tope@enea.se (Tommy Petersson) (06/01/88)
I just tried VirusX 1.21 from the net, and it's neat! Easy and safe to find viruses (SCA and ByteBandit) + other non-standard boot-blocks. And it does that while you are running another program! Just one thing: I would like to have the same function while I'm copying disks. I would prefer a copying program that uses all my memory (I have 1 floppy + hard disk and 3 meg memory) and gives the copy the same name as the original (not "Copy of..."). It's not for copying copy-protected programs. The problem is that these programs doesn't let VirusX check the disk, they disable the disk-insertion checking. Since VirusX comes with C source code, C source code for a PD copying program would be nice for merging the two together. Anyone know of such? Possible to e-mail? Next topic: Byte (apart from Jerry Pournelle) writes positive about Amiga! (Because it's good). The article 'Problems and Pitfalls' about benchmarks shows Amiga with 68020 card faster than Mac SE with '20 cards and Mac II in a standard Sieve benchmark. It also shows a Sieve benchmark with larger array sizes, run 10 iterations. I have chosen the 40 KB array size: Amiga with '020: 2.32 sec VAX 8600 : 2.64 VAX-11/780 : 6.38 Normal Amiga : 11.50 VAX-11/750 : 13.13 IBM PC AT : 99.71 IBM PC XT : 351.50 They ran array sizes up to 160 KB, but only for VAX 8600 and the two Amigas I have got hold of a WB 1.3 gamma (don't know if it's gamma 5 or what). Are there any help available on using the new stuff? There was an EpsonX printer driver that worked with my Seikosha SL80AI (24-pin, slow as hell), but the graphics was exactly as WB 1.2 epson driver, so I guess it's still only 9-pin graphics. Last: King of Chicago. It's un-playable on a one-floppy system (or almost), but the documentation says that since the second disk is not copy-protected, this could be copied to a hard disk. I have done exactly as said in the document (also tried the RAM disk version) but simply nothing happens! I have a SCSI hard disk (which of course is DH2:, as some programs don't recognize), but since the RAM disk try gave the same result, something else must be the problem. Can anyone help ?
page@swan.ulowell.edu (Bob Page) (06/03/88)
tope@enea.se (Tommy Petersson) wrote: >copying program that uses all my memory ... gives the copy the same name >as the original (not "Copy of..."). C source code ... would be nice. You want Dfc by Tom Rokicki. Available on fish disk #131. Dfc will also VERIFY that the data got there, unlike DiskCopy. ..Bob -- Bob Page, U of Lowell CS Dept. page@swan.ulowell.edu ulowell!page