Info-Atari16 Digest Tue, 10 Sep 91 Volume 91 : Issue 476 Today's Topics: Atari 2600 + Cart for sale GCC1.40 Gemini/Fonts help running oxyd (2 msgs) kermit for the ST Looking for term program... (6 msgs) Program wanted to define k Sale TOS 2.0X into old STs: can it Triangle drive 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. 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: 10 Sep 91 14:57:31 GMT From: noao!asuvax!ukma!gatech!taco!hobbes.catt.ncsu.edu!happy@arizona.edu Subject: Atari 2600 + Cart for sale To: Info-Atari16@naucse.cse.nau.edu I have an Atari 2600 and carts for sale. Please note the following conditions of each sale: - All merchandise is in excellent shape. - Buyer pays shipping. - It's first respond, first serve. - A purchase of 5 or more carts earns 10% discount. - Prices are negotiable ONLY if you are buying in volume or after some carts don't sell within a give time. - I will sell the entire package (system, cart holder, and carts) for $125 or best offer. - No joysticks, paddles being sold. - An * means that instructions are included with the cart - If you want specific info about a cart, just e-mail me. Items for Sale -------------- Atari 2600 System (including cords, power supply, owner's manual, etc.) Price : $25 Cartridge holder (16 cap.) Price : $5 Carts for Sale -------------- Defender*...............4.00 Star Voyager*...............2.00 Video Olympics*.........2.00 Journey Escape..............2.00 Dig Dug*................6.00 Star Strike*................2.00 Berzerk*................4.00 Cosmic Ark..................4.00 Video Checkers*.........2.00 Venture*....................4.00 Zaxxon*.................6.00 Astroblast..................2.00 Starmaster*.............4.00 Chopper Command*............4.00 Vanguard*...............6.00 Space Jockey*...........2.00 Buck Rogers*................6.00 Enduro..................4.00 Lock 'n' Chase*.........4.00 Turmoil.................4.00 Missile Command.............2.00 E.T.....................6.00 Armor Ambush*...........2.00 Tutankham*..................6.00 Space Attack............2.00 Asteroids...................2.00 Adventures of Tron*.....6.00 Air Sea Battle..............2.00 Haunted House*..........2.00 Space Invaders..............2.00 Bump 'n' Jump*..........6.00 Ms.Pac-Man..............6.00 Ghostbusters............4.00 Night Driver............2.00 Real Sports Football*.......4.00 Sword Quest.............6.00 Donkey Kong*................6.00 Basketball*.............4.00 Kaboom!*....................2.00 Moon Patrol*............6.00 Infiltrate*.................4.00 Gyruss..................6.00 Yar's Revenge...............4.00 Dragonfire*.............4.00 Phoenix.....................6.00 Reactor.................2.00 Superbreakout*..............4.00 Super Challenge Baseball..4.00 Video Pinball...............4.00 Well, that's it. Let me know what you're interested in and we'll get down to business. E-mail me at happy@garfield.catt.ncsu.edu Thanks for your interest. RUSSELL -- ******************************************************************************* RUSSELL J. SOOTS - North Carolina State Univesity - SED+BLS, minor GN happy@garfield.catt.ncsu.edu_____________________North Carolina Teaching Fellow ******************************************************************************* ------------------------------ Date: 10 Sep 91 11:13:43 GMT From: otter.hpl.hp.com!hpltoad!ghiggins!gjh@hplabs.hp.com (Graham Higgins) Subject: GCC1.40 To: Info-Atari16@naucse.cse.nau.edu > I want to use gcc 1.40 but I don't know what i need and where to > find all the nesscesary stuff. For anyone else looking at the ST GNU suite, ++jrb has kindly agreed to mail a cart tape with his GNU suite to A.A. There are rather too many mismatches at the moment for me to sort out the archive properly. ++jrb is working on an update at the moment, so it might be worth hanging fire a wee while. -- Graham Higgins << My opinions above are exactly that: my own, and opinions. >> ------------------------------ Date: 10 Sep 91 14:56:13 GMT From: noao!asuvax!ukma!psuvax1!psuvm!frmop11!dearn!dmswwu1c!onm07@arizona.edu Subject: Gemini/Fonts To: Info-Atari16@naucse.cse.nau.edu In article <4466330@fredw.UUCP>, fred@fredw.UUCP (Fred Wells) says: >I had the same problem. Basically, the problem was that Gemini apparently >can ONLY USE PROPORTIONALLY SPACED FONTS. I wanted to use a smaller font that >would allow me to legibly use 24 lines in the Console Window that didn't >extend off of the screen in medium res (wanted to use vi). Using a font >editor, it was apparent that all of the fonts I was trying to use weren't >proportional. Gemini wouldn't even recognize any font that wasn't. I >think that the docs stated that somewhere. I seem to remember reading that >afterwards. Anyway, I finally gave up and went back to using Gulam. Hope >this is helpful. > >-- No, it isn't :-) Gemini uses all those fonts, where all existing characters have the same witdh. >-------------------------------------------------- >Fred Wells uunet!opel!ss2!fredw!fred >Atari ST System '___________________________ cut here _____________________________________ Julian F. Reschke, Hensenstr. 142, D-4400 Muenster, Phone: ++49 251 861241 fast eMail: ONM07@DMSWWU1A.BITNET, slow: jr@ms.maus.de (++49 251 77216) ____________________ correct me if I'm wrong _____________________________ ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 10 Sep 91 12:13:13 MEZ From: Wolfgang Ley Subject: help running oxyd To: Atari ST users forum Hi people! I really hav had NO problems running OXYD. You can't run it from the AUTO-Folder. The game is monochrome only. You can steer the ball with the mouse (no joystick!). The first level is very easy (look at the next 99 levels ;-)) A hint for the first level: run the ball fast enough over the swamp, touch one stone, go back again (be careful about the rotor; it doesn't follow you if you have enough distance to it). And finaly get all the pairs of stones.... I enjoy OXYD very much (especially the two player option!!!). All levels are really playable - some even with problems.... Hope you will have fun too.... Bye, Wolfgang. (OXYD is one of the very best monochrome game-programs for the ST) --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Wolfgang Ley e-mail: Teichstrasse 9 from BITNET : BWWL@DCZTU1.BITNET 3392 Clausthal-Zellerfeld from Internet: BWWL@ibm.rz.tu-clausthal.de Tel. 05323/82132 (voice) or BWWL@sun.rz.tu-clausthal.de --------------------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------ Date: 10 Sep 91 03:00:33 GMT From: ubc-cs!fornax!wolfgang@beaver.cs.washington.edu (Wolfgang Jung) Subject: help running oxyd To: Info-Atari16@naucse.cse.nau.edu In article <3552@uqcspe.cs.uq.oz.au> warwick@cs.uq.oz.au writes: >wolfgang@cs.sfu.ca (Wolfgang Jung) writes: >>Actually OXYD is something called DONGLEWARE which just means, that you have >>to buy the OXYD Book (price about 50 DM form Aplication Systems Heidelberg) >>You should be able to play the first 10 Levels after loading. >>Put everthing onto a Floppydisk the .prg file into an AUTO-Folder. >>Turn Off your ST & HD. Turn back on the ST and WAITWAIT WAIT till the >>music starts ringing your ears. The rest should be easy (OXYD says the rest) > >From my experience, > > 1. It doesn't work from the auto folder Hmm my version does (Which is not from a.a) > 2. It says the rest - in German (though this is fair enough) Hmm, (my last play was 6 Month ago) I was thinking it had a switch for the language. Could you hear the SOUND ? > 3. There are NO docs readable from outside an Atari system There are none, that's why you need the book. > 4. It doesn't work at all (the first Landscape is set at > impossible difficulty: every wall kills you, there > is a flying object that kills, the floor falls out > from beneath your feet, and there are no exits. This looks like a corupted Database (I once mangeld with this and got the same reslut) >Also, I think `DongleWare' is a bit beyond the realms of what I'd like to >see at atari.archive. After downloading 450K at 2400 baud I was, to be blunt, Anyway you can ONLY play till Level 10 on Level 11 there are special Pieces in your Way which need to be removed by a keysequence, which itself can only be retrieved from the above mentioned book. (I think the company called it dongleware.) >pissed off. It may be that the levels data is corrupted and this would not >be the author's fault. In fact, as OXYD loaded up and I saw the name > -- Note: Please Use woju@cs.sfu.ca as Address after Monday the 9th Sept After 25th Sept mail to woju@mist.sub.org ------------------------------ Date: 10 Sep 91 13:46:03 GMT From: noao!asuvax!gatech!swrinde!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!samsung!know!daemon@arizon a.edu Subject: kermit for the ST To: Info-Atari16@naucse.cse.nau.edu Until I got my TT, I always used UNITERM and found its implementation of KERMIT to be the best of any program I had ever used. But, since UNITERM does not take advantage of my 19" TTM195 monitor, I now use STalker for telecommunications. STalker does not include KERMIT so I use a desk accessory called GEM KERMIT. While GEM KERMIT has a few bugs, such as its FINISH command, it works quite well. GEM KERMIT is PD, anyone want me to post it on the net? ------------------------------ Date: 10 Sep 91 05:10:45 GMT From: noao!asuvax!cs.utexas.edu!qt.cs.utexas.edu!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!mips!atha! aunro!ersys!mforget@arizona.edu (Michel Forget) Subject: Looking for term program... To: Info-Atari16@naucse.cse.nau.edu cmm1@cunixb.cc.columbia.edu (Christopher M Mauritz) writes: > Uniterm is definitely the best term program for the ST, bar none. > > --------------+---------------------------------------------------------- > Chris Mauritz | Cuba's *superior* human rights record is only part of the > | answer; it's superior social conditions are another. > --------------| -Harel Barzilai- I'm a little confused by your last statement. What makes Uniterm so good? I have it, but I have had several problems getting it to do the following things: 1. ANSI (with graphic characters) emulation. 2. Dialing properly. It seems that when I tell it to dial, it will dial once, and then WAIT until I press a key to dial again. This seems strange, since redialingis used mainly so that you don't have to hover over the keyboard. Interlink does do ANSI emulation, and the dialer is simple. Everyone says UniTerm is good, but *WHY*? (Surely not because it does Kermit? There is an external Kermit utility in the public domain, which could be used just as easily.) Also, what is the latest version? I've been using 2.0e, which is the newest I've seen or heard about. << ---------------------------------- >> << ersys!mforget@nro.cs.athabascau.ca >> << mforget@ersys.edmonton.ab.ca >> << Michel Forget >> << "He's dead, Jim..." - Bones >> << ---------------------------------- >> ------------------------------ Date: 10 Sep 91 11:31:47 GMT From: noao!asuvax!cs.utexas.edu!samsung!caen!ais.org!ty@arizona.edu (Ty Zucker) Subject: Looking for term program... To: Info-Atari16@naucse.cse.nau.edu mforget@ersys.edmonton.ab.ca (Michel Forget) writes: >cmm1@cunixb.cc.columbia.edu (Christopher M Mauritz) writes: > >> Uniterm is definitely the best term program for the ST, bar none. >> >> --------------+---------------------------------------------------------- >> Chris Mauritz | Cuba's *superior* human rights record is only part of the >> | answer; it's superior social conditions are another. >> --------------| -Harel Barzilai- >I'm a little confused by your last statement. What makes Uniterm so >good? I have it, but I have had several problems getting it to do the >following things: >1. ANSI (with graphic characters) emulation. >2. Dialing properly. It seems that when I tell it to dial, it will dial >once, and then WAIT until I press a key to dial again. This seems >strange, since redialingis used mainly so that you don't have to hover >over the keyboard. >Interlink does do ANSI emulation, and the dialer is simple. Everyone >says UniTerm is good, but *WHY*? (Surely not because it does Kermit? >There is an external Kermit utility in the public domain, which could be >used just as easily.) >Also, what is the latest version? I've been using 2.0e, which is the >newest I've seen or heard about. ><< ---------------------------------- >> ><< ersys!mforget@nro.cs.athabascau.ca >> ><< mforget@ersys.edmonton.ab.ca >> ><< Michel Forget >> ><< "He's dead, Jim..." - Bones >> ><< ---------------------------------- >> You need to reset the dialer timeout delay. It's on the Dialer menu. That should speed things up for you. Uniterm is good mainly because it does almost every kind of terminal emulation you can think of. It also has (imho) a very good kermit implementation too. Maybe you don't have the docs that come along with it? btw 2.0e is the latest version -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------ "You might be a king or you might be a street sweeper, but sooner or later, you'll all dance with the Reaper." - Grim Reaper - Bill and Ted's Bogus Journey. ------------------------------ Date: 10 Sep 91 11:31:47 GMT From: noao!asuvax!gatech!utkcs2!memstvx1!ukma!wupost!sdd.hp.com!caen!ais.org!ty@arizo na.edu (Ty Zucker) Subject: Looking for term program... To: Info-Atari16@naucse.cse.nau.edu mforget@ersys.edmonton.ab.ca (Michel Forget) writes: >cmm1@cunixb.cc.columbia.edu (Christopher M Mauritz) writes: > >> Uniterm is definitely the best term program for the ST, bar none. >> >> --------------+---------------------------------------------------------- >> Chris Mauritz | Cuba's *superior* human rights record is only part of the >> | answer; it's superior social conditions are another. >> --------------| -Harel Barzilai- >I'm a little confused by your last statement. What makes Uniterm so >good? I have it, but I have had several problems getting it to do the >following things: >1. ANSI (with graphic characters) emulation. >2. Dialing properly. It seems that when I tell it to dial, it will dial >once, and then WAIT until I press a key to dial again. This seems >strange, since redialingis used mainly so that you don't have to hover >over the keyboard. >Interlink does do ANSI emulation, and the dialer is simple. Everyone >says UniTerm is good, but *WHY*? (Surely not because it does Kermit? >There is an external Kermit utility in the public domain, which could be >used just as easily.) >Also, what is the latest version? I've been using 2.0e, which is the >newest I've seen or heard about. ><< ---------------------------------- >> ><< ersys!mforget@nro.cs.athabascau.ca >> ><< mforget@ersys.edmonton.ab.ca >> ><< Michel Forget >> ><< "He's dead, Jim..." - Bones >> ><< ---------------------------------- >> You need to reset the dialer timeout delay. It's on the Dialer menu. That should speed things up for you. Uniterm is good mainly because it does almost every kind of terminal emulation you can think of. It also has (imho) a very good kermit implementation too. Maybe you don't have the docs that come along with it? btw 2.0e is the latest version -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------ "You might be a king or you might be a street sweeper, but sooner or later, you'll all dance with the Reaper." - Grim Reaper - Bill and Ted's Bogus Journey. ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 10 Sep 1991 12:39 +0200 From: Milan Adamov Subject: Looking for term program... To: Info-Atari16@naucse.cse.nau.edu at731@cleveland.Freenet.Edu wrote: >>Using Flash's 'execute' function, you can run any .TOS, .TTP or .PRG >>that isn't mouse driven. (For some reason it likes to block out the >>mouse.) Anyway, it is very easy to use with external protocols. For >>example, I have a macro setup that will auto-zmodem to a download folder >>on my H:\ partition. One can run ANY program from Flash, including mouse driven ones. Use GEM command instead of EXEC. I'm using this feature with those GEM RZ & SZ for quite a time, never had any problems, just say GEM RZ.PRG, and you have the mouse on screen. /****************************************************************************/ /* Milan Adamov | */ /* Ratka Vujovica Coce 6 ] | [ There is question that has no answer.*/ /* 11090 Belgrade ---|--- Does my country still exist ? */ /* Yugoslavia ] | [ */ /* EADAMOV@YUBGEF51.BITNET | */ /****************************************************************************/ ------------------------------ Date: 10 Sep 91 13:24:35 GMT From: noao!asuvax!gatech!swrinde!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!sol.ctr.columbia.edu!cunix f.cc.columbia.edu!cunixb.cc.columbia.edu!cmm1@arizona.edu (Christopher M Mauritz) Subject: Looking for term program... To: Info-Atari16@naucse.cse.nau.edu In article mforget@ersys.edmonton.ab.ca (Michel Forget) writes: >cmm1@cunixb.cc.columbia.edu (Christopher M Mauritz) writes: > >> Uniterm is definitely the best term program for the ST, bar none. >> >I'm a little confused by your last statement. What makes Uniterm so >good? I have it, but I have had several problems getting it to do the >following things: > >1. ANSI (with graphic characters) emulation. > >2. Dialing properly. It seems that when I tell it to dial, it will dial >once, and then WAIT until I press a key to dial again. This seems >strange, since redialingis used mainly so that you don't have to hover >over the keyboard. > >Interlink does do ANSI emulation, and the dialer is simple. Everyone >says UniTerm is good, but *WHY*? (Surely not because it does Kermit? >There is an external Kermit utility in the public domain, which could be >used just as easily.) > >Also, what is the latest version? I've been using 2.0e, which is the >newest I've seen or heard about. Well, I think UniTerm is better than Interlink in the same manner that I think unix is better than TOS...one is a lot more powerful, but a little unwieldy to use. If you do a lot of communication with mainframes, you will find the features/configurability (is this a word? :)) indispensable. However, if you just want to jump onto your local BBS once in a while to download a file or play nethack, it might not be worth dealing with its little quirks. BTW, last I heard UniTerm v2.0e edit 14 was the newest version, but I think Howard Chu (was it Howard?) has a version which he updated himself to sort out some of the well-known eccentricities of the program. Also, UniTerm has the best version of Kermit I have seen on any terminal emulation package for the ST. Cheers, Chris --------------+---------------------------------------------------------- Chris Mauritz |Homebrewing: The only hobby perfectly tailored for | anal retentive alcoholics. :-) --------------| (ripped off from someone on the net...) ------------------------------ Date: 10 Sep 91 16:37:32 GMT From: noao!asuvax!ukma!tulane!samsung!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!unix.cis.pitt.edu!rja st1@arizona.edu (Robert J Anisko) Subject: Looking for term program... To: Info-Atari16@naucse.cse.nau.edu re: Uniterm Besides, it's kinda nice setting up function keys to run external programs - I'd say have F1 run XYZSHELL, and thus have Zmodem right there. And the reason it doesn't have ANSI is because the author quit awhile ago. But he left a very powerful program nonetheless... Robert Anisko rjast1@unix.cis.pitt.edu ------------------------------ Date: 8 Sep 91 17:46:00 GMT From: noao!asuvax!cs.utexas.edu!qt.cs.utexas.edu!yale.edu!ira.uka.de!math.fu-berlin.d e!fub!dobag.in-berlin.de!nicedel!artcom0!hb.maus.de!hh.maus.de!Laurenz_Pruessne r@arizona.edu (Laurenz Pruessner) Subject: Program wanted to define k To: Info-Atari16@naucse.cse.nau.edu Ken Badertscher kbad @ atari.UUCP wrote 08/29.91 18:05: >I heartily encourage anyone who's looking for such a program to >buy CodeKeys from your local dealer, or directly from CodeHead Software. ??? CodeHead usually uses a terrible programming style (such as stealing vectors in accessories, using Line-A, not using wind_update(), installing housemade BIOS-ops (!!!) in accessories (!!! II), allowing zero-vdi-handles and so on). CodeKeys uses Line-A for its outputs. That certainly won't work on various graphic-boards, and it had serious problems with OverScan, allthough this board supports Line-A. /-----------------------------------------------------------------------\ I Laurenz Pruessner I - for rent - I I Cynics-Dev I I I Hamburg / Germany I---------------------------------------------------I I "Dee Eff Y PODA " I Laurenz_Pruessner@hh.maus.de I \-----------------------------------------------------------------------/ ------------------------------ Date: 10 Sep 91 14:21:07 GMT From: noao!asuvax!ukma!tulane!samsung!sdd.hp.com!zeus!dorm.rutgers.edu!njitgw.njit.ed u!tesla.njit.edu!fer9483@arizona.edu Subject: Sale To: Info-Atari16@naucse.cse.nau.edu For Sale: Atari 520 ST (512k) Atari SC1224 (?) Color Monitor Atari SH204 20 Megabyte HD Comes with Mouse, Some software, and an EXTERNAL DS drive.. $300 for the whole thing.. Make offers on components if you want.. Frank ------------------------------ Date: 8 Sep 91 17:46:00 GMT From: noao!asuvax!cs.utexas.edu!qt.cs.utexas.edu!yale.edu!ira.uka.de!math.fu-berlin.d e!fub!dobag.in-berlin.de!nicedel!artcom0!hb.maus.de!hh.maus.de!Laurenz_Pruessne r@arizona.edu (Laurenz Pruessner) Subject: TOS 2.0X into old STs: can it To: Info-Atari16@naucse.cse.nau.edu Graham Thomas grahamt%syma.sussex.ac.uk @ SUB write on 08/22/91 09:48: >What Laurenz means, I think, is that you can get a version of 2.0x to >work in an old ST, as long as you also put in various other >modifications. I don't know what these might be, or even how much has >to be changed in hardware. I'd bet you have to know the ST pretty well >to install the modifications, though. No, that's right. What you need is a hardware-modification and a fitting TOS. As it seems Atari is going to support their users. /-----------------------------------------------------------------------\ I Laurenz Pruessner I - for rent - I I Cynics-Dev I I I Hamburg / Germany I---------------------------------------------------I I "Dee Eff Y PODA " I Laurenz_Pruessner@hh.maus.de I \-----------------------------------------------------------------------/ ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 10 Sep 91 12:08:05 BST From: "D." Summerbell Subject: Triangle drive and Spectre To: Info-Atari16@naucse.cse.nau.edu >My friend bought a used Mega 2 that came with a mono monitor & a >Triangle 40 MB Soft Innovation Hard disk. This is a autobooting >type harddisk. On bootup the following sign-on messages appear. > Traingle turbo drive PCML Ltd. >Ver 1.2Er Room Boot RGH 12/9/88. >* (This is a British made product) >The drive works ok in ST mode. Next, my friend tried to install >Spectre/128 system (V 1.9 Copyright 1988)that he bought quite long >time when it was first introduced in the UK. He made five parti- >tions. The first three are ST & the rest 2 are Spectre partitions. >However, the Spectre program fails to recognise the hard disk & >could not find any partitions at all. I encountered the same problem with the same hard drive. I was never able to overcome it and eventually bought a new drive. The Triangle has other problems, basically its not a genuine SCSI device. It will therefore not daisy chain with other drives (nor presumably with an Atari Laser Printer, though we have not tried this latter configuration). It also has problems with some non-Triangle hard disc utilities software and we suspect occasional bad interactions with some non-related software. We still use the Triangle, apart from these problems of integration, its a very nice drive unit. Small, reliable and VERY fast. Much faster than anything else that we have. Forget quoted access times, we have 11ms drives that work fine, the Triangle outruns them all. Power Computing (who took over Triangle) were extremely unhelpful, objectionably so, I now never deal with them. We have hard drives from 3rd Coast, Atari, Supra and Ladbrokes. All work fine with Spectre and daisy chain with eachother. Dennis ___________________________________________________________________________ Dr.D.Summerbell INTERNET: d-summer@nimr.mrc.ac.uk Limb Development Group or: d-summer%nimr.mrc.ac.uk@earn-relay Nat. Inst. Medical Research DARPA:d-summerbell%nimr.mrc@nss.cs.ucl.ac.uk The Ridgeway, Mill Hill JANET: d-summer@uk.ac.mrc.nimr LONDON NW7 1AA Tel: 081-959 3666 ext 2366 U.K. The short Internet address does not always work from the US, indirection via earn-relay is more reliable. The problem is that nimr is unofficial, some nodes do not have it in their YP. Real address is: @national-institute-for-medical-research.mrc.ac.uk Is this a record? ------------------------------ End of Info-Atari16 Digest ******************************