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From: sourada@iastate.edu (Steven D Ourada)
Subject: Welcome to comp.sys.atari.st!
Followup-To: comp.sys.atari.st
Summary: Some frequent questions and answers about Atari 16/32 bit computers.
Please read this before asking a question on comp.sys.atari.st.
Date: Fri, 2 Jul 1993 02:28:40 GMT
Expires: Sun, 15 Aug 1993 02:28:27 GMT
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Archive-name: csas-faq/part1
Welcome to comp.sys.atari.st! Please read this FAQ before posting a question
to comp.sys.atari.st, since a lot of common questions are answered here.
Thanks to David Paschall-Zimbel (davidli@simvax.labmed.umn.edu) for
compiling most of this FAQ.
Entries are dated by the last change. ??.??.?? means they were last changed
before the dates were added.
The following is an index of the questions answered in this part of the FAQ.
For easy access to a particular question, search for the tag surrounded by
colons (i. e. :GNU:). Questions marked with '*' are new or changed.
*WEL Welcome to comp.sys.atari.st
EMILY Hints from Emily Postnews
*BOOKS What books are available for the Atari ST?
*DEV How do I become a developer for the Atari ST?
ERR What does TOS ERROR nn mean?
FREE What is Free-Net and how can I get access?
MAGS What magazines are available for the Atari ST?
*TIPS TIPS AND HINTS from other users
ZNET Where can I get copies of ZNET?
EXPLOR Where can I get copies of Atari Explorer Online?
*PD Where can I get Public Domain/Shareware software?
MAIL E-Mail file servers
FTP Anonymous FTP servers
COMP Atari-related companies
IAAD Independent Atari Developers
CREDIT Who has contributed to the FAQ?
:WEL: 93.06.11
Welcome to comp.sys.atari.st
============================
This newsgroup is devoted to discussion about 16 and 32 bit Atari micros. At
present that includes the Atari 520ST, 1040ST, Mega ST, STe, STacy, Mega STe,
TT, and Falcon. There are also emulators for the Apple Macintosh and IBM
PC/XT/AT available.
Most of the people who read this newsgroup are technically oriented.
The newsgroup serves as a resource for Atari users ... feel free to
contribute to the discussions.
Associated newsgroups include:
comp.binaries.atari.st ! uuencoded binary programs
comp.sys.atari.st.tech ! technical programming/hardware topics
comp.sources.atari.st ! uuencoded/shar sources
:EMILY: ??.??.??
Hints from Emily Postnews
=========================
(Thanks to John Henders (jhenders@jonh.wimsey.bc.ca) for this bit of
_humor_.)
Emily Postnews Visits comp.sys.atari.st
( Due to popular demand, (well at least one persone asked anyways),
Emily has taken time out of her busy schedule to answer a few commonly
asked questions specific to c.s.a.st. )
Dear Emily.
Some Amiga user is raving on c.s.a.st about how wonderful
his computer is, and how awful mine is. What should I do?
signed My Computer is NOT a Toy.
Dear My Computer, etc,etc.
Many people's egos are so tied to their possessions, they
have to affirm their existance by raving about the superiority
of their machine to anyone who will listen. You should immediately
flame these people into cinders, using every rumour or misconception
you've ever heard about their brand of computer, as this will cause
lots of posts, and develop into a massive flame war, which is one
of the main reasons most people read c.s.a.st. If this didn't happen
every six months, everybody would unsubscibe to this newsgroups from
boredom.
Or, you could put comp.sys.amiga.advocacy in the Followup to:
line, and any article replying to yours would go to the newsgroup
designed for this discussion.
Or, if your newsreader supports it, you could build a KILL FILE,
which eliminates any post that has the word Amiga in it.
Kill files can be created in rn and trn by hitting the 'K' key.
This will make a kill file based on the article you were reading
at the time. Then control K will put that file in the editor for you
to play with. You use the same regexp commands here that are in rn.
For example. /[Ff]oo/h:j would search all headers of unread articles
for both Foo and foo, and junk them. Check the docs for your newsreader
for further details.
Dear Emily.
I like flame wars, and want to start one of my own, so my name
will be as famous as Richard Covert's.
Signed, Too much Time on My Hands.
Dear Too much time.
Sorry it took so long to reply, but Richard's in my kill file
and someone had to forward your post to me, or I'd never have seen it.
Flame wars are fun. They're the main reason people creted Usenet,
and should be encouraged at every opertunity.
Some of the most common tricks for starting flame wars are as
follows.
1: Post a note in another newsgroup telling all the users there that
they own a piece of junk, and if they had a half a brain, they'd have the
same computer you do, as it's obviously the best.
2: Toss a bit of slander against another computer in a totally
unrelated post. This guarantees a follow up, even if your original
post wasn't of any interest.
3: Create a signature file that has a put down of another computer
in it. This will get flame wars going in threads that have completely
unrelated Subject: lines, thus slipping through all but he most exacting
kill files.
I hope you find these tips handy in creating your next flame war.
And just remember, your computer MUST be the best, after all, it's yours.
:BOOKS: 93.06.11
What books are available for the Atari ST?
==========================================
The (Almost) Complete Guide to Atari Reference Books
Atari Coropration
1196 Borregas Avenue
Sunnyvale, CA 94089
Atari TOS Developer's Kit
Atari has now make the developer's documentation public (meaning you don't have
to be 'a developer' to buy it). See DEV above
for more information.
Atari UK Software Support
Atari
Atari House
Railway Terrace
Slough, BERKS
United Kingdom
SL2 5BZ
Tel 0753 53344
"A few people have asked for more info on the release by Atari UK of
the programming docs. They have been released as 5 books."
Programming Guides GEMDOS/BIOS & general programming. 238 pages. #29.99.
(# = the British pound). Still Another Line A Doc (SALAD), Intelligent
keyboard protocol, chkdsk3 docs, midi assoc address sheet.
Programming Guides New machines. 184 pages. #29.99.
Rainbow TOS release notes, STE developers addendum, STE TOS release
notes, TT030 TOS release notes, TT030 hardware ref manual, VMS expansion
for TT & MegaSTe. Includes 2 disks of utilities, examples, xcontrol &
docs.
Programming Guides - GEM VDI
Programming Guides - GEM AES - combined books. 514 pages. #49.99
All the above together #99.99
Hardware and Chip Specs. 228 pages. #29.99
Engineering hardware spec, ACSI, MC6850, 68901, ay3-8910, wd1770, blitter
Monitor & cartridge port. Also schematics.
[Info from a posting by Iain Laskey dated 30 Nov 1991]
Compute! Publications,Inc.
PO Box 5406,Greensboro NC
27403(919-275-9809)
Computes Technical Refence Guide Volume One. VDI
Sheldon Leeman
ISBN 0-87455-093-9
Computes Technical Refence Guide Volume Two. AES
Sheldon Leeman
ISBN 0-87455-114-5
Computes Technical Refence Guide Volume Three. TOS
Sheldon Leeman
ISBN 0-87455-149-8
Learning C. Programming Graphics on the Amiga and Atari ST.
Marc B. Sugiyama and Christopher D. Metcalf
ISBN 0-87455-064-5
Compute's ST Applications Guide. Programming in C
Simon Feild,Kathleen Mandis and Dave Myers
ISBN 0-87455-078-5
Scott,Foresman and Company.
Professional Publishing Group
1900 East Lake Avenue,Glenville IL
600025
Learning C on the Atari ST
Joseph Boyle Wikert
ISBN 0-673-18738-1
Sybex Inc.
2344 Sixth St.
Berkely,CA
94710
Programmers Guide To GEM
Phillip Balma and William Fitler
ISBN 0-553-34397-1
Taylor Ridge Books
PO Box 48
Manchester, Connecticut (no zip listed) usa
(203)643-9673
C-manship Complete, $19.95
Calyton Walnum
No ISBN
"a decent book on programming you