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From: chan@pyramid.unr.edu (Kaho Chan)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st,rec.games.video,rec.games.misc
Subject: Re: Falcon
Date: 6 Apr 92 21:05:17 GMT
Reply-To: chan@pyramid.unr.edu (Kaho Chan)
Followup-To: chan@cs.unr.edu (Kaho Chan)
Organization: University of Nevada, Reno

In article <1992Apr3.060928.12218@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu> jyoung@isis.cs.du.edu (Jeff Young) writes:
>The Atari Falcon '030 are computers for the home and
>small business.  The Jaguar will be a $200 (about) game
>machine that is supposed to have a lot of the graphic and
>CD like sound of the Falcons.  Psgnosis is making killer
>stuff for the Jaguar now that will make most people choose
>it over the Nintento, SEGA, NEC..

The Jaguar is supposed to be a 64-bit game machine... (a 32-bit game machine    that was supposed to debut when the Super NES debut, was scrapped so that more
R & D will go toward the 64-bitter).
If it is going to have a price tag around $200, then it WILL sell!
And if Psygnosis is developing already, put my name down!

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From: tesla@lamar.ColoState.EDU (Jon Nash)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: mega st...
Date: 9 Apr 92 23:21:33 GMT
Organization: Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO  80523

Some recent posts have debated the speed of Intel platforms vs. Atari
platforms.  In the past couple days I have run a couple bench mark 
programs on both platforms, as well as 040/25 NeXT's.  On none of the
tests did my 1040ST 8Mhz come close in integer or floating point math.
The 386 machines were amazingly slow compaired to the 486/33 machine
that I use in the lab.  The real interesting points came from compairing
the 040/25 NeXT and the 486/33.  I compiled an integer math bench mark
program with Borland C++ as a DOS application and compaired it to the
same source compiled on the NeXT using their development software.  The
DOS version and the NeXT version were very similar in speed with the NeXT
winning (while running a Ether Net process in the background) by a _small_
fraction of seconds.  To make it a little more fair I recompiled the 
benchmark program on the 486 as a window's application.  In this case the
NeXT was almost twice as fast and the 486 wasn't even multi-tasking!

Virtually the identical thing happened when I ran a copy of the Dhrystone
code on both machines!

It is important to note that a lot of the speed difference may be due to
differences in the compilers.  Borland's C++ 3.0 is not know for its
great code, while gcc with the -O compiler option is reported to be quite
tight.  I could e-mail the source for these programs to someone who has
other compilers, especially Microsoft C v 7.0.  Needless to say, I feel
that any 030 computer is likely to be a little slower than a 486/xx when
it comes to number crunching.

As mentioned by another post - Motorola is *much* more impressive when it
comes to screen access!  Flat memory architecture is superior!

One other item of interest.  On another news group (*.*.68k ??) a gentleman
from Motorola expressed a personal belief that an 040, if controlled by a
descent compiler, could compete with the current RISC chips (I don't know
which RISC chips he was thinking of exactly...).  The problem is that as
RISC chips become more popular the computer community will begin to spend
more time and effort in developing optimized compilers for those chips and
ignore the other chips, such as the 040.

Just my two cents worth!

Jon            ---------    Go atari!
From: Anthony Paul
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: C for the ST
Date: 17 Apr 92 15:17:15 GMT
Reply-To: ttpui@bnr.ca
Organization: Bell-Northern Research

In article <29ECBD6A.6356@noiro.acs.uci.edu> jvance@maxwell.oac.uci.edu
(Joachim Vance) writes:
>In article <1992Apr14.090428.22221@deis35.cineca.it> fabrizio@deis64.cineca.it
(Fabrizio Lugli) writes:
>>
>>Does anybody know if an english version of Pure C exists ?
>>Why the best C compiler for the Atari ST is still not supported 
>>outside Germany ?  Problems with Borland ?
>
>   My understanding of a recent rumor from the ACE show in Canada is
>that Gribnif will be handling the English version of Pure C.  I
>suppose that means that it won't be too far off.
>
>--
>Joachim Vance
>^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~
>     I am antisesquipedalian--Opposed to the use of long words.
>^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~
>
My understanding from being at the ACE show (and talking to Gribnif) was
that due to some contract or something with Borland, an English version
of the manual is not allowed.  I got no impression from discussion with
people at gribnif that an english version was anywhere near.  Too Bad.

I'd love to have Pure C, but can't justify paying ~$300 for it with no
manuals...

Anthony Paul

ttpui@bnr.ca 


Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
From: plate@cdsmn.mn.org (Doug Plate)
Subject: Neodesk On Sale
Reply-To: plate@cdsmn.UUCP (Doug Plate)
Organization: Dicomed Inc, Burnsville, MN.
Distribution: usa
Date: Mon, 13 Apr 92 04:27:11 GMT



First off, because of the blatent title: I am not affiliated with Gribnif
Software!

So anyway - I called Gribnif to order a Neodesk and found out that it is
on special right now for $35 dollars.  Now, I've never priced Neodesk,
but I was told that the normal retail is $69 or something like that.

If you don't have Neodesk and your not hooked on any of the CLI's, (in 
other words, if you are using the built in desktop) I strongly recommend
this product.  Especially if you are using a hard disk.  

I know this is a widely used product so, maybe eveyone here who's ever
going to use Noedesk, already has it, but I thought I'd mention it anyway.

Gribnif Software: (413) 584-7887

Regards, 
Doug
From: adhir@cygnus.umd.edu (Alok Dhir)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: Good software (Was: mega ste price
Date: 14 Apr 92 19:30:13 GMT
Organization: /etc/organization

"the above would probably cost $9K"...

A new 486/50 EISA clone can be had with all the frills for around $4500.

						- Al
From: RIFFEGL@PURCCVM.BITNET
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Used KnightMare Wanted
Date: 10 Apr 92 12:33:19 GMT
Organization: Purdue University

Anyone have a copy of KnightMare that they want to sell?  Please E-mail me
if possible.

Thanx,
From: fnjlh1@acad3.alaska.edu (HARRIS JAY L)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: somboddy HEP ME! , ST department
Keywords: memory problems
Date: 16 Apr 92 08:23:35 GMT
Reply-To: fnjlh1@acad3.alaska.edu
Distribution: usa
Organization: University of Alaska - Fairbanks
News-Software: VAX/VMS VNEWS 1.4-a3


    My 2 STs (both TOS 1.0  both now 1M)  both show their normal amount of
memory at the desktop (as reported by NeoControl and/or Intersect ), but, after
booting a program of any size, show 37548 remaining. 

    I've tried re-seating all the socketed chips on 1 ST, and I've just run the
VKILLER suite on the other (it first said "HolyCow, are you infected! Shut
down and reboot") , sanitized some disks and installed a bootsector rastor
display. The supposedly sanitized disks still show this magic 37548 remaining
memory after running  any program.

    I'm confused and battered by this. I'm thinking of scuttling down the lines
before my Atari empire completely sinks. Any suggestions (including going to
MSDOS!) appreciated. Thanks                     j harris/fairbanks
From: jonal@sofus.dhhalden.no (JON ARVID LOVSTAD)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: Falcon
Date: 10 Apr 92 06:30:04 GMT
Organization: Ostfold College

In article <1992Apr7.215837.21737@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU> gl8f@fermi.clas.Virginia.EDU (Greg Lindahl) writes:

>In article <6618@lee.SEAS.UCLA.EDU> willing@pantheon.icsl.ucla.edu (Scott Willingham) writes:

>>p.s.  I suspect that "true color" refers to direct storage of RGB values
>>      in video RAM as opposed to the use of color palette lookup tables.

>"true color" in computer graphics generally means you have enough
>colors to put a different color on each pixel on the screen.

Nope, it means NO PALETTE. Otherwise you'd have true color on a LYNX with 
just 4000 color...

Spidey

Jon Lovstad                |   Sorry, but this part of my .sig file has been
jonal@sofus.dhhalden.no    |   retconned by DeFalco...
                           |
SnailMail: Storgata 18     |   If Batman can have 2 Crays, then why can't
N-1750 HALDEN, NORWAY      |   I get a humble TT030?
From: rlcollins@miavx1.acs.muohio.edu (Ryan 'Gozar' Collins)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: ACE'92 show: Report
Date: 9 Apr 92 19:35:04 GMT
Organization: Miami University Academic Computer Service"

In article <1992Apr7.194955.26378@cis.ohio-state.edu>, tbrown@woozie.cis.ohio-state.edu (Ted Brown) writes:
> 
> Well that relieves *some* of my questions.  How does it read Mac Disks? It
> would be enough if it could read 1.44 disks (that is as soon as Dave adds
> the capability), but I don't see how you can make a typical IBM read 
> Macintosh disks without some extra hardware device (of course I am not a 
> hardware-techy type so I could be wrong).
> 

     I was just wondering this. Mac 1.44 disks use the same type of
recording that MS-DOS 1.44 disks are. (Its MFM, not GCR) So a ST with a
high-density drive would be able to read and write Mac 1.44 disks with
no extra hardware. But if Spectre doesn't support 1.44 drives, then this
is all moot. (BTW, I got a program from somewhere that reads and write
Mac 1.44 meg disks in a HD IBM without extra hardware. Unfortunately, I
lost it and can't find where I got it from in the first place. :-( )

Later.......

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you don't intend to keep."		      rcollins@apsvax.aps.muohio.edu
  -Cogsworth	 			      R.COLLINS1 on GEnie
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From: ralph@laas.fr (Ralph P. Sobek)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: SM124 (was Re: MultiTeX 5.0)
Date: 8 Apr 92 15:43:51 GMT
	<1992Mar27.050010.25435@csi.uottawa.ca>
	<1992Mar27.145305.17270@infoserver.th-darmstadt.de>
Organization: LAAS-CNRS France
In-reply-to: martin@matisse.nlp.physik.th-darmstadt.de's message of 27 Mar 92 14:53:05 GMT

>>>>> Regarding Re: MultiTeX 5.0; martin@matisse.nlp.physik.th-darmstadt.de (Martin Wiesenfeldt) adds:

Martin> My personal experiences:
Martin> For an effective multitasking the old ST is too slow, and the
Martin> resolution of the good ol' SM124 too poor.

COME ON NOW!!  Is this true?  A Sun-3 has approx. 75 pixels/inch and a
SPARCstation has 99.19 pixels/inch (both std. monochrome monitors).
Now the SM124, on my machine, has approx. 80-90 pixels/inch.

This seems a quite correct resolution in my book!

--
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Ralph.Sobek@laas.fr			   Addresses are ordered by importance.
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Phone: (+33-)61-33-62-66  FAX-1: (+33-)61-33-64-55  FAX-2: (+33-)61-55-35-77
===============================================================================
Got a Mega 4 ST. Wish it was a Mega STe? :-|  Do I *really* want a TT/Next? ;~#
From: mm68@unix.brighton.ac.uk (Dalamar)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: Yikes!
Date: 6 Apr 92 12:12:01 GMT
Organization: Brighton Polytechnic, UK

Sozobon C is a good package to start you off. Its totally PD and so will cost
you the price of a few disks. Its generally available through most PD libs,
or was when I got mine. Mine had loads of source code with it...I think it
even had the source for the compiler, linker, etc. 

It comes with a very large manual (on disk) which is quite useful if you can
handle the printing out! Overal, very good for a few pounds.  

Michael May
Northbrook College
Worthing
Sussex
England

These views are solely my own.
From: green@roboco.UUCP (Anthony T Green)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.laptops
Subject: Oops. I dropped my T1000SE. Help!
Date: Mon, 06 Apr 92 08:21:59 -04
Organization: RoboCo --- Toronto, Ontario

Call be Mr. Butterfingers, but I dropped my T1000SE from a height of
about three feet onto concrete. It was closed at the time.

Cursory examination does not show much structural damage apart from
scratches on one corner of the plastic case. The display does not seem 
damaged, not does the keyboard. However, I can hear something small moving
about inside it. I want to open it up and have a peek before I turn it on.
My bet is that it is a chunk of solder that has come loose. 

The warranty is up on it, so I don't have a problem cracking it open.
What I am looking for is advice. Has anybody out there opened up their
T1000SE? Do you have any tips? Is there anything I should look for?

PLEASE reply via mail as my site does not get fed this group.

Thanks!
--
Anthony T. Green                   527 Kennedy Rd, Scarborough, Ontario M1K 2B1

Home   (416) 267-9347              Internet: green@roboco.uucp
Office (416) 340-0887              UUCP    : ...!uunet!utai!roboco!green
Newsgroups: comp.sys.laptops
Subject: COMPAQ 386-25 Notebook LTE-Lite 4-Sale.
Supersedes: <92102.201256U53966@uicvm.uic.edu>
Organization: University of Illinois at Chicago
Date: Sunday, 12 Apr 1992 12:21:14 CDT
From: <U53966@uicvm.uic.edu>

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Newsgroups: comp.sys.laptops
From: karches@utdallas.edu (Tom Karches)
Subject: Re: Toshiba 1000 accessories
Keywords: Toshiba
Organization: Univ. of Texas at Dallas
Date: Mon, 13 Apr 1992 16:23:44 GMT

In article <!msjc+_.harve@netcom.com> harve@netcom.com () writes:
>     I just picked up a T-1000 laptop: 4.77 mhz, 512k ram, 720k
>drive, and I was wondering if somebody could give me a list of places
>that specialize in accessories for the old Toshiba.
>     Also, is it possible to take the old cpu out and replace
>it with one of the more efficient Nec v30's?  or is the
>cpu in the machine cmos?  And is upgrading the internal drive to
>1.44 or hooking up a external 1.44 drive a viable alternative?
>
>-- 
>--------------------------------------------------------------------
>Harve@netcom.com
>--------------------------------------------------------------------

I replaced the CPU in my T1100 Plus with a V30 (Original was 8086)
and it works great (about 50% improvement in floating point speed.)

If it can be replaced, you will probably need to use a V20.

Be very careful; the T1100+ is built like a jigsaw puzzle and if anything
like a T1000, could probably be damaged easily.

Regards,
Tom Karches
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.laptops
From: jpeng@menudo.uh.edu (Joseph G. Peng)
Subject: Toshiba T1000SE and 2Mb memory card for sale
Organization: University of Houston
Distribution: usa
Date: Sun, 12 Apr 1992 06:18:50 GMT

	I would like to sell my T1000SE.  I brought it in January this year.
Although there are a few dirt and scratch on the outside (it's hard to keep
a white case clean),  the machine itself is in perfect condition.  It comes
with Microsoft Works 2.0 and the original packing.  I am asking for $315 and
you pay shipping.  P.S.  I haven't registrate everything yet.

	Also I wanna sell a 2Mb memory card for T1000SE.  I brought it from
L.A. Trade in Janauary, so it's still under warranty.  I brought it for $177
(included shipping)  and I am asking $130 and I pay shipping.

	Finally, I wanna sell my DEXXA mouse too.  I brought it in Feb this
year and rarely use it.  It's in excellent shape, like new.  It comes with
a paint program too.  I will sell it for $14 and I pay shipping.

	If you interest in these items please send me a E-mail.
From: neal@mnopltd.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.sys.laptops
Subject: Re: Organizer programs
Date: 5 Apr 92 17:33:26 GMT
Reply-To: emory!mnopltd!neal
Organization: MNOP Ltd., Atlanta, Ga.


->Stanley> I am about to get a NEC Ultra-lite III and I hope to put all my
->Stanley> organizer function on it so I don't have to carry my Casio BOSS
->Stanley> around as well.

I too would love to have an Ultra-lite III mostly to be able to put Xenix
on it and shove a Computone card in the docking station and drive 8 terminals
for teaching class.  

BUT, it carries a high list price, and I haven't found anyone willing to 
deal.  Have you?


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President                Lilburn (atlanta) GA 30247             Fax:  978-4741
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.laptops
Subject: NEC BBS??
From: krschimm@wsuhub.uc.twsu.edu
Date: 11 Apr 92 20:17:23 CST
Organization: Wichita State University, Wichita, Ks

Does anyone know the number to the NEC user support bbs?
From: ts@uwasa.fi (Timo Salmi)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.laptops
Subject: Re: Large cursor--ftp site available?
Date: 7 Apr 92 21:16:28 GMT
Organization: University of Vaasa, Finland

In article <ROISE.92Apr6153403@sumax.seattleu.edu> roise@sumax.seattleu.edu (Linda Roise) writes:
>Does anyone know an ftp site that might have laptop utilities?  In
>particular I'm looking for a larger block cursor.  I'm without my main
>laptop for at least two more weeks and I'm trying to get by with a
>screen on my backup machine that's going out, so an already hard to
>find cursor is causing many curses.

garbo.uwasa.fi:/pc/ts/tsutld19.zip Fourth set of Utilities, T.Salmi
Filename        Comment                             Date      Time  
--------        --------------------------------    ----      ----  
ADJCURS.BAT     Batch shell for adjusting cursor  09-07-90  10:20:22
BIGCURS.EXE     Make the cursor better visible    12-05-89  14:45:36
BIGNCURS.EXE    NonResident temporary big cursor  11-29-89  16:17:26
CAPS.EXE        Get/set keyboard toggles          07-19-90  14:22:44
FILES.EXE       Summary of your different files   09-08-90  13:07:08
KEYRATE.EXE     Set keyboard repeat rate & delay  07-21-90  21:59:44
POPSCR.EXE      Pop screen from image file        09-09-90  11:44:56
PSK.EXE         Dis/enable the PrintScreen key    06-16-90  08:47:50
PUSHSCR.EXE     Push screen to image file         09-09-90  11:44:52
SETPRT.EXE      Set PrintScreen retry times       07-10-90  12:07:20
SWITCHAR.EXE    Makes Unix freaks feel at home    11-26-89  21:25:32
TODAY.EXE       Scan disk for files made today    03-28-92  10:21:42
TSPROG.INF      List of PD programs from T.Salmi  03-21-92  17:13:26
TSUTLD.INF      Document                          03-28-92  07:06:02
TSUTLD.NWS      News announcements about tsutld   03-28-92  10:09:40
VAASA.INF       Info: Finland, Vaasa, U of Vaasa  03-13-92  01:44:16
WARMBOOT.EXE    Reboot without memory tests       09-08-90  15:28:40
----            ------             ------  -----
0017            141195             103599   27%

"If you do not know how to go about getting this material users are
welcome to email me for the prerecorded garbo.uwasa.fi instructions
(long, circa 35Kb).  You can also find this material on SIMTEL20".

...................................................................
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Moderating at garbo.uwasa.fi anonymous ftp archives 128.214.87.1
School of Business Studies, University of Vaasa, SF-65101, Finland
Internet: ts@chyde.uwasa.fi Funet: gado::salmi Bitnet: salmi@finfun
From: brian@king.csd.mot.com
Newsgroups: comp.sys.laptops
Subject: Re: external floppy or harddisk, info needed
Keywords: floppy, external, harddisk
Date: 9 Apr 92 15:41:55 GMT

crispy@space.mit.edu (Chris Pak) writes:


>I am looking for a cheap external floppy or harddisk for my 8086 notebook.
>My notebook has serial, parallel and a connection for external floppy.
>Any advice?

Damark was (and probably still is) selling an external 20MB hard drive for
$299.  It connects to the parallel port.  Somehow you'll need to install
the driver for this on your notebook.  The driver comes on a floppy.
-- 
-Brian Smithson
 Motorola Inc., Computer Group, Commercial Systems Division
 2001 Logic Drive, M/S 1-E10, San Jose, CA 95124 USA, (408)369-4104
 brian@ca41.csd.mot.com, {apple | pyramid}!motcsd!brian
From: jwallace@cs.umb.edu (John M. Wallace)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.laptops
Subject: Suggestions on Laptop for Japan
Summary: Want ideas on lap-top that will go to Japan and back
Date: 6 Apr 92 18:13:24 GMT
Organization: University of Massachusetts at Boston

I want advice on purchasing a laptop that will go with me to Japan. I will
post a summary of advice I receive, as it may be applicable to anybody
who wants to travel to a foreign country for an extended peroid.

I will be in Japan for 1-2 yrs as of August of this year and I would
like advice on what type of laptop to purchase. I expect to get some
type of power conversion unit so voltage differences are not important.

Use: 
----
Laptop would be used primarily for development, DOS and maybe
coherent (almost a Unix clone). Some WP and use as a dial in 
terminal also likely.

Issues:
------
     Service
     -------
Service is big question. I would like to be rich enough for a Toshiba
but I am going to have to make do with a clone. It could be a big name
clone so does anyone know if any of the clone makers have any service
or distribution network in Japan.

     Purchase Place
     ---------------
I will go through Hong Kong on the way to Japan. Does it make sense to 
purchase a laptop in Hong-Kong? Anybody had experience with this? Any
ideas on laptop prices in Japan and are the machines very different 
from our machines?

      What kind of machine would you purchase and why?
      -------------------------------------------------
If you were going to a foreign country for 1-2 years would you buy a
"US" machine before you go over and pray it does not break, or purchase
a "local" machine and sell it before you leave the country? What would
you buy and why?

Any thoughts on this are appreciated!!

John
Newsgroups: comp.sys.laptops