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From: chuck@cpg.trs.reuter.com (Chuck Menard)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st.tech
Subject: Unix ASV
Date: 22 Dec 92 01:24:53 GMT
Organization: Reuters Client Site Systems, Oakbrook,IL

>mauritz_c@spcvxb.spc.edu writes:
>
>>I haven't heard if Atari's system V port will run on the Falcon.
>It doesn't. BTW, the Falcon is too slow for it. I run ASV on the TT and you
>need the speed of this machine.
>

I'm planning on going to Germany soon.  I'm interested in looking at 
software, and especially ASV, for the TT.  What Atari dealers should
I visit?


Thanks in advance,
Chuck
From: michael.smith@f842.n800.z3.fido.zeta.org.au (michael smith)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st.tech
Subject: Re: ICD Host Adapter
Organization: Fidonet. Gate admin is fido@socs.uts.edu.au
Date: 18 Dec 92 07:39:32 GMT

Original to: andrew@minster.york.ac.uk
In a message of <10 Dec 92 10:20:18>, andrew@minster.york.ac.uk (3:713/602)
writes:

 a> I have an ICD host adapter and I'm trying to format a Quantum 105S.
 a> However, I don't have the correct configuration file for this drive, my
 a> formatting software (from ICD) only has Quantum 80S.  The software is
 a> about 4 years old!  Does anyone have any suggestions for formatting this
 a> drive.  I keep getting Sense Code 38 at the moment.

Get new software!  - you don't need to know what it is - to format a scsi
device you just tell it to format itself.  The ICD s/w you have is obviously
_dangerously_ old.

 a> -Andrew Hague

btw new ICD s/w is free.
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From: Ulf_Moeller@hh2.maus.de (Ulf Moeller)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st.tech
Subject: Re: Falcon and Unix Sys V
Date: 23 Dec 92 18:24:00 GMT
Article-I.D.: HH2.A15194
Organization: MausNet (Mitglied im IN e.V.)
X-Gateway: MausGate/News 1.14D/hb

>I REPEAT NO ONE TO MY KNOWLEDGE IS WORKING ON AN ST LINUX PORT...

There is a mailing list on amiga.linux, and an Atari port is also being
discussed in it.

I'll try to find out where you can subscribe to it.

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From: hasse@solace.hsh.se (Hans Holmberg)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st.tech
Subject: Re: Flacon IDE Question
Date: 21 Dec 92 10:53:43 GMT
Organization: Solace Computer Club, Sundsvall, Sweden

In <1992Dec20.171225.14233@umiami.ir.miami.edu> dlk0ms9s@umiami.ir.miami.edu writes:

>  Question:

>   Lets say someone buys a Falcon030 with one meg and no harddrive.  Will the 
>IDE controller still be inside the machine?  I mean is it an extra card
>or is the interface built into the motherboard?

Answer:

   Yes, the IDE controller is builtin as standard. If I'm not wrong, it's
integrated with the blitter.

>Mark Santora

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From: Vincent_Partington@p15.f202.n281.z2.fidonet
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st.tech
Subject: Re: GFA Basic 4.0
Date: 2 Jan 93 08:47:12 GMT
Reply-To: p15.f202.n281.z2.fidonet!Vincent_Partington@nextjk.wlink.nl
X-FSC-PID: LED 1.00

In a message of <Mon 28 Dec 92 09:04>, Lars-Thorsten Sudmann (2:281/202.0)
writes:

 LS> GFA Basic will now develope by Richter Distributor germany. It will
 LS> become some new features:
 LS> - adapt on new TOS Versions and new programming ideas

Will this also include structs or records? I had heard a rumour that it
would and that would be a first: a basic with structs..

Ta!
    Vincent

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From: ak354@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Dennis Mc Guire)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st.tech
Subject: Installed applications
Date: 25 Dec 1992 16:10:46 GMT
Organization: Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio (USA)
NNTP-Posting-Host: slc10.ins.cwru.edu


   Once an application has been installed as a start-up program
is there a way to by-pass it when booting?
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st.tech
From: Cford@debug.cuc.ab.ca (Conan Ford)
Subject: Re: Sending objc_draw to a buffer
Reply-To: Cford@debug.cuc.ab.ca (Conan Ford)
Organization: The Magic BBS (Debug Computer Services)
Date: Sun, 20 Dec 92 15:12:31 GMT
Keywords: 
 
 

Here's a suggestion:
 
Set the logbase() to a 32000 byte buffer.   That way all drawing will be
done there but the user won't see it.  After each objc_draw, use BIT_BLIT
to save the drawn stuff into another buffer.  After you are done, set the
screen back.  Make sure to hide the mouse for this.
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From: pyr579@oz.plymouth.edu (Technoid)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st.tech
Subject: chdir in sozobon
Date: 4 Jan 93 01:59:26 GMT
Reply-To: pyr579@oz.plymouth.edu (Technoid)
Organization: Plymouth State College - Plymouth, N.H.

Hello,

	I am having difficulty with chdir() is Sozobon 1.33i ( Heat N
Serve ). It won't change drives. According to the dlibs text file,
chdir() will change the drive if a drive letter is given to it. I assume
this means that if I enter "d:\telecomm" for a string, it will ( with
the proper end slashes added. ) change the current drive to D: and then
change the directory to \telecomm. The problem is, it does not do this.
I'm only trying to implement a simple cd command for a mini TOS shell
and I've got most of the other commands finished. This one, that should
be easy, doesn't want to work. Any help would be great or if you have a
working cd command implemented, I'd love to see your code.

Stephan

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From: michael.smith@f842.n800.z3.fido.zeta.org.au (michael smith)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st.tech
Subject: Re: Simm module serial numbers. Meaning?
Organization: Fidonet. Gate admin is fido@socs.uts.edu.au
Date: 18 Dec 92 07:43:40 GMT

Original to: fdomingu@morpheus
In a message of <11 Dec 92 12:48:18>, fdomingu@morpheus (3:713/602) writes:

 f> For the following serial numbers, could someone give the appropriate
 f> meaning and it's possibilites for use in the Atari ST...
 f> 
 f> Hitachi HB56A49A-8
 f> (on the component side, 9 of HM514100JP8)
 f> 
 f> MitsubishI (9 of M5M41000AJ) (10 ns)
 f> 
 f> Samsung KMM581000AN-8
 f> (2 of KM44C1000AJ-8)

The first two are 1Mbit x 9 SIMMs, the third (if there are only 3 chips on
the stick) are 256Kx9.

The first and last are 80ns, the second are 100ns.

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Subject: Re: Installed applications
From: valdez_a@kosmos.wcc.govt.nz
Date: 29 Dec 92 21:31:09 NZST
Organization: Welligton City Council, Public Access.
NNTP-Posting-Host: kosmos.wcc.govt.nz

In article <1hfbq6INN2s9@usenet.INS.CWRU.Edu>, ak354@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Dennis Mc Guire) writes:
> 
>    Once an application has been installed as a start-up program
> is there a way to by-pass it when booting?

The start-up program is saved in the DESKTOP.INF file. Try using something like
Desk Manager to pick which DESKTOP.INF to boot up with.

Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st.tech
From: hyc@hanauma.jpl.nasa.gov (Howard Chu)
Subject: Re: SCSI/2 or SCSI on the falcon?
Keywords: falcon, SCSI
Organization: SAR Systems Development & Processing, JPL
Date: Thu, 31 Dec 1992 09:05:11 GMT

In article <C00u8s.6GE@hermes.hrz.uni-bielefeld.de> itschere@techfak.uni-bielefeld.de (Torsten Scherer) writes:
>greetings to the world...
>
>i'm a bit confused now, if the falcon will/is come out/coming out with an
>external SCSI or SCSI/2 port. i think i'll not buy the '030 but wait another
>year for a machine which is a bit more up to date... but i'm having lots of
>problems with free space on my MSTE/4's internal harddisk _now_ and i'd like
>to buy a much bigger one (it's SCSI) _now_, but use it on the falcon 040 or
>whatever its name will be later. now has it got a SCSI port or a SCSI/2 port?
>or is it possible to software-configurate SCSI/2 ports to drive the older 8
>bit units?

SCSI-2 is fully compatible with SCSI-1. The only problem you will have is
getting a cable with the SCSI-2 connector on it. I've got my Quantum and
Syquest hooked up to the Falcon now with no troubles. (Except that it didn't
like it when the Mega-4/ICD was also on the bus; I had to pull them off...)
-- 
  -- Howard Chu @ Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA

There's a narrow border between genius and insanity, but I'm a dual citizen.
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From: alien@clinet.fi (Risto Juvonen)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st.tech,comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: Falcon and Unix Sys V
Date: 23 Dec 92 21:03:42 GMT
Organization: Clinet, Espoo, Finland.
NNTP-Posting-Host: clinet.fi

ritz@ritz.mordor.com (Christopher Mauritz) writes:
: 
: I wouldn't hold your breath.  Linux is definitely a quality piece of
: work and I have briefly used it, but the author, Linus Torvalds, has
: stated on numerous occasions that it is very 3/486 dependent.  Rumour
: has it that an Amiga port is being contemplated, but this is the
: first time I have heard about an Atari port.  If you want cheap unix,
: a pc clone is probably your best bet at this point.
: 
 Well, if I relly need to go with unix, I get cheap PC and run linux
on it or sell my TT and buy Silicon. After all, with same hardware PC
would be even more expensive that Indigo. But I'll probably wait a
year or so to find out which would be the best choice: pc isn't any
problem-free system with any operating system, I just think it would
save me a lot of time if I go with _real_ unix-system. But I've to
see, what atari can give as in a year, if there is high-end 040, I go
with that.

: Cheers,
: 
: Chris
: 
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From: m91der@tdb.uu.se (Daniel Eriksson)
Subject: GNU SED v1.13 ported to Atari
Organization: Uppsala university, Sweden
X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.1 PL6]
Date: Sat, 2 Jan 1993 05:34:20 GMT


I've just uploaded my port of GNU SED v1.13 to a couple of FTP-sites.
If you're eager to get the file right away you can get it from
/pub/atari/mint/sed113st.zoo at ftp.uni-kl.de. For those who aren't
as eager and/or live in the US (and maybe thinks twice before opening
a Transatlantic connection :-) there will also eventually be a copy
of the same file on atari.archive.umich.edu (in the directory
/atari/Mint). However, as a reply to my letter to Jeff Weiner I got
an automated reply that stated that he was away during the holidays.

The port was made with GCC 2.3.1 PL1 and MiNTlibs PL25 and was
very straightforward. I haven't had the opportunity to test all its
functions, but the ones I've tested works as they were intended. I'm
not sure how well the port works under plain TOS since I'm always
running MiNT (but I can't really see any point in running it from
plain TOS anyway :-). I also tried to compile SED with -mbaserel
and -mpcrel, but somehow I couldn't get sed to run that way. It
compiled and linked OK, but the executable only gave me a bus-error.
It's probably some awfully silly thing that I'm doing wrong. I was
under the impression that compiling with -mbaserel and -mpcrel would
TRY to create a text-segment without absolute addresses. Am I missing
something out?

Happy new year and f..k the army (I'm doing my military service
right now ;-)!

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From: jonord@solace.hsh.se (Joakim Nordlander)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: ATARI and US!
Date: 27 Dec 92 09:31:29 GMT
Organization: Solace Computer Club, Sundsvall, Sweden

In <afonseca.2y5x@terapin.com> afonseca@terapin.com (Alberto Fonseca) writes:


>Hi everyone.  I've been an ATARI supporter for a while now, since the 8-bit
>series.  I have been reading the messages here for a while now, and have gotten
>alot of information from everyone.  I think its great that this many ATARI
>users can get together and discuss these things.

>Well I just wanted to say that instead of writing all these messages that seem
>to say "ATARI SUCKS", or anything close, we should be talking about the
.
.
.
>we are to have what we want.  Of course we all want something more from our
>computers, and I'm sure that this newsgroup will help you to find whatever you
>need in terms of information about what you can do to improve your system.  So
>the bottom line is:  GO ATARI!

>Thanks,

>Alberto
>afonseca@terapin.com
>---------------------
>ATARI SUPPORTER

 Well, I agree in all points. I have an old, almost worthless 1040 STfm and a
Megafile 30. And the only reason I have kept this old computer is that I likes
it... It do what I want it to do, and it does that in a satisfying way. 
 Right now, I am sitting at home with Uniterm and uses a Unix-machine down in
Sundsvall (about 50 km from me) with VT200 and I haven't seen any program which
emulates VT200 like Uniterm, not to the PC or the amiga...

 /Jocke
From: Bob_BobR_Retelle@cup.portal.com
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: Falcon030, resolutions, TRUE color, and DSP
Date: Tue, 22 Dec 92 01:10:56 PST
Organization: The Portal System (TM)
  <1h0eelINNeqh@usenet.INS.CWRU.Edu> <1h2r5bINNqv5@usenet.INS.CWRU.Edu>
  <1992Dec21.013725.5791@cc.umontreal.ca>

Odisseas Kosmatos lists lots of "reasons" why PCs are the
Scum of the Earth..
 
Sure.. but can your Falcon do *anything*...?
 
Without software, you've got a high-tech (and expensive)
paperweight..
 
Meanwhile, that poor, misguided PC owner is happily computing
using his lousy, clunky, "everyone knows" has problems PC to
do exactly what he wants it to do.
 
He had to pay $89 more to get 11 voice FM synthesis music, with
VOC sampled voice support.. so what..?  It works.. NOW..
 
He had to pay $19 more to get a mouse..  so what..?  It works..
NOW...
 
He's got an IDE drive.. so what?  That's what the Falcon has too!
 
The point that seems to be universally missed here is that if
someone decides that they want to use a computer *NOW*, instead
of waiting for the ever present Atari "RSN", they CAN do it..
 
If someone decides they want to get some actual work done NOW
instead of waiting continually for the NEXT broken promise,
why shouldn't they..?
 
Why wait forever for the "ultimate" pie in the sky dream, when
you can get a REAL computer NOW..?

(OK, maybe some of us can afford to wait forever for Atari to get
their act together.. maybe someday they'll actually come up with
a killer machine that *everybody* just HAS to HAVE...  but until
then, why spite yourself just to make Atari feel good...????)
 
BobR
From: mlake@irscscm.UUCP (Marshall Lake)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: ST Software for sale
Date: 28 Dec 92 12:55:24 GMT
Reply-To: mlake@irscscm.UUCP (Marshall Lake)
Distribution: usa
Organization: Internal Revenue Service, Washington, DC


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Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st,comp.sys.atari.st.tech
Subject: Re: Hard Drive (wierd) Problem - Help!
From: erkamp@JANUS.ARC.AB.CA (Bob Erkamp)
Date: 31 Dec 92 11:41:27 MDT
Reply-To: erkamp@JANUS.ARC.AB.CA
Organization: Alberta Research Council

In article <H.eg.8xoBXXa8KAU@elfhaven.ersys.edmonton.ab.ca>, mforget@elfhaven.ersys.edmonton.ab.ca (Michel Forget) writes:
>Hi!
>
>I think I might be having a problem with my hard drive.  It used to only
>happen when it was cold in the room where the hard drive is, but now
>it seems to happen every time I turn the drive on.
>
>The problem itself is this;  after a few minutes of operating normally,
>it suddenly gets louder and sounds like it is working harder/going
>into Warp.  It usually stops (then again sometimes it doesn't) if I tilt
>the front of the hard drive up.
>
>The hard drive is an Atari MegaFile 30, by the way.
>
>Do I need to clean the inside of the drive, or is it something else?
>Should I worry about this?  The difference in sound is very noticeable
>(and there is a slight hissing as well).
>

Well I can't say specifically what is wrong but having talk to service techs 
about Atari drives I recall that the MegaFile 30 was not a very reliable drive 
and invariably died in about a year. He recommended to stay away from this 
drive and get a MegaFile 20 or 60 as they had much more reliable workings (I've 
had my 20 for many years). I realise that this doesn't help you much. I would 
suggest backing it up immediatly and having it looked at.

Bob
From: jhenders@jonh.wimsey.bc.ca (John Henders)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Distribution: world
Organization:  One of these days for sure
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Subject: Re: Falcon IBM emul: speed guesses?
Date: Wed, 23 Dec 1992 19:48:34 -0800
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In <1992Dec21.224835.1008@informix.com> robert@informix.com 
(Robert Coleman) writes:

>	So, the Falcon's gonna be able to take a 286, 386, or 486 SX chip
>running at 16 mhz.  Maybe someone will actually make that happen.  My question,
>based on a probably faulty understanding of the technology (hint: that's a
>plea for no flames, please! I confess ignorance in advance! :-) ) is, based 
>on educated guesses, will a 486SX chip in a Falcon produce a machine that 
>will run as fast or faster than, say, a 386DX in a "standard" clone at, 
>say, 33 Mhz (a configuration I've heard is a minimum for playing Wing 
>Commander without serious slowdown).

	Good question, and one I hope someone can answer more fully than I
can. However, there does appear to be several emulators in the works
already. Whether anyone bothers to import them to North America is
anybody's guess. The biggest bottleneck is, as you say, the 16 bit
interface to memory. Does anyone know if the *86 chips can do the
dynamic bus sizing that the 68k chip can. It would seem to me that, if
they can, then the rest of the Falcon could just emulate the various pc
i/o areas, and fairly quickly as well. If the graphic section of the
Falcon could emulate a VGA card, then it should be fairly fast, but from
what I've been reading on rec.games.programming, there are video modes
in VGA that are programmed directly in some games. This might break an
emulator, unless some how the 689030 mmu could still be utilised to
direct the memory accesses to handlers to deal with this.

-- 

 "If Rush fans were braindead, why are there so   Bruce Bufalini
 many people posting to alt.music.rush?"              PSU
From: aa399@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Len Stys)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: Falcon030, resolutions, TRUE color, and DSP
Date: 21 Dec 1992 16:35:20 GMT
Organization: Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH (USA)
Reply-To: aa399@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Len Stys)
NNTP-Posting-Host: thor.ins.cwru.edu


In a previous article, sheppard_r@kosmos.wcc.govt.nz () says:

>In article <1992Dec21.013725.5791@cc.umontreal.ca>, kosmatoo@JSP.UMontreal.CA (Kosmatos Odisseas) writes:
>>In article <1h2r5bINNqv5@usenet.INS.CWRU.Edu> aa399@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Len Stys) writes:
>>
>>>Ed, I can buy a 386 DX 25 MHz clone with an 85 meg HD, 8 expansion slots,
>>>a 3.5" 1.4 meg drive, a 5.25" 1.2 meg drive, and a SVGA monitor for
>>>$799.
>>
>>My guess is this $799 mix-n-match computer you mention has many shortcomings.
>>
>>You have overlooked too many things. For one, the Falcon with it's Multitos
>>should run quite smoothly. I have heard the opposite claim many times for
>>386 PC's using windows. The Falcon is also a COMPLETE  computer with quite
>>some performance in many respects. That's the edge.
>
>
>>=*=        Odisseas Kosmatos       =*=  "Cul bien vide, tete plein d'idees."
>>=*=    kosmatoo@jsp.umontreal.ca   =*=
>>=*= shammer@mafalda.math.mcgill.ca =*=
>
>
>Well the are a few 'does it have' that seemed to be left out...
>
>Does it have a good dealer support network..??
>
>Does it have county wide service..??
>
>Does it have a range of books, technical or software to support it...???
>
>Does it have a good range of software support..??
>
>
>Come on chaps, no more Computer Jokes here Please, lets be real....??
>
>
>Roger................        sheppard_r@kosmos.wcc.govt.nz
>
>


EXACTLY!

The Falcon030 MAY be a great machine for music.

The DSP MAY open a few more doors.

And some games MAY be able to be written for the Falcon030.

BUT-- if you don't have developers, dealers, users, and publications
that are helping PUSH this machine into millions of homes, the
Falcon030 MAY NOT have a chance.

I was kind of disappointed by the lack of a graphics coprocessor and
so far, no one has checked to see if Atari may let us add one to the
Falcon030 in the future.  I don't think we can.

What's going to happen is that the Falcon030 will be competitively
priced with PC clones out there.  The people that want a computer that
plays GREAT games will not see a great advantage with the Falcon030.

And some people have told me, "You want great games?  Get an Amiga 1200!"

Hey, this is a billion dollar market, Atari better be thinking about it.


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