In article <1991Jul11.143617.11854@crash.cts.com> chuckie@pro-odyssey.cts.com (Chuck Schul) writes: >in california there is a newsmagazine for all computers called microtimes >they dropped atari coverage with no explanantion june 1991,another n >magazoine dumping us!!! >---- Well, I don't feel all that bad. I NEVER heard of 'em in the first place, so losing a magazine that is THAT popular (sure ain't Newsweek) doesn't seem like a life-threatening thing to me... Robert Anisko rjast1@unix.cis.pitt.edu ------------------------------ Date: 31 Jul 91 03:34:23 GMT From: uupsi!mpoint!dave@rice.edu (Dave Lockwood) Subject: BLACKOUTS To: Info-Atari16@naucse.cse.nau.edu chuj@spot.Colorado.EDU (CHU JEFFREY) writes: >I was wondering does blackouts have the same effect or any effect on the >hardware as do surges? The effect is generally no different than pulling the plug (which is a no-no with digital equipment because you never know what it will do for that split-second when it can't tell a 1 from a 0...disk drives are most vulnerable here (not to hardware damage, but to data-damage). HOWEVER, when the power comes back on, there is generally a surge, and yes, your surge-protector will help. I generally turn off all the equipment during a power-outage, and turn it back on only after the power has been on steady for 10 minutes. I have a UPS*, so I rarely have to shut down, and I can always do so gracefully. >Of course I do have a surge protector, but it probably didn't help any >in this situation. I might just be paranoid about this, but I'm just >cautious about my cpus. Yeah, it's paranoia, but it's healthy paranoia. :-) Some paranoids have real enemies. Atari blamed the death of my first color monitor on "not having a surge protector." Cheers! -- "There's a good creature. Let's talk | dave@msb.com (Dave Lockwood) this over. I can get you diseases! | UUCP: ...!uupsi!mpoint!dave You'd like that, wouldn't you?" | Sysop of Meetpoint Station BBS - Dr. Catheter (Gremlins II) | cat flames | mail santa@north.pole ------------------------------ Date: 29 Jul 91 13:10:40 GMT From: mcsun!ukc!sys-uea!mrh%uk.ac.uea.sys@uunet.uu.net (Mike Hinds) Subject: Chaos Strikes Back To: Info-Atari16@naucse.cse.nau.edu Yes, I know everyones finished it, but I've not had much time to play games, any way my questions. I have found a scroll which appears to have some coded information on it, can some one tell me how to read this scroll. it starts GYNRAX well something like that. What does the Gem of Ages do ? Are there four pairs of Boots of speed ? I've only found the ones near the entrence to the Demond Director. PS is there anyway of getting the oracle to tell me this sort of information ? E-mail replies rather than postings please. Thanks in Advance ------------------------------ Date: 1 Aug 91 14:02:26 GMT From: europa.asd.contel.com!gatech!mailer.cc.fsu.edu!nu!boyd@uunet.uu.net (Mickey Boyd) Subject: Custom floppy formatting To: Info-Atari16@naucse.cse.nau.edu In article <4858@beguine.UUCP>, Dan.Halevy@bbs.oit.unc.edu (Dan Halevy) writes: > >Is there a program available that will allow a standard DSDD ST drive to >read/analyse a custom format (let's say one of the many CP/M disk formats) >and then either initialize other disks with the same format, or just read/write >to this disk? > You would probably have good results by using a good commercial "backup" program (probably one of the few legitimate uses for such a binary). You could format a blank disk CP/M style, then copy it (using the "PROTECTED" mode) with ProCopy or Acopy. This should yield a working disk. -- ---------------------------------+------------------------------------- Mickey R. Boyd | "Kirk to Enterprise. All clear FSU Computer Science | down here. Beam down Technical Support Group | yeoman Rand and a six-pack . ." email: boyd@nu.cs.fsu.edu | ---------------------------------+------------------------------------- ------------------------------ Date: 31 Jul 91 16:13:14 GMT From: kira!news@uunet.uu.net (Robert B. Pegram) Subject: Help! To: Info-Atari16@naucse.cse.nau.edu From article <1991Jul31.045324.18982@noose.ecn.purdue.edu>, by whitehe@cb.ecn.purdue.edu (Drew D Whitehead): > > > Hello. I need some help. With my purchase of the Calamus Font Editor, I have > discovered that I need more than 6 Accessories. Is there any programs out > there that will allow you do add more than 6? If the people at ISD had made > the thing a PROGRAM, it would be a lot easier. > > Thanks for your help > > Drew Free (or shareware) Stuffer (by Double Click), available on atari.archive.umich.edu, or from Steve Grimm (moderator of comp.{binaries,sources}.atari.st). Commercial: Multidesk - 2.1 is last version I know of, is the best solution I think. From Codehead software, Hollywood CA (really 8-). You're welcome, Bob Pegram pegram@{griffin,kira,sadye,newton}.uvm.edu or !uvm-gen!pegram ------------------------------ Date: 1 Aug 91 02:41:12 GMT From: comp.vuw.ac.nz!actrix!Roger.Sheppard@uunet.uu.net (Roger Sheppard) Subject: Help! To: Info-Atari16@naucse.cse.nau.edu In article <1991Jul31.045324.18982@noose.ecn.purdue.edu> whitehe@cb.ecn.purdue.edu (Drew D Whitehead) writes: > > > Hello. I need some help. With my purchase of the Calamus Font Editor, I have > discovered that I need more than 6 Accessories. Is there any programs out > there that will allow you do add more than 6? If the people at ISD had made > the thing a PROGRAM, it would be a lot easier. > > Thanks for your help > > Drew There is a Good reason why the Font Editor is a ACC, it so you can change fonts even when Calamus is loaded.. Why do you need 6 ACC loaded all at once, Please explain ?? Do you use a Bootup utill like Desk Manager 33, this will let you select the TSR's and ACC that you need at bootup for each application that you wish to run, but note, only at bootup. If you do need more that 6 ACC, then get Codeheads MultiDesk and the Hotwire program, Hotwire can call MultiDesk as a application and install all the ACC that you need for a given Application with just a press of a key and at any time, not just at bootup IE, Hotwire gives you Hot Keys that can install all the ACC's needed for that Application and Install the program that you wish to run and load the document as well, all from one key press. Note: I don't work for Codehead..but I do think that they produce some good accessary programs and utilities.. -- *** Roger W. Sheppard * Roger.Sheppard@bbs.actrix.gen.nz *** *** 85 Donovan Rd * * At least I don't Flicker, not *** *** Kapiti New Zealand.. * like a dying light globe. ! *** ------------------------------ Date: 1 Aug 91 02:01:55 GMT From: noao!asuvax!cs.utexas.edu!qt.cs.utexas.edu!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!unix.cis.p itt.edu!rjast1@arizona.edu (Robert J Anisko) Subject: Help! To: Info-Atari16@naucse.cse.nau.edu In article <1991Jul31.045324.18982@noose.ecn.purdue.edu> whitehe@cb.ecn.purdue.edu (Drew D Whitehead) writes: > > >Hello. I need some help. With my purchase of the Calamus Font Editor, I have >discovered that I need more than 6 Accessories. Is there any programs out >there that will allow you do add more than 6? If the people at ISD had made >the thing a PROGRAM, it would be a lot easier. > Well, I think you can do that via Multidesk. But I believe there is a shareware DC program (rats, what's the name of it, Mike?) that lets you have up to like 32 ACC's loaded in, and a commercial version which lets you have an unlimited supply I believe. It's just what you seem to need... Robert Anisko rjast1@unix.cis.pitt.edu BTW the shareware version works with MOST ACC's, I've only run into 1 or 2 trouble ACC's that want a regular place in the ACC area... ------------------------------ Date: 1 Aug 91 14:07:28 GMT From: sample.eng.ohio-state.edu!magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu!dhbutler@purdue.edu (David H Butler) Subject: Help! To: Info-Atari16@naucse.cse.nau.edu Try Chameleon, it only loads one at a time, but lets you dump and load from desk any single DA you wish at any time, during any program etc... It takes up one slot, and will automatically load whichever DA is called CONTROL.ACX. So if you want your control panel to remain in memory all the time, then rename it to something else. Or, if you never want your control panel but want some other DA to default to that slot, then rename some other DA to CONTROL.ACX. I renamed NOTEPAD and now when the system boots up I get my five best DA's in permanent menus, plus NOTEPAD in the chameleon menu. So when I need another DA (I use this for Fontedit all the time by the way), I hold down shit-alt, pull down CHAMELEON (which unloads NOTEPAD), and then load whatever else I want. This works 100% of the time and has never crashed with any DA I have ever tried. This is far from true with the other DA-Extension type of programs I have used. GOOD LUCK David Butler (High Resolution DTP) (dhbutler@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu) ------------------------------ Date: 1 Aug 91 15:06:37 GMT From: noao!ncar!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!qt.cs.utexas.edu!yale.edu!ox.com!emory!gate ch!mailer.cc.fsu.edu!nu!boyd@arizona.edu (Mickey Boyd) Subject: Help! To: Info-Atari16@naucse.cse.nau.edu In article <1991Jul31.045324.18982@noose.ecn.purdue.edu>, whitehe@cb.ecn.purdue.edu (Drew D Whitehead) writes: > > >Hello. I need some help. With my purchase of the Calamus Font Editor, I have >discovered that I need more than 6 Accessories. Is there any programs out >there that will allow you do add more than 6? If the people at ISD had made >the thing a PROGRAM, it would be a lot easier. > >Thanks for your help > You want MultiDesk, by the Codeheads. Well worth the price! -- ---------------------------------+------------------------------------- Mickey R. Boyd | "Kirk to Enterprise. All clear FSU Computer Science | down here. Beam down Technical Support Group | yeoman Rand and a six-pack . ." email: boyd@nu.cs.fsu.edu | ---------------------------------+------------------------------------- ------------------------------ Date: 1 Aug 91 14:04:45 GMT From: europa.asd.contel.com!gatech!mailer.cc.fsu.edu!nu!boyd@uunet.uu.net (Mickey Boyd) Subject: LZH Program To: Info-Atari16@naucse.cse.nau.edu In article <1991Jul30.182300.19539@wpi.WPI.EDU>, juemar@wpi.WPI.EDU (Julian Tyrone Bean) writes: >Hi, > What de-archiver do I need to restore .lzh files. I looked in some places, but was unable to decide which one was needed. > > The nicest (IMHO) is called UNLZH172.ARC. It only extracts files, but it does it fast and is friendly (I only wish there was a "delete lzh after extract" option. One really nice feature is that you can automatically have it create a folder and extract into it. It can be installed as an application, so a double click on an .lzh file is all that is needed. -- ---------------------------------+------------------------------------- Mickey R. Boyd | "Kirk to Enterprise. All clear FSU Computer Science | down here. Beam down Technical Support Group | yeoman Rand and a six-pack . ." email: boyd@nu.cs.fsu.edu | ---------------------------------+------------------------------------- ------------------------------ Date: 1 Aug 91 11:43:08 GMT From: mcsun!corton!laas!ralph@uunet.uu.net (Ralph P. Sobek) Subject: Macintosh Emulators for the TT To: Info-Atari16@naucse.cse.nau.edu Just curious, have any of the Macintosh emulators (Specre GCR or Aladin) been ported to the TT? If so, how does it run? If not, when is it planned? Thanks folks, -- Ralph P. Sobek Disclaimer: The above ruminations are my own. ralph@laas.fr Addresses are ordered by importance. ralph@laas.uucp, or ...!uunet!laas!ralph If all else fails, try: sobek@eclair.Berkeley.EDU Phone: (+33-)61-33-62-66 FAX-1: (+33-)61-33-64-55 FAX-2: (+33-)61-55-35-77 =============================================================================== Got a Mega 4 ST. Wishing it was a Mega STe! :-| Do I *really* want a TT? ; ------------------------------ Date: 1 Aug 91 11:53:21 GMT From: mcsun!corton!laas!ralph@uunet.uu.net (Ralph P. Sobek) Subject: Mega STe in UK. To: Info-Atari16@naucse.cse.nau.edu It seems that Atari France, also, is completely out of stock in Mega STe's! -- Ralph P. Sobek Disclaimer: The above ruminations are my own. ralph@laas.fr Addresses are ordered by importance. ralph@laas.uucp, or ...!uunet!laas!ralph If all else fails, try: sobek@eclair.Berkeley.EDU Phone: (+33-)61-33-62-66 FAX-1: (+33-)61-33-64-55 FAX-2: (+33-)61-55-35-77 =============================================================================== Got a Mega 4 ST. Wishing it was a Mega STe! :-| Do I *really* want a TT? ; ------------------------------ Date: 1 Aug 91 16:38:12 GMT From: noao!ncar!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!mips!pacbell.com!att!att!cbnewsc!cbnewsc!da ryl@arizona.edu (Daryl L. Monge) Subject: power conditioning (was Re: BLACKOUTS) To: Info-Atari16@naucse.cse.nau.edu My paranoia got severe enough that I bought a Tripp power >>conditioner<<. I am very pleased with the device so far. Here in Naperville, Il. we are known for crummy power. There are several versions of their power conditioners. The smallest and cheapest is a 600 watt model, then there is 1200 watt and 1800 watt models. I went for the 1200 watt model because it will handle low and high voltage. The 600 watt model will only handle one of them (I forgot which.) This device not only protects the equipment from surge, etc. but delivers clean 120V when the input voltage is anywhere from around 80V to 140V. The cost is somewhere around $150. I believe it a very useful investment for several thousand dollars worth of equipment. -- Daryl Monge AT&T Bell Labs UUCP: att!adept!daryl VOICE: 708-713-4696 PAPER: Rm 2A-448 P.O. Box 3050, Naperville, Il 60566 -- Daryl Monge AT&T Bell Labs UUCP: att!adept!daryl VOICE: 708-713-4696 PAPER: Rm 2A-448 P.O. Box 3050, Naperville, Il 60566 ------------------------------ Date: 31 Jul 91 21:05:35 GMT From: noao!ncar!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!rpi!psinntp!rodan.acs.syr.edu!ggreenbe@ariz ona.edu (Gerald Greenberg) Subject: Spectre GCR To: Info-Atari16@naucse.cse.nau.edu In article <9107311348.AA02485@top.magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu> dhbutler@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu (David H Butler) writes: > >Also of note (and this is why I posted this when I answered it), I was recently >playing around with a new formatter TLCformat (I think), when trying to find a >faster DOS compatible format that would work with Access PC (by the way, none >of them will, just the standard 9 sector, 80 track, non-twister, non-FAST disk >format will work with Access PC). When I stuck the 720K FAST format disk >(faster than Twister but can't use 10 sectors per track) in the drive in Mac >mode, it read, and came up as A SPECTRE FORMAT DISK (only with 720K, not 800). >This is pretty exciting. However, it also lost the file I had written to the >disk in ST mode, and I have not tried it since. It looks like it may be >possible to get a format that reads in ST and Mac mode without either >Transverter or Access PC. Has anyone else experienced this? > >David Butler Thanks for your post, David. The more people using Spectre that use Access PC, the better....I'm hoping that Insignia and/or Dave Small will somehow get AccessPC to access MSDOS hard disks via Spectre. I still think it would be great to use my syquest cartridge with mac and st partitions under Spectre! First of all, ye First of all...yes, AccessPC works with non-gcr Spectre...and yes, you need Spectre 3.0 software. Second...I experienced a similar problem with floppies being read as Spectre formatted disks. I've been using Verbatim ibm pre-format disks. At first they have been OK, but with a couple of them, after a while they showed up as Spectre formatted disks...then they got all messed up and I had to reformat them again. I think I tried a twister-formatted disk at one point, although I'm not sure, and it showed up as a Spectre-formatted disk. When I saw dos and twister disks showing up differently, I tried to stick to dos-formatted disks. But now that you mention it, I'll try to play with other formats and see what happens. Just so that something may come of it, I'll just mention how nice it would be to have Access PC access msdos and st hard disk partitions from Spectre (how do I send Dave Small email on internet again?) --Gerry ggreenbe@rodan.acs.syr.edu ------------------------------ Date: 1 Aug 91 13:56:01 GMT From: noao!ncar!gatech!usenet.ins.cwru.edu!magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu!dhbutler@arizona .edu (David H Butler) Subject: Spectre GCR To: Info-Atari16@naucse.cse.nau.edu I would like to know how to contact Dave Small via internet also. If anyone knows his address could you please post it? David Butler (High Resolution DTP) (dhbutler@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu) ------------------------------ Date: 31 Jul 91 23:14:35 GMT From: noao!ncar!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!swrinde!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!ub!ubvmsd.cc.buf falo.edu!v077l5lx@arizona.edu (Guy N Di Piertro) Subject: TT's and Multisync Monitors To: Info-Atari16@naucse.cse.nau.edu Hello, I am interested in using a multisync monitor with the TT, but I need to know the horizontal scan rate range that I will need to cover for all resolutions except TT High. Also any specific information as to how well specific monitors work with the TT would be appreciated. Thank you, Guy V077L5LX@UBVMS.cc.Buffalo.edu ------------------------------ Date: 1 Aug 91 11:30:38 GMT From: noao!ncar!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!unix.cis.pitt.edu!pitt!cuphub!kar7481@arizo na.edu (DAN KARBOWSKY, 102 LEE DR. ,BELLE VERNON, PA 15012 (412)929-4023) Subject: US TURBO-C DISTRIBUTOR: (was;Who sells Turbo-C in the US) To: Info-Atari16@naucse.cse.nau.edu In article <11050@m.maus.de>, Martin_Gaeckler@m.maus.de (Martin Gaeckler) writes: > Hello Jim, > > Turbo C for the Atari ST/TT is no longer supported by Borland. Borland gave > up the Atari ST product. > There will be a new version called >Pure C<. The Distributor is Application > Systems in Heidelberg, Germany. > > Martin Gaeckler Turbo-C has been licensed to Gribniff Software (i.e; NeoDesk, etc...) in the U.S. I should know...It ran me $280.00 for the Professional pack which includes the MAS-68k assembler and Turbo-DEBUGGER* . I don't have the number, but I believe if you call 617-555-1212 you can get the number--They're in Hadley, Massachusetts. * The debugger is the most awesome interactive debugger I have ever seen on an ST. It reminds me a great deal of a "windowing" VAX-VMS debugger with "real-time" updating of information in windows.....Also, I've had at least 12 windows open at the same time and I have TOS 1.2--So I don't think they're using GEM either. With TD, you can have the SOURCE, ASSEMBLY, VARIABLES, STACK, etc... all visible so you can see what your program is doing AS it does it--you have variable step rates... --Dan Karbowsky / ".....I remember now....." ------------------------------ Date: 30 Jul 91 21:46:48 GMT From: math.fu-berlin.de!uniol!unido!horga!nathan!ue@uunet.uu.net (Udo Erdelhoff) Subject: Which archiver ? (Was: use unl ... To: Info-Atari16@naucse.cse.nau.edu In <91210.164925ZVM055@DMSWWU1C.BITNET>, U.Kuehn writes: >Some days ago, I've got lha200 from minnehaha.rhrk.uni-kl.de; its an lharc Hmm, seems you have some trouble in getting new software. I'm using the LHa 2.00 for about a month, the current version is 2.01b. I'll post it to comp.binaries.atari.st, if I manage to find that printout of "Welcome to comp.sys.atari.st" here in this chaos named flat. ;-) /s/ -- Udo Erdelhoff ue@nathan.ruhr.de Fido: Udo Erdelhoff on 2:245/52.1 ------------------------------ Date: 1 Aug 91 13:10:59 GMT From: noao!ncar!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!usc!samsung!crackers!m2c!wpi.WPI.EDU!juemar@arizon a.edu (Julian Tyrone Bean) Subject: Which is the best mac emulator To: Info-Atari16@naucse.cse.nau.edu Hi, Could someone please e-mail me some info on mac emulators, ie which one(s) are the best and which one I should look at, prices if knows and potential pitfalls. Thank you Julian ------------------------------ Date: 1 Aug 91 14:44:50 GMT From: noao!ncar!gatech!utkcs2!hydra2a.cs.utk.edu!gathings@arizona.edu (Golando Gathings) Subject: why do I only get 512k on a 1040 To: Info-Atari16@naucse.cse.nau.edu A friend of mine has an 1040 st that only show 512k out of 1040k when he runs the ram test. Any ideas, other than the possibility of having bad ram chips ? Golando ------------------------------ End of Info-Atari16 Digest ******************************