========================================================================= INFO-ATARI16 Digest Fri, 1 Dec 89 Volume 89 : Issue 736 Today's Topics: HELP! inaccessible file within ARChive ... Help with Uniterm 2.0e How can I get more memory? looking for a portable 68K C compiler Still searching for a TIMECLOCK cart! TOS 1.4 Where to find software (was Re: "kneecapping" and TOS piracy) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: 1 Dec 89 08:30:14 GMT From: zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!usc!cs.utexas.edu!natinst!rpp386!puzzle!khijol!erc@tu t.cis.ohio-state.edu (Edwin R. Carp) Subject: HELP! inaccessible file within ARChive ... Message-ID: <347@khijol.UUCP> In article <10148@stag.math.lsa.umich.edu> hyc@math.lsa.umich.edu (Howard Chu) writes: > >and really only a minor problem for some determined person to decrypt.) Oh, really? Would you like to post the program to decrypt an ARC file? Thank you! ------------------------------ Date: 1 Dec 89 06:32:56 GMT From: cs.utexas.edu!natinst!rpp386!mark@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu (Mark Lehmann) Subject: Help with Uniterm 2.0e Message-ID: <17388@rpp386.cactus.org> Aaron, I have noticed problems with Uniterm 2.0e also. The only way to get unstuck from the dialer is to press and hold down Alternate-H until the program runs out of retries. The modem will freak out while this is happening, but it will accomplish the goal. The problem is so frustrating that I don't use automatic redial when using Uniterm. Mark Lehmann -- +------------------------------------+-----------------------------------+ | Mark Lehmann | | | mark@rpp386.cactus.org | | | ?bigtex|texbell?!rpp386!mark | | ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 01 Dec 89 16:15:35 MEZ From: Theo Schmid Subject: How can I get more memory? In more then a few Letters I read about memory-upgrade for the ATARI ST. Now I'm interested in upgrades for an ATARI 1040 STF, the less work or money it costs, the better. Please send me all information you can mail about this. Thanks for lot of mails Theo Schmid (UZR514@DBNRHRZ1) Acknowledge-To: ------------------------------ Date: 1 Dec 89 15:11:55 GMT From: cs.utexas.edu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!db.toronto.edu!jonah@tut.cis.ohio-state.e du (Jeffrey Lee) Subject: looking for a portable 68K C compiler Message-ID: <1989Dec1.101155.27193@jarvis.csri.toronto.edu> jonah@db.toronto.edu (Jeffrey Lee) writes: >I'm looking for source to a portable C compiler. I should have mentioned that I do know about (and have) gcc. It's too big and complex for the task I have in mind. I also know about Sozobon C, but I have yet to find a copy of this that is bug-free and can be cross compiled under gcc. (The source I had seemed to expect its own Atari-based libc.a and the source for that was not part of the compiler distribution.) I need a compiler that can be run under Unix as a cross compiler AND is small enough to compile itself on a 1Meg ST with ONE 720K floppy drive. Standard K&R C preferred. --- Jeff Lee jonah@cs.toronto.edu jonah@ai.toronto.edu jonah@cs.utoronto.ca ------------------------------ Date: 1 Dec 89 06:42:55 GMT From: cs.utexas.edu!natinst!rpp386!mark@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu (Mark Lehmann) Subject: Still searching for a TIMECLOCK cart! Message-ID: <17389@rpp386.cactus.org> In article <1576@bnlux0.bnl.gov> atc@max.UUCP writes: > Do you know of any vendors that make a timeclock cartridge >for the 1040ST? A company named QMI makes a cartridge called "DeskCart!". It includes a clock and lots of desk accesorie software. The clock works fine, but the software is not good and usually doesn't work. The software does have a nice calendar function, which links to a scheduler. However, the automatic alarms on the schedulernever seems to work properly. I have DeskCart! and I have decided to just use the clock part of it. Oh, DeskCart often costs around $70 (bought mine for aout $100). Mark Lehmann -- +------------------------------------+-----------------------------------+ | Mark Lehmann | | | mark@rpp386.cactus.org | | | ?bigtex|texbell?!rpp386!mark | | ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 01 Dec 89 15:12:24 GMT From: Chris Ridd Subject: TOS 1.4 Message-ID: <8912011512.aa11864@peter.Cs.Bham.AC.UK> Does anyone know when TOS 1.4 hits the streets in the UK? Why is there such a big delay? Is Atari UK hopeless? (Yes...:-) Chris /* * Snail mail address: * Chris Ridd, "Wave after wave, each mightier than the last * School of Computer Science, 'Til last, a ninth one, gathering half the deep * Birmingham University, And full of voices, slowly rose and plunged * UK Roaring, and all the wave was in a flame" * */ ------------------------------ Date: 30 Nov 89 16:24:12 GMT From: thelake!steve@UMN-CS.CS.UMN.EDU (Steve Yelvington) Subject: Where to find software (was Re: "kneecapping" and TOS piracy) Message-ID: <1030891024122619@thelake.UUCP> In article <1349@uvm-gen.UUCP>, pegram@uvm-gen.UUCP (pegram r) writes ... > ... We can do little about those things, but >isn't there something we can do to turn around the small and >shrinking (at least in the U.S.A.) applications software base? >I can't find software titles that were out years ago, e.g. some >compilers, an on-the-fly keyboard macro program, an outliner-word >processor like More on the Mac (all there ever was was Hippo Concept), Doesn't Word Writer ST have a built-in outliner? (I don't use it.) Todd Burkey's free, portable FoldEd also works as an outline processor. >and new ones are not out there replacing them. If this doesn't >change soon I may be forced to go to permanent emulation (haven't >done it at all - yet ;-?). Constructive suggestions desired. I don't think "small and shrinking" is an accurate description of the software base. Access to the software base, however, is another matter. Atari's (IMHO ill-considered) anti-mail-order policies have driven most of the mail-order firms to simply kiss off the Atari line. Without mail-order access, you're stuck with local dealers. And local dealers of ANY persuasion are notoriously unstable, undercapitalized, understocked and underinformed. One access tool you should know about is the E. Arthur Brown catalog. Eben Brown is not an Atari hardware dealer, but rather an software dealer specializing in the Atari ST. The catalog is a 16-page tabloid newspaper, composed with PageStream, that features hundreds of items for the ST (and a few for the Amiga and IBM-PC, too). Eben has a knack for picking up closeouts, so once in awhile you'll see some VERY aggressive prices. He doesn't carry everything under the sun, but he does have an interesting assortment. Here are some items from the latest catalog (No. 24), which I received last week. All prices are U.S. dollars. Tweety Board (stereo for the ST) $24.95 IMG scanner (1000dpi, mounts on your printer) $64.95 Z-RAM 2-4mb upgrade (no chips) $129.95 Tempus II $47.95 PageStream 1.8 $119.95 Fleet Street 3.1 WITH ULTRASCRIPT $179.96 Calamus $189.95 Calamus Font Editor $64.95 Spectre GCR $249.95 --Mac ROMs $129.95 Universal Item Selector III $19.95 GFA Basic 3.0 with compiler $99.95 One of the more interesting items I noticed is SGS Net, a low-cost networking package that uses MIDI and coax cabling to connect up to 32 STs. A two-computer hookup (server and one node) is $149.95; additional nodes are $99.95 including hardware and software. I saw this at a dealer a month or so ago and flipped through the manual, which I noticed had code examples for developing network applications. Some of the oddball items I saw included a stock market-tracking package, programs to generate crossword puzzles and word jumbles, and even a needlework pattern creator (you paint the needlework on the screen with your mouse and the program prints out a counted cross-stitch pattern). The catalog includes the usual assortment of games and books, too, plus the Current Notes public-domain/shareware disks ($4 each plus shipping). To get the catalog, call (612) 762-8847 or write: E. Arthur Brown Co. 3404 Pawnee Drive Alexandria, MN 56308 Disclaimer: I have no affiliation with the above company. I have ordered items from them and found their service to be prompt, efficient and courteous. (This is generally true of Minnesota people. It's too cold to be antisocial.) I do not know their policies on shipping out of the United States. -- Steve Yelvington, up at the lake in Minnesota ... pwcs.StPaul.GOV!stag!thelake!steve (UUCP) ------------------------------ End of INFO-ATARI16 Digest V89 Issue #736 *****************************************