HDTenEightyP/NetNews huggingface dataset:
From: kevin.suggs@matrix.sbs.com (Kevin Suggs) 
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: PC-SPEED
Date: 21 Jul 92 04:28:00 GMT
Distribution: world
Organization: The MATRIX BBS - Birmingham, AL - 205-323-2016
Reply-To: kevin.suggs@matrix.sbs.com (Kevin Suggs) 

I recently purchased PC-SPEED,had it installed and all the IBM software
runs beautifully.However when I tried running my Atari sequencing and
other midi software the computer just locks up! I contacted the people
I purchased it from and they said they had never heard of this problem.
I have left countless messages on BBS's all over the U.S. and the only
reply I ever got stated that even when you're not using PC-SPEED it
somehow still affects the midi ports,slowing down some routines
causing the computer to lock up!
 
Has anyone heard of this and/or knows how to fix the problem?I am at
my wits end!(short trip I know). Any and all assistance will be 
greatly appreciated.
 
Kevin Suggs


--- MaxiMiser*ST 1.20 UnRegistered 
 *  Use PsychoModem, the telepathic protocol!
From: dud@hardy.u.washington.edu (Daniel Aylward)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: English PAD docs
Date: 30 Jul 92 00:48:45 GMT
Organization: University of Washington


Does anyone know where I can get English docs for Pad, the German
shareware monochrome raster graphics program?  It's a really incredible
program, especially for shareware.

Dan Aylward
dud@u.washington.edu
Xref: sparky comp.sys.atari.st:11853 comp.sys.atari.st.tech:4177
From: dtarico@violet.ccit.arizona.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st,comp.sys.atari.st.tech
Subject: AT-Speed and Atari mouse ?
Date: 29 Jul 92 18:55:35 GMT
Followup-To: poster,comp.sys.atari.st,comp.sys.atari.st.tech
Distribution: world,local
Nntp-Posting-User: dtarico

Has anybody had any luck using the Atari mouse under AT-Speed?  If so,
how did you get it to work?  Does it need a driver?  Email responses
are fine, and I will summarize if there is interest.  Thanks!
----------------------------------
         Doug Tarico                      
    dtarico@ccit.arizona.edu 
  doug@catalina.sie.arizona.edu                     
---------------------------------
From: jensk@hpbbrd.bbn.hp.com (Jens Kilian)
Date: Thu, 23 Jul 1992 12:05:13 GMT
Subject: More MiNT q's,  Why not a MiNT FAQ?? : )
Organization: HP Mechanical Design Division
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st

/ hpbbrd:comp.sys.atari.st / PAULETTI@biel.be.tech.ascom.ch (Pauletti Andreas) /  5:42 am  Jul 22, 1992 /
 
>   1. if you get MiNT (0.94) in binary form you find the mintshel.prg.
>      It should be a shell. But when I try to do an ls, dir or pwd I
>      always get the answer cmd exit with -33 or so.
>      Do I need to get some utilities which should be put in a bin directory
>      or is my configuration file of the shell wrong.

MINTSHEL is a `pure' shell which, unlike Gulam or Mupfel, doesn't have any
builtins commands except those absolutely necessary (like cd, which must be
builtin). You need some additional utilities, like Alan Pratt's MiNT utils
or the GNU file utilities.

>   2. Did anybody use Pure C with the MiNT libraries, does this work.

Read something about that in the MausNet during the few weeks. I believe
several people are actually porting the MiNT library to Pure C. The main
difficulty seems to be the use of inline assembly.

	Jens.
--
Internet: jensk@hpbeo82.bbn.hp.com    HPDESK : JENS_KILIAN%XU@HP1200
MausNet:  Jens Kilian @ BB                     KILIAN_JENS/HP1200_XU@hpbbi4
Phone: (0|+49)7031-14-4308            TELNET : 778-4308
Fax  : (0|+49)7031-14-2049
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
As the air to a bird, or the sea to a fish, so is contempt to the contemptible.
From: Curt.Fluegel@f47.n282.z1.tdkt.kksys.com (Curt Fluegel)
Sender: FredGate@tdkt.kksys.com
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Atari Something (?) Magazine
Date: Mon, 27 Jul 1992 14:24:02 -0600

 there will be one more issue, the fabled June/July/August "Falcon" issue, there
is a whole write-up in the latest AEO.  I guess you can expect a free
supscription to Atari Explorer now...  Curt Fluegel

 * Origin: FlightLine BBS Mpls,MN USRdual 612-544-5118 (1:282/47.0)
From: warwick@cs.uq.oz.au (Warwick Allison)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: Problems with GCC 2.1 and *80.inc/libs !!!!!
Date: 29 Jul 92 02:46:25 GMT
Reply-To: warwick@cs.uq.oz.au

In <2099@bigfoot.first.gmd.de> ralph@prosun.first.gmd.de (Ralph Berg) writes:

>The installation of the libraries by replacing the old by the newest one.

This is what is causing most of the trouble.  PLEASE people, scrap all the
old version and replace it with version 2.1 clean-slate.  If you really
want, keep the old version (renaming the directory to GUMBY.GCC, for example),
but DO NOT mix them.  And you DON'T need to add any symbols to gnu.olb, if
the linker says one is missing, the problem is you set-up.  Flaky hacks like
simple adding blank versions of the symbol is just asking for trouble (eg.
maybe "split_mem()" is only called when you use up 128K of heap space?!!?!!


--
Warwick
--
  _-_|\      warwick@cs.uq.oz.au            /Disclaimer:
 /     * <-- Computer Science Department,  /  
 \_.-._/     University of Queensland,    /      void (if removed)
      v      Brisbane, Australia.        /  
Xref: sparky comp.sys.atari.st:11709 comp.sys.atari.st.tech:4144
From: wenzel@marsu.tynet.sub.org (Markus Wenzel)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st,comp.sys.atari.st.tech
Organization: Marsupilami's private UUCP site - Palumbien, Germany.
Subject: Re: ICD and partition types : HELP please
Reply-To: wenzel@marsu.tynet.sub.org
X-Software: HERMES GUS 1.03 Rev. Apr 14 1992
Date: Thu, 23 Jul 1992 09:09:04 MET

In <1992Jul20.183226.1@violet.ccit.arizona.edu>, dtarico@violet.ccit.arizona.edu writes:
> In the ICD hard disk formatter, it asks for partition types.  The manual hints 
> that type other than GEM and BGM are possible, but it says nothing about what
> the other options are.  Does anybody know what types of partitions are
> allowable?  I want to set up partitions (large ones) for DOS and Spectre.
> What types of partitions should I specify for these?  Any info would be
> appreciated.  Thanks.
> 
> P.S.  large = >32 meg, i.e. GEM doesn't cut it.  Spectre seems to work fine
> on a BGM partition, but DOS doesn't seem to like it.  Is BGM acceptable for
> either of these operating systems, or will it cause problems?

You can make a Spectre partition as large as you want, preformat it as BGM 
and than convert it into HFS. This does not belong to your GEM driver 
software, e.g. if you're using ICD or AHDI or what else. The format identifier 
of the Spectre partition then is "OOP". 
Concerning DOS partitions, my first idea is the DOS version you are
using. Be sure to use 4.01 or later, I remember there were problems
formatting large partitions with former DOS versions.

Regards,
Markus.

-- 
* /dev/                Markus Wenzel, University of Stuttgart              *
* /usr/spool/mail/     wenzel@marsu.tynet.sub.org / @rus.uni-stuttgart.de  *
* ~/.ircrc/nick        _Marsu_                                             *
* /etc/motd            "Terrorizing people whereever I go,                 *
*                       it's not intentional, just keepin' the flow."      *
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
From: lombardo@odin.unomaha.edu (Obiwan Kenobi)
Subject: 950 Magazine?
Summary: None
Keywords: None
Organization: University of Nebraska at Omaha
Date: Tue, 21 Jul 1992 17:38:39 GMT

Does anyone know if the ST Hackers journal, 950 magazine, is still in
existence?  I saw an ad for it in the Mikey Pay Phone assistant program
up on ftp-kl in the telecomm directory.  Its a pretty neat program, but
the bbs's listed for support don't seem to be in existence anymore.  Does
any one know the author of this program, or have a subscription to this
wonderful magazine?  

					Obiwan Kenobi
From: cctony@sun1.mcsr.olemiss.edu (Tony Reynolds)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: ST waveform synthesis
Date: 22 Jul 92 21:42:34 GMT
Organization: Mississippi Center for Supercomputing Research



I am trying to write a real synthesizer-type program for the ST.
I can build a wavetable, which consists of amplitudes, which then
is supposed to be sent to the sound chip and played, producing a
clear tone.  Unfortunately, nothing seems to work.

I really need sources to a program which can play digitized sound
and the format of the files it sucks up.  I can then tweak that
into being a backend for the wavetable generator, and presto! a
synthesizer.  If I implemented MIDI in as a third step, I'd have
a MIDI-capable sampling synthesizer.  After this, I could get a real
job in a field I'd love to work in.

Thanks in advance....
-- 
Tony Reynolds            Have you hugged      cctony@sun1.mcsr.olemiss.edu
Cray Network Intern    your Washburn today?                  (601)232-7206
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
From: mike@r-node.gts.org (Mike Stramba)
Subject: HERMES
Organization: R-node Public Access UNIX System (416-636-2026) 24hrs.
Date: Fri, 24 Jul 1992 09:06:38 GMT

Is anyone here running hermes ?

When I start up gus.prg, then choose send mail or post news I get prompted
for the header info, then mmail starts up and nothing happens after.

When /how do I put the content of the article/ mail in?

How do I actually send / receive to a site?

Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
From: BWWL@ibm.rz.tu-clausthal.de (Wolfgang Ley)
Subject: Re: HELP: CrackArt
Organization: Rechenzentrum der TU CLAUSTHAL
Date: Tue, 28 Jul 1992 11:19:14 GMT

In article <1992Jul27.190323.26339@cactus.org>
ortega@cactus.org (Paul Ortega) writes:
 
>I've got the program, I've got the translation of the docs
>(thanks to someone in New Zealand, I think), and I managed to
>squeeze it into my puny 1-meg 1040.
>
>Does anyone know how to use the CRACK FILE (F5) and
>CRACK DISK (F6) functions?
>
>The documentation doesn't say much other than the
>functions are used to search through files and disks
>looking for graphic data and palettes.
>
>I've loaded a .PRG file hoping to be able to find
>the graphics info in there, but have had no luck.
>
>--
 
Hi!
 
First of all: i can't help you on that problem because i am not using
CrackArt - but the facility to grab pictures out of other programs are
one of the things giving CrackArt his name.... There exists another
package to "steal" those graphics much more effective (no problem to find
even well hidden and packed graphics). These tools are NOT released as
public-domain/shareware! Please contact the authors of CrackArt for
further ionformation.
The authors of crackart have currently no internet access. You may contact
them directly via normal mail (or phone). The adresses are included in the
docs.
Because they haven't seen even a penny for their program, they are not much
interested in supporting shareware anymore...  :-((
A lot of people have asked questions about CRACKART, but it seems nobody
is able to offer a few dollars for it... (perhaps YOU - just reading this -
might change this)
Both of them are programming on PCs now (commercial).
 
If you are not able to contact the authors, you can drop me a note. I will
forward them to Roy (but it may take some time - so please be patient).
 
Bye,
  Wolfgang.
---------------------------------------------------------------------------
       Wolfgang Ley                               e-mail:
       Teichstrasse 9
W-3392 Clausthal-Zellerfeld                     BWWL@ibm.rz.tu-clausthal.de
       (Germany)                            or  BWWL@sun.rz.tu-clausthal.de
       Phone: +49 5323 82132 (voice)        or  Ley@rz.tu-clausthal.de
---------------------------------------------------------------------------
From: sun1.mcsr.olemiss.e!cctony@overmind.mind.org
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: ST waveform synthesis
Date: 23 Jul 92 01:42:00 GMT
Organization: Mississippi Center for Supercomputing Research
X-mailer: Stadel 3.4a-227
X-Spam-content: irrelevant



I am trying to write a real synthesizer-type program for the ST.
I can build a wavetable, which consists of amplitudes, which then
is supposed to be sent to the sound chip and played, producing a
clear tone.  Unfortunately, nothing seems to work.

I really need sources to a program which can play digitized sound
and the format of the files it sucks up.  I can then tweak that
into being a backend for the wavetable generator, and presto! a
synthesizer.  If I implemented MIDI in as a third step, I'd have
a MIDI-capable sampling synthesizer.  After this, I could get a real
job in a field I'd love to work in.

Thanks in advance....
-- 
Tony Reynolds            Have you hugged      cctony@sun1.mcsr.olemiss.edu
Cray Network Intern    your Washburn today?                  (601)232-7206
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
From: patf@silvlis.com (Pat Fitzgibbons)
Subject: Desktop Publishing Software for the Atari ST
Organization: Silvar-Lisco
Distribution: usa
Date: Mon, 27 Jul 1992 23:54:55 GMT



I have the following items for sale  for the Atari ST :

   CALAMUS             - desktop publishing program     $90

   CALAMUS Outline Art - allows you to draw pictures    $85
                         for CALAMUS

   CALAMUS font editor - Allows you to create and edit  $45
                         fonts.


These items CAN be re-registered to the new owner.
--
 O O O  Patrick Fitzgibbons   /\            |         These are my opinions.
  \ /    patf@silvlis.com    /--\  Sunnyvale ) --     Any agreement with my 
   X                      /\/    \   CA     |         company is purely     
  / \        in          /  \     \                   coincidental.
From: wrighttj@uhura.aston.ac.uk (Auntie Tim)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: PD Hard Drive Backup?
Date: 21 Jul 92 12:40:28 GMT
Organization: Aston University

Hello there! Since I'm about to receive my first ST Hard drive (it's in a
tower case with a 4 Meg ST :)) I'm going to need some kind of hard drive 
backup program. I can't really afford to buy one, but there appears to be
a plethora of Public Domain stuff around, so to save me trying them out,
could people mail me telling me which they think is best and why? I'll
post a summary to the net when I get the info. Thank in anticipation...


Tim Wright.
wrighttj@cs.aston.ac.uk
-- 
Tim Wright.
wrighttj@cs.aston.ac.uk
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
From: dud@hardy.u.washington.edu (Daniel Aylward)
Subject: Re: Atari marketing & the Falcon
Organization: University of Washington
Date: Thu, 30 Jul 1992 16:42:56 GMT

selick@csa.bu.edu (Steven Selick) writes:


>I just had an interesting idea. Now that we're all done chastising Atari
>for not advertising their products properly, why don't we, the members
>of comp.sys.atari.st, and for that matter, the entire Atari community,
>advertise for Atari? What I am saying is: Get out your favorite DTP
>program and your Atari SLM's, and go out there and advertise! Go post
>your advertisements on your local bulletin boards (physical ones, not
>electronic ones!) 

>Ok. Here's another idea...

>Why don't we all pool our money and get, say, $15,000 and give it to
>Atari to take out an ad in TIME, or Business Week, or something like
>that? Maybe that would get the ball rolling? We have to be
>innovative...we own Atari's!

>-Steve <selick@csa.bu.edu>

I couldn't agree more.  The main problem is getting people organized...  I
certainly wouldn't mind donating a few bucks, if a fund is set up & I know
it'll be put to good use.

Hmmm...  anyone know of any other company that leaves it up to their
customers to advertise? 

Dan Aylward
dud@u.washington.edu
From: ekrimen@wet.UUCP (Ed Krimen)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: Atari Something (?) Magazine
Keywords: Atari, Advantage, magazine, ST Informer
Date: 24 Jul 92 16:33:37 GMT
Distribution: usa
Organization: Wetware Diversions, San Francisco

In article <1992Jul23.143309.3388@digi.lonestar.org> rgoseweh@digi.lonestar.org (Roy Gosewehr) writes:
>
>I have also been having a subscription problem with Atari Explorer and
>it *appears* that ST Connection is no longer in production. (I received
>two issues out my six-issue subscription.)  After all of my problems get
>sorted out, I think I am going to do myself a favor and subscribe to AIM
>(Atari Interface Magazine).  I buy it on the newstand now and I think
>that Bill and Pattie Rayl deserve our support.  (Incidently, IMHO the
>sharpest AIM cover that I have seen was the DTP issue with the tan brick
>background.  Very catchy!)

I've been strongly considering an AIM subscription as well.  I'm on my 
last issue of Current Notes and I don't think I'm going to renew it.  Dave 
Troy's articles are the only good, consistent ones in there.  The rest is
filled with rumors and incomplete reviews, although Joe's OCR review was
pretty good, but they are few and far between.  It doesn't deserve $27
per year in my opinion.  I've heard good words about AIM, so I'll give them
a try next.

I believe there was a mention on GEnie from the publisher of ST Connection
that he was having some job-related problems and that's why there hadn't
been any issues out.  

-- 
   |||    Ed Krimen
   |||    ekrimen@wet.com or ekrimen@wet.UUCP or hoptoad!wet!ekrimen
  / | \   E.KRIMEN (GEnie)
From: MEBEB@LIVERPOOL.AC.UK
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: ST Format Fire and Ice demo difficulty
Date: 22 Jul 92 10:30:01 GMT
Organization: University of Liverpool

To be fair, I guess that many of the people who write these programs aren't
aware that the US has a different video setup. Restricting things on that basis
isn't really realistic for what is essentially a british magazine, the reverse
of course being true as well. To be honest, if you've got access to the net,
you can probably get much better software than what's appearing on these cover
disks, anyway. As for the magazines themselves waking up, I wouldn't hold your
breath - the only decent UK magazine at the moment is ST Applications.

Kev
-----
Kevin O'Donovan          | D'you wear a black armband when they shot the man
kebab@uk.co.compulink.cix| who said 'Peace could last forever', and in my
mebeb@uk.ac.liv.uxa      | first memories they shot Kennedy, I went numb
                         | when I learned to see...
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
From: 7103_2622@uwovax.uwo.ca (Eric Smith)
Subject: Re: atari/new at atari.archive
Organization: University of Western Ont, London
Date: Fri, 31 Jul 1992 14:49:09 GMT

In article <DSTAILEY.92Jul30215538@leidecker.gsfc.nasa.gov>, dstailey@leidecker.gsfc.nasa.gov (Douglas Stailey) writes:
> Thanks for the clue, I was looking for this.  Since the archive is not
> updated during the Summer, a number of interesting MiNT-related
> programs seem to have found there way into atari/new.  Can anyone list
> the names of these programs, since without knowing the names, you
> can't retrieve them.

> For all I know, there's a new version of MiNT out there :-)

No, not a new version of MiNT (yet), but there is a new version of tcsh;
try atari/new/tcsh.zoo.

--
Eric R. Smith                     email:
Dept. of Mathematics            eric.smith@uwo.ca
University of Western Ontario
From: wrighttj@uhura.aston.ac.uk (Auntie Tim)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Disappearing Floppies
Date: 27 Jul 92 12:50:40 GMT
Organization: Aston University

Hello again. When I boot up my system for the first time, the floppy
drives aren't recognised. I bought the system from a friend, and he
says it's because the machine boots from hard drive and doesn't get
around to checking for floppies - if I reset they appear fine, or if
I change the number of installed drives using Control Panel++ then
there's no problem. So this isn't a catastrophe, just a minor
inconvenience. The thing is, when I bought this ST it had a program
in the AUTO folder called 'TWODRIVE.PRG' which told the ST there 
were two drives attached, but I accidentally lost it. The program 
was actually written by my friend, and he's lost the source, so I 
can't get another copy, but if this is a common problem then there
must be something similar around in PD. Can anyone help?


-- 
Tim Wright.
wrighttj@cs.aston.ac.uk
From: wrighttj@uhura.aston.ac.uk (Auntie Tim)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Sagrotan docs in English?
Date: 29 Jul 92 13:00:42 GMT
Organization: Aston University

Hello there...
	I just got 'sagrotan' from atari.archive, but unfortunately it
doesn't seem to have any english language docs with it, just German,
which I'm afraid I can't understand at all... Does anyone have any
english docs for this, or should I just try to work it out anyway? 


-- 
Tim Wright.
wrighttj@cs.aston.ac.uk
From: grahamt@syma.sussex.ac.uk (Graham Thomas)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: SHIP program in AHDI?
Date: 27 Jul 92 13:23:05 GMT
Organization: University of Sussex

From article <4070@news.duke.edu>, by bigham@hercules.acpub.duke.edu:
> The documentation for both the AHDI disk that shipped with my Mega STe
> and the AHDI 5.00 package I recently grabbed from comp.binaries mention
> a program called SHIP.PRG whose purpose is to park the heads of all
> attached SCSI drives.  Neither actually has it.  Is this program
> available elsewhere, or is the documentation just zeebed?  [PS. I know I
> can do this from HDX, but SHIP sounds easier to use for this particular
> purpose.]

What you probably need is the slightly updated version of the program
called shipacc.prg.  This can be run either as a normal program or as a
desk accessory - just change the extension to .PRG or .ACC as required. 
(I have mine tied to a Neodesk keyboard macro so at the end of a session
I just press CTRL/Left-shift/P to park my disk, and I have a note on my
NeoDesktop to remind me of the keystroke combination, but that's by the
way.)

I'd be surprised if you couldn't find it at atari.archive, but until we
get a proper connection to the UK academic TCP/IP service it's just a
bit too complicated for me to check this out quickly for you.  Maybe
someone else could oblige?

Graham
From: amcalind@cs.strath.ac.uk (Anthony McAlinden IE91)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: PSU problems on a UK ST.
Date: 29 Jul 92 12:01:18 GMT
Distribution: uk
Organization: Comp. Sci. Dept., Strathclyde Univ., Glasgow, Scotland.
Originator: amcalind@hunter-08

Since this is the 'techie' newsgroup, I wonder if you can help me with a _very_
strange hardware problem I've been having.

My three year old STFM has had problems with the power switch freezing up
before, so I had started powering it up at the mains. Recently, though, a more
sinister problem has been happening. The computer is simply switching itself
off, at varying intervals. Sometimes it can be after three minutes, sometimes
after three hours!

It isn't a loose wire, since it can happen without it being touched. Since the
machine is well out of warranty I opened it up last month to have a look. The
PSU board looked pretty complicated, so I left it well alone. And funnily
enough, the machine worked fine - for about a week.

Now its up to its old tricks. I've seen adverts with new PSU boards costing
over 50 pounds - which I wouldn't consider investing in a machine which I'm
going to replace in the pretty near future.

So, is there a quick fix for this problem. Or do I need a new PSU?

Could you send replies by mail as well - since I only get in once a week, and
they've usually cropped the messages by the time I read them.

Thanks in advance.

				Tony

PS. This is a UK market, 240 volt ST.
From: v5914ane@ubvmsd.cc.buffalo.edu (Steve)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: 520st forsale
Keywords: forsale, atari 520st
Date: 29 Jul 92 18:03:00 GMT
Organization: University at Buffalo
News-Software: VAX/VMS VNEWS 1.41


Forsale:
	atari 520st
	sc1224 color monitor
	sf354 ss/dd floppy
	epson lx80 printer
	about 20 disks of software
			-$275 or best offer (+ shipping)

v5914ane@ubvms.cc.buffalo.edu
sig@acsu.buffalo.edu