========================================================================= INFO-ATARI16 Digest Mon, 7 May 90 Volume 90 : Issue 520 Today's Topics: (none) FTP strangeness at dsrgsun (no response to ``dir'') Looking for a Televideo emulator --> Mac-->Atari Sound Converters Programming self-help Programm searched RTX Screen IO Question. TRANSLATOR Programming ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: 7 May 90 13:35:10 GMT From: eru!luth!sunic!dkuug!freja.diku.dk!skinfaxe.diku.dk!jensting@bloom-beacon.mit.e du (Jens Tingleff) Subject: (none) Message-ID: <1990May7.133510.6164@diku.dk> WOODALLP@VAX1.COMPUTER-CENTRE.BIRMINGHAM.AC.UK writes: [...] >Does anyone have any info on the German Graphics board that will give 8??*6?? >pixels on a multisynch, I have seen it advertised in ST-Computer (Feb 90) and >I was wondering if anyone could comment on compatibility etc. It is the one >which costs 249 DM. From the review in the German magazine c't, March -90 Available resolutions 640 x 608 60 Hz 832 x 624 50 Hz 640 x 480 75 Hz 704 x 496 71 Hz 640 x 400 87 Hz Mega-ST only (needs the expansion plug) Needs TOS 1.2 or later. Only in monochrome mode. General stuff Seems to require a multisynch monitor because of the large number of resolutions. I don't know about that, what about running with the normal monochrome monitor in 704 x 496 mode ?? (This mode only, of couse, but still.) Made from a Hitachi video controller, and four small chips (say three normal TTL chips and one PAL). Works by reprogramming the video timing and using a larger amount of Atari video memory. The name is MegaScreen, the manufacturer is WGR ComputerSysteme (no address given in the test, no ads found in the magazine). Should be usable on all ``well-behaved'' programs....... . I can't see how they could make the 640 x 400 mode incompatible, as far as placement of video meory goes, so I should think that in 640 x 400 mode the ``dirty'' programs could write to the screen memeory as they like (although the programs may break on the higher frequency..). Comes with software for the AUTO folder, plus a configuration program. That's about it, very small test for c't (only two pages, no screen shot). In the May issue of c't, a card using the INTEL 8xxxxx graphics controller and 1MB memory, is tested, HOT STUFF !!. Claimed to sell with monochrome 19" monitor for the 1660 x 1200 mode for 5500 DM. The board even has a socket for the MC68881, so that you don't have to loose your coprocessor. Jens jensting@diku.dk is Jens Tingleff MSc EE, Research Assistent at DIKU Institute of Computer Science, Copenhagen University Snail mail: DIKU Universitetsparken 1 DK2100 KBH O ------------------------------ Date: 7 May 90 13:14:15 GMT From: eru!luth!sunic!dkuug!freja.diku.dk!skinfaxe.diku.dk!jensting@bloom-beacon.mit.e du (Jens Tingleff) Subject: FTP strangeness at dsrgsun (no response to ``dir'') Message-ID: <1990May7.131415.5753@diku.dk> When doing anonymous FTP to dsrgsun.ces.cwru.edu, I can't get any response to the ``dir'' or ``ls -l'' commands. FTP opens an ASCII mode connection, waits, and reports that the transmission is terminated; no data is written to the screen. The reason I'm posting here is that the problem may be dependent on my site (diku.dk, Denmark), and I'd like to know if any others have the same problem. The problem is really bad when the README file is not updated, and you can't even see the date of any files that may be new and interesting..... . Jens jensting@diku.dk is Jens Tingleff MSc EE, Research Assistent at DIKU Institute of Computer Science, Copenhagen University Snail mail: DIKU Universitetsparken 1 DK2100 KBH O ------------------------------ Date: 3 May 90 23:24:00 GMT From: bu.edu!mirror!frog!cpoint!jjmhome!m2c!umvlsi!umaecs!beroll@purdue.edu Subject: Looking for a Televideo emulator --> Message-ID: <9725.2640857d@ecs.umass.edu> Hi All, I was wondering if anyone knew if there was a program either PD or not, which will emulate a Televideo terminal?? E-mail me any replies, and if anyone else is interested, I'll foward the info to you. Thanks in advance, David Beroll College of Engineering University of Massachusetts at Amherst beroll@umaecs.bitnet beroll@ecs.umass.edu ------------------------------ Date: 7 May 90 14:29:55 GMT From: usc!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!uakari.primate.wisc.edu!uflorida!haven!wam!dmb@uc sd.edu (David M. Baggett) Subject: Mac-->Atari Sound Converters Message-ID: <1990May7.142955.25958@wam.umd.edu> In article <7281@aggie.ucdavis.edu> ccm020@deneb.ucdavis.edu () writes: >Does anyone know an FTP site where I could get a utility to convert Mac format >sound files into Atari format? So, for example, I could use Kermit to xfer >a Mac sound to my Unix account, and then Kermit from my ST to xfer it back, >and then use this program to convert it to a useable format. I think there >was such a program in STart a while back, but I never got the disk. You can use the .data files pacakaged with Mac sounds directly on the ST. You don't need to do any conversion. Just take the .data file, get it onto your ST, then try it out with play.prg (posted to comp.binaries.atari.st recently) to get the playback rate right. You can then use the sound with the Digital Keyclick, Beep, and Digivec programs recently uploaded to terminator (soon to appear in comp.binaries.atari.st). Many of the sounds in the terminator archive are actually Mac samples. Please upload any interesting sounds you find to terminator:atari/music/samples so everyone can try them out... Dave Baggett dmb@wam.umd.edu PS> terminator = 35.1.33.8 ------------------------------ Date: 6 May 90 16:49:07 GMT From: rochester!rit!ultb!jdb9608@PT.CS.CMU.EDU (J.D. Beutel) Subject: Programming self-help Message-ID: <3070@ultb.isc.rit.edu> >saj@chinet.chi.il.us (Stephen Jacobs) writes: >> >>There are a lot of questions of the form "How do I get the ST to do job X >>in language Y". These are well answered with small example programs. I agree this would be a wonderful thing. No, I can't do it. I don't own a site, nor have the storage, and I keep moving. I just wanted to say that I think that good indexing will be crucial to its usefulness. I can imagine stuff going in but never coming back out because users can't find what they're looking for--then it would be no better than the net now. I suggest that the manager of the archive will have to read each submission (I doubt there'd be more than one or two per day), anticipate its usefulness, and assign appropriate keywords. (This would be important and take some skill.) The new article number (or whatever naming scheme is used) and the keywords for that article can then be added together on one line to a global index file. Users can `ftp` the index file and then do a `grep '(key1)(key2)(key3)' index` kinda command to get just the files they want. E.g., `grep '(hirez)(vdi)' index | grep -n '(window)'` would list all the files related to vdi calls on monochrome systems which are not related to using windows. Okay, so it's not a very practical example, but you get the idea of the flexability and power once the indexing is done and the keywords are made available. Regularity of the index would be crucial, so using the supplied keywords would be unreliable. It doesn't have to be just source code either. I've seen some awfully useful little chunks of text floating by here that I was sure I'd want later, but knew I'd never be able to find again even if I tried to archive them. Of course, a server should be available to do the `grep` locally and return the results to those who only have mail capability. -- -- J. David Beutel 11011011 jdb9608@cs.rit.edu "I am, therefore I am." Looking for co-op Sept..Feb in NN, OS, VR, or AI. ------------------------------ Date: 90/05/07 10:45 MESZ From: Thomas Neser Subject: Programm searched Message-ID: <9005071406.AA28570@Sunburn.Stanford.EDU> Dear Netters, i search for the former version of ST-Transformer, a programm for emulation of 8bit Ataris on the ST. It's shareware made by someone in canada. The current version is of no use for me. Is is somewhere on the net or can somebody send me a uuencoded copy of? Thanks in advance Thomas Neser ------------------------------ Date: 7 May 90 00:54:00 GMT From: zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!brutus.cs.uiuc.edu!ux1.cso.uiuc.edu!ux1.cso.uiuc.edu! cs325ec@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu Subject: RTX Screen IO Question. Message-ID: <16000066@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu> I was looking through D.B.'s multitasking kernel docs and I am wondering how IO is handled? If one timeslices applications that are outputting to a screen, how is the output handled? Does each application think its screen is in a different location? IF so how does one switch between them? Thanks. -- Greg ------------------------------ Date: 7 May 90 00:55:00 GMT From: pacific.mps.ohio-state.edu!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!brutus.cs.uiuc.edu!ux1.cso .uiuc.edu!ux1.cso.uiuc.edu!cs325ec@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu Subject: TRANSLATOR Programming Message-ID: <16000067@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu> Does anyone know the commands for a Translator? I would like to program it, but I have no idea of what to send out the MIDI port to switch it on. Thanks in advance. -- Greg ------------------------------ End of INFO-ATARI16 Digest V90 Issue #520 *****************************************