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Private Eye - A Nosy Desk Accessory
Version 2.0
Copyright Mike Yocum, 1987
(312) 469-4490
CIS 70375, 1255
GEnie Mike.Yocum
Private Eye is a desk accessory that allows you to take a look
inside the ST, in a manner of speaking. Some of the information
it gives you is obvious, some of it not so obvious, and some may
be a surprise.
When I started to write "Private Eye," I had been looking over a
copy of Atari's "Hitchhiker's Guide To The BIOS." I noted that
there was ALOT you could learn about the ST by calling different
BIOS, XBIOS, and GEMDOS routines, and by examining certain system
variables (which reside from $400 - $4FF). After experimenting
for awhile, I realized that others might be as "nosy" as me, and
want to know more about their ST.
WHAT IT DOES
One of the hardest parts of writing "Private Eye" was not deciding
what to include, but rather what to leave out! Here is a list of
what I did end up including. There are four basic groups of
information.
System:
Top of memory: where the ST thinks physical memory stops
Free memory: how much free "working" memory is available
GEM version number
TOS base: where TOS starts in RAM or ROM
Disk Drive:
Drive(s): what drives are in use
Drive seek rate
Write verify: on or off
Video:
Screen resolution
Video RAM: where it resides
Keyboard and mouse:
Key click: on or off
Key repeat: on or off
Key repeat rate: adjustable from 1 to 21 via the Control Panel
Key delay - adjustable from 1 to 46 via the Control Panel
Bell - on or off
CapsLock - on or off
Double click speed - of mouse buttons, from 0 to 4
After booting up with "Private Eye," installed as an .ACC file,
and choosing it from the "Desk" menu, a window will pop up with
all the information above given in it. Consider it a "snapshot"
of system statistics, that were valid at the time you called it
up. As your session with the ST continues and you run different
programs, RAMdisks, etcetera, these parameters can change.
This program is copyrighted, but free. Feel free to give it to
whoever you like. If you find any bugs, or would like to see any
changes made, please let me know.
That's it! Enjoy your new desk accessory and "take a peek" at
what's going on inside your ST.