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- Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
- Subject: Falcon needs....
- Message-ID: <1hqnj7INN7jq@golem.wcc.govt.nz>
- From: wells_s@kosmos.wcc.govt.nz
- Date: 29 Dec 1992 23:39:19 GMT
- Reply-To: wells_s@kosmos.wcc.govt.nz
- Organization: Wellington City Council (Public Access), Wgtn, Nz
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- Okay, the falcon needs:/ (and can easilly do - so get to work guys 8-)
-
- 16-colour ANSI emulation. (With all the standard extras, bold, blinking
- etc.)
-
- MS-Doze compatible Super-Z-Modem, Bi-Modem & HS-Link Transfer Protocols.
- (Not difficult these days, especially with the Falcon's DSP, which should
- be able to happily handle data going in & out at the same time....)
-
- Answer Phone. (Plays a pre-recorded sample when someone calls 'I am
- not home... etc.' - and then records (samples) the callers message, at
- a low rate to keep filesize down!)
-
- VGA art package, supporting GOOD picture resizing & dithering, so as
- to expand SpeCtrum 512 320*200*512 pictures up to 640*480 etc. resolution,
- (this CAN be done with virtually no loss of detail whatsoever, the OLD
- mac-plus has software which does it with INCREDIBLE results - and it's
- shareware!). Should support GIF, IFF, maybe TIFF, and the standard
- ST-assortment (Degas, Neof╦═írñú
- ST-assortment, (Degas, Neochrome, SPectrum 512 etc.)
-
- Comms with DSP data-compression/decompression/error correction. (e.g.
- MNP 1-5). Using the DSP to compress/decompress data, and perform
- Error correction, and then send the data to the modem, or to the rest
- of the computer. Disablable in case of real Modem-based MNP being
- present! This would REALLY hit the spot!!
-
-
- Also - has anyone done any DECENT compatibility tests with the new
- Falcon 030, e.g. testing a reasonably wide variety of Public-Domain/
- Shareware and commercial software. Particularly programs using the
- sound-chip, which apparently has problems.
-
- Also, can anyone give us a good description of the software packaged with
- the Falcon, not just what it is, but what it does!
-
- C'mon you people, if you own it - let us hear about it!!
-
-
- And, why isn't there a comp.sys.atari.falcon message base?? Amoeba
- games machine has around 10 message bases! Surely 4 atari bases
- wouldn't hurt! (1 8-bit, 2 st (tech and this base), and falcon).
- Pretty harmless, considering the other assortments of pointless message
- bases around, many of which have never had anything posted in them!!
-