Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!husc6!necntc!ames!ucbcad!zen!hoser.berkeley.edu!bryce From: bryce@hoser.berkeley.edu (Bryce Nesbitt) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga Subject: Re: Some stupid beginner questions Message-ID: <4343@zen.berkeley.edu> Date: Wed, 14-Oct-87 11:54:58 EDT Article-I.D.: zen.4343 Posted: Wed Oct 14 11:54:58 1987 Date-Received: Fri, 16-Oct-87 01:47:05 EDT References: <359UD140469@NDSUVM1> Sender: news@zen.berkeley.edu Organization: Center Tapped Solids, Inc. Lines: 91 Summary: some stupid answers and how to get cables. In article <359UD140469@NDSUVM1> UD140469@NDSUVM1.BITNET writes: > > Upgradablity: I know the 500 has an expansion slot, but just what can be > done with it? Anything that can be done on the A1000. This includes 68020 plugs ins, 8 Megabytes or so of memory and other goodies. It is *not* as good as the A2000 in this respect, but is servicable. I suspect that someone will come out with a Zorro II card cage for the A500. (Zorro II is the dezignation for A2000 slots). This will give you everything but the A2000's video slot and the CPU slot. More chip memory on the A500 is a drop in the chip and hit a jumper operation, as soon as the chip become available. > More RAM or another disk: Which do you find more useful--1 meg of RAM or > an external drive? The memory. Then get "VD0:" and use it like another disk drive. (VD0: is the shareware recoverable ram disk from ASDG Inc.) It's on a fish disk or three and every 2nd BBS in the country. > Lastly, MCC Pascal--is this as bad on > the Amiga as it is on the ST? Probably. Anything from Metacomco is to approched with care. (Though V11 of the Assember is not too shabby, nor is the "disasm" from the toolkit disk) > Mac Disks: Is there anyway to get the Amiga to read Mac disks (preferably > a non-hardware method)? It has been done by at least two people, in protoype. I do not know of a product you can purchase at the moment to do it, however. Try the DOS-2-DOS people. > my ST's Magic Sac and run Mac software!). Rummor mill says that Magic Sac will be available for the Amiga, and run more software as well (Due to some Amiga<->ST<->Mac hardware differences that work out better on the Amiga). Don't know if it will read Mac disks directly, but there is a good chance of it. (*Forget* about copy protection, however) > PD Stuff: After buying the system and one development language, I'll have > very little (read: $0) left over to buy any other software. > What's a good source to get inexpensive (i.e. $3-$6 per disk) > PD software? The Fred Fish library has about 102 disks. It is availabe everywhere, just bring blanks. Or if that fails, you can contact Mr. Fish himself: The per disk fee as of July 1987 is as follows: 1 to 9 disks $6 per disk 10 to 49 disks $5 per disk 50 or more $4 per disk Catalog Disk There is no duplication fee for the catalog disk. To receive the latest available catalog at any time, simply return the original disk, or send a blank disk, to: Fred Fish Catalog disk update 1346 West 10th Place Tempe, Arizona 85281 USA (602) 921-1113 (Sorry, I can only return calls collect.) Please enclose a preaddressed mailing label to affix to our return mailing envelope, and sufficient postage for 2 ounces First Class mail (currently 39 cents but sure to go up again soon). > Also, I'll ask my cable question again--anyone know of a place that sells a >cable that would let me hook an A500 up to an Atari SC1224 RGB monitor? Try CABLE TO GO 1-800-826-7904 or in OH 1-800-826-0958. |\ /| . Ack! (NAK, ENQ, SYN) {o O} . bryce@hoser.berkeley.EDU -or- ucbvax!hoser!bryce (") U "It [the Amiga] is the machine the home market has been waiting for. It's a computer without flaws." - David Seuss, President Spinnaker Software