INFO-ATARI16 Digest         Sun, 29 Oct 89       Volume 89 : Issue 578
 
Today's Topics:
                       Calamus and Ultrascript
                   For Sale: Atari 20MB drive $400
                              NethackIII
                          Skip this message
                    TTP Execution, I/O Redirection
                    TT vs 386 boxes and Apples...
             Turbo C (was Re: Problems with LASER C 2.1)
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Date: Sun, 29 Oct 89 07:36:57 EST
From: David Megginson <MEGGIN@vm.epas.utoronto.ca>
Subject: Calamus and Ultrascript
 
Yes, Calamus will sort-of work with Ultrascript, but I wouldn't try it
if I were you.  Calamus will dump a raster image of a page to disk in
PS format, but you still will have to use Calamus fonts, and it could
take hours for Ultrascript to process the disk files.
 
The Calamus Compugraphic fonts are cheap compared to professional
Postscript fonts, and there are probably over 50 PD and shareware
Calamus fonts floating around.
 
 
 
 
    David Megginson, Centre for Medieval Studies, Toronto
 
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Date: 26 Oct 89 20:39:47 GMT
From: hpda!hpcuhb!hp-ses!hpdml93!rona@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU  (Ron Abramson)
Subject: For Sale: Atari 20MB drive $400
 
  I have a used Atari 20 MB hard disk which I would like
  to sell for $400 or best offer.  I'll pay for shipping.
  It works great even though the mech isn't made by HP.
                               :?)
 
  If you send email to me, it may take a few days for me to
  reply.  Our corporate mail feed (HP Labs) was damaged in
  the earthquake and has been down ever since.  I expect that
  we'll be back online any day now.
 
                email: rona@hpdml92.HP.COM
                tel: 1-208-323-4293
                    or     377-9021 (home)
 
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Date: 29 Oct 89 10:40:01 GMT
From:
 gem.mps.ohio-state.edu!wuarchive!uwm.edu!ux1.cso.uiuc.edu!ux1.cso.uiuc.edu!uxa.
cso.uiuc.edu!sfn20715@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu
Subject: NethackIII
 
Hi yall.
Could anyone out there please tell me where I could snag a copy of
Nethack 3.0 for the ST?  I will admit that I havent looked around any
of the anon-FTP sites, but that is because I have no idea just what I'm
looking for (aside from a file that is >500K! :-)
 
Please reply via email.  I will forward info to any "me-tooers".
 
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Date: Sun, 29 Oct 89 07:46:53 EST
From: David Megginson <MEGGIN@vm.epas.utoronto.ca>
Subject: Skip this message
 
Yawn!  Yet more messages complaining that a Mac II is better than an
Atari 1040?  More messages saying that it is not?  Try "skip".
 
 
 
      David Megginson, Centre for Medieval Studies
 
 
 * yes, I have contributed to the problem.  now I'll try to be part
   of the solution
 
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Date: 29 Oct 89 10:40:05 GMT
From:
 cs.utexas.edu!uwm.edu!ux1.cso.uiuc.edu!ux1.cso.uiuc.edu!uxa.cso.uiuc.edu!glk011
26@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu
Subject: TTP Execution, I/O Redirection
 
        Could someone post or e-mail directions on how to load
        a .ttp file into memory, execute it and receive the output?
 
        (From another currently running program...)
 
        Could I point a dummy function pointer at it and call it
        as in
        dummy()
                ?
                ?
        later...
                (char *)dummy = (char *)loadadr...
 
        How do I offer up some of my heap for the .ttp?
        How do I redirect the output to either a buffer or file?
 
        Thanks in advance...
                                -Spieu!
 
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Date: 28 Oct 89 23:34:08 GMT
From: mcsun!sunic!tut!hydra!hylka!jalkio@uunet.uu.net  (Jouni Alkio)
Subject: TT vs 386 boxes and Apples...
 
In article <23453@cup.portal.com>, Bob_BobR_Retelle@cup.portal.com writes:
>
> Unfortunately, Atari Corp seems to have an almost eerie talent for bringing
> us yesterday's technology at today's prices..
 
People still buy ST's and MAC's, they are much the same technology
(exept that a low-end ST runs faster than a low-end MAC, and has better
graphics etc...). Today's prices for ST's are still cheaper than for
comparable MAC's (much cheaper if you take the street prices).
>
> If you wait ( and wait, and wait, and wait) for Atari Corp to stop playing
> "games" with PC pocket clones and video games and to begin seriously
> addressing their neglected computer market, you'll probably also have one of
> the few "nonstandard" computers left in the world...
 
Do you think introducing a PC-pocket clone is playing. Many people
really want to buy one. Do you mean that Atari should only introduce
computers - not video games? I think it's nice that a company can bring
up many different kinds of devices. Do refer to the TT as nonstandard?
Is UNIX not a standard?!?! What about all the ST programs there are??
 
Haven't you heard of the Stacy and the ATW? They are not video games.
 
> Will your company's President approve a purchase order for "Atari Computers"
> because they make the "third rate" video games in the world..?
 
I certainly would not work for a company that has such a President! I
don't really like prejudiced people. And I know many companies don't
care how much their computers cost - they just follow the ad's and keep
up their "image". (I think it's much the same as buying expensive
clothes.) There are brighter companies, too...
 
And by the way, I don't think I'll work for a company at all. I don't
want to be ruled by stupid people. Perhaps I'll be a freelancer or a
free artist or something... (If I will not find a company useful and
interesting enough.)
 
I don't like that computers are being used to "make profit" etc.
(Well, I guess this was a bit too "politic" for this newsgroup....)
 
                                        Jouni Alkio
 
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Date: 20 Oct 89 09:42:36 GMT
From: hpda!hpcuhb!hp-ses!hpbbn!hpgnd!alex@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU  (Alexis
 MERMET-GRANDFILLES)
Subject: Turbo C (was Re: Problems with LASER C 2.1)
 
/ hpgnd:comp.sys.atari.st / pa1329@sdcc13.ucsd.edu (pa1329) /  4:10 pm  Oct 16,
 1989 /
 
>  Thus we only have choices between Mark W. C and Laser C.
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And then ... which of these Two would you advise me to buy ??
 
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