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From: alrashi@ecf.toronto.edu (AL RASHID SHAHIR)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Captive!
Date: 27 Dec 92 19:55:28 GMT
Article-I.D.: ecf.BzxooH.Gp2
Organization: University of Toronto, Engineering Computing Facility

Hi guys!!
Sorry to bother one  and all of you  (distrib:world) but I really do have to know:  How the $%&$& do  I advance  in Captive??
From a lot of the posts here, I know that Captive is supposed to be a good game,  but I have had quite  a bit of troubler in it!!
OOps, sorry about the spelling  mistakes - I'm on really cheap computers  at themoment (ones with no backspace keys! - incredible huh?) as the good computers are all locked up, this being christmas and all... B^D
Anyway...these are the problems:
1) On Butre - the ABCSSI HQ - I can't seem to get out of the HQ itself. This is the room with the dynamite  in it (and the  little electricity outlet) The wall at the far end has a little row of small circles running atthe  bottom so I knowits gotta be of SOME use...
2) I've come across other places with walls having that row of circles at the bottom so I reeeely need to know the way to get around this!
3) I've been to quite a few planets and moons, but all of these seem to have nothing on them??!? Anybody know any places I should go to?
4) Interesting thing to  know: If you land on Suigel (planet) And kill all the dinosaurs, then take off and come back down again... killing all the dinosaurs again gives a lot of XP.  Just thought ya might wanna know...
5) There is no  number  5...(*smirk*)
WEEeeeel that seems to be  it.  Oh yeah, pllleeeezzzeee don't send me complete solutions! I justneed a helping hand to get   started!! Thanx!!

AcEzE.

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From: Bob_BobR_Retelle@cup.portal.com
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: Falcon030, resolutions, TRUE color, and DSP
Date: Tue, 22 Dec 92 23:42:57 PST
Organization: The Portal System (TM)
  <1h0eelINNeqh@usenet.INS.CWRU.Edu> <1h2r5bINNqv5@usenet.INS.CWRU.Edu> 
  <1992Dec21.013725.5791@cc.umontreal.ca>,<72179@cup.portal.com>
  <1992Dec22.182841.6935@news2.cis.umn.edu>

David Paschall-Zimbel writes:

>Just a quick question here, Bob.  What computer do you use most of the time?
>This includes those times you're online answering CompuServe questions about
>the Atari ST line...

Gotta wonder a little about the relevance of the question.. but
as David is so predictable, I can just hear the "must be personal
problems with Atari Corp" comments coming...
 
Well, the answer is.. it depends on what I want to do..
(the classic "decide what you want a computer to do before you
decide on what computer to get")
 
Right now my XT is re-compressing some GIF pictures, the PS/2
is waiting for me to get back to playing Eye of the Beholder II,
and my ST is busy composing this message.
 
When I want to display those GIFs, I'll use the VGA of the PS/2,
and when I want to program a little, I'll use the Hercules XT
system for its larger hard drive.  Llamatron belongs to the ST..
I played it on the PS/2, and it truely sucks.

Then there's the mini-tower with its '286 motherboard and pieces
all over the room, waiting to be assembled.  What it doesn't know
is that the '286 board will never be installed, since '386DX
boards have dropped in price so much.  When that one is done,
I'll be able to play Ultima Underworld and the other games that
require the speed and memory.
 
CompuServe..?  That belongs to the ST.. I still haven't found
a telecommunications program for any other computer platform
that works as well, or meets my needs like Flash does.  In fact,
my ST is seldom ever turned off, since the capture buffer in
Flash usually holds a megabyte or more of online sessions from
all the boards and services I use.  (The only exception is the
Sierra Network, which only works with PCs for the time being).
 
Oh.. and when I want to print out huge doc files, I use a VAX
8550 in a cluster of a dozen VAXes to use their high-speed
lineprinters..
 
But.. since most of my time is spent online somewhere, the
answer to the original question would have to be that I use my
ST more often than any of the others..

Any other questions..?

BobR
From: hasse@solace.hsh.se (Hans Holmberg)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: A Bomb in the Post
Date: 2 Jan 93 14:38:19 GMT
Organization: Solace Computer Club, Sundsvall, Sweden

In <78220002@otter.hpl.hp.com> cal@otter.hpl.hp.com (Colin Low) writes:

>I have a problem which might appeal to the older Atari user. It is a
>bug which has been driving me nuts for years, and if I don't get a
>fix I'm going to fill my hard disk full of gunpowder and mail it to
>Atari.

>First, the system. It is one of the "black brick" 520s with external
>power and an external floppy. It has been upgraded to 1 Mbyte. It has
>been completely, utterly reliable in every respect EXCEPT for the
>Atari SH204 Hard Disk which I have had for several years, but rarely use
>because there is a bug in the system software which results in a partition
>being completely buggered on a regular basis. The symptom is that
>all the filenames become something like "zzzzzzzz.zzz", and most
>of the files are completely filled with garbage. I have to zero the
>partition to resume. It has happened on all my partitions at one time or
>another. It has happened three times today. 

I had similair problems, and the cause was a bug in the PAL that is
situated on the SH204 SCSI-Hostadapterboard. Since I got a replacement it has
worked perfectly for 3 years.

>Colin Low

/Hasse
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: Help getting a new modem
From: craig@yonder.equinox.gen.nz (Craig Shore)
Date: Wed, 23 Dec 1992 22:40:46 +1200
Reply-To: craig@yonder.equinox.gen.nz
 <1992Dec20.233243.1072865@sue.cc.uregina.ca><1h54tuINNge3@golem.wcc.govt.nz>
Organization: Equinox Networks (Public access), Node: Yonder
X-Software: HERMES GUS 1.04 Rev. Sep  5 1992

In <1h54tuINNge3@golem.wcc.govt.nz>, steve wells writes:
>> What is it that the serial patch you mentioned do exactly?
>> 
>
>I have no idea! 8-)
>
>But, all I do know about it is, you need it on 9600bps, and faster modems
>on TOS versions before 4.xx  (ALL versions except Falcon TOS apparently).
>
>It stops bits getting lost when the ST can't keep up with them or some
>such thing!

It's a bug fix for the RTS/CTS flow control in the computer.
 In the effected versions of TOS, it doesn't work, so you
 need this program. What it's for is so that one computer can tell
 the other one to stop & start sending data... 

BTW: Isn't Poolfix for something else??????

the one for the serial port for high speed modems is SERIALFX.PRG

 Craig.


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From: Stefan_Westmeier@hb.maus.de (Stefan Westmeier)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: GNU Cross Compiler for SPARC
Date: 23 Dec 92 15:08:00 GMT
Article-I.D.: HB.A7714
Organization: MausNet (Mitglied im IN e.V.)
X-Gateway: MausGate/News 1.14D/hb

Is there a Cross Compiler for a SPARC running SunOS 4.1.X
or Solaris 2.X which produces code for an Atari ST/TT ?

If so, where can I find it ?

Ciao, Stefan.
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From: brode@icpsr.umich.edu (Jon Brode)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: BART adress wanted
Date: 23 Dec 1992 22:51:12 GMT
Organization: Inter-University Consortium for Political and Social Research
Distribution: world
NNTP-Posting-Host: tdis.icpsr.umich.edu
Summary: not quite

In article <1h8bpeINNt5m@golem.wcc.govt.nz> wells_s@kosmos.wcc.govt.nz writes:
>Remember to use
>sendb [path/s]/[filename.ext]
>for binary files, and
>
>send (filename etc.)
>for ascii files!

This isn't quite right.

The difference between "send" and "sendb" is that "sendb" always uuencodes
the files you request. "send" checks to see if the file is asciii or
binary first then uuencodes if appropriate.  Unless you really need
uuencoded text files, "send" is the proper command to use.

Jon
From: martini@heaven7.in-berlin.de (Martin P. Ibert)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: Falcons suck!
Date: 23 Dec 92 16:16:54 GMT
Organization: The Seventh Heaven, Berlin, Germany
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Mime-Version: 1.0

michael.smith@f842.n800.z3.fido.zeta.org.au (michael smith) writes:
> The A500 has a 75% 6-month mortality rate.
> 
> Sorry.  I don't buy suicidal computers.

Suicidal? I thought they die in terrible agony :-)
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From: mackie@meena.cc.uregina.ca
Subject: RE: I am NOT making this up, OK?  (was Re: Closed ... <ho hum>)
Date: 27 DEC 92 05:00:37 GMT
Organization: University of Regina, Regina, Sask., Canada

Please, no flames.  I just don't understand.

Why would Atari invite you to a meeting to show off something that they were
obviously interested in, only to treat you the way you've described?

Is it at all possible that you've misunderstood them?  Maybe they thought
they were being funny?  You are certain that they meant to insult you?  There
was malice aforethought?  There was malice?

If these are all true, and you would know better than I, I wasn't there, then
why did they provide you with a Falcon?

Just make sense of it all for me, please.  I haven't read all the posts in the
past, so if this has already been hashed out, please just give me the
condensed version.

Thanks.

Brook
From: only_bbs!King_Midas@under.mind.ORG
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: 823k compression source
Date: 02 Jan 93 15:29:00 -0500
Organization: Not really.
X-newsreader: Fortress v1f-75

  
   Luckily, the ST's built-in GEMDOS and XBIOS functions have no 
problem dealing with 10-sector, 83-track formats. It's the 11-sector
format that required messing with low-level disk functions (VERY 
ugly). 
  
   floprd(long a, 0L, int d, int s, int t, int si, int n) 
   flopwr(long a, 0L, int d, int s, int t, int si, int n) 
   flopfmt(long a, 0L, int d, int s, int t, int si, int i, long 
magic, int virgin) 
  
  
   a = address to buffer 
   d = disk drive number (0/1) 
   s = sector number; with flopfmt it contains the number of 
sectors/track 
   t = track number 
   si = side (0/1) 
   n = number of sectors to be read or written 
   i = interleave (usually 1). determines the order of the sectors 
within tracks. 
   magic = $87654321 (a constant used for formatting) 
   virgin = intitial value of sectors (usually $E5E5). Can be any 
number as long as the high nibbles are not F. 
  
  
   In addition to using flopfmt, you must write a bootsector to the 
disk. I'll have to find the relevant info, but I recommend you look 
in some book that covers XBIOS and GEMDOS (e.g., Compute's Third 
Book, ST Drives Inside & Out, a good C manual, etc).

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From: afonseca@terapin.com (Alberto Fonseca)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: ATARI and US!
Date: 26 Dec 92 22:30:00 GMT
Organization: BBS


Hi everyone.  I've been an ATARI supporter for a while now, since the 8-bit
series.  I have been reading the messages here for a while now, and have gotten
alot of information from everyone.  I think its great that this many ATARI
users can get together and discuss these things.

Well I just wanted to say that instead of writing all these messages that seem
to say "ATARI SUCKS", or anything close, we should be talking about the
positive things that we have as ATARI users.  I own an ATARI 1040 STE, and am
pretty happy with it.  Unfortuantely I haven't been able to upgrade it to the
point I want, but I'm still quite happy with it.  I plan to buy a Falcon 030
because of the new technology and possiblities it creates.  I also plan to
become an Atari developer.  What I am trying to say is, that instead of bashing
ATARI Corp for their mistakes( and I won't say they haven't made any ), we
should support them as best we can.  Those of us who have stuck with ATARI have
done so for a very simple reason.  We like ATARI computers better than any
others, and they do what WE want them to do.  Of course, technology changes
every day and we all must move on, so its up to us to support our computer
company and make sure they move along as well.  I think the Falcon 030 will be
a good computer, and I think we should support ATARI by buying their computers
when they come out, and even trying to communicate to them what we would want
from them.  I think communication is the best way to save ourselves.  And for
those of you who have become frustrated with ATARI, and have moved on to other
platforms should just stop posting in this group and post in the group of your
own computer.  I think we need to get rid of all of this negativity towards our
computers and our computer company.  I read a message by someone who said that
ATARI Corp has an advantage over the other platforms, which is its users
loyalty.  I think we need to keep this loyalty intact, and even increase it if
we are to have what we want.  Of course we all want something more from our
computers, and I'm sure that this newsgroup will help you to find whatever you
need in terms of information about what you can do to improve your system.  So
the bottom line is:  GO ATARI!

Thanks,

Alberto
afonseca@terapin.com
---------------------
ATARI SUPPORTER
From: SML108@psuvm.psu.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Big bad BobR
Date: 22 Dec 92 16:12:15 GMT
Organization: Penn State University

Bob, what you say about Atari the company is true.  The Tramiels are bunch
of idiotic geeks, Atari would be a number one company if it didn't have
the management problems it is experiencing (as would Commodore), Dave
Bagget was utterly screwed by Atari and I cannot believe the *morons* who
think what happened to him was his fault, and finally, I don't think that
the Falcon will be a very successful computer nor will any of the new
Amigas.

However, there comes a point when you just walk away and forget about
fights you *CANNOT* win.  You will not be able to change atari, they're
very happy with the way they are and will remain that way for many years.
They are *not* going out of business any time soon (nor is commodore)
because of their European market.  When you post here, you are either
preaching to the choir in my case when you slam atari or you are yelling
at the equivalent of atari drug addicts who cannot believe atari can do
wrong.  Give it up, buy yourself a PC or a mac and be *HAPPY*...  Atari
is not worth a heart attack...

I myself don't give a flying you-know-what about software availability for
the ST.  Spectre will be converted to it so it will have the mac software
library for many years to come.  And I utterly refuse to buy a PC until they
pack them standard with a real memory mapped graphics board or SGI like
graphics co-processor, and a real soundboard.  It's been 10 years since
those things were developed and all they have managed to do is up the
processor speed and memory capacity and the graphics rez.  BFD...
They still suck and will probably remain that way for some time...  Middle
class america might be happy with such schlock but I wouldn't be...

This means that despite my *MANY* misgivings with Atari and Commodore my
next computer will be an Amiga or a Falcon unless someone comes out with
something else.  A 32 MHz board in the Falcon would make me a very happy
man...  After watching a slew of European demos last night, I realized
why I will never buy a PC.  You will never see the graphics in those
things on the PC in anytime soon...  I'm sure there are equally if not
more impressive pieces of work on the Amiga.  Finally, Bill Gates is a
weenie, remains a weenie, and most likely always will be a weenie (a rich
weenie though).  he doesn't need my money...

Scott
From: Bob_BobR_Retelle@cup.portal.com
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: 16-bit data bus a problem for Falcon?
Date: Mon, 28 Dec 92 22:14:43 PST
Organization: The Portal System (TM)

You know, David.. probably the easiest and simplest thing for
you to do would be to find an IBM users group in Milwaukee, and
let them SHOW you...  
 
If you can't find one, I've got a list of hundreds of them from
all over the US.. I'm sure it must include some there.
 
I doubt that explaining to you the finer points of upgrading
an IBM XT are all that interesting to the rest of the Atari
newsgroup.
 
BobR
Xref: sparky comp.sys.atari.st:19014 comp.sys.atari.st.tech:6422
From: treno@dist.dist.unige.it (Bertucci R. )
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st,comp.sys.atari.st.tech
Subject: Falcon compatibility
Date: 29 Dec 92 13:24:57 GMT
Organization: DIST - Universita di Genova, ITALY
NNTP-Posting-Host: dist.dist.unige.it

Hi,
Is there anyone who can e-mail me a list of ST-Software that
can run on Falcon030?

Thanx,
Roberto Bertucci.
From: s19184@seb.se (Michael Evans)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: KnifeST
Date: 30 Dec 92 08:10:27 GMT
 <1hq767INN5r1@golem.wcc.govt.nz>,<1992Dec29.220506.332@csi.uottawa.ca> <1hr9f7INN9c0@golem.wcc.govt.nz>
Organization: S-E-Banken, Sweden
Nntp-Posting-User: s19184

In article <1hr9f7INN9c0@golem.wcc.govt.nz>, wells_s@kosmos.wcc.govt.nz writes:
> Version 1.10?  It's still a very old version - although, I'm not sure
> if it was the *last* version or any such thing....

The mag contains a offer to buy the KnifeSt manual plus "a coupon 
which enables you to upgrade to KnifeST 2 when it becomes available" 
for 14.95 pounds.

To answer Roger's earlier question, I enclose part of the REAME.TXT 
file which was on the diskette.

-----------------------------------------------------------
KnifeST version 1.10 Read Me 		           23 May 91
============================

Please state the above version number on your registration card.

New features of version 1.10
============================
This version fixes a problem with incorrectly generated 'Media
Change Errors' when searching on some floppy disks.

New features of version 1.09
============================
The Disk Info command from the Show menu now supports volumes bigger
than 16 Megabytes.

New features of version 1.08
============================
Certain non-standard floppy disk formats with a particular FAT usage
caused incorrect calculations in all the analysis functions resulting
in an internal error *3* alert to be generated.  This has been corrected.

Logical Sectors > 512
---------------------
These are now handled correctly.

There is a new program for some hard disk owners AESPATH. See the
text file in its folder for details.

New feature of version 1.07
===========================

    .... 
-----------------------------------------------------------

/Mike
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From: cbbrowne@csi.uottawa.ca (Christopher Browne)
Subject: Re: KnifeST
Organization: Dept. of Computer Science, University of Ottawa
Date: Tue, 29 Dec 92 22:05:06 GMT

In article <1hq767INN5r1@golem.wcc.govt.nz> wells_s@kosmos.wcc.govt.nz writes:
>The ST-Format January Issue has that on it's cover disk.
>
>Knowing ST-Format, it will be Knife-ST version 1.0

It's version 1.10, according to the screen dumps on the copy that's
sitting in the back seat of my car, waiting to be installed on the
drive that comes in tomorrow...

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From: anisko@usdtsg.DaytonOH.NCR.COM (anisko)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: P.S. A letter to Dave Baggett
Date: 29 Dec 92 12:52:44 GMT
Reply-To: anisko@usdtsg.UUCP ()
Organization: NCR Corporation, Dayton

In article <1992Dec28.194412.1079@news2.cis.umn.edu> davidli@simvax.labmed.umn.edu writes:
>P.S.  When will we have the chance to learn about the new programs you're
>currently writing for the Intel-clone market?  Should I subscribe to
>comp.sys.ibm.pc now, or wait for an announcement from you in this newsgroup
>first?
>
>- DPZ

   Considering that this is the comp.sys.atari.st newsgroup, it would
seem rather strange if you were waiting here for announcements on
intel-related stuff.  You may wish to unsubscribe here and subscribe to
comp.sys.ibm.pc, as they would more suit your needs.  Why waste
time reading all this Atari stuff if you are obviously not interested
in it anyways.  Oh well, back to reality...

					Robert Anisko
					anisko@usdtsg.daytonoh.ncr.com

"There's nothing sure in life but Death and Texas..." - Kelly Bundy
From: Achim_Wilhelm@m4.maus.de (Achim Wilhelm)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: Falcon: Nothing yet...
Date: 30 Dec 92 17:41:00 GMT
Organization: MausNet (Mitglied im IN e.V.)
X-Gateway: MausGate/News 1.14D/hb

sakaria@vipunen.hut.fi wrote on 28.12.92 22:45:

s>Does it have a fan? If yes, is it loud? Is the hard disk noisy? I still
s>remember how _quiet_ my 520ST was...

Yes, there is a build-in-fan. It's not loud, harddisk is not loud, too. Sound
of both is quite low. If I think back to my MegaFile...

regards, Jimmy

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From: gordonf@monashee.sfu.ca (Gordon Farrell)
Subject: The flaming of BobR (Was Re: Falcon030, resolutions, ...)
Organization: Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, B.C., Canada
Date: Tue, 22 Dec 1992 23:13:43 GMT

In article <4898@wet.UUCP> ekrimen@wet.UUCP (Ed Krimen) writes:
[the firey flames of hell deleted]
>

Ouch!  That hurt just to read :-).  Not to say BobR didn't have it coming.

This interminable flame war has forced me to ask a question of BobR that
I once asked of Darek Mihocka a few months back: What's the problem?
What did Atari ever do to you to get you so rabid?

I got a polite, enlightening response from Darek, and look forward to yours.

>(geez...)
>-- 
>   BobR   Ed Krimen
>   BobR   ekrimen@wet.uucp
>   BobR   E.KRIMEN (GEnie)
    ^^^^ (Nice touch...)

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