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From: Jan.Lucenius@tel.vtt.fi (Jan Lucenius)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: various amiga questions
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Date: 27 Jul 90 08:55:46 GMT
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Because lack of time and bad manuals I have to ask these questions:

1) AmigaBasic (Extras) seems to work improperly with the memory expansion;
   the edit functions do not work. With only 512 kB you can't use more than
   four (I think) colours and also otherwise 1 M is needed, so is there any
   solution to this malfunction ?

2) If you in a basic program make use of the mouse, menues etc. and during
   the program is running needs to use an other application (calculator,
   editor etc.) where you also need the mouse. How do you tell the basic
   program not to interpret the mouse buttons and movements before you again
   activate the basic window to which you return. Do the window(0) and
   /or window(1) functions help ? (What's the difference between them)

3) What is the upper limit of Amiga 500's internal memory (If my knowledge
   is right, plugging in four extra memory chips in the empty places should
   be equivalent with the 512 kB memory cards sold, in a Finnish newspaper,
   however, it said that both of them can't be used). I have however seen
   notices about 1.5 MB memory cards.

4) Is the 500 compatible with the 2000 etc. if expanded with the expansion
   board. Is there any curcuit diagram or/and description how to build that
   kind of expansion board published ? Would then the same software and
   hardware fit for the 500 as for the bigger models ?

5) Is there a CAD software for designing and calculating electronic curcuits
   for the Amiga ?

6) is there any hypercard like software for the amiga ?

7) Which compiler is best ? Do anyone have an integrated software developing
   environment like the one of the interpreting AmigaBasic or TurboC for the
   PC's ?

8) What do you need to get additional sounds for Deluxe Music ?

9) When you have only one disk drive the copying of even small files require
   a lot of disk changes, is there any other way to overcome this problem
   than to copy first to the RAM disk and then to the destination disk.

10) Can you make the disk I/O faster by addbuffers and stack commands? If so
   which is the optimum for a 1M machine ?

11) Is it possible to change the font used in WB, CLI, or in programs without
    making changes into the program itself ? How ? Well, I know there are
    font editors, but I don't know how to make use of a smaller font other
    than in text processing systems etc.

12) I bought seven PD disks (Captain Nemo or something like that). Unfortun-
    ately they have their own startup sequence and even seem to have some
    different disk format, because I have not managed to use them from a
    noramal WB or CLI environment neither vice versa. Does anyone know how
    to make use of them ? Because if you have to reboot the system, then only
    the games are "useful".

13) The disks mentioned above also was claimed to be 100% virus free, however,
    the virus detectors supported with them tells me that this would not be
    the case, and also that (at least some) of my other disks would be infec-
    ted. Shall this notice be taken seriously or is it due to the different(?)
    disk formats ? Or are the PD virus detectors of no value?