grau375@watcsc.waterloo.edu (Michael Grau) (08/17/89)
I am a proud Amiga owner and I am looking for a project that I can use
my Amy for. This will be for a 4th year university project, so it has to
be something useful. I have 2.5 Megs of RAM and a 96 Meg hard drive to
complement my A1000. A project of any nature (hardware/software) would be
appreciated. If possible any references included would also help.
Thanks in advance.
Mike.UH2@PSUVM.BITNET (Lee Sailer) (08/18/89)
A student asks for ideas for a Fourth Year Project... The Amiga could use a structured drawing tool that knows about Data Flow Diagrams, ER models, and Structure Charts. Look at SilverRun or Excelerator for a model. If you don't know what I'm talking about, I guess you'd better do something else ha ha 8-) Another software project would be to take the beginnings of Logo (old Fish disk) or SmallTalk (isn't there a tiny one somewhere) and Amigatize it. Or how about a good Neural Network program? Anyway, have fun.
walker@sas.UUCP (Doug Walker) (08/21/89)
More ideas for an Amiga-based student project... 1. Equivalent of SCCS or RCS - does anybody know of one? Could be implemented as an AmigaDOS device. If you type SCCS:project/file.c you get the latest version, or you can qualify it by SCCS:project/file.c/version-specification. (syntax is unambiguous since you can't have a file and a directory with the same name!) Could be implemented on top of other AmigaDos devices or could take over a floppy drive or hard drive partition. 2. Similar idea - WORM: device. Virtual Write-Once-Read-Many disk, implemented on a series of floppies. Sequential sector numbers are assigned starting at 0. The second floppy's first sector would be #1760 (given 1760 sectors/disk) and so forth; Writing to the device always appends to the end of the archive, so you never lose old revisions. As long as you just write, you only keep the latest disk in the drive. The directory is kept on any AmigaDos device, for example a hard disk or another floppy, or possibly on the first diskette of the series (but that might create artificial limits). Would be great for BBS archives - sysop types 'COPY WORM:FILENAME FOO' and responds to the requestors instead of hunting around looking for the file, making sure it's the latest version, etc. Directory is always recreatable by reading the archive BACKWARDS - all new versions contain a pointer to the previous version. I'd love to do either or both of these, but NO TIME!!! I've got lots of ideas on implementation details in case you decide to use them :-) --Doug
collins@Alliant.COM (Phil Collins) (08/22/89)
Does anyone know how to convert a summamouse to work on a amiga 500. There was an article a while back on something similar.I would like pin outs and any information available.