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Darlah J Potechin
Atari Rountables on GEnie




Date: Mon, 3 May 93 08:28:33 MDT
From: [e-mail] (John Hutchinson)
Message-Id: <[e-mail]>
To: [e-mail]
Subject: c.s.a.s.-3MAY93a

From [e-mail] (M J Brownlow)
Subject: Re: xxx.msa files. what format is it ?
Date: Thu, 29 Apr 93 12:47:51 GMT

In article <am.736082168@materna> [e-mail] (Achim Millinghaus) writes:
>Hello !
>I have ftped some demos from atari.archive.umich.edu. But this demos are
>XXX.msa files and i dont know this file-format. Who can tell me what it is ?
>how can i get this demos work on my ST. Please help me ! Thanks... Achim.
>e-mail : [e-mail]

These files are created and depacked using magic shadow archiver.
This should be in Archivers as shadow.??? or newmsa.???

Forget it if you can't get a BIG ramdisk or have 2 drives or hard drive; it
uses a LOT of disk swapping!!

Martin

~~~
From [e-mail] ("David McNicol", 3rd Year LPO)
Subject: Shells for the ST
Date: Mon, 26 Apr 1993 08:31:06 GMT

[ I sort of asked this in a previous post, but no-one answered ! ]

Does anyone know of the existance of the Bourne Shell (sh) on the ST.
I have one version, but it seems to allow only two directories in the
PATH sentence. I need lots. Downer.

Any ideas ?? [ Mail would probs be better, thanx ]

Dave.

~~~
From [e-mail] (anisko)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: Falcons shipping next
Date: 29 Apr 93 12:23:50 GMT

In article <[e-mail]> [e-mail]
(Ron Carter) writes:
>[e-mail] (Robert C. Merritt <rcmerrit>) writes:
>
>>[e-mail] (Jeff Spink) writes:
>
>>Could someone explan the logic to me of someone buying a Falcon to run
>>pc software? Its strange to me, thats all..
>
>Well, a few reasons come to me:
>
>- A person works with MS-DOS machines at work, and on occasion have to
>  do work at home with those same MS-DOS programs (eg 1-2-3, etc.).


  For some of these programs, such as Lotus, there do exist ST
versions or clones of those programs.  Of course, using the MSDOS versions
lets the users get used to those, which they will probably hit in
the majority of jobs, etc.


>- The user can't live without some of the programs (games, etc.) that
>  (for some reason, ummm, larger market?) won't get released on the
>  Falcon platform.


   Never hurts to expand your software base.  That's one of the
niceties of emulation.  When you do get an IBM/MAC/whatever software
that runs under the emulation, it might be helpful to note so on
the registration card that you send in - let them know what actual
platform their software is really being run on.


>- The user just plain likes little gadgets just so they can say `My
>  computer will out emulate your computer'.


   Or more general: users that simply like gadgets (this coming from
someone who has his MSte, 286, TV, monitor, cassette desk, VCR, and boom
box all interconnected in one way or the other :-)


   And finally, one of the best answers to a "why" question:
   "because we can" (said in the voice of the one Heather from "Heathers" :-)


>With the ability of Falcon to read/write MS-DOS compatible disks, and
>the possibility of Falcon being able to do close to `real' thing's
>speed, etc. emulation, it doesn't sound like a bad thing to have
>around.  And saves some room at home to boot!


   Would be nice.  I have a MSTe and a NCR3390 (286 - sort of rectangular
and low-height) stacked on top of each other - looks like a bunch
of pizza boxes stacked on each other :-)

                    Robert Anisko
                    [e-mail]


"I'm your fearless leader and no questions asked..."
"Can there be any doubt?"
"Now cut that out!"


~~~
From [e-mail] (Jeff A May II)
Subject: Atari STf for sale
Date: Thu, 29 Apr 1993 15:34:03 GMT

I'm posting this for a friend:

-----------------------------------------------------
For sale:

$350    Atari 1040STf
        50 Meg hard drive with ICD FA-ST host adaptor
        second double-sided foppy drive
        1200 baud modem
        miscellaneous software including Flash and
          Word Writer ST
$150    Atari 12" color monitor

Reason for selling:  upgrading to Mega STe

-----------------------------------------------------

As my friend has no network access, please send
any replies to me, and I'll forward them to him.

                --Jeff May
[e-mail]


~~~
From [e-mail] (Chris Ridd)
Subject: Re: Neodesk 3.03 patch (UK)
Date: Thu, 29 Apr 1993 13:10:18 GMT

In article <[e-mail]> [e-mail]
(Auntie Tim) writes:
>Hi all. I've just been informed by GST software by e-mail, that
>the Patch Disk to update UK versions of NeoDesk is effectively
>shareware/freeware whatever, and the 4.95 fee is only for handling.
>Hence, they have no problems with anyone uploading the patch disk
>to an ftp site, or posting to comp.binaries.atari.st or whatever.
>Also, it's available by modem on their BBS - 0480 492 025.

Alas, no modem (yet)...

More seriously, is this a patch for any NeoDesk 3(UK), as I have
3.01?

Can't GST email you the patch disk though? :-)


~~~
From [e-mail] (Khalid Shukri)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st,rec.music.makers.synth
Subject: Wanted: Sounds
Date: 29 Apr 1993 17:07:40 +0200



Hi folks,

recently I got a sequencer program (cubase /atari). Now I'd like to get some
splashing sounds (for a roland D-50) that make my friends jerk and my grandma
jump out of the window. Any help is welcome.

Thanx in advance.

[e-mail]


~~~
From [e-mail] (Neuromancer)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: Atari Purchase, WOW!
Date: 29 Apr 1993 16:01:51 GMT


>Knowing what you know about the A1200, you would buy an ST over one?  You must
>not have used an A1200 or turned one on?

I assume you've used a Falcon then, to be making the same judgement.  And BTW,
I'm NOT choosing an ST, it's a Falcon030.  The ST's are 68k based machines
w/o a Multitasking O/S.  The Falcon is 68030 base w/ Multitasking.

Big difference.

Not, of course, that you'd understand.

  --Neuromancer
     Becoming more and more convinced that ST users are the best in the world.



~~~
From [e-mail] (Jeff A May II)
Subject: NVDI/ET-4000
Date: Thu, 29 Apr 1993 15:52:27 GMT

Hi.  Does anyone know where NVDI/ET-4000 (the version for Crazy Dots)
is available from?  I once had the address of the company that sells
it, but have managed to lose it somehow.  Thanks.
                --Jeff
[e-mail]


~~~
From [e-mail] (Anders Skar)
Subject: Power Packer
Date: Thu, 29 Apr 1993 14:59:42 GMT

Does anyone know of an Power Packer prog.
I have some Amiga files i want to depack !!
jker

~~~
From [e-mail] (porterb)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: ST monitor for sale
Date: 29 Apr 1993 15:16:28 GMT

Bought this monitor only to discover that the 1040ST was broken and
not worth fixing.  It is sitting in its box waiting to be shipped to
someone who will pay a few bucks (I bought it for $170 + tax -- don't
know what anyone will find it worth)... eager for the room in my small
apartment.

I sent out the previous paragraph a couple of months ago and there was
more interest in the broken computer than the new monitor.  Sorry - I
did throw the computer out.  The answer to the other question asked is
monochrome.  I am eager to get rid of this -- hope someone can use it.

Please reply to:

[e-mail]

~~~
From [e-mail] (Jens Kilian)
Date: Wed, 28 Apr 1993 19:39:55 GMT
Subject: Re: MiNT 1.04 - Mine goes boom when ESC is pressed on Desktop
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st

YES! That could be the reason for a mysterious bug I've been hunting these last
weeks.

More strange behavior: On my ST, TOSWIN immediately opens its file selector
and crashes if I use another accessory beside it. With three accesories, the
system comes up, but crashes when I try to start a program.

If anybody has a fix (or even just a suggestions for the cause of the problem),
*please* make it public.

    Jens.

PS: Claus - ich muss Dich wohl um Entschuldigung bitten :-)
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~~~
From [e-mail] (Jens Kilian)
Date: Wed, 28 Apr 1993 19:35:13 GMT
Subject: Re: Looking for 'find'
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st

GNU find is OK, but you need GCC to compile it. You probably also need to
hand-configure the Makefiles (I never found a shell that could handle GNU
configure scripts).

Greetings,

    Jens.

PS: Du bist in Tuebingen - ich wohne in Herrenberg ...
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Internet: [e-mail]    HPDESK : JENS_KILIAN%XU@HP1200
MausNet:  Jens Kilian @ BB                     KILIAN_JENS/HP1200_XU@hpbbi4
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~~~
From [e-mail] (Khalid Shukri)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st,comp.sys.atari.st.tech
Subject: Re: GFA Help! (Damned compiler!)
Date: 29 Apr 1993 18:23:33 +0200

In <[e-mail]> [e-mail] (David Oakley) writes:

>Hate to say it, but it's a pretty obvious error.

>If you DIM a$(10), then elements go 0 to 9, NOT 10

>you need

>FOR i%=0 to totalcount

>OK?

No. GFA ist not that C-ish, after DIM a$(10), elements go from  0
to  10  if  OPTION  BASE  0 (default) is used. With OPTION BASE 1
elements go form 1 to 10.

Greetinx, Jan

 +- Jan Kim -- X.400:    S=kim;OU=vax;O=mpiz-koeln;P=mpg;A=dbp;C=de -+
 |             Internet: [e-mail]               |
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 *----=<  hierarchical systems are for files, not for humans  >=-----*

~~~
From [e-mail] (Clarence Chang)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: Orphan TT's
Date: 29 Apr 1993 17:07:06 GMT

Just wondering out aloud... can the FALCON's ROM be used on a TT?

Clarence

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From [e-mail] ()
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: Orphan TT's
Date: 29 Apr 93 16:06:28 GMT

In article <[e-mail]>, [e-mail] (JON ARVID
LOVSTAD) writes:
> In article <[e-mail]> Jan_Willekens@p12.f202.n281.z2.
fidonet writes:
>>
>>Pff, TT's don't sell anymore, because they aren't competitive. Atari
>>definitely is working on a Falcon040 (Sam Tramiel said that in some
>>real-time conference, if I remember correctly), but I wouldn't wait for it.
>>By the time the 040 hits the shelves even a SparcStation Classic will be
>>cheaper...
>
> Well, let's just hope they *think* when they design it. Maybe they'll make
> it upgradeable - make an architecture that can accept another CPU and
> graphics engine.

Hi Jon,

No offense, but how long have you been involved with Atari products?
Anyone who has followed the bumbling Atari saga over the years knows
that foresight and planning are not in the Atari vocabulary.  The
machine will certainly not be upgradable since the usual Atari upgrade
path involves one easy step...buy their latest box.  No thanx.  I
just upgraded one of my 486-33 boxes by taking out the SOCKETED 33mhz
cpu and replacing it with a 486DX2-66.  After selling my old chip,
the net cost of this upgrade was about $300 for a roughly 70% increase
in performance (I don't do much disk intensive work and I have a lot
of RAM in that box).

The person who has probably single-handedly kept Atari out of Chapter 11
is David Small.  His sense of business ethics, as well as an array of
well supported upgrades for Atari computers is what keeps the "faithful"
going.

Cheers,

Chris

~~~
From [e-mail] (Kit Kimes@AT&T/NCR)
Subject: Re: MACophiles and Amigoids, please go away
Date: Thu, 29 Apr 1993 17:46:21 GMT

>From article <[e-mail]>, by (Robert C. Merritt):
>
> Ok, I've posted this message acrose the 3 main atari groups.
>
> Is there a good history of atari and its machines?

Last year Jim Trageser posted a summary or the different models of the
Atari computers which was also a kind of history of Atari.  I can repost
his article if he isn't around to do it again himself.

Kit Kimes
AT&T Resource Link (under contract to NCR)
Naperville, IL
....!att!iwcs!kimes ([e-mail])

~~~
From [e-mail] (Michael Hohmuth)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: Shells for the ST
Date: 29 Apr 1993 18:02:39 GMT


In article <[e-mail]>, [e-mail] ("David
McNicol", 3rd Year LPO) writes:

> Does anyone know of the existance of the Bourne Shell (sh) on the ST.
> I have one version, but it seems to allow only two directories in the
> PATH sentence. I need lots. Downer.

I have a working port of the BSD Bourne Shell and one of tcsh 6.03 ready
and will release 'em as soon as the next MiNT Library PatchLevel comes out,
probably even a bit earlier.

Michael
--
Internet: [e-mail]

~~~
From [e-mail] (Bill Nell)
Subject: Re: FOR SALE: Misc. ST and HD stuff
Date: Thu, 29 Apr 1993 18:11:56 GMT

[e-mail] (Eric Steven Brown) writes:


>FOR SALE:
>    Navarone 8-bit audit digitizer:        ***  $25  ***
>    (This plugs into the cartridge
>    port and allows you to record and
>    play back sounds on your ST)


Hi,
  Your email address doesn't seem to be right, all my mail bounced, so I
am going to post a reply here.  I'd like to buy the digitizer.  I assume it
comes with some software too, right?  If you want I can pay for shipping or
we can split it or something like that, ok?

                                                Thanks,
                                                Bill
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Siemens Corporate Research   | the room and attaches itself to some guy's neck
755 College Road East        | and he can't get it off, I just have to laugh.
Princeton, NJ 08540          | Because, what is that thing?

~~~
From [e-mail] (Thomas Schaerer)
Subject: Re: GFA Help! (Damned compiler!)
Date: Thu, 29 Apr 1993 18:13:02 GMT

Jan T. Kim ([e-mail]) wrote:
: In <[e-mail]> [e-mail] (Greg
Granger) writes:


: I just tried to reproduce this bug, and  I  was  successful.  And
: when I tried to analyze where the bombs occurred, I was even more
: surprised: After inserting a diagnostic PRINT  statement  between
: all  lines  of  the  above program, the bug had disappeared -- no
: bombs anymore.

I tried it as well, but I was not successful. Important is: The value
of 'totalcount' was false. Not 16, 17 is okay. My compiler version is
3.5 with the follow options:  S&  S< F<

    (Hallo Jan, schau doch bitte mal in Deine Mailbox. Da steht
     wegen Deinem Profiler von mir was drin. Das Mail ist vom
     16. April    Gruss vom Thomas)

Bye Thomas
~~~
From [e-mail] (Peter Missel)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: New Atari Purchase
Date: 28 Apr 93 01:29:00 GMT

>3)  Get a Falcon030 as a 1/0 config and: Get a RAM expansion board Populate
>said board w/ 4 megs ZIP RAM Get Internal 120meg Maxtor HD

Just yesterday, the Falcon became available in a 4 MB RAM/no HD configuration
for DM 1898 here in Germany. 4/65 config is DM 2298

1 US$ = 1.51 DM approx.

- Peter -

~~~~
From [e-mail] ()
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: Any US Falcons Yet?
Date: 29 Apr 93 14:46:01 -0600

In article <[e-mail]>, [e-mail] (wayne.a.
booth) writes:
> Just to let y'all know, CompuSeller West in St. Charles, Il got their
> demo unit in last week Thursday.  4M with a 65M HD.  Software that we
> have heard would be included was - - - except for D2D.  My son and I
> tested a few packages and they worked great - although we often had
> to disable MTOS to get them to work.  We also tested a couple that
> didn't work and we didn't try much else to try to get them up so I
> wouldn't say they don't work - just don't work under the conditions
> we attempted to run them under.  CompuSeller West expects saleable
> units in about 3 Atari weeks (you know what that means.)
>
> Was I excited - you bet.  Haven't felt that good about my computing
> since Dave Small's Spectre GCR.  Hope all your local dealer's get
> their demo units in so we too can join the rest of the world in
> exploring this new beast.            Wayne Booth

How do Atari dealers survive without CPU's to sell for most of the time.  I bet
they are Amiga dealers too and are moonliting as Atari dealers.  Atari dealers
can't survive without the Amiga...

~~~
From [e-mail] (Peter Missel)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: How to connect a 2nd MEGAFILE?
Date: 28 Apr 93 01:34:00 GMT

>I'd rather do it myself, though. I haven't opened my drive yet, but can
>anybody tell me which DIP switches must be reset?

Steps for the future SECOND drive:
- hook it to your computer and remove any auto-boot driver by using HINSTALL -
remove top cover: 9 screws (rectangular holes).
- through one of the bigger holes in the metal shielding, you see 3 DIP
switches. Flip the middle one.
- Reassemble.

Steps for the future FIRST drive:
(None)

Good luck - Peter

~~~
From [e-mail] (Peter Missel)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: NeXT Atari
Date: 28 Apr 93 01:40:00 GMT

>1.0, 1.2, 1.4, 1.6, 2.06, 3.06, 4.01 between 83 and 93 !!

In fact, we had:

RAM TOS 8.8.85, 11/20/85, 2/6/86.

TOS 1.00 1.02 1.04 1.06 1.62 2.05 2.06 3.01 3.05 3.06 4.00 4.01 4.02 4.04

More updates than MS-DOS had in the same period, and even more real
improvements...

~~~
From [e-mail] (Peter Missel)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: Orphan TT's
Date: 28 Apr 93 01:43:00 GMT

>Just read in the new Current Notes that the TT has been discontinued by
>Atari due to lack of interest. Seriously. Well I guess if you really wanted
>one they'll probably be real cheap soon.

Hmmm...

Atari Germany just announced in the MausNet that they will put a new bunch of
TTs onto the production lines because they've almost sold out of them and
buyers' interest is high.

~~~
From [e-mail] (Steven D Ourada)
Subject: Ethernet for AHDI?
Date: Thu, 29 Apr 1993 20:33:12 GMT

I seem to remember someone mentioning an Ethernet that works on the ST's
hard drive port. If that's true, who makes these and how much do they cost?

           Thanks,
            Steven Ourada

--
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"The State shall make no law with respect to the establishment of education"
  -- Illich

~~~
From [e-mail] ()
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: CoNnect is great !
Date: 29 Apr 93 07:45:51 GMT

> The people that claim that ConNect is the best thing since sliced bread
> have obviously never ever tried Flash...
>
>
> I need a full screen window not 2/3, Flash gives me a full screen window with
a
> 8 * 8  Font..
>
> There are no fonts to work with ConNect and give 80 * 24 lines at medium res,
> the window of ConNect is far to small and cluttered..

Roger,

I think I agree with you about ConNect...not too god for Med.res (what I
use)...The window is too small and the font, though workable, isn't very nice.
I bet another reason some might go "ape" over ConNect is that they have a mono
monitor and can take _full_ advantage of ConNect.

It does seem like it has a lot of nice things about it.  (Excluding the price
differnce between it ans Uniterm -- my favorite!)

                -Matt

~~~
From [e-mail] (Valentin Pepelea)
Subject: ATARI ST stuff for sale
Date: Thu, 29 Apr 1993 23:22:06 GMT

ATARI ST stuff for sale

Please DO NOT REPLY to [e-mail]
Reply address at end of article!

======================= HARDWARE (good for parts) =====================
- 1040 STf, TOS 1.0, flaky floppy and power connector ... [$50]
- Broken SM124 monitor. 2 amp main fuse blows  ... [$10]

======================= DOCUMENTATION =================================
Programmer's manuals ($9 each)
- Compute's Technical Reference Guide VOL 1 VDI
- Compute's Technical Reference Guide VOL 2 AES
- Abacus Atari ST Internals
- Abacus Atari ST Tricks and Tips
- Abacus Atari ST Graphics and Sound
- Abacus Atari ST GEM Programmer's Reference

Manuals ONLY (NO software!)
- Dr. T's Tiger Cub ... [$9]
- Calamus user's manual, font editor manual, tutorial ...[$10]

======================= SOFTWARE =======================================
Programmer's software
- Personal Pascal, disk, manual ...[$15]

MIDI software
- Steinberg Synthworks M1, box, manual, disks, dongle ... [$90]
- Steinberg Synthworks MT-32,D-5/10/20/110, manual, disks, dongle ...[$90]
- Sonus SST 2.0 sequencer ... [$20]

Free with any purchase ST Basic and manual

NOTE: I really want to sell this locally!  If I ship, I ask you to take
care of shipping and packaging charges.

Thank you,

Darius ([e-mail] or call [phone] )

~~~
From [e-mail] (Michel Forget)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: ConNect
Date: Wed, 28 Apr 1993 01:13:08 MDT

In <[e-mail]>, Wolfgang Wander writes:

[> In article <[e-mail]> [e-mail]
writes:

[> >Well from what I can see of it its not worth a cent, the window is far to
[> >small and the program seems a little bugy, it did not save the conn0.set
file
[> >the first time I tried, the Text in that mono mode is far to small..
[>
[> Obviously you were not able to read the manual - its still in german
[> and this will excuse your strong statement. There are lots of people
[> working in mono mode in CoNnect having 24x80 character size windows
[> with appropriate font sizes.

Actually, it does not excuse his statement at all.  I have never read
the manual (as you said, it is written in German) and I never had a
problem with the fonts.  After all, how hard is it?  Choose a font,
install it, select.  Different font sizes give you different size
windows (which is obvious).  I personally do not need to see every
column on the screen, so I use the Rufus 12 Point font.  Excellent
looking ANSI, in a nice big font.

CoNnect is a great program.  If he has problems using it, blaming you
(or the world at large) will not help him.  At the very least he could
have sent you an E-Mail explaining the problem instead of ranting at
the whole world that it is worthless.  An old saying comes to mind; can
he do better?

~~~
From [e-mail] (Steve Wells)
Date: 30 Apr 1993 02:46:05 GMT

] I have ftped some demos from atari.archive.umich.edu. But this demos are
] XXX.msa files and i dont know this file-format. Who can tell me what it i
] how can i get this demos work on my ST. Please help me ! Thanks... Achim.

There is a file in the

../Archivers/

directory in the atari section of atari.archive.umich.edu called

msa_ii.prg

this has in-built instructions, and is nice & easy to use, even with
only one floppy drive!  It will quite happily convert entire disks to
files, or (what you want), files back into the entire-disk format!

~~~
From [e-mail] (Steve Wells)
Date: 30 Apr 1993 02:49:26 GMT

] Look, it's a different design philosophy. Connect decides to use GEM and
] windows. That's one way to go, and has certain advantages. A disadvantage
] that you'll NEVER get a full screen window with an 8x8 font. Can't be don
] med res. You're railing against limitations of your system, and pegging
] Connect as the culprit. This is wrong.

Unless you use overscan (hardware or software 'emulators')

The biggest problem I have with Connect is that it does use GEM windows
which makes screen updating quite sluggish!
(Stick Warp-9 on and it improves, but still not as fast as say a plain
full-screen terminal, GEM trying to keep up with 19.2K text
on the screen is laughable!)

~~~
From [e-mail] (Steve Wells)
Date: 30 Apr 1993 02:52:37 GMT

For those wishing to know where Teradesk is, it can be obtained at:/

cs.tu-berlin.de

([e-mail])

somewhere in the pub/atari/ section!

(Loads file....)

pub/atari/utils/

filename tera????.lzh

~~~
From [e-mail] (Steve Wells)
Date: 30 Apr 1993 02:54:52 GMT

] Does anyone know of an Power Packer prog.
] I have some Amiga files i want to depack !!

The program is amiga only! (Why can't they use LZH?!)

~~~
From [e-mail] (Richard M. Venable)
Subject: Re: SC1224 as tv monitor?
Date: Fri, 30 Apr 1993 04:03:50 GMT

In article <[e-mail]> [e-mail] (TEAGUE, John
Edward) writes:
>Since there is discussion on the SC1224, I was wondering if it is
>possible to use the monitor as a tv monitor via a tuner source such
>as a vcr or cable box.  If so, how.  If not, why not?  Since it is
>similar to a CGA monitor, why couldn't it work?
>
>TIA,
>John

You know, I was wondering if the SC1224 could be used with my old Atari 800 ...

Any clues?


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From [e-mail] (Evan Langlois)
Subject: HELP
Date: Wed, 28 Apr 1993 02:12:43 GMT



I've been trying to get at the GNU C and MiNT files from atari.archive for
a long time now.  I've sent out Email questions, and have sent all the proper
mail with  the "help" message as the FAQ said to do.  However, I have been
unable to achieve success.

Please help me by sending instructions on how to recieve files from atari.
archive through Email and how to get some sort of file index.  It would be
greatly appreciated.

If you recieve duplicate postings of this message, send duplicate replies!
Maybe I won't get them all! I'm going to try sending a copy of this to a
bunch of places, so you may see it more than once.

Send all Mail to [e-mail]

                       Thank You for any help you can send,
                                Evan Langlois


~~~
From [e-mail] ()
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: Atari Purchase, WOW!
Date: 30 Apr 93 09:05:04 -0600

In article <[e-mail]>, [e-mail].
edu (Neuromancer) writes:
>
>>Knowing what you know about the A1200, you would buy an ST over one?  You must
>>not have used an A1200 or turned one on?
>
> I assume you've used a Falcon then, to be making the same judgement.  And BTW,
> I'm NOT choosing an ST, it's a Falcon030.  The ST's are 68k based machines
> w/o a Multitasking O/S.  The Falcon is 68030 base w/ Multitasking.
>
> Big difference.
>
> Not, of course, that you'd understand.

No. I have not used a Falcon and probably will not due to lack of dealers.



>
>   --Neuromancer
>      Becoming more and more convinced that ST users are the best in the world.

Thats a thought...If you like putting up with Atari's crap...

~~~
From [e-mail] ()
Subject: Re: CoNect is great !
Date: Fri, 30 Apr 1993 10:22:12 GMT

<The biggest problem I have with Connect is that it does use GEM windows
<which makes screen updating quite sluggish!

This message written on a VAX via STalker 3 at 19,200 in a 150colx55row
window GEM window. Absolutely NO problems with sluggishness. Works
perfectly. Have you included serialfx in your auto folder. What about
a serial buffer?
BTW, what is a "window GEM window" anyway?

~~~
From [e-mail] (Simon Greaves)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st,comp.sys.atari.st.tech
Subject: Re: UNIX to Atari ST (via DOS???)
Date: 30 Apr 93 09:02:26 GMT

If I remember correctly, mstools is a fairly old ms-dos compatibility
package, I believe it has some problems of it's own. I would suggest
getting and installing mtools, a freeware ms-dos program suite for
Unix machines, it compiles no problems on Sun/DEC and many other
hosts and has been working well here for months.

I 'm not sure I've actually used it to write disks I subsequently
read on an ST, but I've had no problems reading, writing & formatting
ms-dos disks that are usable in a Unix box or a PC equally easily.
Also, I have never had any problems reading PC 720K disks in my ST,
so I think mtools could solve your problems.

It's available from loads of archive sites, eg gatekeeper.dec.com in
the states and src.doc.ic.ac.uk in the Uk (check with archie to be sure).

Hope this helps,

Simon

~~~
From [e-mail] (Alexander Bochmann)
Subject: Re: ConNect
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st

....message from Wolfgang Wander to All :

 > description of a possible bug. CoNnect has the by far best an bug free
 > emulation avaiable on the ST. Where - I really ask you - did you find
 > bugs?

There's only one problem... The Emulation may be 100% ANSI standard compatible,
but it's not at all compatible to what's commonly used in BBS's...

(That's why several terminalprograms have a special emulation called
"ANSI-BBS", wich is basically the same as the codes supported by PC-DOS's
ANSI.SYS device driver, as far as I know...)

I'm quite missing that, as I'm calling more private BBS systems than places
where I need a "real" ANSI emulation...

/\|ex.

Alexander Bochmann -*- W7800 Freiburg -*- Voice 0761 39913 -*- BBS 07664 95185
NeST 90:400/101 -*- FidoNet 2:241/7803 -*- [e-mail]



~~~
From [e-mail] (Mr. K. O'Donovan)
Subject: Re: GFA Help! (Damned compiler!)
Date: Fri, 30 Apr 1993 11:23:19 GMT

In article <[e-mail]>, [e-mail] (Jan T.
Kim) writes:
> I just tried to reproduce this bug, and  I  was  successful.  And
> when I tried to analyze where the bombs occurred, I was even more
> surprised: After inserting a diagnostic PRINT  statement  between
> all  lines  of  the  above program, the bug had disappeared -- no
> bombs anymore.
> I can dimly recall that I ran into  a  similar  problem  quite  a
> while  ago,  the exact situation escapes me right now. Back then,
> my solution was to insert dummy statements into the program until
> it  worked,  as  far  as  I  recall.  I'm  afraid the only "real"
> solution to such weird compiler problems will be to wait for  the
> release of the Richter version of GFA basic.
>

I believe there is a memory allocation bug in the latest version
of the GFA compiler. I can think of one person at least (Hi Andre 8-)
who is desperately waiting for a bug for this, as he gets a fair
number of complaints about his program crashin, and its not his fault.

~~~
From [e-mail] (Wolfgang Wander)
Subject: Re: CoNect is great !
Date: Fri, 30 Apr 1993 13:53:11 GMT

In article <[e-mail]> [e-mail] writes:
><The biggest problem I have with Connect is that it does use GEM windows
><which makes screen updating quite sluggish!
>
>This message written on a VAX via STalker 3 at 19,200 in a 150colx55row
>window GEM window. Absolutely NO problems with sluggishness. Works
>perfectly. Have you included serialfx in your auto folder. What about
>a serial buffer?
>BTW, what is a "window GEM window" anyway?

It definatly depends on the computer you are using. With a GEM-based
terms programm on a 1040 ST without NVDI or Warp9 redraw really is
a pain. NVDI helps a lot.
Using CoNnect on my TT with NVDI I even can display at a 57600 baud
line without remarkable delay, which is much faster than 'real'
terminals like a Falco...

   Wolfgang


~~~
From [e-mail] (Wolfgang Wander)
Subject: Re: ConNect
Date: Fri, 30 Apr 1993 13:54:53 GMT

In article <[e-mail]> Alexander_Bochmann@traveller.
fido.de (Alexander Bochmann) writes:
> > description of a possible bug. CoNnect has the by far best an bug free
> > emulation avaiable on the ST. Where - I really ask you - did you find
> > bugs?
>
>There's only one problem... The Emulation may be 100% ANSI standard compatible,
>but it's not at all compatible to what's commonly used in BBS's...
>
>(That's why several terminalprograms have a special emulation called
>"ANSI-BBS", wich is basically the same as the codes supported by PC-DOS's
>ANSI.SYS device driver, as far as I know...)

You probably should have a look in CoNnects Compatibilty dialogue...

    ;-0
       Wolfgang


~~~
From [e-mail] (Sean McCormack)
Subject: Z modem
Date: Fri, 30 Apr 1993 13:01:40 GMT

Just to say thanks to all who emailed me on Z modem. I got sz.exe.and r
 rz .exe for th VAX and am using them to get file from my account after ftp.
 Cheers
 Sean.

~~~
From [e-mail] (The Boss)
Subject: ****************** /Atari ST for sale **********************
Date: Fri, 30 Apr 1993 14:26:09 GMT

Atari ST for sale:
* 1040ST with SM124 Monochrome monitor (b&w)
* PC Ditto (IBM emulator - software)
* Magic Sac+ and Translator One (old Mac emulator - hardware)
* Final Cut (Midi Software)
* 1st-Word, DB Master, etc. etc.

I am taking the best offer(s).  I had a few people interested and a few deals
arranged, but they must have been busy with exams because I haven't heard from
them since.  I am willing to break up the package, but the monitor sticks with
the computer unless I sell the computer separately first.  For those who have
asked if I was willing to break up the system for the separate parts, if you're
still interested, please email me.

The system is in Mint condition as the only purpose I have for it now is as a
terminal emulator.


    \_\_\_\_\_\_\_       The Tonester
       \_    \_    \_    [e-mail]
        \_    \_    \_   "I don't ever want to play the part
         \_    \_\_\_     Of a statistic on a government chart
    There has to be an invisible sun ...                      |'Invisible Sun'
    that gives its hope when the whole day's done"            | The Police

~~~
From [e-mail] (anisko)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: CoNnect is great !
Date: 30 Apr 93 13:34:09 GMT

In article <[e-mail]> [e-mail] writes:
>Unless you use overscan (hardware or software 'emulators')

  Just to test things out, I booted in ST Low res with MonSTEr,
and effectively got a 640x400x16 scrolling screen (it was nice
to see 16 color ANSI, even with the scrolling).  Should be cool
on a Falcon (as well as a TT)...

>The biggest problem I have with Connect is that it does use GEM windows
>which makes screen updating quite sluggish!
>(Stick Warp-9 on and it improves, but still not as fast as say a plain
>full-screen terminal, GEM trying to keep up with 19.2K text
>on the screen is laughable!)

   Do you have it set to smooth scroll or jump scroll?  Smooth scroll
may be a bit slow for 19.2k, but jump scroll (though jumpy?) seems
to keep up with it (I have Warp9 3.60 installed, BTW)...

                    Robert Anisko
                    [e-mail]


~~~
From [e-mail] (anisko)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: ConNect
Date: 30 Apr 93 13:51:04 GMT

In article <[e-mail]> Alexander_Bochmann@traveller.
fido.de (Alexander Bochmann) writes:
>There's only one problem... The Emulation may be 100% ANSI standard compatible,
>but it's not at all compatible to what's commonly used in BBS's...
>
>I'm quite missing that, as I'm calling more private BBS systems than places
>where I need a "real" ANSI emulation...


   Have you gone to the "Language" option and changed the language
from "ATARI" to "VTxxx"?  If you do this, you'll see the normal
ANSI character set.  Hope this helps you...

                    Robert Anisko
                    [e-mail]



~~~
From [e-mail] (Simon Greaves)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st,comp.sys.atari.st.tech
Subject: serial port config from C or assembler
Date: 30 Apr 93 13:08:07 GMT

Can anyone tell me how I configure the ST's serial port from C or
assembler? I need to be able to set baud rate, word format, parity
etc, and perhaps the size of the buffer associated with the port,
though this is of less importance.

Before you ask, I'm just writing a MIDI <-> serial converter so I
can plug it into a Sun and dump/load/process midi data from there.

email preferred, thanks

Simon

~~~
From [e-mail] (Len Stys)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: How is Falcon030 doing in Europe?
Date: 30 Apr 1993 15:59:47 GMT



How is the Falcon030 doing in Europe?

The reason I ask is that Atari is supposely making around 50,000 of these
systems each month.  And since none are in the U.S. besides developers
and dealer units, I'm wondering where they are all going?

There has to be around 250,000 out there so far.

How are they doing NEAR you?  Dealers?


~~~
From [e-mail] ()
Date: 29 Apr 93 23:48:29 -0500

  A friend of mine found his 520ST under his bed this week (don't ask)..
Anyway, he is considering getting rid of it and his IBM and buying an Amiga
so he can run all that stuff in one box (sorry to those anti-amiga people)

  What is the going rate on a color 520ST?

  And don't say $5 because you want a cheap one; I'm looking for the
AVERAGE PRICE..

thanks..

please reply by EMAIL...

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@@ Brian Bernstein (Drone)           @@ "I'm a white dread, I'm a white   @@
@@ [e-mail] @@  dread, so? I got a little ring   @@
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From elendir@fr ()
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: How is Falcon030 doing in Europe?
Date: 30 Apr 1993 16:41:26 GMT

Len Stys ([e-mail]) wrote:

: How is the Falcon030 doing in Europe?

: The reason I ask is that Atari is supposely making around 50,000 of these
: systems each month.  And since none are in the U.S. besides developers
: and dealer units, I'm wondering where they are all going?

 Well, in France, everything is sold out as soon as they arrive at the
dealers. But, it's now difficult to say, because all 'National HQ' have been
completely re-organized and stock has been moved to Holland.
 But, you can assume that every Falcon arrived in Europe is already reserved.

 Vincent.
--

 PSG : NOTRE HISTOIRE DEVIENDRA LEGENDE.


~~~
From [e-mail] (Haim S. Poretsky)
Subject: Converting Sound Files
Date: Fri, 30 Apr 1993 06:55:02 GMT

I'd like to take advantage of the .au files available widely.  Unfortunately,
I only have my Mega ST2 (hopefully to be replaced with a Falcon 4/65 or
maybe 14/65), and all that I have for sample work is ST-Replay.  Therefore,
is there either any software to convert .au to .spl, or software to allow
me to play .au sounds on a machine with no DMA Sound and with (gasp)
TOS 1.2...

Thanks.

                Sol Poretsky
                [e-mail]


~~~
From [e-mail] (Neuromancer)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: Any US Falcons Yet?
Date: 30 Apr 93 16:49:50 GMT

In article <[e-mail]> [e-mail].
edu writes:
>
>How do Atari dealers survive without CPU's to sell for most of the time.  I
>bet they are Amiga dealers too and are moonliting as Atari dealers.  Atari
>dealers can't survive without the Amiga...
>

Atari Delaer without CPU's?  Excuse me, but as an _Amiga_ dealer (yup, I sell
Amigas but buy Atari  ;)  ), I had one hell of a time getting 1200's and
4000's in stock.  Not to mention the fact that he had to send a 4000 back
because it's display was wasted (kept showing a green tinge on everything.)
Lost a sale because of that.  It took us six weeks to get 1200's in, and
when they did they were the shitty (pardon the language, but it's true) 1200HD
models.  What were they that bad?  They came with 45 megs SEAGATES!!!  Aggg!
All Commodore HD models w/ IDE come w/ Seagates!  For _less_ money we wanted
the 1200 w/o HD and put 85 megs Maxtors in them.  The best drive for less
money, hmmm.  So, it took six weeks from sending those 1200HD's back to get
the 1200 no HD.

I won't even discuss the problems we're having getting 4000's in...


>
>
>===============================================================================
========
>
>
>Amiga 1200/80 meg HD.   I love it ----- Is there a god...
Try a Falcon030 (see that "3", it's not a "2".)  with a 65meg IDE and 120meg
SCSI, and I'll probably still spend less than you.

>
>"Atari competed on the Cheap"  Quoted by a Nintendo Lawyer
>
Have you ever opened your 1200?  Talk about cheap case...

>
>My Dream:  Amiga 4000 with the Video Toaster 4000.   Oh yea....
>
Did you see what Commodore did to NewTek, talk about biteing the hand that
feeds you.  Jeez.

>
>"Amiga users had multitasking since '85'
Most humans had it since they were born...

--Neuromancer

~~~
From [e-mail] (Tony Brown)
Subject: Re: OS Wars: NT/OS|2/Win16/S7.1/MTOS/et al
Date: Thu, 29 Apr 1993 10:45:02 +0000

Good question - I'll try and find someone who knows about things
American to answer you

Tony
Someone @ GST Software Products.
Meadow Lane, St Ives, Cambridgeshire, PE17 4LG, United Kingdom.
Tel: [phone].   Fax: [phone].
E-mail: [e-mail]

~~~
From [e-mail] (Tony Brown)
Subject: Re: EA support??
Date: Thu, 29 Apr 1993 12:28:34 +0000

Atari talked to them. How those talks went and what EA decided I have
no idea.

Tony
Someone @ GST Software Products.
Meadow Lane, St Ives, Cambridgeshire, PE17 4LG, United Kingdom.
Tel: [phone].   Fax: [phone].
E-mail: [e-mail]

~~~
From [e-mail] (Chris Wood)
Subject: Re: xxx.msa files. what format is it ?
Date: Thu, 29 Apr 1993 14:19:31 +0000

MSA files are from the Magic Shadow Archiver, that extracts a whole
disk saving it as a single file, using RLE encoded. To get the
original disk back you need msa141 from atari.archive in the
Archivers directory.

Chris Wood.
[e-mail]
Someone @ GST Software Products.
Meadow Lane, St Ives, Cambridgeshire, PE17 4LG, United Kingdom.
Tel: [phone].   Fax: [phone].
E-mail: [e-mail]

~~~
From [e-mail] (Shoou-yu tang)
Subject: For sale 1MB ST520, ds drive, color monitor as a set
Date: Fri, 30 Apr 1993 17:47:54 GMT

 Selling the spare set of ST:
 520ST : TOS in ROM, upgraded to 1MB.
 External double side floppy drive with cable and power supply. (The ST is
 the old modle without internal floppy drive).
 SC1224 the original better quality JVC color monitor (no burn).
 mouse, cable included.
 Prefer local, as the color monitor has no original shipping box (also the
floppy drive).
 Price: $200 plus shipping.
 If interested, please reply to [e-mail]
P.S. I got this original to put the ST into tower case and planning to
modify it for SST but didn't started as Falcon was announced.
 Thanks
 Tang
 [e-mail]
 Yes, they are in good working condition.


~~~
From [e-mail] (Ofir Gal)
Subject: Re: WP to ST
Date: Thu, 29 Apr 1993 20:09:22 +0000



In article <[e-mail]>, [e-mail] writes:
>Re: WP to ST
>
>> I wondering if someone could help me with a little problem I got.
>
>Well, here is an interim measure.  If you have a wordprocessor that can load
>RFT Format, you can tell her to save that instead of WP 5.1 or 4.2.
>
>
The only WP I know that supports RTF is Calligrapher 3.

Ofir   [e-mail]

"The fact that I have changed my mind
doesn't change the fact that I'm right"

~~~
From [e-mail] (Andrew Simmons)
Subject: Caesar
Date: Fri, 30 Apr 1993 16:50:01 GMT

Is anybody out there playing the ST version of Caesar.  If so, I would
appreciate hints, tips, suggestions, etc.

I keep reading this newsgroup but it seems nobody here is playing
games on their Ataris!  How come?  There is a newsgroup for PC gamers
and a group for Amiga gamers, is there one for Atari gamers that I
don't know about?

Andy Simmons

~~~
From [e-mail] (Alex Kiernan)
Subject: Re: NVDI/ET-4000
Date: Thu, 29 Apr 1993 20:50:28 +0000

In article <[e-mail]> jeffmay@magnus.
acs.ohio-state.edu writes:

>Hi.  Does anyone know where NVDI/ET-4000 (the version for Crazy Dots)

Sorry I don't have an answer for this one, but when you do have a copy,
how on earth do you get it to work? I simply cannot persuade it to work,
at the point where it should hit the desktop, I get absolutely zippo.
Complete and utter hang from the whole machine.

--
Alex Kiernan
[e-mail]

~~~
From [e-mail] (George II Lenzer)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Cannon BL-200 Bubble Jet
Date: 30 Apr 1993 19:57:09 GMT


    I just bought a BJ-200 printer.  It works fine with the ST
in Epson emulation mode, but I would like to get beyond the built
in fonts.  Are there any suggestions?
    If anyone knows who wrote the DBWriter PD wordprocessor
please pass his E-mail address along to me.  I would like to ask
him if it would be possible to create a BJ-200 printer driver for
that program.

                        Thanx,
                        G. II. L.
--
"I'll let you in on a little secret.
    The whole universe is totally INSANE!!!!"
                        Mr. Natural


~~~
From [e-mail] (Michael Schwingen)
Subject: Re: 16Mhz feed on STf
Date: Fri, 30 Apr 1993 09:44:00 MEZ

In <[e-mail]>,
Ralf von Gunten ([e-mail]) wrote:

RvG>Eventually you can also make an automatic step-rate adjust (but this is well
RvG>done (i believe so) by the Ajax floppycontroller)

The Ajax does nothing different than the 1772, so there is no automatic
step-adjust. You have to add a MMV with just a bit less than 3ms
pulswidth which is triggered by the STEP signal from the FDC. Then, when
the MMV is active, you have to supply 8MHz to the FDC.

cu
Michael
--
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Univ.: [e-mail]    <--- use this for long mails!
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radically different ideas about what you used it for." (Terry Pratchett, Eric)

~~~
From [e-mail] (Michael Schwingen)
Subject: Re: 16Mhz feed on STf
Date: Fri, 30 Apr 1993 09:46:26 MEZ

In <[e-mail]>,
Adam Pelled ([e-mail]) wrote:

AP> There is 16MHz from the shifter chip. (pin 39)

Don't use that for own expansions, unless you absolutely need a phase-
synchronous 16MHz clock. That signal is very weak and can cause trouble
if it has to drive an additional load.

For HD Floppy support, it is best to use an integrated 16MHz quarz
oszillator - these are cheap and provide a good quality signal.

cu
Michael
--
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Univ.: [e-mail]    <--- use this for long mails!
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preference, a match." (Terry Pratchett, Witches Abroad)

~~~
From [e-mail] (Albi Rebmann)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: ST running at 38400 buad?
Date: 27 Apr 93 17:36:08 +0100

Hello [e-mail],

 s> Is there a way to allow my ST to run at 38400 buad?  Any help will be
 s> appreciated.
Here is a cheap version to get 38400bps on the 8 mhz Atari, I try to translate
the important parts:



                             ZDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDD?
      ZDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDD?   ZDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDD?     3
      3    MFP 68901         34  3   3   ZDDDDD?        ZDD3DDDDD4
      3>                         3   3   3    ZDDDDDDDDDDDDDDD?  3
      3  7 10 11  16  18         3   3   3    316       11 10 3  3
      @DDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDY   3   3    3> CD 4040      3  3
         3  3  3   3   3             3   3    31         7  8 3  3
         CDDY  3   3   @DDDDDDDDDDDDDY   3    @DDDDDDDDDDDDDDDY  3
         3     @DDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDY               3  @DDDDY
         3         @DDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDo    3
         @DDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDo3   3  <-- Switch
                                                    oDDDDY

IMPORTANT:
 Pin 16 (MFP) cut and bend up !!

Connection list:

 1.) Pin  7 (MFP) together with Pin 10 (MFP) switch - MID
 2.) Pin 11 (MFP)                           nach Pin 16 (CD 4040)
 3.) Pin 16 (MFP) (bend up !)               switch  - RIGHT/UP
 4.) Pin 18 (MFP)                           nach Pin 10 (CD 4040)
 5.) Pin 34 (MFP)                           nach Pin 11 und 8 (CD 4040)
 6.) switch - LEFT/DOWN                     nach Pin 7 (CD 4040)


I run this now for some month and it is great. I don't have a switch, I always
run 38400bps with my Zyxel modem.
Price should be unter 1$

  _
 /_\ ||_ *
/   \||_/|

Uucp: [e-mail]
      [e-mail]
Fido: 2:2407/70.0


~~~
From [e-mail] (Chris Wood)
Subject: Re: Shells for the ST
Date: Fri, 30 Apr 1993 14:15:02 +0000

> Does anyone know of the existance of the Bourne Shell (sh) on the ST.
> I have one version, but it seems to allow only two directories in the
> PATH sentence. I need lots. Downer.

        Isn't there one in the Mint directory on atari.archive; or
        the Gnustuff/Tos directories.

CW.
==============================================================================
Chris Wood.                                 "You Screwy Rabbit" - Yosemite Sam
[e-mail]
GST Software Products (R&D)                            Tel: [phone].
Meadow Lane, St Ives, Cambridgeshire, PE17 4LG.        Fax: [phone].
==============================================================================

~~~
From [e-mail] (Howard Chu)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: First look at the Falcon...
Date: 30 Apr 1993 20:32:22 GMT

In article <[e-mail]> [e-mail] (Peter Missel) writes:
>>- C-lab Creator [V3.1]: no go - locks up during load, due (I'm told) to
>>changes to the cartridge port so Creator doesn't recognize that the key is
>>in.
>>- C-lab Explorer32 [v 2.0]: no go - locks up during load.
>
>These two also lock up on Mega STEs and STs w/ accelerator boards. The problem
>isn't in the machine, but in the CPU-speed-dependant key check algorithm C-lab
>used.
>
>On Mega STEs, one could "fix" it by switching to 8 MHz before loading C-lab
>stuff and flipping back to 16 after that.
>
>On tuned STs and Falcon030, no go :-(

Actually, I found that, though you could boot up the program, switching back
to 16 MHz would cause their custom IKBD handler to fail. (Wouldn't recognize
most key and mousebutton presses.) This was on a Mega ST with Turbo-16 and on
a 4160 STe with Adspeed. That was one of the factors that had me going with
Cubase 3.01 instead...
--
  -- Howard Chu @ Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA

        "You take the good with the bad" ? Nah, the good *comes with*
        the bad, but even an amoeba will choose which to accept.

~~~
From [e-mail] (Dani A. Roloson)
Subject: Re: Fonts for Pagestream
Date: Fri, 30 Apr 1993 20:50:46 GMT

In article <[e-mail]> [e-mail] writes:
>In article [e-mail], [e-mail] (Peter Missel) writes:
>>>Does anyone know where I can get a fixed pitched font for Pagestream? I
>>
>>Hmmm, my copy of Pagestream had a fixed pitch typewriter style font with it.
>>(German version 2.1)
>
>My UK verson 2.2 has Times, Triumverate and Garamond compugraphic
>fonts, and several SoftLogik fonts (can't remember which ones), but no
>Typewriter font, and no fixed pitch font.

Quoted from Soft-Logik via GENIE during Feb/93:

"The Font Plus Pack has been discontinued because new copies of PageStream 2.21
include these fonts in the package. (PageStream now comes with 47 fonts!) If
you purchased PageStream prior to the start of this offer, you can buy the
former Plus Pack fonts from Soft-Logik sales for $10. Call 1-800-829-8608."

"Font Plus Pack: there are 11 families, 35 fonts. These are the same as in most
PostScript laser printers. You get the DMF font for each family, plus the
metric for each weight/style, so that there are 35 fonts. Plus screen fonts."

"Font Plus Pack: they are DMF/FM format fonts. ... They are still commercial
fonts which we sell as part of PageStream."

--------

The fonts (as named on a HP LaserJet IIIsi Printer PostScript Font Page)

ITC Avant Garde Gothic * Book,  Book Oblique,  Demi, Demi Oblique
ITC Bookman            * Light, Light Italic,  Demi, Demi Italic
Courier                * -,     Oblique,       Bold, Bold Oblique
Helvetica              * -,     Oblique,       Bold, Bold Oblique
Helvetica Narrow       * -,     Oblique,       Bold, Bold Oblique
New Century Schoolbook * Roman, Italic,        Bold, Bold Italic
Palatino               * -,     Italic,        Bold, Bold Italic
Times                  * Roman, Italic,        Bold, Bold Italic

plus Symbol, ITC Zapf Chancery Medium Italic, ITC Zapf Dingbats

Since you already have Times & Triumverate,
they don't include Times & Helvetica.
They also don't include the .PS files since they assume your PostScript
printer has them.
If your PostScript printer doesn't have them, I guess you're out of luck.
(The Digital ScriptPrinter that I sometimes use doesn't have
ITC Bookman, Helvetica Narrow, Palatino, ITC Zapf Chancery Medium Italic, or
ITC Zapf Dingbats but does have ITC Lubalin Graph and ITC Souvenir)
If your printer isn't PostScript, they'll print fine.

The fixed-pitch, constant-width, typewriter-like font is Courier.
I used this for 8 1/2" x 44" banner and it came out quite nice on my 9-pin.

Nine additional font families for $10 is worthwhile whether you have
a PostScript printer or not.

Dani Roloson
KWEST
Kitchener-Waterloo Eight Sixteen Thirty-two Atari User Group

Warning: This message has enough registered trademarks to sink a ship.

~~~
From [e-mail] (Ricardo Hernandez Muchado)
Subject: Re: Any US Falcons Yet?
Date: Fri, 30 Apr 1993 21:05:29 GMT

In article <[e-mail]>, [e-mail].
edu (Neuromancer) writes:
|> In article <[e-mail]> [e-mail].
edu writes:
|> >
|> >How do Atari dealers survive without CPU's to sell for most of the time.  I
|> >bet they are Amiga dealers too and are moonliting as Atari dealers.  Atari
|> >dealers can't survive without the Amiga...
|> >
|>
|> Atari Delaer without CPU's?  Excuse me, but as an _Amiga_ dealer (yup, I sell
|> Amigas but buy Atari  ;)

   Neuromancer Amiga dealer... Hmmmm.....

  ), I had one hell of a time getting 1200's and
|> 4000's in stock.  Not to mention the fact that he had to send a 4000 back
|> because it's display was wasted (kept showing a green tinge on everything.)
|> Lost a sale because of that.  It took us six weeks to get 1200's in, and
|> when they did they were the shitty (pardon the language, but it's true)
1200HD
|> models.  What were they that bad?  They came with 45 megs SEAGATES!!!  Aggg!
|> All Commodore HD models w/ IDE come w/ Seagates!  For _less_ money we wanted
|> the 1200 w/o HD and put 85 megs Maxtors in them.  The best drive for less
|> money, hmmm.  So, it took six weeks from sending those 1200HD's back to get
|> the 1200 no HD.
|>
|> I won't even discuss the problems we're having getting 4000's in...
|>
|>
|> >
|> >
|> >============================================================================
===========
|> >
|> >
|> >Amiga 1200/80 meg HD.   I love it ----- Is there a god...
|> Try a Falcon030 (see that "3", it's not a "2".)  with a 65meg IDE and 120meg
|> SCSI, and I'll probably still spend less than you.

   I doubt it.

|>
|> >
|> >"Atari competed on the Cheap"  Quoted by a Nintendo Lawyer
|> >
|> Have you ever opened your 1200?  Talk about cheap case...

   I guess both machines have cheap cases.

|>
|> >
|> >My Dream:  Amiga 4000 with the Video Toaster 4000.   Oh yea....
|> >
|> Did you see what Commodore did to NewTek, talk about biteing the hand that
|> feeds you.  Jeez.

   No Sir, they just announced a joint venture for marketing purposes of both
the A4000 and the Video Toaster 4000.

|>
|> >
|> >"Amiga users had multitasking since '85'
|> Most humans had it since they were born...

   But the Atari is trying to have it now.


|>
|> --Neuromancer

--
--------------------------------------
Raist  New A1200 owner   320<->1280 in x, 200<->600 in y
in 256,000+ colors from a 24-bit palette.  **I LOVE IT!**<- New Low Fat .sig
*don't e-mail me* -> I don't have a valid address nor can I send e-mail



~~~
From [e-mail] (Dani A. Roloson)
Subject: Re: Fonts for Pagestream
Date: Fri, 30 Apr 1993 21:17:16 GMT

In article <[e-mail]> [e-mail] (Dani A.
Roloson) writes:
>They also don't include the .PS files since they assume your PostScript
>printer has them.
>If your PostScript printer doesn't have them, I guess you're out of luck.

Silly me.  In the READ.ME, if your PostScript printer doesn't have them,
remove the .PSF file and they will be printed using the .DMF file.

Dani Roloson
KWEST
Kitchener-Waterloo Eight Sixteen Thirty-two Atari User Group

~~~
From [e-mail] (Alex Kiernan)
Subject: Re: NeXT Atari
Date: Thu, 29 Apr 1993 21:07:23 +0000

In article <[e-mail]> [e-mail] writes:

>RAM TOS 8.8.85, 11/20/85, 2/6/86.
>
>TOS 1.00 1.02 1.04 1.06 1.62 2.05 2.06 3.01 3.05 3.06 4.00 4.01 4.02 4.04

I think you left out 1.06 (part 1), and 1.06 (part 2), 3.00, and 4.03.
Sure all developer only versions (apart from 1.06/2), but then again
so were 4.00 and 4.01.

--
Alex Kiernan
[e-mail]

~~~
From [e-mail] (Alex Kiernan)
Subject: Re: WP to ST
Date: Thu, 29 Apr 1993 21:08:35 +0000

In article <[e-mail]> [e-mail] writes:

>
>
>In article <[e-mail]>, [e-mail] writes:
>>Re: WP to ST
>>
>>> I wondering if someone could help me with a little problem I got.
>>
>>Well, here is an interim measure.  If you have a wordprocessor that can load
>>RFT Format, you can tell her to save that instead of WP 5.1 or 4.2.
>>
>>
>The only WP I know that supports RTF is Calligrapher 3.

Try Papyrus or Atari Works, both do RTF.

--
Alex Kiernan
[e-mail]

~~~
From [e-mail] (Steve Wells)
Date: 30 Apr 1993 21:26:02 GMT

] This message written on a VAX via STalker 3 at 19,200 in a 150colx55row
] window GEM window. Absolutely NO problems with sluggishness. Works
] perfectly. Have you included serialfx in your auto folder. What about
] a serial buffer?

I'm not using a VAX machine, I am using an *ATARI*!
With GEM, not CLI's!

All the programs I've seen have been incapable of keeping up with redraw
speeds of 19.2K  (Connect, using the 8-point font can't even keep up with
2400 on this machine, STFM, without any screen-accelerators), it's
not too bad with the standard system font though!

Serial-fx makes very little difference to screen updating speed!

I can use FZDSTerm at 19.2K perfectly, screen keeps up quite happily
with the RD light on the modem!

~~~
From [e-mail] (Steve Wells)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: CoNnect is great !
Date: 30 Apr 1993 21:29:26 GMT

] >full-screen terminal, GEM trying to keep up with 19.2K text
] >on the screen is laughable!)
]
]    Do you have it set to smooth scroll or jump scroll?  Smooth scroll
] may be a bit slow for 19.2k, but jump scroll (though jumpy?) seems
] to keep up with it (I have Warp9 3.60 installed, BTW)...

Jump-scroll, with no accelerator installed.  (I shouldn't *Have* to use
extra software to make things work properly!)

If I turn the scroll-bars off, things are a bit better!

~~~
From [e-mail] (Harald Schoenfeld)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: How is Falcon030 doing in Europe?
Date: Sat, 1 May 1993 01:12:52 +0200

[e-mail] (Len Stys) writes:



>How is the Falcon030 doing in Europe?

>The reason I ask is that Atari is supposely making around 50,000 of these
>systems each month.  And since none are in the U.S. besides developers
>and dealer units, I'm wondering where they are all going?

I always thought they would do about 300 a day, that would make about
10000 a month - if all works fine. What it didn't do until last month.

>There has to be around 250,000 out there so far.

Really? Where? Not here in Germany - and nowhere else, too. I would say
10000 is the maximum at the moment. ATARI sold some 50000 computers
last year - not in a single month.

>How are they doing NEAR you?  Dealers?

But the FALCONs are coming now, and they are sold out as soon as they
land at any dealer in Germany. Some dealers got 10 to 15 during the last
2 month - nor much really.

--
   Harald Schoenfeld (IRC Nick: Equinoxe)   |          I'm sorry Dave,
  [e-mail]  |    I'm afraid I can't do that.

~~~
From [e-mail] (Ken Newman)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: Orphan TT's
Date: 30 Apr 93 16:27:12 GMT

In article <[e-mail]> [e-mail] writes:
> >...the TT has been discontinued by Atari...
>
> This is NEWs?
> I've known that for AGES.  And I still bought my TT.

Well, congratulations, yes you win a free official Atari cheerleader badge
and free copies of all of the final editions of Atari magazines that went
bankrupt, as well as a copy of our home game, enjoy...

--

[e-mail]   [ ...!uunet.ca!isgtec!ken ]  Ken Newman

~~~
From [e-mail] (Evan Langlois)
Subject: BART
Date: Fri, 30 Apr 1993 02:30:51 GMT


I just got the index for atari.archive and mint 1.04 wasn
on the list.  What's the filename and path for it so I can
get it E-Mail?  Also, the MiNT Distribution Kit was listed
as a path, but there were no filenames listed, what's the
filename.


~~~
From [e-mail] (Christopher Browne)
Subject: Re: CoNect is great !
Date: Sat, 1 May 93 03:35:08 GMT

In article <[e-mail]> [e-mail] writes:
>] This message written on a VAX via STalker 3 at 19,200 in a 150colx55row
>] window GEM window. Absolutely NO problems with sluggishness. Works
>] perfectly. Have you included serialfx in your auto folder. What about
>] a serial buffer?
>
>I'm not using a VAX machine, I am using an *ATARI*!
>With GEM, not CLI's!

You missed the point.

Actually, I have to ask a stupid question at this point; what exactly
DO you use terminal software for?

Many of us use programs like STalker, Connect, Uniterm, etc. to
connect to minicomputers/mainframes that are (among other things)
Usenet hosts.  I.e. - I'm using Uniterm at this very moment to connect
to a Sun Sparc 10 (and I then telnetted to another Sun Sparc 10, but
you don't want to know about that :-), and am running a process called
"trn" - the Threaded Newsreader.

On top of that, in order to followup your post, I'm running a
subprocess to trn called "emacs," which I'm using to compose this
message.

I have found that Connect and Uniterm provide flawless support of
VT200 and VT220, which means (for instance) that GNU-Emacs works
correctly.  At 2400 baud, a ^L takes an unfortunately perceptible
amount of time, but the IMPORTANT point is that it works CORRECTLY.

There's a CLI here in the process; that's really completely
irrelevant, and it is silly of you to bring it up as an issue.  It's
not as if we're likely to be running a GEM interface to UNIX over a
serial line.  Possibly technically plausible, but a really stupid
idea, as it would take more effort than it would be worth to develop
it.

If CLIs are evil, then why do YOU use terminal software that clearly
is NOT designed to interface with the "other end" using a proper GUI
interface?  I believe that there's some special software out there
(Aladdin?) that provides a GUI interface to GEnie; I suppose that
you've found an Atari product that does the same thing for Usenet?

>All the programs I've seen have been incapable of keeping up with redraw
>speeds of 19.2K  (Connect, using the 8-point font can't even keep up with
>2400 on this machine, STFM, without any screen-accelerators), it's
>not too bad with the standard system font though!
>
>Serial-fx makes very little difference to screen updating speed!
>
>I can use FZDSTerm at 19.2K perfectly, screen keeps up quite happily
>with the RD light on the modem!

Yeah, but what terminal support does it have?  I played with it, and
was very unimpressed.  It has a pretty user interface, but if it ain't
VT100 compatible (or better), and I mean TRULY compatible, then it's
really not worth using.

--
Christopher Browne                |     PGP 2.0 key available
[e-mail]           |======================================
University of Ottawa              | Genius may have its limitations, but
Master of System Science Program  | stupidity is not thus handicapped.

~~~
From [e-mail] (Steve Wells)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: ST:TKW, v4.04 - (TREK0404.ZIP) - fix!
Date: 1 May 1993 05:38:49 GMT

To anyone who has downloaded the file TREK0404.ZIP from the
../Games/
directory in the atari section of atari.archive.umich.edu, and not
been able to get it to work, here is the reason!

The files need to be put into directories, as such:/

Create directory called STARTREK
In this directory create 3 other directories, called GRAPHICS, SAVEGAME,
and SAMPLES
In the STARTREK\GRAPHICS\ directory, put all files ending in PUT
(Copy *.PUT into that directory)
In the STARTREK\SAMPLES\ directory, put all files ending in SMP
(Copy *.SMP into that directory) - also, copy the BASCODE.EXE file into it!
In the STARTREK\SAVEGAME\ directory, if you wish to start the game
anew, then don't copy anything into this, and lose the GAME.0?? files,
as well as the HISTORY files!

Into the STARTREK\ directory, copy the TREK0404.PRG file, and if you
wish, the TREK0404.DOC file.   (Sorry  ^^^^^^^^^^^^ should be
STKW0404.PRG!)

After copying these files into the correct directories, the game will
then load & run correctly!

(I'm not the author - just someone who was determined to make it work!)

~~~
From [e-mail] (Dzung T. Hoang)
Subject: Atari ST stuff for sale
Date: Sat, 1 May 1993 05:47:58 GMT


I have two Atari ST systems plus software for sale.

    Atari 1040STf w/ 1M RAM, 720K floppy        $150
    Atari 520ST w/ 1M RAM*, modulator, 360K floppy    $50
        * piggyback memory addon, flakey
    Atari SM124 monochrome monitor, unmodified    $75
    Atari SC1224 color monitor            $100
    720K external floppy, home upgraded        $40
    homemade adapter for multisync monitor         $15
    Epyx joystick                    $5
    GEM Programming book                $5
    lots of Start disks and games (original disks)    free*
        * will split between systems

Will split shipping with buyer.
--
----------------------------------------------------------------------------
Dzung T. Hoang                Graduate Student
[e-mail]            Brown University, Providence, RI
----------------------------------------------------------------------------

~~~
From [e-mail] (Adam Pelled)
Subject: Re: How is Falcon030 doing in Europe?
Date: Sat, 1 May 1993 03:57:24 +0000



In article <1rridj$[e-mail]>, [e-mail] (Len
Stys) writes:
>
>
>How is the Falcon030 doing in Europe?
>
>The reason I ask is that Atari is supposely making around 50,000 of these
>systems each month.  And since none are in the U.S. besides developers
>and dealer units, I'm wondering where they are all going?
>
>There has to be around 250,000 out there so far.
>
>How are they doing NEAR you?  Dealers?

 Yup, loads.

 i hear they _are_ in the U.S though. You say different...

Adam.


~~~
From [e-mail] (Adam Pelled)
Subject: Re: 16Mhz feed on STf
Date: Sat, 1 May 1993 03:57:29 +0000



In article <[e-mail]>, [e-mail]
(Michael Schwingen) writes:
>In <[e-mail]>,
>Adam Pelled ([e-mail]) wrote:
>
>AP> There is 16MHz from the shifter chip. (pin 39)
>
>Don't use that for own expansions, unless you absolutely need a phase-
>synchronous 16MHz clock. That signal is very weak and can cause trouble
>if it has to drive an additional load.

 i did say it should be buffered i think. Or maybe i didn't here.

 Actually there is no chance i will do any such thing for the simple reason
that i have an STe with the combined mmu/blitter. Do you know of a 16MHz source
on such a machine.

>For HD Floppy support, it is best to use an integrated 16MHz quarz
>oszillator - these are cheap and provide a good quality signal.

 i wanted to keep component count down. But i suspect you may be right.

 Here in England nothing is cheap. (except words ;-)

~~~
From [e-mail] (Adam Pelled)
Subject: Re: 16Mhz feed on STf
Date: Sat, 1 May 1993 03:57:29 +0000



In article <[e-mail]>, [e-mail]
(Michael Schwingen) writes:
>In <[e-mail]>,
>Ralf von Gunten ([e-mail]) wrote:
>
>RvG>Eventually you can also make an automatic step-rate adjust (but this is
well
>RvG>done (i believe so) by the Ajax floppycontroller)
>
>The Ajax does nothing different than the 1772, so there is no automatic
>step-adjust. You have to add a MMV with just a bit less than 3ms
>pulswidth which is triggered by the STEP signal from the FDC. Then, when
>the MMV is active, you have to supply 8MHz to the FDC.

 What is an MMV ? <FX: penny drops>.... Monostable multivibrator ?

 i was just going to have a 6ms step rate. i can't visualise exactly what you
are saying: Some kind of delay before you switch step rates i gather ?

 Adam.

~~~
From [e-mail] (Haim S. Poretsky)
Subject: Strange Filestats
Date: Sat, 1 May 1993 04:40:17 GMT

I hope that this isn't a FAQ, but after reading the FAQ file (although it
was a few weeks ago), I don't remember seeing anything...

Anyway, I've noticed that about .5MB is missing from my HD partition.  How?
Well, when I have NeoDesk look at my MegaFile 30's C partition (a little
under 10MB), it tells me:
    81 folders
       577 files
     2 hidden files
       183 bytes in hidden files
(here's the good part...)
 9,951,232 total bytes
 8,120,342 bytes in files
 1,443,840 bytes free

BUT, 9951232 minus 8120342 in files SHOULD give me 1,830,890 bytes free.  I
realize that some of this is taken up by allocation space by folders, but
still, this is a lot of wasted space.  Is there anything that I can do
to regain some of this space--I'm starting to run out of room...

Thanks for any free advice.  Oh, I've got a MegaST2 with TOS 1.2.

                Sol Poretsky
                [e-mail]

~~~
From <[e-mail]> ()
Newsgroups: comp.music,rec.music.makers.synth,comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: FALCON COMPATIBILITY

Does anyone know if Dr T's M, Music Mouse and Passport - Mastertracks Pro
will run on FALCON 030???

I asked Dr. T and they could not tell me anything.

Regards, Bo

~~~
From [e-mail] ()
Date: 1 May 1993 09:48:20 GMT

In article <[e-mail]>, [e-mail] (Alex
Kiernan) writes:
>In article <[e-mail]> [e-mail] writes:
>
>>RAM TOS 8.8.85, 11/20/85, 2/6/86.
>>
>>TOS 1.00 1.02 1.04 1.06 1.62 2.05 2.06 3.01 3.05 3.06 4.00 4.01 4.02 4.04
>
>I think you left out 1.06 (part 1), and 1.06 (part 2), 3.00, and 4.03.
>Sure all developer only versions (apart from 1.06/2), but then again
>so were 4.00 and 4.01.
>
>--
>Alex Kiernan
>[e-mail]


Yes but don't forget that the firsts Falcons came out with TOS 2.07..??


And there were 2 versions of TOS 1.4, the later was called Rainbow TOS..


But then again the Amiga has had some 1000 of versions, far more than the
Atari..

Roger............          [e-mail]


~~~
From [e-mail] (wayne.a.booth)
Subject: Re: Any US Falcons Yet?
Date: Sat, 1 May 1993 11:47:24 GMT

> In article <[e-mail]> [e-mail].
edu writes:
> >
> >How do Atari dealers survive without CPU's to sell for most of the time.  I
> >bet they are Amiga dealers too and are moonliting as Atari dealers.  Atari
> >dealers can't survive without the Amiga...

Sorry to disappoint you, but there are NO Amiga's in Don's store.  Now
what were you betting?                Wayne

~~~



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