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INFO-ATARI16 Digest         Tue, 24 Apr 90       Volume 90 : Issue  474
 
Today's Topics:
                           1ST Word lockup
                    extended commandline arguments
                   For sale:  all kinds of goodies!
                     NTSC composite video / audio
                             RSC-editor?
          Tech:  changing resolutions without using desktop
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Date: 24 Apr 90 11:08:48 GMT
From: mcsun!hp4nl!spcc386!stefan@uunet.uu.net  (Stefan Posthuma)
Subject: 1ST Word lockup
Message-ID: <594@spcc386.UUCP>
 
My favourite wordprocessor, 1ST Word (yes, 1ST Word!), has this little thing
that makes me want to grind my ST to a lot of little pieces sometimes.
I know it has something to do with the famous 'Phantom Typist'.
Sometimes, it falls into a complete coma and only the reset button will help.
 
I tried solving this by writing a little program that saves the current
WordPlus document after pressing ALT-HELP-SHIFT or something. It searches
memory for a document and saves it. But this was a nice try since I couldn't
figure out the format of a WP document in memory.
 
I wonder, is there a program or accessory that does timed 1ST Word backups?
Since 1ST Word is the only thing that locks up, I think I just have to wait
until the next backup and reset.
 
Now I am looking for a program like this or the format of 1ST Word documents
in memory so I can write it myself. If there is a program, where can I get it?
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Date: 24 Apr 90 17:57:09 GMT
From:
 news-server.csri.toronto.edu!utgpu!watserv1!watcgl!electro!ignac@rutgers.edu
 (Ignac Kolenko)
Subject: extended commandline arguments
Message-ID: <1650@electro.UUCP>
 
what is the most prevelant (sp?) extended commandline protocol used
in the Atari world. what i'm trying to get at is if it would be worth
bothering to implement the Atari Extended GEMDOS Commandline Argument
Spec posted by Ken B. many months ago, or implement something more
along the lines of the Mark Williams spec, since i am assuming that
MUCH more software can understand the latter, although the former is now
the de-facto Atari supported standard. So which would be better to
implement??
 
if the Mark Williams spec is the better one to implement, then what exactly
is their spec. I know it's similar, but i need details ...
 
questions ... questions ... nothing but questions ...
 
(arrggghhh: canadiens are down 3-0 to the bruins!)
 
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=====Ignac A. Kolenko (The Ig)=====watmath!watcgl!electro!brasoft!ignac======
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  Branch Always Software Box 2624, Station B, Kitchener, Ont. CANADA N2H 6N2
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Date: 24 Apr 90 15:48:24 GMT
From: cs.yale.edu!pekowsky-larne@CS.YALE.EDU  (Larne Pekowsky)
Subject: For sale:  all kinds of goodies!
Message-ID: <23738@cs.yale.edu>
 
1) ICD Hard drive kit
   Everything you need to build your own hard drive, except the drive mechanism
   itself.  Includes MFM controller, and formating and partitioning software.
   No soldering required.  Used only about 10 hours total!
 
   Kit alone:
     Cost me: $419                I'm asking: $150
 
   With Seagate 251-1 (40 Meg, faster access then the 251), already assembled:
     Cost me: $850                I'm asking: $600
 
 
2) Atari Developers' package
   Complete documentation on VDI, AES, BIOS, line A, various bits of hardware,
   etc.  Also includes Atari's C compiler, assembler, linker, and libraries.
 
     Cost me: $300                   I'm asking: $50
 
 
3) Magic Sac Macintosh emulator
   Includes 64K Mac ROMs, Magic startup disk, file transfer program, mac
   system and finder on Magic format disks, misc. mac software including
   telecommunications.
 
     Cost me: at least $250          I'm asking: $75
 
 
4) SF354 single-sided drive
 
     Cost me: I don't remember       I'm asking: $25
 
 
5) Spectre Macintosh emulator
   The ultimate Mac emulator!  Current version supports sound, atari's
   laser printer, boot from hard drive, and a bunch of other stuff.  Runs
   more mac software then I care to think about.  Includes latest version
   of Spectre software, Mac system and finder on spectre-format disk, various
   mac software including telecomunications.
 
   Without 128K mac ROMs:
 
     Cost me: at least $125           I'm asking: $75
 
   With 128K ROMs:
 
     Cost me: at least $250           I'm asking: $175
 
 
 
Think I'm asking to much for any of this?  Make me a reasonable offer,
I'll consider it!  Send me mail if interested.
 
Pekowsky@yale.arpa
pekowsky@Yale-Sun3-Nebula
CIS: 73715,1552
 
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Date: 23 Apr 90 10:17:04 GMT
From: swrinde!emory!rsiatl!kd4nc!rbdc!mccann@ucsd.edu  (Mike McCann)
Subject: NTSC composite video / audio
Message-ID: <1990Apr23.101704.11229@rbdc>
 
billm@gaudi.CSUFresno.EDU (Bill Mills) writes:
 
>OK,  I've asked before, but since that was my first ever post, I'll ask
>again, just incase I blew it somewhere along the line and it didn't get
>out (I never read it at my site).  Does any one know at what location I
>can get an NTSC composite video signal from my ST.  I have one ov the
>older models with an RF modulator, so there has to be a straight
>composite video line in there somewhere.  I'm asking because opening up
>the RF modulator involves de-soldering it's radio shield, and
>desoldering 8 or 9 pins that connect the RF board to the mother board.
>I'm hoping someone out there who has done this can tell me about it
>before I desolder it all just to take a look.  Have any of you netters
>used CYBER-VCR?  If so, where does it get the signal to send to the VCR?
 
 
Composite video is pin 2 and ground is pin 13, when you got the
 
modulator.
 
 
 
EOF
>BTW, I just added audio ports to my ST (piping Falcon through my stereo
>is a must to get the *feeling* of the afterburner).  If anyone is
>interested in how to do this, drop me some mail, it's a piece-o-cake
>that can be done for less than $5, and in only about 10 minutes time.
>=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
>Disclaimer: These comments are my own, and I doubt that anyone else
>would want to claim them anyhow.   Bill Mills
>**"When you learn the truth, you'll PAY to find out what you think"**
>                                       -J.R."BOB" Dobbs
>    bill@csufres.csufresno.edu       billm@gaudi.csufresno.edu
>=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
 
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Date: 24 Apr 90 17:19:16 GMT
From: brunix!rjd@uunet.uu.net  (Rob Demillo)
Subject: RSC-editor?
Message-ID: <37556@brunix.UUCP>
 
In article <1641@lzsc.ATT.COM> hcj@lzsc.ATT.COM (HC Johnson) writes:
>
>My copy of K-Resource only runs on Color monitors.  It just dies on Mono.
>
>Howard C. Johnson
 
This problem was fixed quite a while ago.
 
I bought Laser C, and I have been using their resource construction
program, otherwise I would still be using K Resource.
 
The only thing that bothered me about K Resource was the
manual...while reading it, you got the feeling it was written
by some smug high school kid. It was not only unprofessional,
but a little nausiating as the author bent over backwards to
pat himself on the back...
 
It *is* a good program, though....
 
 - Rob DeMillo                  | Internet:      rjd@brown.cs.edu
   Brown University             | Also Internet: demillo@juliet.ll.mit.edu
   Planetary Science Group      | Reality: 401-273-0804 (home)
"I say you *are* the Messiah, Lord! And I ought to know, I've followed a few!"
 
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Date: 24 Apr 90 13:30:33 GMT
From: eagle.wesleyan.edu!ncastellano@CS.YALE.EDU
Subject: Tech:  changing resolutions without using desktop
Message-ID: <18914@eagle.wesleyan.edu>
 
Hi...I have a technical question regarding switching resolutions on
the ST.  I'm trying to write a program to launch an application in low
resolution from Gulam when I was in medium resoultion.  I am using
Setscreen, which seems to do half of what I need.  But when I launch
the application (or exit to the desktop) Gem still thinks I'm in
medium rez so the windows are all in the wrong places and the mouse
wraps off the right-hand side of the screen.  How can I get around
this?  I assume there must be some way of notifying Gem that the
resolution has changed and I suspect it has to do with changing the
clipping boundaries.
 
Also, is there any way to locate the current palates for low and
medium resolution in memory, or do I have to read them from
Desktop.inf?  If so, how do I find out where desktop.inf should be?
 
I'd look it up but I can't afford the developer's docs.  Any
information or code examples would be appreciated.
 
                   nick
 
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        ncastellano@eagle.wesleyan.edu    ncastellano@wesleyan.bitnet
                Sinkhole!dEADHEAd@mast.citadel.moundst.mn.org
   "We are happy.  (_silence._)  What do we do now, now that we are happy?"
               -Estragon, _waiting for godot_ by samuel beckett
 
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