========================================================================= INFO-ATARI16 Digest Sun, 22 Apr 90 Volume 90 : Issue 466 Today's Topics: Advice to Spectre GCR owners HELP: Hard Drive Problem Need an ST One world, One CPU, One OS (2 msgs) RSC-editor? Sozobon/Dlibs bug-fixes STe stuff, YET? ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: 20 Apr 90 10:17:30 GMT From: snorkelwacker!spdcc!merk!alliant!linus!nixbur!nixpbe!peun11!capit@apple.com (Pit Capitain) Subject: Advice to Spectre GCR owners Message-ID: <1649@nixpbe.UUCP> zimm@portia.Stanford.EDU (Dylan Yolles) writes: >The Spectre GCR manual never makes it clear whether or not one can get >away with using the "Shutdown" menu option in Mac mode (versus just ejecting >the disks). >My advice: DON'T DO IT! I tried it *once* and now my hard drive >is garbled. (Yes, I'm using the new release of the Spectre software. Perhaps >the older software works better.) >You have been warned! (I couldn't resist :) Aladin never had any troubles with `shutdown'! ------------------------------ Date: 22 Apr 90 06:50:06 GMT From: cs.utexas.edu!usc!orion.oac.uci.edu!uci-ics!ehood@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu (Earl Hood) Subject: HELP: Hard Drive Problem Message-ID: <2631541E.9748@paris.ics.uci.edu> One of the partitions on my hard drive went screwy on me. Somehow the system sectors (if that's what they are called) got totally canned and the partition is not responding. I do not know if the data on the drive was damaged or not. I try to look at the other partition sectors to see if I couldfind a way to manually fix the hard drive. However there are descrepencies on each partition (probably due to the different sizes of each) that I do not have the time to decipher it all. If I sound confused. I AM! Can anybody help me? Is there a program which could fix the problem? Is it possible to manually do it if one knows the right information? I have a MegaFile 30 broken into 4 partitions: C: 4.4 MB D: 14.4 MB E: 6.4 MB (This is the partition giving me a headache) F: 6 MB Any help will greatly be appreciated. -- Earl Hood (UC Irvine) -------------------------------> ehood@paris.ics.uci.edu ------------------------------ Date: 21 Apr 90 13:45:20 GMT From: hpnmdla!hpsad!randyh@hplabs.hp.com (Randy Hosler) Subject: Need an ST Message-ID: <750060@hpsad.HP.COM> What's this about dumping 520STFMs? Is it possible to get one of these for under $300? What's the best price around? Are they still being sold thru Price Club? Sorry for all the questions, but my vintage 520ST has, to the best of my knowlege, breathed it's last breath. big :-( Anybody got an old 520 console they want to get rid of cheap? Thanks, Randy Hosler randyh@hpsadpk ------------------------------ Date: 21 Apr 90 21:40:40 GMT From: m2c!wpi!jhp@husc6.harvard.edu (John Petrangleo) Subject: One world, One CPU, One OS Message-ID: <12001@wpi.wpi.edu> In article eb1z+@andrew.cmu.edu (Edward Joseph Bennett) writes: >Q: Let's face it why does a company spend money to improve their OS >making it evolve and keep it innovative? > >A: To sell THEIR machines. Not somebody elses. (IBM didn't ) > >Kiss inovated system software like system 7.0 goodbye in the future if >their are large sales of clones. Apple won't bother. They will spend >their money to build something new like IBM did with the PS/2 and leave >the Mac behind. If we're lucky maybe we will get a trade in allowance >for our Mac on the Knowledge Navigator. If Apple was to open up the clone market for the mac, they would have to start selling their System Software, instead of just distributing it. Everyone was thrilled when Apple opened up their system to allow anonymous ftp'ing of system software, but if Apple allowed Mac clones, they would have to make up their money by selling the system software. I couldn't believe it when a friend told me he had to buy the operating software for his PC compatible, but then I realized that it only made sense. Afterall, he was buying Microsoft's software, but someone else's computer. I like the idea of free operating systems, I don't want to see any Mac clones. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- | jhp@wpi.wpi.edu | jhp@wpi.bitnet | --------------------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------ Date: 22 Apr 90 07:40:14 GMT From: mailrus!uflorida!VLADIMIR%MAPLE.CIRCA.UFL.EDU@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu ("John 'Vlad' Adams") Subject: One world, One CPU, One OS Message-ID: <0093590A.B7AD4F40@MAPLE.CIRCA.UFL.EDU> I've a *BIG* question that I hope someone can answer. This newsgroup is named comp.sys.amiga, right? Then why in the HELL am I wading through all these messages about IBM's, Macintoshes, Apple IIGS's, NeXT's, and Atari's? #include ?This newsgroup is comp.sys.amiga. If you want to talk about some other machine, subscribe to comp.sys.[machine].? --- #include My views don't represent those of UF. Mine are rather sane... Internet: jma@beach.cis.ufl.edu ------------------------------ Date: 22 Apr 90 03:33:47 GMT From: tiamat!mjbtn!raider!dlh@uunet.uu.net (Dana L. Holt) Subject: RSC-editor? Message-ID: <207@raider.MFEE.TN.US> > > My copy of K-Resource only runs on Color monitors. It just dies on Mono. > I'm not sure what version I have but it works in mono and color. It even has a functions to make mono objects compatible with med rez objects so they will looks right in med and hi rez. dlh@raider.MFEE.TN.US ------------------------------ Date: 22 Apr 90 01:03:07 GMT From: m2c!umvlsi!dime!michael@husc6.harvard.edu (Michael Kieras) Subject: Sozobon/Dlibs bug-fixes Message-ID: <13306@dime.cs.umass.edu> Hello, A little while ago, I noticed a message saying something to the effect that the BTST bug in the Sozobon JAS assembler is easily fixable and due to a typo in the source. Could someone please post the necessary corrections or tell me where I can find them? I apologize if there was a reply to this that I missed. Also in the same vein, is there a comprehensive list of Sozobon/Dlibs bugs anywhere via e-mail request or anonymous ftp? Thanks in advance. Michael Kieras ------------------------------ Date: 21 Apr 90 23:37:29 GMT From: mcsun!ukc!edcastle!aimd@uunet.uu.net (M Davidson) Subject: STe stuff, YET? Message-ID: <3463@castle.ed.ac.uk> In article <1990Apr20.202944.23884@sun.soe.clarkson.edu> opielask@clutx.clarkson.edu writes: >Come on people!!!! >Aren't there any STe specific programs (demos?) around YET????? >I have heard mentioned a STe "boink" demo, and the MONSTER.ARC >programs. The MONSTER program is like BIGSCRN but uses the >STe's new features... Um, well, Space Ace uses the 4096 colour pallette, a game Future Travels (or Travellers or something) does the same, a couple of new art programs, Canvas and Paintpot use the extended pallette also. Atari's Hyperpaint is being updated for the extended colour pallette also. (Wot about a new Neochrome!!) Apart from that there's the 'Official' STe demo from France. It's supposed to use all the features of the STe. I don't know what it's like but I'll be getting it soon. Maybe someone else has it?? (I hope its a bit better than a 'boink' demo!) I believe there may be stuff like a cheap Genlock and a STe specific sound sampler coming out sooooon tooo..... >AAron nAAs >4meg 1040STe owner >opielask@clutx.clarkson.edu ------- Mark. (2meg 520STe owner, ah well, your system beats mine!) PS. I've even heard that Atari may bring out a new Control Panel sometime... ------------------------------ End of INFO-ATARI16 Digest V90 Issue #466 *****************************************