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Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st,comp.sys.atari.st.tech
Subject: Re: Where can one get a new mouse quickly?
From: Roger.Sheppard@bbs.actrix.gen.nz
Date: Tue, 14 Apr 1992 09:05:20 GMT
Organization: Actrix Information Exchange

In article <H.guZq64XnzuA@bara.oche.de> wr@bara.oche.de (Wolfram Roesler) writes:
> In <1992Apr7.013134.6381@actrix.gen.nz>,
> Roger.Sheppard@bbs.actrix.gen.nz (Roger.Sheppard@bbs.actrix.gen.nz) wrote:
> 
> > I use a early Amiga one with 2 wires changed around.
> 
> Which ones? What exactly must I do to an Amiga mouse to use it on
> the ST? It seems that it's easier to get a good Amiga mouse here
> than a good Atari one.
> --
> Wolfram Roesler            Augustastr. 44-46            W-5100 Aachen
> (Usenet) wr@bara.oche.de  (Mausnetz) AC2  (Voicenet) +49(0)241 534596


NOTE: this was a Golden Image mouse for a Amiga, the Yellow and Brown
wires from memory, there is a small plug inside the mouse, with the
use of a pin you can remove the pins from the connector, the pin is
use to lift up the small plastic clickers that hold these pins in..
 
But remove the plug first..
-- 
***  Roger W. Sheppard      *      Roger.Sheppard@bbs.actrix.gen.nz  ***
***  85 Donovan Rd        *    *   GEnie.  R.SHEPPARD5               ***
***  Kapiti                        At least I don't Flicker,         ***
***  New Zealand..          *      not like a dying light globe      ***
From: g91e1792@giraffe.ru.ac.za (MR M EASON)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Public Domain Software
Keywords: PD
Date: 13 Apr 92 14:59:58 GMT
Organization: Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa

Hi!

I live in a rather small town with mainly IBM PC shops around.  
I would like to get hold of some good Public Domain software - specifically
demo's, so that I can show off my machine to those PC owners.

The only software that I can get regularly is from the ST User and ST Format
magazines, which arrive one month late in South Africa.

I've got TCB Tracker and I am very impressed!  Please could someone send some
.MOD files to me.  I've heard some excellent .MOD files on the PC, but could
not convert them to TCB Tracker format

Any Public Domain software and help would be greatly appreciated!

Thanks
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Atari dead in NZ - NEVER!  
From: Dawn_Scotting@kcbbs.gen.nz (Dawn Scotting)
Date: 8 Apr 92 03:31:38 GMT
Organization: Kappa Crucis Unix BBS, Auckland, New Zealand

X-Mailer: KCReader v0.95a  
help  
send 8bit/Index  
  
  
                                                   
  pandora@kcbbs.gen.nz OR Fidonet 3:772/90         
  Kia Ora from The Land of the Long White Cloud    
                                                   
--- KCReader v0.95 beta  
  
>  
>Hey Roger, Atari may very well be dead in New Zealand, but it is rather  
>stupid to extrapolate this to the entire world, and especially Europe,  
>where Atari is doing well. Expand your horizons a little.  
>
From: rlcollins@miavx1.acs.muohio.edu (Ryan 'Gozar' Collins)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: Terminal Program Blues
Date: 16 Apr 92 13:42:41 GMT
Organization: Miami University Academic Computer Service"

In article <19573@chopin.udel.edu>, jon@chopin.udel.edu (Jon Deutsch) writes:
> I'm looking for a terminal program for the ST that can handle IBM
> ANSI BBS Graphics.  I'm not having much luck.

     Check out MINITERM at atari.archive.

Later.......

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"You can give her the usual		     rlcollins@miavx1.acs.muohio.edu
things: candy, flowers, promises 	      RC1DSANU@miamiu.acs.muohio.edu
you don't intend to keep."		      rcollins@apsvax.aps.muohio.edu
  -Cogsworth	 			      R.COLLINS1 on GEnie
(Beauty and the Beast)
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
From: gl8f@fermi.clas.Virginia.EDU (Greg Lindahl)
Subject: Re: ZNET 9214 (REALLY LONG!, I mean it).
Organization: Department of Astronomy, University of Virginia
Date: Wed, 8 Apr 1992 01:16:52 GMT

In article <1992Apr7.185636.28481@thoth.rent.com> azog@thoth.rent.com (Billy D'Augustine) writes:

>What is the address I should mail to so I can get on the mailing
>list? I would like to start archiving this stuff (for my own
>use), on my machine here. 

If you read the Frequently Asked Questions list for this newsgroup,
you'll find that it's "stzmagazine-request@virginia.edu".
Organization: City University of New York/ University Computer Center
Date: Saturday, 11 Apr 1992 20:02:46 EST
From: Joshua Kronengold <JOKHC@CUNYVM.BITNET>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: FAX Software for Supra or Zyxel


In article <1992Apr11.154531.25032@ucsu.Colorado.EDU>,
jesinger@spot.Colorado.EDU (Peter Jesinger) says:
>
>Hi,
>
>is there any Software available for the Atari ST to send and recive fax
>with the new combined V32bis and FAX modems from Zyxel and Supra?
>Where can I get such software?
>
Not yet, but several firms claim to be working on one.  No, I don't remember
which.
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
From: as666@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Jonathan Roy)
Subject: Re: Continuous .MOD player?
Organization: Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio, (USA)
Date: Mon, 13 Apr 92 05:51:10 GMT


 - When Jukebox 1.3 comes out, it will offer a shuffle mode, and should
 - be more stable, perhaps enough to overthrow Paula.  Right now, at
 - version 1.2, it's a little flakey, and only works well on a machine
 - that's 16 MHz or greater.
 
Well, it's a matter of opinion. I really don't like Paula at all (Slows
the system down alot, and can't play some of my MODs correctly.) Also,
Jukebox has more features... But then, each to his own! (grin)
 
-- 
  |||  Jonathan Roy (The Ninja) Internet: as666@cleveland.freenet.edu
  |||  -- BBS: Darkest Realm - (Down for now) - Public UUCP/Usenet --
 / | \ "...make him want to change his name,take him to the cleaners,
 devastate him, wipe him out, humiliate him." -CHESS   GEnie: J.ROY18
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
From: chuj@horton.Colorado.EDU (CHU JEFFREY)
Subject: TOS 1.0 => 1.4
Organization: University of Colorado, Boulder
Date: Wed, 15 Apr 1992 22:47:46 GMT

HELP PLEASE,
	A friend of mine is trying to get his old ST from TOS 1.0 upgraded
to TOS 1.4.  Well little did he know and as well as me, the ROMS don't
exaclty fit, is there a fix for this?
Another question that is un-related, can a regular serial mouse be modified
to work with the ST, the modifications would require 3 buttons to be wired
to a system of 2 buttons.  The reason for this question is that, I already
had to go through 2 Atari mouse and decided it was just getting too costly,
a serial around here is $12.00, besides I would have to mail-order and be
forced to wait for and not use the ST for awhile.


					Thanks,
					Jeff
From: pe@cam-orl.co.uk (Philip Elwell)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: F1GP is out
Keywords: F1GP, Geoff
Date: 13 Apr 92 08:35:06 GMT
Organization: Olivetti Research Ltd, Cambridge, England

In article <41a4iB7w164w@equinox.gen.nz>, shore@equinox.gen.nz (Craig Shore) writes:
|> pe@cam-orl.co.uk (Philip Elwell) writes:
|> 
|> > Yes, Formula 1 Grand Prix has finally been released for the ST. I haven't see
|> > it yet, but my brother has a copy. Apparently it is very similar to the Amiga
|> > version except:
|> 
|> Is this the one by Geoff Cramond (sp?), the guy who wrote
|>  REVS for the BBC??
|> 
|> Does a game exist that is anywhere near as good as REVS on the Atari??
|> 
|>  Craig.
|> 

Yes, this is the one by Geoff Crammond (sp!) (check the Keywords: line)

F1GP is very good graphically, with lots of buildings and trees etc. Monaco is
almost brick-perfect! On the downside, it is a little like driving in a dual-
controls car - the computer does a lot of the steering for you. This makes it
easy to learn, but might frustrate some of the more proficient drivers. There
is no option to totally switch off the computer-aided steering. The big change
from REVS is the intelligence of the other drivers. The cars are obviously
being driven properly and obeying the same laws of Physics that your car is,
because sometimes they go just a bit too fast and lose it on a corner. Cars can
also sustain damage, which causes them to go into the pits.

Don't bother asking me for driving tips - I'm hopeless at it, but in a week or
two I will post my brother's settings and lap records, etc. He can do
Silverstone in 1:22.5 (REVS on C64), or 1:09.9 using a slightly modified car.

Phil Elwell
From: adhir@cygnus.umd.edu (Alok Dhir)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: Rumours about new releases.... I've heard 3 rumours lately:
Date: 13 Apr 92 14:07:44 GMT
Organization: /etc/organization

60 mips performance...from a 020 TT?  HAHAHAHAHAAH!

				- Al


Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
From: darekm@microsoft.com (Darek MIHOCKA)
Subject: Re: GEMulator (was Re: Sudden View vs. Intel)
Date: 08 Apr 92 05:31:00 GMT
Organization: Microsoft Corp.

>Why, you just run Sudden View using Darek Michoka's GEMulator on any fast
>MS-DOS machine, right?
>
>All sarcasm aside, the GEMulator sounded like a real stupid idea in the
>first place, but do these comments of Rod's mean that the GEMulator can't
>possibly work as advertised, and is really pretty much worthless?

Ok, let's put these stupid speculation about how "Gemulator can't
possibly work" to rest once and for all. Last weekend Gemulator
was shown to over 2000 Atari ST users at the ACE show in Toronto.
It was seen and tested by Bob Brodie, Charles Johnson, Dorothy Brumleve,
Mike Vederman, and many other ST developers, including Rod Coleman the
developer of Sudden View. Sudden View worked as did 100% of the programs
that were tested on Gemulator (including Pagestream, Calamus, Dynacadd,
Tempus, Laser C, GFA Basic, etc). Rod was even impressed.

If anyone would still like to claim that it is impossible to emulate
the 68000 and ST hardware on a PC with 100% compatibility, please
explain. Obviously, 2000 people just imagined they saw it work.

- Darek

-- 
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
  Darek Mihocka. Creator of Quick ST & Gemulator. Views expressed are my own.
  Branch Always Software, 14150 NE 20th Street, Unit 302, Bellevue, WA  98007
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From: jonal@sofus.dhhalden.no (JON ARVID LOVSTAD)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: GEMulator
Date: 10 Apr 92 06:26:05 GMT
Organization: Ostfold College

In article <1992Apr8.102920.18135@aber.ac.uk> hrs@aber.ac.uk (Herbert Martin Sauro) writes:

>In article <1992Apr6.135612.8211@mks.com> ant@mks.com (Anthony Howe) writes:
>>
>>I've seen it!!!!  GEMulator is real.
>>
>>The GEMulator ran under windows on a 486 machine.  He had some commerial
>>ROM board plugged in that had TOS 1.4 on it.  He showed it running under
>>all three resolutions on the one machine using the clone's colour monitor.
>>He also showed some software like Laser C working and assorted other
>>
>>ant@mks.com                                                   Anthony C Howe 
>>Mortice Kern Systems Inc. 35 King St. N., Waterloo, Ontario, Canada, N2J 6W9
>>"Congratulations, you've reached 10cm dilation. You may now give birth." - Worf

>Anybody who has more news on this widget, now or in the future (especially
>those going to the show), let me know!! I've got this 486 at work and it
>would be great to emulate an ST, simply to run all the software I've 
>developed - would save a lot of porting time.

>And as I said before a lot of people might find it cheaper to buy a
>386/496 rather than buy a TT.

Well, maybe, but isn't the 386/33 required to get the thing run as fast as a 
real 8Mhz 68000? A 486 definately won't bring you TT speeds...

>Herb
>-- 
>/******************************************************************************
>Herbert Sauro                                   e-mail: hrs@aber.ac.uk
>Biological Sciences                              phone: +44 970 622353
>Univesity College of Wales                      


Spidey

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SnailMail: Storgata 18     |   If Batman can have 2 Crays, then why can't
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From: lawrence@access.isc-br.com (Lawrence Kelley)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st,comp.sys.atari.8bit,misc.forsale.computers,pnw.forsale
Subject: Atari 520ST For Sale
Date: 14 Apr 92 21:55:21 GMT
Distribution: usa
Organization: ISC-Bunker Ramo

Atari 520ST (not FM)
		1 meg RAM (not expandable)
		DS-DD External Floppy Drive
		Monchrome Monitor

$300 or best offer

Includes system software like BASIC, LOGO, and First Word Word Processor and a 
few games.

Terms: as is. - shipped U.P.S. C.O.D. - buyer pays shipping and C.O.D. charges.

Lawrence Kelley 

Internet mail

	lawrence@access.isc-br.com

Voice

	(509) 927-5600 x5413 (7-4 M-F PST)
	(509) 467-4516 (evenings & weekends)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
From: jww@uhunix.uhcc.Hawaii.Edu (Jack W. Wine)
Subject: Re: Atari address? Portfolio info?
Organization: University of Hawaii
Date: Thu, 9 Apr 1992 08:30:54 GMT

This is a list of Atari divisions around the world.  If it has 
errors, please add corrections....

Atari Australia, 376 Lane Cove Road, North Ryde, NSW 2113
Australia  Phone: 0061/2/805-0344

Atari Austria, Grosse Neugasse 28, A-1040 Vienna
Austria  Phone: 0043-222-565155

Atari Benelux, Hangenweg 7B, NL-4130 EB Vianen
The Netherlands  Phone: 0031-3473-77272

Atari Benelux, Boomsesteenweg 28, B-2621 Schelle
Belgium  Phone: 003-23-844-3366

Atari Canada, 90 Grough Road, Markham, Ontario,
Canada L3R 5V5  Phone: 416-479-1266

Atari Denmark, Vaerkstedsgarden 7, DK-2620 Albertslund
Denmark  Phone: 0045-2-643344

Atari France, 9, rue Snetou, F-92150 Suresnes
France  Phone: 033/1/450-66060

Atari Germany, Frankfurterstrasse 89-91, D-6096 Rauneim
Germany  Phone: 0049-6142/2090

Atari Hong Kong, Unit B 3/F, Wong Tze Building, 71 Hoi Yuen Road,
Kwun Tong, Hong Kong,  Phone: 00852/3/797-3266

Atari Italy, Via Bellini, 21, 1-20095 Cosano
Italy  Phone: 0039/2/613-4141-5

Atari Japan, No. 7 Koike Bldg 6F, 2-3-6 Minami-Shinagawa,
Shinagawa-ku, Tokyo 140, Japan  Phone: 0081/3/450-711

Atari Mexico, Viveros de Atizapan No. 1, Viveros de la Loma,
Tialnepantia, Estadio de Mexico  Phone: 905-398-4379

Atari Norway, Trollasvejen 4, N-1414 Trollasen,
Norway,  Phone: 0047-2-808110

Atari Scandinavia/Atari Sweden, Box 522, S-17526 Jarfalla
Sweden  Phone: 0046-8-795-9120

Atari Spain, PO Box 195, Los Calabozos 11, Poligono Industrial de
Alcobendas, E-28100 Alcobendas Madrid, Spain  Phone: 0034/1/653-5011

Atari Switzerland, Bahnhofstrasse 28, CH-5400 Baden
Switzerland  Phone: 0041-5621-14722

Atari Taiwan, 31, Min-Chu Road, Chu-Wei, Tam-Shui, Taipei,
Taiwan  Phone: 00886/2/622-1721

Atari United Kingdom, Intercity House, Railway Terrace
Slough, Berkshire, England SL2 5BZ  Phone: 0044/753-33344

Atari USA, 1196 Borregas Avenue, PO Box 3427, Sunnyvale,
California, 94088-3427  Phone: 408-745-2000, Fax: 408-745-2088
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
From: aq115@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Robert C Glover)
Subject: Re: TOS 2.06 for the MegaSTe
Organization: Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio, (USA)
Date: Fri, 10 Apr 92 20:48:32 GMT


What you want to do if you don't have a Mega STE and want a 
high density disk drive, is to contact Paul Wu of Omnimon
Peripherals (I think that's the name).  He makes a high density
upgrade kit for all ST's.  It's $200, and includes the disk
drive and a board that plugs into the current disk controller
socket (the WD1772).  Then you have to solder I think one or two
wires somewhere, and you're set.  There's a software patch included
to make it work with older TOS's, but if you get Codehead's TEC
board, that won'tbe a problem.
 
Rob
-- 
| Robert Glover                               GEnie:  R.GLOVER3 |
| Internet:           rg@turing.acs.virginia.edu                |
| Cleveland Freenet:  aq115@cleveland.freenet.edu               |
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
From: kls30@duts.ccc.amdahl.com (Kent L Shephard)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: ACE'92 show: Report
Date: 15 Apr 92 13:46:09 GMT
Reply-To: kls30@DUTS.ccc.amdahl.com
Distribution: na
Organization: Amdahl Corporation, Sunnyvale CA

In article <H.PKB38Z99yf2@jonh.wimsey.bc.ca> jhenders@jonh.wimsey.bc.ca writes:
>    ^^^^^
>     Thanks for being one of the few who doesn't immediately start 
>comparing other companies "educational" prices.
>    Also, I understand Atari's Unix, though still a tad slow on the
>mouse handling and stuff for graphic applications, is still constiderably
>quicker that the NeXT OS, especially the original 030 version. A friend
>of mine who does DTP tried a 040 NeXT running pagemaker in 32 bit colour
                                              ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Since when is PageMaker on the NeXT?  I haven't seen it.  Also the only
NeXT machine capable of 32 bit color is a NeXTDimension, which is a
cube with a ND board added.

>mode at a recent show. He basically said you couldn't pay him enough to use
>the system as it is now. Appearntly the lag time between clicking and 
>anything actually happening was frustratingly long. He said the original
>mac was faster( of course that was mono)

You have got to be kidding.  The ND is no way a slug.  If he saw a
NeXT running PageMaker it had to be a beta copy and it had to be a
terrible implementation.  On the other hand you might be talking about
FrameMaker.  But it still isn't that slow.  Your friend or someone at the
show must have had a LOT of stuff runnning, enough to cause the machine
to swap out the application and when your friend came along it had to be
swapped back in from disk.

I use a NeXT everyday.  It is my primary machine at home, that along with
a 386sx machine.
--
/*  -The opinions expressed are my own, not my employers.    */
/*      For I can only express my own opinions.              */
/*                                                           */
/*   Kent L. Shephard  : email - kls30@DUTS.ccc.amdahl.com   */
From: miked@syscon.rn.com (Mike DeMetz)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: FAX Software for Supra or Zyxel
Keywords: FAX modem Supra Zyxel
Date: 14 Apr 92 13:14:20 GMT
Organization: Syscon International - Corporate Headquarters

jesinger@spot.Colorado.EDU (Peter Jesinger) writes:


>Hi,

>is there any Software available for the Atari ST to send and recive fax
>with the new combined V32bis and FAX modems from Zyxel and Supra?
>Where can I get such software? 
Yes it is called Joppafax and is from Joppa Compute.

>Peter
>-- 
>Peter Jesinger (EMail: jesinger@boulder.colorado.edu)

>Ich bin ein .signature Virus. Mach' mit und kopiere mich in Deine .signature.
From: dingelde@igd.fhg.de (Dennis Dingeldein)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: JPEG 3.x Binaries for ST ???
Date: 10 Apr 92 13:12:44 GMT
Organization: IGD Darmstadt

Hello!
I am wondering that I haven't found a newer version of the JPEG-Filter
Software on atari.archive.umich.edu (It's still 1.x there). 
Newer versions of that software are 
	- faster
	- able to produce directly gif files (instead of ppm-files)

Could some of the guys with some megabytes and gcc 1.4x compile
the software and make them available for poor 1MByte-users ????

Thanks
	Dennis

-- 
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(dingelde@igd.fhg.de)	Wilhelminenstr. 7 		    mWm
			D-6100 Darmstadt, West Germany	    ~.~
			Phone: +49/6151/155-112		    \-/
From: revpk@cellar.org (Brian 'Rev P-K' Siano)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Gemulator Thoughts
Date: 9 Apr 92 23:44:05 GMT
Organization: The Cellar BBS and public access system


        First of all, I'd like to express my admiration for Darek's work; 
it's not easy writing an emulator program, and the Gemulator sounds like it 
must've been one bitch of a job.

        Second, I'd like to mention that since I'll be buying an IBM clone 
Real Soon, I'd love to be able to continue to use my old ST software without 
too much hassle. (Too bad that my 1040ST's resale value, monitor included, 
is less than the cost of the gemulator.)

        Third, I want to weigh in with a few additional comments. As nice as 
the ST is, I can't use itfor much more than telecommunicating, a little 
writing, and Dungeon Master and Chaos Strikes Back. There are no stores 
nearby that supply ST software, and it's difficult for me to find out how 
well a particular piece of software works from the ST magazines. There are 
dozens of reasons why the ST market has stagnated in the U.S., and I don't 
think Darek's out4rage at the Atari ST is completely unwarranted.

        One thing I would like to auggest to Darek is the possibility of 
adding, in later Gemulator versons, a way of linking our old STs up to our 
new clones to use as an auxiliary computer/print spooler/ramdisk/whatever. 
Even if it's just a way of feeding the video signal in, I'd be happy; it'd 
give me a reason to keep the thing on my desk.

bye

Brian "Rev. P-K" Siano                                  revpk@cellar.org
...Saure really turns out to be an adept at the difficult art of papryomancy,
the ability to prophesy through contemplating the way people roll reefers -
the shape, the licking pattern, the wrinkles and folds or absence thereof
in the paper.  "You will soon be in love," sez Saure, "see, this line here."
"It's long, isn't it?  Does that mean --" "Length is usually intensity.
Not time."                       -- Thomas Pynchon, _Gravity's Rainbow_
From: vince@sci.kun.nl (V.G.J.M. Stoks)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: True Color
Date: 15 Apr 92 09:29:54 GMT
Organization: University of Nijmegen, The Netherlands

Ummm, with a resolution of, say, 600x800 at 24 bits you'd need 
600x800x3=1440000 bytes (1406K). But then again, if the Falcon would
really be shipped with 4 or 8 Meg, what the hell.
But wouldn't BitBlts on 24 bitplanes consume too much CPU time? (Or
maybe they'd put in some Turbo-Blitter...)

P.S. Just pressing some keys on my calculator here; the same amount of
display memory would allow a monochrome res of 3394x3394... (wouldn't
like to pay for the monitor capable of that, though...)

Sander SToks
vince@pomeron.sci.kun.nl
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st