HDTenEightyP/NetNews huggingface dataset:
From: ekrimen@wet.UUCP (Ed Krimen)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: 68060
Date: 6 Nov 92 23:31:42 GMT
Organization: Wetware Diversions, San Francisco

In article <6715.79.uupcb@outlan.ersys.edmonton.ab.ca> jeff.molofee@outlan.ersys.edmonton.ab.ca (Jeff Molofee) writes:
>I saw an ad in ST Format for an accelerated 68030 running at 50mhz for
>just over $1000 dollars.  It is for upgrading ST's... I think at $1000+
>though, it is kind of rediculous.

If you need speed, it's well worth it.  It'll easily outrun a TT, for
roughly the same price as a TT (MegaST + board).

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From: ekrimen@wet.UUCP (Ed Krimen)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: STalker (was Re: THE STORM)
Date: 5 Nov 92 00:33:03 GMT
Organization: Wetware Diversions, San Francisco

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.

If you have STalker 3.0+, you can eliminate both the vertical and 
horizontal slider bars as well as the window's title bar, with only a few
hot-keyclicks or menu selections.  It's pretty nifty. :^)




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From: wa1ee200@troi.cc.rochester.edu (Ho Ling Cherd (Gone))
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Forsale: ICD Host adapter / power supply
Date: 7 Nov 92 03:09:21 GMT
Distribution: na
Organization: University of Rochester (Rochester, NY)

I have an ICD host adapter with clock and
a power supply for sale.
The ICD host adapter and the power supply is in
a HD case which can hold 2 5 1/4" disk. The casing         
is damage and there is an internal floppy sitting
in side. I am not sure if the floppy drive is working
so I will give the floppy drive and the case free
with the host adapter and the power supply.
Asking for $100 + postage.
Thanks
...
Ling Cherd
.
From: SPAC@UNB.CA (SPAC000)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: UE311DOC.ZOO corrupted?
Date: 8 Nov 92 01:15:22 GMT
Organization: The University of New Brunswick

I have downloaded UE311DOC.ZOO twice now and it was truncated each time.
I happily extracted all the other files in that directory, so I do not
think there is anything wrong at my end.  Has anyone had success with
this file?  Is it available at another FTP site?  My copies came from
atari.archive.umich.edu.
From: neil@cs.hw.ac.uk (Neil Forsyth)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: Has anybody actually purchased a Falcon?
Date: 6 Nov 92 09:16:40 GMT
Organization: Dept of Computing & Electrical Engineering, Heriot-Watt University, Scotland

In article <1992Nov2.103542.10458@aber.ac.uk> hrs@aber.ac.uk
(Herbert Martin Sauro) writes:
>Subject says it all: Has anybody *actually* bought a non-developers
>edition of the Faclon?
>
>It's claimed to be available in the UK, well there are loads of adverts
>anyway.

None of those adverts are from Atari, which is true to form for them. Lots
of dealers are happily accepting advance orders for machines that are just
plain not available.

I amd hearing reports that Atari UK will only be shipping limited numbers of
4Mb/65MbHD machines before Christmas. 1Mb discless machines will not be
available until January at the earliest. This is a typical Atari UK cockup.
They will totally miss the Christmas season which Commodore are trying hard
to get sales from with their new A1200(?). Will Atari ever learn? I think not.

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From: mauritz_c@spcvxb.spc.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: GEMULATOR?
Date: 6 Nov 92 14:31:08 GMT
Organization: SPC Community Access System

In article <Bx7B3H.1sz@ufrima.imag.fr>, heraud@boole (HERAUD pascal) writes:
> Don't say oops!This emulator exist!!!
> It an contained in a plug in card...I've read it in a magazine
> but don't afraid in this zine they said thaT:
> "With a 386 25Mhz we try to have a gem but it was very slow
> We think that with a 486 33 the emulator is as fast as a st 8Mhz"
> Hehe what a PC joke !!!!

While I think that Dareck's attitude is terribly cocky (so am I
at times), I do think it is a very interesting achievement to be
able to emulate an ST on a completely different platform.  
PC Ditto suffered from the same kind of speed penalty when it
tried to emulate a 8086 PC XT o the ST.

Regards,

Chris
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
From: leo@dcs.warwick.ac.uk (Leo Hendry)
Subject: Re: 96002's got a silcon bug!
Keywords: 96002,bug
Organization: Department of Computer Science, Warwick University, England
Date: Thu, 12 Nov 1992 12:33:24 GMT

In article <1992Nov11.123447.6345@sol.ctr.columbia.edu> richard@star.ic.ac.uk (Richard Syratt ) writes:
>
>Believe me or not, but I work in the same group as a guy whose
>working with a 96002.  It's been confirmed by Motorola US that
>he's discovered a bug on the chip.  Apparently when you do a
>parallel load at the same time as doing a dma access (and probably
>a few other conditions as well ... I could find out exact details)
>then a bit of some data gets cleared.
>He's working on real time image processing, and trying to push the chip
>as fast as possible.
>
>Now, there was a discussion going on about 'wouldn't it be nice to have
>a 96002 in a falcon 040', yes but it would have been damn expensive, but
>now that it's got an obscure bug wouldn't it be possible for atari to buy
>up old stock and make the dream a reality.  OK so it would have a small bug
>on it, but couldn't you program around that?  Obviously they'd have to
>make clear that it's not a fully functional 96002, but it's still damn fast.
>
>Does any one know what normally happens to chips with a bug on them, are theu
>sold?  Or just binned - motorolas reputation etc.

First they try to keep the bug very quiet, threatening to sue anybody who
claims its existance, while at the same time quietly fixing the bug.  Then
they admit it about a year later offering free replacements (which now only
cost 5 pence to make), throw all the old ones away and claim loads of credit
for being so generous.

Probably.

- Leo
From: timg@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu (Tim Gallivan)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Ghostscript 2.52 beta available.
Keywords: ghostscript, postscript
Date: 8 Nov 92 06:22:28 GMT
Organization: University of Texas Center for Relativity

I know that this has taken a while, but I finally got a beta version of
Ghostscript 2.52 ready. It can be obtained via anon ftp from
lifshitz.ph.utexas.edu (pub/atari/ghostscript/beta/gs252b.zoo).  Please
do not upload this code to any other archives. When it seems that there
are no major bugs, I will upload it to atari.archive.

I am particularly interested in whether the 8-bit color code in the
screen driver works (in TT low-res I guess, or perhaps some graphics
card). The driver does not yet set its own palette, but it searches the
available palette for the nearest color, so the colors should be
something close to correct (unlike previous versions).  Of course,
reports of any other bugs are welcome also.

For the majority of users, GS 2.52 is not significantly different from
2.41, except that a few command line options have been added (select
paper size and band-printing buffer size) and the color screen driver is
hopefully a bit better.

-Tim Gallivan
timg@landau.ph.utexas.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
From: cs2320ak@utagraph.uta.edu (cs2320ak)
Subject: SM124 problems
Organization: University of Texas at Arlington
Date: Sat, 7 Nov 1992 22:40:49 GMT

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
From: an938@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (George II Lenzer)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: To Dennis Knoll (all others please pass)
Date: 6 Nov 1992 21:08:21 GMT
Organization: Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio (USA)
NNTP-Posting-Host: slc10.ins.cwru.edu


Dennis,
	If you're out there somwhere.  I need your E-mail
address again.  I lost it.  This is in regards to the ST
that you were willing to sell.

					Thanx,
					George II Lenzeer
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"I'll let you in on a little secret.
	The whole universe is totally INSANE!!!!"
						Mr. Natural

Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
From: schorr@rbg.informatik.th-darmstadt.de (roland schorr)
Subject: Re: Gif Viewers
Date: Wed, 11 Nov 1992 12:03:42 GMT
Organization: TU Darmstadt

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.

And it is 100% GEM :)

Greets, Roland
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
From: stigj@dhhalden.no (STIG JORGENSEN)
Subject: Re: Which comms package?  Flash 2 ???
Organization: Ostfold College
Date: Fri, 6 Nov 1992 11:07:38 GMT

In article <1d5cdrINNd7t@golem.wcc.govt.nz> sheppard_r@kosmos.wcc.govt.nz writes:
>From: sheppard_r@kosmos.wcc.govt.nz
>Subject: Re: Which comms package?  Flash 2 ???
>Date: 3 Nov 92 08:14:51 GMT
>In article <1d4pviINNdb9@aludra.usc.edu>, baffoni@aludra.usc.edu (Juxtaposer) writes:
>>In article <Bx446z.48L@news.cso.uiuc.edu> wmagro@uiuc.edu (William Magro) writes:
>>>It's strange, all the raves for 'connect' I've heard here.  I tried the  
>>>package in an early version, and it crashed so many times I just threw it  
>>>away.  Not too long ago I decided to give it another shot, and still it  
>>>crashes or hangs the machine _very_ frequently.  Am I the only one who has  
>>>these problems?
>>>William Magro                                       NeXTMail welcome
>>>wmagro@uiuc.edu
>>
>>-Mike
>
>
>All this talk of Flash II, if more of you read ST-Report you would have found
>out there is a REAL FLASH II comming out, its called THE STORM and NOTE;
>its by Allan Page the Flash 1.6 man..
>
>Its a complete re-write and has mutible windows, background dnloads,
>and uses Basic as its script language, based on the old Atari 8 bit Basic...
>
>Will be releast by Double Click, when I don't know.....
>
>
>So go find some of those ST-Reports a few weeks back, has a lot more info about
>it and is writen by Allan Page...
>
>
>Roger.............           sheppard_r@kosmos.wcc.govt.nz

Yeah, hope it is great... I noticed that it is a demo of it, but I haven't 
managed to get it. Are there anyone out there who have it and would be kind 
enough to upload it to atari.archive or something? It would have been very 
nice!!

Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
From: wwc@vsnhda.cern.ch (Wolfgang Wander)
Subject: Re: VT 220
Organization: European Organization for Nuclear Research, Geneva
Date: Sun, 8 Nov 1992 19:02:07 GMT

In article <1dffhiINN3sb@aludra.usc.edu> baffoni@aludra.usc.edu (Juxtaposer) writes:
>        I thought that CoNnect passed the full suite of VTtest.  Doesn't it
>display double height, double width characters correctly?  I was under
>the impression that it did (although I haven't been able to test that feature
>as I don't have anything that uses it).

CoNnect does. It's emulation concering theese effects beats UniTerms
in some points. The only disadvantage is, that CoNnect cannot display
double width correctly - the characters are placed in the center of
two normal ones. Double size (i.e. double width AND height) are
displayed correctly.

     Wolfgang
From: mbaffoni@skat.usc.edu (Michael Baffoni)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: Help: ICD with Miniscribe
Date: 6 Nov 1992 12:24:27 -0800
Organization: University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA
NNTP-Posting-Host: skat.usc.edu

In a message of 05 Nov 92  07:57:51, John Henders wrote:

JH>         Old ICD host adapters can't talk to Quantum drives. They don't 
JH> recognise the extended command set. You have to get an adscsii pro

	Oh, I don't know about that.  I had a Quantum105LPS running quite 
nicely on my 520ST with ICD ADSCSI (circa '88) rather nicely.  That of course
was before I got my TT, but the point stands that it worked fine for me.  
However, I was scrupulous to keep up with the current drivers.

-Mike


Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
From: hjwulfso@unix.amherst.edu (Harris Wulfson)
Subject: Re: word on US falcons???
Organization: Amherst College
X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.1 PL6]
Date: Fri, 6 Nov 1992 19:10:26 GMT


   How can Atari be competetive when it can't even get the product
to the public!? This is a problem that Atari is suffering from:
Too little too late. When I bought my 1040ST it was only after I 
got fed up with waiting for the Mega. Now I want a Falcon, and I
can't get it. If Atari had masses of Falcon030s to sell to the
US market RIGHT NOW, they would sell like mad in the music and
home markets (lots of power for the buck AND a DSP). But by the 
time it is widely available, it will be too late. NeXT and Indigo
already have DSP's and I think Apple is working on it. Also, 68040
computers arwe the wave of the _present_! Atari, as usual will get 
blown away by better technology from other manufacturers who can 
deliver on time. I read lots of rumors on this newsgroup and on the 
Macintosh Hardware newsgroup, and the difference is that the Apple
rumors come true. Apple was working on the Mac IIvx, Duos, and new
powerbooks for release on Oct. 19, and they were all released and
available on Oct. 19. With Atari, there is always agonizing frustration
for the customer waiting to get his hands on  new machine. Unless 
Atari can ship faster, it will ALWAYS be behind.

Harris Wulfson
hjwulfson@amherst.edu

Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
From: techno@zelator.in-berlin.de (Frank Dahncke)
Subject: Re: Is Atari going bust..??
Organization: Puplic-Access-Xenix-System
Date: Wed, 04 Nov 92 21:30:38 GMT


>>  > STUMPF SPEAKS UP! STR Spotlight       Alwin Stumpf speaks up....
>>      The FSM-GDOS and MultiTOS production had to be stopped in the last
>>  minute because 1) a renegotiation with Mr. Eric Smith (copywrite) and 2)
>>  differences between ATARI and Bitstream.

>This is precisely the rumor that I was trying to squelch earlier. I'll
>say it again: I have been party to no renegotiations with Atari. Nor
>are any renegotiations necessary; Atari has for some time had a proper
>license to use MiNT.

>I don't know if the message purporting to be from Mr. Stumpf is a forgery
>or not, but it's entirely possible that it was. At any rate, I'm rather

Yes, this is indeed the case. The original message originated from the
german MAUSnet and was now translated into English by some idiot
trying to spread rumors. On the MAUSnet, the message was clearly
identified to be a forgery, as the supposed user Alwin Stumpf@ST has
only logged in once - just to send this bunch of lies. Juristical
action is being taken.
For more information on this matter, you can contact me on MAUSnet at
Frank_Dahncke@B.MAUS.de

							Techno

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Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: Wanted: Statistics packages for the ST
From: mike@divsun.unige.ch (michel morris)
Date: 12 Nov 92 10:40:30 +0200
Reply-To: mike@divsun.unige.ch
Distribution: world
Organization: University of Geneva, Switzerland

In article 110475@rrz.uni-koeln.de, aeg03@rrz.uni-koeln.de (Jan T. Kim) writes:
>Hi Atari folks,
>
>a friend of mine is looking for good statistics packages for  his
>ST  computer.  Since the main use will be standard deviations and
>such, extreme  sophistication  is  not  necessary.  However,  the
>package  should  be  easy  to  use  and  have  possibilities  for
>producing graphical  output,  or  at  least  an  interface  to  a
>standard tool for this purpose, e.g. to spreadsheets.


For basic stats, I use Kuma's KSpread 3, which is not bad (despite appearing
quite primitive at first view). It is also said to interface to K-Spread, 
though I don't have personal experience of this.

For nice graphs, Scigraph is hard to beat, although data entry is a little 
irritating. 

Both programs run perfectly on a TT, in ST Hi or TT Med. 

Mike M.
From: hrs@aber.ac.uk (Herbert Martin Sauro)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Falcon in the UK
Date: 12 Nov 92 14:01:00 GMT
Organization: University of Wales, Aberystwyth


Some observations from this months (Dec) UK mags:

Silica shop are advertising the Faclon (they are one of the main distributers)

Hisoft are releasing their truepaint this month (Nov)...

so perhaps Atari were not joking after all, maybe November is the month
we can start buying Faclons in the UK?

Herb
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
From: sjg@phwoof.ph.kcl.ac.uk (Simon Gornall)
Subject: My MiNT distribution kit
Organization: King's College London Image Processing Group
Date: Thu, 12 Nov 1992 20:30:04 GMT
X-Posted-From: dogmatix.ph.kcl.ac.uk
NNTP-Posting-Host: sol.ctr.columbia.edu

I've noticed that atari.archive has a directory /atari/Mint/Distrib_kit (or
something similar). Could everybody *NOT* use the kit that (presumably) will
be placed in there. It is currently in /atari/New/{boot,disk1-5}.zoo.

I'm working on a GEM-based installation kit which will make it to the ftp area
on dogmatix.ph.kcl.ac.uk in the next few days (read: by the weekend). It is
*MUCH* more flexible, and ought to be easier to use. It'll also be *much*
easier to keep up to date, since programs are grouped together as subsets (eg:
the gcc subset contains all the gcc-related binaries, and the gccinc subset
contains the gcc include files). The limiting factor is the number of programs
I have on HD that need to be categorised and set together, and their presence
noted in the config file.

Jeff - I know you don't like being talked to via the usenet group, but could 
you please NOT put those zoo files in the Distrib_kit directory. If you want 
to mirror me here, they will be placed in ~ftp/pub/MiNT. Thanks.

While I'm on the subject, if you upload anything for MiNT to a.a.u.e, (or
anywhere else for that matter), could you email me here at kcl (either
sjg@dogmatix.ph.kcl.ac.uk or sjg@phwoof.ph.kcl.ac.uk)

There have been a couple of things I'd like to hear more of... someone said 
they were doing an equivalent of the Sun /dev/audio. That would be nice. 
Someone has just beat me to it to do a build of 'sh' from the bsd sources. I'm
looking into doing a version of the socket library instead. (Useful if we
ever get X running on an ST...:-)

Simon.
From: jan@janhh.hanse.de (Jan Willamowius)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: ANA-Systems Modula 2
Distribution: world
Date: 6 Nov 92 23:10:56 GMT
Keywords: modula 2


I heard about a shareware Modula-II development environment by
ANA-Systems. Has anyboy here ever tried it and can tell me if it's
any good and where to get it ?

Thanks,
	Jan


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E-Mail: jan@janhh.hanse.de
From: aa399@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Len Stys)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: The FALCON - too slow ??
Date: 11 Nov 1992 02:39:31 GMT
Organization: Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH (USA)
Reply-To: aa399@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Len Stys)
NNTP-Posting-Host: slc5.ins.cwru.edu


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?


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From: rfalanga@leo.unm.edu (Rod Falanga)
Subject: Children's games, etc.
Date: Thu, 12 Nov 92 00:26:22 GMT
Organization: University of New Mexico, Albuquerque
Keywords: Carmen Sandiago

	I'd like to know if the game "Where In the World is Carmen Sandigo?" ever came out for the ST?  Any Atari computer (besides DOS compatible ones.)?

Rod
  


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From: rmd@tellabs.com (Bob Dyas)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: C-lab gone under?
Date: 9 Nov 92 23:51:42 GMT
Article-I.D.: tellab5.1992Nov9.235142.349
Organization: Tellabs, Lisle, IL

In article <1992Nov9.164717.10786@syma.sussex.ac.uk> kevinb@syma.sussex.ac.uk (Kevin Busby) writes:
>Steve Selick (be824@cleveland.Freenet.Edu) wrote:
>:
>: Is it true that C-Lab, the developer of Notator, has gone under?
>
>No (or rather, it's the first time I've heard such a rumour and I know of
>no reason why there should be any truth behind it). C-Lab's distributors in
>this country recently mailed registered users about the new C-Lab sequencer,
>Notator Logic, the ST version of which should be due early next year.

I haven't heard of Notator Logic but I did get a postcard announcing that
C-LAB has re-grouped and formed a new compnay called EMAGIC.  I also stated
that ENSONIQ will be the US distributor.  The products which they mentioned
as being part of the new company were: Notator SL, Creator SL, Unitor 2, 
Export and Notator Alpha.  According to the card, questions can be directed
to ENSONIQ customer service at (215)-647-3930.

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