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From: snoret@egon.unx.sas.com (Rick Tatem)
Subject: Success with memory upgrade!
Summary: Xtra-Ram Deluxe works well
Date: Thu, 17 Dec 1992 20:02:41 GMT
Organization: SAS Institute Inc.
Keywords: SIMM, upgrade, cool :)
Followup-To: comp.sys.atari.st

Well, I finally got a hold of 4 1Mx9 SIMMS and had a go at installing
them into my 1040STf.  I was SO pleased with the results, I just have
to share them!  Anyway, I can say I heartily recommend the Xtra-Ram Deluxe
SIMM memory upgrade for those of you who aren't afraid of solder, but who
would rather not bother with it.  

This upgrade kit was VERY well documented, with plenty of diagrams and
detailed instructions.  It includes two small boards, one that piggy-backs
the MMU, and the other that you piggy-back the video shifter chip onto.
The trickiest part was clipping 4 resistors and putting on 4 jumpers to
disable the 2 banks of motherboard ram.  The jumpers come with those little
spring-loaded clips, that hook onto the resistors (and the + end of a 
capacitor) kinda like a fishing bobber (or float :).  Anyway, once the
jumpers were on secure, it worked the first time!!

I took my time replacing all the shielding, taking time to power up now
and then to double-check the memory.  After less than 1 hour (well, I had
already read the manual, and my ST was already naked to the world after
a TOS upgrade :) I had a full 4MB of memory.

I was so pleased, I thought I would spread the word about this kit (don't
worry, I have absolutely NO connection with the manufacturer.  In fact,
they're in the UK!)  It was very reasonably priced at around $89 (but I got 
it at the WAACE show from Toad at an even better price!) And was incredibly
easy to install.  I would even say it's pretty tough, since as I was
putting everything back together, my ST kept slipping out of my hands and
took more than a few bumps on the table.

So, enough rambling.  Just my $0.25 worth (inflation, ya know :)

Rick
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From: okes@essex.ac.uk (Simon Oke)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: Zoo shells
Date: 20 Dec 92 18:04:49 GMT
	<1g1hv1INNgd9@golem.wcc.govt.nz>,<724378203@majors7.cs.duke.edu>
	<1gmt2qINNgv@golem.wcc.govt.nz>
Organization: Department of Computer Science, University of Essex, UK.
In-reply-to: sheppard_r@kosmos.wcc.govt.nz's message of 16 Dec 92 09:32:10 GMT

In article <1gmt2qINNgv@golem.wcc.govt.nz> sheppard_r@kosmos.wcc.govt.nz writes:
|>>I _have_ used Lharc, Roger.  I still haven't figured out how to expand a
|>..LZH-compressed directory tree into subdirectories (call me
|>						-sbigham
|>-- 
|>Scott Bigham                   | The opinions expressed above are
|
| Sorry Scott, but it looks like you don't have the brains to run LZH201L..:-)
|
Or maybe he has enough brains NOT to run it...

| THe latest version is LZH201L, Note: i is before l...
|
He said he thought it was the latest version.

| There is a option in LZH201L for problems with incompatible headers,
| it  the   -k  option.
|
| LZH201L will default to Directory extraction with out setting any options
| at all...
|
Whereas ZOO has a clear help page built in which tells you what switches to
use. Didn't you say a few days ago that Zoo has no way of extracting
directory trees? It's all in the help page, Roger.

And I really can't understand Scott's problem either. Here at University I
have a copy of LHA on a Sun 4, which uncompresses all .lzh and .lha files
I have ever come across. We also have ZIP, ARC and ZOO. They're foolproof.
Anyone can use them. I only keep copies of all the different archivers
because people can't agree on one to use. I have to admit though, that if
I find a .lzh archive which I want to take home, I will always convert it
to .zip format first (STZIP is a great program - choice of nice front end
or command line flexibility).

Get a life, people. Just use the archiver which suits you, and stop whinging.

--
Simon Oke, 3rd year Computer Science
undergraduate at the University of Essex, UK.
From: Bob_BobR_Retelle@cup.portal.com
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: I am NOT making this up, OK?  (was Re: Closed ... <ho hum>)
Date: Sat, 19 Dec 92 00:14:48 PST
Organization: The Portal System (TM)
  <1992Dec14.143451.19724@digi.lonestar.org>  
  <1992Dec14.193731.1968@news2.cis.umn.edu> 
  <1gnve3INNhd9@life.ai.mit.edu>,<71828@cup.portal.com> 
  <1992Dec17.195300.4758@news2.cis.umn.edu>,<71916@cup.portal.com>
  <1992Dec18.174134.18750@news2.cis.umn.edu>

David Paschall-Zimbel writes:
 
[...]
 

I reiterate: You have never dealt with Atari.
 
BobR
From: wells_s@kosmos.wcc.govt.nz (steve wells)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: GFA 3.07: RESERVE XX; EXEC 0,"prg"; RESERVE - help.
Date: 18 Dec 1992 19:34:53 GMT
Organization: Wellington City Council (Public Access), Wgtn, Nz
Reply-To: wells_s@kosmos.wcc.govt.nz
NNTP-Posting-Host: kosmos.wcc.govt.nz

If you are going to reserve memory, make it a bit more than 1-byte. 
(It actually end up being 256 bytes, as it reserves it in 256-byte
blocks)

Try and reserve at least 10k!!  That should keep most programs happy!
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
From: leo@dcs.warwick.ac.uk (Leo Hendry)
Subject: Re: SCSI Floppy Drives
Organization: Department of Computer Science, Warwick University, England
Date: Mon, 14 Dec 1992 18:51:25 GMT

In article <71624@cup.portal.com> Bob_BobR_Retelle@cup.portal.com writes:
>Dan Aylward writes:
>
>>Also, it will be easy to hook up an external floppy via the SCSI2 port.
>
>Umm.. yes, it will be trivially easy to "hook up" a SCSI floppy to
>the Falcon's SCSI port.
>
>However..  has anyone ever *priced* a SCSI floppy drive..?
>
>Has anyone even SEEN a SCSI floppy drive for sale..?

20Mb flopticals are now 299 pounds and can read/write normal disks.  Versions
that can do non-MSDOS formats (eg. 10 sectors, first sector readable) are
expected soon following pressure from suppliers in the Atari and Acorn world.
  Prices are expected to fall rapidly, especially once 40Mb versions are
released to the extent that they would be cheaper than a HD drive with a
custom SCSI interface.
  Like you say, you do need a SCSI device driver to be able to use them,
but that is hardly a problem.

- Leo
From: michaelb@cse.fau.edu (Michael Rogero Brown)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Help getting a new modem
Date: 19 Dec 92 20:23:17 GMT
Distribution: na
Organization: Florida Atlantic University, Boca Raton, FL, USA

I need some advice in getting a faster modem for my ST.  I am currently using
a Supramodem 2400 with Flash.  I use this to connecto to my university account
to do projects, etc, but it is so slow it drives me crazy.  I thought about getting
a faster modem, say a 9600, but the prices I saw in some mags turned me off.
Today I was in Office Depot and saw a modem that might work for me.  Its by
Quicktel and is a 9600 fax/data modem.  I could care less about fax, but it 
looks like it's do the trick, but I worry that it won't.  I don't know if Flash
will be able to 'control' it (i've tought about getting Flash II but haven't).

Any suggestions?  I thought about getting this modem because its about $100.
Most the ones I've seen advertised were 2-3x the prices.  I'm one a tight
budget.

Email preferred,

Thanks in advance.

-- 
<< Michael Rogero Brown                      | Disclaimer: I speak     >>
<< CS Graduate Student-Florida Atlantic Univ |  only for myself.       >>
<< Internet: michaelb@sol.cse.fau.edu        | All my opinions are     >>
<< BitNet: m_brown@fauvax                    |  that: mine & opinions. >>
From: michael.smith@f842.n800.z3.fido.zeta.org.au (michael smith)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: Falcon - Future
Organization: Fidonet. Gate admin is fido@socs.uts.edu.au
Date: 14 Dec 92 07:21:08 GMT

Original to: sheppard_r@kosmos.wcc.govt.nz
In a message of <07 Dec 1992 07:11:4>, sheppard_r@kosmos.wcc.govt.nz
(3:713/602) writes:
 sr> Unix or what ever is no out for the Atari at all, well
 sr> Atari droped it from the message that came from GEnie...

No, the port was done & no more work was required.

 sr> Was not up to it on the TT,

Is up to it on the TT - typical Unix speed for a 32MHz '030.

 sr> did not support colour,

That's a limitation with the way that X works (if my local X guru and I
understand things properly).  Text mode works fine in colour.

 sr> but then again I did read some time back that there Unix
 sr> chap had left, but it was stated that he had finished
 sr> his contract with Atari, but then again after all the lies
 sr> about FSMGDOS, what can you believe from Atari..???

How about the truth?  They got Unix ported by an outside company that
specialises in it.

Speaking of lies and utter bullshit, I wonder if anyone here listens to you
much these days?

 sr> Roger..............           sheppard_r@kosmos.wcc.govt.nz
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From: afonseca@terapin.com (Alberto Fonseca)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Word Processor/Document Processor
Date: 21 Dec 92 00:26:30 GMT
Organization: BBS

Hi everyone.. I want to know what the best word/document processor out there
is.. I guess I'm truly looking for a proffessional document processor.. One
that has WYSIWYG, or so that what you think your getting isn't the opposite.. 
I've had bad experiences with word processors like Word Up..  Anyways, I looked
at the demo for Caligrapher and was impressed.. Looks pretty good. I downloaded
the demo for Thats Write 2, and I don't think I'd ever buy it.  I like the look
of Caligrapher, and the features..  I think i would get Caligrapher Gold..
Anyone have this product, and could you tell me more about it?  And are there
any better ones?  I'm not looking for DTP, just a good document processor, and
later on I could buy CALAMUS if I need to.  

Thanks




Alberto Fonseca
afonseca@terrapin.com
From: dlk0ms9s@umiami.ir.miami.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: falcon questions
Date: 12 Dec 92 11:47:36 EST
Distribution: comp
Organization: Univ of Miami IR

In article <1992Dec12.095025.12993@beaver.cs.washington.edu>, bgilbert@cs.washington.edu (Ben Gilbert) writes:
> In article <1992Dec11.4514.27623@dosgate> "calvin bruner" <calvin.bruner@canrem.com> writes:
>>A couple of Falcon questions:
>>
>>1) If I want to have both VGA and true colour modes, will it be
>>necessary for me to either have two monitors (ugh) or keep changing the
>>plug to the Falcon (using a multisync)?  Is it possible through software
>>to tell the computer the type of screen to use, regardless of the plug
>>in the back?
> 
> What John said was basically correct, the Falcon _knows_ what kind of
> monitor is connected via the adapter plug, and consequently sets the video
> modes up correctly for that monitor.  So, if you have the VGA monitor block
> plugged in, it won't let you change to 640x480x16bpp (or 640x400 actually).
> However, I wanted to point out that you can do true color modes on the VGA
> monitor : 320x240x16bpp and 320x480x16bpp.  On the SC1224 or equivalent,
> you'll get all the video modes, but those with over 200 lines of 
> resolution (not counting for overscan), you'll have interlace.

  QUESTION:

      I am currently running a Multisync monitor off my Mega ST4.  Does this
mean I can have the best of both worlds as long as I put the adapter box for my
ST in the monitor cord chain?


>>--
>>Canada Remote Systems  - Toronto, Ontario
>>World's Largest PCBOARD System - 416-629-7000/629-7044
> 
> Cheers,
> -- 
> Ben Gilbert				e-mail : bgilbert@cs.washington.edu
> Department of Computer Science
> University of Washington


Mark Santora
From: gt1448b@prism.gatech.EDU (David P. Forrai)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Help me with Carrier Command!
Date: 19 Dec 92 05:18:59 GMT
Organization: Georgia Institute of Technology

Ok, so you netters convinced me to buy Carrier Command off the
discount racks.  Now I ask, how exactly do you go about playing this
game?  The "operations guide" gave much information about the weaponry
and supplies of the carrier, but it did not give much on how to best
utilise them.  For instance, I started in the action game, where the
carrier is off the shore of a hostile island.  The laser turret will
destroy things on the island on the closest shore.  I lauch a viewing
drone, but all I see is blue water - nothing to aim a missile at.  The
manta gets damaged shortly after take off and usually destroyed
shortly after one or two shots.  The walrus gets destroyed upon
reaching the island.  So, how do you go about defeating this island?

-- 
David P. Forrai
uucp:	  ...!{decvax,hplabs,ncar,purdue,rutgers}!gatech!prism!gt1448b
Internet: gt1448b@prism.gatech.edu
From: aa399@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Len Stys)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: GOOD people that LEFT Atari
Date: 13 Dec 1992 21:50:58 GMT
Organization: Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH (USA)
Reply-To: aa399@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Len Stys)
NNTP-Posting-Host: thor.ins.cwru.edu



Hi, I'm looking for the names of some good people that left Atari
because they either were fed up, wanted to do other things (fed up),
or were fired.

Please post or send me the names.

Thanks.


Len

aa399@cleveland.freenet.edu

-- 
 
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
From: Mark Kovarski <kovarski@zooid.guild.org>
Subject: Re: The Eagle has landed
Organization: ZOOiD BBS
Date: Sun, 20 Dec 1992 02:48:33 GMT
Keywords: FALCON

mppi76@cd4680fs.rrze.uni-erlangen.de (Harald Schoenfeld) writes:
>I can't believe it! My FALCON was delivered on friday!
>
>So at least the "small" developers in Germany get their FALCONs now. Some
>hundred are to be deliverd since last week.
>
>BTW: They were flown from Taiwan to Germany :-)
>
>The first hard disk recording program was written in about 1 or 
>2 hours and works perfectly with 50kHz 16Bit stereo. So forget all
>the PC SoundCards (with 25kHz that are only 6kHz in reality - as
>revealed by the German magazin ct last week :-) )
>
>More to be reported soon...
>
>-- 
>Harald Schoenfeld (hs@cnve.rrze.uni-erlangen.dbp.de)
>


What do you mean? Gravis Ultrasound, PAS-16, and the TB Multisound are all
16-Bit/44.1 Khz cards. No 25 KHz, no 6 KHz. For your information, TB uses
the DSP 56001. Your statement is more than misleading unless you can
prove that the cards mentioned above are not 16-Bit with 44.1 Khz capabilties.

Mark K.
From: aeg03@rrz.uni-koeln.de (Jan T. Kim)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: intellectual property and shit
Date: 14 Dec 1992 12:19:30 +0100
Organization: Regional Computing Center, University of Cologne
Reply-To: kim@vax.mpiz-koeln.mpg.dbp.de
NNTP-Posting-Host: rs1.rrz.uni-koeln.de

In <1992Dec14.004749.19378@nosc.mil> healy@nosc.mil (Mike Healy) writes:

>Will everyone advocating people to write software for the art of it
>with no concern about making making a living please raise their hands?

>Thank you. Now will those of you in this group who have children to
>provide for please raise your hands :-)

Please. To say "Someone's got to feed his children's  mouths,  so
he must have a right to get paid for doing X" really doesn't mean
anything. X, that happens to be programming in this  case,  could
as well be working in a factory or being in the mafia. Not that I
think any of these are comparable in many ways, just  to  explain
why  I  don't  see the fact that someone has children to care for
having any relevance regarding the justification of  his  way  of
making money.

Greetinx, Jan

 +- Jan Kim -- X.400:    S=kim;OU=vax;O=mpiz-koeln;P=mpg;A=dbp;C=de -+
 |             Internet: kim@vax.mpiz-koeln.mpg.dbp.de               |
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Super 5  -  EP-1201 A
From: wells_s@kosmos.wcc.govt.nz (steve wells)
Date: 12 Dec 1992 01:53:20 GMT
Reply-To: wells_s@kosmos.wcc.govt.nz
Organization: Wellington City Council (Public Access), Wgtn, Nz
NNTP-Posting-Host: kosmos.wcc.govt.nz

I've just purchased (2nd hand at Garage sale) a Super 5, EP-1201 A
printer.  And, the previous owner has it set up for USA character
set.  I have a UK machine.  This causes problems!
 
 
Can someone tell me what the (8) DIP-Switches do!?  

Or, at least tell me how to set it up for UK Character set!

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| If I told you how much I needed this, I wouldn't have time to eat it!  ZB  |
==========================WELLS_S@KOSMOS.WCC.GOVT.NZ==========================
From: rossin@hpfcso.FC.HP.COM (Ted Rossin)
Date: Fri, 11 Dec 1992 16:24:25 GMT
Subject: Re: GNU C
Organization: Hewlett-Packard, Fort Collins, CO, USA
From: davidli@simvax.labmed.umn.edu
Subject: Re: Copywrong and copyright (was: Good Bye Atari)
Reply-To: davidli@simvax.labmed.umn.edu
Organization: Health Computer Sciences, U of MN, Mpls
Date: Fri, 11 Dec 1992 18:18:30 GMT

In article <11406@uqcspe.cs.uq.oz.au>, warwick@cs.uq.oz.au (Warwick Allison) writes:
>How can we argue that the "typical user" doesn't use all the powerful
>tools that "expert users" do... yet in the same breath say that these
>"typical users" need to be able to pull boards in and out of their
>machines, run config s/w, etc.

An interesting question.  From my experiences with members of MAST (the
Minnesota Atari ST Users Group), there is a 70/30 mix of non-technical /
technically-oriented users.  The 30% who are technically oriented are,
generally, programmers by profession.  The 70% who are non-technical bought
their ST because it did something they wanted a computer to do (graphics, MIDI,
games ...)

>I couldn't do it on a PCclone (no usable G++; no usable LaTeX;

Actually, emTeX is quite usable by PC owners.  I've done a few installations
for faculty and former research assistants.  It's limited, of course, to the
DOS command line.

-- David Paschall-Zimbel
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
From: C556212@mizzou1.missouri.edu (Jeoff Hines)
Subject: Anyone heard of Castles, or Amber Star?
Organization: University of Missouri
Date: Tue, 15 Dec 92 18:10:51 CST

  I'm looking into buying a game for my Christmas break.  I called Toad, and
they said they didn't have EMPIRE 2, but they had Castles and Amber Star.
Are these worth my buying (about $40 each)?  What are they about?  What game
do they remind you of the most?  Also, should I check out Lemmings too?  I
always heard it was fun, but I never have seen it.
   Thanks!!
Jeoff Hines                       c556212@mizzou1.missouri.edu
From: aa399@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Len Stys)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: I am NOT making this up, OK?  (was Re: Closed ... <ho hum>)
Date: 20 Dec 1992 00:28:06 GMT
Organization: Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH (USA)
Reply-To: aa399@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Len Stys)
NNTP-Posting-Host: thor.ins.cwru.edu


In a previous article, dmb@case.ai.mit.edu (David Baggett) says:

>In article <1992Dec17.195300.4758@news2.cis.umn.edu> davidli@simvax.labmed.umn.edu writes:
>The simple fact is that when you're trying to sell something to a much
>larger company, you do it on their terms rather than blow the deal, 
>regardless of what those terms might be.  In a perfect world, an
>enterprising small company with a good product would be on equal
>bargaining ground with a large computer company.  But it doesn't
>work that way in practice.
>
>Besides all that, we were told that we'd be meeting with the
>"Falcon Game Devlopment Team."  Seemed logical enough to us.  We
>had no reason to expect the irrational spectacle we encountered,
>and therefore had no reason to be paranoid.
>


Yeah, how would you know you would meet with people that were clearly
unprofessional.  I wonder if any of them even shook your hand when you
walked into the place?

>>Of course, all *I* was wondering in my posting was what the hell LYNX
>>programmers were doing in a meeting discussing a set of Atari ST/Falcon
>>programming libraries.  [How Atari can feel that people who sit at Amigas all
>>day programming for hand-held game machines are capable of programming games
>>for the Falcon is beyond me...]
>
>And, as you answered for yourself, it's because we were too stupid to
>make sure the right people would be in the meeting.  Our fault.
>Right?
>
>Dave Baggett

Their loss Dave...  THEIR loss.

>--
>dmb@ai.mit.edu           MIT Artificial Intelligence Laboratory                  
>ADVENTIONS: interactive fiction (text adventures) for the 90's!
>dmb@ai.mit.edu *** Compu$erve: 76440,2671 *** GEnie: ADVENTIONS
>

--
From: rjung@aludra.usc.edu (Robert A. Jung)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: Word Processor/Document Processor
Date: 20 Dec 1992 17:26:06 -0800
Organization: Southern California Lynx Enthusiasts
NNTP-Posting-Host: aludra.usc.edu

In article <afonseca.2uzu@terapin.com> afonseca@terapin.com (Alberto Fonseca) writes:
>Hi everyone.. I want to know what the best word/document processor out there
>is.. I guess I'm truly looking for a proffessional document processor.. One
>that has WYSIWYG, or so that what you think your getting isn't the opposite.. 
>I've had bad experiences with word processors like Word Up. Anyways, I looked
>at the demo for Caligrapher and was impressed.. Looks pretty good. ...
>Anyone have this product, and could you tell me more about it?

  Yeah. BUY IT!

  Seriously, it's an incredible package, and well worth the money. It's as if
you took WORDUP, removed ALL the bugs, made it crash-proof, and added more
features -- you'd have Calligrapher. It delivers everything it promises, and
I have yet to be upset that I bought the darn thing.

  I like the fact that it uses standard GDOS fonts as well as Calligrapher's
own outline font format. The outline fonts are terrific, and it's incredibly
close to WYSIWYG for my money. Multiple columns, in-line graphics, future
expandability through packages, really slick design. I'd recommend it for
you, especially since you're like me, in the "want to do quality layout and
writing without going to a full-blown DTP program" state.

                                                --R.J.
                                                B-)

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