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 Welcome to the Info-Atari16 Digest. The configuration for the automatic cross-posting to/from Usenet is getting closer, but still getting thrashed out. Please send notifications about broken digests or bogus messages to Info-Atari16-Request@NAUCSE.CSE.NAU.EDU. Please send requests for un/subscription and other administrivia to Info-Atari16-Request, *NOT* Info-Atari16. Requests that go to the list instead of the moderators are likely to be lost or ignored. 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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@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 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)" 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 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------ 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...) ------------------------------ 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 ------------------------------ End of Info-Atari16 Digest ******************************