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From: Peter_Missel@k.maus.de (Peter Missel)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: Falcon
Date: 25 Dec 92 20:40:00 GMT
Organization: MausNet (Mitglied im IN e.V.)
X-Gateway: MausGate/News 1.14D/hb

w>Another quip'
w>
w>Are the Falcon's modes (3 of them anyway) compatible with TT-low/med/high?

You can easily set up 640x480 16 color or 320x480 256 color modes with the
Options-Video dialog. These are TT compatible, as far as resolution, number of
colors and video RAM organization are concerned.

That should be enough.
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
From: mackie@meena.cc.uregina.ca
Subject: RE: I am NOT making this up, OK?  (was Re: Closed ... <ho hum>)
Date: 29 DEC 92 04:05:53 GMT
Organization: University of Regina, Regina, Sask., Canada

I have another question...

What do you think of the A1200?  I am a games player (I won't apologize for
it - in fact in some sort of weird way I'm proud of it) and I think the IBM
clone sucks as a games machine.  If none ever get written for the Falcon, then
it too, will suck.  Is the A1200 the answer to my needs?

BTW - I don't especially like console games, and I do use my computer for
other things, so I don't want a console.

THanks in advance for the info!
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
From: healy@nosc.mil (Mike Healy)
Subject: Re: More about the Falcon
Organization: Naval Ocean Systems Center, San Diego
Date: Wed, 23 Dec 1992 07:18:23 GMT

In article <1992Dec22.221524.15911@elroy.jpl.nasa.gov> hyc@hanauma.jpl.nasa.gov (Howard Chu) writes:
>You sure could do this, but what kind of media would you record onto? At
>around 760 MB for a 76 minute CD, you're probably not going to be making
>a lot of digital copies on your hard drives, anyway. You'd have to just
>record back onto a DAT, or maybe onto an Exabyte drive. Of course, it still
>may be a good idea to send the digital straight into the Falcon, and have
>the Falcon remove the copy-protection bits, then feed into your DAT...
>-- 
>  -- Howard Chu @ Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA
>
>All true wisdom is conveyed in one-line witticisms.

And while you're removing those bits, perhaps you could throw in some
reverb or chorus? 

Mike Healy

healy@nosc.mil
From: wmtwen@rw8.urc.tue.nl (Erlend Nagel)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: Success with memory upgrade!
Keywords: SIMM, upgrade, cool :)
Date: 22 Dec 92 10:48:58 GMT
Reply-To: wmtwen@urc.tue.nl

Well as it happens I have bought the Xtra Ram deluxe ram upgrade too.
But I have had some problems with it. THe first problem was that the
MMU adaptor wouldn't fit. Well finally it would fit, but at that time I
had already damaged the MMU-socket. Well I went back to the shop where
I had bought my Xtra Ram deluxe (Data Skip in Tilburg, the Netherlands)
and they repaired the socket completely free of charge (actually they
just put in a new socket). But the upgrade still wouldn;t work. The
problem was in my ST that refused 0.5 meg in bank 1 and 2 meg in bank 2
(or 0 and 1 if you like that better) with 2 banks of 2 meg or the other
way around it would work, but it took a lot of time to find that out.
So just so you know when installing. The problem really was that
the disabling of one of the banks did not work very well. Sometimes the
ST still seemed to see the old 512 Kbytes. I have no clue why this is
but everything works GREAT now.
SO I recommend Xtra Ram Deluxe too!

Erlend.
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
From: tevans@unislc.uucp (Terry Evans)
Subject: Gemini and MiNT?
Organization: Unisys Corporation SLC
Date: Wed, 30 Dec 1992 18:02:26 GMT

    I just downloaded the recent version of Gemini and I was wondering
if it is able to run with MiNT.  Could somebody please let me know
if it is.

advathanksnce

tevans@cs.utah.edu
Xref: sparky comp.sys.atari.st:19151 comp.sys.atari.st.tech:6448
From: Bob_BobR_Retelle@cup.portal.com
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st,comp.sys.atari.st.tech
Subject: Re: Hard Drive (wierd) Problem - Help!
Date: Sun,  3 Jan 93 13:40:47 PST
Organization: The Portal System (TM)
  <1992Dec31.114129.236@janus.arc.ab.ca>
  <1993Jan03.160353.269@donau.et.tudelft.nl>

Michael Forget wrote about his Megafile making noises..
 
There are two sources of such noises normally.. the first is a
"head crash" where the flying read/write heads make contact
with the spinning disk and gouge the surface of the disk.
The material scraped from the surface will cause secondary
crashes until the heads and surfaces are destroyed.  The noise
from a head crash will usually be a scraping and grinding sound.
 
You do NOT want this to happen..!               :)
 
The second source of noise is a "ground strap" which serves to bleed
off static electricity which would otherwise build up on the spinning
platters.  The place where this strap contacts the end of the axle
tends to wear, allowing the strap to vibrate and make noises.
 
This is not destructive, only annoying.
 
There are ways to dampen the vibrations of the ground strap, but they
require disassembly of the case, and possibly removing the pc board
on the bottom of the hard drive itself.  If you can get to it, a small
blob of silicone sealer on the *outside* of the strap will often cure
the noises.
 
(A third source of noise could be failing bearings in the cooling fan,
but it would be pretty obvious where that noise was coming from.)
 
In the case of a head crash, you'd know it very soon, as the drive would
become unreadable, and there would be many errors.
 
From the description of the symptoms, and especially because the noise
changes with the orientation of the drive, it sounds like the ground
strap to me...
 
BobR
Xref: sparky comp.sys.atari.st:19129 comp.sys.atari.st.tech:6442
From: mforget@elfhaven.ersys.edmonton.ab.ca (Michel Forget)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st,comp.sys.atari.st.tech
Subject: Hard Drive (wierd) Problem - Help!
Date: 29 Dec 92 06:13:42 GMT
Reply-To: mforget@elfhaven.ersys.edmonton.ab.ca
Organization: Electric Storm Software
X-Software: HERMES GUS 1.10 Rev. Dec  9 1992
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Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit

Hi!

I think I might be having a problem with my hard drive.  It used to only
happen when it was cold in the room where the hard drive is, but now
it seems to happen every time I turn the drive on.

The problem itself is this;  after a few minutes of operating normally,
it suddenly gets louder and sounds like it is working harder/going
into Warp.  It usually stops (then again sometimes it doesn't) if I tilt
the front of the hard drive up.

The hard drive is an Atari MegaFile 30, by the way.

Do I need to clean the inside of the drive, or is it something else?
Should I worry about this?  The difference in sound is very noticeable
(and there is a slight hissing as well).

Please help!

-- 
--
Regards,

<<  -----------------------------------------  >>
<<    mforget@elfhaven.ersys.edmonton.ab.ca    >>
<<  ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~  >>
<<               Michel Forget                 >>
<<   The Key:  Spirit over mind over matter.   >>
<<  -----------------------------------------  >>
From: kosmatoo@JSP.UMontreal.CA (Kosmatos Odisseas)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: Falcon030, resolutions, TRUE color, and DSP
Date: 22 Dec 92 12:55:39 GMT
Organization: Universite de Montreal

In article <72180@cup.portal.com> Bob_BobR_Retelle@cup.portal.com writes:
>Ed Krimen writes:
>>Wow, a 386 clone is about as exciting as watching re-runs of "Designing Wome
>
>Tell me about it Ed.. tell me about 16 Mhz. 16 bit bus 68030s..
>
>Tell me about yesterday's technology while you're at it...

3 lessons to be learned...

1. A processor is not the only thing that makes a good computer.
2. A 486/66Mhz does'nt necessarily mean 'loads of fun'
3. Yesterdays technology was only 24 hours ago. :-) 

>BobR
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Xref: sparky comp.sys.atari.st:19143 comp.sys.atari.st.tech:6445
From: reeuwijk@dutentb.et.tudelft.nl (Kees van Reeuwijk)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st,comp.sys.atari.st.tech
Subject: Re: Hard Drive (wierd) Problem - Help!
Date: 3 Jan 93 16:03:53 GMT
Organization: Delft University of Technology, Dept. of Electrical Engineering

In <1992Dec31.114129.236@janus.arc.ab.ca> erkamp@JANUS.ARC.AB.CA (Bob Erkamp) writes:

>In article <H.eg.8xoBXXa8KAU@elfhaven.ersys.edmonton.ab.ca>, mforget@elfhaven.ersys.edmonton.ab.ca (Michel Forget) writes:
>>Hi!
>>
>>I think I might be having a problem with my hard drive.  It used to only
>>happen when it was cold in the room where the hard drive is, but now
>>it seems to happen every time I turn the drive on.
>>
>>The problem itself is this;  after a few minutes of operating normally,
>>it suddenly gets louder and sounds like it is working harder/going
>>into Warp.  It usually stops (then again sometimes it doesn't) if I tilt
>>the front of the hard drive up.
>>
>>The hard drive is an Atari MegaFile 30, by the way.
>>
>>Do I need to clean the inside of the drive, or is it something else?
>>Should I worry about this?  The difference in sound is very noticeable
>>(and there is a slight hissing as well).
>>

>Well I can't say specifically what is wrong but having talk to service techs 
>about Atari drives I recall that the MegaFile 30 was not a very reliable drive 
>and invariably died in about a year. He recommended to stay away from this 
>drive and get a MegaFile 20 or 60 as they had much more reliable workings (I've 
>had my 20 for many years). I realise that this doesn't help you much. I would 
>suggest backing it up immediatly and having it looked at.

>Bob

The MegaFile 30 and 60 are exactly same except for the capacity of the disk
itself. It's news to me that a megafile 30 is unreliable, and I've owned one
for several years. (I sold it when I got a MEGA STe with an internal drive.)

As for the complaints in the original message, they sound to me like some sort
of resonance of the casing, and I wouldn't worry too much about it. 

=-=-=-=
C. van Reeuwijk			e-mail: C.vReeuwijk@ET.TUDelft.NL
From: bcballi@cs.vu.nl (Ballintijn GC)
Subject: This upgrading thing
Summary: upgrading an Atari
Organization: Fac. Wiskunde & Informatica, VU, Amsterdam
Date: Thu, 24 Dec 1992 11:48:31 GMT

I've been reading a couple of times that the 'only' way
to upgrade an Atari is to slash and burn. Well I think
this is not correct. Some five six years ago I started using
my first atari, an 1040 ST. A couple of years later I reached
its bounderies and bought a Mega 2. I could do this because I
could get a nice price for my old 1040 ST. And the fun part was
that all the software worked (99.9% I belief) on the new machine
and I did have to learn a new computer system (hardware and 
sofware). If it wasn't for the lack of money I would have used 
the same swapping/buying-method to get a Mega STE a year ago. 
Having the same advantages as before.

So what I'm trying to say is, that with an Atari there is also
a possibility to upgrade and be compatible. You just do not have
the same machine. Ofcouse there are those who have such an
intimate relation with their atari.....

Gerco Ballintijn (bcballi@cs.vu.nl)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
From: jhp@sactoh0.sac.ca.us (Jim H. Puga)
Subject: Tex for atari
Summary: Won't work.
Keywords: tex atari
Organization: Sacramento Public Access Unix
Distribution: usa
Date: Sat, 26 Dec 92 18:33:11 GMT

I've managed to get Tex onto my system and thought everything
was fine.  The first time I ran it, I received a message about
"stack space exhausted" or something like that.  When I quit,
I was returned to the desktop(I am running Tex from Neodesk).

I've tried running Tex a couple of more times and the same
error message keeps popping up and I'm returned to the desktop.

Does anyone know how to fix this or what the problem is?
Unfortunately, I don't read German so the docs don't help.

Thanks for the help.
-- 
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From: wmtwen@rw8.urc.tue.nl (Erlend Nagel)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: More about the Falcon
Date: 22 Dec 92 11:16:27 GMT
Reply-To: wmtwen@urc.tue.nl

kosmatoo@JSP.UMontreal.CA (Kosmatos Odisseas) writes:

>Before I reply to the first question, let's clarify something else: Your
>DAT tape deck will output digital information which the Falcon will be able to
>receive and directly digitally manipulate, then send back to the DAT, this
>through the DSP port or something. You will not need to sample anything.
Hey, so I could use the falcon to make direct digital copies of DAT
tapes??? And of compact disks??? Without the problem of the copy
protection??? Sounds *great* then I would finally be able to make my
own compilation of best songs on tape!!! And copies of it for my
friends of course. Yes it is illegal to give them to my friends but I
hate it that I cannot even make more than one copy for my own use, so
that is totally absurd!

Erlend.
From: ce830@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Ron Field)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: Compress.ARC
Date: 2 Jan 1993 16:52:28 GMT
Organization: Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio (USA)
NNTP-Posting-Host: hela.ins.cwru.edu


If this is the same program I have the correct use is, TTP.
Type in a path filename and it defaults to compress.
Use -d path filename and it uncompress.
The wierd thing is when uncompressing the filename ext must be 3
chr's long ending with a Z.
-- 
Ron Field ce830@cleveland.freenet.edu (or) ron@mchome.santa-cruz.
ca.us  514 Margaret Av Aptos Ca 95003  (408)688-1508
Waiting for a Falcon
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
From: davidli@simvax.labmed.umn.edu
Subject: A letter to Dave Baggett
Reply-To: davidli@simvax.labmed.umn.edu
Organization: Health Computer Sciences, U of MN, Mpls
Date: Mon, 28 Dec 1992 19:42:41 GMT

Hi Dave.  You are, of course, right.  Atari stinks.  Those people who have
purchased an ST and who have hopes about the Falcon are lunatics.  There
will never be a release of Game Workbench for the Atari computer.  The
Intel-clone market is the only sane market for a programmer.

One of the converted.

- DPZ
From: wilsont@rahul.net (Timothy Wilson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Need mor ehelp with Lattice C 5.0
Date: 29 Dec 92 21:33:10 GMT
Organization: a2i network

I just got lattice installed on my system, and there are a few questions
i'd like to know from people who've successfully got this thing to work.

I've been using sozobon 1.44i (heat n' serve) since the beginning, works
great. but i have lots a problems with lattice.

1. I can't seem to get what i want out of lattice, 
	i would like to have: 16 bit ints, 32bit adressing.
i'm using make.ttp and so i have it compile with -b0 -r0,-w flags.
then i have to clink.ttp csnrb.o and lcsnrb.lib to it right?
so far, nothing has compiled correctly!

2. i also tried 32bit ints, stuff compiles, but bus errors and other nasty
things occur when i pass big ints to vdi calls and such.

3. i converted a program of mine from 'int' to 'short' declarations 
and used -b0 -r0, everything compiles, but the linker bombs out!! (bus error)

also, the docs are very vague when it comes to multiple module programs, 
so maybe i'm getting something wrong. 

is lattice written for small one module programs? why does it default to 
relative adressing? (thats intel crapola!) 

lastly, what about GNU c? what are its deafults?

thanks for the help!
-- 
Timothy Wilson <wilsont@rahul.net>
From: michael.smith@f842.n800.z3.fido.zeta.org.au (michael smith)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: word on US falcons???
Organization: Fidonet. Gate admin is fido@socs.uts.edu.au
Date: 16 Dec 92 23:50:28 GMT

Original to: ekrimen@wet.UUCP
In a message of <06 Dec 92 01:28:30>, ekrimen@wet.UUCP (3:713/602) writes:

 >> I thought the ST Book was cancelled, though that may be a
misunderstanding
 >> on my part. Certainly the ST Pad is gone.
 e> 
 e> The ST Book is being redesigned and the ST Pad (STylus) was scrapped.  I
 e> guess Atari didn't want to turn out like Momenta. :^)

I read a depressing article in the Oz weekly PC rag (PC week of all things
8) about "pad" style computers - everyone that they surveyed agreed that
they were the wave of the future, but _NOBODY_ was planning on buying any.
(we're talking major companies, consultancies, etc here)

Whether atari found the same thing, or the tramiels just love this keyboard
(ick 8) ... I dunno.

 e> |||    Ed Krimen

\`miff`                                                       /|\

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Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
From: martini@heaven7.in-berlin.de (Martin P. Ibert)
Subject: Re: You Could Win Big Money...
Date: Mon, 21 Dec 1992 22:25:09 GMT
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Organization: The Seventh Heaven, Berlin, Germany

aeg03@rrz.uni-koeln.de (Jan T. Kim) writes:
> However, the correlation between the number in  the  system  name
> and  the amount of RAM does not seem to work 100% -- I once heard
> there was a 520  ST+  with  1  MB  of  RAM,  no  disk  drive,  no
> modulator.

That is correct, I used to have such a machine (in fact, I still do, but it
does have floppies and a hard drive built in because it lives in a desktop
case :-)

The '+' signifies that the RAM spec has to be doubled :-)
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
From: healy@nosc.mil (Mike Healy)
Subject: Re: Laser C for the Atari
Organization: Naval Ocean Systems Center, San Diego
Date: Tue, 22 Dec 1992 18:26:50 GMT

In article <1992Dec22.151227.5154@Cadence.COM> keiths@Cadence.COM (Keith Sabine) writes:
>
>Does anyone know if Megamax still exist, and if they are still
>supporting the Laser C compiler?
>
>I bought this a few years ago and the last update I have is V2.1
>with the 1.0 Laser debugger. I still use it a lot as it is a
>great environment, but no-one in the UK seems to offer support
>any more... what happened?
>
>If Megamax ARE still there, will it be ported to the Falcon? :-)
>
>Thanx,
>
>Keith.
>
>

I upgraded to V2.1 about a year ago. The number didn't even give the
name Megamax, but the name of another company. I ordered my upgrade
and he said it would take a week. After two weeks went by I started
calling them but all I got was an answering machine. I left several
messages, then it occurred to me that perhaps he misplaced my address
so I left my address on the last message and received my upgrade a
few days later. It didn't sound like further upgrades are in the
works.

Have you gotten Laser C to make under gulam? I wasn't able to get
Megamax's environment variables initialized, but I didn't work on
it too much.

Mike Healy

healy@nosc.mil

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Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
From: kgg@mv.mv.com (Kenn Goutal)
Subject: vt100 emulator
Organization: MV Communications, Inc.
Date: Sun, 27 Dec 1992 00:02:27 GMT

Does there exist a VT-100 emulator for the ST?
I have a 1040 ST (F), and there is a service to which I have just 
subscribed that doesn't understand about the VT-52, only VT-100 and later.
Product, shareware, free hack, I will appreciate any leads.

For the time being, I cannot subscribe to this newsgroup,
so I'd appreciate any answers via e-mail, at the address below.

Many thanks,
-- Kenn Goutal
kenn@rr.mv.com
From: davidli@simvax.labmed.umn.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: I am NOT making this up, OK?  (was Re: Closed ... <ho hum>)
Date: 21 Dec 92 19:31:16 GMT
Reply-To: davidli@simvax.labmed.umn.edu
Organization: Health Computer Sciences, U of MN, Mpls

In article <72014@cup.portal.com>, Bob_BobR_Retelle@cup.portal.com writes:
>I reiterate: You have never dealt with Atari.

So ... ???

-- David Paschall-Zimbel
From: wmtwen@rw8.urc.tue.nl (Erlend Nagel)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: Apology: True Colour *IS* great for games.
Date: 22 Dec 92 12:06:14 GMT
Reply-To: wmtwen@urc.tue.nl

aa399@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Len Stys) writes:

>But STILL, the Falcon030 needs more than 1 Meg for these TRUE COLOR
>video or they won't even be used.

Ha, but it is too soon now to make assumptions about this, as all
falcons sold up to now have had 65 Meg HD and 4 Meg internal memory,
Sounds like plenty for games.

Erlend.
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: GIF convertors
From: craig@yonder.equinox.gen.nz (Craig Shore)
Date: Wed, 23 Dec 1992 22:36:38 +1200
Reply-To: craig@yonder.equinox.gen.nz
Organization: Equinox Networks (Public access), Node: Yonder
X-Software: HERMES GUS 1.04 Rev. Sep  5 1992

In <1992Dec21.175055.20273@cs.nott.ac.uk>, K.R.Marshall writes:

>Does anyone know of a program to convert GIF files to ST formats
>(Neo or Degas preferably) - I know that information will be lost,
>but I want to be able to load stuff up quickly, and as long as 
>the picture looks vaguely OK it doesn't matter.

Try ViewGif.  As long as the GIF is no bigger than the ST's
 screen.  Otherwise you have to select an area of the GIF the
 size of the screen.

 Craig.

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