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From: andy@amiga.UUCP
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Subject: Re: Words for The Wise!
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Date: Fri, 11-Jul-86 21:05:41 EDT
Article-I.D.: amiga.1406
Posted: Fri Jul 11 21:05:41 1986
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Reply-To: andy@peabody.UUCP (Andy Finkel)
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In article <1378@garfield.UUCP> joseph@garfield.UUCP (Joseph Dawson) writes:
>Don't get an Amiga!!!

Sigh.  I'm going to answer this anyway, even though *I* don't appreciate
either the tone of voice, or the attitude.

>I bought my Amiga over two Months ago. I was Planing on making a BBS
>on the computer.  So the first thing I do is spend $120 on a set of 
>three BOOKS. Then I try to set up a printer cable by using the books
>and the printer manual. The cable did not work as the book was all wrong.
>None of the pins were right! 

You might check "Intro to Amiga, page 7-12 and 7-13", for descriptions
of the pinouts of the parallel and serial port. 

>This Book was made by commodore and is not worth the paper it is printed on.
>Before I can make My BBS I need a few BASIC! (Not C!!!) peeks to check 
>to see if the modem is ringing and to check for carrier.

If you really want out turn out a decent BBS, you really should consider
learning another language.  BASIC is fine for some things, but really
doesn't give that much structure & modularity for large projects.
But you may not consider those important.  Perhaps the speed improvement
you would experience would be important to you.

>
>I used the same book but in the HEX address it has R's all over them.
>Now as I am only a Basic Programmer and not some Tech. from Amiga, I don't
>know what R's are in Hex. 
>I am from a Sorta little City up here in Newfoundland, and we only go
>from A to F in HEX. (NO R's)

Well, the R in those numbers refer to a register number (from 0-F) in
the 8520.

>For the LAST time PLEASE TELL
>me how to check for CARRIER
>and RING from AMIGABasic.

the port is at $BFD000   

bit 7   *DTR
bit 6   *RTS 
bit 5   *CD
bit 4   *CTS
bit 3   *DSR
bit 2   SEL
bit 1   POUT
bit 0	BUSY

*Active Low
(its written a little confusingly, but its in the Hardware Manual, 
 Appendix D page 1 and Appendix E page 8)

You will have to PEEK() it to get the value.


>And were can I get some GOOD
>books on this computer.
>
>Joseph Dawson

You also might want to consider getting a good terminal program, one without
the capitalization problems that your current one obviously has.

BTW, I really was tempted to answer you with comments in kind.  I'm didn't,
though, and just held myself (mostly) to answering your questions.
Next time, however.....

				andy
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