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- From: ucacmsu@ucl.ac.uk (Mr Stephen R Usher)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
- Subject: Re: GEM.. what needs to be fixed, and soon!
- Message-ID: <1992Aug28.093346.20438@bas-a.bcc.ac.uk>
- Date: 28 Aug 92 09:33:46 GMT
- References: <1992Aug27.100551.4716@bas-a.bcc.ac.uk> <1992Aug27.162122.6521@pbhya.PacBell.COM>
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- Organization: Bloomsbury Computing Consortium, London
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- In article <1992Aug27.162122.6521@pbhya.PacBell.COM> dbsuthe@PacBell.COM (Daniel B. Suthers) writes:
- >FORWARD: MR. Usher describes several TT troubles. Most appear to be
- >due to a virus or hardware trouble specific to his machine.
- >
-
- Hmm.... (Have you ever worked for IBM's fault report service? :-))
-
- >
- >In article <1992Aug27.100551.4716@bas-a.bcc.ac.uk> ucacmsu@ucl.ac.uk (Mr Stephen R Usher) writes:
- >>
- >>From what I've heard, the new version of GEM for the FALCON seems a great
- >>improvement. I hope that at least some of the following gripes I have with
- >>GEM are fixed, and the rest to be fixed ASAP if the Atari machines are to
- >>get anywhere:-
- >>
- >>(1) Response time for mouse button presses.
- >>
- >> Has anyone noticed that it takes about a second for a mouse press to
- >>be acted upon under GEM? This delay is the same on the TT as on the ST. This
- >>has put off a large number of people when I've tried to promote the ST/TT
- >[ TEXT DELETED ]
- >THIS IS A PROBLEM WITH YOUR COMPUTER. MY SON'S ST HAD A BAD HARD DRIVE THAT
- >CAUSED SIMILAR PROBLEM. ALL THREE OF MY STS PROVIDE INSTANT MOUSE RESONSE.
-
- This happens on all the ST's and TT's I've seen from an old 520STM with TOS
- 1.0 right through to the TT030 with TOS 3.05, and a friend has reported the
- same problem with TOS 3.06 on the TTs he uses at work.
-
- >
- >>(2) Printer drivers have to be assigned at INSTALL time or by editing a
- >>file. [ TEXT DELETED ]
- >FONT GDOS ALLOWS YOU TO HAVE MULTIPLE DRIVERS DEFINED. JUST LIKE WINDOWS,
- >YOU MUST EXIT AND RESTART IF YOU WANT A TOTALLY NEW ONE INSTALLED FROM A FLOPPY.
-
- Hmm... an improvement.. but I still think that you should be able to add
- them on the fly.
-
- >
- >>(3) GDOS IS AN OPTIONAL EXTRA.
- >[ TEXT DELETED ]
- >FONT (OR FSM) GDOS SHOULD BE INCLUDED WITH ALL NEW SYSTEMS (I HOPE )
-
- Preferably in the ROM with a small set of fonts.
-
- >
- >>(5) The low speed of the VDI routines.
- >>
- >> The speed of plotting a pixel on the screen using VDI on the TT is
- >>so slow... dumping a 320x240 picture using point plotting with VDI can take
- >>up to a minute.. the is UNACCEPTABLE.
- >
- >IF I HAD SUCH PROBLEMS, I TOO WOULD AGREE. IT APPEARS YOUR SYSTEM HAS
- >A SERIOUS TROUBLE. MINE WORK AT "BLINDING ELECTRONIC SPEED".
-
- Are you talking of applications you have written yourself, or about programs
- you have obtained from elsewhere? If the latter, how do you know the
- programmer has used the VDI routines to plot the picture?
-
- >
- >Daniel B. Suthers, CCP
- >Technology Consultant, PCS & IN Development Lab, Pac*Bell
- >Voice: (510) 671-1325 UUCP: dbsuthe@Pacbell.COM
- >================================================================================
- >= Commit unexpected kindnesses and senseless acts of beauty. =
- >================================================================================
-
- Please don't take this as a flame, I'm not shouting at you, I'm merely
- replying to your points. The smiley at the begining is there because you
- reminded me of the usual response from the IBM user support team.
-
- Steve
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