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Some Wave News. Maurice Randall continues to work on the Wave and all his other projects.. how I ask?? :) Anyway click the link below to take you right there, it certainly looks exciting. JOS/WiNGs tips. Geoff Sullivan has added some very helpfull information fort he "Novice/New" JOS/WiNGs user on installing and setting up the ".app" folders needed for Mail,Qsend and Ajirc. **Please Note** To use up/downloading in WiNGs successfully, ie using FTP etc, I recommend you set your term -b no higher than 38k4** I have also fixed a few bad links and some cosmetic fixes have been done to these pages.. again please report any broken links! Thanks :) Colin 01/12/2002... New Wave Fonts. Donald Zerbe has just finished creating some really excellent new Fonts for use with The Wave, below is tiny preview in Gif format for non Wave visitors ;) but you really must check out Donalds Site to see more of them. The link has also been added to my Wave Page.
I hope in time to add some more of these New Fonts/Icons,
to my pages :)
New WiNGs Beta release. Over the last few weeks or so, some work has been done with WiNGs and I would recommend anyone who wishes to try this "masterpiece" out to go and grab the latest Beta "install1124.zip" and of course check up on all the latest News on Gregs Site as he has also been very very busy programing and writing some really cool Utils. Colin 18/11/2002... WheelsSC... a New Page added. Well after many many months of anticipation, Maurice Randall posted on the Homestead list some very exciting news on the next generation of Wheels known at the moment as (WheelsSC). So I have started a New Section for this which can be reached from my the Index page, but while your here click the link below and check out all the very cool new stuff that it will have. New Toolbox coming soon.
Colin. 10/11/2002... geoSpecific - The PD/Shareware CD is now ready. Bruce Thomas writes: This CD has all of the GEOS PD/Shareware software that I have collected over the past 14.5 years on it. At present it is over 38 MBs in size with D64 (mostly) and D81 images of the disks. I have included the GeoWorld magazine disks, the GeoManiacs Collection (compiled by Gaelyne Gasson), the GeoMetrix library, the GeoVision International PD disks, plus software from Bo Zimmerman, George Wells, Mystic Jim, Nate Fielder, Paul Murdaugh and many others. Also included are my columns and articles from publications such as The UnderGround, GEOS Publication, Commodore World, LoadStar Letter, GO64! and others. Along with the articles are accompanying screenshots and some articles also have programs, files and demos to go along with them. All together there are over 45 articles on a wide variety of GEOS topics. Information regarding the CD is available on the CUE website: follow the geoSpecific CD link) and will let you see what the CD contains along with getting a preview of the navigation system of the CD (the files online are a subset of the Index System on the CD). Thanks a lot and enGEOy! Bruce Thomas
New version of PuZip (1.12)
[http://www.cs.tut.fi/~albert/Dev/puzip/] -Pasi 08/09/2002... geoCanvas under Wheels now available Bruce Thomas writes: If you've been reading the GTM list messages lately you know that Todd Elliott as successfully patched GeoCanvas to run under Wheels 128 in 80 column mode. Todd has also patched the 40 column version of GeoCanvas to run under Wheels 128 in 40 column mode. Note: The 40 colmumn version of GeoCanvas still has problems under Wheels 64 but that is due to a bug in Wheels and Maurice is working on correcting this bug (which affects more than just GeoCanvas). Anyhow, I have placed versions of GeoCanvas, along with patched versions for Wheels use, on the Download page on the CUE web site at The files are available in D64 format so you will need GeoConvert98F or GeoBEAP to extract the images onto 1541 disks. Links to both of these files can be found on the GeoCanvas page. Bruce Thomas 25/07/2002... IDE64 Geos support!! Maciej Witkowiak writes: Recently I completed two parts of GEOS support for IDE64. The more important one is that I ported my GEOS driver for my very own IDE interface to use IDE64 and I wrote a small utility to read time and date from IDE64 RTC and put them into GEOS system. For more info check out this link: [http://members.elysium.pl/ytm/html/ciaide.html] YTM/Elysium Links fixed, IDE64 ordered :) I have fixed and removed some broken links throughout the site, most importantly was Maurice Randalls, also I have just ordered an IDE64 and am very keen to get my hands on this device, especially for use with JOS/WiNGS :) Colin
Hey Everyone!!
There is also a downloads Page that currently contains one download package. The package that is currently available is the April/May 2002 PreRelease of JOS/WiNGS. The 4.02 release includes many nice new things...
Also be sure to check #wgs on EFNet for questions/comments
tech discussions.
28/05/2002... geoBEAP 2.0a Available for downloading Bo Zimmerman writes: geoBEAP 2.0a is available for download from the following address: [http://www.zimmers.net/geos/geobeap.html] A very minor and harmless bug in the multi-file RLE decompression was fixed. More info can be found on Bo's site. - Bo Zimmerman
12/05/2002... New Wave Screenshot added. For visitors to this Site who dont use the Wave, I have added a new Screenshot showing the Wave128 B2.9, displaying Table borders and some of the new Wave Fonts/Icons: Colin.
[http://www.gis.net/~sunfish/tcr/cbm/cbmfiles/wavefonts] DonAlt. 64NET v1.xx is free software As of today 64NET v1 is free software. You can download a keyfile and 64net from: MegaPatch fully supports 64Net and
it is something I have just started using (with the help of Werner Weicht).
Colin.
The Protovision Games forum - concerning MetalDust, Newcomer and all other games produced or distributed by Protovision. Got stuck in Newcomer? Ask your questions here! Wanna know what's new in Metal Dust? Ask! Interested in upcoming Protovision projects? Here you can talk about them! The Protovision Applications forum - want
to talk about WiNGS, our operating system project? Come and join!
There are also, of course:
http://www.protovision-online.de and click on C64 Discussion forum! Don't hesitate to post - English and German is allowed!
Pages/Links fixed.. All very quiet on the SCPU/Geos front, but the Scene News is very active, I hope you check C64.SK for all the latest Scene News ;) Colin.
The possibility of connecting the Commodore64
to an Ethernet local area network has been
a collective dream in the Commodore community for decades. A C64
Ethernet
adapter would make it possible to connect the C64 directly to the
Internet,
making it possible to download software, transfer data to and from the
C64, play network games over the Internet..
[http://dunkels.com/adam/tfe/]
06/04/2002... Routines for Group 0 Wheels extended Kernal. Todd Elliott has just started compiling a "repository" for the beginnings of a Database to assist progamers in Wheels, it is hoped in time more will be added (time permitting). For more info check the link below: [http://www.geocities.com/eyethian2000/geosprog/]
Rick Coleman's Mover 3.0 Disk now PD Bruce Thomas writes: Photo Mover and Text Mover are great programs to help you organize your Photo and Text Albums. The programs support 4-Drive operation and work very well in a fully populated Wheels Environment. (and Megapatch 3 as well, Colin) To find out more and Download this great software go to: [http://edmc.net/cue/index.html]
14/032002... GeoDOS Docs available in English. Bruce Thomas writes: After putting in many long hours over the past year, I have finally convinced myself that the English GeoDOSDocumentation just cant be made any better. The files are available in three formats, Zipped, GeoPacked and Wraptorised and you can download the Doc Files here:
New Links Addded. At long last ;) I have finally added some new and VERY interesting links to the Colin
03/03/2002... #wgs daily log files, the place to discuss JOS & WiNGS. Want to see/read the daily log files from the new IRCNet channel #wgs? Well thanks to Nate this is now possible as we have a Bot on the channel :) check out the link below: What is #wgs? Well it is a new(ish) channel on IRCNet that was created to discuss all things JOS and WiNGS releated, but has evolved into a great place to talk "High Power" Commodore topics as well :-).. 11/02/2002... GeoZIP .8 for Wheels and MegaPatch3 is released. GeoZIP.8 for Wheels and MegaPatch3 are now ready and available for downloading. These releases include minor Bug fixes and an improved Menu. Note..
Downolad them from: [Pasi's_Site] GeoZIP_Wheels. [Werner's_Site] GeoZIP_MegaPatch3. Thanks must got to Todd Elliott and Werner Weicht for converting this great application to Geos.. Colin
[http://www.geocities.com/eyethian2000/ccsanta.html] The updated version (where the serial
bus lockup problem is now fixed.) of the Santa Claus demo is there
and as well as a PAL version.
The print spooler now includes two different
methods of output to the printer.
Or you can connect an optional parallel
adaptor
which I will be producing. The adaptor connects to both the auxiliary
port and the SCSI pass-throughport on the back of the HD.
Both ports are used for this purpose. The adaptor adds a parallel printer
port to the HD. The adaptor also has a SCSI pass-through port so you can
still plug in external SCSI devices to your HD.
One other thing I will be adding to the print
spooler are JiffyDOS routines just in case there's ever a printer
interface
All the work is finished in the DOS for allowing any size SCSI mechanism to be used. The limit has been slightly reduced from my previous postings, though. We only have the ability to use up to 1,024 gigabytes now instead of 2,048 gigabytes. Shucks... :) More new stuff... For those using Zip drives in their CMD-HD, a disk change is now detected by the DOS. Just like with the FD-2000, if you pop out the disk and insert a different one, the partition table from the new disk will be read into memory. Previously, you would have to press the reset button to force the DOS to read the new partition table. In GEOS or Wheels, you can't just press the reset button without causing problems. Actually, any removable media drive used will work as described above.. I've added a new 'extended foreign' partition type. These can be as large as 8 gigs and are fully supported by the DOS for reading and writing blocks. These will have uses for things such as capturing scanner image data, CDburning, big data buffers, and any other fast data storage needs. As soon as the extended native partition work is finished and tested, I'll be shipping out the first DOS+release to everyone who has it ordered as well as all HD's that have been shipped since August of last year. It will also be included with all new HD's. Cost/Price of Upgrade:
The upgrade includes the original HD Utilities
disk plus a new HD-DOS+ Utilities disk, an HD manual addendum,
installation instructions, and a new DualBoot rom module with a
switch for mounting on the back of the HD. The switch is used to switch
your HD back and forth between the older DOS and the newer DOS if you ever
need to. Or you can simply tape the switch inside the case and leave it
set to the newer DOS. The DualBoot module has both
the CMD V2.80 BootROM and the new DOS+ BootROM in one.
-Maurice
05/01/2002... More on the HD-DOS update... Due to the HUGE amount of information Maurice is posting on the Homestead Mailing List, Re the new HD-DOS, I suggest that interested parties should join this great list: Of course I will still be posting "Snippets" here from time to time ;) Colin.
03/01/2002... HD-DOS update... Maurice Randall writes: A CMD-HD functions as a print-spooler for the first time ever. Today was the first real test of the spooler and I'm very pleased with the initial results. It was pretty cool the first time. I could still access the HD to load or save files even while it was still spooling out the data to the printer that I had sent to it. The print spooler captures all device 4 accesses and saves the incoming data to a print buffer partition on the hard disk. It starts sending the data almost immediately. It's got special serial bus code for the auxiliary port that will detect if the printer is busy, such as when it's moving the print head and can't accept any data. When that happens, the spooler will let the rest of the HD-DOS take care of other jobs instead of locking up the system while waiting on the printer. When the printer is finally ready, it will send more data to it. The print spooler doesn't seem to have slowed down the HD at all. If anything, it's made the computer (and ultimately, the user) more efficient. -Maurice
[http://www.protovision-online.de/games/itsmagic.htm]
New Page Added.. and a general spring clean ;-) I have added some pictures of my C=System and a few other projects, I hope to add to this in the future. Included is a Zip file with the pics that are JPY friendly (I hope) ;) Colin..
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