Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!wuarchive!uunet!orca!javelin.sim.es.com!blgardne From: blgardne@javelin.sim.es.com (Blaine Gardner) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware Subject: Re: A3000 troubles, OS 2.0 troubles, and then some. Message-ID: <1991May9.141219.1052@javelin.sim.es.com> Date: 9 May 91 14:12:19 GMT References: <20299@cbmvax.commodore.com> <190a9b10.ARN006a@nesbbx.UUCP> <1991May08.220526.28831@ariel.unm.edu> Reply-To: blgardne@javelin.sim.es.com Organization: Evans & Sutherland Computer Corporation Lines: 70 kholland@hydra.unm.edu (Kiernan Holland) writes: >I run TAD, which will not work on OS 2.0 (the art department, acronym). I don't have The Art Department, but Perry Kivolowitz of ASDG says it works fine under 2.0. >Xoper (PD) will not work. Xoper works just fine. > The Text cut&paste feature leaves much >to be desired (snipit, PD, can do better under 1.3). True, I run Snap under 2.0. >The new look is alright, but the compatibility problems are >numerous. For instance, I can't run Intuitracker (NoiseTracker >module player) while working on a terminal program (use >N-comm, Sounds like broken software to me, you can't blame that on 2.0, blame it on the program's author. > wish I could use VLT but it will not work with the >system period). I've been using VLT under 2.0 for almost a year now, it works fine, and has over several revisions. > Where is there a utility on WB 2.0 that does >what such programs as fixdisk will do, only disk doctor >will do it (but that isn't too great). FixDisk has supposedly been improved, but I still don't trust it. DiskSalv is still the best, but doesn't fix in place. > There needs to be a better >way of hooking that power switch to the button in front of the >3000 (it fell off the second day I had the system, then I had to repair >it). No problem here with that in a year and the system has been moved between cities several times. >The monitor failed on the first day and the system software >was not properly loaded. The A1950 is garbage, but that's what I've come to expect from CBM monitors. You're far better of with something from NEC, Sony, etc. >I couldn't find anyway to suspend the >way I wanted my directories to come up (name, Icon, etc). "Snapshot" from the WB menu. >PKAZIP (PD/SW) will not work under 2.0 (note: this is the only >existing ZIP compression/uncompression program available for >amiga's, most all the BBS's localy will not accept .arc or .zoo). Again, a defective program, yell at Phil Katz and Co. to fix their broken software, and while you're at it, get them to do a CLI version. The standard around here and on BIX is LHArc, which works fine on all systems. -- Blaine Gardner @ Evans & Sutherland 580 Arapeen Drive, SLC, Utah 84108 blgardne@javelin.sim.es.com BIX: blaine_g DoD #46 My other motorcycle is a Quadracer. FJ1200 Now I know why they are called BUTTERflys!