========================================================================= INFO-ATARI16 Digest Tue, 8 May 90 Volume 90 : Issue 524 Today's Topics: CONNER CP3500F HARD DISK Developer's gripes (was STE TOS / TOS 1.4/1.6 etc.) GCR autoboot problem Hard Drives? looking for pscapt.arc Phantom sw for sale Test (2 msgs) Zmodem and Uniterm ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: 8 May 90 15:10:50 GMT From: dino!ceres.physics.uiowa.edu!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!rpi!raphael.ipl.rpi.edu! onders@uunet.uu.net (Timothy E. Onders) Subject: Message-ID: Subject: Re: C++ for the ST? Summary: Expires: References: <1990May4.132246.14142@newcastle.ac.uk> <492@seqp4.UUCP> Sender: Followup-To: Distribution: Organization: Central Services Systems Development Keywords: In article <492@seqp4.UUCP> markr@seqp4.UUCP (Mark Roddy,) writes: >Yes there is. Tim Onders (onders@harvard.uucp) has Although I would like to be going to harvard, I'm only at onders@ipl.rpi.edu >made available the GNU port to the ST. > >An almost complete minimal system was uploaded to CIS :-$, >(no gas Tim.) And I can testify that: This has been corrected. :) >In addition, Tim will real mail you the complete ST >distribution of the GNU stuff for $35US. Contact him >via e-mail for more information. This includes shipping within the continental US. Foreign orders may cost more due to shipping charges, although I have already shipped one off to Germany. -Tim Onders onders@ipl.rpi.edu brazil@pawl.rpi.edu ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 08 May 90 22:05:49 SST From: AKISUJAR%NUSVM.BITNET@CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU Subject: CONNER CP3500F HARD DISK Hello from Singapore, Could any one be kind enough to tell me how can I disable the SCSI parity on the Conner CP3500F, 200MB hard disk. There is no jumper on this one and the drive comes with SCSI parity enabled from factory. On the 100MB Conner, there are 2 pins that I can put the jumper on to disable SCSI parity. ICD host adapter requires the Hard disk with SCSI disabled. Is it possible to modify the ICD card to accept the SCSI parity enabled hard disk? Any advise would be most appreciated. Suthipuntha. School of Architecture, National University of Singapore AKISUJAR@NUSVM.BITNET ------------------------------ Date: 8 May 90 14:22:23 GMT From: maytag!mks.com!ant@iuvax.cs.indiana.edu (Anthony Howe) Subject: Developer's gripes (was STE TOS / TOS 1.4/1.6 etc.) Message-ID: <1990May8.142223.28158@mks.com> I have been a 'developer' for about 4 years and I received my last news letter from Atari Canada about 3 years ago. I have always had to phone in about once every two months to find out if there were any new updates to either MadMac, Aln, Db, or the DevDocs. The last update to MadMac I have I think is 1.05 (or is it 1.13). It would be nice if they could even send us a bi-annual newsletter saying something like -- Hi guys, this is Eddy, your... Atari Germany seems to talk to their people, some of us lucky ones have net access and so can ask questions of Allan and Ken, but why do individual Canadian developers have to look outside of Canada for help? - ant -- __ "A thousan li journey begins _ . .-|- / _\ . . |_ _. _ _ . . with just one step." (_\ |\| | |(_/ |\/| |\ _\ o (_ (_) |\/| ------------------------------ Date: 8 May 90 12:32:55 GMT From: cs.dal.ca!silvert@uunet.uu.net (Bill Silvert) Subject: GCR autoboot problem Message-ID: <1990May8.123255.26586@cs.dal.ca> I've just gotten a Spectre GCR and have run into an exasperating problem trying to get a partition of my Supra 60 Meg HD to autoboot. It will autoload OK, but although I have tried several different system/finder sets, and also used the System 6.0 install procedure, it absolutely refuses to boot from anything but a floppy. It starts off with a smily face, but then turns it off and requires the floppy. There are no other System files on the HD, and I have only one Spectre partition (16 Meg). I played a bit with the SCSI unit on the startup menu (in Spectre), but don't know whether I can fix the problem that way. One thing that may be a factor is that I didn't have an up-to-date system when I started loading the hard drive, so the System folder was not the first item on the partition -- is that a factor? I don't want to go through the hassle of reformatting and starting from scratch unless it is necessary. I have version 2.65 of the Spectre software. All the manual says on this problem is that "If the boot fails... assume the HD is damaged." Since this is the only problem I have encountered with this HD, is there a better diagnostic?! Help greatly appreciated. It is frustrating sitting there with a 19 ms HD watching the boot floppy spin endlessly every time I try to do anything! -- William Silvert, Habitat Ecology Division, Bedford Inst. of Oceanography P. O. Box 1006, Dartmouth, Nova Scotia, CANADA B2Y 4A2. Tel. (902)426-1577 UUCP=..! BITNET=bill%biomel%dalcs@dalac InterNet=bill%biomel@cs.dal.ca ------------------------------ Date: 8 May 90 14:59:17 GMT From: usc!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!uakari.primate.wisc.edu!uflorida!beach.cis.ufl.ed u!mck@ucsd.edu (Mark Kilby) Subject: Hard Drives? Message-ID: <23140@uflorida.cis.ufl.EDU> I am posting this for a friend and I personally have no experience with the Atari ST. So, please send responses via e-mail to: mck@beach.cis.ufl.edu Also, please form your responses so that even a Macintosh person can understand it (I'm showing my bias). Anyway, my friend wants to know if a Quantum 105Meg drive for a Macintosh can be used in an Atari ST since they both have SCSI interfaces? If it can be done, what needs to be altered (i.e. connectors, cables, etc.) If there is an easier route, what suppliers would give a good price on a 105Meg HD (Quantum prefered) for the Atari ST. I'm looking for minimal effort on installation. Also, I need a response as soon as possible as my friend is leaving for Italy in a couple of weeks. Thanks in advance. Mark -- ******************************************************************************* Mark C. Kilby, mck@beach.cis.ufl.edu | I'm graduating in August 90 with an MSEE. Machine Intelligence Lab, | Robotics, OO, AI and all that good University of Florida, Gaineville,FL | stuff. Send for free resume today! ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 8 May 90 17:30 GMT From: Subject: looking for pscapt.arc Message-ID: <9005081531.AA00787@Sunburn.Stanford.EDU> Actually this mail should have got through to Steven Klassen regarding the program pscapt.arc on terminator. As I can't find this file on terminator (35.1.33.8)? and don't have a correct mail address of Steven I am addressing my request to the net. I would appreciate if Steven or someone else could send the program pscapt.arc (arced or uuencoded) via email to me. This would be really great! Roland Baumann ETH (Federal Institute of Technology) Zurich, Switzerland E-Mail: baumann@czheth5a.bitnet ------------------------------ Date: 8 May 90 15:13:22 GMT From: swrinde!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!usc!cs.utexas.edu!news-server.csri.toronto.ed u!neat.cs.toronto.edu!omicron.cs.fsu.edu!fsucs.cs.fsu.edu!boyd@ucsd.edu (Mickey Boyd) Subject: Phantom Message-ID: <9005081510.AA06370@fsucs.cs.fsu.edu> In article <751@imada.dk>, micro@imada.dk (Claus Pedersen) writes: >We hear about the Phantom all the time, at first I didn`t believe in >`it`... (for a year or so) and then it stroke me in Tempus. > > [.....] > >- Klaus (micro@imada.dk). Does this ever happen in Tempus II? Is this bug fixable? -- ----------------------------------------------------------------------- ---------------------------------+------------------------------------- Mickey Boyd | "Nobody can be exactly like me. FSU Computer Science | Even I have trouble doing it." Technical Support Group | mail: boyd@fsucs.cs.fsu.edu | - Tallulah Bankhead ---------------------------------+------------------------------------- ----------------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------ Date: 8 May 90 14:36:27 GMT From: fjcp60!winston@uunet.uu.net (Winston M. Llamas) Subject: sw for sale Message-ID: <269@fjcp60.GOV> Atari ST software for sale: Word Perfect Personal Pascal v2.0 Mark Williams C Compiler v2.0x Laser C v2 with source level debugger Prospero C Compiler Price: $300 or best offer Please send email if interested. Winston M. Llamas ------------------------------ Date: 8 May 90 14:19 +0100 From: Walter Kaufmann Subject: Test Message-ID: <12:kaufmann@rz.id.ethz.ch> volume1 intro ------------------------------ Date: 8 May 90 14:21 +0100 From: Walter Kaufmann Subject: Test Message-ID: <12:kaufmann@rz.id.ethz.ch> volume1 intro ------------------------------ Date: 8 May 90 11:28:00 GMT From: eru!luth!sunic!mcsun!hp4nl!ruuinf!piet@bloom-beacon.mit.edu (Piet van Oostrum) Subject: Zmodem and Uniterm Message-ID: <3227@ruuinf.cs.ruu.nl> In article <20721@boulder.Colorado.EDU>, millert@boulder (MILLER TODD C) writes: | | Does anyone know if it is possible to run zmodem from within Uniterm? I just |get a TOS error when I try. Is there anyway to make the two get along or am I |just wasting my time? You have to make sure that there is enough memory to run Zmodem (or any other program) from Uniterm. By default Uniterm takes almost all memory for its buffers. Just make the buffers smaller until you have a fair amount of TOS memory left. -- Piet* van Oostrum, Dept of Computer Science, Utrecht University, Padualaan 14, P.O. Box 80.089, 3508 TB Utrecht, The Netherlands. Telephone: +31-30-531806 Uucp: uunet!mcsun!ruuinf!piet Telefax: +31-30-513791 Internet: piet@cs.ruu.nl (*`Pete') ------------------------------ End of INFO-ATARI16 Digest V90 Issue #524 *****************************************