========================================================================= INFO-ATARI16 Digest Thu, 26 Apr 90 Volume 90 : Issue 480 Today's Topics: cachexxx.prg in auto folder. LaserWriter and UltraScript My opinion of the comp.sys.atari.st.tech proposal (2 msgs) Ramdisk bootup STE controller info. ST Penpals list (Sixth posting! :-) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Thu, 26 Apr 90 17:40 N From: Subject: cachexxx.prg in auto folder. Message-ID: <9004261545.AA06928@Sunburn.Stanford.EDU> I did the following: Boot a mega 2 with TOS 1.4 (UK version) with AHDI 3.01 as autoboot driver. Place cache90.prg in the auto folder. No other auto program. Cache90 says: no cache buffers added. Is this normal? ============================================================== Dept. of Occup. & Chris Evelo Environm. Health MFAGKCHR@HMARL5 (BITNET) and Toxicology. University of Limburg Tel: 31-43-888635 P.O. Box 616 Fax: 31-43-436080 6200 MD Maastricht The Netherlands ============================================================== ------------------------------ Date: 25 Apr 90 17:50:00 GMT From: sdd.hp.com!samsung!cs.utexas.edu!uwm.edu!ux1.cso.uiuc.edu!ux1.cso.uiuc.edu!cs32 5ec@ucsd.edu Subject: LaserWriter and UltraScript Message-ID: <16000062@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu> Is there a version of LaserWriter that will work with UltraScript? Thanks in advance. -- Greg ------------------------------ Date: 25 Apr 90 16:27:18 GMT From: zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!sol.ctr.columbia.edu!ira.uka.de!fauern!lan!marvin.e17 .Physik.TU-Muenchen.DE!hf@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu (Hannes Faestermann) Subject: My opinion of the comp.sys.atari.st.tech proposal Message-ID: <1982@tuminfo1.lan.informatik.tu-muenchen.dbp.de> jfbruno@rodan.acs.syr.edu (John F. Bruno) writes: >IMHO: >I think the amount of traffic in c.s.a.s. is not large enough for splitting >into any other groups at all. Of course it seems nice to have a seperate > >...stuff deleted... > >As the saying goes: "Don't fix something that works" >---jb This is exactly what I think. -> No group comp.sys.atari.st.tech Hannes Hannes Faestermann Internet: H.Faestermann@physik.tu-muenchen.de Physik-Department E17 or: hf@marvin[.e17.physik.tu-muenchen.de] TU Muenchen, 8046 Garching West Germany BitNET : hf@dgablg5p ------------------------------ Date: 25 Apr 90 16:30:10 GMT From: usc!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!sol.ctr.columbia.edu!ira.uka.de!fauern!lan!marvin .e17.Physik.TU-Muenchen.DE!brunner@ucsd.edu (Thomas Brunner) Subject: My opinion of the comp.sys.atari.st.tech proposal Message-ID: <1983@tuminfo1.lan.informatik.tu-muenchen.dbp.de> jfbruno@rodan.acs.syr.edu (John F. Bruno) writes: >IMHO: >I think the amount of traffic in c.s.a.s. is not large enough for splitting >into any other groups at all. >.... , but anyone who has been using Usenet for a while knows that >a good percentage of the articles will probably be posted to all of the ST >groups, so we'll have twice the messages to wade through. >As the saying goes: "Don't fix something that works" There's nothing to add. It's nonsense to have several atari groups with 1 or 2 messages per day. As long as c.s.a.s have a hundert news per day don't create a new atari group! Bye, Thomas ------------------------------ Date: 26 Apr 90 13:34:48 GMT From: maytag!water!ljdickey@iuvax.cs.indiana.edu (L.J.Dickey) Subject: Ramdisk bootup Message-ID: <1990Apr26.133448.26462@water.waterloo.edu> In article <5046@jhunix.HCF.JHU.EDU> ins_bac@jhunix.UUCP (Ajay Choudhri) writes: > >I would like to have upon boot-up from floppy, a ram disk that is relatively >fast and can automatically load in files as configured at startup time. You can have two programs do what you want. (1) Use any ramdisk that boots from the AUTO folder. The ramdisk has to be the first ".PRG" you put into the folder. (I trust edisk21 or eternl2.) (2) Use "bootcopy". You create a file listing the copy commands you want. Bootcopy then uses this file to control the copying. -- Leroy J. Dickey, Faculty of Mathematics, University of Waterloo. ljdickey@water.waterloo.edu ljdickey@water.UWaterloo.ca ljdickey@water.bitnet ljdickey@water.UUCP ..!uunet!watmath!ljdickey ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 26 Apr 90 20:50 BST From: Vision Newspapers Subject: STE controller info. Dear STErs, Apologies for the wait for this information, but here (at last) is the info. on the new controllers attached to the STE. ---------------------------------- cut here ------------------------------ STE CONTROLLER PORTS Address Usage Description ================================================= FF9200 xxxx xxxx xxxx 3210 Fire buttons FF9202 UDLR UDLR UDLR UDLR Joystick directions Joy3 Joy2 Joy1 Joy0 FF9210 xxxx xxxx NNNN NNNN Paddle 0 X FF9212 xxxx xxxx NNNN NNNN Paddle 0 Y FF9214 xxxx xxxx NNNN NNNN Paddle 1 X FF9216 xxxx xxxx NNNN NNNN Paddle 1 Y FF9220 xxxx xxNN NNNN NNNN Light pen/gun X FF9222 xxxx xxNN NNNN NNNN Light pen/gun Y Four new joystick ports were added, directly interfaced to the 68000 bus, rather than using another IKBD controller. The table above gives the locations of the hardware registers for the joysticks, paddles and light gun/pen inputs. Note that the joystick registers are bidirectional, and can therefore be written as well as read. If the registers are written, then the outputs are driven until the registers are read again. Two paddle controllers can be connected with eight bit resolution on each axis, and the current position of each of the four paddles are reported in the registers shown in the table. No information is given in the data sheets as to the voltage range that the A/D converters function in, but I would guess that it is 0-5V. The triggers on the paddles are bits zero and one of $FF9202 (Joystick 0 left and right.) The light gun/pen position is reported in $FF9220 and $FF9222. The x-axis accuracy is four pixels in low resolution, eight pixels in medium res., and sixteen pixels in high resolution. The y-axis position is accurate to within one pixel in all modes. The x position only ranges from 0 to 319, and therefore must be left shifted for other screen modes. Again, no electrical information is provided on how to implement a light gun/pen. Regards, Mathew Lodge *********************************************************************** * c/o Dept. Computer Science * "Baldrick, fetch me a turkey _so * * University of York * big_, you'd have thought its mother * * Heslington * had been rodgered by an Omnibus" * * York, UK * * * YO1 5DD * JANET : SOCS18@uk.ac.york.vaxa * *********************************************************************** ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 26 Apr 90 15:55:48 From: "Simon Chappell" Subject: ST Penpals list (Sixth posting! :-) To *ALL* Atari ST owners worldwide! Are you interested in becoming involved in a snail mail list of ST users? I know that most of you will be like me and quite happy using the Email facilities at your site, but spare a thought for us final year students who will soon be losing all access to such facilities if the company we join has not got network links!! (Arrgghh, too horrid to consider!). So to get around this I was wondering if any of you would like to help me get a list together of interested parties who could then keep in touch and prevent themselves losing touch with the ST community at large (this would be especially easy if someone who still had net access could summarise current topics or forward news and advice!) I'm not thinking of anything major league for the entries on the list, just sort of name, address, interests and optionally a few lines about yourself. eg Simon Chappell. s61304@uk.ac.psw.pa (goes away after June) 51 Amherst Road, Penny-Come-Quick, Plymouth, Devon, PL3 4HJ. UK. C, operating systems (UNIX, VMS) & relational databases. This would be roughly what my record would read, so if you are interested compose something for yourself along the above lines (you can have 5 lines of text about your self if you want! :-) and send it to me either by Email (until June) or at the above address (anytime). So far this list has generated a very reasonable level of interest from many countries around the world (both in the USA and Europe!). This is encouraging and so I have merged the two lists into one and now the list that many of you will be receiving will be totally global. Remember: it is not too late, join now and beat the christmas rush! :-) Joining the list does not commit you to anything, you do not have to communicate with anyone if you do not want to! There is no pressure, I will not sell the list to any organisations! Regards, Simon | Simon Chappell | BSc(Hons) Computing and Informatics (final year) | Polytechnic South West (Plymouth) | | JANET S61304@uk.ac.psw.pa BITNET S61304@pa.psw.ac.uk | INTERNET S61304%uk.ac.psw.pa@nsfnet-relay.ac.uk | /* Please do not send via the uk.ac.ukc gateway, as my college has | not paid its fees and hence do not get Email from them! :-( */ ------------------------------ End of INFO-ATARI16 Digest V90 Issue #480 *****************************************