========================================================================= INFO-ATARI16 Digest Tue, 5 Dec 89 Volume 89 : Issue 755 Today's Topics: A few random thoughts Atari image in USA / Europe Doesn't work FORM, nice but... LYNX Development System Prog-A16 is working again! Spectrum 512 palettes Ultrascript experience ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: 5 Dec 89 15:11:00 GMT From: cs.utexas.edu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!utgpu!watserv1!watcgl!electro!ignac@tut.c is.ohio-state.edu (Ignac Kolenko) Subject: A few random thoughts Message-ID: <1220@electro.UUCP> In article <4448.257a46e4@uwovax.uwo.ca> 4224_5132@uwovax.uwo.ca (Andrew Semple) writes: > I was recently in one of my local (non-authorized) Atari dealers when I >noticed that he had an Atari product called VT100 Emulator. It was a cart >that you plugged in so your screen resembled those old VT100 terminals that >astronomy people use :-). Has anyone used it. It was only 10$ so I might >go back and purchase it just fo rthe heck of it. Do I have to be hardwired to >the system I want to use, or can I use Flash! or something. yup. i've used it (once). the only reason i have two of these carts is that i've desoldered the two roms on the cartridge and i can now experiment with the cartridge port (ie: i can build whatever hardware i want and hook it up to the empty sockets on these cartridges.) i did this for my EE499 project at U of Waterloo. i removed the roms and replaced them with the circuitry to allow up to 40kHz 12 bit sampling through the cartridge port. worked really great. while on the subject of cartridges: does ANYONE know of where you can get ** real ** prototype boards for the atari's cartridge port???? i've asked this question a few times, but no-one ever seems to respond. not even atari itself. i don't really feel like running out and buying a vt100 cart everytime i want to try some new hardware project on the st. btw: are there any other official atari made cartridges like the vt100 cart??? (just wondering) -- =====Ignac A. Kolenko (The Ig) watmath!watcgl!electro!ignac===== co-author of QuickST, and the entire line of Quick Shareware!!!! "I don't care if I don't win, 'cause I don't care if I fail" from 'Youth Of Today' by SUBURBAN DISTORTION ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 05 Dec 89 19:03 From: "Thomas Koenig" Subject: Atari image in USA / Europe Message-ID: <"89-12-05-19:03:23.56*UI0T"@DKAUNI2.BITNET> It never ceases to amaze me what kind of image Atari computers seem to have in the USA as opposed to here in Europe. As an example, there were several articles today in the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung about personal computers (For non-German readers: The FAZ is about as serious and buisiness - oriented as newspapers in Germany ever get, which is quite a lot). One of these articles was about non - MS-DOS computers, i.e. the Amiga and the Atari. The conclusion was that the Amiga has an edge in games, the Atari in serious applications. I know several buisinesses which run, for example, databases on their Ataris, because the software available is powerful and easy to use. Strange, all in all... Thomas Koenig UI0T@DKAUNI2.BITNET UI0T%DKAUNI2.BITNET@CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU (soon: new address, old machine) UI0T@IBM3090.RZ.UNI-KARLSRUHE.DBP.DE 'Ich dachte nicht, ich untersuchte.' Wilhelm Conrad Roentgen ------------------------------ Date: 5 Dec 89 18:21:32 GMT From: oahu!stephen@cs.ucla.edu (Steve Whitney) Subject: Doesn't work Message-ID: <29749@shemp.CS.UCLA.EDU> In article <8912050807.AA13706@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU> V053QHYX@UBVMSC.CC.BUFFALO.EDU writes: > >Add to the list of programs that dont work with tos 1.4 : >DBMAN 5.02 and Timeworks destop publisher.... I don't know what version of Timeworks DTP you're using, but mine works _fine_ with TOS 1.4. I bought mine last Spring so perhaps they fixed it. -- Steve Whitney "It's never _really_ the last minute" (())_-_(()) UCLA Comp. Sci. Grad. Student | (* *) | Internet: stephen@cs.ucla.edu UCLA Bruin--> ? \_@_/ ? GEnie: S.WHITNEY `-----' ------------------------------ Date: 5 Dec 89 17:00:11 GMT From: dartvax!eleazar.dartmouth.edu!dav@CS.BU.EDU (William David Haas) Subject: FORM, nice but... Message-ID: <17700@dartvax.Dartmouth.EDU> In article <13401@s.ms.uky.edu> avogel@ms.uky.edu (Andrew Lee Vogel) writes: I love TeX, TeX is wonderful, TeX is all powerful, TeX makes the best manuals. (notice, no smileys!) But.... you shouldn't distribute the .dvi. If someone can print the dvi file he probably can create it given the .tex file. I would suggest including raw text doc file - ain't pretty but it works. .tex file - those who want to create and print the dvi file can this makes the distribution smaller and is just as useful And I also don't like source files in shar format for the st. zoo the thing. When I get the source, I un shar it, ark it, and include it with the binaries that usually have just been posted to the binaries group. dav ------------------------------ Date: 5 Dec 89 17:44:45 GMT From: mailrus!wuarchive!kuhub.cc.ukans.edu!2fhdbeak@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu Subject: LYNX Development System Message-ID: <19310@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu> Here's an interesting tidbit for you LYNX fans: The development system for the Atari LYNX is an AMIGA computer! I wonder what it must be like to go into Atari's offices and see all sorts of Amigas lying about. Perhaps they hide the LYNX people in some mop closet. --Jim Sisul The University of Kansas ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 05 Dec 89 18:42 From: "Thomas Koenig" Subject: Prog-A16 is working again! Message-ID: <"89-12-05-18:42:24.07*UI0T"@DKAUNI2.BITNET> Prog-A16 (the BITNET distribution of Atari16 programs) is working again. It also seems as if they send out everything new that Panarthea gets. Great! Thomas Koenig UI0T@DKAUNI2.BITNET UI0T%DKAUNI2.BITNET@CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU (soon: new address, old machine) UI0T@IBM3090.RZ.UNI-KARLSRUHE.DBP.DE 'Ich dachte nicht, ich untersuchte.' Wilhelm Conrad Roentgen ------------------------------ Date: 05 Dec 89 09:49 GMT+0100 From: "C.Fuhrhop " Subject: Spectrum 512 palettes Message-ID: <1097:fuhrhop@fokus.berlin.gmd.dbp.de> I'm trying to convert some pictures to Spectrum 512 format. I'm using the information from the "ST Picture Formats" list from Dave Baggett: Spectrum 512 (uncompressed) 80 words first scan line of picture (unused) -- should be zeroes 15920 words picture data (screen memory) for scan lines 1 through 199 9552 words 3 palettes for each scan line (the top scan line is not included because Spectrum 512 can't display it) 51104 bytes total Unfortunatly the pictures I get into SpecTrum 512 have got the wrong colors. Could anyone enlighten me why there are three palettes for each line and how they are used by Spectrum? Are the colors in all lines in Spectrum independent? Are there 16 different colors per line? 14? 48? Confused C.Fuhrhop ------------------------------ Date: 5 Dec 89 14:50:00 GMT From: apollo!rehrauer@eddie.mit.edu (Steve Rehrauer) Subject: Ultrascript experience Message-ID: <473ec68c.20b6d@apollo.HP.COM> In article <473a552d.14a1f@force.UUCP> covertr@force.UUCP (Richard E. Covert) writes: [ many good things about Ultrascript ] Possibly this question is of interest to others as well: I've been reading "Ultrascript" ad nauseum for awhile now, so I might as well satisfy my curiosity. On the ST, is it resident & acting like a printer driver; or do you have to invoke it, point to a Postscript file and say "print that"? (I gather the latest/greatest version will fit on a 1meg machine, yes? So I assume this isn't a resident app...) -- >>"Aaiiyeeee! Death from above!"<< | Steve Rehrauer, rehrauer@apollo.hp.com "Flee, lest we be trod upon!" | The Apollo System Division of H.P. ------------------------------ End of INFO-ATARI16 Digest V89 Issue #755 *****************************************