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Info-Atari16 Digest   Saturday, October  7, 1989   Volume 89 : Issue 477

This weeks Editor: Bill Westfield

Today's Topics:

               Re: Want to buy Mono-monitor: OmniRes ?
                          spectre 128 + ICD
                Spectre 128 & Lightspeed Pascal, help.
                         Re: TT announcement
                   Re: Curious about "Rainbow" TOS
                           Re: TOS 1.4 bug?
              Re: TOS 1.4 problems, here we go folks...
                         Re: TOS 1.4 on disk
                            TT speed facts
                        520 upgrade/schematics
                    Re: MIDI software for Atari ST
                                tetris
                   Re: screen size for TOS programs
       Re: Dumas encoding (was Re: SAME OLD SAME OLD VOLUME 2)

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Date: 15 Sep 89 03:52:08 GMT
From: tahoe!wheeler![e-mail]  (Mike Whitbeck)
Subject: Re: Want to buy Mono-monitor: OmniRes ?
To: [e-mail]

In article <[e-mail]> [e-mail] (Jeffrey K.
 Long) writes:
|Sender:
|Reply-To: [e-mail] (Jeffrey K. Long)
|Followup-To:
|Distribution: na
|Organization: Air Force Institute of Technology; WPAFB, OH
|Keywords:
|
|The subject says it all!  Anyone have a monochrome SC-124 monitor that
|they are willing to sell?
|
|
 In the same vein (almost) has anyone tried OMNIRES ? Does it
 work with dvist.prg ?

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Date: 15 Sep 89 04:14:28 GMT
From: tahoe!wheeler![e-mail]  (Mike Whitbeck)
Subject: spectre 128 + ICD
To: [e-mail]

I would like to put a 'Mac' partition on my 30Mbyte ICD drive.
Following the directions which came with spectre I managed to
cause the ST to think that the drive was unformatted. I must of
done something wrong but I don't know where I erred. Any tips?

While on the subject is spectre GCR shipping yet?

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Date: 14 Sep 89 20:26:55 GMT
From: mcsun!unido!tub!db0tui11![e-mail]
Subject: Spectre 128 & Lightspeed Pascal, help.
To: [e-mail]

I've purchased a Spectre 128, Version 1.9F a few weeks ago and am very
heappy with the nice little thing. No problems so far.

But then I transfered Lightspeed Pascal Version 1.0 from my MacPlus to
the Spectre and tried to run a little project.

LSP responded with "Can't run your project due to a memory blockage, perhaps
a desk accessory?" - But there was no deskaccessory active. Decreasing the
stack and zone sizes didn't do any good.

I'm running Finder/System 5.3 which does fine with LSP on my MacPlus
on an Atari Mega 1 (1MB RAM) with 837KB free in MacMode. Can anyone
give me some hints on how to get LSP running a project?

Thanx for any help,

Steve  (MERTENS@DB0TUI11) or (MUELLERD@DB0TUI11).

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Date: 15 Sep 89 02:34:30 GMT
From: imagen!atari![e-mail]  (Ken Badertscher)
Subject: Re: TT announcement
To: [e-mail]

[e-mail] (Greg Lindahl) writes:

| 3. Plug in blitter and ROMS. Note the small speed increase, since you're
|    running TurboST or QuickST already...

  I beg to differ here, Greg.  TurboST 1.6 runs _much_ faster on a machine
with a blitter than one without.  Least it seems that way to me.

--
   |||   Ken Badertscher  (ames!atari!kbad)
   |||   Atari R&D System Software Engine
  / | \  #include <disclaimer>

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Date: 15 Sep 89 01:26:41 GMT
From: imagen!atari![e-mail]  (Ken Badertscher)
Subject: Re: Curious about "Rainbow" TOS
To: [e-mail]

No, actually it's because I want to call the next major TOS version
"over the rainbow" TOS.

Or maybe it's to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the Wizard of Oz.

Actually, Chris was right, I got silly one night, and decided to put
in the easter egg.  I apologize to people that only have monochrome
monitors, but it would have been, er, difficult to do anything as
colorful in that 640x400 resolution. <grin>

--
   |||   Ken Badertscher  (ames!atari!kbad)
   |||   Atari R&D System Software Engine
  / | \  #include <disclaimer>

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Date: 15 Sep 89 02:20:24 GMT
From: imagen!atari![e-mail]  (Ken Badertscher)
Subject: Re: TOS 1.4 bug?
To: [e-mail]

[e-mail] (HC Johnson) writes:

| 2. I found that it is absolutely necessary to REMOVE desktop.inf and reboot
| before doing a save desktop.  There are incompatibilities between how 1.1
| organized it and 1.4.

 There should be no incompatibility between the Rainbow TOS DESKTOP.INF
file and those created with previous versions of TOS.  If you're having
a problem, please let us know the details.  The DESKTOP.INF files should
be completely interchangable, with the obvious exception that
DESKTOP.INF files created with Rainbow TOS which have auto-launch files
won't cause an auto-launch with an older TOS version.

--
   |||   Ken Badertscher  (ames!atari!kbad)
   |||   Atari R&D System Software Engine
  / | \  #include <disclaimer>

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Date: 15 Sep 89 02:31:37 GMT
From: imagen!atari![e-mail]  (Ken Badertscher)
Subject: Re: TOS 1.4 problems, here we go folks...
To: [e-mail]

[e-mail] (Peter Ted Szymonik) writes:

| Went down to my 'local' ST store (70 miles) to have TOS 1.4 installed in
| my Mega 2.  Came home, booted the system, trouble immediately.  [...]
| You know what I believe the problem is?
| I went from a 2 to the 6 ROM TOS set.

This should not be a problem in any Mega.  I have used four different
megas (one pre-production model, and two others with different board
revs) which originally held 2 chip TOS ROMs.  I modified them myself
for use with 6 chip EPROMs (which is what we use here during the
development cycle). I don't like to point fingers, but it looks like
maybe the person who made the modification for your TOS ROMs slipped up
somehow.

--
   |||   Ken Badertscher  (ames!atari!kbad)
   |||   Atari R&D System Software Engine
  / | \  #include <disclaimer>

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Date: 15 Sep 89 02:27:31 GMT
From: imagen!atari![e-mail]  (Ken Badertscher)
Subject: Re: TOS 1.4 on disk
To: [e-mail]

[e-mail] (Johnie Wardlaw) writes:

| People are also complaining that they can't get the ROMs from their dealers
| for a number of reasons.  Wouldn't it be a good idea to release a disk based
| version here on USENET and/or one of the pay services for those that are
| sceptical (like me) or those that can't get the ROMs from the dealers?

People who do not have dealers nearby should contact Atari Customer Service
(call 408/745-2000 and ask for Customer Service) for information on how they
can get the Rainbow TOS upgrade.

Please don't bother the Customer Service folks if you have a dealer nearby,
we are working as hard as we can to get the ROMs out to the dealers.  PLEASE
BE PATIENT.  If your dealer has a specific problem obtaining the Rainbow TOS
upgrade, he or she should contact the dealer support people here at Atari.

I'd just like to thank all the people who have taken the time to ask their
dealers about the upgrade, and thank those who have posted notes here and
sent me Email.  Your comments have been forwarded to the Atari people who
can solve the problems.


--
   |||   Ken Badertscher  (ames!atari!kbad)
   |||   Atari R&D System Software Engine
  / | \  #include <disclaimer>

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Date: 15 Sep 89 02:45:10 GMT
From: imagen!atari![e-mail]  (Ken Badertscher)
Subject: TT speed facts
To: [e-mail]

Since my mail to Ronald Lamprecht seems to have bounced, I'm posting
this note from Richard Miller to the net in hopes that it will reach
him.  It may be interesting to other people who have been following the
recent wave of TT information as well.

--

Hello, Ronald!

I'm forwarding this message to you from Richard Miller, V.P. of Research
and Development for Atari:

================

I noticed your comments on TT, and I would like to clear up some points:

1. The bus bandwidth of the TT is not 2 MHz.  It is approximately sixteen
megabytes per second.  On the ST, it is four megabytes per second.

2. The TT at Dusseldorf had an A24/D16 VME bus.  A future model TT will
have several A32/D32 bus slots.

3. We have seen performance improvements up to a factor of seventeen on
TT as compared to ST.  The better bus bandwidth immediately gives a
factor of four, but that does not take into account the cache, the FPU,
or the more efficient 68030 instructions.

I sincerely hope you will choose the TT as your "next machine".  I know
that if you used one, you would want to keep it!

Regards,
Richard Miller
V.P. of Research and Development
Atari Corp.
--
   |||   Ken Badertscher  (ames!atari!kbad)
   |||   Atari R&D System Software Engine
  / | \  #include <disclaimer>

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Date: 15 Sep 89 06:01:33 GMT
From: zephyr.ens.tek.com!tektronix!psueea!jove.cs.pdx.edu![e-mail]
 (David R. Gray)
Subject: 520 upgrade/schematics
To: [e-mail]

Hi! I'm new to the net.  I have this burning desire to upgrade my 520 ST to
1 meg.  I understand that I need to piggyback the RAM, and am willing to wield
a soldering iron.  I have heard that I need to jumper some lines from the MMU,
but don't know which ones.  Could anyone help me on this?  Are there other
things I should be aware of?  Any comments will be greatly appreciated.

On a different but related topic:  does anyone know where I can locate
schematics to the 520?  Or are these considered proprietary to Atari?
I figure if I am going to hack around with the board I should know what it
is.  I haven't seen anything in my local Atari shop.

Thank you in advance for any comments you might have.

        David Gray

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Date: 15 Sep 89 08:10:31 GMT
From: tramp![e-mail]  (Brian Walker)
Subject: Re: MIDI software for Atari ST
To: [e-mail]

In article <[e-mail]> [e-mail] (Steven Grimm) writes:
>I bought a Yamaha PSR-47 keyboard yesterday, just to play around with some
>basic musicmaking.  I'd really like to drive the thing from my Atari ST,
>too; can anyone recommend good software?  If there's a public domain program,
>please submit it to comp.binaries.atari.st so I can take a look.  (I'm sort
>of surprised there isn't something in the archive already -- with built-in
>MIDI ports, the Atari seems a natural candidate for good PD music software...)
>I'm willing to pay for a good program, too, so don't be shy about recommending
>your favorite commercial software.  So far the only thing I've found to drive
>the synth is "Marble Madness," so I guess I've found that program's single
>redeeming feature ( :-) -- I wish they'd spent half the time on the ST version
>as they did on the Amiga one, but that's another article...)
>
I dink around with Music Studio and a Casio MT-240 keyboard.  It's a nice
program and uses musical notation to represent the notes.  You can put music
in relatively painlessly, as many have done already.  The program works
well and there are quite a few song files available out there.  It's
kind of fun to watch the notes drift across the screen as they are
played on the synth.  Music Studio also offers a rudimentary MIDI input
feature that approximates the length of the notes played.  Altogether, it's
not bad for something in the $50 range.  Audio Light, the makers of Music
Studio, also make a PD player version but you really need the official
version or something to edit the song files because most of the songs are
written for the Casio CZ-101 synths.

There are a few PD MIDI programs available in Public Domain and
Internet.  They are not much and I wish there were more available.  The
local user's group has some programs in it's archives plus a large
array of Music Studio song files.  I guess I could dump some of these
files to an archive or comp.binaries while people with GENIE or
Compu$erve access could perhaps round up a few choice programs as well
(hint, hint).

Brian Walker, University of Colorado at Boulder
[e-mail]     ...!?ncar,nbires?!boulder!tramp!walkerb
DISCLAIMER:  The university does not know half the things I say or post and
would very much like to keep it that way.

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Date: Fri, 15 Sep 89 11:46 N
From: "Frits Dumortier/R.U.G." <[e-mail]>
Subject: tetris
To: [e-mail]
X-VMS-To: IN%"[e-mail]"

Hey there,

There exists a commercial version of TETRIS for the ATARI ST. I will
check for the exact references.

Frits Dumortier

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Date: 15 Sep 89 03:08:49 GMT
From: nis!pwcs!stag![e-mail]  (John Stanley)
Subject: Re: screen size for TOS programs
To: [e-mail]

[[e-mail] writes...]
>
> I would like to be able to change the character size used by TOS programs
> on my 1040/mono.  That is, I would like to be able to set the screen size
> to (say) 130x49 instead of the default 80x25.  Can anyone supply me with
> hints on how to do this?

  It would be -very- difficult to modify the character width.  (Many
sections of TOS rely on 8-bit wide characters).  What is -easily-
accomplished is to set the ST from the normal (80x25) mode into (80x50)
mode in monochrome.  (I'm editing this message in 50-line mode right now
using a non-GEM editor that knows how to sense the screen size...)

  Here are two tiny uuencoded programs.  One to start 50 line mode and
one to return to 25 line (normal) mode.  These only work properly in
mono.  I wouldn't advise trying them in color.  (I have no idea what they
would do to a color system...)

  I apologise to anyone who objects to -any- binaries being placed in the
discussion newsgroups, but these binaries are so small that even with
them, my message is both shorter than many text only messages and answers
his (and other peoples) needs better than a long detailed explanation...

table
 !"#$%&'()*+,-./0123456789:;<=>?
@ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ[\]~_
begin 644 hi50.tos
M8!H   "                              $_Y    ?#\\  1.3E1/L'P a
M F8DH  B:0 $(6D 2/_V(6D 3/_J,7P "/_2,7P ,?_6,7P"@/_80F=.00  a
M                                                            a
M                                 @                          a
M                                                            a
?                                            a
 a
end
table
 !"#$%&'()*+,-./0123456789:;<=>?
@ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ[\]~_
begin 644 hi25.tos
M8!H   "                              $_Y    ?#\\  1.3E1/L'P a
M F8DH  B:0 ((6D 2/_V(6D 3/_J,7P $/_2,7P &/_6,7P% /_80F=.00  a
M                                                            a
M                                 @                          a
M                                                            a
?                                            a
 a
end

---
John Stanley <dynasoft![e-mail]>
Software Consultant / Dynasoft Systems

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Date: 15 Sep 89 12:39:12 GMT
From: cs.dal.ca![e-mail]  (Bill Silvert)
Subject: Re: Dumas encoding (was Re: SAME OLD SAME OLD VOLUME 2)
To: [e-mail]

In article <[e-mail]> [e-mail] (William
 David Haas) writes:
>Just thought I would pop into the UUD discusion.   My favorite feature of
>uud (not uudecode) is that you can save all the parts of a UUEncoded file
>from a newsgroup (like say comp.binaries.atari.st) into mailbox form and
>uud that file.  The only catch is the parts must be in order.

It is easy to hack UUD so that you can save all the parts of a posting
and decode them all at one shot.  When something big comes along, like
nethack, I just save the parts as nh.01, nh.02, etc., and when the whole
thing is ready I give the command UUD nh.?? to decode the package.

If I don't hear from Dumas in the next few days (it is basically his
code, he should have first crack at modifying it) I will send my version
to Steve Grimm for posting.


--
Bill Silvert, Habitat Ecology Division.
Bedford Institute of Oceanography, Dartmouth, NS, Canada B2Y 4A2
        UUCP: ...!?uunet,watmath?!dalcs!biomel!bill
        Internet: [e-mail]      BITNET: [e-mail]

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