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INFO-ATARI16 Digest         Tue, 10 Oct 89       Volume 89 : Issue 505
 
Today's Topics:
                    apple laptop - STacy at WAACE
                     Atarifest in Va./Video Board
                       Hi Anyone out there.....
                       Mac emulators and games
                     Mathematica and Spectre 128
                       official tos 1.4 release
                        PC-Ditto II/ PC-Speed
                  PC-Ditto II Availability (2 msgs)
                      STARTGEM FOR 1.4 & OLD TOS
                           TOS 1.4 problem
                             Unix Windows
                           What's ST mean?
                      Where is LaTex ???????????
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Date: 9 Oct 89 20:41:34 GMT
From: portal!cup.portal.com!Xorg@uunet.uu.net  (Peter Ted Szymonik)
Subject: apple laptop - STacy at WAACE
 
All my doubts have been laid to rest.  This weekend at the WAACE AtariFest
I SAW, and USED the STacy and the Portfolio.  VERY solid machines, these
were not demo machines - they had a very sharp production feel.  The STacy
I used had 4 megs of RAM and one internal DD drive - it was hooked up to
an external HD and a Spectre GCR - hence, Mac laptop!  My only complaint is
that the screen was a bit dim even at the best setting and the refresh was
understandably slower than a standard ST/MAC screen.  I was very impressed
with the construction and feel of the machine, it also looked quite impressive
in its dark black/blue case.
Peter Szymonik
Xorg@cup.portal.com
 
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Date: 9 Oct 89 20:54:11 GMT
From: portal!cup.portal.com!Xorg@uunet.uu.net  (Peter Ted Szymonik)
Subject: Atarifest in Va./Video Board
 
Image Systems has a sub $1,000 board for the ST that allows any
multi-sync to be connected to the ST (if it is capable of running
at 50 KHz horizontal and capable of the resolution.)  It extends the
color palette to 4,096 (vs. 512.) and has a 1,024x768 display with
16 colors (non-interlaced.)  It also has a socket for a 68881 math
co-processor.
 
Peter Szymonik
Xorg@cup.portal.com
 
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Date: 9 Oct 89 21:01:15 GMT
From: cadre.dsl.pitt.edu!pitt!cuphub!bha9959@pt.cs.cmu.edu
Subject: Hi Anyone out there.....
 
Hi Anybody out there,
 
I am quite new to this.  I just discovered the network a few days ago
and with great difficulty learnt how to post messages.  Well....now I'm
glad I know how to.  I'll be glad to hear from anyone near or far.
Also someone please help me regarding how to send mail to an individual
rather than post it on the news group..... thanx
 
				Ajay
Ajay Bhandaram
P.O Box 336
California, Pa.15419
U.S.A
(California University of Pennsylvania)
 
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Date: 9 Oct 89 20:20:17 GMT
From: portal!cup.portal.com!Xorg@uunet.uu.net  (Peter Ted Szymonik)
Subject: Mac emulators and games
 
Some games work, some do not, and some work with conditions.  QuarterStaff
will work fine on a Mega 4 (only) even though it is copy-protected!  The
major consideration is whether or not the program was written to Apple
guidelines and whether or not the software addresses any special MAC chips,
is they do, forget it, if they don't you stand a good chance - especially
if the is no copy-protection.
 
Peter Szymonik
Xorg@cup.portal.com
 
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Date: 9 Oct 89 20:37:06 GMT
From: portal!cup.portal.com!Xorg@uunet.uu.net  (Peter Ted Szymonik)
Subject: Mathematica and Spectre 128
 
I'm not sure about Mathematica, but I saw (and bought!) and great math
utility program at the WAACE fest.  Its called El-Cal and its by
Debonair Software/J.Andrezej Wrotniak.  A VERY powerful math program
with fast calculation and superb graphing abilities with 16 digit precision.
36 standard functions, 44 disribution functions, function, histogram, and
scatter plots (all this from the data sheet by the way), linear, square,
and cubic equations, numerical equation solving, linear regression and
correlation (W/ plotting), polynomial least squares up to the 6th degree.
etc. etc. etc.  and an EXCELLENT user interface - not an amateur job by any
means - all for $40!!
Peter Szymonik
 
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Date: 9 Oct 89 20:24:50 GMT
From: portal!cup.portal.com!Xorg@uunet.uu.net  (Peter Ted Szymonik)
Subject: official tos 1.4 release
 
What makes this all even more interesting is that rumors were flying
at the WAACE AtariFest that TOS 1.4 will be showing up on 2 chip ROM
(not EPROM) sets in the next few weeks (which should take care of the
'weak Bus' problems some Mega owners have been having - but even more
interesting is the rumored release of TOS 1.6!  Which Mr Hartmann didn't
refute (although in all fairness he also didn't back this rumor...)
 
Peter Szymonik
Xorg@cup.portal.com
 
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Date: 9 Oct 89 20:48:10 GMT
From: portal!cup.portal.com!Xorg@uunet.uu.net  (Peter Ted Szymonik)
Subject: PC-Ditto II/ PC-Speed
 
I haven't seen PC-Speed yet, niether have Dave Small or Jim Allen.
Their comments were that it was Germany, it was supposed to be good,
it does require soldering, and that they can't guarantee that it will
work with Spectre GCR or the FAST Technologies 16mhz board (in fact
I think Mr Allen said for sure that it wouldn't work with the accel board
because of the soldering connection.)
 
Peter Szymonik
Xorg@cup.portal.com
 
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Date: 9 Oct 89 23:35:49 GMT
From: texbell!bigtex!milano!cs.utexas.edu!oakhill!dover!digital!chen@rutgers.edu
  (Jinfu Chen)
Subject: PC-Ditto II Availability
 
In article <2180@cbnewsl.ATT.COM> mgh1@cbnewsl.ATT.COM (matthew.g.hetman)
 writes:
>
>                 I just came across another hardware mod for the ST called
>PC Speed and it is being sold by Michtron. It is REAL and I have seen it
>for sale here in good old New Jersey. It is said to have a Norton SI rating
>of over 4.0. A friend has one installed and has found anything yet that does
>not run. He is using it with TOS 1.4 and says it is fa----st.
>
>                                                 Its list price is about
>$100.00 above the list price of PC-Ditto II.
 
I'm very interested, could you provide us more information on this product?
For example:
 
o   CPU and speed? (8086,8088, v20/30, 80286 :-), 8/10/12 Mhz)
o   Graphic mode ?
o   Version of PC-DOS ?
o   Floating point chip support?
 
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Date: 9 Oct 89 20:45:27 GMT
From: portal!cup.portal.com!Xorg@uunet.uu.net  (Peter Ted Szymonik)
Subject: PC-Ditto II Availability
 
The latest I've heard on PC-Ditto II comes from Jim Allen, maker of
the FAST Technologies 16mhz board and close friend of Bill Teal.
PC-Ditto II is waiting for parts, most noticablly the ribbon cable
with a special clip that attaches to the 68000.  It was decided that
the board would sell more if no soldering was involved, and so a custom
ribbon cable with clip was designed.  When?  Soon...  :-]
 
Peter Szymonik
Xorg@cup.portal.com
 
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Date: 10 Oct 89 06:23:09 GMT
From: bnlux0!max.bnl.gov!atc@sbcs.sunysb.edu  (Andrew Como)
Subject: STARTGEM FOR 1.4 & OLD TOS
 
	Hello netters!
 
	I'm in desperate need of a STARTGEM that will recognize old tos
versions as well as 1.4.
 
	My company has several 1040 ST's out in the field and I need
a utility that will universally boot on all of them.  Instead of having
to keep track of which ones have which ROM set.
 
(yes, I know TOS 1.4 can autoboot using install application but that still
doesn't make the field disks universal...)
 
					Thanks in advance,
 
					San
 
sbarr@libserv1.ic.sunysb.edu or
atc@max.bnl.gov
 
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Date: 9 Oct 89 20:31:57 GMT
From: portal!cup.portal.com!Xorg@uunet.uu.net  (Peter Ted Szymonik)
Subject: TOS 1.4 problem
 
Here's my two-cents - after my TOS 1.4 install my entire HD was messed
up, the FAT table was destroyed - and no, unfortunetaly I have no idead
why.  I do know that after some playing around I got a few programs to
work fine, but most bombed with TOS error #35 or file not found errors.
After reformatting the whole HD and restoring every program from the
*original disks* (for some reason my old backups would not run either!)
EVERY program is now running fine.  I am having the dead machine problem
which I'm working on now - the system acts as if it was too cold...
 
Peter Szymonik
Xorg@cup.portal.com
 
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Date: 10 Oct 89 00:54:16 GMT
From: sdcc6!sdcc13!pa1562@ucsd.edu  (C. Squibby Breyman)
Subject: Unix Windows
 
	I am trying to run unixwindows (uw.arc) on my 520fm but
I can't set rs232 because by mouse pointer disappears. Does one need
1 meg to run this properly? Also, are the unix side drivers
available? Where?
	Thanks,
	C. Breyman
	squibby@do.ucsd.edu
 
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Date: 7 Oct 89 12:16:06 GMT
From: spdcc!merk!alliant!linus!nixbur!nixpbe!mboen@bloom-beacon.mit.edu  (Martin
 Boening)
Subject: What's ST mean?
 
ljdickey@water.waterloo.edu (Lee Dickey) writes:
 
>In article <3857.25261253@uwovax.uwo.ca> 4203_5021@uwovax.uwo.ca writes:
 
>ST --> SixTeen ?
>TT --> ThirtyTwo ?
 
Nope - not quite. Rather:
 
ST --> Sixteen/Thirtytwo  (16-Bit data bus/ thirtytwo bit internal architecture
			   of the MC68000 Processor)
TT --> Thirtytwo/Thirtytwo (32 Bit databus and internal architecture of the
			   MC68030 Processor)
 
Are y'all happy now?
 
Martin
 
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	    Pontanusstr. 55, 4790 Paderborn, W.-Germany
 
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Date: Tue, 10 Oct 89 09:40:58 GMT
From: Laurent <BRUEL%FRMRS11.BITNET@Forsythe.Stanford.EDU>
Subject: Where is LaTex ???????????
 
 Does someone know where I can find an St version of LaTex? and post me the
name of a site where I can get it ||
 
I am desesperately searching one ||||
 
        Thanks
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