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Conference hydra::amiga_v1

Title:	AMIGA NOTES
Notice:	Join us in the NEW conference - HYDRA::AMIGA_V2
Moderator:	HYDRA::MOORE

Created:	Sat Apr 26 1986
Last Modified:	Wed Feb 05 1992
Last Successful Update:	Fri Jun 06 1997
Number of topics:	5378
Total number of notes:	38326

1376.0. "Max Is Back!" by NAC::PLOUFF (Beautiful downtown Littleton) Mon Apr 25 1988 11:06

    MAX IS BACK Part I --
    
    Max Headroom is back for at least one episode on the ABC network.
    In the Boston area, it's on Channel 5, Thursday at 8 PM.  I suspect
    this is a temporary "un-cancellation" caused by the Hollywood writers'
    strike.  This week's episode is supposed to be one not shown in
    the original network run.
    
    
    MAX IS BACK Part II --

    Following his successful non-appearance, Max Toy, President of
    Commodore, is scheduled to finally appear on "The Computer Show"
    this coming Sunday evening.  Toy will demonstrate the Amiga 2000.
    The Computer Show is seen in the Boston area Sunday night at 10:30
    on channel 27 (Worcester).
    
    Last night's show was only half an hour.   Has it been cut back
    or does WHLL-TV show only the second half?

T.R	Title	User	Personal Name	Date	Lines
1376.1	I'll believe it when I see it...	LEDS::ACCIARDI		`Mon Apr 25 1988 11:39`	9
	If Max Toy cancels out again, I'll personally drive down to Westchester and punch him in the nose. Talk about CBM shooting themselves in the foot... The last two times he canceled out they could have easily found some other mucky-muck to take his place. Ed.
1376.2		PLDVAX::SMCAFEE	Steve McAfee	`Mon Apr 25 1988 14:26`	9
	re: The Computer Show... A couple of weeks ago they announced they were going to a half-hour format. They are trying to get picked up by a major network and no one was interested in a full hour. The really unfortunate part is that they dropped their phone-in segment. It seemed like a lot of amiga owners were able to get through on that line... - steve
1376.3		BAGELS::BRANNON	Dave Brannon	`Mon Apr 25 1988 19:48`	13
	I wonder why Max Toy finally agreed to show up? Could it be.... OS 1.3 will be available soon? The lack of the ability to boot from a harddisk is one of those little things that the "industry" analysts could have fun with. Maybe he will demo the wonders of desktop publishing with the new printer drivers, etc. What happened to the original sales/marketing folks that were going to be doing the original presentation, way back long ago? Why is it Max or nothing at all? -dave
1376.4	just curious	WJG::GUINEAU		`Tue Apr 26 1988 08:33`	6
	> The lack of the ability to boot from a harddisk is one of those little Does ST and the MAC's allow this (I'm sure Mac must)? John
1376.5	ST can.	PRNSYS::LOMICKAJ	Jeff Lomicka	`Tue Apr 26 1988 11:21`	9
	The ST can boot from a hard disk so long as the hard disk is compatible with Atari's. (Of course, this is done by using Supra's hard disk formatting and boot block writing sofware instead of Atari's.) Most commercial ST add-on hard disks are compatible. The only flaw in this is that it starts up the floppy drive motors looking for something to boot from, and if there is no media in the floppy drives, it never gets around to shutting the floppy motors off. Placing a blank floppy in the drive is sufficient to appease it.
1376.6	100A's had this trouble	DPDMAI::ANDERSONA		`Thu Apr 28 1988 22:21`	12
	The Rainbow 100A had the same problem. The inability to boot a hard disk. Some enterprising young hacker came up with a fix. He wrote a program to replace the floppy boot program with a Winchester boot program. Thus when you booted to this floppy the rom routine happliy read in a winchester program and off you went. Something simular could be done for the people that won't be getting that special chip for their Amiga disk interface. I say this but I am still new to the Amiga any comments? Alan
1376.7	same idea, only in "ram"...ie floppy	MVCAD3::BAEDER	D. Scott DTN 237-2961 SHR1-3/E19	`Fri Apr 29 1988 12:59`	7
	this is the basic idea we (I?) use now...basically use the floppy to 1.mount the hard disk, 2. use the assign (or the prog that does them all) command to switch to the hard disk, then run a script out of the hard drive...if you build the floppy correctly...ie such that the files it needs are copied onto a blank disk in order (don't forget the libs, etc) the time isn't too much longer than running all the stuff off the HD anyway!