Info-Atari16 Digest Mon, 29 Jul 91 Volume 91 : Issue 413 Today's Topics: 1040STe questions (3 msgs) A Decent Debugger Interface (was Re: An idea for DC Software? (wish list)) Atari stuff for sale! atarivir file (2 msgs) digittal sample playback question HELP!!! with lharc (2 msgs) Idea for a program (maybe DC?) (2 msgs) Introduction of a new user NEW NEW MEGA STE problem? Power supply for Atari DS and SS disk drive Reset-Proof Ramdisk Spectre GCR Turbo-C (2 msgs) Which archiver ? (Was: use unl ... Zoo 2.1 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. If you want to unsubscribe, and you're receiving the digest indirectly from someplace (usually a BITNET host) that redistributes it, please contact the redistributor, not us. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: 29 Jul 91 17:32:10 GMT From: kira!news@uunet.uu.net (Robert B. Pegram) Subject: 1040STe questions To: Info-Atari16@naucse.cse.nau.edu From article <1991Jul28.222059.4531@world.std.com>, by azog@world.std.com (azog-thoth): > > Well, in a few weeks, I will have the money to purchase a new 1040STe > to replace my lightning-struck 520STfm, and wanted to ask a few > questions... (had to sell one of my beloved pdp-11s to get the money) > > Anyways. I know the 1040STe can use SIMMs for memory upgrade, and > I am curious as to the difference between 1m*8 and 1m*9 SIMMs. > Is there any pin difference? If I plug in a 1m*9 into a 1040STe, > what will happen? Will it work, and just ignore the extra bit? Yes, it will work and ignore the parity bit, I got mine off of the net and they are working fine. Better than before actually, since Spectre screens were showing patterns of stuck bits in my original memory. Do note, you lose your 90 day guarantee if you do it yourself (the tell-tale sticker must be removed 8-). > > Also. can the 1040STe use the 1mb TOS parts, that are found in the > Megas? Reason I ask is I would like the TOS in a Mega, but cant > afford a Mega STe! (1040STe for about $380, Mega-2 STe for about $1300, > yes I relize its got a hard drive, but I cant get that kinda cash) You mean the TOS ROMS... Mega STE ROMS (TOS 2.0x) might work, if there are only two of them. You'd probably lose the analog joystick port support, and the ROMS are not officially available. Earlier TOSes won't work at all (including TOS 1.4), and are less good than the TOS 1.62 that comes with current machines. Some programs don't know about 1.62 yet - pinhead 1.8, an STE demo program - nothing catastrophic. Good luck, post your experiences if you succeed please. > I mostly do MIDI with some other 'hacking' (Ive thought before my > 520ST died, and after, about an Amiga, its does have some nice > gee-whiz features, you must admit, but Ill stick with Atari, thank > you) > > Also, I see lots of complaints about problems on Mega STe's, and > am wondering if any big time major bugs live in the 1040STe? > I wont be using Spectre or anything fancy like that... Spectre works just fine. I do suffer from the DMA sound/shifter problem documented by Lars Erik Osterud. It's annoying, but not fatal - unless it stops you from seeing Spectrum pictures. I run a mono machine for now. > Thanx You're welcome. > > +---------------------------+-----------------------------------------------+ > | Billy D'Augustine | I beg to differ! | > | azog@world.std.com | -- Prong -- | > +---------------------------+-----------------------------------------------+ Bob Pegram pegram@{griffin,kira,newton,sadye}.uvm.edu or !uvm-gen!pegram ------------------------------ Date: 29 Jul 91 21:51:31 GMT From: noao!ncar!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!ub!galileo.cc.rochester.edu!uhura.cc.roches ter.edu!lchd_ltd@arizona.edu (----* Ho Ling Cherd *----) Subject: 1040STe questions To: Info-Atari16@naucse.cse.nau.edu In article <1991Jul29.173210.7577@uvm.edu> pegram@kira.UUCP (Robert B. Pegram) writes: >From article <1991Jul28.222059.4531@world.std.com>, by azog@world.std.com (azog-thoth): >> >> Well, in a few weeks, I will have the money to purchase a new 1040STe >> to replace my lightning-struck 520STfm, and wanted to ask a few >> questions... (had to sell one of my beloved pdp-11s to get the money) >> >> Anyways. I know the 1040STe can use SIMMs for memory upgrade, and >> I am curious as to the difference between 1m*8 and 1m*9 SIMMs. >> Is there any pin difference? If I plug in a 1m*9 into a 1040STe, >> what will happen? Will it work, and just ignore the extra bit? > > Yes, it will work and ignore the parity bit, I got mine off of >the net and they are working fine. Better than before actually, since >Spectre screens were showing patterns of stuck bits in my original >memory. Do note, you lose your 90 day guarantee if you do it yourself >(the tell-tale sticker must be removed 8-). >> Does thos SIMMs for IBM and Mac work on Atari Ste? What should I look for to endure a 1 Mag SIMM work on my 1040 Ste? Thanks Ling Cherd ------------------------------ Date: 29 Jul 91 22:21:43 GMT From: IFI.UIO.NO!larserio@ucbvax.berkeley.edu (LarsErikOsterud) Subject: 1040STe questions To: Info-Atari16@naucse.cse.nau.edu The "MEGA STE bug" does give flicker on Spectrum512 pictures, but if you replace the chip every thing is 100% ok. The MEGA STE is a *GREAT* machine And BTW - The MEGA STE TOS (2.05) works in standard STE's (it actually checks for the MEGA STE hardware before it uses it :-) A friend of mine got it to work on a standard ST too (this involved some serious hacking, but :-) Lars-Erik / Registered Developer / ABK-BBS +47 2132659 / ____ ______ 0sterud / w/ Atari Scandinavia / larserio@ifi.uio.no / /___ / __________/ _______________________/ ______________________/ ____/ / ------------------------------ Date: 29 Jul 91 16:17:00 GMT From: noao!ncar!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!usc!aero-c!quark2.aero.org!heirich@arizona. edu (ALAN HEIRICH) Subject: A Decent Debugger Interface (was Re: An idea for DC Software? (wish list)) To: Info-Atari16@naucse.cse.nau.edu In article <4638@motcsd.csd.mot.com>, lance@motcsd.csd.mot.com (lance.norsko writes... >You want to get UPS from the University of Kent. >Check ARCHIE for the exact machine. > >UPS is 10 times better than DBX, SDB, GDB, and that ilk. > >It has an Ansi C interpreter built in; you can type in code, >splice it in, and hit the GO button. Very very slick. > >Lance Sounds great, I would like to get it. But where? These directions are from from explicit... (what is ARCHIE?) ------------------------------ Date: 30 Jul 91 02:47:07 GMT From: noao!ncar!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!swrinde!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!uakari.primate.w isc.edu!aplcen!boingo.med.jhu.edu!haven.umd.edu!umbc3.umbc.edu!umbc5.umbc.edu!c huck@arizona.edu (Chuck Rickard) Subject: Atari stuff for sale! To: Info-Atari16@naucse.cse.nau.edu I have the following ST equipment for sale: Atari SC1224 Original JVC Model $275 Beautiful condition Brilliant display Includes cable and power cord Please make another if you don't like the price! Also, trades are welcome! Currently looking for (IBM parts) ATI 8514/A video card, Hercules Graphics Station, SCSI CD-ROM units, BIG SCSI hard drives, Laser Printers, and any other weird or unusual IBM & Atari ST products. Also, shipping and COD charges (if necessary) are not included in the price. Thanks! Chuck Rickard (chuck@umbc5.umbc.edu) -- Chuck Rickard (chuck@umbc5.umbc.edu) ------------------------------ Date: 30 Jul 91 02:30:53 GMT From: ccncsu!lamar!sytang@purdue.edu (Shoou-yu tang) Subject: atarivir file To: Info-Atari16@naucse.cse.nau.edu A group of Gremany is cataloging and testing virus for various computer which including ST. They published the ST file in Feb.91 and stored in their FTP server in uni-hamburg.de . To make it availble to more ST user, it has been send to atari.archive.umich.edu and shall be availible soon. It currently contain description of 20 virus including what configuration of hardware the virus attack, the trade mark of the attack and the prevention. Oh, file is atarivir.791 (which should be atarivir.291 to be correct, atarivir. a89 was old file so should be disgard). Tang sytang@lamar.colostate.edu ------------------------------ Date: 30 Jul 91 04:44:45 GMT From: noao!ncar!csn!ccncsu!lamar!sytang@arizona.edu (Shoou-yu tang) Subject: atarivir file To: Info-Atari16@naucse.cse.nau.edu After read the files found out that new file did not including those in the old files, so the complete catalog consists of 4 file: atarivir.a89,.789,.690 and .291 total 20 virus from these 4 files. Tang sytang@lamar.colostate.edu ------------------------------ Date: 29 Jul 91 16:07:14 GMT From: noao!ncar!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!sdd.hp.com!hp-pcd!hpmcaa!patrick@arizona.edu (Patrick Hawke) Subject: digittal sample playback question To: Info-Atari16@naucse.cse.nau.edu > Try to look at NT_COMP at atari.archive.umich.edu in the sound/player directory. > NT_COMP will load and play the file, but more interestingly there is source > to all kinds of player hardware, ROM port, Printer port, STe DMA and the good > old standard ST soundchip... How do you get the printer port to output. Is there a schematic for an interface? I would assume it was just some DAC chip on the parallel lines. Anybody have information on such a critter? *Patrick ------------------------------ Date: 28 Jul 91 20:24:30 GMT From: mcsun!unido!horga!nathan!ue@uunet.uu.net (Udo Erdelhoff) Subject: HELP!!! with lharc To: Info-Atari16@naucse.cse.nau.edu >I have lharc 0.51 it extracts the files and gives me one unamed file but no Oh my good, stoneage is greeting... ;-) >Any ideas or someone who can tell me which version of lharc to use >would be most helpful and appreciated. Try to get LHarc 2.00 ASAP! Should be on atari.archive... /s/ -- Udo Erdelhoff ue@nathan.ruhr.de Fido: Udo Erdelhoff on 2:245/52.1 ------------------------------ Date: 30 Jul 91 04:26:44 GMT From: noao!ncar!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!usc!orion.oac.uci.edu!maxwell.oac.uci.edu!jvance1@ arizona.edu (Joachim Vance) Subject: HELP!!! with lharc To: Info-Atari16@naucse.cse.nau.edu In article <24886@shlump.lkg.dec.com> oconnor@vino.dec.com (My name is Joe O'Connor) writes: > >I'm not trying to start a falme war or anything but I need to know which lharc >will work with these 2 files: >[...] >Any ideas or someone who can tell me which version of lharc to use >would be most helpful and appreciated. I believe that UNLZH v1.72 is probably the best utility to use. It's 4 times faster at unarching .LZH files than anything else and I have never had problems with any lzh file. Probably the best all around LZH archiver is LZH11316. Joachim Vance jvance@bonnie.ics.uci.edu ------------------------------ Date: 29 Jul 91 22:15:20 GMT From: noao!ncar!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!swrinde!cs.utexas.edu!helios!etsuv2.etsu.edu!r_gam bs@arizona.edu (The Pendragon) Subject: Idea for a program (maybe DC?) To: Info-Atari16@naucse.cse.nau.edu In article <19468@helios.TAMU.EDU>, r_gambs@etsuv2.etsu.edu (The Pendragon) writes... >it. What I need is a Quota program for my HD. It would tell me how much >of the disk is used, and maybe break it down with a bar graph for each >partition. I hate having to do a 'show info' for each partition individually >then whip out the old calculator. I have a Syquest drive and ICD Host, >if it makes a difference. > Well, I'll answer my own question. first, thanks to all who so generously and promptly responded. As it turns out, there are several that do exactly what I asked. I got dskchart.arc from atari.archive and it is great. Also mentioned were diskSTAT-X and a program called FREE.PRG. Could someone please send me FREE? It sounds really good but I wasn't able to find it anywhere. //// Send EMAIL to: |Robert Gambs |||| \\\\ /// s54394gr@etsuacad.etsu.edu |Computer "Games" Major |||| \\\ // Or R_Gambs@etsuv2.etsu.edu |East Texas State University/ || \ \\ /=======================================================================\ ------------------------------ Date: 29 Jul 91 17:32:12 GMT From: aurs01!whitcomb@uunet.uu.net (Jonathan Whitcomb) Subject: Idea for a program (maybe DC?) To: Info-Atari16@naucse.cse.nau.edu In article <19468@helios.TAMU.EDU> r_gambs@etsuv2.etsu.edu writes: >I just thought of a neat idea for a program. Maybe it already exists and >if so, if someone would point me in the right direction, I would appreciate >it. What I need is a Quota program for my HD. It would tell me how much >of the disk is used, and maybe break it down with a bar graph for each >partition. MaxiFile 3 from CodeHead has such a function. It gives a bar graph for each drive (including floppy), and you may select information on any one or all of the drives. There is also a numerical display next to each bar indicating the total capacity of the drive, number of bytes used and free and the percentage of the drive used and free. Just one of many reasons to get this fine program. ********************************************************************** Jonathan Whitcomb UUCP: Alcatel Network Systems, Raleigh, NC GEnie: J.WHITCOMB3 ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 29 Jul 91 19:08:06 BRA From: Flavio Bressan <87141167%BRUFSC.BITNET@UICVM.uic.edu> Subject: Introduction of a new user To: info-atari16@naucse.cse.nau.edu Hi all, I'm a brazilian musician that is trying to decide for a new compu ter to drive the studio. I have a good idea about the situation of the Atari ST in the musical scene, but I don't know more about the Atari computer. I'd like to know about IBM PC compatibility, UNIX for Atari, hardware accessories, the differences beetwen the models ST, Mega, and TT, perspectives for the future (I hear Atari ST will be discontinued). The Atari computer is practically unknow in Brazil, and I wish a help from you. If this topics was commented in the group, tell me how to get a copy. Thanks in advance, Flavio Bressan _-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_- Flavio Bressan | ISSUES: MIDI,Music,Hard/Software,HP28S,Women,AMIGA, 87141167@BRUFSC | ATARIST,APPLEII,PC,Elec. Eng.,and much more... Grad in Electri |------------------------------------------------------- cal Engineering | -_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_ ------------------------------ Date: 29 Jul 91 12:05:48 GMT From: mcsun!hp4nl!phigate!alp!johnj@uunet.uu.net (John Janssen) Subject: NEW NEW MEGA STE problem? To: Info-Atari16@naucse.cse.nau.edu One week ago I posted the problem to the net, and as I got some messages back via email, I think It is worthwhile summarizing. I will include only two (small) letters I got, as most were either similar or not of help. Anyway, thanks everyone who reacted. > From: LarsErikOsterud > > On my MEGA STE I get the "Drive A: not ready / not responding" all the time, > but a click on "RETRY" and everything goes well. Could be a drive problem > (my first drive stopped stepping, and this one is an old one Atari had lying > around .-) > Strange, I don't get that particular message. Not at all. Except ofcourse when there is no floppy in the drive. But what I meant is, the message: "Drive A does not exist", and this does not have a "RETRY" button, only "OK" or so. And even tryinf thousands of times doesnot work out. Only cold-booting once or twice. I got a mail from John Henders: > From: John Henders > > This problem has been reported elsewhere. It seems to come from > interference from the monitor. Try spacing the monitor a few inches > above the computer or put a cookie sheet under the monitor to see if > that fixes the problem. I did, but I have only used the computer once since that, so I'm not sure that this really solves my problem. But it looks promissing. -- John Janssen Email: johnj@echo.philips.nl The Netherlands Work: +31 40 756588 Atari Mega STE, MIDI, C-lab Notator and Unitor. Priv: +31 77 513177 Astro -Birth/Place/Date/Time you > you.doc ------------------------------ Date: 28 Jul 91 14:30:49 GMT From: coplex!disk!unknown@uunet.uu.net (unknown) Subject: Power supply for Atari DS and SS disk drive To: Info-Atari16@naucse.cse.nau.edu Does anyone know how much power-supplies are for the ATARI SF314 DS drive and the ATARI SF354 SS Drive? During an elictrical storm (with the system up!) the SS drive stopped working. So I switched power supplies between the two, and found it was just a bad supply. But the bad supply must still send some strange voltage, because the drive it's hooked up to is constantly spinning with it's light lit. I've tried the drive with the good supply, and it works perfectly.. Anyone heard of this condition or have any fix for it or where and how much for a new power supply? Thanks............... -- _______________________________________________________________________________ Shawn Beltz :) :) :) The opinions expressed in this message are unknown@disk.UUCP the opinions expressed in this message are uunet!ukma!corpane!disk!unknown the opinions expressed in this message.... ------------------------------ Date: 30 Jul 91 05:24:18 GMT From: noao!ncar!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!usc!samsung!know!daemon@arizona.edu (Doug Wokoun) Subject: Reset-Proof Ramdisk To: Info-Atari16@naucse.cse.nau.edu From: pv@polari.UUCP (Paul Varn) >In article <31304@know.pws.bull.com> aa384@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Doug Wokoun) writes: >> >>From: Rod.Fulk@f24.n228.z1.FidoNet.Org (Rod Fulk) >> >>>That more sounds like a problem with your memory then a buggy program.. >> >> No, I have had the same problem with my 4160STe. It throws two >>bombs on the screen. >> >Have you also elliminated all auto/accessory incompatabilities by removing >them one by one? Even if I put Eternal first in the Auto folder, it does the bombs and the rest of the boot proceeds. The copy of Eternal I have I got as part of an archive called SYSTEM2.ARC, so I don't know how current it is. -- Doug Wokoun / / | If you don't (aa384@cleveland.Freenet.Edu) [o]-[o] | stand for something, ||| L (((( STe )))) | you will Atari / | \ S I G \___/ | fall for anything. ------------------------------ Date: 29 Jul 91 14:20:17 GMT From: sae!malay@uunet.uu.net (Bob Malay) Subject: Spectre GCR To: Info-Atari16@naucse.cse.nau.edu Hey, I just got a brand new GCR w/ROMS and I was wondering if anybody out there can give me a list of Mac goodies that I should be on the look out for, particulary, version numbers. Like what version of System/Finder is the definitive one to use? Bob Malay ------------------------------ Date: 29 Jul 91 14:41:26 GMT From: math.fu-berlin.de!unido!urmel!kaa!michaels@uunet.uu.net (Michael Schwingen) Subject: Turbo-C To: Info-Atari16@naucse.cse.nau.edu >>In Germany, the distributor of Turbo C is now Application Systems, Heidelberg >>(ASH), better: of the successor of TC called PureC. >> >>PureC is a complete development system (graphics shell-editor-Ansi C compiler- >>assembler-debugger-linker). It will cost about 400.- DM. The Developpers of >>Pure-Software have also done the developpement of TC 2.0. >>Users of Laser-C and Megamax C will automatically be offered an update to >>Pure-C. PureC is an improved version of TurboC 2.0 - they have improved compiling speed and and the help system, and a new assembler (68000-68040) is included. As an owner of TurboC2.0 ('Profi-Pack' - incl. Source-Level debugger etc.), the update would cost me 150.- DM - I think that's pretty much money for the minor improvements I would get :-( ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Michael Schwingen, Ahornstrasse 36, W-5100 Aachen, Germany michaels@messua.informatik.rwth-aachen.de PLEASE KEEP MAIL FROM OUTSIDE GERMANY SHORT-I HAVE TO PAY FOR INCOMING MAIL ------------------------------ Date: 29 Jul 91 17:06:56 GMT From: noao!ncar!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!swrinde!cs.utexas.edu!sun-barr!newstop!eastapps!ju ggler!gaudreau@arizona.edu (Joe Gaudreau (Dances with PostScript)) Subject: Turbo-C To: Info-Atari16@naucse.cse.nau.edu michaels@kaa.informatik.rwth-aachen.de (Michael Schwingen) writes: =PureC is an improved version of TurboC 2.0 - they have improved compiling =speed and and the help system, and a new assembler (68000-68040) is =included. As an owner of TurboC2.0 ('Profi-Pack' - incl. Source-Level =debugger etc.), the update would cost me 150.- DM - I think that's pretty =much money for the minor improvements I would get :-( Could you provide more information on what the update involves/costs/etc. Is there English documentation [yet] !?!?!?!? Thanx for any help. Joe -=- ------------------------------ Date: 29 Jul 91 15:37:47 GMT From: noao!ncar!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!usc!rpi!uwm.edu!psuvax1!psuvm!dearn!dmswwu1c!zvm05 5@arizona.edu (U.Kuehn) Subject: Which archiver ? (Was: use unl ... To: Info-Atari16@naucse.cse.nau.edu In article <1991Jul25.234634.8967@watmath.waterloo.edu>, ljdickey@watmath.waterloo.edu (L. J. Dickey) says: >I suppose that once someone spends a lot of time playing with three >or four different versions of lharc, they might feel comfortable with >picking one version to run on one machine and another version to run >on another. Frankly, it makes me nervous, and I dont know whose >advice to trust when it comes to picking the version of lharc to use >on my machine. What I do know is that right now, I have some ".lzh" >files around that can not be extracted by "lharc_X" and I have some >other ".lzh" files that can not be extracted by "lharc_Y". (Names >changed to protect the guilty.) > >What I would like to see now is a review by someone who does not have >an axe to grind who would advise me about the advantages and >disadvantages of the most recent lharc programs and make some solid >recommendations. I want to read a reasoned argument, and not >someone who shouts "Use X!" or "Use Y!", or "Its the best thing >since sliced bread!". Some days ago, I've got lha200 from minnehaha.rhrk.uni-kl.de; its an lharc version 2.0, so it can unpack the lh5 method which is even better in compression than the 'old' lh1 method. This version is from Th.Quester and he seems to be aware of the incompatibility problem, because he built in a switch for compatibility with those old unix-lharcs and others, which do some wrong things with the headers in the lzh file; so there should be not more problem. (but do _not_ use the lh5 method when posting something, because not everyone can unpack it) Ulrich ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 29 Jul 91 09:25:05 CDT From: Mike Dorman Subject: Zoo 2.1 To: Atari List I just tried uudecoding the binaries for Zoo 2.1 (Bill Shroka's port...) and the resulting .ZOO file isn't recognized by the version of Zoo I have on the PC. Surely you don't have to have Zoo 2.1 to unZoo the archive of Zoo 2.1? Help? Mike. ------------------------------ End of Info-Atari16 Digest ******************************