Hi all, I'm just so excited I have got to share my good news. I finally found enough free time to finish repairing my A4000D. It's real-time clock circuit was ...
... Actually, I forgot all about it! :( Thanks for letting us know what they showed of the original Atari, Spidey. Regards, Andrew B aliensrcooluk@......
Hi folks, The past few years I have learnt alot about the Amiga and it's history (largely thanks to groups like this one). I have also learnt about bit-planes,...
Hello David ... I guess a giant WHOO HOOO ! is in order. That has warmed me up this cold night. You must be so pleased. And although you probably were quite...
Reflecting on Davids success, I gotta say I have myself enjoyed these last few days, particularly today with great satisfaction. I can't recall a time when I...
Hello Andrew Thought I would mention that I had a boxed version of AMOS Craft come through the post today. I have set up AMOS Pro now on the A4000 and will...
... Well, screen data is stored the same on AGA Amigas too. Just more bitplanes. It gets fun when you start interleaving the bitplanes, or use the Copper to...
... Nah, thats not much of a mystery. I created a whole character set on one IFF image which is stored in a bank. When the program runs it takes the image from...
Hi Sorry to those getting this more than once, but honestly it pretty well summarises my life with the Amiga.. when it gets hot and heavy. And shows what retro...
Hello Andrew ... I would post a few mails on the AMOS group but I think I need to get my head round where I was when I left off with my various bits and...
Had to fight my way thro cobwebs in the room with the PC today. I haven't missed the old tat to be honest, but I have missed a load of Ebay goodies by the...
... Sorry.... Keep forgetting to set the clock on the Amiga. It is really strange that there is a brand new battery on this motherboard but it refuses to save...
... Thanks for that Paul, but I have already read up about the Huffman method and couldn't get my head around it! Plus the site that I read up about LZW...
... Thats the worst thing, coming back to half finished code :( ... I have a folder called "AMOS_programs" that was getting so large and annoying to list all...
Hello scuzz.retro ... Oh we are indeed! :-) Regards -- Mike Leavitt ac998_@_lafn._org remove -'s...
Mike Leavitt
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Feb 5, 2006 10:31 pm
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... Maybe the new battery is bad, incorrectly connector, poorly connected, or there is damage elsewhere that prevents the clock from retaining the correct...
Hey! No one asked the group members! Now where did I put those black balls of mine. BTW you can buy stuff on eBay no probs using aWeb, so there's no good...
Stephen Robinson
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Feb 5, 2006 10:39 pm
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Hi folks, I managed to acquire some floppy disks a while ago off a seller from Amazon. Verbatim DataLife disks are better quality than the Imation ones I used...
Hello scuzz.retro ... Easy, the clock cirtutry is broken, fixing it not so easy, soldering iron anyone. Regards -- Mike Leavitt ac998_@_lafn._org remove -'s...
Mike Leavitt
ac998@...
Feb 5, 2006 11:33 pm
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... Urgh... I found a site... http://www.istationers.com/product.asp?P_ID=33762 tried to buy the product and got as far as the address form and thats it. It...
Hello Jaeson ... Once I close the case and all is working fine I am most reluctant to open up again. I have a tower upstairs that I finally got working with a...
Hello Stephen ... I stuck a Multiface III in this A4000d today and flipped it right out. I installed drivers and for some reason the machine just hung as it...
Hello Mike ... I can blame you Americans for this one. Seeing as how the motherboard came from the States. Strange looking area around the battery. Absolutley...
Hi What am I doing... Well ... If you create web style pages and give them an icon which you edit to fire up with AWeb you can leave one or two out on the...
Hello scuzz.retro ... Have you installed AmiSSL1? You need it with Aweb to negociate ebay properly. I don't have the URL handy, unfortunately though I think ...
Mike Leavitt
ac998@...
Feb 6, 2006 1:32 am
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Hello scuzz.retro ... You're going to tower a CD32? Regards -- Mike Leavitt ac998_@_lafn._org remove -'s...
Mike Leavitt
ac998@...
Feb 6, 2006 1:34 am
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... It's quite easy. The Huffman algo just generates a variable size binary code for each byte (8 bits) in your data. Depending on the number of occurrences...
** scuzz.retro <scuzz.retro@...> [2006-02-05 21:05]: <snip> ... Aaarrggghh, you had to mention an OpalVision there didn't you! What's worse I had to...
... Doing it that way wouldn't you require some sort of table at the start of the file to account for all the characters found in the file? Also, being in...