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- From: moon!cyberden!phbill@well.sf.ca.us
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.8bit
- Subject: Re: CGS and all that good stuff...
- Message-ID: <D6DoPB14w165w@cyberden.uucp>
- Date: 18 Aug 92 00:06:24 GMT
- References: <1992Aug15.212838.26545@news.ysu.edu>
- Organization: Indescribable Creations
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- ab588@yfn.ysu.edu (joseph sabatino) writes:
-
- > Bill, try using Sparta3.2d, it is the prefered dos...goes off without a
- Ugh. I'm not exactly a Sparta lover. I've been using Atari DOS 2.5
- for almost 9 years, and for the past few months (less than a year) I've
- been using MyDOS. Besides, I don't trust new DOSes with my old disks!
- (which I have HUNDREDS of!! I THINK I need a hard drive, eh? :) )
-
- >
- > > Why not just have a file
- > called "FONTS.DAT" and have it load up and then the program can just
- > >point around in it, rather than going through the trouble of setting up a
- > >RAMDisk.
- >
- > There's not enough memory in the 8bit to handle the modem handler, Bobterm an
- > The CGS system is an efficient, well thoughtout system and I doubt if we
- > had it before this that the 8bit would have died so fast.
- > Comeon, Bill, most of us have ramdisks!
- >
-
- Are you trying to tell me that storing, say, 16k in a RAM disk takes up
- less room than storing 16k in RAM?? (remember, I'm using the patch that
- adds that 101-sector RAM disk to an un-upgraded system (like min)).
-
- And I still think those squiggly "|"s don't look very good! ;)
- I'll try those numbers, ONLY after you tell me WHERE they are! :)
-
- thanx.. I've yet to see CGS using the graphics mode (trying to
- get it to do it manually, while not online is quite a headache! :) )
-
- "Be seeing you!"
- ___________________________ ||| __
- PhBill: Bill Kendrick / | \
- moon!cyberden!phbill@well.sf.ca.us
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- August 17, 1992
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