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| 2983.1 | MachII V2.6 Now Available | DICKNS::MACDONALD | WA1OMM 7.093/145.05/223.58 AX.25 | Thu Oct 05 1989 12:44 | 2 |
| MACHII26.LZH is now available in dickns::user:[macdonald.amiga.new]
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| 2983.2 | MachII or Qmouse? | DECWET::DAVIS | midiot without an Octapad | Thu Oct 05 1989 20:03 | 4 |
| Anyone care to explain the differences between MachII and Qmouse. Is
one "better" than the other or best for certain applications?
mark (?)
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| 2983.3 | Suit yourself | FRAMBO::BALZER | Christian Balzer DTN:785-1029 | Fri Oct 06 1989 06:15 | 13 |
| Re: .2
Mach has nice user interface and more functions than Qmouse. However
Qmouse is much smaller and less (none found 'till today) bugridden
than Mach.
Try out both plus DMouse 1.20 and decide for yourself. If you can
live with (IMHO) Machs braindead mouse acceleration scheme and don't
run into a rising number of Gurus, it certainly offers the most
bangs for the bucks... ;-)
This monthly MachII bashing was brought to you by:
<CB>
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| 2983.4 | MachII & QMouse | DICKNS::MACDONALD | WA1OMM 7.093/145.05/223.58 AX.25 | Fri Oct 06 1989 09:57 | 22 |
| >> Try out both plus DMouse 1.20 and decide for yourself. If you can
>> live with (IMHO) Machs braindead mouse acceleration scheme and don't
>> run into a rising number of Gurus, it certainly offers the most
>> bangs for the bucks... ;-)
I haven't run into any Gurus with V2.5 of MachII. But you are right
about his mouse accelerator for V2.6 - ugh! I wonder why he did that?
QMouse has a similar accelerator scheme, but at least Lyman put in a
threshhold variable, which is apparently missing in Brian's
implementation.
Brian has also decided to make it impossible to run V2.6 from the
startup-sequence. The foolish animation at the start now requires a
mouse click to start the program. Most of the graphics are stuck in at
the end of the program. Newzapping the right areas might help alleviate
some of the pain!
QMouse is a good deal smaller than MachII, and is especially useful for
anyone with limited memory (like stock machines). It also lacks the
setup memory. Qualifiers must be added to a command line in your
startup-sequence (no big deal really).
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| 2983.5 | Amigas are still the best, even though... | MQOFS::DESROSIERS | Lets procrastinate....tomorrow | Fri Oct 06 1989 12:27 | 12 |
| In another note, I reported that WordPerfect would bring the GURU
when exiting the program with MachII running (only since adding
a fat agnus), well I tried Qmouse, and IT does the same too!
The GURU combination is: WP + fat lady + mouse accelerator program
This works: WP + fat lady
Oh well, sometimes multitasking CAN be bothersome.
Jean
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| 2983.6 | | LODGE::LEN | David M. Len | Sun Oct 08 1989 15:53 | 6 |
| re .5
Are you using the auto-activate window feature of QMouse? I had to
disable that feature because it created problems in WordPerfect. I was
wondering if it the problem is running QMouse, or maybe just one
particular feature that causes the Guru.
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| 2983.7 | | TALLIS::MCAFEE | Steve McAfee | Sun Oct 08 1989 21:46 | 20 |
| I don't have any problems between WP and QMOUSE. My qmouse.cfg
follows:
-A3 ; acceleration factor
-B ; enable window to back
-CM495 ; enable clock/memory at column 495
-K2 ; 2 clicks for window to front
-T3 ; acceleration threshold of 3
-P3
-V10000 ; stacksize for spawned CLI's
"-ENewWSH" ; <Left Amiga><Esc> for NewCLI
"-H12=Run c:ed" ; <Left Amiga><E> for editor
My WP help screen shows V4.1.9 dated 8/10/88. Recent USENET postings
say there is an update to WP available. These are usually free if you
just give them a call with your registration number.
regards,
steve
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| 2983.8 | | DICKNS::MACDONALD | WA1OMM 7.093/145.05/223.58 AX.25 | Mon Oct 09 1989 10:05 | 8 |
| RE: .6
The "sun mouse" feature can causes problems with some programs that
requires multiple windows (like Professional Page). So I leave it off.
Doesn't really matter what program has the "sun mouse" feature.
-Paul
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