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From: sterbbs@eursus (B. Rozenberg)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st,comp.sys.atari.st.tech
Subject: Re: TOS 2.06 Upgrade in ST, Easy??
Date: 14 Apr 92 18:15:14 GMT
Organization: Erasmus Universiteit Rotterdam
Originator: news@mailgate.eur.nl

friedric@mdd.comm.mot.com (Bernd Friedrich) writes:

>Has anybody out there installed the TEC 2.06 upgrade in a circa '88 ST?

>I'm considering the upgrade, and can handle a soldering iron, but would
>like to stay away from desoldering any chips.

>How difficult is the upgrade installation?

>Are the instruction easy to follow?  What about the option to switch back
>to older TOS? Is this an additional installation.

I've installed about 4 TEC 2.06 upgrades in different ST's. Most easyest is
the Mega ST but installing it in a very old 520 ST or 1040 ST didn't cost me
more than a half hour. Every (electrician) monkey could do it.
 
Bert Rozenberg

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Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
From: ens@ccu.umanitoba.ca
Subject: Re: Networking software for ST
Keywords: TCP/IP network ANS ethernet telnet
Organization: University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada
Date: Fri, 10 Apr 1992 19:39:16 GMT

In article <pm.702752039@fortec.tuwien.ac.at> pm@fortec.tuwien.ac.at (Peter Mayer) writes:


>For all we know the Riebl-Card isn't very common (and cheap). 
>Therefore we started to think about using one of the parallel-port-to-ethernet
>adaptors available for PCs (e.g. Xircom). If you know the specifications of
>such beasts please mail.
>
There are relatively cheap and common SCSI-to-ethernet adapters for the 
Mac. These could run on an ST with one of the many ACSI-SCSI boards
available. This seems to be the most logical hardware scheme for your
software. If you can make it work, I want it.

Werner Ens
From: pe@cam-orl.co.uk (Philip Elwell)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: F1GP is out
Keywords: F1GP, Geoff
Date: 8 Apr 92 08:10:37 GMT
Organization: Olivetti Research Ltd, Cambridge, England

In article <1992Apr6.082544.23879@cam-orl.co.uk> pe@cam-orl.co.uk
(Philip Elwell) writes:
> ...
>disk installable, but you can backup the floppies. The box also claims that it
>requires 512Kb RAM, but I can't verify that this is true.

I know following up my own article looks pretty desperate, but:

I have now tested F1GP on a 1/2Mb ST and it does work.

Phil Elwell
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
From: pyr579@oz.plymouth.edu (Technoid)
Subject: More info on GEMulator please!
Reply-To: pyr579@oz.plymouth.edu (Technoid)
Organization: Plymouth State College - Plymouth, N.H.
Date: Mon, 6 Apr 92 14:55:27 GMT

Hey,

	I just caught a reply to an earlier posted GEMulator article
which certainly sounds like an emulator for the IBM to allow it to run
ST software. How about sending me some more in depth info on this. I am
looking into buying a laptop and keeping the ST at my house in Maine while
I'm in Indiana for the next 2-3 years. Thanks,

Please respond E-mail to: pyr579@oz.plymouth.edu


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From: neil@cs.hw.ac.uk (Neil Forsyth)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: F1GP is out
Keywords: F1GP, Geoff
Date: 13 Apr 92 07:55:13 GMT
Organization: Dept of Computer Science, Heriot-Watt University, Scotland

In article <1992Apr10.105147.18392@city.cs> dh108@cs.city.ac.uk (KEATES M G)
writes:
>From what I remember reading in ST Format, Microprose said that there
>were not enough hard drive owning ST users to warrant the extra effort
>involved in including hard drive support in 'Golf', at least, so I
>assume the same for other games.

I wonder what they meant by extra effort. TOS has file handling so what's the
problem? I believe that Geoff Crammond developes his games on the ST so F1GP
probably on his HD. However if Microprose access the HD directly like a lot of
games access the floppy then I doubt I'd trust it anywhere near my HD.

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Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
From: jww@uhunix.uhcc.Hawaii.Edu (Jack W. Wine)
Subject: Re: Falcons, NeXts, Macs, and Reality
Organization: University of Hawaii
Date: Thu, 9 Apr 1992 08:46:38 GMT

brayl@isis.cs.du.edu (Pattie Rayl) writes:

>The machine was shown to deverlopers and press at the Toronto show last
>weekend, so it does exist.  I've seen it personally, naturally, since
>we publish Atari Interfaace magazine! :)

If it was an official announcement, were all the specs spelled out?
What exactly did Atari show and just how awesome are the Falcons?
Did Atari also discuss or show the Falcon '040 in the tower and
pizza box versions?  Any price and estimate of delivery of the 
Falcons '040s?

Just wondering,
Jack

Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
From: carter@cae.wisc.edu (Carter Gregory)
Subject: Re: HELP !!! FRANKIE-Virus and ALADIN
Organization: College of Engineering, Univ. of Wisconsin-Madison
Date: 10 Apr 92 16:51:33 CDT

In article <1992Apr7.174146.25978@wega.rz.uni-ulm.de> GROSSER@rzmain.rz.uni-ulm.de (Grosser Martin) writes:
>
>Help !!! Help !!! Help !!!
>Is there anyone using ALADIN 3.0 on the ST??
>
>Is there anyone who has experience with the horrible FRANKIE virus-infection??
>The FRANKIE virus begins his work after about 15 to 30 minutes.  There is a 
>message: " Frankie says: no more piracy" and the system crashed. After that time
>you usually changed a few discs and the virus is everywhere and you have to 
>clean up the whole system.
>Is there any ANTI-Virus for this bullshit FRANKIE-virus  on ST available.
>
>please answer
>martin

Disinfectant 2.5 or better I think, can handle the Frankie VIRUS with no probs.

-Greg
From: hjv@phil.ruu.nl (Hendrik Jan Veenstra)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st.tech
Subject: Re: Questions..
Date: 4 Apr 92 19:03:36 GMT
Organization: Department of Philosophy, University of Utrecht, The Netherlands

ac999108@umbc5.umbc.edu (ac999108) writes:

>Ok.. I have a quick question for those of you who program (Gasp!) GFA Basic...
>I need to draw some screens in memory while my title screen is displaying,
>but I don't remember much about how this is done.  Any help would be great..

I know nothing about GFA, but since I suppose it's possible to make XBIOS-calls
in GFA...:
XBIOS 5 (Setscreen) allows you to set the addresses of the logical and physical
screen. The physical screen is the one you're viewing (your title screen) and
the logical screen is the one you're drawing.
By allocating enough memory for the various screens and by swapping the logical
screen addresses, while holding the phys.scr. unchanged, it is possible to draw
various screens 'in the background' while displaying your welcome screen. (if
this takes long, use Dosound (XBIOS 32) to play some nice piece of music while
the user is waiting (e.g. parts of Bach's Goldberg Variations :-))
O, BTW: related functions: Physbase (XBIOS 2): gets the address of the current
physical screen; Logbase (XBIOS 3): same for the current logical screen.


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Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st.tech
Subject: Re: PC-Ditto 1 and TOS 1.04
From: Roger.Sheppard@bbs.actrix.gen.nz
Date: Tue, 7 Apr 1992 01:56:30 GMT
Organization: Actrix Information Exchange

In article <53703@hydra.gatech.EDU> gt1448b@prism.gatech.EDU (David P. Forrai) writes:
> After I upgraded my 1040ST to TOS 1.04, PC Ditto v3.01 no longer
> works.  The keyboard is not mapped correctly.  Is there any fix
> for this?
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The UK, version 3.64 works on a TOS 1.04 and TOS 1.6, is there no a later
version of USA PC-ditto..??
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From: ken@isgtec.com (Ken Newman)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st.tech
Subject: Re: ST ANSI.SYS?
Date: 12 Apr 92 18:35:47 GMT
Distribution: world
Organization: ISG Technologies Inc., Mississauga Ontario

In article <1992Apr6.123541.45787@qut.edu.au> lunnon@qut.edu.au writes:
> >   What I'm wondering is if there is any facility for interpreting ANSI
> > screen codes for the ST, either in a particular comm program or as a
> > seperate driver (I don't want to have to use an emulator for tele-
> > communications).

Get an ST term program that supports ANSI graphics. I use Flash 2, which
seems to work ok, although ANSI graphics slows down the throughput a LOT
and I usually tell the BBS to kill the ANSI nonsense. I seem to recall
at least one shareware term program that does ANSI "graphics".

> This is an evolution which I personally deplore. BBS systems should cater
> for general connects like all other online services, rather than assuming
> all the world owns an IBM PC. 

So true.

> Problem is that no-one seems
> to have done much about drawing an IBM compatible font (8 and 16 bit) yet.

There are term programs, if you search a bit.
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From: marshall@cs.uq.oz.au (Marshall Harris (G.M.))
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st.tech
Subject: ICD utilities
Date: 7 Apr 92 03:12:49 GMT
Reply-To: marshall@cs.uq.oz.au
Organization: Computer Science Department, The University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia

Can anyone enlighten me? II have a MegaSte with built-in hard disk (of
course!).
It is a Seagate h/disk, I think. Do I think correctly?
If it is Seagate, can ICD Utilities be used on it?
Thanks for any info - please email.

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Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st.tech
From: plate@cdsmn.mn.org (Doug Plate)
Subject: Re: Floppy drive pulse on the TT
Reply-To: plate@cdsmn.UUCP (Doug Plate)
Organization: Dicomed Inc, Burnsville, MN.
Date: Fri, 10 Apr 92 03:31:59 GMT

In article <4754@krafla.rhi.hi.is> adamd@rhi.hi.is (Adam David) writes:
>In <g2HciB3w164w@sys6626.bison.mb.ca> genius@sys6626.bison.mb.ca (Trevor Cordes) writes:
>
>>Also, how come if the light on my floppy jitters on and off very faintly 
>>(only really noticable in the dark) even when the drive's not being used? 
>
>
>This happens on ST's as well. TOS checks once every VBlank to see whether
>the write-protect status has changed on the floppy drives. It uses this
>information to figure out whether a floppy media change has occured. This
>method only works with write-enabled floppies and drives which have no
>media-change circuitry (or which have such circuitry disabled).
>--
>Adam David.
>(adamd@rhi.hi.is)

Hey wow!  My guess was right?  I've heard people talking about the "dubious"
nature of the Atari Media Change implementation, but I don't see the problem.
I mean even with write protected floppies, unless you can pull that disk out
and shove another in there in less than 1/60th of a second, the write protect
status will change, right?  Are there more details I need to know to
understand?  I figure the checking routine must count more than one pulse in
order to determine the media change because I've seen that function call that
returns the "a media change has occurred", "a media change has probably
 occurred", "a media change has definitly not occurred".  Weird!

Regards,
Doug
From: randyh@hpsad.HP.COM (Randy Hosler)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st.tech
Subject: Re: help with sozobon getenv()
Date: 7 Apr 92 20:13:19 GMT
Article-I.D.: hpsad.18420016
Organization: HP Signal Analysis Div - Rohnert Park, CA

>	I would think you should have a declaration 
>char *getenv();
>	somewhere.  Remember that any undeclared functions in C are assumed to
>be ints.  Hence the complaint Integral type not allowed.  With the cast you are
>really stirring things up.  Assuming that int and pointer are returned from
>functions in the same register, the compiler will only take the int value of
>the returned value (unless you happen to be using 32-bit ints :-).  Casting
>this to (char *) will then sign-extend it to a 32-bit pointer, in essence
>losing the higher bits of the address that was originally returned.  If the
>return mechanisms are not the same, all bets are off -- you'll just get
>garbage.
>
>Ivan Reid, Paul Scherrer Institute, CH.			ivan@cvax.psi.ch
>----------

  Thanks for the help. 

  I was under the assumption that the cast would work the same as
  a declaration.  Sounds easy enough to fix. :)

  Still, I don't understand why dlibs doesn't have a header to declare
  getenv().  Maybe I'm missing something.  I grepped my include directory
  and found no reference to getenv().

Randy Hosler

  Michal, thanks for the email reply.
From: plate@cdsmn.mn.org (Doug Plate)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st.tech
Subject: Anyone interested in hooking an Atari 3.5 to a PC?
Date: 15 Apr 92 05:52:54 GMT
Article-I.D.: cdsmn.1992Apr15.055254.14862
Reply-To: plate@cdsmn.UUCP (Doug Plate)
Organization: Dicomed Inc, Burnsville, MN.


I recently took some time to interface an SF314 external 3.5 floppy to 
my PC at work so i could use it to transfer files.  It wasn't as plug and
play as I thought it would be.

Is anyone interested in a "How To" on this topic?  Before I spend a lot
of time on it, i want to be sure there is some interest.  I have seen 
articles about attaching an IBM type disk to the ST, but not the other
way around.

The modification is cheap, easy and you can still use the SF314 on the ST.

No soldering, etc.

I will post if I get a response.

Regards,
Doug
From: r0mill01@ulkyvx.louisville.edu (Robert Delius Royar)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st.tech
Subject: Re: Kermit and a Vax
Date: 11 Apr 92 13:02:03 GMT
Reply-To: r0mill01@ulkyvx.louisville.edu
Organization: University of Louisville

In article <1992Apr11.103800.3043@actrix.gen.nz>, Roger.Sheppard@bbs.actrix.gen.nz writes:
>
>Does any one know what this problem is..!!
>
>I am connecting to a System that uses C-Kermit 4E(072) 24 Jan 89, Vax/VMS
>
>  The problem that I am having is on uploading, the system will
>not close this file, ie, unable to close file..
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The problem comes from the way a Vax deals with files that are note text.  
Any file that may either be executable, or which might need to have its 
contents extracted (an ARC file is an example of the latter), should be 
transferred into the Vax as FILE TYPE FIXED.  But that is only part of the 
solution (a part C-Kermit solves by converting all Binary files into FIXED). 
 In addition the File that gets created on the VAX (VMS file system?) needs 
fixed-length records (default of 512 bytes each).  If the file is not a 
multiple of 512 bytes in length, part of the file (the remainder of the 
last 512 byte record) will be truncated.  I've gotten around this problem 
with a kludge.  I use VAXARC.EXE (compatible with ARC.TTP (v. 5)) to 
compress files before sending and always aadd the file zzzzzzzz.zzz to the 
archive.  That file is 1754 bytes of a-z repeated a number of times.  This 
always compresses to increase the archive by a little over 512 bytes.  The 
archive can then be unarced on the vax, with only the garbage file damaged.

I got VAXARC from CompuServe (but you could get it or ZOO from DeCus).. I 
had to upload it through Vax Kermit (not C-Kermit) with SET FILE TYPE FIXED 
on the Vax end and FILE TYPE BINARY on the ST.  In VMS-Kermit (v32?) the 
transfer is much slower (no extended packets) but the truncation problem 
doesn't occur (at least for me). 

robert royar r0mill01@ulkyvx.louisville.edu
Organization: Ryerson Polytechnical Institute
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Date: Friday, 10 Apr 1992 11:19:03 EST
From: Carlos Varela <EENG6801@RyeVm.Ryerson.Ca>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st.tech
Subject: Wanted: Quartet converter

I remember seeing on one of the ST Formats (on the PD section) a program
that converted Amiga files to Quartet. What's the name of the program ?
And what formats does it convert ? Does anyone have this program or knows
where I can get it ? Any Librarys in Uk carry it ?
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From: Anthony Paul
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st.tech
Subject: 2 HD's on MSTe Host Adapter
Date: 6 Apr 92 14:31:22 GMT
Reply-To: ttpui@bnr.ca
Organization: Bell-Northern Research

I was talking to Bill Rhebok (sp?) at the ACE show in Toronto this weekend.  He
told me that it was possible to connect (and use) 2 drives
to the MSTe host adapter.  He said the version of the software was a 
factor.  I got version 5.0 of the atari Hard disk driver.  

OK, you know the 3 dip switches on the adapter board?  well he said they were
actually backwards and off and on are reversed.  What he said to
do was to flip the switch numbered 3 (or was it one?) to the other position. 
This switch is the MULTIPLE DRIVE ENABLE.  The other 2 switches 
are only for SCSI offset ( if you set them, you would put your 2 drives 
as 2 and 3 or 3 and 4 or 1 and 2 instead of the normal SCSI IDs of 0 and 1.  So
these should be irrelevant to us.  Unfortunately, I don't have my other SCSI
drive and 3 ended cable with me (and won't till late may) so I
can't try this.  Previously I tried 2 drives and all combinations of the 3 dip
switches - no luck, BUT I was running veriosn 3.x of the software.

So I'd like someone to try flipping one of the end dip switches (if one
	doesn't work, try the other) and trying to hook 2 drives with the rev 5.x
software.

Hopefully, this will bring some greatly needed storage space to us
MSTe adapter people.

Any questions, please ask.

The show was great, seemed like a big success to me.

Anthony Paul
ttpui@bnr.ca
 
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st.tech
From: rosenkra@convex.com (William Rosenkranz)
Subject: binary i/o on stdin with GCC
Summary: works with UNIXMODE
Keywords: GCC binary stdin
Organization: CONVEX Computer Corporation, Richardson, Tx., USA
Date: Mon, 06 Apr 1992 16:33:32 GMT
X-Disclaimer: This message was written by a user at CONVEX Computer
              Corp. The opinions expressed are those of the user and
              not necessarily those of CONVEX.


i wrote a test program to check reading binary stdin. as bammi pointed
out to me, this should work with UNIXMODE set to 'b'. i confirmed this
with non-MiNT GCC 1.40 with libs at PL 71. i did not try it with the
latest MiNT libs, tho i see no reason for them not to work in a similar
fashion.

here was the code:

#include <stdio.h>
main(int argc, char *argv[]) {
	int c;
	while (1) {
		c = fgetc(stdin);
		if (feof(stdin)) {
			printf("end of file\n"); break;
		}
		printf("c = 0x%02x\n", c);
	}
}

here was the dataset:

a<cr><lf>test<cr><lf><cr><lf>

executed under Gulam (no MiNT) with UNIXMODE unset:

% unsetenv UNIXMODE
% tst <tst.dat
c = 0x61
c = 0x0a <------ cr/lf mapped to lf only
c = 0x74
c = 0x65
c = 0x73
c = 0x74
c = 0x0a
c = 0x0a
end of file

executed with UNIXMODE:

% setenv UNIXMODE b
% tst <tst.dat
c = 0x61
c = 0x0d <------ cr/lf mapped to cr/lf
c = 0x0a <------
c = 0x74
c = 0x65
c = 0x73
c = 0x74
c = 0x0d
c = 0x0a
c = 0x0d
c = 0x0a
end of file

as you can see, the CR-LF is correctly interpreted in both cases, depending
on UNIXMODE. i presume the original poster having problems with reading
the degas file from stdin how has some recourse. i don't know if UNIXMODE
can be set from the desktop. probably, with some sort of auto folder prog.

so it looks like there are several options to read binary data:

	- set UNIXMODE (all streams)

	- muck with _flags in FILE structure

	- binmode() call (tho not for stdin)

	- open a file with "rb"

sorry for the misinformation. i was having some problems with a code some
time ago and incorrectly blamed the GNU C startup code. it was more than
likely my own bug (that i now have to fix). i should know better...

-bill
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From: charles@aurora.unice.fr
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st.tech
Subject: need informations about the MIDI interface...
Date: 9 Apr 92 14:00:20 GMT
Organization: University of Nice - Sophia Antipolis, France
Originator: charles@aurora.unice.fr

Hi atari users...

I look for informations about MIDI. Does it exist a ftp server or
something like that where I can find the complete (or incomplete !!!)
dscription of MIDI (some examples a welcome.......).

It's really very important.......

Please mail me if you have any informations.........

Tony / charles@aurora.unice.fr
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