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Subject: Why no floppy port on the Falcon??
From: dtarico@violet.ccit.arizona.edu
Date: 9 Sep 92 22:21:35 MST
Distribution: world,local
Nntp-Posting-User: dtarico

Can anybody give a good reason why the Falcon would not have an external
floppy drive port?  If not, I think it is really stupid that they left it
off.  They immediately make the Spectre GCR (in it's current form) 
incompatible by doing so.  I also have an external HD drive that I would
like to be able to use.  Unless there is some good reason for leaving off
the floppy drive port, I think this was a pretty stupid move.  It seems
like a simple option to include.  Hasn't it been included in all previous
ST(e) and TT models?  
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From: csullogg@cc4.crl.aecl.ca
Subject: Looking for Bob Brodie
Organization: AECL RESEARCH
Date: Fri, 11 Sep 1992 12:49:46 GMT

Bob:

Over the last few weeks, I have FAXed Atari USA three or four times and
have called four times asking when Atari USA will begin shipping product
to Canadian dealers and how service will be provided. I have yet to obtain
any answer.

Could you let me know the answers. You can reply via the net or by FAX
at (613) 584-2852.

Thanks in advance, Greg Csullog
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From: bgilbert@cs.washington.edu (Benjamin Gilbert)
Subject: Re: Mono software on a Falcon? 
Summary: I don't see why not...
Keywords: mono falcon
Organization: Computer Science & Engineering, U. of Washington, Seattle
Date: Fri, 11 Sep 92 20:40:41 GMT

In article <1992Sep11.161056.21155@a.cs.okstate.edu> cummins@a.cs.okstate.edu (CUMMINS JOHN WILLI) writes:
>Just out of curiosity...
>I found hi-rez mode essential for stuff like {uw, mgr, uniterm(tek mode),etc.},
>and since the Falcon's "true color" mode is of the same order... I'm inclined
>to call it high resolution (from a many year atari user, just now experiencing
>800x600 on a PC).
>Can one run UW on a Falcon with a color monitor?  Must it be a VGA monitor?(Do
>I still need my monitor master and mono????)
>
>jc
>

If you have a VGA monitor for the Falcon (you know, the one that plugs right
into the port on the back :) then you can use ALL of the Falcon's display
modes on the same monitor.  This includes the 320x240, 320x480,640x240,
640x480, whatever all those modes are (I think there are like 16 modes or
something).  In addition, you can do all the normal ST modes (320x200,
640x200, 640x400) with no problems whatsoever.  So, yes you can run both
monochrome and color ST/STe software on a Falcon with one monitor (if it's
a VGA monitor).

Also, if you have such a VGA monitor, you'll get all the hi-res modes (like
640x480) non-interlaced -- if you have a TV or SC1224/SC1435/whatever, you'll
get those modes interlaced.  However, I think with a VGA monitor you lose
one of the true-color modes because common VGA monitors can't handle the
bandwidth or some such thing (please don't ask me to expand, I'm just
repeating what I heard before...  :-)

Good luck!


Ben Gilbert
bgilbert@cs.washington.edu
From: dud@hardy.u.washington.edu (Daniel Aylward)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: PowerDOS Freeware?
Date: 10 Sep 92 18:49:03 GMT
Article-I.D.: u.1992Sep10.184903.8603
Organization: University of Washington

I read in the last AEO that PowerDOS is now freeware.  Does anyone know
where I can get it?  I assume it's up on GEnie...  I don't have an account
there.

Thanks,

Dan Aywlward
dud@u.washington.edu
From: mforget@ersys.edmonton.ab.ca (Michel Forget)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: PowerDOS Freeware?
Date: Fri, 11 Sep 92 22:23:10 MDT
Organization: Edmonton Remote Systems #3, Edmonton, AB, Canada

aa384@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Doug Wokoun) writes:

-
- In a previous article, jhenders@jonh.wimsey.bc.ca (John Henders) says:

- >     As a general warning, several people around here who have tried
- >this program have reported scrambled partitions and other hard
- >drive problems. If you do try using it, you'd be wise to back
- >yp your hard drive first.
-
-       Oh, really?  Yuck.  I tried installing that and ran the DOSTESTR
- program which creates and deletes a bunch of files and screwed up a few
- directories badly.  I thought it was the test program, which crashed.
-
-       I didn't notice the promised tremendous speed gain, but...who
- knows.  It certainly won't compete with MiNT.
-
- --
-          Doug Wokoun          |"The use of Fashions in thought is to distract
- (aa384@cleveland.Freenet.Edu) | the attention of men from their real dangers.
-            - - -              |
-         Atari S I G           |                               -C.S. Lewis

I also tried this program.  I did notice a great speed improvement, but I also
found that the call to set the date was not spectacularly compatible.  A
date-setting program (that uses completely legal, straight-forward calls)
simply would not work after installing PowerDos.  Now that I hear about the
problems with trashed partitions, I'm not exactly eager to use the program
again.  The program had great promise as a speed-improvement for GEM, though.
As for the MultiTasking, it didn't seem like much of an improvement over the
regular way things are.

<<  ------------------------------------------  >>
<<        mforget@ersys.edmonton.ab.ca          >>
<<  ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~  >>
<<               Michel Forget                  >>
<<   The Key:  Spirit over mind over matter.    >>
<<  ------------------------------------------  >>
From: warwick@cs.uq.oz.au (Warwick Allison)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: Is Falcon worth buying????
Date: 14 Sep 92 00:41:44 GMT
Reply-To: warwick@cs.uq.oz.au

carter@cae.wisc.edu (Carter Gregory) writes:

>   Mr. Kovarski has the right to post anything he wants, no exceptions.

Damn.  I thought I had my kill file configured to ignore "Gregory Carter"
(and "Carter Gregory", which he changed to once everyone had entered him
into their kill file).  I guess the auto-select on "Falcon" must have
overridden the kill.  Time to edit the kill file again... might as well
add "Mark Kovarski" too, since he hasn't actually contributed anything
useful for as long as I've watched.


And, to make this post useful, I've just uploaded "COMBAT" to a.a - it's
a modern version of the old-old-olde 8-bit game.  Really neat sprites
(I think).  64 anti-aliased rotations!  Source-code soon.

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From: haegar@uni-paderborn.de (Thorsten Boehm)
Subject: Re: fontgdos problem
Organization: Uni-GH Paderborn
Distribution: ETH Zuerich
Date: Tue, 8 Sep 1992 13:31:53 GMT

jtreichl@iiic.ethz.ch (Juerg Treichler) writes:

>I have a problem with the fontgdos. probably i missed the discussion about
>the it.

>	1.	i installed the cpx modules and generated the assign.sys and
>      the extend.sys file. they seem to be correct.

>  2. put fontgdos.prg in the auto folder an boot.

>  3. i wrote a little test programm with a vst_load_font call for
>     the screen device. 
>     GDos error: not enough cache memory.
>     but i have set the cache sizes on 20,20,200 and no font is bigger
>     than 60kByte. 

>what's wrong.

I had the same error. It seems that fontgdos doesn't like fonts in 
motorola format. If it is about to load such a font, it gives this 
strange error. You should check which font is the 'bad one' (enable
only one font at a time and try to load it). If yuo found the offending
one, you can throw it away or load it in a GEM-fonteditor and save it
without any changes. This should convert the font to the propper
intel format.

  Thorsten
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From: Mark Kovarski <kovarski@zooid.guild.org>
Subject: Re: Is Falcon worth buying????
Organization: ZOOiD BBS
Date: Thu, 10 Sep 1992 04:10:27 GMT

You can configure ANYTHING in OS/2 2.0, including what you want to install.
My swap file doesn't exceed 2 MB. You must be joking when saying, "it feels
like a 8 mhz ST." Have you really tried it. I see NO speed decreases in OS/2
at all. As a matter of fact, I am running it on a 486/50 MHz DX with 16MB
RAM and ATI Graphics Ultra. It is as fast as a TT with NVDI loaded in. The
screen redraw functions are immediately displayed with no delay at all. On
slower machines it might be the case but not on mine. Also, it accesses the HD
since it always updates it. When you reboot it comes to same screen as you
worked last on. Does it access the HD? Yes, so does every OS. 

Is MultiTOS faster? MultiTOS is a FAR inferiour product and doesn't offer 20%
of all OS/2 functions. I have received some results that were performed with 
MultiTOS such as screen redraw routines, VDI functions etc. The results are
definetely slower. If MultiTOS sells nearly as many as OS/2 2.0 copies please
let me know...

Mark K.
From: svleest@jobim.crhc.uiuc.edu (Steve VanderLeest)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: PLEASE HELP:  GDB won't load my program
Date: 15 Sep 1992 18:46:49 GMT
Organization: Center for Reliable and High-Performance Computing, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Distribution: world
NNTP-Posting-Host: jobim.crhc.uiuc.edu
Keywords: GDB GCC Debugger

I am having problems getting gdb, the GNU debugger, to work. 
When I compile a program for debugging and then use sym-ld to
build the symbol table, all is fine.  I then run gdb.  I can use 
"info function" to list all the functions in my test file.  
HOWEVER, if I then try to run the program, it exits IMMEDIATELY, with 
the message:

	Program exitted with status = -32

This happens regardless of how simple or complex test.prg is.
What am I doing wrong?  I have noticed that if I use examine
to look at the program data, it reports everything is 0 (I use x/10d at 
multiple locations, and everywhere it is 0).  Is this because
gdb does not actually load the program until you command it to
"run", or is this part of my problem?  I have the following versions:

gdb 2.6  Patchlevel 18
gcc 1.40 Patchlevel 2
gcc-ld and sym-ld Patchlevel 27
gulam cli

I used the following command sequence:

>gcc -c -g -D__NO_IN_LINE__ test.c
>gcc -o test.ttp test.o
>sym_ld -r -o test.sym crt0.o test.o -l gnu
>gdb -e test.prg -s test.sym
*run


(where ">" is the gulam prompt, and "*" is the gdb prompt) and I 
get the error described above.  I have tried this with nothing else
but my hard disk driver, gulam, and gdb loaded (no ACCs, etc.) and 
it still bombs.

Any help would be greatly appreciated!

--
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			University of Illinois	
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of its own."  _Cat's Eye_




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From: sourada@iastate.edu (Steven D Ourada)
Subject: Radio Shack DMP 105 printer
Organization: Iowa State University, Ames IA
Date: Tue, 15 Sep 1992 02:56:22 GMT

Small question here: does anyone know of programs for the ST that can
handle the Radio Shack DMP 105 printer? (Stop laughing, it was cheap.)
I'd also like to know if it's compatible with anything else (apparently
it's not with Epson...)

                 Later,
                   Steven Ourada

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From: kjohnson@castor.cs.uga.edu (Kristopher Johnson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: Atari Conference at CIS 09/08
Date: 8 Sep 92 19:40:25 GMT
Organization: University of Georgia, Athens

In article <18hbokINN358@darkstar.UCSC.EDU> anamr@cats.ucsc.edu (Ana M Rodriguez) writes:
>
>
>Log into the Atari Conference 09/08/92 Tues.  Time: 8:30 Eastern
>
>1:30 GMT...
> 
>CIS is running 50% off reduction on time during this Conference.
> 
>Bill Rehbock, head of Falcon development shall be at the keyboard.
> 
>He will report on any technical elements about the Falcon!
> 
>See you there...

For those who may not know, Bill Rehbock will also be online GEnie
on Wednesday night (the 9th) at 10:00pm Eastern.
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From: tries@obelix.kph.uni-mainz.de (Volker Tries)
Subject: long filenames under MiNT95
Organization: Institut fuer Kernphysik, Uni Mainz
Date: Thu, 10 Sep 1992 11:38:09 GMT

Hi,

I've tried to install emacs-1857 on my ATARIST.
But when I tried to 'dumpemac' the temacs the dumping 
process was stopped, because it could not file
the lisp file paragraphs. I realized that this was 
because I have the standard TOS filenaming method
(i.e., 8+3 chars). Therefore I've tried to install the mfs055
package on one partition (part. g:\). Everything went well but I still cannot
write long filenames on this partition.

What I've done was:

1. MiNT 095 running.
2. minixfs 055 installed (booting phase of mint).
3. minit -P -V g:
4. --- booting ---
5. mfsconf g: -d b -x n

the last step was repeated 3 or 4 times with different options for 
allways the same partition.

Long filenames are still not useable for me on this partition.

Is anybody around who can help me. I need to have long filenames
on my disk (not only for emecs 1857 installation!).

Thaxs a lot

Volker             TRIES@OBELIX.KPH.UNI-MAINZ.DE
                   TRIES@SERVER.PHYSIK.UNI-GIESSEN.DE
From: sm86+@andrew.cmu.edu (Stefan Monnier)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: Thank you Darek for your support of th
Date: 4 Sep 92 16:36:25 GMT
Article-I.D.: andrew.oee049K00VIBMC7lN8
	<1992Sep4.203656.2672@newshost.lanl.gov>
Organization: Junior, Math/Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA


Poor Darek !

	Stefan Monnier

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Subject: Re: PERFPICH.TOS v1.1 posted to a.a
From: rlcollins@miavx1.acs.muohio.edu (Ryan 'Gozar' Collins)
Date: 10 Sep 92 05:55:46 -0500
Organization: Miami University Academic Computer Service"

In article <10219@uqcspe.cs.uq.oz.au>, warwick@cs.uq.oz.au (Warwick Allison) writes:
> In <laq50iINNa5e@aludra.usc.edu> baffoni@aludra.usc.edu (Juxtaposer) writes:
>>	Nearly every self-extracting archiver 
>>out there is one that was ported from other systems (ie zip,etc.).  And most
>>of them can still be extracted/viewed as a normal compressed file (ie you can
>>unzip a zipped .sea on your UNIX host).  So using a .sea is not a bad idea.
> And exactly how are we supposed to know which archiver to try to use on the
> 
> 	"PERFPICH.TOS"
> 
> file?  "lha"? "zip"? "zoo"? "lharc"? "arc"? "arj"? "UNTOS"?

     That is the problem, that there is no way to distinguish what it
was archived with, but in his post, he said he used zip. (I know this
doesn't help the person that goes to atari.archive though.)

> Let's face it, anyone with access to these distributable files will have
> access to programs to extract them.  Adding to the download time by including
> all the code to un-LHARC or un-PKZIP (UNCOMPRESSED) to all of these Self
> Extracting Archives is not just a pain in the neck, but also a waste of
> storage space, bandwidth and time.
> 
> Let's all use ZOO, LHA, LHARC, ARC, ZIP, TAR, COMPRESS, etc.
> 
> ie. standard formats that can clearly be extracted on-site.

     The added code was a little under 5k. I like sea, just for the fact
that after it is downloaded, I don't have to worry about if I'm going to
be able to unarc it or not. I got PERFPICH.TOS from atari.archive, and I
was able to unzip it just fine on our VMS machine here.

Later.......

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From: gordonf@fraser.sfu.ca (Gordon Farrell)
Subject: Re: Is Falcon worth buying?
Organization: Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, B.C., Canada
Date: Sun, 13 Sep 1992 01:17:39 GMT

In article <92253.012306SML108@psuvm.psu.edu> <SML108@psuvm.psu.edu> writes:
>Well, I just HAVE to give my reasons for buying a Falcon...
>
[...]
>I've got to get something to tide me over until I can afford an Indigo...
								 ^^^^^^
A truly wonderful machine (we've got 3 in the lab).

>Falcon will make one hell of a word processor/synthesizer/video game/
>terminal/graphics toy/Mathematica Machine.
		       ^^^^^^^^^^^
I didn't know you could get Mathematica.  Where'd you see that?

>
>Scott
>


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From: mpark@milton.u.washington.edu (Michael Park)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: Is Falcon worth buying????
Date: 13 Sep 92 23:40:29 GMT
Article-I.D.: u.1992Sep13.234029.16023
Organization: University of Washington, Seattle

In article <1992Sep13.161224.18277@doug.cae.wisc.edu> carter@cae.wisc.edu (Carter Gregory) writes:
>In article <Chris_Millar.04jv@lppl.mi.org> Chris_Millar@lppl.mi.org (Chris Millar) writes:
>>Hey, Kovarski - I'm sick of your sh*t - if i wanted to waste my time I'd
>>reply to every one of your ridiculous posts, but for now you'll have to
>>settle with this - shut up - if I wanted to hear more moronic Atari
>>bashing, I'd hang out in amiga.advocacy..........
>>
>>
>>-- Via DLG Pro v0.992
>>
>
>Look GUY,
>
>   Mr. Kovarski has the right to post anything he wants, no exceptions.

Of course, Mr. Millar has the exact same rights.

>If you can't find some other means of disagreement other than your threats
                                                                    ^^^^^^^
>of mailing his administrator, using vocabulary of the uneducated kind,
>simply find yourself a good country that does not allow freedom of speech and
>settle there.
>

What threats?

>OTHERWISE THINK and reply.
>          -----     -----
>
>-Greggy POO


Hey GREG,

  Mr. Millar just told Mr. Kovarski to "shut up" -- which is basically
what you've told Mr. Millar to do.
BTW, I don't see any threats of mailing his administrator, DO YOU?

READ, THINK, and reply
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From: healy@nosc.mil (Mike Healy)
Subject: Re: Gemulator (Falcon emulator?) -- Vapor
Organization: Naval Ocean Systems Center, San Diego
Date: Tue, 8 Sep 1992 22:11:14 GMT


I've been wondering where Chris Mauritz went.
(not that we need him back here - there's enough complaining
already :-)

Mike Healy
From: Christian_Vogler@hh2.maus.de (Christian Vogler)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: Not enough memory...
Date: 5 Sep 92 11:47:00 GMT
Article-I.D.: HH2.A12205
Organization: MausNet
X-Gateway: MausGate/News 1.11

In article <1992Sep3.143732.26091@wega.rz.uni-ulm.de>
HUTTER@rzmain.rz.uni-ulm.de (Do, 03.09.92 15:37) (Wolfgang Hutter) writes:

>This may be too stupid for some of you, but if so just skip the message.
>I just wanted to get some help on a problem that I encounter frequently
>with my ATARI.

Nonsense. There are no stupid questions, only stupid answers!!

>I use a 1040STFM with the Blitter-TOS (1.02?). The thing that troubles
>me is that the system comes up frequently with a message like 'Not
>enough memory for this application' although the whole memory should be
>free. Any hints?

There are a lot of bugs in TOS 1.02 concerning usage of memory, but I'm not
sure.
Another possibility could be that your DESKTOP.INF is about as large as 1024
bytes. This is the limit for older TOSes (below 2.xx). If many windows are
open, the Desktop stores the info in the internal buffer which also is only 1K
big. So the Desktop runs out of internal memory...
In TOS 2.xx/3.xx the buffer is at least 4K big...
Best would be to use TOS 1.04 (you can get it used) (for this you need a
patch, too, though) or the newer TOS 2.06.

>Another thing that is annoying is that I can't get programs installed as
>applications so that I can double-click the text-file e.g. instead of
>the editor. The system always says that 'the application can't find the
>desired object' after looking on drive A: when I didn't ask for anithing
>on drive A:. It works well from within GEMINI, but not from the GEM
>desktop. What's wrong?

Simple. TOS 1.02 does not store the path of the application. So, if the object
is in a different directory, the application can of course not be found.
TOS 1.04, 1.06 and 1.62 store the path, too, but set the object's directory as
default. Some of the programs can't find their data files then, but this is the
case only with "dirty" programs (many older ones behave like this).
In TOS 2.06 you can instruct the desktop to set the application's directory as
default.
So, the solution is either to use GEMINI or TOS 2.06. There is no other way.
Or you could edit the DESKTOP.INF and write the full path of the application:
Before:
#G 03 FF MYPROG.PRG @ *.XXX @
After:
#G 03 FF C:\MYPATH\MPROG.PRG @ *.XXX @
Beware of the 1K limit, though. And the problem with "dirty" apps still exists.

with regards
       Christian

Christian_Vogler@hh2.maus.de
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
From: pinelr@aix.rpi.edu (Rob Pinelli)
Subject: GCR Question
Organization: Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY
Date: Wed, 9 Sep 1992 00:21:30 GMT

  Hi there.  I'm thinking about buying a Spectre GCR but I have a few questions.
First off, I have a Mega ST 2 with TOS 1.4 (1.04) running in it.  I know that
because of the keyboard cable, cartridge add-ons are sometimes hard to use.
Will I even be able to plug the thing in if I get it?  Secondly, I use the
program Notator by C-LAB, and it has a hardware copy key protection scheme.
Does the GCR have a pass-thru slot, or will I need to switch these things
all the time?  Email or post.  Any help appreciated.  Thanks.


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