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- Info-Atari16 Digest Tue, 26 Nov 91 Volume 91 : Issue 619
-
- Today's Topics:
- *CHEAP* memory upgrade?
- Atari Chicago Show...if you want details Mail me.
- Atari Sys 5 Unix- any owners out there? (3 msgs)
- Binkley 3.0
- Binkley ST ?
- CS_TeX Update
- GEM multitasking under MiNT?
- HD-Disks on ST was RE:WD1772 IC
- How do I change a floppy serial number?
- How good is Hippo C ????
- Message to Julian Bean
- Mint boots Gem from wrong drive
- MULTITASKING
- OXYD, OXYD2, SPACOLA and TOS country
- Somebody's windowing system
- Spectrum 512........
- STACY 4 WANTED! Gear for sale/trade!
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-
- Date: 25 Nov 91 22:00:35 GMT
- From: hpl-opus!hpnmdla!hpsad!randyh@hplabs.hp.com (Randy Hosler)
- Subject: *CHEAP* memory upgrade?
- To: Info-Atari16@naucse.cse.nau.edu
-
- A couple months back I saw a note about a real cheap memory upgrade board
- that was advertized in Current Notes. It cost about $45. Has anyone tried
- it? I would like any information I can get.
-
- Thanks,
- Randy (cheapskate net user ;-) Hosler
-
- ------------------------------
-
- Date: 26 Nov 91 19:06:33 GMT
- From:
- noao!asuvax!cs.utexas.edu!qt.cs.utexas.edu!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!uakari.pri
- mate.wisc.edu!doug.cae.wisc.edu!carter@arizona.edu (Gregory Carter)
- Subject: Atari Chicago Show...if you want details Mail me.
- To: Info-Atari16@naucse.cse.nau.edu
-
- In article <1991Nov25.043247.3286@cs.wayne.edu> pbh@jake.cc.wayne.edu (Patrick
- Haggood) writes:
- >I just got back from the ATARI show in Chicago,; got to see the Atari
- >Unix box up close and personal. Let me tell you; IT IS REAL PRETTY!
- >I have a few questions for any owners of this machine out there, and
- >would appreciate corresponding with you about developing X applications
- >on this machine. Please email me either here or at the GENIE address
- >below. Thanks in advance.
- >
- >--
- >Genie - P.HAGGOOD2 Internet -pbh@jake.cc.wayne.edu
- >PRODIGY - Not anymore, Jackson. Bitnet - phaggoo@waynest1
- >Phone - (313) 577-0669
- >Voice - "HEY, YOU WITH THE BAGGY PANTS!"
-
- Well, the UNIX was rather interesting. I say I WAS AGHAST Atari was
- there in such STAFF NUMBERS...
-
- When I seen the Unix, I thought another machine was running it! But,
- it appears that they do have a beta version with X, along with Atari's
- own version of a widget toolset, for user interface construction and
- rapid prototyping.
-
- It looked complete, but it was a BIT slow. I don't think a TT is something
- you would want to run X on for serious applications...
-
- Now if someone made an accelerator, with a 40Mhz, or 50Mhz 030
- it would probably be fine. (MR. SMALL incidentally couldn't make it...
- rumor has it he had a cold...flu bug. I hope your feeling better Dave.)
-
- They also were showing a VME card for ethernet..which would cost $350.00
- for developers I think.
-
- They also were showing a 24 bit color VME card, which looked promising
- for about $799.00 for TT/MEga STE's.
-
- All these cards were interesting, but can YOU BUY THEM. ??? Atari says
- YES, I say NO.
-
- I bought Multi-GEM 1.02 which seemed to have matured a little bit since
- the DOGGY 1.0 version that I had seen. Unfortuneately, my software
- doesn't work with MultiGEM, which made me sort of depressed as its just
- yet another environment to support...and it looks like its HERE TO STAY.
- (I also have to add GEM calls to my nice CLEAN TOS code...ICKY UCKY OOOO.)
- (Kiss portability GOOD BYE...Smooch)
-
- Many people bought many copies of this product...it went like HOT CAKES,
- and the upgrade policy is second to NONE. But I suppose thats because
- its a European Company...(Remik Enterprises). I am always impressed
- with German/UK Software developers. Hard Working folks they ARE.
-
- As soon as I DISECT Multi GEM, I'll give a more technical review of the
- product and whether or not in my opinion we should bother with it.
- And perhaps some things too look out for in supporting TWO Multitasking
- Pre-emptive systems for the ST...Get out your Turbo Debuggers people...
- (ie MiNT better alternative...????)
-
- I was not impressed with what Atari had to say, its simply more BS to me,
- but I was impressed about how they seemed to have EVERYONE there of importance
- and, they seem to have gotten a public image face lift..since the NIel
- Harris days. I found that interesting.
-
- The Notebook. What can I say about it? Its interesting, the display
- is nice, not great but nice. The form factor is very good. Would I buy
- one though? Probably not, its neato. But the business software for
- the ST is very poor, so I would recommend a DOS notebook. Who would
- use something like this? It would be GREAT for students...do your CS
- homework ANYWHERE you want (Turbo C). It may be good for limited use as
- a word processor. I didn't get a chance, but IT MIGHT be a good MAC
- portable with a redesigned GCR specifically for it. I might buy one
- if I could use it for Mac portability. (Then of course you open up
- the business oportunities and some serious possibilities...)
-
- Its a great What if...product though.
-
- Let me see, who else was there? Gosh TONS of Lynx games comming out people.
- I almost bought a Lynx, the new one with sound. Appearently, the old Lynx
- is better designed, structurally...but not as efficient with power as the
- new Lynx's, with stereo sound. So you should get a little extra more
- battery life out of your latest model Lynx...and of course the newer Lynx's
- have the ability for you power down the backlighting, to save energy.
- Too many games to list comming out, but everyone WON'T be disappointed though.
-
- Atari's game machine. Its suppose to be 32-64 bit game system. Probably
- cost between $200.00-$275.00, and is suppose to set the video game
- industry on ear....look for it around April, or March next year.
-
- Mmmmm....well, we shall see...or maybe we won't!
-
- What was really fascinating was a new word processing program, that was
- clearly a new paradigm shift completely in how we should edit and look at
- text on the screen. It was very fast too. You could grab words and
- whole blocks of text and simply interactively, move them two any position
- you liked....I am at work, and don't have the flyer handy, but if your
- interested write me and I will fill you in.
-
- Defineately gets the most innovative award for new product.
-
- No 030 vendors at the show. This was a BIG disappointment. Obviously the
- hardware upgrade market, is very limiting on the ST..only two vendors to
- choose from for 32 bit processor upgrades, and none of them offer a 040
- alternative...thats really gonna hurt Atari UNIX.
-
- Yours truly won an XE Game system as a door prize. I wasn't overjoyed,
- mainly because they were selling them in DROVES for $25 bucks a package.
-
- I think the factory that made those probably exploded somewhere and
- thats why they have some many of them to sell so cheaply..and give away.
-
- Well, all in all a rather interesting show. Many more people were there.
- Lots of great deals on computer equipment at the swap floor, and vendors
- were selling tons of software for $5-$2000 range...I think most of them
- were laughing all the way to the bank. Best Electronics was there with
- lots of nice deals...(Could buy a replacement chip though for my Mega STE's
- VIDEO and sound problems though...)...
-
- Atari was there in full force, they supported vendors probably for the
- first time with any kind of machine requirements they needed.
-
- VERY UNUSUAL show. I enjoyed it very much.
-
- Look forward to the next one!
-
-
- -------------------------------------------------------------------------------
- Greg Carter - Undergraduate - United States Amatuer Wrestler (149.5)
- ONLY 8 months to go for State tournee - Kick Butt Time!
- -------------------------------------------------------------------------------
- Employed: Computer Aided Engineering Center - University Wisconsin - Madison
- Major: Computer Science - Emphasis: System Design Tools, User Interfaces
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- -------------------------------------------------------------------------------
-
- ------------------------------
-
- Date: 26 Nov 91 10:20:43 GMT
- From:
- noao!ncar!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!think.com!mips!swrinde!cs.utexas.edu!milano
- !cactus.org!covert@arizona.edu (Richard Covert)
- Subject: Atari Sys 5 Unix- any owners out there?
- To: Info-Atari16@naucse.cse.nau.edu
-
- In article <1991Nov25.043247.3286@cs.wayne.edu> pbh@jake.cc.wayne.edu (Patrick
- Haggood) writes:
- >I just got back from the ATARI show in Chicago,; got to see the Atari
- >Unix box up close and personal. Let me tell you; IT IS REAL PRETTY!
- >I have a few questions for any owners of this machine out there, and
- >would appreciate corresponding with you about developing X applications
- >on this machine. Please email me either here or at the GENIE address
- >below. Thanks in advance.
- >
- >--
- >Genie - P.HAGGOOD2 Internet -pbh@jake.cc.wayne.edu
- >PRODIGY - Not anymore, Jackson. Bitnet - phaggoo@waynest1
- >Phone - (313) 577-0669
- >Voice - "HEY, YOU WITH THE BAGGY PANTS!"
-
-
- I have developed under a half dozen different UNIX machines in the lasst ten
- years. All the way back to the original AT&T 3B2 when I worked at Bell Labs.
-
- I have to wonder just how serious a UNIX workstation is if it is from Atari.
-
- First, the TT is a bit underpowered seeing as how it is basically just
- a 16MHz 68030. Oh I know the CPU is running at 32MHz but the I/O buss
- is still 16MHz and UNIX is VERY I/O intensive (can you say disk swapping?).
-
- Also, their UNIX X Windows pack requires the $1,000 monochrome monitor
- as the native TT color resolutions aren't high enough to support decent
- X Windows.
-
- And Atari is shipping the GNU compilers, which while excellent are NOT
- commerically supported compilers. Try getting technical support if the
- compiler breaks and you don't have access to USENET. Do you want to spend
- your precious development time debugging your development tools or
- writing your project? Thats why you need professional, commerically
- supported compilers and debuggers.
-
- But hay, pay out the $6 to $8 grand that an Atari Sys V development
- system would cost. I would rather pay the same bucks and buy a Mac IIFX
- with Apple's A/UX. At least I know Apple will be around for awhile!!
-
- --
- Richard E. Covert covert@cactus.org
- CACTUS ..!cs.utexas.edu!cactus.org!covert
-
- ------------------------------
-
- Date: 26 Nov 91 14:09:26 GMT
- From: mcsun!unido!sbsvax!timm@uunet.uu.net (Jan Timm)
- Subject: Atari Sys 5 Unix- any owners out there?
- To: Info-Atari16@naucse.cse.nau.edu
-
- In article <9939@cactus.org> covert@cactus.org (Richard Covert) writes:
-
- And Atari is shipping the GNU compilers, which while excellent are NOT
- commerically supported compilers. Try getting technical support if the
- compiler breaks and you don't have access to USENET. Do you want to spend
- your precious development time debugging your development tools or
- writing your project? Thats why you need professional, commerically
- supported compilers and debuggers.
-
- But hay, pay out the $6 to $8 grand that an Atari Sys V development
- system would cost. I would rather pay the same bucks and buy a Mac IIFX
- with Apple's A/UX. At least I know Apple will be around for awhile!!
-
- But on the other hand: You'll never get any GNU Software for your Max IIFX
- then :-) !!!
-
- Jan
- --
- mail: Jan-G. Timm email: Jan.Timm@mpi-sb.mpg.de
- Sulzbachstr.1 timm@cs.uni-sb.de
- D-6600 Saarbruecken
- West-Germany
-
- ------------------------------
-
- Date: 26 Nov 91 14:15:28 GMT
- From:
- noao!asuvax!cs.utexas.edu!wupost!darwin.sura.net!Sirius.dfn.de!rusmv1!ttinfo@ar
- izona.edu (Markus Wenzel)
- Subject: Atari Sys 5 Unix- any owners out there?
- To: Info-Atari16@naucse.cse.nau.edu
-
- In article <9939@cactus.org> covert@cactus.org (Richard Covert) writes:
- >
- >First, the TT is a bit underpowered seeing as how it is basically just
- >a 16MHz 68030. Oh I know the CPU is running at 32MHz but the I/O buss
- >is still 16MHz and UNIX is VERY I/O intensive (can you say disk swapping?).
-
- Think of other possible Unix computers at the same price, and then you
- would not find the TT underpowered. I would never give my TT away for
- a 386 or 486 clone or a low cost Mac. Macs with the same performance are
- three times as expensive.
-
- >But hay, pay out the $6 to $8 grand that an Atari Sys V development
- >system would cost. I would rather pay the same bucks and buy a Mac IIFX
- >with Apple's A/UX. At least I know Apple will be around for awhile!!
-
- I don't know where you can buy a IIfx for the same price as an ASV
- development system. Maybe there are some differences between Germany and
- the USA, but out here the IIfx costs twice as much. But keep your
- hands off A/UX, Version 2.x is simply unbearable, and the 3.0 version
- I saw a few days ago crashed as often as System 7 :-)
- I wouldn't buy expensive computers like that if their OS is that buggy.
-
- Get ASV, if you can - me, I can't!
-
- Markus.
-
- * /dev/ Markus Wenzel, University of Stuttgart *
- * /usr/spool/mail/ wenzel@rus.uni-stuttgart.de *
- * /usr/voice/private/ +49 (0)7159 18201 *
- * /bin/ps -l TT admin on rusmv1.rus.uni-stuttgart.de *
- * /etc/motd >> We'll meet in /dev/null ...8-) << *
-
- ------------------------------
-
- Date: Tue, 26 Nov 91 10:00:44 CET
- From: Jan Kriesten <KRIESTEN%DMRHRZ11.bitnet@CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU>
- Subject: Binkley 3.0
- To: info-atari16@naucse.cse.nau.edu
-
- Hello - esp. Steven Green!
-
- It's nice to hear that Binkley 3.0 is
- coming up soon. I just like Binkley
- and would like it if you can tell me
- when finished the new release. I'm
- engaged to the fidonet, too. Just
- tell me to which node I can mail to
- you!
- I've known it for a long time -
- MS-DOS-Computer are ... :-)) !
-
- Jan ;-))))
-
- ------------------------------
-
- Date: 26 Nov 91 00:06:36 GMT
- From:
- noao!asuvax!cs.utexas.edu!qt.cs.utexas.edu!yale.edu!spool.mu.edu!olivea!isc-br!
- ewu!caude@arizona.edu (Chuck Aude)
- Subject: Binkley ST ?
- To: Info-Atari16@naucse.cse.nau.edu
-
- In article <5357@uqcspe.cs.uq.oz.au> warwick@cs.uq.oz.au writes:
- >I have heard Binkley ST (apparently it's a BBS program) is PD.
- >
- >If so, does anyone have a copy / comments on this software?
-
- BinkleyTerm is a front end mailer used with any BBS system to access networks
- based on FidoNet technology. It is widely used on both IBM and Atari systems,
- is PD and is currently undergoing a major upgrade. The current version for the
- IBM is 2.50 and the current version for the Atari is 2.41-beta15. Once the
- Atari version is completed it will be version 3.00. Both the IBM and Atari
- versions are DLable @ cyberSecT BBS (509)235-4875 and include over 200 pages
- of documentation. You may also FREQ them at 1:346/18.0 if you have access to
- a FidoNet linked BBS.
-
- Chuck Aude
- SysOp, cyberSecT BBS
-
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
- Subject: Re: Binkley ST ?
- Summary:
- Expires:
- References: <5357@uqcspe.cs.uq.oz.au>
- Sender:
- Reply-To: caude@cg2.edu (Chuck Aude)
- Followup-To:
- Distribution:
- Organization: Eastern Washington University, Cheney WA.
- Keywords: bbs
-
- In article <5357@uqcspe.cs.uq.oz.au> warwick@cs.uq.oz.au writes:
- >I have heard Binkley ST (apparently it's a BBS program) is PD.
- >
- >If so, does anyone have a copy / comments on this software?
-
- BinkleyTerm is a front end mailer used with any BBS system to access networks
- based on FidoNet technology. It is widely used on both IBM and Atari systems,
- is PD and is currently undergoing a major upgrade. The current version for the
- IBM is 2.50 and the current version for the Atari is 2.41-beta15. Once the
- Atari version is completed it will be version 3.00. Both the IBM and Atari
- versions are DLable @ cyberSecT BBS (509)235-4875 and include over 200 pages
- of documentation. You may also FREQ them at 1:346/18.0 if you have access to
- a FidoNet linked BBS.
-
- Chuck Aude
- S
-
- ------------------------------
-
- Date: 26 Nov 91 13:37:42 GMT
- From: mcsun!unido!sbsvax!timm@uunet.uu.net (Jan Timm)
- Subject: CS_TeX Update
- To: Info-Atari16@naucse.cse.nau.edu
-
- In article <RALPH.91Nov25125637@orion.laas.fr> ralph@laas.fr (Ralph P. Sobek)
- writes:
-
- In article <1991Nov07.134230.29393@cs.ruu.nl> piet@cs.ruu.nl (Piet van
- Oostrum) writes:
- |
- | Thanks. Wouldn't it be better if someone ata atari.archive merged these?
-
- No! Since then they would overflow a 720k floppy:
-
- -rw-r--r-- 1 ralph 237697 Nov 12 17:20 CS_210a.zoo
- -rw-r--r-- 1 ralph 604388 Nov 12 17:47 CS_210b.zoo
-
- I think the original author (Piet van Oostrum) meant to merge the update
- archives with the rest of the distribution. The contents of the update just
- replace some parts of the original distribution.
-
-
- Jan
-
- --
- mail: Jan-G. Timm email: Jan.Timm@mpi-sb.mpg.de
- Sulzbachstr.1 timm@cs.uni-sb.de
- D-6600 Saarbruecken
- West-Germany
-
- ------------------------------
-
- Date: Tue, 26 Nov 91 17:37:57 mez
- From: Michael Hohmuth <hohmuth@freia.inf.tu-dresden.de>
- Subject: GEM multitasking under MiNT?
- To: Info-Atari16@naucse.cse.nau.edu
-
- Karl Anders Oygard writes:
-
- > Having thought about making GEM programs multitask under MiNT, I came
- > to think of a slightly different approach to the problem. Instead of
- > trying to have GEM handle calls from several programs, one could write
- > a shell that catches all vdi calls etc. and takes care of it itself.
- >
- > This way, when a GEM program would try to open a window, the shell would
- > catch the call and open a window itself. This way, GEM would only see
- > one program and not get confused about it.
- >
- > [.....]
- >
- > Apart from that, you would have to write a shell similar to the one [ !! ]
- > that comes with MultiGem to redirect output from tos programs into [ !! ]
- > a window as well. [ !! ]
- >
- > [.....]
- >
- >Anyone want to have a go at it?
-
- Yes, there is one!
-
- I just had the same idea some days ago - and a part of the source text
- (assembler / c) is ready already. And - of course - this program (title for
- now: PRAX) will be (not public domain but) free.
-
- But there is a problem I encountered: I haven't found yet a way of handling the
- booted accessories (cause they are no real MiNT processes (I just do not know
- what they are from MiNT's point of view; they from time to time are called by
- AES which is called by the active process - so they always seem to be part of
- the active process). But I hope this will be solved soon (the simplest but also
- worst solution is to forbid accessories; another idea is to start a background
- process that cares for them). (By the way: Does anybody know in which cases AES
- switches from the current AES-process to another one? Only if a process calles
- one of the evnt_-routines?)
-
- However - is there anyboudy out there wanting to write a vt52 emulator shell
- (see the lines marked with [ !! ] above) ? It should be re-entrant (is that
- right spelled?) so that we could launch several processes using it with only
- one code copy kept in memory.
-
- Please -- you may ask me all questions concerning this project but none
- concerning the date of releasing the first distribution and none concerning my
- use of the English language (I'm just learning it...).
-
- That's all for today. Good bye.
-
- Michael Hohmuth
-
- internet: hohmuth@freia.inf.tu-dresden.de
- X.400: C=DE; A=dbp; P=TU-DRESDEN; OU=INFORMATIK; OU=serv1; S=hohmuth;
-
- ------------------------------
-
- Date: 26 Nov 91 14:39:07 GMT
- From:
- noao!asuvax!ukma!wupost!cs.utexas.edu!qt.cs.utexas.edu!yale.edu!ira.uka.de!irau
- l1!telematik.informatik.uni-karlsruhe.de!skrodzki@arizona.edu
- Subject: HD-Disks on ST was RE:WD1772 IC
- To: Info-Atari16@naucse.cse.nau.edu
-
- It also works without cooling the WD1772 down, but it must be a chip with the
- code WD 1772 02-02 others don't work properly, after you got this, what now?
- You should change the clock of the WD to 16Mhz when using a HD-Disk (of course
- you need a HD-Floppy, I'd prefer the TEAC FD235HF). Then You need a logic to
- change between 16 and 8 Mhz Clock depending on the state of the floppies
- HD-OUT-Signal. If You're interested in more a must look up the circuit at home
- before.
-
- Stephan
-
- ------------------------------
-
- Date: 26 Nov 91 08:32:37 GMT
- From:
- noao!asuvax!cs.utexas.edu!qt.cs.utexas.edu!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!hobbes.phy
- sics.uiowa.edu!moe.ksu.ksu.edu!matt.ksu.ksu.edu!news@arizona.edu (Kenneth W
- Samson)
- Subject: How do I change a floppy serial number?
- To: Info-Atari16@naucse.cse.nau.edu
-
- I am in search of a simple utility that will allow me to
- change the serial number of a disk to a value that I choose.
-
- Surely someone out there uses one.
-
- I am currently using a sector editor, and would like to know
- if there is utility to do the same in a safer manner.
-
- Thanks.
-
- Ken
-
- ------------------------------
-
- Date: 26 Nov 91 10:13:59 GMT
- From:
- elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!swrinde!cs.utexas.edu!milano!cactus.org!covert@uunet.uu.net
- (Richard Covert)
- Subject: How good is Hippo C ????
- To: Info-Atari16@naucse.cse.nau.edu
-
- In article <50740@cup.portal.com> Bob_BobR_Retelle@cup.portal.com writes:
- >>Well COMPUTE! BOOKS have a few resonable Books for the Atari, even a C
- >>one from what I have heard..
- >
- >>So there are Books available for the Atari..
- >
- >More correctly, COMPUTE! Books *used to have* a few reasonable books for
- >the Atari... they've been discontinued.
- >
- >ABACUS used to have books for the Atari... they've been discontinued.
- >
- >Prentice-Hall used to have books for the Atari... they've been discontinued.
- >
- >Bantam Computer Books used to have books for the Atari... they've been
- >discontinued.
- >
- >Sybex used to have books for the Atari... they've been discontinued.
- >
- >(You begin to get the picture...? What's wrong with this picture..?)
- >
- >BobR
-
-
-
- Yes, and just whose fault is it that ALL of these books are both
- discontinued, out of print (at least here in the USA) AND hopelessly
- out of date anyway?
-
- Does Atari Corp mean anything?
-
- But look at how Apple Corp supports their users. I just saw another
- volume of the "Inside The Macintosh" series at my local bookstore the
- other day. A massive thing probably over 1,000. That is more then ALL
- of those out of print ST books combined. And it is just ONE volume in
- the Mac series.
-
- Now if Atari Corp would have released programmers/techincal notes like
- Apple Corp does now years ago maybe the ST wouldn't be so dead here
- in the USA.
-
- I get a big laugh out of the folks who buy the German Turbo C compiler,
- with its German only docs. They buy it here in the USA, and then say, well
- German dosc are OK, just go out and buy an AES/VDI programming book.
- Well good luck trying!! My Austin bookstores haven't carried ANY ST
- books since I moved here last Winter.
-
- So, Atari Corp has failed once more. In fact the only ST book still in
- print is Clayton Walthum's excellent book. But it is just a reprint
- of his outdate "ST Log" magazine articles of 4 years ago. Another
- example of the recent up-to-date techincal resources available to
- the ST programmer.
-
- Aghh, it is so disgusting!!
-
- The ST could have been soooo goooooddddd!!
-
- --
- Richard E. Covert covert@cactus.org
- CACTUS ..!cs.utexas.edu!cactus.org!covert
-
- ------------------------------
-
- Date: 25 Nov 91 10:59:55 GMT
- From: otter.hpl.hp.com!hpltoad!ghiggins!gjh@hplabs.hp.com (Graham Higgins)
- Subject: Message to Julian Bean
- To: Info-Atari16@naucse.cse.nau.edu
-
- Apologies to usenetters for noise ...
-
- Julian, can do. My email reply to you bounced, so contact me via Royal Mail at
- Hewlett-Packard Labs, Filton Road, Stoke Gifford, Bristol BS12 6QZ.
-
- --
- Graham Higgins
- << My opinions above are exactly that: my own, and opinions. >>
-
- ------------------------------
-
- Date: 26 Nov 91 08:21:53 GMT
- From:
- noao!asuvax!cs.utexas.edu!wupost!darwin.sura.net!Sirius.dfn.de!urmel!oli@arizon
- a.edu (Oliver Bonten)
- Subject: Mint boots Gem from wrong drive
- To: Info-Atari16@naucse.cse.nau.edu
-
- simonk@castle.ed.ac.uk (Simon Kinahan) writes:
-
- > If I remember rightly this is not MiNT's fault. I think GEM always
- >tries to get the ACCs etc from drive C: or A:. There is a program
- >usually distributed with the RDE ramdisk which fixes this
-
- Well, My HD-Driver does. I have Mint in the Auto-folder of G:, and when
- booting from G:, this Auto-folder is read, Mint executed as last prg. in
- it, then Accessories and Newdesk.inf are read from C:. This must be because
- Mint either resets something or does the booting itself.
-
- Oliver
-
- ------------------------------
-
- Date: Tue, 26 Nov 91 09:34:51 AST
- From: Alyre CHIASSON <CHIASSA%UDEM@UNBMVS1.csd.unb.ca>
- Subject: MULTITASKING
- To: N <info-atari16@naucse.cse.nau.edu>
-
- I am looking at some rather intensive database manipulations
- in 4 to 5 weeks time. Multitaking looks like it would be
- a good idea in my case for that particular job and others.
- However, does it slow down the system and if so is it
- proportional to the number of jobs you have running?
- .
-
- ------------------------------
-
- Date: Tue, 26 Nov 91 17:13
- From: Roland Waldi <BD05%DKAUNI2.bitnet@CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU>
- Subject: OXYD, OXYD2, SPACOLA and TOS country
- To: Atari digest <info-atari16@naucse.cse.nau.edu>
-
- Since I -- as other people on this newsgroup --
- could not figure out how to run OXYD, OXYD2 or SPACOLA
- on my ST 1040, I phoned the author Meinolf Schneider, and got the
- following information, which may be of interest to others, too:
-
- These games do not run on TOS-versions of countries, where the
- distribution of his books is not yet settled, like UK and France.
- If you have 2 Meg and boot a German disk-TOS, you can run them.
-
- greetings, RW
-
- ------------------------------
-
- Date: 26 Nov 91 09:07:01 GMT
- From:
- noao!asuvax!cs.utexas.edu!qt.cs.utexas.edu!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!uwm.edu!og
- icse!milton!mpark@arizona.edu (Michael Park)
- Subject: Somebody's windowing system
- To: Info-Atari16@naucse.cse.nau.edu
-
- About a week ago, somebody (sorry, I don't recall the name)
- mentioned that he was trying to post a demo of a windowing system
- he had written. Does anyone know if he was successful? Has anyone
- taken a look at it?
-
-
- --
- Ciao-abunga! +-------------------------------------+
- Michael Park | This space intentionally left blank |
- mpark@u.washington.edu +-------------------------------------+
-
- ------------------------------
-
- Date: 26 Nov 91 15:10:33 GMT
- From: mcsun!uknet!warwick!kingpol!titan.kingston.ac.uk!cs_a237@uunet.uu.net
- Subject: Spectrum 512........
- To: Info-Atari16@naucse.cse.nau.edu
-
- Hi ya,
-
- Any one out there know where I can get hold spectrum 512 pictures and utilities
-
- cs_a237@uk.ac.king.ux
-
- ------------------------------
-
- Date: 25 Nov 91 17:55:28 GMT
- From:
- noao!asuvax!cs.utexas.edu!swrinde!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!uakari.primate.wisc
- .edu!doug.cae.wisc.edu!umn.edu!cs.umn.edu!kksys!tdkt!FredGate@arizona.edu
- (Chuck Zwicky)
- Subject: STACY 4 WANTED! Gear for sale/trade!
- To: Info-Atari16@naucse.cse.nau.edu
-
- I am looking for an ATARI STACY 4 computer, to buy or trade. I have
-
- a 4 MEG 1040 STe with an AdSpeed STe 16 Mhz accelerator, an ADVANTAGE ST
-
- SCSI interface and a 20 meg HD, and a monochrome monitor. I also have a
-
- number of MIDI gizmos (synths, modules, reverbs..etc) that I would be
-
- willing to trade. I also have a GREAT sequencing package for sale....
-
- Dr.T's KCS LEVEL ll WITH 'The PHANTOM' SMPTE interface! (worth over $800,
-
- will sell for $400!!) and MUCH MUCH MORE!
-
- If you are interested in any of this, or if you know of a Stacy4, PLEASE
-
- CALL!.................................................... (612) 872-6698.
-
-
- * Origin: FlightLine BBS Mpls,MN SDNet DualStd (612)544-5118 (1:282/47.0)
-
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