I'm new to all this - struggling with Cloanto - Page 5

Jim · 09 March 2012, 01:41

Yes it does , as a matter of fact.
I was looking at where it said 'drag and drop' and I read it over and over, wondering what does that mean ???
Just what exactly do I have to drag ?

Jim · 09 March 2012, 02:10

Oh , and another thing I noticed...
Where the new title has appeared - it says UNKNOWN in the Group column.
And yet it's plain to see that, as it's uncrunching, - it briefly flashes Warlocks ADF Archive.
And then , when the Demo starts, the top half of the screen has a long, long scroller message that starts off with Thrust Presents... (blah, blah, blah).....
So there's Two names.

Jim · 09 March 2012, 04:34

Here's another thing that I was curious about...

Last night I was systematically checking through my WorkBench3.1
And when I looked in the L directory , I found a file that was called
CrossDOSFileSystem ... What is that ? - What does it do ?

And then , when I looked in the <DIR> FileSystem_Trans
I found some more about CrossDos.
What is that ? - What is it for ?
.

Jim · 09 March 2012, 05:10

In my Quest for Knowlege, (and getting stuff), I usually prowl around the Back2Roots website, looking for ADF goodies.
But they kinda specialize in GAMES mostly.
And they don't have much of a selection of TOOLS...
Does anybody know where I can get a good copier ?
When I had my Amiga , I seem to recall that I had several different ones.
But now, when I try and remember their names , the only two that stick in my memory are X-Copy and D-Copy.
But I do remember I used them all the time. I used them a lot !
Where can I get these ?

lilalurl · 09 March 2012, 06:12

Quote:

Originally Posted by Jim

Copy and D-Copy.
But I do remember I used them all the time. I used them a lot !
Where can I get these ?

http://eab.abime.net/showthread.php?t=54794
-> http://jope.fi/xcopy/releases.html

Probably less interesting for your purpose, but anyway you can also get the source code:
http://eab.abime.net/showthread.php?t=62391

Jim · 09 March 2012, 10:15

Hi lilalurl ,
Thanks for the link.
I downloaded a couple of them, and added the website into my FAVOURITES.

Later, I can decide whether I like a version that is plain and simple -
or one that's loaded up with extra features.

Mclane · 09 March 2012, 10:28

I wonder where the X-copy people are now, I used to bump into Richard Asplin at the shows, nice guy.

I seem to remember that Magician42 / Klaus and Sodan had something to do with it, my memory seems to remember me chatting to Klaus and Sodan at the Commodore shows, well I did chat to them but I can't remember if it was about X-copy?

Really nice guys, actually remembered me and my mate at the shows, mind you you could hardly forget my mate Cos, 6ft 5 black guy built like a brick wall / body builder, he made an impression (and a really good bloke too).

I really wonder where they are all now..

Jim · 09 March 2012, 16:42

And I found the D-Copy, and the RattleCopy at

http://amigarealm.whdownload.com/ami...ols/tools6.htm

Arnie · 09 March 2012, 18:57

Quote:

Originally Posted by Jim

Yes it does , as a matter of fact.
I was looking at where it said 'drag and drop' and I read it over and over, wondering what does that mean ???
Just what exactly do I have to drag ?

Exactly as it says on the tin, Jim.

Drag the picture of the pink ephalump you posted earlier and drop it onto the box. You can do the same with help/text files and .mp3's.

Arnie · 09 March 2012, 18:58

Quote:

Originally Posted by Jim

Oh , and another thing I noticed...
Where the new title has appeared - it says UNKNOWN in the Group column.
And yet it's plain to see that, as it's uncrunching, - it briefly flashes Warlocks ADF Archive.
And then , when the Demo starts, the top half of the screen has a long, long scroller message that starts off with Thrust Presents... (blah, blah, blah).....
So there's Two names.

Right click on the entry and choose edit. From there you can change all the info.

Washac · 09 March 2012, 19:03

Quote:

Originally Posted by Jim

And I found the D-Copy, and the RattleCopy at

http://amigarealm.whdownload.com/ami...ols/tools6.htm

Try here if nowhere else has what you need or want.

http://planetemu.net/index.php?section=menus&machine=31

Loads of stuff.

Jim · 09 March 2012, 20:55

Hello Arnie.
I just wanted to let you know that I have fixed that problem.
Boy oh boy... the answer was so bloody obvious, that I can't imagine how I didn't see it before.

And it was the same with the Group Name problem...
Easy, when you know how.

Jim · 09 March 2012, 21:37

Hello Washac,
Thank you for posting up that link.
A very interesting website, with (as you say) Loads of Stuff.
Half way down the second page, I spied something I wanted - CLImate.

Jim · 10 March 2012, 17:53

Spent all day yesterday trying to put up a picture onto DPaint.
Tried lotsa different formats, but nothing would show...
I kept getting a message that said "No , this is not an IFF file"
And of course that was leading me to keep trying to convert stuff to the IFF format... which is at
the very top of the list, when you use SAVE AS, in PaintShopPro.
I was at it all day - trying and trying.
Then this morning , my eyes slid down to the third item on the list, and I saw DPaint/LBM .
My God, I cried , I never noticed that before !
Anyways , I tried it and when I clicked it over in DPaint... Up it came !
So I quickly loaded up another three LBMs , and I had enough to build a simple 4-frame animation.

Jim · 10 March 2012, 18:03

And here it is...
The first sign that I may be on the right track.
Of course, I don't know what I'm doing, and this rough and unpolished first steps show it....

4 FRAMES ... I call it 'The Pointy Sisters'

Jim · 10 March 2012, 18:32

Hmmm , I don't know if this will work, I've never tried it before.

Here's that animation converted over to a GIF format' so that
it will play on a PC in Windoze.

Jim · 12 March 2012, 18:00

Something has gone wrong with one of my files.
I have a demo called Boys in Blue , and it looks like bits of the animation
are dropping out, and some of the text is truncated.
Well I just figured that this file had gotten corrupted somehow...
All I have to do is download it again.

However, that's not so easy as I thought.
I tried to do a search for it... looking for
Boys in Blue - Share and Enjoy - Scoopex
And I get a lot of 'hits'
But as I click through them, there's a lot that just talk about it.
Others will do a Review on it... and you can make comments.
There's even a YouTube where I can watch it play through , but that's not what I want.

None of these sites seems to have a Download for me to click on . (?)
Where can I find a BoysInBlue.adf

Arnie · 12 March 2012, 19:52

Is this it Jim?

http://amiga.nvg.org/warlock/adf/s/

Jim · 12 March 2012, 21:59

Yes , that's it ...... Thanks Arnie.
When this version was depacking , I noticed that the path was flawed.
And what I was looking for was curiously mixed up with a dozen other "GAMES" programs (???)
However, I sorted it out by HighLighting the eroneous title, and used EDIT to call it Boys in Blue.
And of course, I used the Drag & Drop trick to attach the signature icon.
Now everything is perfect .... Thanks again .

Jim · 16 March 2012, 19:36

Well, I was coming along there pretty good for a while, and I thought I was finally coming to grips with this program. But my latest problem has got me beat.
I managed to get a simple animation going, in the DPaint emulation.
I was fine pleased with myself, with that accomplishment, and gave myself a pat on the back.
But it was only a 4-frame Anim so I wanted to try a more complex one...
So I dragged out one of my old Animations, and this time it's a 60-frame one.
It was a big job... Sitting in my PC as a GIF , I had to work backwards and got a view of all the frames in a horizontal panoramic view.
Then one by one, I had to click on each image and click SAVE FRAME As.... and save them out as LBM files. Then transfer them over to my Emulated HardDrive called Graphics: and lined them up in a Directory named Picture.
I started up an Anim file with Number of frames: 60. Set the Rate at 8. and started to load in the LBM images, starting at number 1, and just advancing to the next frame and puting in number 2 , etc.
Well, all was going fine until I had reached frame number 49....
Then I was stopped with a message that said : You Don't Have Enough Memory To Continue.
Just for a moment, I sat there Stunned.
There was a little button attached that said Proceed? ... So I clicked that.
And everything just went away !
My Animation simply disappeared, and I was back at the beginning again. All my work was gone.
I didn't even get the opportunity to SAVE my progress.
How could I be "Out of Memory"?
I thought I had Tons of room...
What kinda Memory are we talking about here ?
Is it RAM that it's talking about ?
Is this actual Memory that I have in my computer , or is it some kinda 'simulated Ram' that I have on my emulated Amiga ?
I don't know what to do... I don't even know what questions to ask.
Help.

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09 March 2012, 01:41	#81
Jim Registered User Join Date: Feb 2012 Location: Toronto Canada Posts: 225	Yes it does , as a matter of fact. I was looking at where it said 'drag and drop' and I read it over and over, wondering what does that mean ??? Just what exactly do I have to drag ?

09 March 2012, 02:10	#82
Jim Registered User Join Date: Feb 2012 Location: Toronto Canada Posts: 225	Oh , and another thing I noticed... Where the new title has appeared - it says UNKNOWN in the Group column. And yet it's plain to see that, as it's uncrunching, - it briefly flashes Warlocks ADF Archive. And then , when the Demo starts, the top half of the screen has a long, long scroller message that starts off with Thrust Presents... (blah, blah, blah)..... So there's Two names.

09 March 2012, 04:34	#83
Jim Registered User Join Date: Feb 2012 Location: Toronto Canada Posts: 225	Here's another thing that I was curious about... Last night I was systematically checking through my WorkBench3.1 And when I looked in the L directory , I found a file that was called CrossDOSFileSystem ... What is that ? - What does it do ? And then , when I looked in the <DIR> FileSystem_Trans I found some more about CrossDos. What is that ? - What is it for ? .

09 March 2012, 05:10	#84
Jim Registered User Join Date: Feb 2012 Location: Toronto Canada Posts: 225	In my Quest for Knowlege, (and getting stuff), I usually prowl around the Back2Roots website, looking for ADF goodies. But they kinda specialize in GAMES mostly. And they don't have much of a selection of TOOLS... Does anybody know where I can get a good copier ? When I had my Amiga , I seem to recall that I had several different ones. But now, when I try and remember their names , the only two that stick in my memory are X-Copy and D-Copy. But I do remember I used them all the time. I used them a lot ! Where can I get these ?

09 March 2012, 10:15	#86
Jim Registered User Join Date: Feb 2012 Location: Toronto Canada Posts: 225	Hi lilalurl , Thanks for the link. I downloaded a couple of them, and added the website into my FAVOURITES. Later, I can decide whether I like a version that is plain and simple - or one that's loaded up with extra features.

09 March 2012, 10:28	#87
Mclane Old retro god. Join Date: Apr 2002 Location: Northolt, West London Age: 62 Posts: 857	I wonder where the X-copy people are now, I used to bump into Richard Asplin at the shows, nice guy. I seem to remember that Magician42 / Klaus and Sodan had something to do with it, my memory seems to remember me chatting to Klaus and Sodan at the Commodore shows, well I did chat to them but I can't remember if it was about X-copy? Really nice guys, actually remembered me and my mate at the shows, mind you you could hardly forget my mate Cos, 6ft 5 black guy built like a brick wall / body builder, he made an impression (and a really good bloke too). I really wonder where they are all now..

09 March 2012, 16:42	#88
Jim Registered User Join Date: Feb 2012 Location: Toronto Canada Posts: 225	And I found the D-Copy, and the RattleCopy at http://amigarealm.whdownload.com/ami...ols/tools6.htm

09 March 2012, 20:55	#92
Jim Registered User Join Date: Feb 2012 Location: Toronto Canada Posts: 225	Hello Arnie. I just wanted to let you know that I have fixed that problem. Boy oh boy... the answer was so bloody obvious, that I can't imagine how I didn't see it before. And it was the same with the Group Name problem... Easy, when you know how.

09 March 2012, 21:37	#93
Jim Registered User Join Date: Feb 2012 Location: Toronto Canada Posts: 225	Hello Washac, Thank you for posting up that link. A very interesting website, with (as you say) Loads of Stuff. Half way down the second page, I spied something I wanted - CLImate.

10 March 2012, 17:53	#94
Jim Registered User Join Date: Feb 2012 Location: Toronto Canada Posts: 225	Spent all day yesterday trying to put up a picture onto DPaint. Tried lotsa different formats, but nothing would show... I kept getting a message that said "No , this is not an IFF file" And of course that was leading me to keep trying to convert stuff to the IFF format... which is at the very top of the list, when you use SAVE AS, in PaintShopPro. I was at it all day - trying and trying. Then this morning , my eyes slid down to the third item on the list, and I saw DPaint/LBM . My God, I cried , I never noticed that before ! Anyways , I tried it and when I clicked it over in DPaint... Up it came ! So I quickly loaded up another three LBMs , and I had enough to build a simple 4-frame animation.

10 March 2012, 18:03	#95
Jim Registered User Join Date: Feb 2012 Location: Toronto Canada Posts: 225	And here it is... The first sign that I may be on the right track. Of course, I don't know what I'm doing, and this rough and unpolished first steps show it.... 4 FRAMES ... I call it 'The Pointy Sisters'

10 March 2012, 18:32	#96
Jim Registered User Join Date: Feb 2012 Location: Toronto Canada Posts: 225	Hmmm , I don't know if this will work, I've never tried it before. Here's that animation converted over to a GIF format' so that it will play on a PC in Windoze.

12 March 2012, 18:00	#97
Jim Registered User Join Date: Feb 2012 Location: Toronto Canada Posts: 225	Something has gone wrong with one of my files. I have a demo called Boys in Blue , and it looks like bits of the animation are dropping out, and some of the text is truncated. Well I just figured that this file had gotten corrupted somehow... All I have to do is download it again. However, that's not so easy as I thought. I tried to do a search for it... looking for Boys in Blue - Share and Enjoy - Scoopex And I get a lot of 'hits' But as I click through them, there's a lot that just talk about it. Others will do a Review on it... and you can make comments. There's even a YouTube where I can watch it play through , but that's not what I want. None of these sites seems to have a Download for me to click on . (?) Where can I find a BoysInBlue.adf

12 March 2012, 19:52	#98
Arnie R.I.P Smudge 18-08-16 Join Date: Aug 2005 Location: Leicester/UK Age: 66 Posts: 3,968	Is this it Jim? http://amiga.nvg.org/warlock/adf/s/

12 March 2012, 21:59	#99
Jim Registered User Join Date: Feb 2012 Location: Toronto Canada Posts: 225	Yes , that's it ...... Thanks Arnie. When this version was depacking , I noticed that the path was flawed. And what I was looking for was curiously mixed up with a dozen other "GAMES" programs (???) However, I sorted it out by HighLighting the eroneous title, and used EDIT to call it Boys in Blue. And of course, I used the Drag & Drop trick to attach the signature icon. Now everything is perfect .... Thanks again .

16 March 2012, 19:36	#100
Jim Registered User Join Date: Feb 2012 Location: Toronto Canada Posts: 225	Well, I was coming along there pretty good for a while, and I thought I was finally coming to grips with this program. But my latest problem has got me beat. I managed to get a simple animation going, in the DPaint emulation. I was fine pleased with myself, with that accomplishment, and gave myself a pat on the back. But it was only a 4-frame Anim so I wanted to try a more complex one... So I dragged out one of my old Animations, and this time it's a 60-frame one. It was a big job... Sitting in my PC as a GIF , I had to work backwards and got a view of all the frames in a horizontal panoramic view. Then one by one, I had to click on each image and click SAVE FRAME As.... and save them out as LBM files. Then transfer them over to my Emulated HardDrive called Graphics: and lined them up in a Directory named Picture. I started up an Anim file with Number of frames: 60. Set the Rate at 8. and started to load in the LBM images, starting at number 1, and just advancing to the next frame and puting in number 2 , etc. Well, all was going fine until I had reached frame number 49.... Then I was stopped with a message that said : You Don't Have Enough Memory To Continue. Just for a moment, I sat there Stunned. There was a little button attached that said Proceed? ... So I clicked that. And everything just went away ! My Animation simply disappeared, and I was back at the beginning again. All my work was gone. I didn't even get the opportunity to SAVE my progress. How could I be "Out of Memory"? I thought I had Tons of room... What kinda Memory are we talking about here ? Is it RAM that it's talking about ? Is this actual Memory that I have in my computer , or is it some kinda 'simulated Ram' that I have on my emulated Amiga ? I don't know what to do... I don't even know what questions to ask. Help.

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