aol.com (RolfMiller@aol.com) Date: Thu, 25 Apr 2002 01:31:03 EDT Subject: [Homestead] C64c ROM chip compatible with the C64? Message-ID: <16.1e267fa0.29f8ee97@aol.com> In a message dated 02-04-24 18:56:16 EDT, you write: << Are the ROM chips from a C64c compatible with the older C64 (breadbox)? I was just curious about switching them so I could have the newer chips in my old C64. >> Actually, some of the C64c's came with older boards rather than the revised (1/2 width) boards. These older boards (and their chips) are compatible. Those with the older boards can usually be identified by their keys: the graphic characters appear on the front edge of the keys whereas those with new boards have the graphic characters on the top of the keys. Rolf From rbernardo at mail.value.net Thu Apr 25 16:23:07 2002 From: rbernardo at mail.value.net (rbernardo) Date: Wed, 24 Apr 2002 23:53:07 -0700 (PDT) Subject: [Homestead] More for Godot Message-ID: More, new modules for Godot, the graphics manipulation and conversion program for the C64 and C128. Arndt Dettke has released mod.BalancingCol and mod.DrawMask (see Arndt's news below). Both modules, along with many of the older modules, are available at Arndt's website, http://www.godot64.de Just click on "site-news", and you find the announcement of the new modules and the download links. Truly, Robert Bernardo Fresno Commodore User Group http://videocam.net.au/fcug ------------ GoDot News On April 6, 2002 To brighten the colors of a picture, or to darken them? With only 16 colors available on a C64? This will lead to nonsense... No, people! We have GoDot; it works! (Of course it works! Why should anything on a C64 *not* work?) ;-) Try the new mod.BalancingCol. Together with mod.DrawMask (see below) you can create almost unbelievable effects. On March 31, An Easter gift! ;-) Greg Nacu had a wish, and his wish was a command to me. He considered the editing of masks to overlay two images too intricate, with only mod.QuickMask and mod.MaskEd available. He looked for something more intuitive, one to generate a mask without much considering. This is the result of his wish: mod.DrawMask! Just paint masks onto an image! The images on top grow via the one on the left finally to the result on the right. Time of work: about 5 minutes... ;-) Isn't that a fast way? From maurice at ia4u.net Thu Apr 25 20:35:12 2002 From: maurice at ia4u.net (Maurice Randall) Date: Thu, 25 Apr 2002 07:05:12 -0400 Subject: [Homestead] C64c ROM chip compatible with the C64? In-Reply-To: <000001c1ebf9$987b0e30$d201a8c0@starbase01.com> References: <000001c1ebf9$987b0e30$d201a8c0@starbase01.com> Message-ID: <0204250705121K.03317@localhost.localdomain> Hi Raj, > Hmm... How about putting the C64c motherboard in the older C64? It > should fit shouldn't it? You can put an early board into a 64C case because the later case had the mountings for both board sizes. But the early case won't accept the smaller board unless you fabricate your own mounting points. The first 64C's came with large boards which is why I need the serial number from the 64C when ordering JiffyDOS. -Maurice -- ** Maurice Randall - Click Here Software Co. ** High-Performance software for your Commodore ** email: maurice at ia4u.net, support at cmdrkey.com ** web: www.ia4u.net/~maurice From maurice at ia4u.net Thu Apr 25 20:41:42 2002 From: maurice at ia4u.net (Maurice Randall) Date: Thu, 25 Apr 2002 07:11:42 -0400 Subject: [Homestead] Questions In-Reply-To: <200204250231.g3P2V9vU026853@videocam.net.au> References: <200204250231.g3P2V9vU026853@videocam.net.au> Message-ID: <0204250711421N.03317@localhost.localdomain> Hi Hernan, > Ahem... you meant Wheels user? :-D Of course! But one must become a GEOS user first. :) -Maurice -- ** Maurice Randall - Click Here Software Co. ** High-Performance software for your Commodore ** email: maurice at ia4u.net, support at cmdrkey.com ** web: www.ia4u.net/~maurice From wcpat at iglou.com Fri Apr 26 04:07:26 2002 From: wcpat at iglou.com (WILLIS PATTEN) Date: Thu, 25 Apr 2002 14:37:26 -0400 (EDT) Subject: [Homestead] Questions In-Reply-To: <200204250231.g3P2V9vU026853@videocam.net.au> Message-ID: On Thu, 25 Apr 2002, Hernan Vergara wrote: > To: homestead at videocam.net.au > > > Hi Maurice, > > > MH> I'm curious, if you're not a GEOS user, why would it matter > MH> to you as to what kind of communications interface The Wave > MH> supports? > MH> > MH> Why not become a GEOS user? :) > > Ahem... you meant Wheels user? :-D > > Hernan > Wheels-GEOS, GEOS-Wheels, whatever. Willis Rev. Willis C. Patten ** wcpat at iglou.com * GEOS Publication * 1 year $17.00 US , 2 years $30.00. 1 year $25.00 , 2 years $35.00 elsewhere * Write 915 Trout Lane, Shelbyville, KY 40065-9531 From hvergara at videocam.net.au Fri Apr 26 12:57:02 2002 From: hvergara at videocam.net.au (Hernan Vergara) Date: Fri, 26 Apr 2002 12:57:02 +0930 Subject: [Homestead] Questions Message-ID: <200204260327.g3Q3R232012066@videocam.net.au> To: homestead at videocam.net.au Hi Maurice, MH> > Ahem... you meant Wheels user? :-D MH> MH> Of course! But one must become a GEOS user first. :) Aha! You want them young....and then you go full blast. :^) Hernan ... QWKRR128 - Read 'n' Reply offline with a C=128 ___ QWKRR128 V5.10 [R] From rbernardo at mail.value.net Sat Apr 27 15:12:11 2002 From: rbernardo at mail.value.net (rbernardo) Date: Fri, 26 Apr 2002 22:42:11 -0700 (PDT) Subject: [Homestead] Bill autographs a 1581 In-Reply-To: Message-ID: On Mon, 22 Apr 2002, I wrote: > Darn! I didn't think of that. Having used my film to photograph > Bill [Shatner] horseback riding in competition and at the lunch... On Tue, 23 Apr 2002, Lord Ronin from Q-Link wrote: > Bill with a C= product would have been a nice photo. Perhaps this idea > would be good for the future. Bill signing a Vic-20? I was *so* close to getting a pic with Shatner and a CBM product! For those interested, go to http://www.williamshatner.com and then go to the fan club section. That area has just been updated with photos from the William Shatner Weekend -- a lot of group photos (unfortunately, I was a latecomer and didn't get into those photos) and individual photos of Bill. However, on the very last photo of the weekend event, there is a photo of Bill as he goes from lunch table to table, talking to the club members. Directly in the background, I'm clearly seen watching him! Zounds, my hair was puffy in the wind! :-) In need of a haircut, Robert Bernardo Fresno Commodore User Group http://videocam.net.au/fcug From Plandis8 at aol.com Sun Apr 28 23:53:28 2002 From: Plandis8 at aol.com (Plandis8@aol.com) Date: Sun, 28 Apr 2002 10:23:28 EDT Subject: [Homestead] Lexmark Optra Color 40 Message-ID: <8.256d9461.29fd5fe0@aol.com> -- [ Picked text/plain from multipart/alternative ] I am now a proud owner of a Lexmark Optra Color 40 printer and want to use it on my Commodore 128D system. I have followed some of the threads concerning the Optra 40 and would like to know what I need to get it to work with my Commodore. What are the major problems that I need to look out for as far as connecting to the Commodore and getting everything to work properly? Where can I get the program that was mentioned is needed to use the Postscript that is available with the Optra 40? What settings do I need to change with the printer to get it to work properly with the Commodore? I have checked it out on a PC and it works great. My system currently consists of Commodore 128D, SCPU128 with 16 megs, RamLink with 16 megs, Turbo 232 Cartridge, US Robotics 56k Sportster Modem, FD2000, Commodore 1571 and 1541-II drives. I am open to all advise as to how to proceed to get things connected and working properly. Paul R. Landis Exciting offer! You won't believe it! FREE INTERNET SUPER STORES! Earn Big Income! How? By giving away SUPER STORES for FREE! Try it FREE! www.freestoreclub.com/go/plandis7 From rbthomas at edmc.net Mon Apr 29 11:31:31 2002 From: rbthomas at edmc.net (Bruce Thomas) Date: Sun, 28 Apr 2002 20:01:31 -0600 (MDT) Subject: [Homestead] re: Lexmark Optra Color 40 Message-ID: ----- Original Message ----- From: To: Sent: Sunday, April 28, 2002 8:23 AM Subject: [Homestead] Lexmark Optra Color 40 > I am now a proud owner of a Lexmark Optra Color 40 printer and want to > use it on my Commodore 128D system. Paul, Congratulations! This is a terrific printer for Commodore Users looking to get the best possible output. I hope you got a good deal on it. The price on these units is such that almost everyone can afford one. When I got mine a year ago I paid less than a third of what I paid for my first printer - a Commodore 1526. > I have followed some of the threads concerning the Optra 40 and would > like to know what I need to get it to work with my Commodore. That depends on what software you are using. If you are a GEOS/Wheels user you will be best served by getting PostPrint from Dale Sidebottom. This program is available on his Laser Lovers Disk and will help you start the journey to mastering your new printer. > What are the major problems that I need to look out for as far as > connecting to the Commodore and getting everything to work properly? Where > can I get the program that was mentioned is needed to use the Postscript > that is available with the Optra 40? What settings do I need to change > with the printer to get it to work properly with the Commodore? I have > checked it out on a PC and it works great. One place to start is to join the COPS mailing list at VideoCam. http://cbm.videocam.net.au/mailman/listinfo/cops COPS (Commodore Only PostScript) was setup to help people get the most out of PostScript printing. We have also been the beta-test list for The Wave web browser. There are lots of Optra owners on the list and plenty of help for new users. > My system currently consists of Commodore 128D, SCPU128 with 16 megs, > RamLink with 16 megs, Turbo 232 Cartridge, US Robotics 56k Sportster Modem, > FD2000, Commodore 1571 and 1541-II drives. Nicely decked out. How much RAM do you have in your OptraColor 40? A minimum of 20 MBs (the base 4 plus a 16 MB DIMM) is needed to get the best out of it. A geoCable parallel connection is another item you may wish to add to your system to speed printing. > I am open to all advise as to how to proceed to get things connected and > working properly. Check out the site at http://c128.port5.com/ which offers a lot of support for the OptraColor 40 and Commodore Printing in general. Welcome to the club! Bruce Thomas From t_raymond at tcinc.net Mon Apr 29 14:37:37 2002 From: t_raymond at tcinc.net (Terry Raymond) Date: Sun, 28 Apr 2002 23:07:37 -0600 Subject: [Homestead] GEOS AUDIO CD PLAYER Message-ID: <003b01c1ef3b$c88123e0$c09d0a0c@teraymon> Hi everyone, Here while back I reported that my Sanyo SCSI "Internal" CD-ROM drive will play music CD's, well of course with an Internal PC style of CD-ROM drive has the connectors on the back of the drive that interfaces with a PC sound card. This drive also does not have the Audio jack on the Front panel that you can plug earphones or PC speakers into, that is why I had to make this cable. I easily remodeled the existing Audio connector cable to attach to PC speakers, I dont think this is really true Stereo but it works okay. I sent my $5 user fee to Randy Harris, and also included a GEOPAINT schematic of how I wired my Audio Cable (ONLY FOR "INTERNAL" CD-ROM DRIVES) these are drives that are usually meant for use in a PC tower or Desktop case. I have allowed Randy to pass on this information (how to interface) the Audio Cable. I drew this in Geopaint, is not a very professional drawing but at least anybody might have a good idea of how to make this cable work. Anyone of course could improve on my drawing etc. You can get this from SWRAP or Randy Harris, or I could email the Geopaint drawing to anyone that might have the same "internal" SCSI CD-ROM drives. I did this just for the challenge and made it work, and to help anyone else that has this type of drive. I hope this can help others with drives like this. Just wanted to share this news. Cheers, Terry Raymond t_raymond at tcinc.net Riverton, Wyoming UNITED STATES From rharris1 at videocam.net.au Mon Apr 29 15:39:10 2002 From: rharris1 at videocam.net.au (Randy Harris) Date: Mon, 29 Apr 2002 15:39:10 +0930 (CST) Subject: [Homestead] Re: GEOS CD player In-Reply-To: <004d01c1ef3d$d1b30b20$c09d0a0c@teraymon> Message-ID: On Sun, 28 Apr 2002, Terry Raymond wrote: > Are there any NEW upgrades yet for the GEOS audio player? Not really. The latest version is V1.91. If you do not have this one, let me know. Randy Harris Using a Commodore 128 with 'The Wave.' Bringing the Internet to GEOS users! ------------------------------------ Visit the SWRAP Commodore web site at: http://swrap.net From sjudd at ffd2.com Tue Apr 30 13:23:10 2002 From: sjudd at ffd2.com (Steve Judd) Date: Mon, 29 Apr 2002 21:53:10 -0600 (MDT) Subject: [Homestead] New stuff in the fridge Message-ID: Hola, I've uploaded a couple new programs into the fridge (http://www.ffd2.com/fridge/): Jammon v4.2 -- minor upgrade Sirius v2.1 -- lots of bug fixes and enhanced stability, and online help cu! -Steve From b_thomas at telusplanet.net Mon Apr 29 07:17:44 2002 From: b_thomas at telusplanet.net (Bruce Thomas) Date: Sun, 28 Apr 2002 15:47:44 -0600 Subject: [Homestead] Re: Lexmark Optra Color 40 References: <8.256d9461.29fd5fe0@aol.com> Message-ID: <000d01c1eefe$551c33a0$0102a8c0@telusplanet.net> ----- Original Message ----- From: To: Sent: Sunday, April 28, 2002 8:23 AM Subject: [Homestead] Lexmark Optra Color 40 > I am now a proud owner of a Lexmark Optra Color 40 printer and want to use it > on my Commodore 128D system. Paul, Congratulations! This is a terrific printer for Commodore Users looking to get the best possible output. I hope you got a good deal on it. The price on these units is such that almost everyone can afford one. When I got mine a year ago I paid less than a third of what I paid for my first printer - a Commodore 1526. > I have followed some of the threads concerning the Optra 40 and would like to > know what I need to get it to work with my Commodore. That depends on what software you are using. If you are a GEOS/Wheels user you will be best served by getting PostPrint from Dale Sidebottom. This program is available on his Laser Lovers Disk and will help you start the journey to mastering your new printer. > What are the major problems that I need to look out for as far as connecting > to the Commodore and getting everything to work properly? Where can I get > the program that was mentioned is needed to use the Postscript that is > available with the Optra 40? What settings do I need to change with the > printer to get it to work properly with the Commodore? I have checked it out > on a PC and it works great. One place to start is to join the COPS mailing list at VideoCam. http://cbm.videocam.net.au/mailman/listinfo/cops COPS (Commodore Only PostScript) was setup to help people get the most out of PostScript printing. We have also been the beta-test list for The Wave web browser. There are lots of Optra owners on the list and plenty of help for new users. > My system currently consists of Commodore 128D, SCPU128 with 16 megs, RamLink > with 16 megs, Turbo 232 Cartridge, US Robotics 56k Sportster Modem, FD2000, > Commodore 1571 and 1541-II drives. Nicely decked out. How much RAM do you have in your OptraColor 40? A minimum of 20 MBs (the base 4 plus a 16 MB DIMM) is needed to get the best out of it. A geoCable parallel connection is another item you may wish to add to your system to speed printing. > I am open to all advise as to how to proceed to get things connected and > working properly. Check out the site at http://c128.port5.com/ which offers a lot of support for the OptraColor 40 and Commodore Printing in general. Welcome to the club! Bruce Thomas