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- Info-Atari16 Digest Tue, 21 May 91 Volume 91 : Issue 287
-
- Today's Topics:
- . . . MEGA ST 4 Sale . . .
- Atari Mortis (2 msgs)
- gcc 139 from atari.archive
- Graphical User Interface BBS list (i.e. Call For Submissions)
- Hookup through stereo system?
- In search for a curses package for Atari ST.
- onlyste.lzh (2 msgs)
- PD fonts for Calamus reqd
- Professional Gem series, the p
- Publishers
- Spectre 3.0
- Success Ed !
- UnStuffit and UnBinHex for Unix
- Using Mac fonts
- vro_cpyfmt() blues (3 msgs)
- WordPefect 2.0 for the Mac and Spectre
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-
- Date: 20 May 91 20:42:56 GMT
- From: hpl-opus!hpspdra!freds@hplabs.hp.com (Fred Saavedra)
- Subject: . . . MEGA ST 4 Sale . . .
- To: Info-Atari16@naucse.cse.nau.edu
-
- For sale Mega2ST
-
- I have a Mega2ST with:
- -Both Monitors
- -1200 baud modem
- -20 meg HD
- -Monitor master switch
- -Word Perfect
- -VIP speadsheet
- -A couple of games
- -Personal Pascal
- -Tackle Box for Personal Pascal
- -and other misc stuff
-
- Please, make me an offer
-
- send email to freds@hpspdra.hp.com
-
- I'm located in Palo Alto CA.
-
- thx Fred
-
- ------------------------------
-
- Date: 21 May 91 12:17:21 GMT
- From:
- noao!ncar!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!usc!snorkelwacker.mit.edu!ira.uka.de!fauern!faui43
- .informatik.uni-erlangen.de!csbrod@arizona.edu (Claus Brod)
- Subject: Atari Mortis
- To: Info-Atari16@naucse.cse.nau.edu
-
- carter@cat23.cs.wisc.edu (Gregory Carter) writes:
-
- >Thats its. I HATE ST application software, except for Turbo C, probably the
- >most ingenious piece of software I have seen for the ST.
-
- So you've probably not seen much yet.
-
- >GEM, God, did anybody preview what kind of REAL DOG MULTI-GEM is? Atari
- >I HOPE will look elsewhere, you people REALLY don't want this, I would take
- >a UNIX command line over MULTI GEM! Hopefully atari will be realistic and
- >go the UNIX/MOTIF route.
-
- I like GEM. I _need_ MultiGEM. GEM does almost anything the MacOS will do
- for you. MultiGEM will do almost anything a Mac with MultiFinder does for
- you. So how can you tell us nobody wants a multitasking TOS?
-
- >GEM is brain dead, it never will amount to anything. I wish I could reclaim
- >my ROM space IMMEDIATELY.
-
- It's not brain dead. It works. It's quite fast, if you compare it with Windows.
- It's easy to program. And I like it. Please don't think ATARI must be
- a bunch of fools just because they don't follow your way of thinking.
-
- ----------------------------------------------------------------------
- Claus Brod, Am Felsenkeller 2, Things. Take. Time.
- D-8772 Marktheidenfeld, Germany (Piet Hein)
- csbrod@medusa.informatik.uni-erlangen.de
- Claus Brod@wue.maus.de
- ----------------------------------------------------------------------
-
- ------------------------------
-
- Date: 21 May 91 18:35:40 GMT
- From:
- noao!ncar!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!swrinde!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!wuarchive!psuvax
- 1!psuvm!dbngmd13!dmswwu1c!onm07@arizona.edu (Julian F. Reschke)
- Subject: Atari Mortis
- To: Info-Atari16@naucse.cse.nau.edu
-
- In article <1991May18.024738.571@daffy.cs.wisc.edu>, carter@cat23.cs.wisc.edu
- (Gregory Carter) says:
- >I think Atari will survive if they gradually enable their machines to run
- >MAC software at least more easily, so Dave doesn't have to work so hard :).
- >The MEGA STE with the LAN ports for AppleTalk sure helps
- >
- I disagree totally. Why should someone buy an Atari when he really wants
- to run MAC software. Atari will only survive, if their own operating system
- can compete. With things like FSMGDOS and a multitasking TOS in development..
- Don't forget: TOS is 32 bit clean NOW, and you can easily run TOS software
- on a 16MB machine.This is really nice for image processing and DTP.
-
- >I can tell everyone right now. They only reason why I bought an atari was:
- >
- >1) Turbo C 2.0 (I have several personal projects going)
- >2) Mac Emulation (Which takes care of the serious side of computing)
- >
- >Thats its. I HATE ST application software, except for Turbo C, probably the
- >most ingenious piece of software I have seen for the ST.
- >
- I like Turbo C, too. But it's just an absolutely normal GEM application,
- just a SciGraph, Gemini, Rufus, Interface, Script and many other fine
- GEM based programs.
-
- >GEM, God, did anybody preview what kind of REAL DOG MULTI-GEM is? Atari
- >I HOPE will look elsewhere, you people REALLY don't want this, I would take
- >a UNIX command line over MULTI GEM! Hopefully atari will be realistic and
- >go the UNIX/MOTIF route.
- >
- What's the problem with Multi-GEM?
-
- >GEM is brain dead, it never will amount to anything. I wish I could reclaim
- >my ROM space IMMEDIATELY.
-
- If you say things like that, you have to give reasons. Comparing GEM with
- Windows or Motif, there are a lot of good things both VDI and AES, and
- it will someday more than one GEM program at once, I see no problems at
- all.
-
- Note: as far as I know, with Motif you simpla don't have a _virtual_
- device concept: you simply can NOT redirect screen output to metafiles
- or printers.
-
- >
- >THANK GOD for Dave Small. I would kiss his hiney if he was here, as I finally
- >managed to pick up a Spectre GCR.
- >
- >All praise Gadgets by Small.
- >
- >Now Dave, I WANT a 68030/040 option for my VME equipped MEGA STE!!!
- >
- >I also want it less than $1000 please.
- >
- >--Gregory
-
- All I hear is: `I want'. Sure: a TT/040 with multitasking TOS, able to
- run all MAC programs (what about SunOS and NextStep) would be a fine
- thing...
-
- ------------------------------
-
- Date: 21 May 91 12:45:56 GMT
- From:
- noao!ncar!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!swrinde!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!sol.ctr.columbia
- .edu!src.honeywell.com!msi.umn.edu!cs.umn.edu!simvax.labmed.umn.edu!davidli@ari
- zona.edu
- Subject: gcc 139 from atari.archive
- To: Info-Atari16@naucse.cse.nau.edu
-
- In article <ENTROPY.91May18063243@wookumz.gnu.ai.mit.edu>,
- entropy@gnu.ai.mit.edu (maximum entropy) writes:
- > setenv GCCEXEC c:/gnu/bin/gcc-
-
- > This really should be in the faq posting if it isn't already. Could
- > whoever is maintaining it put a note in about this?
-
- It already is. Also note that the original posting about "Getting GCC 1.39
- up and running" (which I posted about a month ago) also has GCCEXEC plainly
- definied with a trailing '-' ... primarily because this is the way that the
- GNU.G file for the Gulam shell was set up.
-
- --
-
- David Paschall-Zimbel davidli@simvax.labmed.umn.edu
-
- ------------------------------
-
- Date: 21 May 91 12:11:22 GMT
- From:
- noao!ncar!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!swrinde!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!rpi!uupsi!dorsai
- !bigd@arizona.edu (David Shapiro)
- Subject: Graphical User Interface BBS list (i.e. Call For Submissions)
- To: Info-Atari16@naucse.cse.nau.edu
-
- THE GUI-NET BBS LIST
- The Official Listing of BBSs Supporting Graphical User Interfaces
- Ver. 1.0 Rel. 1
- 5\01\91
-
- Copyright (c) 1991 David Shapiro
- All rights reserved.
-
- The Gooey (GUI) BBS
- 212-876-5885 9600 CSP
- PCRelay IDCODE ->GOOEY
-
-
-
- DISTRIBUTION
- ------------
-
- This list may be distributed and copied for non-commercial
- use, as long as the Gooey (GUI) BBS is given credit and its
- data phone number is disclosed (212-628-5486).
-
-
-
- DISCLAIMER
- ----------
-
- The BBSs in this listing have not necessarily been verified.
- Inclusion in this listing simply means that the information
- supplied by the sysop of the listed BBS has provided
- information which would entail the suitability of his system
- for being labled as a "Graphical User Interface supporting
- BBS." Therefore, there are no warranties that the systems
- listed are operating or are as described. Thus, The Gooey BBS
- and its affiliates will bear no responsibility for errors
- contained, and all warranties are hereby disclaimed.
-
-
-
- SUBMISSIONS
- -----------
-
- The information listed in this listing must be provided by
- the owner, sysop, or cosysop of the BBS in question. This is
- the only check that I have on the information I obtain. As
- much of the following as possible should be sent:
-
- BBS Name
- Owner's Name
- Sysop's Name
- Phone Number(s) and Corresponding Modem Type
- BBS's City and State/Province, Country
- System Configuration:
- Hard Drive(s) Space and Type
- CD-ROMs? and Software
- LAN? Type
- BBS Software Type
- # of Nodes
- Subscription Required? (Rates/False)
- Networks the BBS is part of:
- Network Address (Fido/UUCP/PCRelay ID/etc.)
- Focus:
- Windows OS/2
- Amiga Atari ST
- Macintosh X/Windows / DESQview
- GEOS Ensemble Deskmate
- NeXT Sun
- etc.
- Additional Comments:
- Hours Open, etc.
-
- Submissions can be mailed over the INTERNET to
- bigd@dorsai.com; sent to David Shapiro, routed to ->GOOEY
- in the RelayNet (RIME) Common conference, the Intelec
- PCRelay or Windows Conferences, or the MIDILink common conf.
- Submissions can also be sent in any GUI-Net conference, or
- by logging onto the Gooey (GUI) BBS @ 212-876-5885 (9600
- CSP) with the name "GUILIST" and the password "SUBMISSION"
- and filling out questionnaire #10.
-
- If any information becomes outdated, or if the BBS is no
- longer in operation, or if a new category of information
- is developed, notification of the new information
- would be beneficial to all.
-
- ------------------------------
-
- Date: 21 May 91 14:54:38 GMT
- From:
- noao!asuvax!ncar!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!swrinde!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!wuarchive
- !uwm.edu!psuvax1!psuvm!dbngmd13!dmswwu1c!zvd007@arizona.edu (Ulrich Kuehn)
- Subject: Hookup through stereo system?
- To: Info-Atari16@naucse.cse.nau.edu
-
- In article <1991May18.153315.47847@cc.usu.edu>, slqn0@cc.usu.edu says:
- >
- > Is there a fairly easy way to run the sound from a 1040ST through a
- >stereo system? Can it be done through the MIDI ports? I was just looking a
- >friend's Amiga, and thought how much better Atari sound would be if it could
- >be
- >hooked up in a similar fashion.
- >
- It can be done, but not with the MIDI port: the sound of the soundchip is
- available at a pin at the monitor port (the manual says whichone it is, I cant
- remember it now), so all you have to do is just plug in an interfacebox
- (selfmade) or put a cynch-plug into you atari (I have done so) connecting it
- with the outputpin at the monitor plug, its really easy to do and it sounds
- great!!
-
- U. Kuehn
-
- ------------------------------
-
- Date: 20 May 91 18:14:39 GMT
- From:
- noao!ncar!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!swrinde!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!rpi!uupsi!tfd!af
- p!gna!frmug!elrond@arizona.edu (Bertrand Petit)
- Subject: In search for a curses package for Atari ST.
- To: Info-Atari16@naucse.cse.nau.edu
-
- I am searching a surses package (in C source code format) for the
- Atari ST. It would be great if this package can handle termcaps but i can live
- without this.
-
- Please don't post a follow-up because i don't read all of theses
- news-groups so e-mail me!
-
-
- --
- | Bertrand Petit | Signature is under construction |
- | alias | |
- | >Elrond le demi-Elfe< | Be sure to wear your helmet |
-
- ------------------------------
-
- Date: 20 May 91 22:57:27 GMT
- From: taco!taco.cc!twmanino@mcnc.org (TONY W MANINO)
- Subject: onlyste.lzh
- To: Info-Atari16@naucse.cse.nau.edu
-
- Has anyone got this working? I got an error during the unlzh...
-
- Is there something special I should do, or is it corrupted?
-
-
- Thanks,
- Tony
- twmanino@eos.ncsu.edu
-
- ------------------------------
-
- Date: 21 May 91 05:53:15 GMT
- From: ucdavis!csusac!csuchico.edu!ekrimen@ucbvax.berkeley.edu (Ed Krimen)
- Subject: onlyste.lzh
- To: Info-Atari16@naucse.cse.nau.edu
-
- In article <1991May20.225727.17400@ncsu.edu> twmanino@eos.ncsu.edu writes:
- >Has anyone got this working? I got an error during the unlzh...
-
- I think I got an error during the unlzh as well, but I tried to unMSA it
- to disk and it worked, but locked up prematurely. The result is that
- the big demo works fine, but there's a newer(?) version of Esion also
- on the disk, and I get two bombs when I run it.
-
- >
- >Is there something special I should do, or is it corrupted?
- >
-
- I downloaded it twice and got the same result each time.
-
-
- --
- ||| Ed Krimen [ekrimen@ecst.csuchico.edu or al661@cleveland.freenet.edu]
- ||| Video Production Major, California State University, Chico
- / | \ SysOp, Fuji BBS: 916-894-1261
- ONE WEEK UNTIL GRADUATION!!
-
- ------------------------------
-
- Date: 21 May 91 11:51:44 GMT
- From:
- noao!ncar!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!swrinde!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!samsung!know!plu
- to.hemel.bull.co.uk!keithb@arizona.edu (Keith Bedford)
- Subject: PD fonts for Calamus reqd
- To: Info-Atari16@naucse.cse.nau.edu
-
- Does anyone know of ftp sites holding PD fonts for Calamus?
-
- Please reply email to below address, and thanks in advance!
- ==============================================================================
- Keith Bedford keith.bedford@hemel.bull.co.uk
- England +44-442-232222 ext 4520
- ==============================================================================
-
- ------------------------------
-
- Date: 21 May 91 11:17:26 GMT
- From:
- deccrl!bloom-beacon!eru!hagbard!sunic!mcsun!ukc!strath-cs!rmacgreg@decwrl.dec.c
- om (Sorcerer)
- Subject: Professional Gem series, the p
- To: Info-Atari16@naucse.cse.nau.edu
-
- Yeah, but it ain't source code (so I can't put it in .sources) and it ain't
- binary (so I can't put it in .binary) so where else is there for it?
-
- The Sorcerer is 'Only visiting this planet' but can be found at:
-
- JANET: cadx862 @uk.ac.strathclyde.computer-centre-sun
- rmacgreg@uk.ac.strathclyde.computer-science
- INTERNET: via nsfnet-relay.ac.uk BITNET: via ukacrl UUCP: via ukc.uucp
-
- or second star to the right and straight on 'till morning.
-
- ------------------------------
-
- Date: 20 May 91 17:13:52 GMT
- From:
- noao!ncar!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!swrinde!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!think.com!cass.m
- a02.bull.com!mips2!bull.bull.fr!corton!mcsun!ukc!icdoc!syma!grahamt@arizona.edu
- (Graham S Thomas)
- Subject: Publishers
- To: Info-Atari16@naucse.cse.nau.edu
-
- From article <1991May16.140706.26180@menudo.uh.edu>, by uace0@menudo.uh.edu
- (Michael B. Vederman):
- >
- > If anyone wants to keep tabs or follow the creative forces that were once
- > Antic software, then buy AutoDesk software. Many of the Atari greats from
- > Antic work there (Tom Hudson, Jim Kent, Gary Yost, etc...)
- >
- > - mike
-
- Pardon my ignorance, but I don't know anything about AutoDesk software.
- Assuming AutoDesk is a company, what do they produce? (If it's a
- product, what is it?)
-
- I asked a question recently about Tom Hudson's whereabouts, but got no
- reply. I know Mike Vederman's usually very good about passing on
- information, so I'm wondering if my messages are getting out to the
- world. If you have time, and live in (let's try to restrict this) the
- Southern or Western USA, could you please mail me a *short*
- acknowledement that you've seen this message? Thanks.
-
- Graham
- --
- Graham Thomas, SPRU, Mantell Building, U of Sussex, Brighton, BN1 9RF, UK
- Email: grahamt@syma.sussex.ac.uk Phone: +44 273 678165 Fax: .. 685865
-
- ------------------------------
-
- Date: Tue, 21 May 91 17:26
- From: WOODALLP%VAX1.COMPUTER-CENTRE.BIRMINGHAM.AC.UK@pucc.PRINCETON.EDU
- Subject: Spectre 3.0
- To: INFO-ATARI16@naucse.cse.nau.edu
-
- Hi, I have just bought a second hand (maybe second user to U.S. folk)
- Spectre GCR, it came with version 2.0 software, I realise we are now on 3.0
- so I have a few questions.
-
- 1) What are the advantages of 3.0 over 2.0
-
- 2) Where do I get 3.0, does Dave allow users to pass them amongst themselves
- or is that not on. If it is on can some UK user with 3.0 (or even 2.65) get
- in touch with me and I will reimburse all costs. If the upgrade has to be
- done via Dave, where do I contact him, is he still at 40 W. Littleton Blvd
- etc.
-
- 3) Cool manual!!!
-
- Phil Woodall
- WOODALLP@UK.AC.BHAM.VAX1
- WOODALLP@UK.AC.BHAM.IBM3090
-
- 021-414-4348
- University of Birmingham, Elec Eng Dept, Birmingham, England
-
- Home: 1 Yarner Close
- Dudley
- West Midlands
- DY1 2UR
- ENGLAND
-
- Pleeeeeeeeeese help!!!! (especially in the U.K.)
-
- ------------------------------
-
- Date: Tue, 21 May 91 10:08 MET
- From: ALBERT JOCHEMS <TC3_JOCHEMS%HRO.nl@pucc.PRINCETON.EDU>
- Subject: Success Ed !
- To: info-atari16@naucse.cse.nau.edu
-
- Success with your graduation.
-
- Success with your graduation,
-
- Albert Jochems ....Email TC3_JOCHEMS@HRO.NL
-
- ------------------------------
-
- Date: Tue, 21 May 91 10:58:41 WET DST
- From: "Ian McCall (Scorpion)" <csd015@central1.lancaster.ac.uk>
- Subject: UnStuffit and UnBinHex for Unix
- To: Info-Atari16@naucse.cse.nau.edu
-
- Recently someone mentioned that it was possible to get hold of these
- from archive sites. Which archive sites? I don't know many for Unix, so
- if someone could either tell me or give me a list of places in which to
- look I'd be grateful.
-
-
- Cheers,
- Ian McCall (csd015@uk.ac.lancs.cent1)
-
- ------------------------------
-
- Date: 21 May 91 06:03:59 GMT
- From:
- noao!asuvax!ncar!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!swrinde!cs.utexas.edu!ut-emx!ccwf.cc.utexas
- .edu@arizona.edu (Todd Drga)
- Subject: Using Mac fonts
- To: Info-Atari16@naucse.cse.nau.edu
-
- In article <301@daily-planet.concordia.ca> seldin@antares.concordia.ca (
- JONATHAN SELDIN ) writes:
- >
- >The documentation with FONTZ! gives all the necessary information
- >about this. Perhaps the most important thing to know before
- >starting is that the font files downloaded from Macintosh archive
- >sites or BBS's must be separated into files each of which
- >contains one size and style of one font....
-
- [description of lots of frightening (to me) stuff deleted]
-
- >--
- >Jonathan P. Seldin
- >Department of Mathematics seldin@alcor.concordia.ca
- >Concordia University, Montreal seldin@vax2.concordia.ca
-
- Well, after reading all of that, I have decided to give up on converting mac
- fonts. I don't have and there is no way I can afford Spectre, so that blows
- the whole thing out of reach.
-
- I did find source for the unbinhex and unstuffit programs at
- sumex.stanford.edu (thanks to the person who suggested it) along with some
- other mac conversion programs.
-
- The good thing to come out of my abortive attempt is that I compiled my
- first programs on the Sparc here at school. (this is coming from an
- dictionary-definition end user, so its a big deal to me)
-
- Thanks to everyone who helped me out. Maybe someday I'll be able to afford
- Spectre. (hah, right!)
-
- Todd
-
- --
- = INTERNET-> tdrga@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu (Todd Drga, UT Dept. of Drama) =
- = =
- = ' The dry grass will set fire to the damp grass ' =
- = =
- = African proverb brought to the Americas by slaves =
-
- ------------------------------
-
- Date: 21 May 91 10:46:17 GMT
- From:
- noao!ncar!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!swrinde!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!think.com!snorke
- lwacker.mit.edu!ira.uka.de!fauern!faui43.informatik.uni-erlangen.de!lsmichae@ar
- izona.edu (Lars Michael)
- Subject: vro_cpyfmt() blues
- To: Info-Atari16@naucse.cse.nau.edu
-
- I have some problems with the VDI function 'copy raster opaque'.
-
- I tried to save ( and restore later) a rectangular area of the
- hi rez screen.
-
- I've used follwing routine:
-
- VOID copy_block(dest_adr, src_adr, x, y, w, h)
- BYTE *dest_adr;
- BYTE *src_adr;
- WORD x, y, w, h;
-
- { WORD line;
- MFDB dest_mfdb;
- MFDB src_mfdb;
- WORD pxyarray[8];
-
- line = (Getrez()==2)?80:160; /* get number of Words in scanline */
- src_mfdb.fd_addr = src_adr;
- src_mfdb.fd_w = work_out[0]+1;
- src_mfdb.fd_h = work_out[1]+1;
- src_mfdb.fd_wdwidth = line;
- src_mfdb.fd_stand = 0; /* use device specific format */
- src_mfdb.fd_nplanes = 4>>Getrez();
- pxyarray[0] = x;
- pxyarray[1] = y;
- pxyarray[2] = x+w+3;
- pxyarray[3] = y+h+3;
-
- dest_mfdb = src_mfdb; /* dest_mfdb is identical .. */
- dest_mfdb.fd_addr = dest_adr; /* except the address */
- pxyarray[4] = x;
- pxyarray[5] = y;
- pxyarray[6] = x+w+3;
- pxyarray[7] = y+h+3;
-
- (VOID) v_hide_c(VdiHandle);
- vro_cpyfm(VdiHandle, 3, pxyarray, &src_mfdb, &dest_mfdb);
- (VOID) v_show_c(VdiHandle, 0);
- }
-
- The routine will be entered by a call like
-
- copy_block(Logbase(), temp, xdial, ydial, wdial, hdial);
-
- Now, can someone tell me, what's wrong ?
-
- ---
-
- Lars
-
- +----------------------------------------+----------------------------------+
- | lsmichae@faui43.uni-erlangen.de | | | | |
- | Lars Michael | | | | "Down with ATARI, |
- | Graduate Student of Computer Science | / | \ Long live the ST !" |
- | at University of Erlangen/Germany | / | \ |
- +----------------------------------------+----------------------------------|
- | "May the Schwartz be with you!" |
- +---------------------------------------------------------------------------+
-
- ------------------------------
-
- Date: 21 May 91 12:23:04 GMT
- From:
- noao!ncar!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!usc!snorkelwacker.mit.edu!ira.uka.de!fauern!faui43
- .informatik.uni-erlangen.de!csbrod@arizona.edu (Claus Brod)
- Subject: vro_cpyfmt() blues
- To: Info-Atari16@naucse.cse.nau.edu
-
- lsmichae@immd4.informatik.uni-erlangen.de (Lars Michael) writes:
-
- >VOID copy_block(dest_adr, src_adr, x, y, w, h)
- > BYTE *dest_adr;
- > BYTE *src_adr;
- > WORD x, y, w, h;
- >
- >{ WORD line;
- > MFDB dest_mfdb;
- > MFDB src_mfdb;
- > WORD pxyarray[8];
- >
- > line = (Getrez()==2)?80:160; /* get number of Words in scanline */
-
- Using Getrez() here is a major sin. You can calculate them from work_out[0],
- and you can even forget about these parameters if you use the method
- suggested below.
-
- > src_mfdb.fd_addr = src_adr;
- > src_mfdb.fd_w = work_out[0]+1;
- > src_mfdb.fd_h = work_out[1]+1;
- > src_mfdb.fd_wdwidth = line;
- > src_mfdb.fd_stand = 0; /* use device specific format */
- > src_mfdb.fd_nplanes = 4>>Getrez();
-
- Again, this is a SIN.
-
- > pxyarray[0] = x;
- > pxyarray[1] = y;
- > pxyarray[2] = x+w+3;
- > pxyarray[3] = y+h+3;
-
- > dest_mfdb = src_mfdb; /* dest_mfdb is identical .. */
- > dest_mfdb.fd_addr = dest_adr; /* except the address */
- > pxyarray[4] = x;
- > pxyarray[5] = y;
- > pxyarray[6] = x+w+3;
- > pxyarray[7] = y+h+3;
-
- > (VOID) v_hide_c(VdiHandle);
- > vro_cpyfm(VdiHandle, 3, pxyarray, &src_mfdb, &dest_mfdb);
- > (VOID) v_show_c(VdiHandle, 0);
- >}
-
- >The routine will be entered by a call like
-
- >copy_block(Logbase(), temp, xdial, ydial, wdial, hdial);
-
- Don't use Logbase() in a VDI context. Just use 0L as a pointer to
- the current screen. VDI will automatically convert this to the
- actual address needed and will even fill in the word width and plane
- count parameters in the MFDB automatically!
-
- ----------------------------------------------------------------------
- Claus Brod, Am Felsenkeller 2, Things. Take. Time.
- D-8772 Marktheidenfeld, Germany (Piet Hein)
- csbrod@medusa.informatik.uni-erlangen.de
- Claus Brod@wue.maus.de
- ----------------------------------------------------------------------
-
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-
- Date: 21 May 91 13:04:50 GMT
- From:
- noao!ncar!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!swrinde!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!sol.ctr.columbia
- .edu!ira.uka.de!fauern!opal!ki@arizona.edu (Karsten Isakovic)
- Subject: vro_cpyfmt() blues
- To: Info-Atari16@naucse.cse.nau.edu
-
- In article <1991May21.104617.26475@informatik.uni-erlangen.de>
- lsmichae@immd4.informatik.uni-erlangen.de (Lars Michael) writes:
- >I have some problems with the VDI function 'copy raster opaque'.
-
- > line = (Getrez()==2)?80:160; /* get number of Words in scanline */
-
- Don't use Getrez(). This code will crash under nearly all graphics cards
- (MATRIX, MGE, OverScan, Reflex) and even on the TT.
- If you blit to / from the screen you must set fd_addr = NULL. In this
- case all other values are filled in by the VDI. You can't know how many
- BytesPerLine the actual graphics card has.
- For the 'offscreen' MFDB, you must use w/16*planes. It does not matter if
- the BPL in the offscreen area is different to the screen MFDB (As in
- OverScan mode or with the Reflex card), the VDI handles this correctly.
-
- > src_mfdb.fd_nplanes = 4>>Getrez();
-
- You get the plane count with the vq_extend call or in the AES global[10]
- array but NOT with Getrez()!
-
- >The routine will be entered by a call like
- >copy_block(Logbase(), temp, xdial, ydial, wdial, hdial);
-
- Don't intercept VDI and XBIOS calls. The Xbios calls are only for the
- 'main console' of the ST and not for a graphics card. (But most cards
- have an emulation of the calls). If you use Getrez() with a Matrix card
- installed, you will get the rez of the (probably not connected) ST-monitor.
- With Physbase(), Setpallete, Setcolor there is the same problem.
-
- >Now, can someone tell me, what's wrong ?
-
- Your main 'bug' is in the pxy array. The '+3' copys more memory lines than
- possible, so you get an bus-error in the color resolution.
-
- > lsmichae@faui43.uni-erlangen.de
-
- Karsten, ki@opal.cs.tu-berlin.de (Meet me in +Atari on IRC...)
-
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-
- Date: 21 May 91 03:08:39 GMT
- From:
- noao!asuvax!ncar!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!rpi!uupsi!rodan.acs.syr.edu!ggreenbe
- @arizona.edu (Gerald Greenberg)
- Subject: WordPefect 2.0 for the Mac and Spectre
- To: Info-Atari16@naucse.cse.nau.edu
-
- Does anybody have WordPerfect 2.0 for the Mac running on
- Spectre? I'm just wondering if it works.
- -Gerry
- ggreenbe@rodan.acs.syr.edu
-
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