INFO-ATARI16 Digest Fri, 19 Jan 90 Volume 90 : Issue 69 Today's Topics: dissassembly GnuEmacs V18.55 HD... is it there or not? Re~2: MIXED Sound question. SWITCHBACK TeX on the ST from Current Notes Magazine TT availablity ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: 18 Jan 90 18:10:45 GMT From: att!dptg!lzsc!hcj@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU (HC Johnson) Subject: dissassembly Message-ID: <1222@lzsc.ATT.COM> In article <16687@laurel.athertn.Atherton.COM>, alex@athertn.Atherton.COM (Alex Leavens) writes: > made to Malloc(), which is good, since Malloc() will > fail after some fixed (albeit large) number of calls. > (The Malloc() call limit can be raised by using > > I ran into this problem myself in a program I'm writing; I was > doing _lots_ of little malloc()'s (roughly 1K each), and I was I found in MWC , using TOS 1.4 that there are still only a small finite number of Malloc calls allowed (20 min, 32 max). What MWC did is make the clicksize, that is the size asked for from Malloc user adjustable. When I ported STEVIE to the ST, I first find out how large the file is, and set the clicksize to about 1/16 of that size. Then malloc() calls Malloc only about 16 times. Works great. Howard C. Johnson ATT Bell Labs =====NEW address==== att!lzsc!hcj hcj@lzsc.att.com ------------------------------ Date: 19 Jan 90 08:42:07 GMT From: usenet.ins.cwru.edu!usenet.INS.CWRU.Edu!bammi@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu (Jwahar R. Bammi) Subject: GnuEmacs V18.55 Message-ID: i grabbed a copy of GnuEmacs V18.55 port for the atari by Edgar Roeder from unido. it is now available for FTP from dsrgsun.ces.cwru.edu in the directory ?ftp/pub/atari emacs-18.55.zoo edgars distribution emacs-doc.zoo additional emacs docs as distributed by FSF with emacs V18.55 edgar has done a really terrific job on this port. with undumping, emacs startup is a snap. thanks edgar. -- -- bang: ?any internet host?!dsrgsun.ces.CWRU.edu!bammi jwahar r. bammi domain: bammi@dsrgsun.ces.CWRU.edu GEnie: J.Bammi ------------------------------ Date: 19 Jan 90 04:33:19 GMT From: att!cbnewsl!mgh1@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU (matthew.g.hetman) Subject: HD... is it there or not? Message-ID: <3729@cbnewsl.ATT.COM> In article <7457@chaph.usc.edu>, baffoni@aludra.usc.edu (Juxtaposer) writes: > > HELP! > > I am building a drive for my ST: I am using an old xt case w/ 63 wattt > power supply, Quantum Prodrive80, and an ICD host controller. I have assembled > the unit; the drive powers up and the ICD format software boots the clock info > from the host controller. The problem is, when the software scans for a SCSI > device (the Quantum has an imbedded SCSI controller), it cannot find any SCSI > devices. I know the drive works because I had a friend format it on a MacII > and run a surface scan (and found NO errors). Can anyone think of a reasonable I also had similar problems setting up a ICD FA-ST Hard drive kit with the Quantum 80. I contacted ICD on this and they said I needed newer software frfoom ICD to format it. I then download the software from their board and sure enough they had an option for the Quantum. Unfortunately, it did not work either so I gave up on trying it. I have since adopted the Quantum on my Amiga and substituted a Seagate 157n on the ICD FA-ST kit. I hope you have better luck..... ________ ______ Matthew G. Hetman ( / / / / / / / ____ AT&T Bell Labs / / / _ / / /---/ / ____ _ __ (201) 386-7259 / / (___/-\__/ /____ / (___()__/____///__/-\__/ /_ attbl!ho5cad!mgh ------------------------------ Date: 19 Jan 90 10:48:45 GMT From: zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!brutus.cs.uiuc.edu!ux1.cso.uiuc.edu!ux1.cso.uiuc.edu! uxa.cso.uiuc.edu!mts10271@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu Subject: Re~2: MIXED Message-ID: <111500082@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu> Could someone please post some more info. on the overscan program? What is the difference between this and the hardware overscan (different resolutions, compatibility, etc.)? Where is it available? I have been thinking about doing the hardware hack for some time now, and would be very interested in a easier software solution. Thanks. Mike Stepniczka mts10271@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu ------------------------------ Date: 16 Jan 90 19:41:08 GMT From: iconsys!caeco!i-core!ken@uunet.uu.net (Ken MacLeod) Subject: Sound question. Message-ID: <1990Jan16.194108.12760@i-core.UUCP> In article <5324@bgsuvax.UUCP>, sbrown@bgsuvax.UUCP (Scott F. Brown) writes: > > > Well I figured out one of my problems with sound but the next problem >is purely due to lack of being able to find documentation on it. My question >is what are values that must be placed in Sound registers 0-5 to achieve notes? >I am not musically inclined and I cannot tell by just listening. To clarify my >question, what values must I use to "hit" certain notes? Telling me what >values I need to hit certain wavelengths would also be acceptable. Also, feel >free to include any extra info about sound since I am still learning it. >BTW: I would prefer the answer to be mailed to me. Thanks... > >****************************************************************************** >* - The people of the earth stood waiting * >* Watching as the ships came one by one * >* Setting fire to the sky as they landed * >* Carrying to the world Children of the Sun * >* Billy Thorpe * >* * >* -Scott F. Brown * >* * >* sbrown@andy.bgsu.edu.uucp * >****************************************************************************** Umm, could you get a .signature that is slightly _smaller_ than the message it accompanies? My modem and I thank you. -- Ken MacLeod, Barkeep Bitsko's Bar & Grill BBS, +1 801 269-0670 ken@i-core.uucp ------------------------------ Date: 18 Jan 90 18:17:18 GMT From: att!dptg!lzsc!hcj@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU (HC Johnson) Subject: SWITCHBACK Message-ID: <1223@lzsc.ATT.COM> In article <1924@uwm.edu>, sinner@csd4.csd.uwm.edu (Ken E Sinner) writes: > I am seeking information from users of a product called SWITCHBACK, > made by a company called Alpha Systems. Specifically, what programs > work with it, and which don't? All my programs work with it. Switchback sets up an interrupt from the line printer port. When the button is pressed is activates a TSR program that saves the WHOLE ram image, and allows it to be restored. Programs that will fail to work with it either: 1. have been cludged to screw the printer port to do in Switchback OR 2. load into all of memory. Thus a Game the you BOOT never gets to TOS and never gets the TSR program loaded. Most if not all copy-protect schemes deal with loading and starting the program. Once they are running, the key disk is not required. Thus Switchback works well, as it saves the running program after the copy protection testing phase. Howard C. Johnson ATT Bell Labs =====NEW address==== att!lzsc!hcj hcj@lzsc.att.com ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 19 Jan 90 09:54 EST From: JOHNBARNES@ENH.NIST.GOV Subject: TeX on the ST from Current Notes Magazine To All Netters who wish to use TeX on the ST Current Notes Magazine for December 1989 has an excellent article on TeX for the ST. They also have five discs in their library that represent the distribution kit including LaTeX, MetaFont, SliTeX, PicTex, and (I think) BibTeX. The discs come with documentation and examples for their use. There is no doubt that TeX is the best tool available on the ST for doing any kind of publishing that involves a substantial amount of material, such as software manuals and books. Horace Mitchell, the author of the piece, did an outstanding job of putting all of this together and providing extra documentation. Current Notes can be reached at 122 N. Johnson Rd, Sterling, VA 22170. Phone: 703-450-4761. I helped Horace test out this distribution and I am satisfied that it mill meet the needs of most Atarians. If this is interpreted as a commercial message, so be it. I can assure you that no one is making any money off the deal. This magazine exists to help Atari users. John D. Barnes The opinions and information given above do not represent positions of the sender's employer. ------------------------------ Date: 19 Jan 90 06:51:45 GMT From: pacbell!sactoh0!mfolivo@ames.arc.nasa.gov (Mark F. Newton) Subject: TT availablity Message-ID: <2454@sactoh0.UUCP> In article <1990Jan17.230810.17704@Solbourne.COM>, stevem@katmandu.Solbourne.COM (Stephen Matson) writes: > > > Later Atari, I'm not waiting around for your lies anymore. > > "FRODO LIVES" "COLORADO!!" Well, good riddance to bad rubbish. Ohhhh, poor baby! He can't get a TT... Well, frankly, I, and more than a few of us could not care less. Apple or Amiga *deserve* someone like him. And "FRODO LIVES"??? The rallying call for extreme nerds. I'm surprised that anyone uses that old saw, it's about 20 years old, ne? I've seen enough people cry to their mothers that Atari did/does this, wahhhhhh! I don't wanna play anymore with them... Well, wake up to the real world buddy, pull your head out. Do you think for a moment that when Apple announces, it will ship on time, every time? Remember the announcements for the Macintosh, and especially the much ballyhooed new type of disk drive *that did not work*??? Millions spent on the drive, and it didn't work better than the Sony 3.5" drive. So they made that oddity, the GCR drive, and you get a computer that costs more, uses a totally odd drive, than other current systems that at least have similar performance. Gee, grow up, and get a life... Mark Newton-John -- -- (ames att sun)!pacbell! \ Sakura-mendo, CA ucdavis!csusac! - sactoh0!mfolivo uunet!mmsac! / the good guys! ------------------------------ End of INFO-ATARI16 Digest V90 Issue #69 ****************************************