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- DC No-Stic (No Stiction) v1.0
-
- Copyright (c) 1991 Double Click Software
-
- Program by Michael B. Vederman and Keith Gerdes
-
- DC No-Stic (No Stiction) v1.0 is a FREEWARE program. A FREEWARE program is
- one which you may freely distribute, but you cannot charge for it or alter
- the program or contents of the documentation in any manner. Double Click
- Software retains all copyright exclusive rights except exclusive distribution.
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- DC No-Stic is designed to prevent hard disk stiction.
-
- Stiction is when your hard disk head sticks in one place. (big trouble)
- Seagate drives suffered from this phenomenon.
-
- Recently, some hard disk manufacturers began putting in logic in their
- controller ROMs to prevent stiction from occuring. Basically, they move the
- hard disk heads around after a length of disk inactivity.
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- DC No-Stic will move the hard disk heads around after 5 minutes of hard disk
- inactivity.
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- Installing DC No-Stic
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-
- >To install DC No-Stic:
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- 1) Put DCNOSTIC.PRG in your AUTO folder.
- 2) Reboot your computer. DC No-Stic will display a message when it installs.
-
- NOTE: If DC No-Stic is unable to install itself, it will print 'Not Installed'
- This happens if no hard disk is hooked up, or not enough vbl slots exist.
-
- - or -
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- 1) Run DCNOSTIC.PRG. You will be presented with an introdutory alert.
- 2) Click on INSTALL.
- 3) DC No-Stic will display a message.
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- Using DC No-Stic
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- If you are using a Syquest removable hard disk, you will want to relog all
- partitions after changing cartridges.
-
- >To relog all hard disk partitions:
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- 1) Press the <ALTERNATE>+<CONTROL>+<LEFT SHIFT>+<F10> keys.
- After 5 minutes of hard disk inactivity, instead of moving the heads
- around, DC No-Stic will actually log in the partitions, then perform
- the scheduled head moving next time.
-
- NOTE: When the head movement occurs, mouse and keyboard input will halt.
- This is to prevent the 'phantom typist' from occuring when the head
- positioning occurs. You won't notice anything but a momentary pause.
-
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- HOW IT WORKS
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- DC No-Stic will monitor hard disk activity. Once all hard disk activity has
- stopped, DC No-Stic will start counting. When 5 minutes has elapsed,
- DC No-Stic will seek to the beginning and end of each partition on all hard
- disks connected.
-
- NOTE: It will not be able to tell a RAMdisk from a hard disk. (No big deal)
-
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- DC CPXtensions - six incredibly useful CPXs for the new Atari Extensible
- Control Panel (Xcontrol). You don't want to be without this package!
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- Look for details and a demo coming within weeks!
-
- Retail price: $29.95
- Available: August 1991
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- DC DATA DIET - Realtime compression of _all_ files. Double (or triple) your
- hard disk storage, while using every single file the same as you always have!
-
- *** Absolutely no other product on the market does what Data Diet does, or
- *** even comes close. In fact, no other product like Data Diet exists for
- *** the Atari computers, anywhere!
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- 100% compatibility! Any file above 1K can be Dietized!
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- Check out some test results:
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- File type No. of Normal Size Diet Size You save!!
- files in bytes in bytes percentage
- ------------------------------------------------------------------------
- Postscript (.PS) 9 1104706 234490 79%
- PageStream (.DOC) 22 1230167 365157 71%
- Various pictures
- (some already compressed) 26 834488 625133 26%
- First Word + (.DOC) 7 56609 26046 53%
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- Don't buy another hard disk!
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- Retail price: $59.95
- Availability: August 1991
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- NEW OFFER! NEW OFFER! NEW OFFER!
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- "Show us Shower, and we'll show you Power!"
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- Users are delighted at the power and flexibility of DC Shower!
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- The response to DC Shower has been great! If you haven't bought it yet to
- experience 'Shower Power' yourself, we are going to make it even easier for
- you to live the experience.
-
- For a limited time only (until August 1, 1991) you can get DC Shower for
- 1/3 off normal retail price, and here's how:
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- Call us on the phone and say: "SHOWER POWER"
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- That's it! When we hear the magic words "SHOWER POWER," you instantly get
- a 33% discount! Incredible!
-
- If you want to respond to the offer by mail, just address the letter:
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- SHOWER POWER
- c/o Double Click Software
- PO BOX 741206
- Houston, Texas 77274-1206
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- WHAT IS DC SHOWER!
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- DC Shower is SHOW magic!
-
- DC Shower replaces the GEM desktop SHOW FILE function with a variety of
- DC Shower modules that let you view text files, binary files, 17 different
- picture formats, (even extract) ARC, LZH, ZIP and ZOO archives and now
- (by popular demand) digitized sound files! (And more modules are coming!)
-
- OR, use the DC Pick desk accessory to view files in any GEM program.
-
- - OR -
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- Use DC Shower directly from UIS 3.3 (simply drag a file to the <P>
- button in UIS 3.3 and click on SHOW).
-
- - OR -
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- You can install DC Shower as the ATERNATIVE TEXT VIEWER in NeoDesk 3.0
- for even more power!
-
- No other product on the market offers the flexibility of DC Shower.
-
- No other product on the market works in conjunction with such a variety
- of files and applications!
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- Fully compatible with all ST, STe and TT computers. 100% assembly!
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- NORMAL RETAIL PRICE: $29.95! Ask your dealer for a copy!
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- The special offer price is $22.95 (in the US) or $24.95 (outside US),
- and includes shipping and handling for your convenience.
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- Texas residents add 8.25% tax
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- This special DC Shower offer ends August 1, 1991.
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- Mail, COD, VISA and MC orders welcome.
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- This program is supplied in the belief that it operates as specified,
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- in any circumstance whatsoever for any direct or indirect loss or damage to
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- of any fault or defect in the goods or services supplied by the company
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