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From: cherborth@semprini.tdkcs.waterloo.on.ca (Chris Herborth)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Organization: InterZONE Design
Subject: Re: ADVOCACY: Falcon - Why I'm buying it...
Reply-To: cherborth@semprini.tdkcs.waterloo.on.ca
X-Software: HERMES GUS 1.04 Rev. Sep  5 1992
Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1993 17:16:36 EST

In <C16EB9.EG3@ecf.toronto.edu>, AL RASHID SHAHIR writes:
[Falcon RULEZ D00D!!!!1! stuff deleted...]
> Sorry, but I played around with a 7 month old developer Falcon, the other day
> and I never noticed this. I'm not saying that you're lying but maybe the
> program sucked or something? BTW, I played with it for about 5-6 hrs and never
> experienced drastic cuts in speed..In fact, speed remained pretty constant!

I guess you didn't try using one of the nice 16-bit colour modes, eh? 
Howard Chu (You know, great ST developer type?  Ports GNU C for fun?)
reported that the system ran about 50% of normal speed in the
large/many-coloured modes.

> Utterly nonsensical, eh? My what a presumptious attitude! In fact, I am on 
> a IRIS 4D/380S Silicon Graphix system (running IRIX 4.0.5) network with SUN
> terminals at the moment. It's pretty fast :8 33Mhz Mips processors. In fact,
> I'm typing this up right now!! In fact, I use it EVERYDAY!! And do you know
> what?? It MULTITASKS!! And I frequently put windows on top of each other!
> There! Happy? Sheesh.

Next you're going to tell us there's a VGA monitor hooked up to it,
right?  Only a bozo would use ~700x~500 on an IRIS.
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Chris Herborth
cherborth@semprini.tdkcs.waterloo.on.ca
From: ac999111@umbc.edu (ac999111)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Clip Art and Stuff.
Date: 28 Jan 1993 09:45:54 -0500
Organization: University of Maryland, Baltimore County Campus
NNTP-Posting-Host: umbc8.umbc.edu

A while ago I asked for information on FTP sites with Adobe fonts or Clip
art that would work with the St.  Alot of people asked me for info, but
I'm afraid I only had one response.. and that was with fonts.

If you need fonts, look at wuarchive.wustl.edu in the /mirrors/win3/fonts/
directory and there are some fonts there.. (although many wouldn't work with
pagestream, sigh.)  

If anyone else knows of a good place to get clip art and fonts, feel free
to mail me... thanks.

Paul Danckaert
ac999111@umbc.edu


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From: dxo@cs.bham.ac.uk (David Oakley)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st,comp.sys.atari.st.tech
Subject: Re: Overscan modification?
Date: 19 Jan 93 17:56:57 GMT
Organization: ASTRAsoft, Stoke-On-Trent England.

Has anyone used the Overscan TT as advertised by System Solutions in the UK? Most
things they do come from Germany...

And would it work on a Mega STe? (I doubt it...)

David.
                                                                   .___ .
                                                                  //_ //|
< David Oakley,   ASTRAsoft shareware producers for the ST   >    || || |
< dxo@cs.bham.ac.uk; 6 Watlands Rd, Audley, S.O.T ST78QQ UK. >    || || /\_
< It's a common mistake, made by all truely stupid people    >  _/|| ||\_/ |
<                                                   - Kryten > |_/ |_| \_|/
From: jonal@dhhalden.no (JON ARVID LOVSTAD)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: Profibuch (was Julian Reschke involved...)
Date: 24 Jan 93 15:59:05 GMT
Organization: Ostfold College

In article <1js5nbINNfes@rs2.hrz.th-darmstadt.de> wallmann@backus.pu.informatik.th-darmstadt.de (Natuerlich!) writes:

>For the price of the Profibuch (80.-DM ~ $50 per 1200+ pages) you should
>be still 'liquid' (in money terms) enough to also buy a German dictionary.
>This way you'll learn some German, which will be for your future
>career probably even more profitable than knowing the VDI calls. (har)
>Since most of the stuff you can guess, (like what's Malloc gonna do ??) and
>the jargon draws quite a lot from English, this I think oughta be feasible.
>
>(I had to read english manuals from the tenderest age, there was nothing
>else available (sob))
>
>Nat!
>-- 

Sure, a German dictionary might do it for many of those out there. Still, 
there is a motivation problem. A lot of people out there just don't want to 
go and pick up a dictionary to read a book.

What about if some of us who can I/O both German and English volunteered to 
translate a chapter each...?? 

Nomad




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From: jhenders@jonh.wimsey.bc.ca (John Henders)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Distribution: tp
Organization:  One of these days for sure
X-News: HERMES MMAIL 1.10 Rev. Dec 15 1992
Subject: Re: floptical advice please!
	<1993Jan23.030839.11824@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu>
Date: Sun, 24 Jan 1993 00:33:32 -0800
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In <1993Jan23.030839.11824@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu> dcable@nyx.cs.du.edu
	(Dan Cable) writes:

	<on flopticals>

>They are decidedly not slower than floppies. ICD's Ratehd reports 120ms
>seek time and 99kbs data transfer. No way are the hard drive manufacturers
>quaking in their boots about this performance, but its not all that bad.
>If it will give you a better feeling for the speed, I could copy some
>files, run a database sort, etc. and compare the times to a Syquest.

	I just ran ratehd on my Syquest. It does 34ms seek time and 497kps
transfer. My quantum does 24ms, and 1197kps. I think the floptical would
be a good backup device, but it's so close in price to a hard dirve i
doesn't seem that cost effective.

-- 
		 John Henders
		 Vancouver,BC
From: bossoj@nuge101.its.rpi.edu (Joseph Charles Bossolini)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: an atari IBM
Date: 22 Jan 93 16:14:12 GMT
Reply-To: bossoj@rpi.edu
Organization: Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY.

In article <H.ea.nZTblrXjmds@yonder.equinox.gen.nz>, craig@yonder.equinox.gen.nz (Craig Shore) writes:
|> In <1993Jan20.011911.4724@cssc-syd.tansu.com.au>, Barry Lightbody writes:
|> 
|> >He has the feel of the IBM keyboard, which required some eprom burning
|> > by the way, fan cooled, and has plenty of space for expantion.
|> >
|> >If any one is interested I will get details from him and post it to the group
|> 
|> I'd be interested in seeing the details of how to connect the keyboard
|>  posted to this group.
|> 
|>  Craig.
|> 

Ditto that for me!!

Joe
From: rasas@minyos.xx.rmit.oz.au (Greg Patten)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: Happy Australia Day!
Date: 28 Jan 93 07:51:00 GMT
Organization: RMIT Computer Centre
NNTP-Posting-Host: minyos.xx.rmit.oz.au
Originator: rasas@minyos.xx.rmit.OZ.AU

ken@isgtec.com (Ken Newman) writes:


>I dunno, my calendar says that today is Australia Day. So since there
>are several people around here that are from the underside of the 
>world :), I thought I'd write this. Hey, this isn't a flame, or an
>insult, or about IBM PC's, or Atari going bankrupt! Wow!

Goodonya Ken!

Cheers,

-- 
  _-_|\      Greg Patten. 
 /     \      
 \_.-.*/ <-- Melbourne, Australia.
      v      email: rasas@minyos.xx.rmit.oz.au 
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
From: rdt154k@monu6.cc.monash.edu.au (Mr N Benci)
Subject: TOS2.06 from CodeHead.
Keywords: TOS2.06
Organization: Monash University, Melb., Australia.
Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1993 22:25:26 GMT

Can anyone please provide information regarding TOS2.06.
I need a contact number + fax number + an address as to where
I can purchase from. Also what is the current cost of the
MEGA BUS version.

Thanks in advance.

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* Department of Physics, Monash University, Clayton Campus.                  *
* Wellington Rd, Clayton, Victoria, Australia. 3168.                         *
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From: sheppard_r@kosmos.wcc.govt.nz
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: DeskJet Fault
Date: 27 Jan 1993 01:22:53 GMT
Organization: Wellington City Council (Public Access), Wgtn, Nz
Reply-To: sheppard_r@kosmos.wcc.govt.nz
NNTP-Posting-Host: kosmos.wcc.govt.nz

Well can any one help me, I have a second hand Deskjet to evaluate,
but things don't look right..

If I use Script to print out ver 1.0 , it looks a bit fuzzy, dots that
should not be there, even happends in Epson mode as well, with the correct
printer driver, this error is repeatable 100% and is not random like
a faulty print head...

Could this be a Script fault..??

If I try the built in test, the text looks clean, but the top parts of the 
letters are lighter than the bottom, this is on every line of text...


What program can I use that supports this printer with its built font
and with external fonts, like what Script does...

Or is it correct that these printers don't work to well with the ST range
of computers..??


Roger............               sheppard_r@kosmos.wcc.govt.nz
From: Vincent_Partington@p15.f202.n281.z2.fidonet
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: Gem
Date: Sun, 24 Jan 93 08:23:02 +0100
Reply-To: p15.f202.n281.z2.fidonet!Vincent_Partington@nextjk.wlink.nl
Distribution: world
X-FSC-PID: LED 1.00

In a message of <Mon 18 Jan 93 04:00>, Hannu Mallat ~ PurpleHaze
(2:281/202.0) writes:

 HM> I don't know about Neodesk, but in my personal opinion the Gemini
 HM> icons look pretty good (in version 1.21, the older version's big
 HM> icons weren't so cool)

I only know Gemini v1.2. But there were also other things about it I didn't
like. Neodesk works for me.

 HM> And in case you don't like them, you can do your own by editing the
 HM> resource file. Just enlarge the form a bit and add yours after
 HM> those which already are there. Remember to add both big and small
 HM> icons. Could have been easier, but it's bearable this way too.

Hmmm, I could edit the RSC myself but I don't feel like doing so. I'm not
to keen on that kind of stuff. I'd rather do other things with my
computer....like programming instead of configuring a desktop I spend
maximum 10-20 minutes on per day.
 
Ta!
    Vincent

FidoNet : 2:281/202.15
NeST    : 90:500/202.15
Usenet  : vincent@nextjk.wlink.nl

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 * Origin: Beneden met de Osdorp Posse! (2:281/202.15)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
From: hutch@bellman.lanl.gov (John Hutchinson)
Subject: Re: Compatability and attitudes
Reply-To: hutch@bellman.lanl.gov
Organization: Los Alamos National Laboratory
Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1993 15:45:11 GMT

In article 11787@uqcspe.cs.uq.oz.au, warwick@cs.uq.oz.au (Warwick Allison) writes:
>
>NOTE:  Craig can only be talking about SHAREWARE/PD games off THE NET,
>       since almost all commercial floppy-only games boot automatically.

Warwick, I admit I am not an avid gamer, but I believe that many games were
made to be non-hard disk installable as a means of copy protection.  If the
disk is not TOS copyable, likely it's not designed to run on a hard disk
either (although there are exceptions).  Fortunately, I believe this trend
is going the way of the dinosaur as most of the new stuff I have seen is
not copy protected and is installable on one's hard disk.
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___________________________ John "HUTCH" Hutchinson _________________________
_________________ Fair Dinkum Technologies     Member - IAAD  _______________
________________ "No worries, mate... it's from Fair Dinkum!" _______________
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
From: giggey@ecf.toronto.edu (GIGGEY Mike S)
Subject: Re: STOS_3D_Manual?
Organization: University of Toronto, Engineering Computing Facility
Date: Wed, 27 Jan 1993 01:39:28 GMT

In article <1993Jan26.125716.29160@email.tuwien.ac.at> nino@vmars.tuwien.ac.at (Marinos Yannikos) writes:
>e90-frt@tekn.hj.se (TOMAS FRIDN) writes:
>: I'm looking for manual to STOS 3D.
>: 
>: Both a manual for the creator and a list on
>: all commands.
>
>Erm... pardon my ignorance, but isn't that a bit illegal? 
>I know the copyright law in Sweden isn't up to eg. the US
>standard, but then you shouldn't ask here on Usenet, where
>the whole world can read it!
>(I assume you haven't got the original, ignore this if I'm wrong)
>
>-MY

That's a big problem with getting a program on those magazine disks.
People automatically asume that it is public domain and act accordingly.

Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
From: bcc@lanai.Eyring.COM (Brian Cooper)
Subject: Need Cad-3D 2.02 Update info!
Organization: University of Utah Computer Center
Date: Mon, 25 Jan 93 00:35:56 GMT

We just bought some of Antic Software's going out of business stuff, but now
have a minor problem:  In the Cyber Control stuff there is a readme file that
says, "The first thing you need to do is upgrade to version 2.02 of Cad 3D 
because most of this stuff won't work with version 2.0" (which is what we have.)

Is there a way for us to upgrade?  Is there anyone left who still handles this
package?  Are Tom Hudson, Darrel Anderson, Gary Yost, or Mark Kimball around?
We don't want to steal software, we aren't asking for anyone to pirate a copy
of this stuff; we'd just like to know if it is possible to use what we bought.

Thanks!
-- 
Brian Cooper	bcc@Eyring.COM
Eyring Corp.	+1 801-375-2434 or 1 800 YES PDOS
From: cherborth@semprini.tdkcs.waterloo.on.ca (Chris Herborth)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Organization: InterZONE Design
Subject: Re: ADVOCACY: Re: PC VS ST
	<C0yzvq.9tn@ecf.toronto.edu>
	<H.ea.01zv&vPzgQY@semprini.tdkcs.waterloo.on.ca>
	<C14KK8.EK1@ecf.toronto.edu>
	<H.ea.Y5GMLTQT98U@semprini.tdkcs.waterloo.on.ca>
	<11830@uqcspe.cs.uq.oz.au>
Reply-To: cherborth@semprini.tdkcs.waterloo.on.ca
X-Software: HERMES GUS 1.04 Rev. Sep  5 1992
Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1993 22:14:02 EST

In <11830@uqcspe.cs.uq.oz.au>, Warwick Allison writes:
> cherborth@semprini.tdkcs.waterloo.on.ca (Chris Herborth) writes:
> 
> >> For around $300? Good luck.
> 
> >I don't care, but I'm sure I were to blow a few minutes looking through
> >Computer Shopper, I could see a DSP board for $300.
> 
> Go on then.  We're all standing here waiting for you to either do that,
> or stick your other foot in your mouth.

I didn't realise I had one foot in my mouth already.  Grabbing my Jan.93
Computer Shopper, I looked through a few pages from the back.  The first
Falcon-quality sound card:

Sound Blaster 16 ($239) - 8-bit and 16-bit digitized voice channel;
20-voice StereoFM music synth; MIDI interface; built-in power amp (hmm,
Falcon doesn't have one of those)

Next, I found a DSP card.  Not quite as versatile as a general-purpose
DSP board, but it was the first one I found; if I were interested in the
DSP, I'm sure I could find another one (or twelve).  Oh, and I guess I'm
embarassed in front of the world, eh?  It's $425.  Not quite around
$300 but in the ball park:

Sound 2000 ($425) - CD Quality sound up to 44.1 kHz sampling; 32
simultaneous stereo voices with 16/32-bit DSP sampled sound (DSP model
not specified); 127 MIDI instrument sound patches, 47 percussion sounds
built-in; 16-bit digital audio recording (1 stereo or 2 mono
channels)/16-bit digital audio playback (2 stereo or 4 mono channels)
with MIDI interface.  Oh, and bundled software.

> Because you keep ignoring the DSP.

Because I have no use for it (it's not going to speed up POV-Ray or
Lexicor's stuff for me) and I haven't seen a useful (to me) application
of it yet.  Other than JPEG decompression/compression, which a faster
CPU will handle quite nicely.

> I understand you.  If the Falcon didn't have the DSP, I wouldn't by it.
> It would be underpowered and overpriced.

I think it still is.  Then again, you've probably got more of a use for
the DSP than I do.
-- 
-------------------========================================-------------------
Chris Herborth
cherborth@semprini.tdkcs.waterloo.on.ca
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
From: S112397@UMRVMA.umr.edu
Subject: Re: Re: STZIP.. is the latest version here yet?
Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1993 00:27:14 GMT
Organization: Univ of MO - Rolla

>> as we do not have the facilities on the archive machine to check them
>> for errors and so on.  If your favorite new program came in a ZIP
>> archive, please re-pack it into ARC, ZOO, or LZH format before
>> uploading it to atari.archive.

>What a nuisance!

>What percentage of files are ever corrupt any-way!?  I've had problems
>with about 2 files I've gotten from a.a  and that's just because
>I had the wrong version of the de-archiver!

> =============================================================================
> | O O    Computers:  Not just machines, they're a way of  |       |||       |
> |  o     life.  Your computer *IS* your religion!         |       ||| TARI  |
> | \_/    Steve Wells - Wellington, New Zealand.           |      / | \      |
> =========================WELLS_S@KOSMOS.WCC.GOVT.NZ==========================

Sure very few files are corrupt, but some are. Also the archives could
be wanting to just check to see if a virus, you might have had, could have
sliped in if you don't have things like a virus checker/killer.

Sam Grover S112397@umrvma.umr.edu
From: mbyd_ltd@uhura.cc.rochester.edu (Mark A. Broyld)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Help VidiChrome
Date: 24 Jan 93 18:46:39 GMT
Article-I.D.: galileo.1993Jan24.184639.24216
Organization: University of Rochester (Rochester, NY)


My Vidichrome disk has become corrupted and I didn't have a spare copy.
Would anyone have old copy laying around?  I have a VidiST that I got off
the net and it didn't come with much documentation other than a slip of
paper showing version 1.28 additions. 

Is there someway I could get an upgrade, if there is one?  Any replies would
be welcome. I would really like to get this thing working well. Any hints or
tricks would be also welcome.

THanks.
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st,comp.sys.atari.st.tech
From: nino@vmars.tuwien.ac.at (Marinos Yannikos)
Subject: Re: Assembler routine that generates random numbers?
Organization: TU Wien, Vienna, Austria
Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1993 15:58:24 GMT

mjl-b@minster.york.ac.uk writes:
: [...] 
: The XBIOS call is pretty quick -- it's an assembler implementation of the
: above, and you're not going to write one that's much quicker! The thing that
: takes the time (on a 68000 at least) is the multiplication. There are other
: methods that use shift-then-XOR (see the book references below).

What takes a lot of time too, is the exception (trap #14) processing.
The original poster should better disassemble the Xbios routine and
use it in his program directly if he can, and if the numbers are
'random' enough!

: I remember (it's a long time since I disassembled the code) that when the
: XBIOS routine is first called, the generator is seeded with a new number --
: but I forget where that number comes from.

I'm quite sure they come from the 200HZ timer (from the system variable),
but I'm not 100% sure...

-MY

Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
From: mpeirce@maths.tcd.ie (Michael Peirce)
Subject: KQ IV -software bug or just plain stupid??
Summary: Is there a software bug in KQ IV?
Keywords: Kings Quest IV Software Bug
Organization: Dept. of Maths, Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland.
Date: Sun, 24 Jan 1993 23:26:32 GMT

Hi people of the world.

A wee young non-netter contact of mine finds that in Kings Quest IV (Sierra)
that every time he digs a hole in the graveyard at night and types "look in 
hole" the whole darn game crashes?????

Is this a software bug? -or is his version just corrupted?
If it is a bug how does one avoid it?  :-)

Me? -I ain't even got that far yet.... :-)

Thanks,

Mike.E

Ps. If anyone knows what I'm waffling on about please bung something in
   the email to me -I study too hard to read this group regularly  :-)


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From: hmallat@robin.cs.hut.fi (Hannu Mallat ~ PurpleHaze)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: Julian Reschke involved wi
Date: 22 Jan 1993 10:47:07 GMT
Organization: Helsinki University of Technology, CS lab
Distribution: inet
NNTP-Posting-Host: robin.cs.hut.fi

In <1jms32INN1oj@escargot.xx.rmit.OZ.AU> rasas@minyos.xx.rmit.oz.au (Greg Patten) writes:

>Julian_Reschke@ms.maus.de (Julian Reschke) writes:

>>Edmund Ramm (dk3uz@mcshh.Hanse.DE) wrote:
>>>   I can only agree: bring out an English language version of the Profi Book,
>>>forgetting about he German language edition, and you will have a bigger mar-
>>>ket than you ever dared dreaming about!

>>Sure, I would win some hundred english readers, but I would lose at least
>>a quarter of the German customers. And nobody pays *me* for these
>>few hundred hours of translation. I might be crazy, but I'm not *that*
>>crazy :-)

><*sob*> (as in cry, as opposed to Son of..) ...I wish you were *that* crazy.

Is it really impossible to do *both*? Not only Americans and
Englishpersons would read the English edition, but there probably
would be readers from other countries too, whose Atarians can read
English better than German, like Northern Europe...
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  and drive, / hmallat@niksula.hut.fi \    but nothing seems to satisfy
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