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From: afonseca@terapin.com (Alberto Fonseca)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Falcon 030 Monitors/resolutions/colors/cards?
Date: 1 Jan 93 01:24:53 PST
Organization: BBS

Hi everyone.. I have a couple of questions about the Falcon 030 and the use of
monitors for it..

I read that it was compatible with all VGA montiors, as well as the ATARI
monitors and TV's, etc.. What I wanted to know is if it makes a difference, or
how the computer reacts to larger monitors, or different resolution monitors.. 
Like a Multisync 5D, or a 19" monitor in color.

Does the size of the monitor change the amount of colors?  Does the computer
automatically adapt to the reslotuion of a big screen monitor?  I am talking
about true color mode.

In true color mode, does this mean the bigger the monitor the more colors?  If
not, what is the limit of colors/pallete?  And are they developing any cards to
use with the Falcon for 24 bit color or 32 bit color?  Can the Falcon use a
card to give it 16.7 Million colors on a 14' monitor?

When buying a Falcon 030, does bigger mean better?  The Falcon Screenblaster
card, is 800x600 I think, but how many colors..

I think they should make like a 1280x1280 16.7 million color card.. or
something real high rez in order to compete or out-do the graphics on other
platforms.

Thanks,

Alberto
afonseca@terapin.com
From: jmcrmack@unix2.tcd.ie (Sean McCormack)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: Picture formats
Keywords: spc, spu, pictures
Date: 26 Dec 92 04:57:05 GMT
Organization: Trinity College, Dublin

In <H.ea.3KzJWZhYw1A@yonder.equinox.gen.nz> craig@yonder.equinox.gen.nz (Craig Shore) writes:


>Spectrum 512 is a commercial package, not PD , but however,
> there are some public domain viewers around.

Got it free with some ST mag a while ago:-) 

Probably St user or Review (Don't ever say ST ((((Arrgggh!)))))) Format.
:::::^^>>>


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Sean.
From: hyc@hanauma.jpl.nasa.gov (Howard Chu)
Subject: Re: Second floppy on Falcon
Organization: SAR Systems Development & Processing, JPL
Date: Mon, 21 Dec 1992 23:48:28 GMT

In article <72073@cup.portal.com> Bob_BobR_Retelle@cup.portal.com writes:
>Peter Missel writes:
>j> WHAT??? NO EXTERNAL FLOPPY????
>>Why not connect a Floptical to the SCSI-2 port? Try this on the Amiga 1200..
> 
>How about $300 as a reason..?
>
>Given a retail price of $799 for the entire Falcon, do you really think
>it's reasonable to tell people to expect to pay more than 40% of the
>cost of the computer to just add a floppy disk drive..?
>
>How do you explain to someone who would like to add a $42 floppy drive
>that it's going to take a Floptial 21 Meg drive to accomplish what they
>want to do..?

Dunno. Kind of the same as trying to explain why I had to spend $150 for
a 5-1/4" floppy drive for my $79 Atari 800XL way back in 1985. I did it,
nonetheless, and I wasn't the only one in the world to do it...
-- 
  -- Howard Chu @ Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA

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Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
From: ansga01@mailserv.zdv.uni-tuebingen.de (Thomas Gaiser)
Subject: Re: Help me with Carrier Command!
Organization: Comp. Center (ZDV) U of Tuebingen, FRG
Date: Mon, 21 Dec 1992 09:11:02 GMT

I played Carrier Command a few years ago, so I can't remember all the 
details. But: The standard way of freeing an island is to look for
the command bunker on the radar screen ( a white dot ?), getting the 
_back_ of the carrier as close as possible to this shore, firing the
viewing drone, and because it flies "backwards" you should be able to
spot the bunker and destroy it. Besides the strange behavior of the 
enemy carrier it's really a great game!
 
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From: leonp@cs.kun.nl (Leon Pillich)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: First Word + To Word Perfect?
Keywords: Text file translation, 1wp, wp, conversion
Date: 3 Jan 93 14:48:32 GMT
Organization: University of Nijmegen, The Netherlands

Hello everybody,

I need as soon as possible a conversion program to convert
First Word Plus files to Word Perfect files.
I think that there is a utilitie to do this, but where can I find it
and what's its name/
This is really important for me!

Can anybody help me?


Leon Pillich
University of Nijmegen, Holland
email: leonp@cs.kun.nl
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
From: gregs@eskimo.com (Greg Sumner)
Subject: Re: Photochrome problem (was Re: GIF/RAW/RCS/SPC ETC.
Organization: -> ESKIMO NORTH (206) For-Ever <-
Date: Mon, 28 Dec 1992 20:19:05 GMT

dave@admiral.uucp (Dave Litchman) writes:

>I snagged a copy of Pchrome 3.0 from a.a, and tried it out on my old 1040 ST
>(no e). Worked just fine, great in fact, even better than my old viewer, 
>DigiSpec (and to think, I paid $50 for DigiSpec).

>What's the deal? I can accept that it didn't do it in IFF format, the docs
>say it doesn't handle every one, but it's supposed to do Targa files, isn't
>it? I mean, the option is there on the screen!

Well, I had a GIF that Pchrome 3.0 would not load, so I converted it to
a Targa file.  Pchrome loaded it perfectly.  I would say the problem was
with your conversion, or that you have discovered a new bug in the
program.  (At least that I didn't know about.)  It seems to have trouble
with certain images for reasons nobody understands.  Guess it applies to
the Targa pictures too.

-- 
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Yoyodyne Propulsion Systems, Inc.
Seattle, Wa.
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
From: "dave tomesch" <dave.tomesch@canrem.com>
Subject: dont listen to this guy
Reply-To: "dave tomesch" <dave.tomesch@canrem.com>
Organization: Canada Remote Systems
Distribution: comp
Date: 30 Dec 92 14:08:53 EST


 Dont bother listening to this guy, he is part of a group that calls
themselves the Evil force in the area. The group has over 1000 CDs or
pirated software and he wants to know how to hook up Usenet to some of
the pirate bbses? Figure that out? Also giving flames of Atari personel
while you hand out copies of Ultima 6 doesnt seem quite right! I think
if you had any morals you would stop bothering this base and go back to
your Fnet message bases.

 Dont you hate when users put up a false front for their own means. Oh
yeah if you call this slander, all i would have to do is call in several
witnesses and I think you would lose right away. STOP PIRATING then
maybe someone will listen to you.

 Dave
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
From: jcochran@nyx.cs.du.edu (Jim Cochrane)
Subject: ICD Fast Tape Backup unit For Sale
Organization: Nyx, Public Access Unix @ U. of Denver Math/CS dept.
Distribution: usa
Date: Wed, 23 Dec 92 02:38:47 GMT

I apologize if this is the wrong newsgroup for a for sale post
(and if so, I'd appreciate email as to an appropriate group for this).

ICD Fast Tape Backup unit for the Atari St.  Purchased in 1989 for
around $800.  The unit works fine and is in good condition.  I haven't
used it for about a year and a half or more -- since my hard drive died
(my main machine is now a 80486).  30-day money back guarantee.  $200.

If interested, you can email me at:
jcochran@nyx.cs.du.edu

or call me at:
303-449-3315

Jim Cochrane

In case anyone is interested, some of the specs. from the manual
are listed below:

typical transfer rate:		6.5 MB/min.
average time for 155 Mb backup:	less than 23 min.
recording format:		17 track serpentine
formatted capacity:		155.7 Mb per tape
write verify:			full read after write and ecc
retries:			write up to 15, read up to 16
tape speed:			90 ips (288.6 cm/sec)
maximum rewind time:		80 seconds (approx.)
MTBF:				10,000 POH
magnetic tape:			ICD CT-600XLN, TEAC
				CT-600N, Maxell
				CS-600XDN or equivalent
From: molin@ptb.cl.msu.edu (Michael Olin)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: A letter to Dave Baggett
Date: 1 Jan 93 14:38:41 GMT
Organization: Michigan State University
NNTP-Posting-Host: ptb.cl.msu.edu

<SML108@psuvm.psu.edu> writes:

>And right here in America, US $899 will buy you a 20Mhz 486SX, 2 MB memory
>SVGA monitor, 85 MByte hard drive

Give me a break!  Only the truly stupid would consider buying a machine
made up of components that could be sold at that price...

Ahhh....we are talking about DOS-heads, tho, aren't we?

>Today's magic atari password is "tick, tick, tick..."

The best laid plans of mice and tramiels...
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From: kosmatoo@JSP.UMontreal.CA (Kosmatos Odisseas)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: Falcon030, resolutions, TRUE color, and DSP
Summary: You agree Falcon is superior
Date: 21 Dec 92 16:53:53 GMT
Organization: Universite de Montreal

In article <1h3u6fINNc00@golem.wcc.govt.nz> sheppard_r@kosmos.wcc.govt.nz writes:
>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.
>
>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..??

So you agree that the PC setup described falls short of being complete
or having any performance. That's the ticket.

>Roger................        sheppard_r@kosmos.wcc.govt.nz
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From: sheppard_r@kosmos.wcc.govt.nz
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Telnet to TU-BERLIN.DE
Date: 28 Dec 1992 01:14:37 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 as we have lost our FTP option on this site, to many
14 year olds getting loads of software each day, it was costing
the council to much, Note: this was a free service, but we could
get it back later next year, but with restrictions..

We still have free E-Mail and Telneting..

So is it possible to Telnet to any Internet site and get software
down..??   like tu-berlin.de...

I have tried to get onto there but it looks like I need a login,
how do I get one..??


Thanks..!

Roger.............             sheppard_r@kosmos.wcc.govt.nz
From: d90gth@pyton.csd.uu.se (Gunnar Thalin)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: Photochrome problem (was Re: GIF/RAW/RCS/SPC ETC.
Date: 26 Dec 92 13:48:20 GMT
	<1h554sINNge3@golem.wcc.govt.nz> <1992Dec24.070949.27227@admiral.uucp>
Organization: Dept. of Computer Systems, Uppsala University, Sweden.
NNTP-Posting-Host: pyton.csd.uu.se
In-reply-to: dave@admiral.uucp's message of 24 Dec 92 07:09:49 GMT


   I snagged a copy of Pchrome 3.0 from a.a, and tried it out on my old 1040 ST
   (no e). Worked just fine, great in fact, even better than my old viewer, 
   DigiSpec (and to think, I paid $50 for DigiSpec).

   But I wanted to see the 32k color mode. So, I trekked down to my "local" dealer
   (about 30-40 miles away) since he has an STe, plus he carries 'Migas, so I
   figured, great chance for a head to head comparison...

   Unfortunately, all I had in terms of pictures were old 256 color GIFs. Well,
   no problem, there was a 24 bit IFF on the 3000 they had set up. So, I got the
   salesguy to transfer it to a DOS-format disk, and I loaded it up. No go. It
   would display just a bunch o' garbage on the screen. So, I figure "Ok, it
   can only handle MOST IFF's, I guess not 24-bit ones...".

   So, we go back to the 3000, and convert the pic, via ADPro, into Targa format.
   This, I KNOW Pchrome can display. So, back to the STe,and load up. Still
   no dice. More garbage on the screen. Well, by now, the store was closing, so
   I had to leave.

   What's the deal? I can accept that it didn't do it in IFF format, the docs
   say it doesn't handle every one, but it's supposed to do Targa files, isn't
   it? I mean, the option is there on the screen!

   The machine I tried this on was a Mega4STe, in 8 Mhz mode. I tried it in
   16 Mhz-buffered mode, but it wouldn't even display GIFs at that speed, not
   surprisingly.

I know Pchrome seems to have a few minor(?) bugs. One is that it doesn't
seem to handle Targa files bigger than 320x200, equal or less than this
works fine on my STe though.
(To fix this and the fact that you can't look at a
 complete Gif bigger than 320x200 without loosing aspect, I wrote a
 simple rescaling-program for Targas and Gifs of any size into a Targa
 of any size. Anybody wants it? Email me.)

/Gunnar Thalin    Email: d90gth@csd.uu.se
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
From: martini@heaven7.in-berlin.de (Martin P. Ibert)
Subject: Re: SCSI Floppy Drives
Date: Mon, 21 Dec 1992 23:20:26 GMT
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1
Mime-Version: 1.0
Organization: The Seventh Heaven, Berlin, Germany

dcable@nyx.cs.du.edu (Dan Cable) writes:
> I realize that
> this drive is not really a floppy drive, but it is SCSI and it does read
> and write them so what's the difference?

Maybe that it is removable, and needs re-reading once in a while?
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
From: dave@admiral.uucp (Dave Litchman)
Subject: Photochrome problem (was Re: GIF/RAW/RCS/SPC ETC.
Organization: The Admiral's Unix System & The Grid BBS
Date: Thu, 24 Dec 1992 07:09:49 GMT

I snagged a copy of Pchrome 3.0 from a.a, and tried it out on my old 1040 ST
(no e). Worked just fine, great in fact, even better than my old viewer, 
DigiSpec (and to think, I paid $50 for DigiSpec).

But I wanted to see the 32k color mode. So, I trekked down to my "local" dealer
(about 30-40 miles away) since he has an STe, plus he carries 'Migas, so I
figured, great chance for a head to head comparison...

Unfortunately, all I had in terms of pictures were old 256 color GIFs. Well,
no problem, there was a 24 bit IFF on the 3000 they had set up. So, I got the
salesguy to transfer it to a DOS-format disk, and I loaded it up. No go. It
would display just a bunch o' garbage on the screen. So, I figure "Ok, it
can only handle MOST IFF's, I guess not 24-bit ones...".

So, we go back to the 3000, and convert the pic, via ADPro, into Targa format.
This, I KNOW Pchrome can display. So, back to the STe,and load up. Still
no dice. More garbage on the screen. Well, by now, the store was closing, so
I had to leave.

What's the deal? I can accept that it didn't do it in IFF format, the docs
say it doesn't handle every one, but it's supposed to do Targa files, isn't
it? I mean, the option is there on the screen!

The machine I tried this on was a Mega4STe, in 8 Mhz mode. I tried it in
16 Mhz-buffered mode, but it wouldn't even display GIFs at that speed, not
surprisingly.


-- 
"Dammit Jim, I'm a free man, not a number!"
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From: Bob_BobR_Retelle@cup.portal.com
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: Big bad BobR
Date: Wed, 23 Dec 92 00:32:42 PST
Organization: The Portal System (TM)

Scott, the realization that NO one is going to change anything
about Atari hit some time ago..  most of what you see is more
along the lines of trying to correct misconceptions or
misrepresentations.. (ie:inexpensive PC motherboards are usually
sold without CPUs)
 
Then again, it's fun to poke some people in the eye with their
ignorance to watch them jump.
 
Incidentally, (not to start any flame-wars.. please!), a lot
of those "European demo writers" have moved on to the PC
platform.  They're doing sound and graphics which used to be
exclusively the domain of the ST and Amiga.  You could disguise
the monitor and not be able to tell them from the ST demos of
years past.

BobR
From: cordes@ac.dal.ca (John Cordes)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: Jacal1a0 symbolic math program
Keywords: jacal,st,post
Date: 28 Dec 92 15:01:00 GMT
Organization: Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada

In article <1992Dec27.063232.21086@klic.rain.com>, dont@klic.rain.com (Don taylor) writes:
> If someone compiles the Scheme interpreter and gets the Jacal1a0 symbolic
> math program working on an ST I would greatly appreciate a copy.
> 
> It would be terrific if it would fit in 512k but if 1024 is needed I can
> probably handle that too.
> 
> It was announced that it was available via ftp from
> 
> altdorf.ai.mit.edu:archive/scm/jacal1a0.tar.Z
> 
> with the scheme interpreter in
> 
> altdorf.ai.mit.edu:archive/scm/scm4a15.tar.Z
> 
> and library in
> 
> altdorf.ai.mit.edu:archive/scm/slib1c3.tar.Z
> 
> Please reply by email if possible
> 
> Thanks
> dont@pdaxs.techbook.com

Please also post any info about this. Thanks!
From: carsten@seki.toppoint.de (Carsten Setje-Eilers)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: the "real" Gemulator 2.0 features
Distribution: world
Date: 29 Dec 92 18:07:42 GMT
Organization: atari-uucp, Kiel (FRG)

darekm@microsoft.com (Darek Mihocka) writes:
> - full speed ST emulation on a 25 Mhz 486SX (formerly required a 33 Mhz 486DX)
> - emulation on a 386/33 is 2/3 the speed of an ST
> - emulation on a 486/50 or 486/66 is over 2 times the speed of an ST
[...]

Is it possible to run Gemulator on a PC-Notebook ? That would be really great!


--
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uucp:carsten@seki.toppoint.de     zer:carsten@kbbs
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: KnifeST
From: sheppard_r@kosmos.wcc.govt.nz
Date: 29 Dec 1992 06:58:01 GMT
Reply-To: sheppard_r@kosmos.wcc.govt.nz
Organization: Wellington City Council (Public Access), Wgtn, Nz
NNTP-Posting-Host: kosmos.wcc.govt.nz

Some mentioned that a Magazine had KnifeST on it,
 can you Please restate witch one...??

I do have a real copy of KnifeST but its version 1.07..

I do hope that the later version has fixed the limitations
that I have found with it...

No Insert or Delete in the edit buffer, also Backspace and delete keys not
used..

Unable to print a page of the FAT table, you must print the lot..!!

Does not show cluster links for Directories, only files..


Does any one know if these faults have been fixed...??

I did write to HiSoft about the buffer problem, soon after I had brought
the software, but there reply was more or less they were not interested,
not what I would call good customer support..



Roger..............            sheppard_r@kosmos.wcc.govt.nz

Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
From: itschere@techfak.uni-bielefeld.de (Torsten Scherer)
Subject: Re: 1.44M floppy on Mega STE
Date: Tue, 22 Dec 1992 13:15:26 GMT
Organization: Universitaet Bielefeld, Technische Fakultaet.

In article <...>, gt1448b@prism.gatech.EDU (David P. Forrai) writes:

|> (...) So my questions are:
|> 1) Is the WD1772 reliable for 1.44M disks?
|> 2) Does TOS 2.05 know how to format 1.44M disks?
|> 3) If the desktop does not know how to format 1.44M disks, can the
|>    XBIOS format routine in TOS 2.05 format 1.44M disks?
|> 4) I know there is a DIP switch somewhere that has something to do
|>    with 1.44M floppies.  What does it do?

1) dunno
2) yep, see 3 & 4
3) yep, I'm using one of these HD-Modules and it works, just having some
   problems with the drive itself...
4) it's dip switch #7 (?!) and if it's turned on there's a box "high-density"
   in the desktop format utility

TeSche
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
From: jhelling@cs.ruu.nl (Jeroen Hellingman)
Subject: Re: Licence Transfers... who gives a damn?
Date: Mon, 21 Dec 1992 11:43:46 GMT
Organization: Utrecht University, Dept. of Computer Science

>Er.. don't know.  I'd have thought they'd be treated the same though,
>you're not supposed to resell anything copyrighted without permission from
>the holder, but as always, private deals are an exception.

The act copyright sanctions is copying. You may sell your copy to anyone you
want and that is fully legal. No license applies unless you have actually
signed something -- a contract with the supplier. Don't be intimidated by all
kind of conditions on the package. They are void, unless they state what
copyright law says, and in that case they are redundant.

Jeroen


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