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INFO-ATARI16 Digest         Tue,  5 Dec 89       Volume 89 : Issue 755
 
Today's Topics:
                        A few random thoughts
                     Atari image in USA / Europe
                             Doesn't work
                          FORM, nice but...
                       LYNX Development System
                      Prog-A16 is working again!
                        Spectrum 512 palettes
                        Ultrascript experience
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Date: 5 Dec 89 15:11:00 GMT
From:
 cs.utexas.edu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!utgpu!watserv1!watcgl!electro!ignac@tut.c
 is.ohio-state.edu  (Ignac Kolenko)
Subject: A few random thoughts
Message-ID: <1220@electro.UUCP>
 
In article <4448.257a46e4@uwovax.uwo.ca> 4224_5132@uwovax.uwo.ca (Andrew Semple)
 writes:
>  I was recently in one of my local (non-authorized) Atari dealers when I
>noticed that he had an Atari product called VT100 Emulator.  It was a cart
>that you plugged in so your screen resembled those old VT100 terminals that
>astronomy people use :-).  Has anyone used it.  It was only 10$ so I might
>go back and purchase it just fo rthe heck of it.  Do I have to be hardwired to
>the system I want to use, or can I use Flash! or something.
 
 
 
 
yup. i've used it (once). the only reason i have two of these carts is that
i've desoldered the two roms on the cartridge and i can now experiment with
the cartridge port (ie: i can build whatever hardware i want and
hook it up to the empty sockets on these cartridges.) i did this for my
EE499 project at U of Waterloo. i removed the roms and replaced them with
the circuitry to allow up to 40kHz 12 bit sampling through the cartridge
port. worked really great.
 
while on the subject of cartridges: does ANYONE know of where you can get
** real ** prototype boards for the atari's cartridge port???? i've asked
this question a few times, but no-one ever seems to respond. not even
atari itself. i don't really feel like running out and buying a vt100
cart everytime i want to try some new hardware project on the st.
 
btw: are there any other official atari made cartridges like the vt100 cart???
(just wondering)
 
 
 
--
=====Ignac A. Kolenko (The Ig)           watmath!watcgl!electro!ignac=====
     co-author of QuickST, and the entire line of Quick Shareware!!!!
       "I don't care if I don't win, 'cause I don't care if I fail"
             from 'Youth Of Today' by SUBURBAN DISTORTION
 
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Date: Tue, 05 Dec 89 19:03
From: "Thomas Koenig"
 <UI0T%DKAUNI2.BITNET@CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU>
Subject: Atari image in USA / Europe
Message-ID: <"89-12-05-19:03:23.56*UI0T"@DKAUNI2.BITNET>
 
It never ceases to amaze me what kind of image Atari computers
seem to have in the USA as opposed to here in Europe.  As an example,
there were several articles today in the Frankfurter Allgemeine
Zeitung about personal computers (For non-German readers:  The FAZ is
about as serious and buisiness - oriented as newspapers in Germany
ever get, which is quite a lot). One of these articles was about non
- MS-DOS computers, i.e. the Amiga and the Atari. The conclusion was
that the Amiga has an edge in games, the Atari in serious
applications.
 
I know several buisinesses which run, for example, databases on their
Ataris, because the software available is powerful and easy to use.
 
Strange, all in all...
 
Thomas  Koenig                   UI0T@DKAUNI2.BITNET
                                 UI0T%DKAUNI2.BITNET@CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU
(soon: new address, old machine) UI0T@IBM3090.RZ.UNI-KARLSRUHE.DBP.DE
'Ich dachte nicht, ich untersuchte.'            Wilhelm Conrad Roentgen
 
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Date: 5 Dec 89 18:21:32 GMT
From: oahu!stephen@cs.ucla.edu  (Steve Whitney)
Subject: Doesn't work
Message-ID: <29749@shemp.CS.UCLA.EDU>
 
In article <8912050807.AA13706@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU>
 V053QHYX@UBVMSC.CC.BUFFALO.EDU writes:
>
>Add to the list of programs that dont work with tos 1.4 :
>DBMAN 5.02 and Timeworks destop publisher....
 
I don't know what version of Timeworks DTP you're using, but mine works _fine_
with TOS 1.4.  I bought mine last Spring so perhaps they fixed it.
 
 
--
Steve Whitney   "It's never _really_ the last minute"       (())_-_(())
UCLA Comp. Sci. Grad. Student                                | (* *) |
Internet: stephen@cs.ucla.edu              UCLA Bruin-->    ?  \_@_/  ?
GEnie:    S.WHITNEY                                           `-----'
 
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Date: 5 Dec 89 17:00:11 GMT
From: dartvax!eleazar.dartmouth.edu!dav@CS.BU.EDU  (William David Haas)
Subject: FORM, nice but...
Message-ID: <17700@dartvax.Dartmouth.EDU>
 
In article <13401@s.ms.uky.edu> avogel@ms.uky.edu (Andrew Lee Vogel) writes:
 
I love TeX, TeX is wonderful, TeX is all powerful, TeX makes the best manuals.
(notice, no smileys!)
 
But.... you shouldn't distribute the .dvi.  If someone can print the dvi file
he probably can create it given the .tex file.  I would suggest including
 
raw text doc file - ain't pretty but it works.
.tex file         - those who want to create and print the dvi file can
 
this makes the distribution smaller and is just as useful
 
And I also don't like source files in shar format for the st.  zoo the thing.
When I get the source, I un shar it, ark it, and include it with the binaries
that usually have just been posted to the binaries group.
 
dav
 
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Date: 5 Dec 89 17:44:45 GMT
From: mailrus!wuarchive!kuhub.cc.ukans.edu!2fhdbeak@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu
Subject: LYNX Development System
Message-ID: <19310@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu>
 
Here's an interesting tidbit for you LYNX fans:
 
The development system for the Atari LYNX is an AMIGA computer!
I wonder what it must be like to go into Atari's offices and see
all sorts of Amigas lying about.
 
Perhaps they hide the LYNX people in some mop closet.
 
--Jim Sisul
The University of Kansas
 
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Date: Tue, 05 Dec 89 18:42
From: "Thomas Koenig"
 <UI0T%DKAUNI2.BITNET@CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU>
Subject: Prog-A16 is working again!
Message-ID: <"89-12-05-18:42:24.07*UI0T"@DKAUNI2.BITNET>
 
Prog-A16 (the BITNET distribution of Atari16 programs) is working
again. It also seems as if they send out everything new that
Panarthea gets. Great!
 
Thomas  Koenig                   UI0T@DKAUNI2.BITNET
                                 UI0T%DKAUNI2.BITNET@CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU
(soon: new address, old machine) UI0T@IBM3090.RZ.UNI-KARLSRUHE.DBP.DE
'Ich dachte nicht, ich untersuchte.'            Wilhelm Conrad Roentgen
 
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Date: 05 Dec 89 09:49 GMT+0100
From: "C.Fuhrhop " <fuhrhop%fokus.berlin.gmd.dbp.de@RELAY.CS.NET>
Subject: Spectrum 512 palettes
Message-ID: <1097:fuhrhop@fokus.berlin.gmd.dbp.de>
 
I'm trying to convert some pictures to Spectrum 512 format.
I'm using the information from the "ST Picture Formats" list from
Dave Baggett:
Spectrum 512 (uncompressed)
80 words     first scan line of picture (unused) -- should be zeroes
15920 words  picture data (screen memory) for scan lines 1 through 199
9552 words   3 palettes for each scan line (the top scan line is
             not included because Spectrum 512 can't display it)
51104 bytes total
 
Unfortunatly the pictures I get into SpecTrum 512 have got the wrong
colors. Could anyone enlighten me why there are three palettes for each
line and how they are used by Spectrum?
Are the colors in all lines in Spectrum independent?
Are there 16 different colors per line? 14? 48?
 
Confused
C.Fuhrhop
 
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Date: 5 Dec 89 14:50:00 GMT
From: apollo!rehrauer@eddie.mit.edu  (Steve Rehrauer)
Subject: Ultrascript experience
Message-ID: <473ec68c.20b6d@apollo.HP.COM>
 
In article <473a552d.14a1f@force.UUCP> covertr@force.UUCP (Richard E. Covert)
 writes:
[ many good things about Ultrascript ]
 
Possibly this question is of interest to others as well:
I've been reading "Ultrascript" ad nauseum for awhile now, so I might as
well satisfy my curiosity.  On the ST, is it resident & acting like a
printer driver; or do you have to invoke it, point to a Postscript file
and say "print that"?  (I gather the latest/greatest version will fit on
a 1meg machine, yes?  So I assume this isn't a resident app...)
 
--
>>"Aaiiyeeee!  Death from above!"<< | Steve Rehrauer, rehrauer@apollo.hp.com
   "Flee, lest we be trod upon!"    | The Apollo System Division of H.P.
 
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