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From: moon!cyberden!phbill@well.sf.ca.us
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.8bit
Subject: oh!
Date: Fri, 28 Aug 92 01:07:33 PDT
Organization: Indescribable Creations

I finally perfected a tiny BASIC program that acts as a terminal!

I'm wondering, however...  is there any ML routine out there that will 
search/replace throughout a bit of memory (like a string...  this is 
simply an INSTRing replace routine I need...  can't use TBXL because SX 
handlers (all R: handlers?) and TBXL don't mix well..)

For now I'm having to PRINT the string out byte by byte, changing [^H]'s 
to [DELETE]'s..  and to speed it up (not to as fast as I want it, 
either!), I have to turn the ANTIC DMA off and then back on when the 
xmission is done.

Damn hard on the eyes, I say! ;)                any help?
                                                        thanx...
                                                                bill

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                   August 28, 1992
From: aa700@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Michael Current)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.8bit
Subject: Re: Atari binaries postings. A comment...
Date: 2 Sep 92 15:14:05 GMT
Reply-To: aa700@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Michael Current)
Organization: Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH (USA)
NNTP-Posting-Host: slc5.ins.cwru.edu


In a previous article, ichamiel@nyx.cs.du.edu (Itay Chamiel) says:

>re: info-atari-8 readers:
>NO! The Digest has less messages if there is one big one, since
>the digest completes itself after ~600 lines. Which means that a reader
>can just stop reading it, since there is nothing after it. Of course, 
>there is an exception if it a shortish file... (~300)

     Say the digestifier has collected about 500
lines worth of postings for the next Digest.  Now somebody posts a
2000-line .uue file.  This produces a 2500-line Digest.  And no, that big
file will probably NOT be at the end of the Digest.  This is because within
a Digest postings are arranged not in chronological order but in
alphabetical order by subject.  That's why Digest readers experience the
strange phenomenon of reading answers to questions before the questions.

While I'm at it:  It's FEWER messages.  (I'm one of those people that 
appreciates grammar.)
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From: thester@nyx.cs.du.edu (Uncle Fester)
Subject: READ THIS NOW
Organization: Nyx, Public Access Unix @ U. of Denver Math/CS dept.
Date: Sat, 29 Aug 92 21:14:59 GMT


The votes for a binaries group have been coming in.
If you did not read my previous post concerning the creation of a binaries
group for the 8-bit and that you should send your vote to me by email, do
so now.  
Send your vote (yes or no) to:
                              thester@nyx.cu.du.edu
If you can't send email, then post your vote here.
No voting twice either. <g>

To those of you that have sent your votes, you should have received a note
acknowledging that.  If you do not receive a note back, let me know.
That means I am not getting your mail for some reason.
(or I got your mail, but you didn't get mine)
Post here if that is the case.  I read this group daily.

To all of you that have voted, thanks.
To those of you that haven't, do it now!  
Everyone that uses this group needs to vote on this.

Uncle Fester

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Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.8bit
Subject: SpartaDos trashing directories!!!
From: rlcollins@miavx1.acs.muohio.edu (Ryan 'Gozar' Collins)
Date: 26 Aug 92 15:48:56 -0500
Organization: Miami University Academic Computer Service"

     I'm having all sorts of problems with SpartDos 3.2 scrambling disk
directories!! Has anyone else had similar problems? The symptons are
that all of the sudden, the directory has some entries changed, and it
just messes up the whole disk!! Any help would be appreciated!

     Thanks......

Later.......

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Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.8bit
From: snyder10@convex1.tcs.tulane.edu (sherry snyder)
Subject: AnsiTerm at Umich
Organization: Tulane University, New Orleans, LA
Date: Wed, 2 Sep 1992 02:31:22 GMT
Nntp-Posting-Host-[nntpd-25353]: convex1.tcs.tulane.edu

The latest release of AnsiTerm by Robert Sinclair (c) 1992

AnsiTerm now supports xmodem file transfer, screen captures and keyboard
macros.  While still a bit slow, AnsiTerm works Well at 1200bd and does a 
fair job of translating ansi graphics for your Atari 8bit platform.

AnsiTerm is a full vt100 Term emulator that requires 48k and an Atari 800
or better to run, as well as one diskdrive and a Hayes compatible modem.

AnsiTerm works with all dos's, MIO and P.R. connection, and already has 
80 col output...you won't need any additional hardware.

Works best on mono monitors, but is readable on color sets.


AnsiTerm is now at the archives (ftp atari.archive.umich.edu) in 
Atari/8bit/new
Mike...
______________________________________________________________________________
  Sherry L. Snyder L.P.N.                         Mike Todd - Publications.
  Tulane Dept. of Dermatology                    Tulane Dept. of Dermatology
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.8bit
From: garold@cbnewsk.cb.att.com (g.d.redenbaugh)
Subject: Re: Atari binaries postings.  A comment...
Organization: AT&T
Date: Mon, 31 Aug 1992 17:54:13 GMT

I am in favor of having binaries posted for the following reasons:

        - more convenient than ftp'ing somewhere
        - new binaries and updates come right across the screen
          (don't have to ftp to there and figure out what is new
           or decide if you are interested)
        - more convenient for people to post binaries (hopefully
          more binaries will be posted)

However, is it necessary to have a separate binaries news group.  It
used to be common for binaries to be posted right to this group.  I am
not against a binary news group if it will get binaries posted but is
there a reason why binaries can not be posted here.

Thank you,
Garold Redenbaugh
AT&T Bell Labs
Indianapolis, IN

Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.8bit
From: mfolivo@sactoh0.sac.ca.us (Mark Newton-John)
Subject: Re: secrets of $E477 (on my 130XE)
Organization: Sacramento Public Access Unix
Date: Wed, 26 Aug 92 09:38:40 GMT

When you run $E477 on an XL/XE computer, it will do a reboot.
I believe on the 400/800, it goes to the chalkboard.

(Rats! Where is my memory map?? Whoa! A funny! I forgot where I put
my memory map!!!!)


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From: ichamiel@nyx.cs.du.edu (Itay Chamiel)
Subject: Re: Atari corp. (Falcon?)
X-Disclaimer: Nyx is a public access Unix system run by the University
	of Denver for the Denver community.  The University has neither
	control over nor responsibility for the opinions of users.
Organization: Nyx, Public Access Unix at U. of Denver Math/CS dept.
Date: Mon, 31 Aug 92 12:09:19 GMT

In article <4280@wet.UUCP> ekrimen@wet.UUCP (Ed Krimen) writes:
>In article <64903@cup.portal.com> Rick_Michael_Cortese@cup.portal.com writes:
>>Chris, the Falcon is a 16 mHz 68030 with a lot of enhancements, much improved
>>pallet, digital signal processor, etc. It's target price is/was less then
>>$1000. Unfortunately, I've talked with a local Atari dealer & he says the
>>1st ones will be PAL versions sent to Europe so..... ARRGHH! 
>>Well, I guess there aren't enough outlets left in the US to introduce the
>>thing here. From the specs I've heard, it allmost has me willing to break out
>>the Master Charge.
>
>It WILL be released here.  Be patient.  Things can't happen overnight.
>
>The first ones are sent to Europe because that's where the bulk of Atari's 
>business is.

And what IS it? A blown ST? A game machine?
Prob. won't apear around here anyway... what AM i blabbering about..:)
-Itay
Organization: Penn State University
Date: Wed, 2 Sep 1992 01:27:19 EDT
From: <AKH104@psuvm.psu.edu>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.8bit
Subject: E71 and the RVERTER

 um...simple question...how does one do e71 with the rverter?
none of my vt100 terminals work with it unless its 8bit..
however...bobterm does vt52Odd which does e71 just fine...when
using the rverter?  so does bobterm emulate all this and everything
else uses the 850 tables?
Andrew
From: Jim_Johnson@abcd.Houghton.MI.US (Jim Johnson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.8bit
Subject: Re: XEP80 and Monitor.
Date: 2 Sep 92 13:46:05 GMT
Organization: Amiga BitSwap Central Dispatch

You CAN hook a XEP80 to a TV set if it has composite video inputs (most
VCR's do), HOWEVER I doubt that you would want to.  Televisions generally
cannot handle more than a 40X25 screen.  By pushing an 80X25 screen into a
television, the text smears so badly as to be nearly illegible.

-- Via DLG Pro v0.995

Jim Johnson-
*** Remember, they're only tools - Not a way of life! ***
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.8bit
Subject: Re: Endings to PastFinder, Necromancer, Shamus, Ghostbusters
From: rlcollins@miavx1.acs.muohio.edu (Ryan 'Gozar' Collins)
Date: 1 Sep 92 13:17:43 -0500
Organization: Miami University Academic Computer Service"

In article <greg.715355075@duke>, greg@Quotron.COM (Greg "Maddog" Knauss) writes:
> norlin@ESSEX.ECN.UOKNOR.EDU (Norman Lin) writes:
> 
>>In Pastfinder, after you complete each stage, you get a new "ranking".  The
>>last "ranking" says "YOU ARE GREAT" and it doesn't change after that.
>>(BTW, IMHO, Pastfinder has some of the best character graphics and animation
>>I've ever seen.  Very creative 3-D effects!)
>>
>>In Necromancer, after you complete the last graveyard, you get a not-
>>too spectacular screen with horizontal bars of color flowing up and down
>>from the center of the screen with a powerful fading musical chord in the
>>background.  Then you are returned to the title screen.
> 
> The most disappointing end-screen I've ever seen was for Caverns of Mars.
> After WEEKS of playing the stupid thing over and over and over, I finally
> finished the hardest mission and...  got the score list, just like if I'd
> died.  NOTHING special.  I don't need half-hour animated movies and I played
> the game because I enjoyed it, not because I just wanted to see the end
> sequence, but games that have endings should have ENDINGS -- something,
> anything.  Even text wrapping up the story line.  After weeks of enjoying
> Caverns, I felt let down after I'd finished it...

     I really liked the ending to Goonies though!!!

Later.......

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From: poehland%phvax.dnet@SMITHKLINE.COM
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.8bit
Subject: XEP-80 & Monitor
Date: 1 Sep 92 23:54:07 GMT

Jim Johnson's observation of smeared output from an XEP-80 on a color monitor
was interesting.  I'll have to try it for myself, just to see...

I own several XEP-80's & use them routinely.  For text displays you can't
beat it.

However, when I FIRST got an XEP-80 I almost gave up on it.  The horizontal
synch frequency on the XEP-80 isn't quite right.  NTSC requires 15.75 KHz on
the horizontal synch, but the XEP-80 puts out something like 16.4KHz or so.
So, you get tremendous horizontal shear when you hook up an XEP-80 to a monitor
that was previously adjusted to work fine with the 40-col output.  You have
to tweek up the horizontal control on the monitor to get a stable display with
the XEP-80.  Some monitors might not permit that much range of adjustment.  If
so, you can't use that monitor with the XEP-80.

Of course, if you tweek up the monitor to work OK in 80-cols, if you switch
back to 40-col (using The Alchemist's infamous 80-Column Switcher), then of
course your 40-col display is all screwed up & has to be readjusted.  If you're
using a program like BobTerm that makes use of both outputs, it will drive you
outta your friggin' mind to have to re-tweek the display every time you switch.

By rapidly switching back & forth between the 2 displays as you twiddle the
horizontal control knob on the monitor, you can find an intermediate setting
where the monitor is stable to both displays.  That's what I do with mine, &
so far it has worked on every mono monitor I've tried (Apple II, Heath/Zenith,
converted DEC Rainbow/VT220, & Pi-3 units).

     - BEN POEHLAND  [The 8-Bit Alchemist]
       Managing Editor, Atari Classics Magazine

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From: potter@sunny0.dab.ge.com (Jeff Potter)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.8bit
Subject: Bank Switching RAM
Keywords: XL, XE
Date: 3 Sep 92 21:54:18 GMT
Organization: General Electric SCSD, Daytona Beach FL

Well I've upgraded to an 800XL (from a ten-year old 800), and now realize
my old copy of "Mapping the Atari" doesn't talk about the bank switching
capabilities of the XL/XE series.  Can anyone point me to a good reference
on the subject (ANALOG, Antic, Compute! articles), especially with examples
and what to watch out for?  I want to turn off the OS ROM and use the RAM
area for extra storage, but of course don't want the program to crash in
the meantime (I'll be using assembly language, not BASIC).

Thanks!

-- 
Jeff Potter
....potter@sunny0.dab.ge.com
....74030.2020@compuserve.com
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.8bit
Subject: Re: GEnie To Internet
From: jonc@status.gen.nz (Jon Clarke)
Date: Wed, 02 Sep 92 07:08:03 GMT
Organization: Z*NET Fax Gateway For Fax in the Auckland Free call Area

tmkk@uiuc.edu (Khan) writes:

> 
> In article <BtIIo4.C1B@world.std.com> bmarcum@world.std.com (Bill Marcum) wri
> >In article <BtHwnC.3sI@news.cso.uiuc.edu> tmkk@uiuc.edu (Khan) writes:
> >>
> >>Pretty bogus - TRIPLING the monthly fee just for access to internet
> >>mail? I suppose the greedy bastards charge you whether you send or
> >>receive the mail too, huh?
> >>
> >>Sheesh. Maybe it's time I dropped GEnie.
> >>
> >Well, you don't have to subscribe to the Internet mail.  I do think that $9.
> >is a little high, and it's silly that you can't even receive mail from
> >Internet without paying that fee.  Still, it beats using PC-Pursuit to call
> >an out-of town Internet host.  If only Genie had Usenet and ftp...
> 
> I suggested that very thing to them. I told them they could be the FIRST
> commercial online service to offer REAL Internet access, and beat their
> arch rival CI$ to the punch. Apparently they just don't understand the
> value of that particular service.
> 

 You mail address for GEnie ie username@genie.geis.com.

 Email away chaps, all incomming mail is free on GEnie so you can
 talk to all your friends via internet.
 
 Regards
 
 Jon Clarke
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From: bruck@BRACHOT.JCT.AC.IL (Itay Chamie1)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.8bit
Subject: Atari corp.
Date: 25 Aug 92 20:18:20 GMT
X-Unparsable-Date: Tue, 25 Aug 92 23:17:16 EET DST

A local newspaper sez Atari is in deeep trouble..
It says that Atari is going to produce a new video game system (Jaguar??)
but that Atari just wouldn't have the required $40 million to launch it..
It also says that Jack Tramiel is a scrooge and that he never spent a buck
on advertising - a primary reason for the fact that the Lynx takes aprox.
3% of the pocket-game market (with the rest taken by Nintendo and Sega)..
Just want opinions on this... start a discussion etc.
-Itay
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From: mfolivo@sactoh0.sac.ca.us (Mark Newton-John)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.8bit
Subject: Re: Memory Expansion Modules for the 800.
Date: 26 Aug 92 09:42:24 GMT
Organization: Sacramento Public Access Unix

In <Aug.23.04.54.37.1992.7664@remus.rutgers.edu> bufort@remus.rutgers.edu (Anthony Bufort) writes:

>Remember those old plug-in memory expansion
>modules for the 800?  Where might I be able
>to get some, preferably 16 or 32 K ones?
>I want to upgrade my 800's memory to at
>least that of an XL.

You might try calling B&C Computervisions in Santa Clara (408)
986-9960 or San Jose Computer.

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From: usenet@samba.oit.unc.edu
Subject: Re: GEnie To Internet
Organization: UNC Office of Information Technology
Distribution: usa
Date: Wed, 26 Aug 1992 21:29:04 GMT


tmkk@uiuc.edu (Khan) writes:
>>Well, you don't have to subscribe to the Internet mail.  I do think that $9.95
>>is a little high, and it's silly that you can't even receive mail from
>>Internet without paying that fee.  Still, it beats using PC-Pursuit to call
>>an out-of town Internet host.  If only Genie had Usenet and ftp...
>
>I suggested that very thing to them. I told them they could be the FIRST
>commercial online service to offer REAL Internet access, and beat their
>arch rival CI$ to the punch. Apparently they just don't understand the
>value of that particular service.

Last night on GEnie, there was a RTC (round table conference) with the
designer/implementor of the GEnie/Inet gateway. I (and others) asked
about these issues and he said that they are delaying this access
until they check out some security problems [just to be sure that it
will work to _their_ standards, I believe.] They _do_ understand the
value, but you need to understand that Unix is not the safest OS in
the world, and just one security glitch could lose GE gobs of $$.

There should be a transcript of the entire night's conversation on
alt.bbs (maybe alt.bbs.internet?), but I'm not sure in which newsgroup
it will end up...

--gregg "cheap to free net access only, pls" tracton

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Radiation Oncology         GEnie:G.TRACTON
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From: un035513@wvnvms.wvnet.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.8bit
Subject: Re: Terminal emulator help, please
Date: 1 Sep 92 05:51:30 GMT
Organization: West Virginia Network for Educational Telecomputing

In article <9208311715.AA12968@pwcs.StPaul.GOV>, phile@pwcs.stpaul.gov (Philip J Ethier) writes:
> I am trying to dial up to my account at work from home.
> 
> At home I am using an Atari 800 with an SX212 modem 
> running SX Express software.
> 
> At work I have a Unix account running on Sun hardware.  At work I telnet to the 
> Sun from a Macintosh IIsi.  The Unix account is set for a vt100 terminal. My 
> Sysop tells me that Unix supports lots of different terminals, but since he has 
> no Atari experience, he does not know what to specify.
> 
> When I dial up and try to work in ELM, the mail handler we use, I get lots of 
> extra characters, stuff like:
> [K[?1l>
> [?1l>[?1h=
> [K 
> 
> When I try to display the elm menu, the blank lines all have 
> [K at the left side of the screen.
> 
> Here is what my Sysop tells me about this:
> 
>>These characters are all sequences of ANSI command sequences that are
>>supposed to perform various functions on the terminal.  For example,
>>ESC[2J will erase a screen, ESC[K will erase a line, etc.  (The ESC
>>stands for the escape character, decimal 27)
> 
>>So, since your program obviously doesn't understand these special sequences,
>>since it is displaying instead of interpreting them as commands, it is even
>>dumber than a vt100 type terminal.
> 
> So, does Unix support a terminal this dumb?  
> What do I tell Unix to do with TERM?  
> Or do I have to do something at the Atari end?
> 
> Please respond to me via Email at phile@pwcs.stpaul.gov, as I generally do not 
> read newsgroups.
> 
> Thanks for all your help!
> 
> Phil Ethier, THE RIGHT LINE, 672 Orleans Street, Saint Paul, MN   55107-2676
> h (612) 224-3105  w (612) 298-5324     phile@pwcs.stpaul.gov
> "The workingman's GT-40" - Anthony Colin Bruce Chapman

Get a hold of V10Squared and Kermit from the FTP site.  V10Squared gives you
(almost) 100% VT100 compatibility.  I use it all the time to connect to the
schools VMS system.  The 80 column display works fine on my B/W TV, although if
your using a colour monitor is might be a bit blurry.  Kermit allows (slow)
file transfers.  Which leads me to another question entirly:  Is there a
Z-modem prog for the 8bits??????
	a.centofanti
From: A644690C@edinboro.edu ("Adam J. Conover")
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.8bit
Subject: Fractals and SDX.
Date: 27 Aug 92 17:00:41 GMT

I am looking for someone who uses SpartaDOS X and knows a little bit about
Fractals to beta-test a fractal program I wrote.   It is compatible with
MyDOS as well but I have included some special features that take advantage of
SDX if present.

Any Takers???


Thanks,
-Adam Conover.
	a644690c@edinboro.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.8bit