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INFO-ATARI16 Digest         Sun, 29 Apr 90       Volume 90 : Issue  491
 
Today's Topics:
                Amiga 3000 on BYTE cover May 1990 :-(
                    Copy Protection Kill a Drive?
                         Gnu Software by Mail
          Now Available: Digital Keyclick, Beep, and Digivec
                    PD or shareware sample editor
                play.arc v1.1 available at terminator
               Sample file formats and source codes...
                 Severe Dcreate() bug in GEMDOS 0.23
                           ST Serial Comms
                      what is this Z doing here!
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Date: 29 Apr 90 06:57:29 GMT
From: cunixf.cc.columbia.edu!cunixd.cc.columbia.edu!ia4@rutgers.edu  (Imran
 Anwar)
Subject: Amiga 3000 on BYTE cover May 1990 :-(
Message-ID: <1990Apr29.065729.21765@cunixf.cc.columbia.edu>
 
Today, I got my subscription copy of BYTE May 1990.
 
AMiga 3000 is on the cover.........when oh when can we have another ST
on the title :-)
 
imran anwar
 
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Date: 29 Apr 90 03:59:49 GMT
From: psuvm!jtt106@psuvax1.cs.psu.edu
Subject: Copy Protection Kill a Drive?
Message-ID: <90118.235949JTT106@psuvm.psu.edu>
 
    I recentely got a copy of the game R-type, this program has some heavy
copy protection on it and makes my drive sound as though it is about to fall
apart.  I have been playing this game a lot and it acesses the disk constently
while playing.  After a week my old drive(4 years) is giving me all types of
trouble,programs give me tos error #35, or the computer says data is bad.
    Could this program have caused all this trouble I've been having?
 
                                                       john Tallarico
 
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Date: 29 Apr 90 06:31:56 GMT
From:
 zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!rpi!donatello.ipl.rpi.edu!onders@tut.cis.ohio-state.e
 du  (Timothy E. Onders)
Subject: Gnu Software by Mail
Message-ID: <0?2#MT=@rpi.edu>
 
Now Available:
        The complete GNU package by mail, for those who don't want to
go through the trouble of downloading it. On 22 DS/DD disks, includes:
        o Gnu CC
        o Gnu AS
        o GDB
        o Gnu Emacs
        o Gnu Tar
        o Gnu Smalltalk
        o G++, the Gnu C++ system
        o The Complete Emacs \info colection
        o And more...
 
All for the amazing low price of $30 plus S/H. US funds only please.
Mail for ordering info.
                                        -Tim Onders
                                        brazil@pawl.rpi.edu
                                        onders@ipl.rpi.edu
 
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Date: 29 Apr 90 16:01:00 GMT
From: portal!cup.portal.com!buggs@apple.com  (William Edward JuneJr)
Subject: Now Available: Digital Keyclick, Beep, and Digivec
Message-ID: <29419@cup.portal.com>
 
>I've posted three new shareware utilities to terminator (35.1.33.8).
4/28/90 10:24 dmb@wam.umd.edu (David M. Baggett)
 
How 'bout use poor non?ftp'ble sites?
comp/sys, maybe?
 
Ed June
 
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Date: 29 Apr 90 06:15:38 GMT
From: unccvax!cs01bd@mcnc.org  (brian daniels)
Subject: PD or shareware sample editor
Message-ID: <1990@unccvax.UUCP>
 
Does anyone know of a good (or even average :-) PD or shareware
sample editor that will work on samples such as play.ttp and newbell
use?   If so, where can I find it (terminator,etc)?
Thanks in advance,
Brian Daniels
(cs01bd@unccvax)
 
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Date: 29 Apr 90 15:47:46 GMT
From:
 zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!uakari.primate.wisc.edu!uflorida!haven!wam!dmb@tut.ci
 s.ohio-state.edu  (David M. Baggett)
Subject: play.arc v1.1 available at terminator
Message-ID: <1990Apr29.154746.27715@wam.umd.edu>
 
Version 1.1 of play.arc is available at terminator (35.1.33.8).  This
version replaces the previous version posted and fixes a few bugs.
Additionally, playback speeds up to 21kHz now work, so most samples
recored at 22kHz sound OK.
 
I replaced the old play.arc with the new one, so
 
        terminator:atari/music/samples/play.arc
 
now contains version 1.1.
 
Dave Baggett
dmb@cscwam.umd.edu
 
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Date: 29 Apr 90 19:49:22 GMT
From: unccvax!cs01bd@mcnc.org  (brian daniels)
Subject: Sample file formats and source codes...
Message-ID: <1991@unccvax.UUCP>
 
Help!  I'm looking for the location (what archive site) where I can find
the source code to one of these sample playing programs (newbell, play,etc.)
and also for the format of a sample file.   Thanks!
Later,
Brian Daniels
(Cs01bd@unccvax)
 
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Date: 26 Apr 90 16:12:00 GMT
From: mcsun!unido!estevax!reiner@uunet.uu.net  (Reiner Plaum )
Subject: Severe Dcreate() bug in GEMDOS 0.23
Message-ID: <1705@estevax.UUCP>
 
In article <1371@opal.tubopal.UUCP> alderaan@tubopal.UUCP (Thomas Cervera)
writes:
>  there seems to be a severe bug in GEMDOS 0.23's Dcreate() Call (TOS 1.?4,6?).
>If you have a file with a given name somewhere on your disk and you create a
>directory with the same name at the same path location, this Dcreate call
>completes SUCCESSFUL !
 
This error does not occur on my TOS 1.4 (official german) when using the
GEMDOS calls.
Dcreate returns the correct error number in this case.
Do you use the GEMDOS calls directly or through an cli? In the latter case
the cli may cause the errorneous behaviour.
 
>  I'm going to patch this bug by telling GEMDOS to do the check itself. To
>realize this, I have to write some reentrant GEMDOS code.
 
GEMDOS has not to be reentrant for such a patch (if the patch is really
necessary for you). If you catch Trap 1 and wait there for Dcreate, you
can directly call GEMDOS for Fsfirst and then for Dcreate since your trap
handler is called before GEMDOS is entered.
Either you use the normal Trap 1 for Fsfirst and lock your trap handler
against recursiv invocation, or you simulate a trap (push SR and return
address onto the stack).
 
*Reiner Plaum           reiner@estevax@unido
 
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Date: 24 Apr 90 15:00:53 GMT
From: mcsun!ukc!stc!dsteele@uunet.uu.net  (David Steele)
Subject: ST Serial Comms
Message-ID: <1639@jura.tcom.stc.co.uk>
 
After reading the Atari ST Internals Book it states that the main serial
port (which is tied to the MFP68901) can handle synchronouse serial
communications however it does not expand on this.   Can anyone tell me
if the ST can therefore support both bit synchronous (eg HDLC) or just
byte synchronous transmission or just the latter?
 
Thanks in advance.
 
David Steele
 
 
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*   David Steele                                    ...!mcvax!ukc!stc!dsteele *
*                                                      dsteele@tcom.stc.co.uk *
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Date: 29 Apr 90 19:53:07 GMT
From: unccvax!cs01bd@mcnc.org  (brian daniels)
Subject: what is this Z doing here!
Message-ID: <1992@unccvax.UUCP>
 
Now that I can FTP sites (hurrah) I have discovered a lot of files that
are compressed (apparently) and have the extension .Z
How does one go about uncompressing them?
 
Thanks in advance,
Brian Daniels
(cs01bd@unccvax)
 
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