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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

1574.0. "SHOWIZ.ARC" by MTWAIN::MACDONALD (WA1OMM 7.093/145.05/223.58 AX.25) Wed Aug 03 1988 16:42

    A "must have" utility  --->  SHOWIZ.ARC 

    Now available in PAULY"AMIGA"::
    
    This is the "do everything" file viewer. It has wipes, fades, and
    other special effects. It even displays text files with colored
    background and a shadowed fonts. Superb shareware that really shows
    off the Amiga.

    Paul
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1574.1CSC32::J_PARSONSLike Lesser Birds on the 4 Winds...Sat Oct 29 1988 09:5711
    I started exclusively using showiz as soon as I could grab it off
    the net. However a problem has now reared its ugly head. Showiz
    won't work on my 3 meg, Kickstart 1.3 Amiga 2000. It will apparently
    read the file in but the whole screen turns black and there is
    apparently no way to clear it short of a warm boot. I'm guessing
    the problem is with kickstart 1.3 although that doesn't really make
    sense. I haven't changed anything else on the system that I used
    to have on my 1.5 meg A1000.
    
    I'd appreciate it if anyone else could try using showiz with kickstart
    1.3; I hate to drop back to using some other display utility.
1574.2MTWAIN::MACDONALDWA1OMM 7.093/145.05/223.58 AX.25Mon Oct 31 1988 12:392
    It works fine with Wb 1.3. I don't have V1.3 roms though to try
    it.
1574.3Works w/ 1.3 of everythinFSDEV1::JBERNARDMon Oct 31 1988 16:386
    I have just tried SHOWIZ on both machines (A500 w 1meg/CLTD Disk) (A2000
    w/5 meg /many disks) both have WB 1.3 and 1.3 ROM.  Everything works
    like before.
    
    John
    
1574.4CSC32::J_PARSONSLike Lesser Birds on the 4 Winds...Mon Oct 31 1988 17:2011
    I wonder what the problem could be on my machine...
    
    I have a 2000 with 3 meg, no hard drive, 1.3 ks but 1.2 wb still.
    Any time I try to use showiz you can see it read the file from the
    floppy and the screen just turns black. It's interesting that I
    can blindly grab the top of the screen and pull it down to see the
    other screens behind this one, but the machine is useless at this
    point. 
    
    I should have my 1.3 wb tomorrow, maybe this configuration will
    work but I don't have much faith.