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Re: Amiga 25th Anniversary Wallpaper
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Posted on: 2010/7/1 22:45
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@DBAlex Quote: DBAlex wrote:
@nbache
Hey, yeah I can try and make a version for that type of monitor... I didn't know what sizes to make the wallpaper so made a super-big widescreen to try and cover all WS monitors and the same for standard monitors. Cool! Quote: Personally I use the WS version on my 1680x1050 monitor scaled. Oh, right, I just checked those resolution numbers a bit closer, and both 2560?1600 and 1680?1050 *are* in fact 16:10 resolutions, only 1920?1080 is 16:9. So I should be fine scaling the biggest one to my monitor. Will try that. Quote: And about the vertical pixels - I totally agree. I started seeing that trend coming in about 2004-5 in laptop screens and then PC... I dunno why, I prefer vertical resolution much more except for when viewing videos/DVDs (rare for me).
Infact I want to try and get a WS screen monitor (Something like this) that allows portrait mode eventually... then I can have a regular monitor and the portrait one for documents/coding 
Alex. Or you could get one that can turn 90 degrees like the one (HP) I use at work. That one's unfortunately only 1680?1050, but I sometimes turn it when I want to read some PDF doc or similar, then I can comfortably read a full A4 page at a time. Best regards, Niels
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Re: Picture Datatype DitherHiColour variable.
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Posted on: 2010/7/1 21:56
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@xenic Quote:
xenic wrote:
The point is that OS 4.x picture.datype is looking for the "picture" directory to find the "DitherHiColour" variable and that the directory has been changed to a file named "picture". Either picture.datatype needs to be changed not to look for the DitherHiColour variable or the picture file needs to be changed back to a directory.
I believe that the DitherHiColour variable/file was and is supposed to be inside the picture directory. I would guess it's a glitch in some installation program, either the OS4.1 update [1|2] installer or some third-party installer, which accidentally created the file instead. Best regards, Niels
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Re: Amiga 25th Anniversary Wallpaper
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Posted on: 2010/6/30 23:09
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@DBAlex Looks very nice -- simple and elegant. A bit dark for my taste, but I know many like that. Quote: The first is for widescreen monitors, (2560x1600,1920x1080,1680x1050 etc): Hmm, mine is a 16:10 (1920?1200), I don't suppose you could make one to fit that? I guess I could just take the 2560?1600 one and cut and scale it, but it would get a bit cramped in the sides. (Don't know how people can live with those modern movie monitors, I can never get enough vertical pixels for real work.  ) Best regards, Niels
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Re: Eyetech logo?
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Posted on: 2010/6/26 11:04
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@cha05e90 Quote:
cha05e90 wrote:
@Mason
Excellent! Thanks!
(hmm...a rather simple logo style... )
I always felt its simplicity was in line with how the guy behind it, Alan Redhouse, came across. I've met him and heard him speak at a couple of events, and he always came across as honest, down-to-earth and calm, while still committed to the "cause". If things had turned out differently, we might still have benefitted from having him and his company around as part of today's Amiga community. Best regards, Niels
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Re: Another Amiga Mention on the Web.
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Posted on: 2010/6/23 22:57
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@OldAmigan Quote:
OldAmigan wrote:
@nbache
Also confirmed. Ran well, too.
And although it was only for a few moments on your way out, it was nice to meet you, Nils.
Yes, likewise! There were a number of people I would have liked some more time to chat with, but we were afraid we would get caught in traffic on the way down to Heathrow. The stupid thing is, once we were underway, we realized that we had forgotten about our decision from that morning not to set our watches to BST, so we had in fact left the place one hour earlier than planned.  Best regards, Niels
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Re: Pictures/Video of VCF Event needed
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Posted on: 2010/6/22 23:13
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@Rogue Well, it's not so easy sometimes, you're usually busy tinkering with some interesting technology a lot of the time, so if we want a picture of that, we get your back as a bonus . Best regards, Niels
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Re: Another Amiga Mention on the Web.
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Posted on: 2010/6/22 23:08
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@rockape Quote: I can confirm that. I saw it running AmigaOS 4.1 nicely during my visit Sunday. Best regards, Niels
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Re: What have you learned at the Anniversary?
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Posted on: 2010/6/22 22:54
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@Antique Quote:
Antique wrote:
@amigakit
But whn i ordered from germany, they took -19% vat on they equipment. And i had to add taxes here instead. Is that so from england aswell???
I think it depends on the store and their annual turnover. I believe if that is under a certain amount (maybe it is counted per country they export to?), they can choose to use their local tax rates like for domestic customers instead of exporting tax-free and having the customer pay his own country's tax. Or is it the other way around? Either way, of course this is only true for the EU plus associated countries (of which I believe Norway is one). Best regards, Niels
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Re: What have you learned at the Anniversary?
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Posted on: 2010/6/22 22:49
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@Outcast Quote:
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@ Thread
At the people calling the Marquee a tent, consider the following.
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In many languages (mine is one of them), a tent (telt, Zelt, ...) can be both a small nylon or cotton thing used for hiking or camping, and a bigger one like what you British call a marquee. So you shouldn't necessarily take the use of the word as derogatory, it's just a matter of language differences. As for frowning upon the use of said marquee instead of a hall or other indoors facility, I think there might also be some cultural differences to take into account. I know you British are very fond of usng such marquees for many varied events, also more "posh" ones. E.g. the Queen's tea parties, I believe? And I've also often seen them used for village f?tes and big manor parties etc. It's (more or less) a British thing, we don't use them quite as much in mainland Europe, especially not the northern parts. And that might also be part of the reason why some of us think "cheap" automatically. Best regards, Niels
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Re: Amiga Websites
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Posted on: 2010/6/16 21:50
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@djrikki Frames have been supported by most/all Amiga browsers for many years. And even if somebody is using a very old IBrowse or whatever without frames support, it is quite easy to cater for those as well (like I do on http://nbache.dk/). CSS is nicely supported at least in OWB and has been so for several years now. Javascript to an extent has also been working in several existing browsers, but of course not everything. Still, the most important thing for look and feel is CSS, and OWB scores very well there already. So I don't think there's any reason to expect massive changes to Amiga sites only because of Timberwolf arriving on the scene. Best regards, Niels
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Re: Wordworth
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Posted on: 2010/6/1 20:47
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@JosDuchIt No, the Classic Amiga keyboard interface is quite different from others. You would need a PCI card called CatWeasel and a driver for OS4 for it. Once you have that, all you need is to select the "Amiga keyboard" checkbox in Input Prefs and the correct keyboard layout, and you should have it working in all system-compliant programs. I used to use an A4000 keyboard under OS4 with a CatWeasel 3 on my AmigaOne XE, but I have grown more accustomed to the PC keyboard with the extra keys by now - and it saves a PCI slot not to use the CatWeasel . BTW, I think there were also some physical differences between the plugs for A2000 and A4000 keyboards, but they were quite easy to overcome with an adapter. Best regards, Niels
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Re: Sys:Internet drawers.
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Posted on: 2010/5/26 21:29
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@JosDuchIt
In the Internet drawer, you have the program Dialer, which doesn't have a tool icon of its own, but is used as default tool for the three project icons New Connection, Edit Connection, and Open Connection. Dialer will log its actions etc. to files within these drawers. But the log files do not have icons per default, so you need to select Window->Show->All files in the WB menu for each of the drawers to see the files.
I'm not sure exactly what gets logged where and when; I don't have any use for Dialer myself, as I'm permanently connected via my LAN.
Best regards,
Niels
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Re: OS 4.1 Bug Report
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Posted on: 2010/5/9 23:00
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@mrupp Quote: mrupp wrote:
Alright, let's try this:
- Open Locale and change to the 'Country' tab.
- Scroll down to 'Thailand'
- On my system, the column 'Local name' shows squares instead of thai characters. What about yours? You need to have a TTF font installed which contains those characters. I "borrowed" a copy of the Arial Unicode MS font from my wife's old Windows PC (she is not using the old one any more, so I guess it's not a breach of copyright). There is also a freely available font out there which should do the trick, I don't recall the name, but it is mentioned in OWB's documentation. Remember to use Typemanager to install it properly, and then activate the following tooltype in the Prefs/Locale icon: FONTNAME="Arial Unicode MS" (or corresponding if you use the other font). Quote: Er... as english is not my native language... 'vanilla' means smooth? "Vanilla" is slang for "normal", "unchanged", "basic", "virgin". Best regards, Niels
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Re: Some OS4.1 bugs
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Posted on: 2010/5/4 21:36
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@ChrisH Quote: ChrisH wrote:
@salass00
Rather than argue about how many angels you can fit on a pinhead, I tried with & withOUT the FORCE option, when a .info file was missing. Turns out that *having* the FORCE option is MUCH better: A matter of taste, I suppose. Quote: Without FORCE it opens a full-screen shell during booting to show an error message, and snapshotting never works permanently (since no link is ever created). This is what I'd prefer and recommend, since it shows me explicitly that I didn't achieve what I set out to do and lets me fix it. Imagine, for a more obvious example, that the link did not point to the def_ram.info, but to some other icon file which I wanted to use explicitly for this ram disk. Then if the link is made (allowed and camouflaged by FORCE) to e.g. a wrong, non-existant filename, I would see it falling back to the default icon instead of showing my chosen icon. Quote: With the FORCE option there is no error message, the RAM disk has the expected (default) icon, and snapshotting DOES permanently work! Are you sure snapshotting works? I can't see how it could, since the unresolved link points to no file which could persist the position. Admittedly, I haven't tried it. (As Knuth once said (paraphrased): Beware of bugs in the above code. I have not tested it, only proven it to be correct.) Best regards, Niels
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Re: Some OS4.1 bugs
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Posted on: 2010/5/3 21:10
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@salass00 Quote:
salass00 wrote:
@ChrisH
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MakeLink RAM:Disk.info S:RAM_Disk.inf SOFT
Better make that:
C:MakeLink RAM:Disk.info ENVARC:Sys/def_ram.info SOFT FORCE
I alredy have this command in User-Startup BTW.
Then again, since the def_ram.info file already exists (or at least is expected to), the FORCE parameter is not a good idea. From the MakeLink docs: Quote: When creating a soft link, the link destination should exist, and MAKELINK will consider it an error if this is not the case. However, it is sometimes necessary to create a soft link before the link destination itself has been made available. In such a case, the FORCE keyword will cause MAKELINK to create the soft link regardless of whether the destination already exists or not. So using FORCE, you risk creating a link to nothing useful without being alerted to the fact. Best regards, Niels
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Re: Hi I am Rats
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Posted on: 2010/4/26 22:39
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@Rats Hi, and welcome to Amigans! Every time I see this thread in the list, with its subject line of "Hi I am Rats", I can't help being reminded of some famous lines from 007 Diamonds Are Forever: "Hi, I'm Plenty!" JB, after a quick visual check: "But of course you are!" Anyway, have fun here, and see you at Bletchley Park! Best regards, Niels
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Re: Interest in a new picture/album browser?
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Posted on: 2010/4/25 23:19
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@ChrisH Quote:
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@nbache
When I say <> I really mean ,. so I think that should be ok on most keyboards?
Ah, so you are using the raw keypresses? Yes, the comma and full stop keys are convenient for this, at least on the Danish keyboard (they are the two keys to the right of M, needing no qualifiers). And I think most keyboards have them similarly placed. Quote: As for alternatives to [], you will have to make some suggestions since I have no clue to the layout of international keyboards. Again, if you are talking about some raw keys, i.e. you will be reacting to the same physical keys regardless of the keymap chosen in Input prefs, then I suppose it is not a problem. Then the only problem would be for your users to figure out which keys you really meant . I don't remember exactly the British keyboard layout. Are you referring to the two keys to the right of the L key? On a Danish keyboard, they bear the markings ? and ? - two Danish national letters. Or maybe the keys above them, to the right of the P? Those are ? and " (a dead key with accent trema/diaresis as unshifted function). The square brackets are placed on the 8 and 9 keys in the upper row, requiring an Alt qualifier. But you probably won't be reacting to those keys? (All the above is with a Danish PC keyboard on the A1; an Amiga keyboard will be slightly different yet again.) A less confusing choice for this (folder back/forward) control could be + and - on the numeric keypad. They will always be in the same place, and plus/minus wouldn't be completely out of place for something like this. Best regards, Niels
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Re: Interest in a new picture/album browser?
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Posted on: 2010/4/25 1:56
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@ChrisH Quote: If you want to switch to the previous/next image, then use the <> keys. If you want to switch to the previous/next folder, then use the [] keys. On many national keyboards, the [] need qualifiers (e.g. Alt), and at least one of <> needs Shift. Could you maybe choose keys which don't need qualifiers for such essential navigation? Best regards, Niels
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Re: Interest in a new picture/album browser?
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Posted on: 2010/4/22 20:40
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@ChrisH
Sounds nice!
I'm mostly using MysticView (yeah, even on OS4). For me, the ideal way to view pictures is to get them (optionally) automatically scaled to the current screen size, while keeping aspect (even on a wide screen monitor, please), and to be able to browse forwards and backwards through e.g. a drawerful by simple keystrokes. Loading speed is naturally also important, especially when viewing 14 Mpixel JPEGs from my digital SLR; MysticView is not exactly shining in that department, of course (being an old 68k app and all).
On any PCs I have the misfortune to use, I always install IrfanView as one of the first things; it gives me the same (or better) feeling. In addition, it has lots of useful features like screen grabbing, simple picture manipulation etc.
So something that can work much like these programs would be my wish.
Best regards,
Niels
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Re: using grep
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Posted on: 2010/4/12 23:37
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@Lio
I've got an earlier version of (I believe) the same grep:
$ grep -V
grep (GNU grep) 2.5
I can e.g. in my S:Arexx dir do "grep date *.rexx" and get all the lines containing "date" in the ARexx scripts with a .rexx extension, like you'd expect. And this is the regular AmigaShell, not ABCShell. Maybe there's a problem with the newer 2.5.4?
But I agree with the suggestion of using Search instead. Works fine.
Best regards,
Niels
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