iain.bennett@canremote.uucp (IAIN BENNETT) (09/30/89)
I have several questions and answers I thought I would put in 1 message to cut down on costs and things like that... (Q) How much were Amiga 500's at the Commodore show in Phili? The Commodore Show up here will be coming soon, and I was wondering what the prices down there were. If possible, could you convert them to Canadian Dollars? Thanx About that person who was complaining about Commodoore softwrae The answer is, if software developers made software, games I'm really hitting at, that worked with a 1764, 1581 and other hardware, people might have to go out and buy these pieces of hardware for the game to work. Also, your computer does not have 640k. That 512k is only for use as a disk drive. I have a 1764, and I wish there was more productivity software for it, but the games would have a big problem. The REUs are only for use as a diskdrive. I would like to thank that person who wrote the message about the 1670 moddem. I needed it for my BBS program I was writting. Thank You Iain Bennett * QNet 1.04a1: MCS BBS, Milton, On., Canada, (416)878-5935 (19200 HST)
joe@cbmvax.UUCP (Joe O'Hara - QA) (10/06/89)
In article <89100219291040@masnet.uucp> iain.bennett@canremote.uucp (IAIN BENNETT) writes: > >About that person who was complaining about Commodoore softwrae > >The answer is, if software developers made software, games I'm really >hitting at, that worked with a 1764, 1581 and other hardware, people >might have to go out and buy these pieces of hardware for the game to >work. Also, your computer does not have 640k. That 512k is only for >use as a disk drive. I have a 1764, and I wish there was more >productivity software for it, but the games would have a big problem. >The REUs are only for use as a diskdrive. The RAM Expanders can be used in other ways besides a disk drive. The processor cannot access the area directly, so programs can't execute from this space. However, application software can use the REU as a swap space for executables or as extended space for data (word processing documents, telecom buffers).
jgreco@csd4.csd.uwm.edu (Joe Greco) (10/06/89)
In comp.sys.cbm article <8104@cbmvax.UUCP>, joe@cbmvax.UUCP (Joe O'Hara - QA) wrote:
]In article <89100219291040@masnet.uucp> iain.bennett@canremote.uucp
] (IAIN BENNETT) writes:
]>
]>About that person who was complaining about Commodoore softwrae
]>
]>The answer is, if software developers made software, games I'm really
]>hitting at, that worked with a 1764, 1581 and other hardware, people
]>might have to go out and buy these pieces of hardware for the game to
]>work. Also, your computer does not have 640k. That 512k is only for
]>use as a disk drive. I have a 1764, and I wish there was more
]>productivity software for it, but the games would have a big problem.
]>The REUs are only for use as a diskdrive.
]
]The RAM Expanders can be used in other ways besides a disk drive. The processor
]cannot access the area directly, so programs can't execute from this space.
]However, application software can use the REU as a swap space for executables
]or as extended space for data (word processing documents, telecom buffers).
I would have to agree. As a matter of fact, it is rather frustrating that I
am unable to use it for both at once.... (and I cannot run RAMDOS 4.3,
since it's vector installation wipes out some other vectors I need).
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