HDTenEightyP/NetNews huggingface dataset:
From: phbill@cyberden.sf.ca.us
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.8bit
Subject: Re: zip/unzipper
Date: Fri, 25 Dec 92 12:00:51 PST
Reply-To: phbill@cyberden.sf.ca.us
Organization: Indescribable Creations

Jeff McWilliams <JJMCWILL@MTUS5.BITNET> writes:

> Well, all I heard was that BOB PUFF was working on an Un-LZH or something
> like that, but never fully finished it.  A Beta copy got passed around,
> and people started using it, and he wasn't too happy, for a good reason.
> Perhaps I'm getting this confused with something else I read on the
> Inet though, my brain is foggy.
> 
> 
> Jeff

No... you're right.  I just wonder if he's still working on it.  I have 
a copy, and after I heard (on this net) that he (Bob) didn't want it 
spread around, I asked the Sysops to delete it, and I haven't ever 
uploaded it anywhere.  

hmm

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Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.8bit
From: winston@merk.com (Winston Smith)
Subject: Re: comp.sys.atari.8bit.archive
Keywords: CAD, RAMTEK, LOGO
Organization: Technology Partners, Inc.
Date: Mon, 21 Dec 1992 13:58:55 GMT



On Sunday, 20 Dec 1992 11:36:49 EST,
Jeff McWilliams <JJMCWILL@MTUS5.BITNET> writes:
 
>> "We --STILL-- don't have any kind of 2-d CAD program,
or a schematic design program.  For me, as an engineering
kinda guy, these are a must." <<
 
 
     Not exactly true....  When the ATARI 800 first came out, there was (and
is) a program written in ATARI BASIC that imitates a "RAMTEK" class terminal
and allows for design layout.  The programmer included a blueprint of his
living room as a source data for the program.  I believe that the current
version of this program is called "CADXE" and the original program was
called something like "CAD3" or "3CAD".  There is extensive documentation
accompanying this program, formatted in 40 columns.  There is also a
"documentation viewer" program written in BASIC that comes with it,
although it does little more than copy bytes to the "E:" device.  I would
recommend using TEXTPRO or T:EDIT to view the text documentation.  The
program itself is quite good.  If you like fooling around with DEC
R.E.G.I.S. commands, the IBM "Telegraf" package, TEKTRONIXes, or the language
"ARTSPEAK", you will enjoy using this package.  I suspect that many people
doing graphic design on the ATARI 6502 8-BITs probably used ATARI LOGO,
since it was available in many schools.  (At one time ATARI was considered
the premier LOGO computer until APPLE rolled over them and TI also came out
with a LOGO cartridge.  There was almost what would be considered a LOGO
war to see which machine would capture the educational computer market.)
From: phbill@cyberden.sf.ca.us
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.8bit
Subject: zip/unzipper
Date: Mon, 21 Dec 92 18:06:03 PST
Reply-To: phbill@cyberden.sf.ca.us
Organization: Indescribable Creations

I just read a message on BAAUG BBS regarding someone looking for a 
zip/unzipper for the 8-bit....

        now, I know there IS none ...



        yet...  I recall hearing a while ago someone starting work on 
one..  I think he said he'd get it done (or most of it done?) over this 
summer...


any news?
                >I'D< sure like to see it, too!

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Organization: Computing Technology Services, Michigan Technological Univ.
Date: Monday, 21 Dec 1992 19:49:32 EST
From: Jeff McWilliams <JJMCWILL@MTUS5.BITNET>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.8bit
Subject: Re: Wish List (was: comp.sys.atari.8bit.archive)

Joe,

Okay I will send something to Ben about this.  It can't be too hard
to modify the thing for the XEP80, because it outputs to the Omniview
256.  On the other hand, I think you might lose 1K for the XEP80
handler which would have to be loaded, but compared to the 8K you lose
when Omniview goes into  Graphics mode 8 to do 80 columns, it wouldn't
be bad at all.
I suspect the directory problem is because it was written in Forth,
and thus, like ChromaCAD XE, some oddball directory format is used.

Jeff

Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.8bit
From: bbs@neb (BBS System 801-572-4969)
Subject: Looking for:
Organization: Nebula - Public Access Unix/bbs SLC Ut, USA
Date: Sat, 2 Jan 1993 20:52:36 GMT

Looking for an Adaptec 4000a MFM or RLL scsi card.
 
Or, a 20meg or larger SCSI hard disk.. Contact me here, the Korner BBS
at 801-969-1938, or call voice after this Tuesday (mon-fri 0700-1600
MST) at 800-678-3440, ask for Jim.
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.8bit
From: jjmcwill@mtu.edu (Jeff McWilliams)
Subject: Re: FORTH-83 for Atari 8-bit; anyone interested?
Organization: Michigan Technological University
Date: Wed, 30 Dec 1992 03:56:08 GMT

Pardon my ignorance toward Forth folks, but what was the language designed
for, and what are the PROS and CONS for choosing FORTH over some other
programming language?

Jeff McWilliams

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Organization: Computing Technology Services, Michigan Technological Univ.
Date: Tuesday, 22 Dec 1992 10:00:29 EST
From: Jeff McWilliams <JJMCWILL@MTUS5.BITNET>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.8bit
Subject: Re: zip/unzipper

Well, all I heard was that BOB PUFF was working on an Un-LZH or something
like that, but never fully finished it.  A Beta copy got passed around,
and people started using it, and he wasn't too happy, for a good reason.
Perhaps I'm getting this confused with something else I read on the
Inet though, my brain is foggy.


Jeff
From: Dag.Hugdahl@tdkt.kksys.com (Dag Hugdahl)
Sender: FredGate@tdkt.kksys.com
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.8bit
Subject: Quick
Date: Wed, 30 Dec 1992 17:53:02 -0600

       I have been reading with interest your comments about Quick - "that great
new language from Germany" - but since I have just recently begun reading this
conference, what can you tell me about it?  (Where to get it, etc.)

       Thanks,
       - Dag -

Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.8bit
From: sourada@iastate.edu (Steven D Ourada)
Subject: Re: FORTH-83 for Atari 8-bit; anyone interested?
Organization: Iowa State University, Ames IA
Date: Thu, 31 Dec 1992 23:59:49 GMT

In <31DEC199207582838@nssdca.gsfc.nasa.gov> lanmaint@nssdca.gsfc.nasa.gov (Dave Yoest) writes:

>As I recall, Forth was developed in the 70's by an astronomer. The 
>name Brodie keeps coming to mind, but that could be a book author.(I'll 
>look up the name if anyone really wants to know)

Charles Moore is the inventor. Leo Brodie wrote a few good books on it, 
including "Starting Forth" which is a good one for beginners, and "Thinking
Forth" which is pretty good for those planning to use Forth for lots of
development.


Just a sort of side note: Personally, I don't think postfix notation is any
great barrier to learning Forth. One thing better about postfix (compared to
infix) is that it is very orthogonal: every command has the same syntax, which
is just a number of arguments on the stack. (Forth does violate this when
dealing with a few things like strings, though).


                     Later,
                          Steven Ourada

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Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.8bit
From: jjmcwill@mtu.edu (Jeff McWilliams)
Subject: Re: GCP(Anyone remember it?)
Organization: Michigan Technological University
Date: Sun, 27 Dec 1992 19:55:30 GMT

In article <92362.103205U24226@uicvm.uic.edu> Marc Sasiadek <U24226@uicvm.uic.edu> writes:
>Hi!!!
>Does anyone remember a really neat telecommunication service called
>Games Computers Play? It was available for the 8-bitters and then later
>for the ST around 1985-1986. Does anyone remember CyberTank? I kind of miss
>playing it, so I was thinking about writing a one player version of it for
>Windows. I would like to use the original Cybertank map. Does anyone
>have any information on it? I have the old documentation, but I was wondering
>if the map was on a file that you got from GCP. Does anyone know what
>the map file format might be or what the name of the file might be? Or was
>the map on GCP's minicomputers? Thanks in advance.
>*****************************************
>*  Marc Sasiadek(u24226@uicvm.uic.edu)  *
>*  University of Illinois at Chicago    *
>*         College of Pharmacy           *
>*****************************************

Marc,

Well, I remember the service, but never subscribed to it.  Speaking of which,
how is the multiplayer-multicomputer that Jeff  Potter is working on going?
Anybody know?  At one time I think I had a tank game you played with anothr
guy on a 2nd atari, with them linked with a joystick cable of some sort.
It was pretty cool.  I would like to see more of those games, having
several 8 bits myself.

Jeff

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Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.8bit
From: rossi@opal.cs.tu-berlin.de (Oliver Rosenkranz)
Subject: Re: FORTH-83 for Atari 8-bit; anyone interested?
Content-Type: text/plain
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit
Organization: Techn. University of Berlin, Germany
Mime-Version: 1.0
Date: Tue, 29 Dec 1992 14:35:33 GMT

jimlynch@netcom.com (Jim Lynch) writes:


>If sufficient interest exists, I will look into writing a manual for the
>features I have added and releasing the forth system and the manual as 
>shareware... for the shareware fee, I will include full source code and
>the ability to make stand-alone apps. Runs under OSS-Dos.
>
Just Do It !
I speak for three people owning an ATARI 800 XL. We are interested in 
all kind of programming languages for the 8 bit computers.

Besides, those programming languages are the basic utilities of people
writing new programs and bringing new energy into the ATARI-8bit-machine.

--==rossi==--
From: molin@ptb.cl.msu.edu (Michael Olin)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.8bit
Subject: Re: Hard Drive interface
Date: 24 Dec 1992 05:40:08 GMT
Organization: Michigan State University
NNTP-Posting-Host: ptb.cl.msu.edu

rfunk@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu (Robert M Funk) writes:

>As I recall, the Black Box (and maybe MIO) does allow ESDI (or is it
>EDSI?) connection in addition to SCSI.  I could be mistaken, but I do
>remember reading that long ago.  (I don't have a BB or MIO, or even a
>hard drive.)

BB or MIO will work with SCSI or SASI, but not ESDI.
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.8bit
From: rmrin@cbnewsk.cb.att.com (r.m.rickert)
Subject: Need help with Atari Home Filing Manager
Organization: AT&T
Date: Tue, 29 Dec 1992 13:21:24 GMT
Keywords: Filing


I"ve committed a lot of information to the "Atari Home Filing Manager"
and now discover I can't repair bad discs or transfer the text information 
anywhere else.  Does anyone know how to crack this nut (without special
hardware modifications?).  Thanks.
-- 

Dick Rickert  AT&T Consumer Products Laboratory


Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.8bit
From: jjmcwill@mtu.edu (Jeff McWilliams)
Subject: Mini-virus for 8 bits
Organization: Michigan Technological University
Date: Wed, 30 Dec 1992 06:36:21 GMT

There is a sort of virus program located on the ICD BBS, and perhaps 
other places as well.  It is in the SpartaDOS Utilities section,
and I believe it is called SUPER.ARC.

It deARCS to the following files:

SUPER.DOC
SUPER.BAT
SUPER.EXE
SUPER1.SCN
SUPER2.SCN

the doc file says something about this being a program to super compress
all your hard disk files, and to just execute the batch file, by typing
in something like

 -SUPER

well, even the EXE is only a few hundred bytes long, so I was immediately
suspicious of the program.  Basically, I think SUPER.BAT copies the two
SCN files to the screen, which says something like "compressing files"
then "removing unwanted files"  It then executes SUPER.EXE, which is 
another batch file, which contains lines similar to the following in it:

ERASE *.ARC
ERASE *.TXT
ERASE *.COM
ERASE *.EXE
ERASE *.SYS
ERASE *.BIN


You get the idea, the program is nothing but a batch file for SpartaDOS
users designed to wipe out as much of your stuff from your default drive
as possible, and says something to the effect of "SUCKER!" at the end.
Not really a virus, more like a poorly designed Trojan Horse or something.
Nevertheless, there may be some people who wouldn't think to check out
the program before executing it.  As an endless servant to fellow 8 bitters,
I thought it best to bring this little gem of a program to the attention
of the netters out there.

The mere fact that such a program even EXISTS on the ICD BBS is testament
to how much they give a darn about the 8 bit computers.  Obviously their
BBS SYSOP doesn't check the program uploads before allowing them to
appear accessible to the public.  If someone has the time, perhaps ICD
should be given a call to discuss this problem.  At the least the program
should be removed from their BBS.

Have fun, and enjoy 8 bit computing.

Jeff McWilliams



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Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.8bit
From: bbs@neb (BBS System 801-572-4969)
Subject: Re: comp.sys.atari.8bit.archive
Organization: Nebula - Public Access Unix/bbs SLC Ut, USA
Date: Mon, 21 Dec 1992 15:25:21 GMT

I think all those articles should be simply submitted to AC via US Mail
or E-mail to B.Poehland (or via GEnie). If AC is going to remain alive,
we're all going to have to break down and contribute whatever we can.
 
I personally am working on multiple articles for submission to AC. I
just got my Authors kit in the mail two days ago. 
 
Did realize they'd be willing to pay $25.00 for each article. I simply
wanted to submit them to help out -- dont know if I'd take 25.00 or not
(maybe just once to pay back for the subscription costs) <grin>
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.8bit
From: bbs@neb (BBS System 801-572-4969)
Subject: Re: Hard Drive interface
Organization: Nebula - Public Access Unix/bbs SLC Ut, USA
Date: Wed, 23 Dec 1992 17:03:45 GMT

Rob Funk:
 
The MIO is capable of running Scsi, Mfm, Rll and Sasi hard drives via an
interface card (Adaptec preferred). I'm not aware of any way to run an
ESDI or IDE hard drive on an 8bit Atari..
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From: phbill@cyberden.sf.ca.us
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.8bit
Subject: vblitz demo
Date: Wed, 23 Dec 92 00:43:51 PST
Reply-To: phbill@cyberden.sf.ca.us
Organization: Indescribable Creations

grr...  ICD made a big mistake w/ their RAMBo XL...

I got "VBLITZ" from the archives, and loaded it on my upgraded (256k, 
800xl/800 OS) 1200xl and all it did was say "[fuji sign] 130XE"...  

then I loaded it up on the motherboard (no keys/case/etc) of my old 
1200xl (w/1200xl OS and 48k) and it showed two VERY cool looking 
landscape frames behind the fuji & "130xe"....


what the problem is... is that the RAMbo XL, when bank-selecting, selects 
the bank for all of the memory, while the 130XE's memory, when 
bank-selecting, selects memory for the CPU to look at, AS WELL AS memory 
for the video (ANTIC chip) to look at...   so, when VBlitz thought it was 
telling an XE to have only ANTIC look at such&such a bank of memory, my 
RAMBo thought it was saying "look at this bank of memory" (taking the bit 
that would tell the XE "ANTIC only" as another bit in the bank # (as the 
rambo upgrades have more memory (16 banks) than the 130xe (4 banks)))...


I hope I'm not too confusing..  I'm just relaying what I took from what 
Bob Woolley told me...



anyways...  I made two little programs in TurboBASIC XL (VSPLIT.TBS and 
VBLITZ.TBS) which do almost what that demo is supposed to do:

VSPLIT- opens the AUTORUN file from the VBLITZ disk (which contains the
        bitmap frames) and resaves the images onto the ramdisk

VBLITZ- consecutively reads the seperate images that VSPLIT made and dis-
        plays them on the screen..


inotherwords, I got the demo working, but very slowly, and w/o that 
snazzy fuji and "130XE" on the screen (which MUST'Ve been player-missles 
(not sprites, bob.. I remembered not to say "sprites"!  ;)   ), because 
they were changing rainbow colors as the background moved (if I were to 
see it), and the background was in GTIA 16-shade 80x192 mode, while the 
130XE and fuji were in totally multicolored 160 x 192...)



whew...
        I'm tired ;)

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Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.8bit
From: jimlynch@netcom.com (Jim Lynch)
Subject: FORTH-83 for Atari 8-bit; anyone interested?
Organization: Netcom Online Communications Services (408-241-9760 login: guest)
Date: Mon, 28 Dec 1992 12:45:55 GMT

I wrote one; it's very cool. Problem is, I didn't write a manual...

It has its (traditional) compiler and interpreter rewritten in assembler...
it has its I/O (the FORTH words KEY and EMIT) written so it can be redirected
to different IOCBs...
it has ADA-style exception handling set up so you can redirect particular
error conditions so you can recover (or at least exit gracefully); you can
also define your own exceptional conditions...
the compiler and interpreter can be stripped out of applications (this means
no runtime file and no extra baggage!)

If sufficient interest exists, I will look into writing a manual for the
features I have added and releasing the forth system and the manual as 
shareware... for the shareware fee, I will include full source code and
the ability to make stand-alone apps. Runs under OSS-Dos.

Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.8bit
From: rfunk@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu (Robert M Funk)
Subject: Re: Hard Drive interface
Organization: The Ohio State University
Date: Thu, 31 Dec 1992 05:00:56 GMT

In article <1992Dec23.170345.15418@neb> bbs@neb writes:
>Rob Funk:
> 
>The MIO is capable of running Scsi, Mfm, Rll and Sasi hard drives via an
>interface card (Adaptec preferred). I'm not aware of any way to run an
>ESDI or IDE hard drive on an 8bit Atari..
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>Posted by BBS User: James King
>Mail Path: uplherc.upl.com!neb!bbs!1fa
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I stand corrected.  Now I just have to get one of those systems and
really fix up this 1200.

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Organization: Computing Technology Services, Michigan Technological Univ.
Date: Monday, 21 Dec 1992 11:29:21 EST
From: Jeff McWilliams <JJMCWILL@MTUS5.BITNET>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.8bit
Subject: Re: comp.sys.atari.8bit.archive
 <92355.113649JJMCWILL@MTUS5.BITNET> <1992Dec21.135855.16445@merk.com>

Hmm, okay, I've never heard of this program.  Is this a public domain
or commercial offering?  Is the program mouse driven, it sounds like
you sort of "program" in your drawing.  It sounds strange.. yet interesting.

Jeff
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.8bit
From: rfunk@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu (Robert M Funk)
Subject: UnLZH??
Organization: The Ohio State University
Date: Wed, 23 Dec 1992 08:09:58 GMT

In article <1992Dec19.090253.7940@merk.com> winston@merk.com (Winston Smith) writes:
[...]
>have found an IBM MAXIMUS BBS that allows the sending of QWK offline
>downloads using LH113 compression, and Bob Puff's UNLZH program handles
>this compression fairly well, performing what it calls a "melt" of the
>archive.  Therefore, I can offload "QWK" mail packets and dissolve them.

Where is this UNLZH program available?????   I want it!

And is there an Atari UnZIP program around yet?
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   'stupid' and 'clever'."        | Please don't let me be misunderstood"
From: phbill@cyberden.sf.ca.us
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.8bit
Subject: Breaktris...
Date: Mon, 28 Dec 92 16:27:51 PST
Reply-To: phbill@cyberden.sf.ca.us
Organization: Indescribable Creations

Coming soon:   Breaktris.  Will require XL/XE and MAY use upgraded XL/XE
               memory for addition special FX (like digi-sound...)

No details yet.

(don't hold your breath)

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Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.8bit
From: bmarcum@world.std.com (Bill Marcum)
Subject: Re: Need Action! help
Organization: The World Public Access UNIX, Brookline, MA
Date: Thu, 24 Dec 1992 02:06:08 GMT

I think the only way to lock out the configuration menu would be to
disconnect the SELECT and/or RESET key.  But if you change the hard
disk configuration, a user would have to know where each partition
begins, to access that partition.  Then again, fooling around with
that data could be risky.  You can write-protect partitions, or
disable them, but anyone who knows enough about the computer can
undo that.  You can put data in password-protected ARCs, if you don't
mind unarcing the files each time you use them....
Another idea: the source code for Mydos is available if anyone wants
to try adding password protection to it.  I forgot: were you worried
about people seeing/copying your files, or erasing them?  If the
latter, be sure you have backups!

One other possibility--it's expensive, and I don't know much about how
it works, but CSS makes a device called the Multiplexer, which lets
two computers access the same hard drive.  I think only one computer
has to have an MIO... You would have to ask Bob Puff, or someone who
has one, for more information about it.

Bill Marcum  bmarcum@world.std.com
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.8bit
Subject: * * Wanted: Alternate Reality * *
From: Raul Romero <ROMBH@CUNYVM.BITNET>
Date: Tuesday, 22 Dec 1992 09:00:45 EST
Organization: City University of New York/ University Computer Center


  I am looking for a copy of Alternate Reality. I will trade for it or I can
send you money(I don't have much).


Thanks for any help
Raul

P.S.  Thanks to everybody who replied to my last post. I am especially
thanking Samuel for every thing.
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.8bit
From: phbill@cyberden.sf.ca.us
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.8bit
Subject: Re: Need Action! help
Date: Sat, 02 Jan 93 21:13:51 PST
Reply-To: phbill@cyberden.sf.ca.us
Organization: Indescribable Creations

Whine...  and I always thought... :)

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Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
From: y0000028@rzab0.rz.tu-bs.de (Kielhorn)
Subject: Re: *.Z compression
Organization: TU Braunschweig, Informatik, Bueltenweg, Germany
Date: Wed, 30 Dec 1992 13:12:00 GMT

In article <rchan.2yl7@terapin.com>, rchan@terapin.com (Ronald Chan) writes:
|> Does anyone know if there is a utility that will extract *.Z compressed files
|> on the ST?  I see a  few of them on umich archives.  I am a total novice about
|> the Internet, so bear with me while I ask dumb questions okay?
|> 
|> 
|> || Ronald Chan [rchan@terapin.com]
|> || A Pocket Knight  *-{-----------

The required utility is compress. It should be available on a.a.e.u
Compress is the standard UNIX compression-tool (and not very efficient).

Axel Kielhorn
TU-Braunschweig