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From: lenn@mentor.cc.purdue.edu (Jody Lenn)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.8bit
Subject: Hardware and Software FOR SALE!
Date: 22 Jul 92 21:52:13 GMT
Organization: Purdue University Computing Center

I have the following programs for sale:

          Music Const. Set  -  $8.00

          Pinball Const. Set - $8.00

          Summer Games      -  $5.00

          Zaxxon            -  $5.00  (800 only, FIX-XL, translator don't 
                                       work!!!!!!!)

          Suspended         -  $3.00  (Original, lost docs)

          Jungle Hunt cart. -  $3.00  no docs , easy to figure out

          Skywriter cart.   -  $2.00  no docs

          Gyruss cart.      -  $5.00  no docs, easy to figure out

          Parker Bros.  Chess cart. - $3.00 no docs, easy to figure out       

          Fun w/art cart        -  $4.00

          Age of Adventure  - $8.00  (on hold for someone)

          Congo Bongo Cart.  - $3.00  no docs, easy to figure out 

          Mail Order Monsters  - $7.00

          Super Huey           -  $7.00

          Page Designer        -$8.00

          Dropzone              -  $2.00  

          Deep Blue C w/mathlib  - $12.00

          Colourspace            - $6.00

          Rambrandt              - $8.00  on hold for someone

          Parrot w/software and hardware  -  $10.00

  I  ALSO HAVE THE FOLLOWING HARDWARE FOR SALE:

          Xetec Grafix Parallel Printer Interface  $15.00

          MPP 1000 300 baud modem  $2.50 (or best offer)
      
          BRAND NEW!!  65XE        $60

          TWO 1050'S  ONE GREAT, ONE OK    45  OR  38 DOLLARS DEPENDING

          

                                

                                                        JODY LENN
                                                     lenn@mentor.cc.purdue.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.8bit
From: bbs@neb (BBS System)
Subject: Re: Alternate Reality--uncopy-protected?
Organization: Nebula BBS - Salt Lake City Utah, USA
Date: Tue, 21 Jul 1992 16:03:43 GMT

There are several 'cracked' version of AR: Dungeon/City floating around.
Also, my Happy 1050 will create backups of AR for me just fine - Black
Patch has a patch in it for copying as well (so does Chipmunk, I
believe)
-----
Posted by BBS User: James King
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.8bit
Subject: Z*NET FNET in the nets
From: jonc@status.gen.nz (Jon Clarke)
Date: Thu, 30 Jul 92 07:50:30 GMT
Organization: Z*NET Global News Gateway in Auckland New Zealand


Hello Fellow news group readers,
 
 We finally have the FoReM NeT (FNET) news in fido and usenet formats
 for the whole world to read.
 
 I would like to start polling in a 10 days time for a NEW news group of 
 this one called comp.sys.atari.ZNET . This will reflect the Z*NET FNET
 mail / traffic on Usenet.
 
 As we are the mail gateway for Z*NET on the nets we will send the mail 
 both directions from here in NZL.
 
 Before I poll I would like some feedback if any from this news group.
 
 Kind regards
 
 Jon Clarke
 Z*NET On-Line Magazines
 Auckland
 New Zealand (gatewayed to NJ, USA)
 


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From: moon!cyberden!phbill@well.sf.ca.us
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.8bit
Subject: Puzzle Mania - Concentration!?
Date: Fri, 24 Jul 92 23:51:10 PDT
Organization: Indescribable Creations

I'm working on a concentration puzzle game that will incorporate 
selectable Graphics 9 digitized (or not) images (shrunk to 1/16th screen 
size... auto shrinker included) and probably digitized sound samples.
Whenever you match two peices, you'll hear a certain sound for that image 
(ie, if one were to include a Madonna picture and a Paula Abdul picture 
you'd have a little bit of a Madonna song when you match the Madonna 
images, and a little bit of a Paula song when you match her's...)

ANYways... any suggestions on how to make this?  I decided against using 
APAC or APAC-2 modes for now, because the squashed images look pretty bad 
as they are (then again, the one's I've shrunk are all images I've made 
myself, which don't look the best anyways.)  If I knew how/had some code 
that installed Pryzm (aka Interlaced APAC) mode, I'd eagerly use it 
(wasting a little more RAM, but oh well ;^] ) but for now it's just black 
& white. (maybe I'll add a nice rainbowy multiple-DLI for a touch of 
color???)       WOuld anyone even want to play something like this???

c-ya                                                    Bill

    "Be seeing you!"
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From: a644690c@edinboro.edu ("Adam J. Conover")
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.8bit
Subject: SpartaDOS utilities?
Date: 27 Jul 92 12:49:00 GMT

Hi all,

As you all (should) know, I am trying to put together a SpartaDOS FAQ sheet
as well as an archive of all the various SpartaDOS utilities.  If you have
a good collection of SpartaDOS utilities, could you please send me a list of
filenames.  (A simple raw directory would suffice.  Ie. DIR >>FILES.TXT).
This would be of great help as I try to compile my list of avaiable utils.
(Oh, could you also mention which utils you like best or use most.  Note too
that the utilities do not have to be 'SpartaDOS ONLY'; if they are usefull
under SD then I want to include them.)

Thanks a lot.........

-Adam Conover.
	a644690c@edinboro.edu.
From: crow@coos.dartmouth.edu (Preston F. Crow)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.8bit
Subject: Re: Old Software
Date: 27 Jul 92 17:02:42 GMT
Organization: Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH

In <712233269.F00002@tdkt.kksys.com> Amos.Jackson@f47.n282.z1.tdkt.kksys.com (Amos Jackson) writes:

>Read the entire post and all I can say is:
> 
>Well said!!  <clap-clap-clap-clap>!!!!!!!!
> 
>Amos Jackson

Which post did you read?  There have been a lot of them in this thread.
[I expect you mean the other one you posted.  :-)  ]

--PC
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.8bit
From: hill@spot.Colorado.EDU (Michael Hill)
Subject: Re: Fax/modems
Keywords: Fax, modem
Organization: University of Colorado, Boulder
Date: Fri, 31 Jul 1992 00:59:35 GMT

In article <1992Jul29.213838.8105@ge-dab.GE.COM> potter@sunny0.dab.ge.com (Jeff Potter) writes:
>Well I've posted some inquiries to GEnie and CompuServe with some
>scattered responses, so I'll try here:
>
>Would many of you loyal Atari 8-bit users here want to be able to
>send/receive faxes from your 8-bit?  I've collected some info about
>the subject, and talked to a few technical guys, and it appears to
>be possible to interface one of the new fax/modems to the 8-bit (using
>an 850, P:R:Connection, Black Box, MIO, etc.).  You would of course
>have to obtain a fax/modem (I've seen them as low as $75 recently).
[...]
>I don't expect to get to a project like this right away, but I thought
>this might spawn some worthwhile discussion...
>
>-- 
>Jeff Potter

Well, I don't personally have any use for faxen [sic], but I do wish to
applaud you for your ongoing development for the 8-bits!  Thanks and
keep up the good work!

			--Michael

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From: Tom_Klok@mindlink.bc.ca (Tom Klok)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.8bit
Subject: Re: Hardware Questions
Date: 26 Jul 92 18:08:00 GMT
Organization: MIND LINK! - British Columbia, Canada
Distribution: world

> Jeff McWilliams writes:
> 
> Roger on the 56 connector cards, Dataque's T816 board uses a 50 pin
> connector which allows you to plug in memory cards, etc to it.

I've never seem one of those before.  Does it connect to the PBI, or on the
motherboard CPU socket?  If the latter, which is what I'd guess, does it
involve various jumpers?

> I have a 256K SRAM card and a clock card, but would like to prototype
> my own stuff someday on it, by plugging a prototyping board into
> the cable as well.  That way I could fool with other things on it.

Sounds like an ideal way of doing it.

--
Tom Klok                     MIND LINK! Support team member - Vancouver BC
a344@mindlink.bc.ca          What, me hurry?  -- Alfred E. Von Neuman
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.8bit
From: khan@mrcnext.cso.uiuc.edu (Scott Coleman)
Subject: Re: Skipping levels in Miner 2049er
Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana
Date: Sun, 26 Jul 1992 15:09:58 GMT

Chris_F_Chiesa@cup.portal.com writes:

>>In article <62645@cup.portal.com> Chris_F_Chiesa@cup.portal.com writes:
>>>
>>>After that, you can hold down SHIFT-CONTROL plus any digit, and instantly
>>>jump to that level.  Voila!
>>
>>There is also a Level 0 (yes, ZERO) which I somehow managed to get into
>>one day and haven't been able to recreate since. As I recall, you got
>>unlimited lives or something equally cool. Can you type SHIFT-CONTROL-0
>>to get there? Guess I'll have to check... ;-)

>Wowl... level ZERO?  Never saw THAT one.  Do you remember what the layout
>was like?  

Actually, it was ZONE 0. The layouts were identical, but I vaguely recall that
your "life dots" extended much farther across the top of the screen and your 
time limit was unusually high. But then again, I only saw it once by PURE
accident, back in 1984, and haven't been able to recreate it since. :-( I do
know for certain that Zone 0 was much easier than Zone 1 (which makes sense
;-).

>As I remember, typing SHIFT-CONTROL-0 in "cheat mode" took you to level
>TEN, not ZERO...

Correct.


>Chris 
>  Chris_F_Chiesa@cup.portal.com
--
Scott Coleman                                                    tmkk@uiuc.edu

Free Advice: It is inadvisable to read Bush's lips at an official banquet.
From: tmkk@uiuc.edu (Khan)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.8bit
Subject: Re: I wanna buy some stuff
Date: 28 Jul 92 18:17:22 GMT
Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana


In article <9207281426.AA11184@brachot.jct.ac.il> bruck@BRACHOT.JCT.AC.IL (Itay Chamie1) writes:
>I've accidentally fed my Indus GT's power supply with 220 A/C volts...
>I need a new one!! Where? How much?

The power supply on my Indus GT was frotzed several years back. I
replaced it with a 12VDC unit from Radio Shaft. As I recall, the max
current rating on the RS supply was a bit lower than that on the
original Indus supply, but it's been working fine for years now so I
don't hesitate to recommend it. I don't have the exact catalog number
handy (I can go home and look if you like), but it's the black plastic
12VDC power supply (maybe 1A current). They also sell a couple others in
gray metal cases, but these a) cost a heck of a lot more, and b) have
more current than you need, and thus are overkill.

You have Radio Shaft stores in Israel, right? ;-)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.8bit
From: dfdaly@cmb00.larc.nasa.gov (Dennis F. Daly)
Subject: Blue Max
Followup-To: comp.sys.atari.8bit
Originator: dfdaly@cmb00.larc.nasa.gov
Keywords: Blue Max, Synapse
Organization: NASA Langley Research Center  Hampton VA  23665
Distribution: usa
Date: Fri, 24 Jul 1992 14:38:32 GMT

Hi, this is my first post to c.s.a.8, I've read the group for some time, and
I've thoroughly enjoyed every minute of it.  But on to the subject at hand.

After about a four year hiatus, I've setup my 8 bit and I've taken it upon
myself to rediscover this wonderful machine.  Looking through my software, 
I've come across one that puzzles me.  I have the disk version of Blue Max
and I recall how to do everything except the key(s) to press when I come to
a runway and want to land.

I haven't played this game in some time and my memory is fuzzy.  Let me tell
you, this is the original disk, not a copy, and I have misplaced (read lost)
the manual, so no flames please.

Any help is greatly appreciated.
					Dennis Daly
					dfdaly@tab00.larc.nasa.gov
From: crow@coos.dartmouth.edu (Preston F. Crow)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.8bit
Subject: 1250XLD
Date: 30 Jul 92 20:56:28 GMT
Organization: Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH

Remember all those reviews and photos of the 1450XLD in _Compute!_ and
_Creative Computing_?  Am I the only one who looked closely enough at
one of the photos to notice that the nameplate didn't say 1450XLD?  It
said 1250XLD!!!  Was this the same thing with the number changed for
marketing, or did Atari originally plan on the 1250 as a complement for
the 1200 and just re-used the case for the prototype/photos?

Or am I just seeing things?

--PC
From: moon!cyberden!phbill@well.sf.ca.us
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.8bit
Subject: Re: p handler
Date: Tue, 28 Jul 92 16:15:08 PDT
Organization: Indescribable Creations

Another program that can print out user-defined character sets is Daisy 
Dot III.  What's more is since the 8x8 is converted to DDIII, you can 
edit the DDIII and make it look better for print out.  The only things I 
see wrong with it is I THINK that DDIII's font utilities (the thing that 
changes chsets to DDIIIs) does them proportionally, which aint good for 
program listings.  I think some helpful features needed in DDIII are:

1) inverse (simply print out 255 minus whatever bytes was GOING to be 
            printed)
2) proportional off (makes all the characters have the same lengths)
3) disk swaps (lets you swap disks if a file (ie-font) isn't found...
               it'd be VERY helpful because for some reason DDIII hates
               my drive 2)

But I've already mentioned this to Roy...as well as to David Richardson, 
who Roy thinks knows more about DDIII than he does!

    "Be seeing you!"
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From: crow@coos.dartmouth.edu (Preston F. Crow)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.8bit
Subject: Re: Piracy, morals and Microsoft employees
Date: 27 Jul 92 19:41:09 GMT
Organization: Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH

In <1992Jul27.171123.24112@news.ysu.edu> xx140@yfn.ysu.edu (Atari SIG Sysops) writes:


>So in all of this discussion..no one has seem to come up with a 
>solution.  It is apparent that we have a computer that is useless
> wtihout software. Point: You can't buy the software!
>So, what do we do? 
>In the very least, the Atari Corp. has an implied warranty with it's
> consumers, namely that it's computers would be suitable for the 
>purposes for which it was advertised..
>It is not!  Therefore, I suggest the following:

>1.) The Atari corp must take the lead in this matter..releasing all
>8bit software that is under their control to the public domain, perhaps
>establishing a BBS for user access..ideally both the sofware and the 
>Source Codes..This seems only fair, since 8-bit users have indeed 
>spent considerable sums which have directly benefited the Atari Corp.

If anyone approaches Atari with this argument, please DO NOT ASK FOR
ANYTHING TO BE PUT IN PUBLIC DOMAIN!  Atari would be foolish to do so
since it could make implementations on other platforms public domain
as well.  (Or at least make it legal for some other company to make the
game without paying royalties to Atari.)  We don't want public domain, we
want access to the software.  The solution is to have them declare that
they retain all rights, but will allow the software to be distributed
in a shareware-type fashion.  They could even ask that a read.me file
accompany all Atari software with an address that $2-$5 in royalties should
be sent to if you use the software.  Who knows, they may even collect enough
money to take some interest in the 8-bit community again.  (Yes, I know it's
doubtful.)

>2.) If not, then any person who buys an Atari product is CRAZY !
>Sorry to say, but ST users are setting thmselves up for the same
>fall that we have taken.  There is NO WAY 
>that I will invest my money in an Atari product until I see some 
>change in the way this corp treats it's customers.  I think that anyone 
>who feels the same way should let these people know about it.

>Why take this crap?  We are the customers, so we are right.

>What do you say..BOYCOTT ATARI and let them know about it!

We need to make a serious effort to get the software available in one format
or another first.  But if Atari doesn't agree to some sort of reasonable
solution, then it's time to start a serious letter writing campaign and
try to get ST users to help us out.

--PC
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.8bit
From: tmkk@uiuc.edu (Khan)
Subject: Re: Old software
Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana
Date: Mon, 27 Jul 1992 13:35:25 GMT


In article <1992Jul24.195917.26248@microsoft.com> darekm@microsoft.com (Darek Mihocka) writes:
>
>Amazing. Not only are you offering to pirate software and telling other
>people to do so, but you're actually offering to do this for people.

[Much ranting omitted.]

>And give me a break. You 8-bit users are all pirates anyway, even though
>only Jeff here will admit it in public. You want me to believe that
>your typical Joe 6 Pack Atari user [...]

>BULL****!!!! You are a complete disgrace to the Atari community. I hope
>you not only get sued by every 8-bit software developer past and present
>but that you lose your net privilidges as well. You're also pretty stupid.
>By blatantly offering your piracy services in public, you're opening yourself
>for all sorts of trouble. Moron.
>
>- Darek

My, you're a BITTER little person, aren't you?

You refuse to explain the whole story, but I gather that you wrote some
software (an 8-bit emulator for the ST and/or PC) and apparently it was
pirated. Because of that, the entire Atari community is now *nothing* but
pirates - "Joe 6 Pack" pirates, even. Fascinating.

Either jettison this emotional baggage you're carrying, or quit reading
this group. It'll do wonders for your blood pressure and add years to
your life.
From: chase@electron.rutgers.edu (Kevin Chase)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.8bit
Subject: Re: Writing A Disassembler
Date: 23 Jul 92 14:46:33 GMT
Organization: Rutgers Univ., New Brunswick, N.J.

Jim_Johnson@abcd.Houghton.MI.US (Jim Johnson) writes:

>A follow on to an earlier message - 
>If you are interested in Assembler, the MAC65 already supports the 65C02
>and the folks who introduced the 65816 upgrade wrote MAC65 macros to
>support the 16bit mode.

>-- Via DLG Pro v0.992

>Jim Johnson-
>*** Remember, they're only tools - Not a way of life! ***

Actually, according to the manual I have, it only supports things like
STZ, ADC (ZP), and a few others.  It does not implement the BBS 0-7,branch
or the BBR, or TSB, TRB opcodes.  I have a hacked version of ra65 which
supports these, but I have never tested my additions.  (I added the feature
less than a month ago).
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.8bit
From: bd891@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Paul Allwood)
Subject: Re: SX212
Organization: Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio, (USA)
Date: Sun, 26 Jul 92 12:36:54 GMT


A jewelers screwdriver from Radio Shack works just fine on that
volume control.
GO ATARI
GO ATARI
GO ATARI
GO ATARI
GO ATARI
GO ATARI
go usenet
go usenet
2117 Buffalo Road
-- 
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God unto SALVATION! * Paul Allwood bd891@Cleveland.Freenet.edu
From: shanej@eskimo.celestial.com (Shane Johnson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.8bit
Subject: LYNX Hardware Questions - Porting Games to XE's
Date: 31 Jul 92 01:15:45 GMT
Organization: -> ESKIMO NORTH (206) For-Ever <-


It's my understanding that ATARI's LYNX Gamesystem is a 6502 based game
machine... How hard/is it possible  to convert games for a LYNX to the 
XE/XL/400/800/1200 Series and for that matter the 5200? I know the 5200
had many of it's games ported/converted to the XL durring the "Piracy"
Era... (back when people actually cared at Atari)

I've been thinking of purchasing the LYNX, and making the conversion to
play the games on my XE when at home. (Possibly purchasing 2 LYNX's to
do it and making a special CART slot for the LYNX games.)
From: wilmott@remus.rutgers.edu (Ray Wilmott)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.8bit
Subject: 8-bit/modem/PR question
Date: 27 Jul 92 01:57:38 GMT
Organization: Rutgers Univ., New Brunswick, N.J.


---
Hi all! The past week my 8-bit setup has been acting up. The
modem dials out and connects fine, but after receiving a few
lines of text, it just drops carrier. This happens until
everything has been turned on for about 10 minutes; then
the problem goes away and it works fine. My setup includes
an 800xl, PR Connection and SX212 modem. I find it most
likely that the modem is at fault, and I don't really care
about having to replace it...but I just wanted to check here
real quick and see if anybody thinks it might be the 800xl
or the PR that is at fault, or if anybody has experienced the
same thing on their system. Thanks in advance for any input.


			-Ray
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.8bit
From: glens@natinst.com (Glen Sescila)
Subject: Re: Piracy, morals and Microsoft employees
Organization: National Instruments, Austin, TX
Date: Wed, 29 Jul 1992 14:32:59 GMT

	Look, do yall really think things would be any different if you
owned an Apple II or a Commodore 64?  I don't think so.

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Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.8bit
From: aa700@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Michael Current)
Subject: Re: Old software
Reply-To: aa700@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Michael Current)
Organization: Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH (USA)
Date: Fri, 24 Jul 92 21:42:30 GMT


In a previous article, darekm@microsoft.com (Darek Mihocka) says:

Darek,

I basically agree with you, or at least I think I do since you 
didn't provide too much in the way of factual information.  But this
statement:

>And give me a break. You 8-bit users are all pirates anyway, even though
>only Jeff here will admit it in public. You want me to believe that

is a personal insult to a great many of us, and it's flat wrong.

Perhaps when you've cooled down a bit you might explain your opinion
on the issue in a more effective manner, without resorting to
categorical name-calling.  If you do so I just may forgive you.
-- 
 Michael Current, Cleveland Free-Net 8-bit Atari SIGOp   -->>  go atari  <<--
   The Cleveland Free-Net Atari SIG is the Central Atari Information Network
      Internet: currentm@carleton.edu / UUCP: ...!umn-cs!ccnfld!currentm
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From: tatmanl@terapin.com (Lance Tatman)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.8bit
Subject: Racal-Vadic 9600VP
Date: 30 Jul 92 21:19:41 PST
Organization: BBS

I know this isn't Atari specific, but maybe one of my fellow Atarians has had
some experience with this modem.  I picked up a Racal-Vadic 9600VP at a junk
store for $10bucks.  I Thought this was a 9600 baud modem by the name on it. 
It seems it is just a 1200 baud modem.  Has anyone ever used this specific
model?  Also, is anyone familiar with the Racal-Vadic modem commands.  This
thing seems to respond to most Hayes commands, but I think Racal had there own
commands as well.  Thanks