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From: malay@sae.com (Bob Malay)
Subject: Printing with Spectre GCR
Reply-To: malay@sae.com
Organization: Template Software
Date: Tue, 29 Sep 1992 16:10:56 GMT


I need a MAC print driver for a HP-IIP printer connected to the ST so I can
print from Mac-mode. I own GDT Softworks Printlink in which I change my printer
to emulate Epson LQ but the print quality from MacWrite II and/or MS Word 5 is
bit flakey. GDT apparently has a new product "PowerPrint". Also, looking
through the MAC catalogs I came across something from Insight called MacPrint.
I also own a used copy of Freedom of Press Light but the modified AppleTalk 
that comes with FOP seems to hang the system when booting up so I have never
seen that quality of the print.

Current Commercial Drivers:

        GDT PowerPrint
        INSIGHT MacPrint
        Freedom of Press Light

Anybody have any luck with any of these????

Bob Malay
From: antony@milton.u.washington.edu (Anthony Hand)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: SPC to GIF
Date: 5 Oct 92 22:14:17 GMT
Organization: University of Washington


Does anyone know of a program to convert Spectrum files to GIF format?
I have a program that will do the opposite ie., convert from GIF to
Spectum, but I've recently discovered a need to "go the other way".

Any ideas?

Antony

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From: glens@natinst.com (Glen Sescila)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Stereo Glasses
Date: 30 Sep 1992 07:42:22 -0500
Organization: National Instruments, Austin, TX
Distribution: world
NNTP-Posting-Host: falcon.natinst.com
Keywords: latex,picture,oval,font

	I have written a little TSR which allows you to use the 3D glasses
interface to the RS232 port with the same circuit they use for the PC.  I
have been using them with Cyber Studio and they work great.  If anybody
needs a copy of this program, just e-mail me.  You can ftp info on the
serial interface from sunee.uwaterloo.ca.  The main reason I wrote this
program is because of the unavailability of the StereTek glasses and it is
nice to have 1 pair of glasses that I can use on the ST and on the PCs at
work.

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From: mikhil@ida.csd.uu.se (Mikael Hillborg)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: Is there an auto prg to merge midi out with a thru?
Date: 30 Sep 92 21:39:05 GMT
Organization: Uppsala University
NNTP-Posting-Host: ida.csd.uu.se

despair@netcom.com (Scott Hanson) writes:

>In article <hjv.716942784@groucho.phil.ruu.nl> hjv@phil.ruu.nl (Hendrik Jan Veenstra) writes:
>>selick@csa.bu.edu (Steven Selick) writes:
>>
>>
>>>Is there an autoload program that will work in the background to combine
>>>whatever comes in the in midi port with whatever the computer generates
>>>for the out port? 
>>
>>Hi Steve, we meet even here :). I suppose you mean a soft-MIDIthrough? ST MIDI
>>data always reaches the out-port (in principle), so the only problem is to get
>>the in-data to the out-port - a 'through' that is. I have an ACC that does just
>>that, and a prg that installs (TSR) a through-routine when run. I suppose the
>>prg can be run from the AUTO folder. To be honest: I've never used it yet.
>>I'll check it out and let you know.

>This has already been discussed, but the Atari supports hardware thru.
>I have a cable that has Midi out & thru, and works automatically.  The
>other two pins on the 5-pin din are used for this.  If anyone wants this
>cable, I have two and could spare one.  $15 including shipping.

>Regards
>-- 
>Scott Hanson		This has been a recording.
>despair@netcom.com


Oh, I dont think you should use such a cable because it doesnt follow
the MIDI-standard specification. I used such a cable with my Atari and
got problems.
I am though interested in obtaining an accessory that does the soft-
thru job for me. Can anyone tell me if there is a PD implementation
somewhere ? I cant find anyone at Atari.archive.


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 email: mikhil@student.docs.uu.se
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
From: stigj@dhhalden.no (STIG JORGENSEN)
Subject: Re: FAX-Software for ZyXEL and AtariST
Keywords: FAX ZyXEL AtariST
Organization: Ostfold College
Date: Thu, 1 Oct 1992 12:32:51 GMT

In article <3093@unieinf.UUCP> claes@sparc2.ikb.uni-essen.de (Heinz-Josef Claes) writes:
>From: claes@sparc2.ikb.uni-essen.de (Heinz-Josef Claes)
>Subject: FAX-Software for ZyXEL and AtariST
>Keywords: FAX ZyXEL AtariST
>Date: 30 Sep 92 15:53:35 GMT
>
>
>Does anybody know of FAX-Software for the combination of ZyXEL and AtariST?
>
>
>claes@sparc2.ikb.uni-essen.de


Q-fax and Tele-Office are two German program that support the ZyXEL.

Stig
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
From: wmagro@uiuc.edu (William Magro)
Subject: Re: TOS upgrade advice/help needed :^)
Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana
Date: Tue, 6 Oct 1992 18:09:22 GMT

In article <1992Oct6.020934.2232@cc.gatech.edu> don@cc.gatech.edu (Don  
Allison) writes:
:^) >
:^) I can vouch for the difficulty of the operation.  I managed to kill my  
520ST
:^) even using a fancy de-soldering station, etc.  I had to "blue-wire"  
about
:^) 4 traces to get it to boot again and there are still a couple I need  
to
:^) track down (for example it boots in color with a mono monitor  
connected).
:^) Evidently some of the inner layer traces are as flimsy as the outer  
layer
[...]

Does this mean that some STs have multi-layer PCBs?  My STf (REV. C) seems  
to have the old style, with only traces on the outside.

--Bill
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
From: carter@cae.wisc.edu (Carter Gregory)
Subject: Re: Is Falcon worth buying????
Organization: U of Wisconsin-Madison College of Engineering
Date: 28 Sep 92 12:40:35 CDT

>Thanks Mr. Carter. I am really used to comments like that as the same language
>is used against me in the official Atari conference called "Atari Explorer
>Online." Mind you, Mr. Brodie who is the official Atari director of
>communication, wasn't doing anything to stop it since he enjoys people putting
>down Atari users who do not agree with him and Atari Corporation's position.
>
>I would invite any user to join the ST 16/32 Bit conference and see what is
>actually going on. This week I have been accused by an OFFICIAL Atari dealer
>of being a lier and he called me publically an "ASSHOLE." Mind you, this
>person was employeed by Atari Corporation and he is the official service
>center for Atari Canada. Furthermore, he used an alias to post the offensive
>AND he used profanities wherever possible. He used the alias "Chucky" and
>"Chuck Mariotty" even though his real name is Sonny Ang and he is the owner
>of a store called "Compuworld." I will be more than happy to repost the
>messages from him so people realise what kind of people Atari hires.
>
>Sincerely,
>Mark K.
>E-Mail: kovarski@zooid.guild.org

  I would think most people here have a rather uninformed view of what I do
on this newgroup...basically I speak my mind.  Rather small or large as it may
seem to most people, I do post meaningful information.  I think my history
speaks for itself.  And when I do post information its rather valuable,
so I take conmfort in the fact that those who refuse to read me in their 
kill files don't get to take advantage of anything of value I post.

  I haven't been able to post much lately as I am working two jobs saving money
for a 040 computer of my choice sometime in the future so I have a nice
machine I can run UNIX/X Windows on while I go to Grad school...somewhere?

Right now I see myself condeming my poor Mega STE too doom as a mail server
for uucp while I use perhaps a:

Next Dimension Cube??
Mac Quadra?
?????? Atari????

I love NuBUS's architecture so I will probably go with the MAC...or until
Atari can come up with something better???

Right now I am probably like many other Atari people out their, waiting for
my double life to end some day???

--Greg












Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st,comp.sys.atari.st.tech
From: ersmith@uwovax.uwo.ca (Eric Smith)
Subject: MiNT library patchlevel 24 now available
Organization: University of Western Ont, London
Date: Sun, 4 Oct 1992 05:30:49 GMT

I've just uploaded a new version of the MiNT library to
atari.archive.umich.edu. It's patchlevel 24 (patchlevels
21 to 23 were "internal" releases :-)) and may be found
in Mint/mntlib24.zoo (library source code) and Mint/mntinc24.zoo
(header files). Compiled versions of the library will be uploaded
shortly.

This library is for use with several C compilers, as a replacement
for or supplement to their normal run time libraries. It will
produce executables that will run under either TOS or MiNT,
although multitasking features such as pipe() and fork() require
MiNT to be present to work properly. Compilers supported are:
GNU C, Pure/Turbo C, Sozobon C, and Lattice C.

Many thanks to Howard Chu (who contributed the GNU C -mbaserel
support for this version), Michael Hohmuth and Ulf Moeller (for
the Pure C support), and Jwahar Bammi (for numerous bug fixes
and enhancements).
--
Eric R. Smith                     email:
Dept. of Mathematics            eric.smith@uwo.ca
University of Western Ontario   ersmith@uwovax.uwo.ca
London, Ont. Canada N6A 5B7
ph: (519) 661-3638
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From: stefan@spc.nl (Stefan Posthuma)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st,biz.jobs.offered
Subject: Wanted: C/68000 (games) coders
Date: 29 Sep 92 14:46:53 GMT
Distribution: eunet
Organization: SPC Company BV, The Netherlands


We are looking for people with experience in 68000 as well as C coding to 
develop games on the new CD-Interactive machines. This involves lots of
68000 and a little C thrown in just for the hell of it.

People with lots of 68000 experience (like people from the demo/games coding
world) as well as creativity and time (we're talking about at least one year
full time here) who want to work on a totally new machine with interesting
hardware and possibilities, who have no objection to working and living in
Holland for a while can contact me at stefan@spc.nl

SPC is an official CD-I development house, and some of us did a little 68000
shoot-them-up as a pet project. This has become larger than life, and now
we need people for all those other games they want to do. If coding 68000
games/demos is what you always did, and what you want, this could be for you.
Send me some email and we'll talk about it.
-- 
"We convoke the Nephilim and they come  {*}  Stefan Posthuma,  SPC Company
to us, strangers with the eyes of men."  |   stefan@spc.nl
From: bpat@cs.mcgill.ca (Patrick BETREMIEUX)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: Populous - how does the score work?
Date: 30 Sep 92 16:07:09 GMT
Organization: McGill University, Montreal, Canada

The less castles you have at the end, the better (weird, hey!). So if you
call armagedon, you have no castles !!!
From: osoelgaultier+@CMU.EDU (Stefan Monnier)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: Boston Computer Society shows Falcon 030
Date: 4 Oct 92 12:29:35 GMT
	<1992Oct4.090508.8767@beaver.cs.washington.edu>
Organization: Junior, Math/Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA

Excerpts from netnews.comp.sys.atari.st: 4-Oct-92 Re: Boston Computer
Society.. Benjamin Gilbert@cs.wash (1932)
>   Ok, so now you throw in the overscan, which, also according to Atari,
> multiplies _both_ the x and y resolutions by a factor of 1.2, you will get
> a resolution of 768x480 with 65536 colors.  Notice however that this can 
> only be accomplished on a TV or SC1224/SC1435 (with interlace, although
> supposedly the interlace is not very irritating) -- on a VGA monitor you
> get rid of the interlace but due to limitations in VGA monitors you
> can't get true-color in better than 320x480 and you can't do real overscan
> (check the Townsend document for a description of overscan and how it
> works on VGA monitors).  Ironic that the older monitor can do something
> the new VGA ones can't, isn't it?  :-)  I guess this is a good reason
> to keep your SC1224, so you can do real hi-res true-color.

STOP !

The problem is not in the monitors (well also, but..):

You can't get 768x480x32K on VGA monitors, cause it requires a too
large bandwidth. On TV, you can do interlace which halves the necessary
bandwidth. But you if you try to interlace on a VGA monitor, the
vertical sync frequency goes too low for most monitors (that's also why
the 320x240 is doube-scan).

In fact interlace permits to display at only 30 frames/s: that's much
slower than typical 60-70 on VGA monitors. This low rate is the key
to the low necessary bandwidth:

768 x 480 x 2bytes x 30Hz=768 x 480 x 1byte x 60Hz  !!

> Ok, that should answer your question, have fun!


> Ben Gilbert
> bgilbert@cs.washington.edu

So either you get full color and headache or none of them !

	Stefan

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Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
From: gbcusg@gpu.utcs.utoronto.ca (I. Barnett)
Subject: Re: using Falcon DSP as modem?
Organization: UTCS Public Access
Distribution: usa
Date: Wed, 30 Sep 1992 15:50:13 GMT

I believe the falcon's SRAM is 32K

Darren King, gbc, toronto :: gbcusg@gpu.utcs.utoronto.ca
From: baffoni@aludra.usc.edu (Juxtaposer)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: Using a different font with CoNnect 1.60
Date: 7 Oct 92 01:14:31 GMT
Organization: University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA
NNTP-Posting-Host: aludra.usc.edu

In article <1992Oct4.143115.13337@miavx1.acs.muohio.edu> rlcollins@miavx1.acs.muohio.edu (Ryan 'Gozar' Collins) writes:
>80X24, I have to use the dinky 6X6 font, which is hard to read. Does
>anyone know of the easiest way to get a 7X7 font? This would make it
>more readable, almost usable!

	Hi,

	According to Wolfgang (the author) just about any GDOS should work, so
if you get NVDI (best), FontGDOS, AMCGDOS, etc. (but for all but NVDI, I would
strongly encourage you to get a screen accelerator ala warp9, etc.) that should
work just fine.  Especially if you use a proportional font (for those lucky few
who have FSMGDOS) you can specify any point size you want.

	BTW, I use Warp9 (I don't have access to NVDI) and the only odd 
behavior I have noticed with it is a blinking cursor in the top left corner
that just sits there and blinks.  This maybe a problem fixed by the patches, so
I'll have to see if its still there...  Other than that, Warp9 works fine, and
allows me to load in nice-looking fonts (although they are all resolution 
dependant and either 16x8 or 6x6...or is that 8x8...anyway, it works).


>Later.......

>------======={{{{{{{{((((((Ryan 'Gozar' Collins))))))))}}}}}}}}=======--------
[sig deleted]

-Mike
From: gpinzone@TASHA.POLY.EDU (Gerard Pinzone)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: 16 million color program on archive?
Summary: Something about 16 million color program on archive?
Date: 27 Sep 92 19:34:11 GMT
Reply-To: gpinzone@tasha.poly.edu
Organization: Polytechnic Univ., Farmingdale NY and East Coast Anime

Has anyone seen (or tried out) the program on the atari.archive.umich.edu
that is supposed to output 16 million colors?

I got a copy of a bbs and I couldn't load any .IFF pics....


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Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
From: hutch@bellman.lanl.gov (John Hutchinson)
Subject: Re: Toad Computers
Reply-To: hutch@bellman.lanl.gov
Organization: Los Alamos National Laboratory
Date: Thu, 1 Oct 1992 21:48:14 GMT

In article 8021@umbc3.umbc.edu, chuck@umbc5.umbc.edu (Chuck Rickard; ACS (UGRAD)) writes:
>
>Heck!  Why don't you just call their toll-free number???
>
>It's (800) 448-TOAD!
>
>I don't want to make excuses for them, but I feel that they may be a little
>behind right now.  They moved a few weeks ago and may be having a few problems
>while they "settle in" to their new storefront.

In all fairness, Chuck, the original posted complaint was from an individual in
Canada who does not have access to Toad's 800 number.


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From: undermind!Steve_Johnson@overmind.mind.org
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: User Groups - who to contact?
Date: 28 Sep 92 17:54:10 GMT
Organization: Fortress R&D 404/521-0445 v.32bis TurboPEP
X-mailer: Stadel 3.4a-227
X-Spam-content: irrelevant

Just send a letter to Atari Corp. ATTN: Bob Brodie.  Or you can contact 
him through GEnie using the address BOB-BRODIE.  He also has a Compu$erve 
account, a Delphi account, and I believe also an Internet address, but I 
don't have any of those addresses handy.
From: wrighttj@uhura.aston.ac.uk (Auntie Tim)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: Convert picture formats??? Which program?
Date: 5 Oct 92 13:18:53 GMT
Organization: Aston University

Gif to mono conversion is really only two or three programs. Gemview is
slightly more powerful, but can only save in .IMG format; use a screen
dump utility or some such. ViewGif is pretty much as good, but doesn't
have as many features, though it saves in DEGAS and is (I think?) 
slightly faster. MGIF37 is a mono gif viewer; is has masses of features
like histogram equalisation, but uses a proprietary file format using
flicker palettes; very good results but can only be shown by that
program. All three programs are on atari.archive.

-- 
Tim Wright.                   \               Real Life sucks
wrighttj@cs.aston.ac.uk        \                   losers dry.
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
From: hjv@phil.ruu.nl (Hendrik Jan Veenstra)
Subject: Re: Newbie C question.
Organization: Department of Philosophy, University of Utrecht, The Netherlands
Date: Wed, 30 Sep 1992 02:37:23 GMT

rasas@minyos.xx.rmit.oz.au (Greg Patten) writes:

>For some reason this (very small) piece of code id doing wierd things.
>fpath is the string returned from fsel_input(fpath, etc...)

>re_name()
>{
>	int	i, count;

>	i = count = 0;
>	for(i = 0; i <= strlen(fpath); i++)
>		if(fpath[i] = '\\')
>			count = i + 1;
>	printf("count = %d", count);
>	strncpy(fname, fpath, count - 1);
>}

>After the for() loop, count equals the length of the entire string + 1. It's
>as if the if(fpath[i] = '\\') isn't even seeing the slosh (backslash). 
>I am using Sozobon2 (if that means anything)...

First of all the for loop should be:
    for(i=0; i < strlen(fpath); i++)
              ^^^
Second: why do you do:
           ... count=i+1...
         strncpy(... count-1) ?
Wouldn't it be easier -and more straightforward- to omit the +/- 1?

Third: if the fpath ends with a '\\' (don't know that without the compiler 
handy :), then the last '\\' encountered is when i == strlen(fpath)-1
Then count should be i+1 == strlen(fpath). Right? Is this what's going wrong
or am I missing the point? Sorry if *I*'m stupid or asking the obvious...

Fourth: it looks like you're trying to separate path and filename. Why not
use strrchr, which gives you the last occurence of a char in a string?

my $0.00002

--
Hendrik Jan Veenstra                            hjv@phil.ruu.nl
Department of Philosophy              -------------------------------------
University of Utrecht                     All opinions expressed above
The Netherlands                               are pure coincidence
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: ATARI/IBM disk compatability, is it flawless?
From: sheppard_r@kosmos.wcc.govt.nz
Date: 30 Sep 1992 09:11:23 GMT
Reply-To: sheppard_r@kosmos.wcc.govt.nz
 <1992Sep20.003011.141851@rrz.uni-koeln.de> <Bv1B59.9Ln@chinet.chi.il.us>,<1992Sep29.215423.4601@lmpsbbs.comm.mot.com>
Organization: Wellington City Council (Public Access), Wgtn, Nz
NNTP-Posting-Host: kosmos.wcc.govt.nz

> TOS can fail to recognize
>that you have put in a new floppy disk, and this can result in a trashed
>directory or TOS insisting that a disk is completely blank.  The cause,
>as I understand it, is that when formatting a disk the ST puts a random
>number into the boot sector (that is used to detect when the disk has been
>changed), whereas MS-DOS puts a fixed number number into this location.


Well there are other reasons like some Chinnon Disk drives don't recognize
that a disk has been changed when its write enabled, ok when its disabled..

Also TOS 1.0 and 1.2 will hickup on disk changes, better to get TOS 1.4
as it had some changes to its disk change logic...

Note: the physical info that is sensed, is the drives write protect line,
this does not allways toggle with some drives when the disk is changed..

Roger................            sheppard_r@kosmos.wcc.govt.nz