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INFO-ATARI16 Digest Mon, 9 Oct 89 Volume 89 : Issue 504
Today's Topics:
Avant-Garde's PC_DDRVR.SYS (2 msgs)
Database
Free RAM from Atari
Link format
Monitor for all resolutions
PD Word Processors
Ram upgrades for 520 st
Serial port Disk driver
Spectre GCR and colour monitor
ST->IBM PC, Floppies OK w/TOS 1.4
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Date: 9 Oct 89 17:15:43 GMT
From: aiki!kron@sun.com (Kenneth Kron)
Subject: Avant-Garde's PC_DDRVR.SYS
From article <1989Oct8.202742.10601@cs.dal.ca>, by silvert@cs.dal.ca (Bill
Silvert):
> Lars-Erik Osterud recently pointed out that you can use
> Avant-Garde's PC_DDRVR.SYS to read normal ST disks on a PC.
> --
> Bill Silvert, Habitat Ecology Division.
> UUCP: ...!?uunet,watmath?!dalcs!biomel!bill
> Internet: biomel@cs.dal.CA BITNET: bs%dalcs@dalac.BITNET
How do you get pc_ddrvr.sys, is this sold as PC software or what ?
Inquiring minds wanna know!
Kenneth Kron
-----
The opinions I expressed were mine, the opinions you formed are yours.
kron@eng.sun.com
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Date: Mon, 9 Oct 1989 19:29:54 MET
From: LarsErikOsterud <larserio@ifi.uio.no>
Subject: Avant-Garde's PC_DDRVR.SYS
I don't know any other way to get PC-DDRVR.SYS than to buy PC-Ditto or
copy it from somebody that has PC-Ditto. Again this would be illegal
(if somebody from Avant-Garde doesn't free PC_DDRVR.SYS from copyright)
Lars-Erik / ABK-BBS +47 2132659 / ____ ______ ________________________
Osterud / larserio@ifi.uio.no / /___ / The norwegian ST
__________/ ______________________/ ____/ / Klubben, user association
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Date: 9 Oct 89 23:16:07 GMT
From:
gem.mps.ohio-state.edu!ginosko!ctrsol!sdsu!crash!pnet01!dm@tut.cis.ohio-state.e
du (Dan Melson)
Subject: Database
Having no experience with databases, I am now in the market for one, and would
appreciate it if you would share your likes and dislikes about the various ST
databases.
The sorts of things each does well, or poorly, would be especially
appreciated. Please respond via e-mail.
DM
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Date: 9 Oct 89 16:04:47 GMT
From: shlump.nac.dec.com!enginr.dec.com!landry@decwrl.dec.com
Subject: Free RAM from Atari
In article <10085@xanth.cs.odu.edu>, src@cs.odu.edu (Scott R. Chilcote)
writes...
"
" I opened my Mega 2 last week to install TOS 1.4, and discovered a TRULY
"AMAZING thing. The machine had a complete set of RAM chips, a total of
"FOUR MEGABYTES worth, installed!!
"
" <etc>
"
" So, for the cost of soldering one pin of one IC to the motherboard, I
"have a FOUR MEGABYTE computer!!
"
My guess is that this was a Mega 4 that didn't pass the checkout.
In the same way that chip makers sell slow chips at slower specs,
Atari is probably selling Mega 4 fallouts as Mega 2's. It's
probably cheaper for them to give away the chips than to repair
the boards (on the average). So you got lucky!
chris
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Date: Tue, 10 Oct 1989 2:47:11 MET
From: LarsErikOsterud <larserio@ifi.uio.no>
Subject: Link format
I use Personal Pascal 2 for all my programming and need a little help.
You can include your own C and ASM routines in Personal Pascal, but it
will only accept files with DRI linker format and all my C-compilers and
Assembler uses GST linker-format.
Does anyone out there have a program to convert GST to DRI linker-format ?
If not, can somebody make such a program - I'll pay for it !!!
Lars-Erik / ABK-BBS +47 2132659 / ____ ______ ________________________
Osterud / larserio@ifi.uio.no / /___ / The norwegian ST
__________/ ______________________/ ____/ / Klubben, user association
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Date: Mon, 9 Oct 1989 21:07:02 MET
From: LarsErikOsterud <larserio@ifi.uio.no>
Subject: Monitor for all resolutions
Somebody asked about monitors for all 3 ST resolutions...
My friend has a Philips CM 8873 Personal Monitor
This is a VGA multsync and supports all resolutions....
The difference between this monitor and other multisync is
THAT THE PHILIPS CM 8873 HAS BUILD-IN SPEAKER AND AMPLIFIER !!!
Lars-Erik / ABK-BBS +47 2132659 / ____ ______ ________________________
Osterud / larserio@ifi.uio.no / /___ / The norwegian ST
__________/ ______________________/ ____/ / Klubben, user association
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Date: 10 Oct 89 01:05:40 GMT
From: ogccse!blake!themod@ucsd.edu (Chris Hinton)
Subject: PD Word Processors
Hello you netters, I need some help. I need a good PD Word Processor. I
have (gak!) 1st Word, but I hate it with a passion. I also think spending
$100+ for any program is just plain stupid. Any suggestions?
Chris Hinton ---- themod@blake.acs.washington.edu
Mod Software Systems
Seattle, Wa 98195
"Why didn't you tell me he had one of those... things?" - The Joker.
"My life is really...complex." - Bruce Wayne.
"Excuse me... What does God need with a starship?" - James T. Kirk.
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Date: 9 Oct 89 20:02:00 GMT
From: sunybcs!bediako@boulder.colorado.edu (Bernard Bediako)
Subject: Ram upgrades for 520 st
Can anyone tell give any recommendations on the best solderless ram
upgrade kits? Right now I'm heading toward the EZ ram II. I need to know
any comments/problems there are with it.
Also, does it matter what speed (ns) chips I use? Will there be any
problems using 100 or 80ns chips? Will things speed up if I use 80ns chips?
(I'm planning on using 1M * 1 chips).
thanks
bernie bediako@cs.buffalo.edu
Bernard Bediako --------=-=-=-=-=-> DOMAIN: bediako@cs.buffalo.edu
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Date: 9 Oct 89 17:03:48 GMT
From:
gem.mps.ohio-state.edu!usc!henry.jpl.nasa.gov!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!peregrine!ccic
pg!paulm@apple.com (tmp Paul Moreau usenet acct)
Subject: Serial port Disk driver
Hi:
I've been doing some drive changes on my ST latelly and been needing a backup
system. I've tried turtle but I haven't loads of floppies that I can use
for this nor the time to sit in front of my computer all day switching
diskettes. What I do have is a couple of UNIX systems (one system V and one
BSD 4.2) with lots of disk space and 5 1/4 cartridge tape drives. I then
started to consider using the UNIX system but had to get the information
to it some how. I thought of using xmodem but it also required some
intervention. I've been writing disk driver code for a while (my MAXTOR
380 meg ESDI drive) and all of a sudden it flashed on me to just convert
the actual I/O routines in the driver so that instead of going to the DMA
port, it went via the serial port. I over came the non re-entrant BIOS
problem and wrote a handler that runs on the UNIX system. I can create
a disk file on the unix system from 128K to 16meg, start the TSR driver
on the ST and Wella... I've got a drive 'P' on my st that I can just drag
files or disk ICONS to and start the copy and go away for a while.
If used with a disk caching program this drive can be quite fast.
Well I've been reading this forum for quite a while and have downloaded
a lot of great stuff. If anybody is interrested in my code I will post
it PD on this net or (try) to mail it to whom-ever asks.
Currently I am working on another UNIX side utility to copy to and from
files from UNIX and the ST disk file.
----
.===========================================================.
| ### ####### ### | N O R T H | /==============\ |
| ### ### ### | A M E R I C A |< An STC Company >|
| ### ####### ####### | (was CCI) | \==============/ |
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| UUCP: ...ccicpg!dl2!paulm | Paul L. Moreau |
| or ...ccicpg!dl1!paulm | Diagnostics Software Eng. |
| or ...ccicpg!paulm | Irvine, California |
`==========================================================='
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Date: 6 Oct 89 19:05:58 GMT
From: ubc-cs!alberta!calgary!cpsc!bremner@beaver.cs.washington.edu (David
Bremner)
Subject: Spectre GCR and colour monitor
Does the Spectre GCR work with the Atari RGB monitor?
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BITNET: Bremner@UNCA-MULTICS.BITNET
USENET: bremner@ksi.cpsc.ucalgary.ca
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Date: 9 Oct 89 14:32:51 GMT
From: att!chinet!saj@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU (Stephen Jacobs)
Subject: ST->IBM PC, Floppies OK w/TOS 1.4
This is in reply to a whole bunch of *ABSOLUTELY*WRONG* messages about
exchanging disks between Atari ST-s and IBM PS2 machines. A PS2 will
correctly read from and write to any disk an ST can format so long as the
boot sector doesn't lie about the format, and so long as the first 3 bytes
of the boot sector are EB 34 90 (that was 3 bytes of hex, people). If you
copy an IBM boot sector to a floppy with a format different from that
described in that boot sector it will crap out. I ROUTINELY put the 3 magic
bytes at the start of disks formatted with TWISTER and use them on PS2s.
Don't bother flaming me for getting fed up, just fire up DRFLOPPY or
MEMFILE (or even a PS2 sector editor) and TRY IT.
Steve J.
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End of INFO-ATARI16 Digest V89 Issue #504
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