HDTenEightyP/NetNews huggingface dataset:
From: lenn@mentor.cc.purdue.edu (Jody Lenn)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.8bit
Subject: HAPPY 1050 with CONTROLLER for SALE!!!
Date: 13 Oct 92 03:39:55 GMT
Organization: Purdue University Computing Center

For Sale:    Happy 1050 with Happy Controller Option and
             Version 7.1 Software.

             The Happy option will allow you to make copies
             of about ANY 8-bit software ever made and be able
             to read and write in single density, enhanced density,
             and true double density with much FASTER disk access
             than normal, although normal speed can be selected.
             This is GREAT for backing up your collections of older 8-bit
             software that you are concerned about losing!!
		
             Price:  $160.00 plus shipping. 
              
             The Happy Controller is a professionally installed
             option that allows switch selection of regular speed 
             or Happy speed disk I/O. There is also a three position
             switch that allows:
                   1) Writing regardless of write protect notch.
                   2) Normal Position
                   3) Write not allowed under any circumstances.
             There is also a yellow light between the new switches
             that is lit if writing is allowed.

             The Version 7.1 software comes with Warp Speed DOS,
             a sector copier, a Happy backup program, and diagnostic
             and utility programs.

             If interested, please e-mail to lenn@mentor.cc.purdue.edu
                                          or lennjm@sage.cc.purdue.edu

             This drive is in PERFECT condition. I have treated it with
             the utmost in care.

                                             Thanks,
                                             Jody Lenn
From: dmb@case.ai.mit.edu (David Baggett)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.8bit
Subject: Pastfinder -- HA HA HA!  Sweet Victory!
Summary: What happens when you're avoiding work on a thesis...
Date: 9 Oct 92 03:03:34 GMT
Organization: MIT Artificial Intelligence Laboratory

I posted here about a month ago complaining that Pastfinder was just
impossible.  *I WAS WRONG*.

It IS possible to get to the top of the board in Pastfinder.  I must
have used about 40 lives to do it, though I did manage to deliver 219
"thingies" on my first life.  (Brag, brag.)

But the disappointing thing is that *nothing happens*.  Well, almost
nothing.  It shows you where all the hidden "thingy" drop-off points
are, and then puts you back at the bottom like usual.  (And you get
tons of bonus for all the squares you've visited thus far.)

Now what?  Anybody know what you're supposed to do?  Am I just supposed
to keep playing until I visit every square?  Do I have to hit all the
drop-off points?  Did David Lubar just figure no one would ever get to
the top anyway?  Anybody wanna buy a Pastfinder cartridge?  :-)

Dave Baggett
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From: djg0@aber.ac.uk (Dean John Garraghty)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.8bit
Subject: Zybex is *NOT* PD
Date: 15 Oct 92 09:35:03 GMT
Organization: University of Wales, Aberystwyth

Various people have been putting their high scores for Zybex on the net. I
very much suspect these people are using the pirated copy. That's right -
PIRATED. Zybex is NOT public domain. It was written and published by Zeppelin
Games in the UK some 4-5 years ago. Zeppelin were always good to the Atari,
and produced some great games. Zybex was intended for sale on tape, and was
sold in the shops for 2.99 (pounds). A disk version was produced as well, which
appears to have been a bad move. The version sold as PD in the US (and I've
been sent a copy to check over) is just a straight copy of the original, except
the loading page has been sector edited and somebody elses name has been added,
apparantly from Peru. Let me ask you this: if this was your game, would you let
it go as PD? No, I don't think so. Also, if this is supposed to be from Peru,
how come it's written by Brian Jobling. How many people in Peru do you know
called Brian Jobling? Come on, think! You have to be EXTREMELY careful when
getting software from some countries. Poor countries such as Peru, Poland,
Russia, etc. have too many problems to worry about, without worrying about
copyright laws, so this stuff goes un-noticed over there. Treat any game with
suspicion. If it looks like the names may have been changed then be very
suspicous. Zybex was crudely altered on the loading page, but the names in the
game itself would be impossible to change. If you get some software you haven't
seen before, and you suspect it may be commercial, then please contact me. It
may be a British game, or I may have heard of it. I would like to try and put
together a list of all games that are being treated as PD when they are not
PD at all. I could then use this to warn people. One name to look out for is
Jancz Pelz (sp?), and the Querope Agency. We suspect in the UK that these
people couldn't write a program if their life depended on it! Avoid at all
costs! Thank you for reading this.

Dean Garraghty. djg0@aber.ac.uk
From: andrewh@panix.com (Andrew Huie)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.8bit
Subject: Re: Null Modem Cable
Date: 11 Oct 92 04:37:43 GMT
Organization: PANIX Public Access Unix & Internet, NYC

In article <9210050020.AA26964@beethoven> pattons@CS.ColoState.EDU (samuel patton) writes:
>
>To hook up a null modem cable between an atari and an IBM is a generic
>pre-made cable okay to use or do you have to build one?  I am using the P:R:
>port R2: for this so I have the pinout for it in the manual but what would
>be the pin configuration for the IBM serial 9 pin port?  
>
>I hope that you can just use commercial cables as I am tired of building the
>things.  I got my P:R: to work with both the modem and the printer by building
>cables so thanks to all who replied with help or ideas on the subject....

If you already built the modem cable you can buy a pre-made null modem cable
with a 25-pin to IBM-PC 9-pin adaptor and attach it to the 25-pin end of the
modem cable (be sure the connectors match of course).  Or better yet, find a
25 to 9-pin adaptor that also acts as a null modem connector, thus eliminating
the need for another cable.

>
>I think that it would be a whole lot easier to d/l arc'ed files to my clone
>then null modem them to the atari since the clone can save to hard disk and
>also has a faster modem... I know Bobterm supports 9600 baud rate.  Anyone 
>try this between the two successfully???
>

Yup, using a setup not unlike what I described above.  It took a little
tweaking but it worked.  The slow Atari drives really pull down the efficiency
of the transfer though!
From: xx140@yfn.ysu.edu (Atari SIG Sysops)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.8bit
Subject: no archive access?
Date: 16 Oct 92 00:06:58 GMT
Organization: Youngstown State University/Youngstown Free-Net


**>I thought I'd pass this on to you people here.
 
 
Date: Wed Oct 14 14:17:00 1992
From: jrd@STONY-BROOK.SCRC.Symbolics.COM (John R. Dunning)
Subject: no bart access
To: ab588@yfn.ysu.edu, jrd@STONY-BROOK.SCRC.Symbolics.COM
Cc: jrd@STONY-BROOK.SCRC.Symbolics.COM
 
 
    Date: Wed, 14 Oct 1992 00:35 EDT
    From: ab588@yfn.ysu.edu (joseph sabatino)
 
 
 
>   Is the bart system still working?  We always had access to bart
>   and the atari archive at umich but I have been trying for the
>   past 2 weeks to send even for an Index and I get nothing back.
>   Could our freenet system be at fault? Is the archive still in
>   business?  If our freenet system is at fault would you send our
>   sys-administrator directions how to get it back. His email address
>   is aa001@yfn.ysu.edu
    thanks
 
I don't know for sure what's going on there, but there are two things
that might have an impact.  The convention at the archives has changed,
the index file is now called "0index", and directories are capilatized.
Also, atari.archive is moving to a different machine, so there might be
some temporary turmoil.
 
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Organization: Computing Technology Services, Michigan Technological Univ.
Date: Thursday, 8 Oct 1992 20:04:36 EST
From: Jeff McWilliams <JJMCWILL@MTUS5.BITNET>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.8bit
Subject: Re: Networking an 8-bit

Khan,

For all practical purposes, a ROM is a ROM is a ROM, whether is be
a masked ROM, which is a regular rom, or an EPROM, or an EEPROM.
Heck, you could even but a battery backed SRAM in there and the computer
wounldn't know the difference if you did it right.  Most atari cartridges
use either 8K or 16K worth of ROMS, depending upon how bin your program
really is.  I don't know much about RS485, so I can't tell you whether it
is viable or not.  I also don't fool much with SIO myself, but since there are
some SIO to RS232 projects out there, perhaps RS485 is doable.
It might be more feasable on an XL or XE, since the Parallel bus, or even an
internal hack for that matter, allows you to wire in chips directly to
the processor addressing space, and access them directly. You could make
some parallel bus application cards that are plug and play.. in fact
there might be a way to put your ROM code on the Parallel bus card
as well, I will have to check into this when I get access to some
scopes and stuff.  This sounds like a great project you are cooking up, please
keep either this net, or me personally, posted on your progress.

Jeff McWilliams  jjmcwill@mtu.edu  EE Engineer --> Michigan Tech.
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.8bit
Subject: High Scores
From: Pandora@kcbbs.gen.nz (Dawn Scotting)
Date: 13 Oct 92 19:39:00 GMT
Organization: Kappa Crucis Unix BBS, Auckland, New Zealand

>highest score next to the title. Once you've done that, send the
>list to me at: [stuff deleted]
>From Dean Garraghty

Couldn't we just send the High Scores to you Dean via email?
My hi-score for Pacman is 364150, I started on the 'key' level and managed 
to reach the 32nd level from there!
From: crow@coos.dartmouth.edu (Preston F. Crow)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.8bit
Subject: Re: 1050 vs XF551
Date: 9 Oct 92 21:23:00 GMT
Organization: Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH

In <1992Oct9.143448.19847@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu> thester@nyx.cs.du.edu (Uncle Fester) writes:

>In article <1992Oct8.172359.6425@dartvax.dartmouth.edu> crow@coos.dartmou
>h.edu (Preston F. Crow) writes:
>>While we're on the subject, can the XF551 read 1050 enhanced density disks?
                                                      ^^^^^^^^
>>If it can, then it should be possible to program a PC to read them...
>>
>>--PC

>Yes, the PC can read them.  All you need is UTIL.EXE to run on your PC.
>This is a program to read/write files on a MYDOS format double density
                                                         ^^^^^^
>disk.  The program is available (and similar ones) at the archive.

Unless there's a new version, UTIL.EXE only reads 180K true DOUBLE density
disks--NOT ENHANCED density disks.  Someone else said that the XF551 can
read ENHANCED density disks, so it should be possible to read them on a PC
if someone writes the program to do so.  Has anyone?

--PC

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From: usgcjsx@gsusgi2.gsu.edu (Felix_T_Cat)
Subject: BLACK BOX/ MIO..???
Organization: Georgia State University
Date: Tue, 13 Oct 1992 23:17:27 GMT

What does it take to get a hard drive connected and workig
on an 800xl..??
Where can one purchase the hardware...??

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From: weiner@terminator.cc.umich.edu (Jeff Weiner)
Subject: Re: Atari FTP sites
Organization:  Atari Posse @ the University of Michigan
Date: Wed, 7 Oct 1992 05:58:16 GMT

In article <1992Oct6.122613.6156@aston.ac.uk> heneganj@cs.aston.ac.uk writes:
>Here are some FTP sites (anonymous):
>
>141.211.164.8		Atari Archive
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

Please folks, use the atari.archive.umich.edu name, not the numeric address.
You'll see how important this becomes soon. :)

weiner


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Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.8bit
From: thester@nyx.cs.du.edu (Uncle Fester)
Subject: Re: 1050 vs XF551
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: Fri, 9 Oct 92 14:34:48 GMT

In article <1992Oct8.172359.6425@dartvax.dartmouth.edu> crow@coos.dartmou
h.edu (Preston F. Crow) writes:
>While we're on the subject, can the XF551 read 1050 enhanced density dis
s?
>If it can, then it should be possible to program a PC to read them...
>
>--PC
>
>
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>   "Everything is permissible"--but not everything is constructive.
>                                                      --I Corinthians 10
23


Yes, the PC can read them.  All you need is UTIL.EXE to run on your PC.
This is a program to read/write files on a MYDOS format double density
disk.  The program is available (and similar ones) at the archive.

Uncle Fester

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From: Jim_Johnson@abcd.Houghton.MI.US (Jim Johnson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.8bit
Subject: Re: BBK
Distribution: world
Date: 7 Oct 92 08:05:23 EST
Organization: Amiga BitSwap Central Dispatch

In a message dated Wed  7 Oct 92  6:23, Exuhag@s09a05.com (james Hague)
wrote:

 EH> On a vaguely related subject, does anyone know what happened to the
 EH> BBK guys (Bryan Schappel and Barry Kolbe)?  

I don't know where they are today, but I suspect they will turn up again in
the consumer computer world - probally as shareware authors.

At the time most of their software was written, one was (and as far as I
know still is) a high school teacher, and the other a student in that
school.  By now, the student should be finishing his undergraduate college
degree (if he hasn't already).

 

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From: wells_s@kosmos.wcc.govt.nz
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Info...
Date: 17 Oct 1992 01:23:13 GMT
Organization: Wellington City Council (Public Access), Wgtn, Nz
Reply-To: wells_s@kosmos.wcc.govt.nz
NNTP-Posting-Host: kosmos.wcc.govt.nz

Okay, 2 things. 
 
I've heard that TOS 1.2 (Or 1.02 if you want) has a bug concerning the
use of hard-drives, if this is true, what is it, and if available, where is
patch for it.  (I don't want to buy a HD and have it crash every 2-days)
 
 
Also, what is the difference between the Atari Lynx, and the new(ish) Lynx 2.
Is the new 100% compatible with the old, and what improvements are there!?
 
 
Thanks in advance!
From: v5914ane@ubvmsb.cc.buffalo.edu (Steve)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: for sale
Date: 16 Oct 92 19:23:00 GMT
Article-I.D.: acsu.Bw8B6s.Mu9
Organization: University at Buffalo
News-Software: VAX/VMS VNEWS 1.41

The following items are forsale :

Atari 520st  		- $75
Atari SS/DD Drive	- $35
Epson LX-80 Printer 	- $75

If you are interested in any of these items respond to this account.
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
From: chuck@umbc5.umbc.edu (Chuck Rickard; ACS (UGRAD))
Subject: Re: P.I.M. (was Re: Boston Computer Soci)
Organization: Univ. of MD, Baltimore County
Date: Tue, 13 Oct 1992 16:50:26 GMT

In article <67630@cup.portal.com> Bob_BobR_Retelle@cup.portal.com writes:

>Ron Luks, manager of the Atari Forums on CompuServe, and the
>manager of the Palmtop Forum, contacted this month's Atari
>advertising agency about the use of the term "PIM" in relation
>to the Falcon..

>The people there were surprised to find out that "PIM" is generally
>understood to mean "Personal Information Manager", referring to small
>electronic notebooks like the Wizard and Portfolio..

>They thought they'd invented it..

>BobR


That goes to show you how out of touch they are.  When I said that the
Falcon was going to be refered to as a PIM, just about everyone said,
"Personal Information Manager?  I thought you said it was a multimedia
machine?"  They have to quit firing or forcing people out of that
company, or if they do, replace them with people that are knowledgable
and not just cheap to hire.

I don't know what their marketing staff is like right now, but if its
like their OS development team, I feel sorry for them.  With Allan P.
and Ken B. gone, poor John Townsend is left all by himself to manage
the XBIOS development.

Also, did you hear that the Falon development team was offered Atari
stock as a bonus for finishing the Falcon?  Yeah, they refused it.


-- 

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Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
From: rvenable@helix.nih.gov (Richard M. Venable)
Subject: Re: uucp for TOS
Reply-To: rvenable@helix.nih.gov (Richard M. Venable)
Organization: National Institutes of Health
Date: Tue, 13 Oct 1992 21:00:21 GMT

In article <2627@devnull.mpd.tandem.com>, dunham@devnull.mpd.tandem.com
(Jerry Dunham) writes:

|> I don't even know what UUCP is, and here I am asking how to get it. 
I do
|> understand that UUCP is required for me to be able to transfer files
bet-
|> ween my Atari ST and a friend's Unix system, though, so this is my
first
|> step. 

Actually, you don't need UUCP; that's simply one option.  You can also
various 'binary' file transfer protocols such as XMODEM, Kermit, etc.

UUCP can be convenient, as the file 'copy' operation is done in the
background on the Unix host, and can be automated.  However, I have
access to Unix host which has both XMODEM and Kermit; I have obtained
many ST programs from the atari.archive by (1) ftp to local Unix host,
(2) XMODEM download to ST.  I don't recommend UUCP (Unix-to-Unix CoPy)
unless you have NO other alternative, and I am doubtful if there is an
ST version of this somewhat complex Unix software suite.

P.S.  If you just want text transfer, all you need is a terminal prog
      with text-capture (to file) feature.

	Rick Venable
From: abaddon@uk.ac.liverpool.scm.suprenum (Kevin o donovan)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: Summary of "which programming language"
Date: 12 Oct 92 10:38:13 GMT
Organization: Centre for Mathematical Software Research, Univ. Liverpool, UK

>>>>> On 10 Oct 92 10:14:06 GMT, sheppard_r@kosmos.wcc.govt.nz said:
> NNTP-Posting-Host: kosmos.wcc.govt.nz

> I do think you are making a very big mistake in going into Hisoft Basic 2 it
>is not a world standard like GFA and there will be very little support for it,
I could be wrong on this, but isn't Hisoft's Basic supposed to be compatible
with one of the big MSDOS basics?

> as for one thing Hisoft don't support there users, and I should know,
> I wrote to them about Bugs and Admissions in Hisoft Knife ST, there reply was
> get lost we don't wish to know..
With all due respect, this does not sound anything like the Hisoft I've dealt
with. They've always offered great support via Cix (a UK BBS), their own BBS,
and most probably via phone or mail as well, though I've never found the need
to use either (I use the first two). Perhaps it was something in the tone of
your letter?

> Also there was/is more world wide support for GFA than the Hisoft products,
Maybe, maybe not. As I said above, support from Hisoft is good enough for me.
Anyone with Email access can talk to them as well, so people using the net
shouldn't have any trouble.

> also the speed of GFA has to be seen to be believed, its faster than compiled
> C...??
Perhaps if you were using a really bad C compiler, with slow libraries, or 
you'd just moved from BASIC to C (ie you're writing in C as though you were 
using BASIC), but otherwise that's just laughable.

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

Kev, not connected to Hisoft, but a more than satisfied user of Lattice C 5.5
and Devpac 2.
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From: sanders@sci.kun.nl (Sander Stoks)
Subject: Re: Case Design for Falcon
Organization: University of Nijmegen, The Netherlands
Date: Tue, 13 Oct 1992 09:05:09 GMT

In <annius.718880215@freyr> annius@sif.research.ptt.nl (Annius Groenink) writes:
>wilsont@orac.holonet.net (Timothy Wilson) writes:
>>Hiya,
>>I'm holding out for the 040, not because of the case, or keyboard,
>>but that its going to be reallly fast. 
>Continuing our `case study': Nobody seems to have had the idea that beautiful
>Falcon 040 is most likely to look like an ordinary TT, too.

ORDINARY? So what do YOU want, just one of those ugly grey boxes they
put PCs in? I think the TT looks very nice; you can see at first
glance that you're not dealing with just-another-PC-clone here. I'd be
perfectly satisfied with a Falcon in a TT-case. 

Ferrari-red of course.

(Unless of course, they'd put it in an Iris Indigo-case. Now THAT's a
nice box.)

Sander SToks
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From: etlgtme@etlxd20.ericsson.se (Grant McFarlane)
Subject: copying files from SPARC to ATARI
Keywords: copy
Reply-To: etlgtme@etlxd20.ericsson.se
Organization: Ericsson Telecom, Burgess Hill, England
Date: Fri, 9 Oct 1992 15:14:07 GMT

I caught the end of a thread that was discussing copying of files from SPARC
workstations with floppy drives to ATARI's. I can't get this to work !! Can
anyone tell me how its done ??

Thanx,
Grant.
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