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- ST Xformer II Program Pack #1 -- Assorted Basic and Binary Files
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-
- July 3, 1988
-
- Programs files supplied by Compuserve users. Compiled by Darek Mihocka.
-
-
- The 4 .SD files that were contained in this ARC file contain various
- files that run with Xformer. The ones with a .BAS extender are Atari
- BASIC files. The ones with a .OBJ extender are binary files and must
- be run from DOS. Other files are data files, unless I missed some.
-
- If you have a .SD file that you've compiled and would like to share,
- please ARC it and upload it to either Compuserve (ATARIDEV DL 5),
- or GENIE (ATARI ST Roundtable Downloads). Indicate in the file
- description that it is an ARCed SD file for use with ST Xformer II.
-
- I will keep compiling these files until I have about 2 megabytes worth,
- and these will then be sent to registered users.
-
- Please note: The fourth of the four are found on this disk. The first three
- of the four files are found on the STXFORMER Program Pack #1 disk.
-
- Notes on WDA1.SD - by Bill Aycock (Compuserve: 76703,4061)
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-
- Disk contains: DOS.SYS
- DUP.SYS
- BEDIT.OBJ
- AT8GIF.OBJ
- INDMAP.GIF
- TP25R.OBJ
- BALLS.OBJ
- CHRSTY.GIF
-
- DOS.SYS and DUP.SYS -- Atari DOS 2.5. DUP.SYS has been slightly
- modified; I couldn't stand all those caps, so I changed
- everything to lowercase.
-
- BEDIT.OBJ -- This is an Action! file editor I wrote. Works fine, but
- at only perhaps 1/4 speed. The menu should give you most of the
- info you need to run the program, but you might want to look at
- the docs (BEDIT.DOC in LIB 3 of Atari8).
-
- IF YOU HAVE TROUBLE RUNNING A PROGRAM FROM ATARI8, THIS MAY HELP!
-
- 8-bit programs are uploaded with Xmodem and size-byte fill. If
- you download an 8-bit program using B or QB, these extra bytes
- will still be in the file. DOS will see this garbage as another
- ML segment to load, and if it happens to overwrite a byte in the
- program it may well crash.
-
- Solution: read the file into BEDIT. Use the Z command to move to
- the end of the file, then use the - (minus) command to move back in
- the file. Keep moving back until you find the _real_ end of the
- program -- the last six bytes in the file should probably be either
- "226 2 227 2 xx xx" or "224 2 225 2 xx xx" (this is the
- init or run address). Then use the C command to change the size of
- the file to exclude the size bytes.
-
- AT8GIF.OBJ -- This is the 8-bit GIF viewer. Works ok, but at only 20% of
- normal speed. When it decodes a monochrome picture the colors won't
- be right -- it uses a DLI after the top (Gr.0) mode line to change
- to black-on-white, and release 9 doesn't do that. Note: you should
- get the docs before running this (AT8GIF.DOC in LIB 4 of Atari8 --
- I think the docs are /binary; use ELVERT.PRG to convert to ASCII.).
-
- INDMAP.GIF -- Sample GIF file; a map of Indiana. Displays fine; use
- AT8GIF to zoom in on the top of the picture, and you can decipher
- the writing.
-
- CHRSTY.GIF -- Sample monochrome GIF pic of Billy Joel's lovely wife. Ends
- up in pink-on-red due to the afore-mentioned quirk.
-
- TP25R.OBJ -- The TextPro word processor from Atari8 LIB 5. This works
- fine too, but again at slow speed.
-
- Bill
-