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From: tmo@phoenix.oulu.fi (Tero Molander)
Subject: Re: The FALCON - too slow ??
Organization: University of Oulu, Finland
X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.1 PL6]
Date: Thu, 12 Nov 1992 11:32:39 GMT


Ricardo Hernandez (raist@rmece02.upr.clu.edu) wrote:
: In article <1dprp3INN9rg@usenet.INS.CWRU.Edu>, aa399@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Len Stys) writes:
: |> 
: |> In a previous article, cdw@dcs.ed.ac.uk (Christopher Walton) says:
: |> 
: |> >A friend yesturday said he'd seen the FALCON in Dusseldoff and the screen scrolling
: |> >in 'true colour' mode was like glue.   I haven't actually seen a falcon yet but I 
: |> >have read most articles on it and this wasn't mentioned.   Since he owns a TT
: |> >and is likely to be biased, can anyone else set my mind at rest ???
: |> >
: |> >Thanks - Chris (cdw@dcs.ed.ac.uk)
: |> 
: |> Maybe the software made it slow?
: |> 
:    It shall be slow... it is more memory to move + CPU memory contention
: since the video bus is the same as the cpu bus to memory.
: 
: - Raist
: 

Scrolling should not be a problem. Falcon030 has hardware scrolling! That is
useless with desktop windows though BUT true colour mode is not supported in
desktop so the problem is just that the programmer did not make use of it!
Nobody used it on STe so that is nothing new. So it is definitely software
that made it slow.

-- Tero --
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
From: rouellet@gel.ulaval.ca (Real Ouellet)
Subject: Re: VT 220
Organization: Universite Laval
Date: Thu, 5 Nov 1992 13:22:59 GMT

baffoni@phakt.usc.edu (Juxtaposer) writes:
>In article <BwuwGu.Bw8@ucunix.san.uc.edu> klasmekj@ucunix.san.uc.edu (Kevin J. Klasmeier) writes:
>>I need a VT 220 emulator. Does anyone know were I can find a
>>Shearware/PD emulator for the ST? (ie site).

>       I highly recommend Connect!  It has VT220 emulation and is shareware.
>You can get the latest greatest version up on Atari.archive.


You can also use Uniterm (also available on atari.archive). Uniterm does
a full VT2xx emulation, some VT3xx and even Tek4014 (for graphics). I use it
all the time and (of course...!) am very happy with it.  Moreover, it does
not use GEM windows.  The big drawback is that you can't resize it in a window,
or use it in a "multi-task" environment, like Connect. BUT the screen updates
are MUCH faster than Connect. I don't like slow screen display, thence I
use Uniterm...

P.S.: I use a Mega 4 computer.  Maybe with a TT the screen updates are faster
in Connect. I don't care... but you might!

P.P.S.: Uniterm supports up to 132 columns by 50 lines, if you need it...
but the characters are a bit small.
From: sheppard_r@kosmos.wcc.govt.nz
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: THE STORM
Date: 5 Nov 1992 07:18:10 GMT
Organization: Wellington City Council (Public Access), Wgtn, Nz
Reply-To: sheppard_r@kosmos.wcc.govt.nz
NNTP-Posting-Host: kosmos.wcc.govt.nz

In article <1992Nov4.115122.17319@utagraph.uta.edu>, cs2320ak@utagraph.uta.edu (cs2320ak) writes:
>This might sound like a ridiculous thing to worry about, but I sure hope
>STORM doesn't have those stupid slider bars on the edge of the terminal
>window, so that you can only really see 78 columns and 23 lines of the
>screen at one time!  That's the most annoying thing about STalker, and
>one of the reasons I use Flash when I'm not background ASCII downloading
>from the computer at school.
>-- 
>cs2320ak@decster.uta.edu


From what I have read it has multible sizable windows, and you can be dnloading
in one and typing in the other, sounds cool to me, I still use Flash 1.6 and
was hoping the Rufus was going to be a succes, but it no longer works
in medium res, typical good German program only works in mono...


Roger...................       sheppard_r@kosmos.wcc.govt.nz
From: ucacmsu@ucl.ac.uk (Mr Stephen R Usher)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: New version of my BSD Unix-like init(8) package uploaded to a.a
Date: 5 Nov 92 12:59:13 GMT
Organization: Bloomsbury Computing Consortium, London


I've just uploaded the latest version of my (and Dave Gymer's) BSD Unix-like
init(8) package onto Atari.archive.umich.edu. The file you will find there
(initsnb.zoo) is the source and binary distribution, I failed to upload the
binary only distribution (initbin.zoo) because the tranfer kept failing with
EDOTDOT errors, I will retry tomorrow.

The changes from the original distribution include random salts for the
password encryption, getty being able to change the speed of the serial
ports (though this is dubious on the extra ports on the TT for some reason)
and there are a few new programs including a fixed version of the Bourne
Shell look-a-like, ash.

Steve

PS. One other major improvement... init prints a copyright message with my
name on it at boot time! :-)
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From: warwick@cs.uq.oz.au (Warwick Allison)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: Gif Viewers (printing)
Date: 13 Nov 92 05:11:28 GMT
Reply-To: warwick@cs.uq.oz.au

jat@cch.coventry.ac.uk (STBW) writes:

>Arrrr, but can someone tell me of a very good Gif printing program, one that
>will produce nice results on a Star 24pin Dot-matrix(B/W), seeing as the
>printer has a better res then any of the screen modes !!!

DTP packages should be able to help you with this one - though you MAY need
to use an intermediate file format, probably not though.

Does GEMVIEW have file format conversion yet?  Seems a shame, since it
already has all the read routines (yes, I know reading a file format
is easier than writing it).

--
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From: selick@csa.bu.edu (Steven Selick)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: HP Laserjet graphics/dl'able char generator programming
Date: 6 Nov 92 15:01:12 GMT
Organization: Computer Science Department, Boston University, Boston, MA, USA
Originator: selick@csa


This is a question that anybody with a hplj2 manual should be able to
help me with. I need to know the information on how to program a hplj to
print graphics, and how to program the downloadable character generator.
Also, any fonts for printing bar codes would be greatly appreciated.
Please send e-mail to <selick@csa.bu.edu>. No e-mail is too large!
-Steve
Organization: Penn State University
Date: Fri, 13 Nov 1992 01:38:59 EST
From: J.J. Lehett <JJL101@psuvm.psu.edu>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Midi Networking

   Situation:
      MegaSTe - Tos 2.06 - Maxtor 120 meg HD
      1040 STfm - Tos 1.02 (I think, I know not .04)

   I want to see what a midi network will do for the 1040, even if slow
transfer times.
   mx2net: did run ok, but on partitions larger than 16 megs, the 1040 choked
it seems... havent a a pre-tos 2.0 machine in a while, but I rememeber this as
a problem.  Is there a way around this?  Is this also a problem then for the
1040 when accessing the maxtor remotely?
   anet: this loads fine on the machines, but with the minimal docs with it,
I am not sure if something is set up wrong, but I cannot get any remote access
at all, is anyone familiar with this program?
   mikenet: this looks to be the newest of the shareware lot, but the .arj file
at umich has 3 files, but the docs hint of more.  It runs fine on the mega
but gives 3 bombs on the 1040... any ideas at all on this one?

   So... any help appreciated, especially those who are currently running a
midi network with one of the above, or some other one not mentioned.  I am also
going to be looking into the commercial offerings, but wanted to sample the
shareware route first.

      Thanks in advance!
------------------
J.J. Lehett     : Atari's, puzzles, games, chaos, fractals, math....

  - Work: JJL101@psuvm.psu.edu           Penn State CAC
  - Genie: J.LEHETT2
  - Delphi: JLEHETT@delphi.com
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
From: dud@hardy.u.washington.edu (Daniel Aylward)
Subject: Re: SM124 problems
Organization: University of Washington
Date: Sun, 8 Nov 1992 00:14:37 GMT

cs2320ak@utagraph.uta.edu (cs2320ak) writes:

>I looked in the FAQ but couldn't find anything about this.  I know I've
>heard just about everyone who owns an SM124 monochrome monitor complain
>of this problem, which is when the background is all black using white
>characters or graphics, the brightness of the characters fades to near
>nothingness.  I would like to know if there's something I can do about
>this problem, as in getting it fixed for cheaper than a new monitor
>would cost.  Is this a design flaw?  Thanks in advance.

>-- 
>cs2320ak@decster.uta.edu

I think it is a design flaw.  Every SM124 I've ever seen does it.  When I
had mine, I could turn the brightness and contrast all the way up & then I
could see it, but on my parents', the knobs don't go far enough.  Pretty
lame! 

Dan Aylward
dud@u.washington.edu
From: jeff.molofee@outlan.ersys.edmonton.ab.ca (Jeff Molofee) 
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: ...
Date: 4 Nov 92 07:48:00 GMT
Reply-To: jeff.molofee@outlan.ersys.edmonton.ab.ca (Jeff Molofee) 
Distribution: world
Organization: Outland BBS  UUPCB  403-475-9588

I am wondering, do you have the 68882 or are you just quoting what the
manual says?  If so, I would like to buy it.  Also, what sort of STe
demos do you have if any... I'm interested.
From: minidis@urz.unibas.ch ( Capt.J.T. Kirk )
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Falcon already on sale or not ?
Date: 6 Nov 92 10:35:36 MET
Organization: University of Basel, Switzerland

Hi,
I`d like to know if anybody has seen the Falcon in a store yet?

According to Atari it was supposed to be for sale already, but
then that`s nothing new - when was there ever a time when you could
rely on the dates given by atari ?

Could it be, that they are having trouble with the MultiTos and therefor 
can`t - after having said they would - bring the Falcon with it on market ?
The Falcons Atari gave to programmers, etc. only has the
single task system Tos 4.0, ergo troubles in the Atari lab ?

-- 
Alexander                                <minidis@urz.unibas.ch>
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
From: jartsu@vipu.hut.fi (Jartsu)
Subject: Re: TTM194 w/ Spectre
Reply-To: Jari.Lehto@hut.fi
Organization: Helsinki University of Technology, Finland
Date: Fri, 13 Nov 1992 00:07:12 GMT

In article <BxKKzq.HFy@news.cso.uiuc.edu> wmagro@uiuc.edu (William Magro) writes:

> Does anyone know whether spectre takes advantage of TT high resolution on  
> the big 19" monitor?  This would be god-like.

As far as I know, Spectre works perfectly well with most bigscreens.
With SM194 and TTM194 Spectre works for sure, Dave Small has himself
tested this, if I remember it correctly.
I have seen and used Spectre with a Mega4 equipped with the Viking
Moniterm graphic card and SM194. Impressive!

> --
> William Magro                                       NeXTMail welcome
> wmagro@uiuc.edu

--
          
          Jartsu
From: ekrimen@wet.UUCP (Ed Krimen)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: Questions I need answers to :-)
Date: 4 Nov 92 18:27:29 GMT
Organization: Wetware Diversions, San Francisco

In article <1d8bdlINNm2e@golem.wcc.govt.nz> shore_c@kosmos.wcc.govt.nz writes:
>
>Is there any PD Fax software available? Or commercial _without_ the modem?

STraight FAX! is commercial and available without the modem.  In fact, I
don't think Joppa sells their software/modem bundle anymore.  The software
is about US$60.

Get STraight FAX! though.  It's cool, it's hot, and women dig it.

:^)
-- 
   |||    Ed Krimen
   |||    ekrimen@wet.uucp
  / | \   E.KRIMEN (GEnie)
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From: chuck@cpg.trs.reuter.com (Chuck Menard)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st,comp.sys.atari.st.tech
Subject: Re: What about Flash II?
Date: 12 Nov 92 15:57:37 GMT
Followup-To: comp.sys.atari.st
Organization: Reuters Client Site Systems, Oakbrook,IL

In article <1drsthINN1ok@golem.wcc.govt.nz> sheppard_r@kosmos.wcc.govt.nz writes:
>In article <ntomczak.721359308@vega>, ntomczak@vega.math.ualberta.ca (N Tomczak-Jaegermann) writes:
>>
>>If you have some stories indicating that Flash II is good
>>(remember - mono TT) or bad for his purposes please e-mail them
>>to me or post.
>>
>>   Michal Jaegermann
>>   ntomczak@vm.ucs.ualberta.ca
>>   ntomczak@vega.math.ualberta.ca
>
>
>I think it would be better to wait for the STORM its the REAL FLASH 2,
>writen by Alan Page...
>
>From what I read Flash II is still full of bugs and is very slow, I do have some
>comments from Alan page on it, also I posted some 3 articles about STORM here..
>
>
>
>Roger............               sheppard_r@kosmos.wcc.govt.nz

I decided to upgrade to Flash II for a small price from my old Flash (1.5?) and 
wasn't much impressed at first.  Well, I just got my free (except postage) to 
ver. 2.01.  Some annoying bugs are gone and it is much faster.  Version 2.0 didn't
show much of a speed increase considering that I went from 2400 to 9600 baud. Now,
whole pages are basically flashed on the screen at 9600 and above.  So, the only
reason for me to use Uniterm now is that the kermit setup and download procedure
is more convenient in Uniterm - not a big deal though. By the way, I'm very pleased
with promptness and service in general with the company in Palatine, Ill.  They are
very interested with any bugs that anyone finds.  These bugs appear to be corrected
with each new upgrade.


CUL,
Chuck












Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
From: jat@cch.coventry.ac.uk (STBW)
Subject: Re: Gif Viewers (printing)
Organization: ASHTRAY(Against Short Hair That Really Annoys You)
Date: Wed, 11 Nov 1992 13:40:11 GMT

In article <1992Nov11.130342@rbg.informatik.th-darmstadt.de> schorr@rbg.informatik.th-darmstadt.de (roland schorr) writes:
>Hatari!
>
>The best GIF-Viewer, I know, is GEMVIEW1.1. It can handle with lots of
>fileformats, and especially the GIF-Format is very very good, because you can
>set the dithering, and the colormodes, etc.

Arrrr, but can someone tell me of a very good Gif printing program, one that
will produce nice results on a Star 24pin Dot-matrix(B/W), seeing as the
printer has a better res then any of the screen modes !!!

Please....


-- 
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From: Bob_BobR_Retelle@cup.portal.com
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: word on US falcons???
Date: Wed,  4 Nov 92 23:57:40 PDT
Organization: The Portal System (TM)

Stephen Jacobs writes:

>The announcement that there would be Falcons in the US as soon as FCC approv
>could be obtained, and probably in mid-October came directly from Sam Tramie
>One of the more important things to learn in dealing with US corporations is
>that the president is never an official spokesman for the company.  Basicall
>anything the president says is a wish, not a commitment.  To the best of my
>knowledge, the only official spokesman for Atari in public discussions is
>Bob Brodie.

Say what...??
 
You mean to tell us that if Lee Iacocca tells the world in a
Press Conference that Chrysler will be bringing out a new model
car in November that will get 200 mpg and cost $500, that it
ISN'T an "official" announcement, and we have to wait for
"Joe Nobody" in the Chrysler marketing department to give us
the "real" scoop..?
 
I'm sorry... that's just B.S...
  
If the President of Atari Corp can get on a national information
service and give out "information", that "information" is as
"official" as it gets.
 
I don't remember any disclaimers before or after the conference saying
that anything Sam Tramiel says is not to be considered truthful or
"official"...  
 
I'll bet Sam himself would be surprised to find out that Bob Brodie
outranks him in the "official" capacity..

And... I think Sam can probably do his own apologizing...

BobR
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
From: max@knuth.cba.csuohio.edu (Max Polk)
Subject: Re: How do I cancel Dialing with Uniterm?
Organization: Cleveland State University
Date: Thu, 12 Nov 1992 18:29:55 GMT

Jan Willem Hubbers writes:
>When I use the popup dialer (right mouse click) and select a number for
>Uniterm to dial, it dials ok, but how do I get it to STOP ?

To cancel dialing (such as in the case that the line is busy), my version
of Uniterm simply requires a Control-C to put you back into normal mode.

You are now in contact with your modem.  My modem stops trying to connect
and hangs up if you type any key before carriers connect.

So it ends up being Control-C then any other key.  Hope this works in your
version.
From: anisko@usdtsg.DaytonOH.NCR.COM (anisko)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: The FALCON - too slow ??
Date: 12 Nov 92 16:35:21 GMT
Reply-To: anisko@usdtsg.UUCP ()
Organization: NCR Corporation, Dayton


   Just curious, since it was mentioned that the Falcon seemed slow in
True Color mode - I wonder if Warp 9 works with the Falcon as is, or
if maybe a revision would work for Falcon-specific screens as well.
I mean, my MegaSTe screen is a tad slow until I kick in Warp 9, then it
speeds along nicely (especially with a disk cache)...

				Robert Anisko
				anisko@usdtsg.daytonoh.ncr.com

Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
From: sourada@iastate.edu (Steven D Ourada)
Subject: 50 Hz on American TV's (was spx viewer)
Organization: Iowa State University, Ames IA
Date: Thu, 5 Nov 1992 20:55:29 GMT

In <1992Nov5.042759.5635@zooid.guild.org> stramba@zooid.guild.org (Mike Stramba) writes:


>Anyone know why when I try to run an spx viewer (spx18.prg), on my color
>t.v. via r/f modulator, the screen continously looks like the vertical
>hold is not working?

>The t.v. is so new it doesn't even have a vertical hold control.

>Is this the 50/60 mhz output thing?

>Mike

Yep, this program runs in 50 Hz. On older American TV's, this will probably
work fine (with some minor adjustment in the vertical hold). 
Newer TV's have more sophisticated synchronization circuitry so that no
vertical hold adjustment is necessary, but this makes it impossible to 
display 50 Hz output on them. 

Try a TV with a vertical hold knob or an Atari monitor...

                     Later,
                       Steven Ourada

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From: whitcomb@aurs01.UUCP (Jonathan Whitcomb)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Dr.T's Atari development not dead! (was: C-lab gone under?)
Date: 11 Nov 92 15:51:11 GMT
Reply-To: whitcomb%aurgate@mcnc.org (Jonathan Whitcomb)
Organization: Alcatel Network Systems, Raleigh NC

In article <1992Nov11.102428.28579@cs.ruu.nl> piet@cs.ruu.nl (Piet van Oostrum) writes:
>Reprinted From Z*NET 92-17:
>
> C-LAB FOLDS, EMAGIC TAKES OVER
> Internal company unrest and division has brought C-Lab, developers and
> manufacturers of the most successful Atari MIDI sequencing programs,
> Creator and Notator, to an end.  C-Lab products will be taken over by a
> new company formed by Ensoniq, the US distributors of C-Lab as well as a
> line of electronic hardware for the music industry.  EMAGIC will
> maintain support and development of the Atari platform, and includes
> some of the same people who were C-Lab.  Notator 3.1 was recently hailed
> in Keyboard magazine as the best MIDI sequencing program available for
> any computer.  Announcements from Ensoniq about Emagic include news of
> "Notator Logic" for the Macintosh, to be released before the end of
> 1992.  Emagic joins Steinberg/Jones and Barefoot Software as the major
> remaining MIDI developers for Atari computers.  Barefoot formed from the
> Hybrid Arts takeover this summer, and Dr. T's stopped developing for the
> Atari in 1992.  Contact Emagic through Ensoniq Corp, attention David
> Netting, 155 Great Valley Parkway, Malvern, CT  19355, 213-647-3930,
> extension 297.
>-- 
>Piet van Oostrum <piet@cs.ruu.nl>

The statement about Dr.T's having stopped development for the Atari in
1992 is false.  Dr.T's is online on GEnie and they report KCS Omega V5.0
is currently under development and will be released in early 1993.  It
will run on a Falcon030, although it will not take advantage of many of
the new sound capabilities of the new machine (yes, Dr.T's has a
Falcon).

While the Atari version of X-oR is currently on the back burner, some
work on an upgrade has been done (though it would be wise not to hold
your breath for it to be released).  X-oR profiles are currently being
written for several new instruments (my source for this info cannot be
disputed! ;^) and will be released by Dr.T's early next year.

Granted, the focus of Dr.T's development has moved towards the PC, but
it has not stopped on the ST!
**********************************************************************
Jonathan Whitcomb                    UUCP: <whitcomb%aurgate@mcnc.org>
Alcatel Network Systems              Delphi: JBWHIT
Raleigh, NC                          GEnie: J.WHITCOMB3        
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
From: rrk@vixen.cc.bellcore.com (kutz,randolph r)
Subject: 3MB Ramdisk
Organization: Bellcore, Livingston, NJ
Distribution: usa
Date: Fri, 13 Nov 92 14:14:53 GMT
Keywords: ramdisk

I need s 3MB ramdisk to load Colonel's Bequest to stop all
the disk swapping.  I have the Codehead Utilities ramdisk
which is very good,  but only goes up to a little over 2 MB.
(Obviously I haven't a hard-disk - can't budget it).  Is
there a 3MB ramdisk about?

Randy Kutz    Bellcore       ..!bellcore!vixen!rrk
                            or rrk@vixen.cc.bellcore.com
Date: Fri,  6 Nov 92 09:48:46 +0100
From: Benedikt_Heinen@firemark.fido.de (Benedikt Heinen)
Subject: Re: Jekyll
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
X-Comment-To: (Dennis Mc Guire)
Organization: Firemark.BBS - 1st Atari ST Node Aachen 

 DM> useful for transferring files from my BBS computer to my own.  Can
 DM> the author be contacted through Internet?
As far as I know the author is only to be contacted via Fido or Network.ST.

 DM> I'd like to see a MIDIport option to maximize the speed of transfer when
 DM> the computers can be directly connected and to save the hassle of
 DM> disconnecting the serial cable. I would just leave the MIDI cables
 DM> connected all of the time and only have to run Jekyll on each computer to
 DM> movefiles between them.  I'm sure this would be quicker than using
 DM> floppies.  Any other ideas on how to do this at minimum cost?

Better try MikeNet (Shareware - SWfee 25 US$, I think). With it you can 
directly link drives between both computers.
 Its DISadvantages are:
    No file locking (up to now, the author is working on it)
    Only 2 computers can be connected (the author will start working on this
                                       topic in some time coming)

  Advantages:
    Can be used to redirect drives of both systems (remote C: to local C:,
                                                    local F: to local G: ...)
    Redirecting drives can be done via command line.
    Works in background...

Until you pay, your setup cannot be saved though...

I'll upload Mikenet to a.a in the next few days...

bye,
    Benedikt