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From: wirch@puff.UUCP
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Subject: Re: Proposed Amiga Developer Human Network
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Date: Fri, 25-Oct-85 12:49:16 EST
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> From: jef@lbl-rtsg.arpa
> 
> That sounds like a good idea, but Mr. Foust left out one surprisingly
> important detail: the name.  I propose Amicus - the Amiga Users' Society.
> This is of course reminiscent of DECUS, one of the most successful users'
> groups ever.  It's also Latin for Amiga, for whatever that's worth.
> ---                               ^^^^^
> Jef                      (doesn't "amicus" mean "friend(ly)"?)

John says this name sounds great - he's had a few years of Latin and Greek.
He said naming the group never occurred to him.  Anyways, he said to keep
the letters coming...  He found the SetSerial program on a demo disk last
night, and got the source from the tech BBS, too.  He downloaded a full
IBM disk of software from there last night, and plans to move it to Amiga
format soon.  Any developer who wants a copy of the IBM disk can send him
a floppy and mailer, and he'll copy it, or you can wait for the Amiga
format.  

He found Icon.Editor and Font.Editor on one disk, but the directory entries
said 'empty', and DiskEd probing discovered that those sectors were bad
for both files...  Is there some kind of copyprotect scheme going on?
The same 'empty' entry shows up on his Mandril demo...
He'll go back to the dealer where he got the demo disks, and see if they are
on the originals.

I saw the stuff he downloaded.  It sure looks good - all sorts of examples,
AmigaDOS V1.0 and below.  There was a full image editor there, and timer
and playfield and BOB demos, the "dotty window" source, things like that.

Rick