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- Info-Atari16 Digest Thu, 5 Dec 91 Volume 91 : Issue 639
-
- Today's Topics:
- Atari's Cartridge port???
- Atari 520 STe
- Atari Sys 5 Unix- any owners out there? (2 msgs)
- CACHEXXX.PRG Where can I find it?
- Drive reading problem
- HELP: Mouse is flaky.
- Intermittent Boot Problem on MEGA4 (2 msgs)
- Rufus 1.06
- SCSI Hostadapter fuer ST
- Should someone buy an ST now?
- ST on stage
- ZAL
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- Date: 5 Dec 91 15:02:56 GMT
- From: math.fu-berlin.de!fauern!LRZnews!NewsServ!colina@uunet.uu.net (Curtis
- Colina)
- Subject: Atari's Cartridge port???
- To: Info-Atari16@naucse.cse.nau.edu
-
- In article <1991Dec5.114052.2142@darwin.ntu.edu.au>, topfm@darwin.ntu.edu.au
- writes:
- |> Can any-one help me with this.
- |>
- |> Looking at the cartridge port of the ST i can find 16 data connections
- |> but only 15 addresses.
- |>
- |> I want to be able to both read and write to the cartridge port. Also I can
- |> find no reference to the speed of the cartridge port.
- |>
- |> Rob.
-
- There's a problem with reading _and_ writing to the cartridge port.
- But a German Organization has actually managed to read AND write by a mean
- trick,
- you must read a special adress, which gives the device online the hint, that you
- want to transmit data and the data is in one of the registers.......
-
- So no easy solution to that one....
-
- Dossi....
-
- ------------------------------
-
- Date: 5 Dec 91 18:42:52 GMT
- From:
- noao!ncar!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!mips!atha!aunro!ersys!mforget@arizona.edu
- (Michel Forget)
- Subject: Atari 520 STe
- To: Info-Atari16@naucse.cse.nau.edu
-
- kurto@cache.usu.edu (869883 Olsen Kurt_Consultant) writes:
-
- >
- > Hello,
- >
- > Can somebody tell me about the 520 STe? Meaning: what kind of
- > disk drive? Memory expansion capabilities? Tos version? Anything else
- > exciting?
- >
- > The reason that I'm asking is that I'm looking at expanding the
- > memory on my 1040 ST, and got to thinking that it could be nearly the
- > same price to buy a 520 STe and a couple megs of SIMMS. Plus I'd get
- > the latest TOS, right?
- >
- > Thanks,
- >
- > Kurt Olsen
- > kurto@riverheights.declab.usu.edu
-
-
- Well, the 520STe is the same as the 1040Ste in most respects. It has
- stereo sound capability, but I think you have to provide your own
- speakers. You can use the regular Atari monitors on it as well. The
- internal drive is double sided, and it has 512 K of memory. You can
- expand the memory cheaply because of the type of memory it uses. The TOS
- version is 1.60 (or 1.62). Not the latest, or even close. Some of the
- nicer features of the machine include playing music in the background and
- having the Blitter chip. You should also consider that upgrading your
- old system is also a viable option. If you can find good deals, that is.
- I'm going to follow that path instead of buying an entirely new computer.
- For $600, I will have a 4 MEG machine that runs at 16 MHZ. If I am lucky
- and Atari gave me a model with the capacity for a Blitter chip, then I
- can add that for roughly $50. Stereo sound can be purchased on a
- cartridge, but I'm not sure how good it is. Some cartridges aren't
- supported by the MOD file players while some are. Either way, I don't
- listen to music that often (from the cuputer at any rate) so it isn't a
- major concern. To sum all this up, you should buy an STe is you don't
- want to upgrade your old machine or that avenue isn't open to you. The
- STe is a great computer, and worth the price. But if you can upgrade
- your old machione, go for it. I'm saving close to $700 by upgrading.
- The only things I won't get by doing this are Stereo Sound (and DMA
- sound, I suppose) and possibly the Blitter chip. I don't play many game
- though, so the Blitter chip might not be as useful to me as you would
- think. The Blitter chip is also useful for emulating big screens
- (another thing I don't do, but could be useful to you) or certain
- graphics operations. A nice chip, but not really a neccessity.
-
-
- << ------------------------------------------ >>
- << mforget@ersys.edmonton.ab.ca >>
- << ersys!mforget@nro.cs.athabascau.ca >>
- << Michel Forget >>
- << "Do not meddle in the affairs of Wizards, >>
- << for they are not happy campers!" - UNKNOWN >>
- << ------------------------------------------ >>
-
- ------------------------------
-
- Date: 4 Dec 91 20:59:13 GMT
- From: charon.amdahl.com!amdahl!JUTS!duts!kls30@uunet.uu.net (Kent L Shephard)
- Subject: Atari Sys 5 Unix- any owners out there?
- To: Info-Atari16@naucse.cse.nau.edu
-
- In article <1991Nov29.142127.25333@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu> jppg9764@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu
- (John Paul Pietrzak) writes:
- >Since I have access to the local NeXT price list at UIUC, I can offer some
- >additional facts:
- >In article <1991Nov29.074441.15954@cis.ohio-state.edu>
- tbrown@tortoise.cis.ohio-state.edu (ted croft brown) writes:
- >>
- >>In the US at least, the NeXT looks like a great deal. About $5K will get
- >>you an 040, a 2 bit 17" greyscale monitor, 20M RAM and 600Mg HD, and scads of
- >>software. But those are student prices buying Memory and Hard Drive from
- >>Second sources.
- >
- >Yes, you can't quite get such a good system directly from NeXT. The closest
- >thing, in terms of a NeXTstation directly from the company, is $5948 for
- >16 megs RAM and 400 meg HD. An equivalent NeXTcube is $2000 more. NeXT's
- >most competitive pricing occurs with the base NeXTstation, which has the '040,
- >8 megs of RAM and a 105 meg HD, at $3498. Although this would normally be a
- >serious contender to the market which Atari seems to be aiming for, the 105
- >meg HD severely constrains the applications which you can run, as the operating
- >system will take up much of that space. You (apparently) almost have to
- >purchase another 100-200 megs of HD storage in order to run it comfortably as
-
- Come on now. Any UNIX system running a GUI will need 200-300megs of
- disk space to run well. This is not exclusive to NeXT.
-
- >a stand-alone unit. (Now, connected to a network is another matter... :)
- >Also, the NeXTstation has no slots, presumably as it is meant mainly for
- >being part of a network (You connect all your devices to the server, and
- >have the nodes of the network send their data to it).
- >
-
- Not really true. What kind of devices do you want to connect? You have
- a SCSI port, a DSP port, and serial ports. Most devices that people use
- can be connected to one of these.
-
- >(Disclaimer-- These are student discount prices at UIUC, I cannot guarantee
- >that they bear any relationship to the world at large.)
- >
- >Personally, I would love to get a NeXTcube, with 16 megs of RAM and 400 meg HD;
- >unfortunately, this setup costs $8048 from NeXT, and I calculate that it would
- >take me approximately 2.25 years at my current level of income, penny pinching
- >all the way, in order to afford that kind of system. By then, I assume I will
- >want something different...
- >
- >I think Atari can compete successfully with people who prefer an even
- >lower-priced Unix workstation than NeXT offers.o
-
- I don't think so. Atari has no machine that has the performance. Don't
- forget UNIX itself will cost money.
- >
- >John "Sorry to digress" Pietrzak
-
-
- --
- /* -The opinions expressed are my own, not my employers. */
- /* For I can only express my own opinions. */
- /* */
- /* Kent L. Shephard : email - kls30@DUTS.ccc.amdahl.com */
-
- ------------------------------
-
- Date: 5 Dec 91 15:10:00 GMT
- From:
- noao!ncar!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!swrinde!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!wupost!darwin.su
- ra.net!Sirius.dfn.de!chx400!bernina!neptune!pseemann@arizona.edu (Patrick
- Seemann)
- Subject: Atari Sys 5 Unix- any owners out there?
- To: Info-Atari16@naucse.cse.nau.edu
-
- In article <4352@krafla.rhi.hi.is> adamd@rhi.hi.is (Adam David) writes:
- >The glossy brochures mention 64-bit wide memory. If the TT fast-ram is
- >64 bits wide at 16 MHz then this would be equivalent to 32-bit RAM at
- >32 MHz. Does anyone know the REAL story?
-
- As far as I know, only the video RAM is accessed 64-bit wide.
-
- >The ROMs are a real bottleneck though, 32 bits wide at 8 MHz. - or is some
- >other hidden factor at work to improve these figures?
-
- The ROMs are slow. But there are at least two programs which copy the
- contents of the ROM to fast RAM and change the corresponding page
- table entries. Makes the TT quite a bit faster :-)
-
-
- --
- gruss, Patrick
- --
- "The universe is full of magical things, patiently waiting for our wits to grow
- sharper." -- Eden Phillpots
-
- ------------------------------
-
- Date: 5 Dec 91 16:18:48 GMT
- From: van-bc!jonh.wimsey.bc.ca!jhenders@uunet.uu.net (John Henders)
- Subject: CACHEXXX.PRG Where can I find it?
- To: Info-Atari16@naucse.cse.nau.edu
-
- In <3127@wet.UUCP>, Ed Krimen writes:
-
- >You may also want to try Cold Hard Cache 3.5, if it works on the TT; I'm
- >sure it would though. It's cachev35.lzh on atari.archive.
- >
- >CACHExxx will still "thrash" your disk around since it doesn't cache THAT
- >much. CHC will buffer more. I used it before I ran ICD's software (with
- >their host adapter, which is required).
- >
-
- Cachexxx will not " trash" your disk if you make it big enough. It's
- one of the only caches I found which could be made to buffer the directories
- of 6 - 8 10 meg partitions at once. Whether this is a valid test or not,
- I don't know. I would like a cache program which worked like the Laser C 2
- shell, keeping entire files in memory during assemblies and linking, as well
- as keeping the binaries in memory. A ramdisk is inefficient, but no cache
- I've found can do what I want.
- But try this with any cache program. Show info on one partition,
- then the second, then the first, then the third, and so on. Keep making
- the cache bigger until all partitions can be shown and the first is still
- entirely in memory ( no disk activity on show info ). I found cachexxx
- did this on my system when set to 320. ( 4 meg is good for something after
- all.) This also had the effect of keeping smaller programs resident so
- using them several times required no disk accesses either.
- ICD's cache only allows the fat and data buffers to be set to 99,
- almost a third less than what works for this test. It allows multiple
- caches, but I've yet to find a combo which works as well as the above
- mentioned set-up.
- However, memory is necessary. On my 4 meg machine, once I've got
- the caching set up, Gemini running, and a comfortable Harlekin
- configuration, I usually have about 2 meg of tpa left. ;-)
- But I can shell out of an editor, run compiles and links and never get
- out of memory errors, so I guess 2 meg is enough. And of course, the
- machine runs about as fast as it can, though when I installed as ADSpeed,
- it was even nicer. Note, I haven't tried Gnu programs under this set-up.
- I might have to cut back on memory usage if I wanted to run g++ or
- gnu emacs.
- Has anyone else tried similar " tunee-ups" ?
-
-
-
- --
- John Henders jhenders@jonh.wimsey.bc.ca
- MIND over MIDI Productions or ubc.cs!van-bc!jonh!jhenders
- Vancouver,B.C
-
- ------------------------------
-
- Date: 5 Dec 91 15:29:17 GMT
- From:
- noao!ncar!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!swrinde!cs.utexas.edu!qt.cs.utexas.edu!zaphod.mps.
- ohio-state.edu!magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu!dhbutler@arizona.edu (David Butler)
- Subject: Drive reading problem
- To: Info-Atari16@naucse.cse.nau.edu
-
- >Recently I have been having problem reading some Mac disk under
- >my A drive of my 1040Ste using Spectre. I get disk unreadable etc
- >message very often. However everything is fine when I switch the
- >disk to my external drive. So, I assume that somethign is wrong with
- >my A drive. However, nothing starnge happen when I am using the A
- >drive under Atari mode. Could somebody point me out
- >what could be wrong with the drive?
-
- Well, the Megas had problems with shielding (mine does)... I suppose there
- could be a similar problem in your 1040. If this is the problem, shielding your
- drive cables (you have to open the box) with aluminum foil, and then wrapping
- that in some kind of tape to avoid shorts, will usually solve the problem.
-
- OR... You may be able to adjust your potemeter... There are instructions on how
- to do this in the Spectre manual. My potemeter has to be all the way to the
- right to get my dirve to read/write disks well. What you do is remove the top
- of the GCR, and, using a small screwdriver and a very gentle touch, rotate the
- only thing in there that looks like it can be rotated. Don't try this if you
- are a terminal clutz :-) While running the FULL disk test on a good (high
- quality) floppy disk, adjust the potemeter. The GCR disk test program comes
- with your spectre software. The results should get better/worse depending on
- where you set the potemeter. If you are really lucky you may find a setting
- that both of your drives work on. However, I've never met anybody who had much
- success at this, you will probably have to settle for one drive or the other
- functioning correctly with mac disks.
-
- Good Luck...
-
- Can we put this on an FAQ list somewhere (whatever those are and wherever one
- finds them)?
-
- By the way, you really should read my cool .sig file ;-)
-
- - David Butler - dhbutler@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu
-
- -once I was the one you wanted so bad
- just a little more than you ever had
- like adam & eve, paradise is sad
- I need a holiday from you
- I need a little more room to move
- suffocation's on the loose - - Willie Phoenix -
-
- ------------------------------
-
- Date: 5 Dec 91 16:24:30 GMT
- From: van-bc!jonh.wimsey.bc.ca!jhenders@uunet.uu.net (John Henders)
- Subject: HELP: Mouse is flaky.
- To: Info-Atari16@naucse.cse.nau.edu
-
- In <1991Dec5.044757.18250@muddcs.claremont.edu>, Corey Liu writes:
- >My original ST mouse (1988) is acting flaky. The
- >pointer will only move down when I direct it upwards
- >or downward. Right/left motion is fine.
- >
- >I've noticed a gradual decay of its behavior over the
- >past week where it would move the pointer only down
- >sometimes, but now it seems stuck in the downwards
- >mode.
- >
- >Is anybody familiar with this problem? Is it just the
- >untimely death of my ST mouse? Is it a virus?
-
- This sounds like the photo transistor degradation I posted
- on several months ago. Did anyone keep a copy of that message,
- I as I didn't? Basically, the photo-transistor changes over time
- until the resistor biasing it no longer supplies enough impedance.
- Upping the impedance will fix the problem for a while, but the
- transistor will continue to drift.
- Best solution is a Golden Image mouse, as after a week, you'll
- never go back.
-
- --
- John Henders jhenders@jonh.wimsey.bc.ca
- MIND over MIDI Productions or ubc.cs!van-bc!jonh!jhenders
- Vancouver,B.C
-
- ------------------------------
-
- Date: 5 Dec 91 14:51:10 GMT
- From: mcsun!uknet!qmw-dcs!icdoc!syma!jimsk@uunet.uu.net (Dr J E F Skea)
- Subject: Intermittent Boot Problem on MEGA4
- To: Info-Atari16@naucse.cse.nau.edu
-
- A friend has left me with his Atari Mega 4 (bought in the STates) to
- test, claiming that it wouldn't boot off his hard disk, and could I
- test it with another hard disk please. Duly done, I find that it will
- boot first time about 20% of the time, about 30% of the time it will
- drag itself up on the 2nd-5th attempt, and the other 50% of the time it
- bombs out.
-
- As it doesn't seem to be a hard disk problem, I'm supposing it's a CPU
- fault. Does this behaviour ring any bells out there? I seem to recall
- earlier messages on faulty chips (though I think they were for the
- ST-FM so I didn't pay too much attention).
-
- Thanks in advance for any info
- --
- Jim Skea :jimsk@uk.ac.susx.syma
- (or for all those who drive on the wrong side of the road)
- Jim Skea :jimsk@syma.susx.ac.uk (JANET)
-
- ------------------------------
-
- Date: 5 Dec 91 19:31:25 GMT
- From:
- noao!ncar!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!sdd.hp.com!think.com!yale.edu!cs.yale.edu!fischer-
- michael@arizona.edu (Michael Fischer)
- Subject: Intermittent Boot Problem on MEGA4
- To: Info-Atari16@naucse.cse.nau.edu
-
- In article <1991Dec5.145110.23800@syma.sussex.ac.uk> jimsk@syma.sussex.ac.uk (Dr
- J E F Skea) writes:
- >A friend has left me with his Atari Mega 4 (bought in the STates) to
- >test, claiming that it wouldn't boot off his hard disk, and could I
- >test it with another hard disk please. Duly done, I find that it will
- >boot first time about 20% of the time, about 30% of the time it will
- >drag itself up on the 2nd-5th attempt, and the other 50% of the time it
- >bombs out.
- >
- >As it doesn't seem to be a hard disk problem, I'm supposing it's a CPU
- >fault. Does this behaviour ring any bells out there? I seem to recall
- >earlier messages on faulty chips (though I think they were for the
- >ST-FM so I didn't pay too much attention).
- >
- >Thanks in advance for any info
-
- Both of my Megas are this way on reboots. They generally boot okay
- initially if I power up the hard disk first, wait until it spins up
- and completes its internal tests, and then power on the CPU. But
- reboots often fail, and the only "solution" I know is to keep
- rebooting.
-
- I too vaguely recall something a long time ago about faulty chips or
- faulty component values in the reset circuit. Does anyone remember
- what the fix was?
- --
- ==================================================
- | Michael Fischer <fischer-michael@cs.yale.edu> |
- ==================================================
-
- ------------------------------
-
- Date: 5 Dec 91 13:50:23 GMT
- From: mcsun!sun4nl!alchemy!accucx!jeroen%phil.ruu.nl@uunet.uu.net (Jeroen
- Scheerder)
- Subject: Rufus 1.06
- To: Info-Atari16@naucse.cse.nau.edu
-
- [Stuff deleted]
-
- > >
- > >It was supplied in German. I translated the binary and the resource
- > >and I'm now working on the documentation.
- > >
- > >Soon Rufus 1.06 will appear on The Archive (behold!) with both the
- > >german and the english version of the binary, and german, dutch and
- > >english resource files.
- > >
- > >Expect it by the end of the first December week :-)
- >
- > A VERY bad idea. First of all, DON'T create new distributions without
- > contacting the author first.
-
- In principle I agree; but after searching *very* hard for recent Rufus versions
- (using archie) and came up with zip.
- I found only an 'old' 1.04 that I uploaded unchanged to atari.archive.
- Then someone told me a Dutch BBS had 1.06; I uploaded (using Uniterm...)
- and read the documentation with the sole purpose of contacting the authors
- as Julian Reschke - the famous author of the Profibuch - suggests.
- I did not find any way of contacting them - apart from writing to the German
- bank the shareware fee must be paid to.
-
- So I tried to change the package as little as possible, only translating
- german strings to english ones, testing identical behaviour of both english
- and german version after each modification.
- Only when I felt sure the functionality of the program had not been altered
- I decided to give other people a chance to profit from my tedious work too.
-
- However, the distribution package I made contains the full original package
- I received - I only *added* my modifications to it.
- My intentions never were to infringe on any copyrights or anything, and I tried
- to remain as close to the original package as humanly possible.
- >
- > Second, Rufus 1.10 will be shipped in a few weeks and an english version
- > will exist right from the start.
-
- Sure. But then again, the Rufus 1.04 version I found two weeks ago was created
- very very long ago (1990, as I recall) - and it was not easy to locate even
- that very old version!
-
- >From German magazines I already knew for quite a while about more recent
- versions being available - although they never appeared anywhere on the
- Internet.
-
- I gave up hope on 1.10 appearing within reasonable time and I thought I took
- appropriate measures. I am sorry to have offended anyone by doing so.
-
- Now if someone *would* be as kind as to make Rufus 1.10 available noone
- would have to do the things I did, now would they?
-
- Regards, Jeroen.
-
- ------------------------------
-
- Date: 5 Dec 91 17:16:40 GMT
- From: infonode!tensmekl@uunet.uu.net (Kermit Tensmeyer)
- Subject: SCSI Hostadapter fuer ST
- To: Info-Atari16@naucse.cse.nau.edu
-
- In article <mk.691337786@elwood> mk@Materna.DE (Michael Kuschke) writes:
- >
- >Hallo,
- >
- >ich ueberlege gerade ob ich mir eine SCSI-Platte an meinen ST haenge. Da
- >ich mich leider auf dem ST-Markt nicht besonders gut auskenne hier meine
- >Fragen:
- >
- > Was darf ein SCSI-Hostadapter fuer den ST kosten ?
- > Gibt's empfehlenswerte oder weniger empfehlenswerte Adapter ?
- > Welche Software sollte man einsetzen ?
- > Was ist sonst noch in diesem Zusammenhang interessant ?
- >
-
- proably the best ST - SCSI interface is the ICD interface set.
- The best cost (American) that I have seen is around $95.
-
- If you want to find only German sources for your ST, may
- I suggest that you limit the distrubution of your posting.
- >
- > Besten Dank fuer etweiige Antworten,
- >
- Tis nicht's ciao
- > -Mic
- >
- >--
- >Michael Kuschke e-mail : mk@materna.uucp
- >Dr. Materna GmbH Voice : +49 231 5599 200
- >Vosskuhle 37 FAX : +49 231 5599 100
- >D-4600 Dortmund 1, West Germany
-
-
- --
- Kermit Tensmeyer | Intergraph Corporation
- SomeWhere in the South (it's a Civilized place) | "It's only MY opinion"
-
- ------------------------------
-
- Date: 5 Dec 91 16:55:40 GMT
- From: faatcrl!cciolori@rutgers.rutgers.edu (cciolori)
- Subject: Should someone buy an ST now?
- To: Info-Atari16@naucse.cse.nau.edu
-
- Instead of bickering over which computer is better, I would like to ask
- what machine you would recommend to a friend, family member, etc. Limit
- the choices to something the average Joe could afford. For example, a
- $10,000.00 SPARC station is out of reach to 99.9% of home users(and
- overkill too). I don't want to put any hard limit on cost, like say
- $3000.00 and under...use your own discretion and explain.
-
- As for me....
- I own an ST and a Mac. I have also used PCs very extensively, as well
- as Suns and several other machines. Since a Sun is out of range, and
- a bit much for most people, I make the following recommendations.
-
- For the first time, or novice user I would recommend the Mac Classic, or
- maybe the LC. If they had a slightly larger budget I would recommend
- something in the low end Mac II range. With a printer a Classic or LC
- is under $2000.00, and there is a very large library of software for it.
- The Macs are also among the easiest to use, which is important for a
- novice user.
-
- For a more expierienced or technical user, I would recommend a PC
- compatable. The prices for PCs have dropped incredibly because of the
- competition among clone makers. You can get a lot of power for a good
- price. PCs also have BY FAR the largest software library, as well as the
- best support from third party software manufacturers. You can also get
- a very good version of UNIX for a PC..which is nice for the advanced user.
- ON THE OTHER HAND...DOS is the worst OS I have ever used...and even
- Windows is just a way to overlay DOS. If you don't like command lines
- and constantly fooling around with memory managers, etc..a PC is not
- for you. In my opinion, they are the most user UN-friendly computers
- on the market. The Commodore 64 was less frustrating.
-
- So why no ST recommendation from me?? I couldn't do that to a friend.
- Seriously. The fact of the matter is that the ST has little or no
- support in the US. Software is not easy to find, and even periodicals
- are scarce. In addition, very few large software companies make
- products for the ST. In my opinion Atari had incredible potential in
- '85-'88. They could have been big, but they screwed up in a series of
- consistently bone-headed moves. On the other hand(there is always another
- hand!) Atari STILL could pull themselves together and get back in to
- things if they really tried. There are plenty of markets to explore and
- move into if they looked. I hope they do.
-
- Chris...
-
-
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-
- Date: 5 Dec 91 12:18:22 GMT
- From: ncrcom!ncrlnk!ncrcam!mreiss@uunet.uu.net (mreiss)
- Subject: ST on stage
- To: Info-Atari16@naucse.cse.nau.edu
-
- Well, my son said he was going to post this, but he has been rather busy.
- Finals are next week for him, so I can understand. Anyway, last Saturday
- night we (wife, son, and myself) were at the Front Row in Cleveland, Ohio.
- This is a theater in the round - literally. It has a round stage that turns
- as the performance takes place. There is seating in a circular fashion all
- around the stage. In this way, you get to see the performance from all sides.
-
- Well, we were there to see the Moody Blues - YAAAH ! It was a great concert,
- if you like the Moody Blues. Anyway, the way the stage was arranged and where
- we were, facing us, almost directly on stage when we sat down, was an Atari ST.
- I had often heard of STs being involved in professional performances, but this
- was the first time I had seen one in person. I'd guess that on a regular
- stage it would have never been seen.
-
- My son went up to the stage to look at it. I believe he said it was running
- Notator software or something, I can't remember for sure. I think he said it
- was a 520 also. If I'm wrong I'm sure he'll correct me (right Joe). The
- computer seemed to be a center of interest as after he went up, we saw other
- people going up and looking at the computer.
-
- During the performance, there appeared to be little activity on the screen.
- I'd guess that the screen did not need a lot of activity for whatever was
- required of it.
-
- Enough rambling, just thought we should have some good news for a change.
-
- mike
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- Michael A. Reiss |
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- Date: 5 Dec 91 10:28:57 GMT
- From:
- noao!asuvax!cs.utexas.edu!wupost!waikato.ac.nz!comp.vuw.ac.nz!actrix!Roger.Shep
- pard@arizona.edu (Roger Sheppard)
- Subject: ZAL
- To: Info-Atari16@naucse.cse.nau.edu
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- In article <9112031656@aslan.en.open.de> sacha@aslan.en.open.de (Sacha
- Moufarrege) writes:
- > (Roger Sheppard) wrote:
- > > Does any one know what ZAL does that was posted to Binaries,
- Bits removed
- > UNARJ.TTP. For the others, LZH, ZOO and ARC I would recommend the X_SHELL
- > 2.9
- >
- > So long, Sacha
- > --
- > Sacha Moufarrege, Bergerstr. 38, W-5810 Witten 1, FR of Germany
- > eMail: sacha@aslan.ruhr.sub.org ; sacha@aslan.en.open.de
- > --> Wer 'naemlich' *ohne* 'h' schreibt ist daemlich! <--
-
- I did have a play with X-Shell but found that it did not support
- Thomas Questers Base Directory when archiving, this is the \ *.*
- thing, with the space to the right of the \
- --
- *** Roger W. Sheppard * Roger.Sheppard@bbs.actrix.gen.nz ***
- *** 85 Donovan Rd * * GEnie. R.SHEPPARD5 ***
- *** Kapiti At least I don't Flicker, ***
- *** New Zealand.. * not like a dying light globe ***
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