INFO-ATARI16 Digest         Thu,  9 Nov 89       Volume 89 : Issue 623
 
Today's Topics:
                  24 bit colour boards for the mega
                              am I a DA
                            archive sites
                Atari ST memory expansion board wanted
          for sale:  Atari 1040ST/Spectre 128 package   $875
                       GEM help needed (2 msgs)
                               HDX 3.01
                               MODULA 2
                       TT and MAC-,PC-emulators
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Date: 8 Nov 89 19:25:46 GMT
From: mnetor!utzoo!utgpu!watmath!watcgl!electro!ignac@uunet.uu.net  (Ignac
 Kolenko)
Subject: 24 bit colour boards for the mega
 
ok. here's a question for all people in atari-land. are there any 24-bit
true colour video boards which plug into the mega expansion bus. and if there
are, where is it available (probably germany, since everything good seems to
come out of that country). address/phone number of the companies would be
very desirable, as well as a blurb on the specs of the board.
 
(the guys here at work want to get a 24 bit true colour still store board for
the AT, and then get me to program for it afterwards. i'd much rather do it
on the trusty mega st we have here than on a stupid AT)
 
thanx in advance.
 
 
--
=====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: 9 Nov 89 01:36:05 GMT
From:
 gem.mps.ohio-state.edu!wuarchive!mailrus!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!utgpu!watmath!
ria!uwovax!7103_2622@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu  (Eric Smith)
Subject: am I a DA
 
In article <1777@atari.UUCP>, kbad@atari.UUCP (Ken Badertscher) writes:
>  The problem is not whether the startup code should Mshrink or not.
> The problem is finding the basepage address.  The method used by
> all the startup code I have seen uses the text base address minus 256 as
> the basepage address, and that is not the right way to find it.
  [ ... stuff omitted ... ]
>   Allowing the startup code to use A0 to
> find the basepage address is our way of making it a little easier for
> programs to live in both worlds.
 
Does this mean A0 always contains a pointer to the basepage on startup?
How about the stack; isn't the basepage put there as well?
--
Eric R. Smith                     email:
Dept. of Mathematics            ERSMITH@uwovax.uwo.ca
University of Western Ontario   ERSMITH@uwovax.bitnet
London, Ont. Canada N6A 5B7
ph: (519) 661-3638
 
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Date: 8 Nov 89 23:48:46 GMT
From: att!chinet!saj@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU  (Stephen Jacobs)
Subject: archive sites
 
Tad Guy expressed an unwillingness for xanth to be 'just another' archive site
for Atari ST stuff.  There exist several unique niches to be filled.  What
exists now is an 'automatic' archive of comp.sources/binaries.atari.st at
panarthea which is very well connected, but operates only in mail-response
mode, and an ftp-only archive with greater coverage, but in which article names
are not guaranteed to match those given by the moderator, at terminator.  The
obvious unfilled niches are an 'automatic' archive reachable through ftp
and a mail-response archive containing the large and/or obscure items now
available only from terminator.  The uucp and mail-response archive that
used to exist on killer seems to have been phased out on attctc (but if you
haven't checked them lately, do so: other parts of their collection have
expanded wonderfully).  Another empty niche is a BBS with an explicit connection
to the ST newsgroups (the IBM PC newsgroups have something like that).  And
however guilty I feel to say it, I'm not volunteering to set up any of these,
but there are the opportunities to be a unique resource.
                                    Steve J.
 
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Date: 9 Nov 89 05:38:23 GMT
From:
 cs.utexas.edu!usc!gem.mps.ohio-state.edu!uakari.primate.wisc.edu!aplcen!jhunix!
ins_bac@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu  (Ajay Choudhri)
Subject: Atari ST memory expansion board wanted
 
I am looking for the a used EZ-RAM II memory expansion board for my 520ST
I am under the impression that it is no longer made.
Please contact me if you have one you'd like to sell.
 
btw, I need chips too, so we could make it a package deal.
thanks
 
-Ajay Choudhri
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no sig BS here....
 
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Date: 8 Nov 89 11:50:30 GMT
From: otter!gjh@hplabs.hp.com  (Graham Higgins)
Subject: for sale:  Atari 1040ST/Spectre 128 package   $875
 
/ otter:comp.sys.atari.st / daved@cscnj.csc.COM (Dave Douglass) /  7:19 pm  Nov
 6, 1989 /
 
Atari 1040ST/Spectre 128 System Package          $875 firm
 
[lots of noise deleted]
 
>   I will ship the items UPS insured anywhere that you specify in the
>   continental US.
 
Some people are just soooooo parochial!!
 
[more noise deleted]
 
>   Again, don't even ask.
 
My suggestion --- don't even *reply*.
 
This guy doesn't want his time wasted. This is a bit out of order when he's
just wasted MY time --- and that of lots of other non-continental-US people.
 
IMHO advertisers on usenet should be billed, it's *NOT* a free service!
 
Graham
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Date: 8 Nov 89 17:49:00 GMT
From: inmet!hedger@uunet.uu.net
Subject: GEM help needed
 
I just got off of the phone with Mark Williams tech support. No help.
They say that vsf_color just calls the ROM BIOS.
 
This is driving me crazy! Does anyone out there have any ideas ?
The interesting thing is that this program works in all aspects
except this vsf_color function. I am using a color monitor in medium resolution.
. I have interrogated the work_out[] array created when v_opnvwrk() was
issued and the bits pertaining to color are all set as I would expect.
 
Even though the limited examples I have of this vsf_color function being used
seem pretty straightforward, I get the sneaky suspicion that there is some
other 'setup' stuff I need to do to the virtual workstation or the
actual screen to play with the color stuff....
 
Oh well, again if anyone can help I would really appreciate it!
 
 
 
 
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| Keith Hedger :  ?...!?uunet!inmet!hedger   hedger@inmet.inmet.com |
|   " Tragedy plus time = comedy "                                  |
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Date: 9 Nov 89 01:47:00 GMT
From: inmet!hedger@uunet.uu.net
Subject: GEM help needed
 
Got it!  I am posting this in case anyone else out there gets bitten.
First of all, the main problem was in fact user error. None of the
docs that I had mentioned that when you are in medium resolution you
can only use 4 colors (I knew that), but they also failed to mention
that you can also use only the FIRST four colors.
These are supposed to be 0=black,1=white,2=red, and 3=green.
Not so, in fact 0=black,1=white,2=green and 3=blue. Anything else
returns white. It never occurred to me to just try each color in
order, big mistake it turns out.
Anyway, that's the answer to this problem and I am going to call
Mark Williams and let them know they have what appears to be a
documentation error.
 
 
 
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| Keith Hedger :  ?...!?uunet!inmet!hedger   hedger@inmet.inmet.com |
|   " Tragedy plus time = comedy "                                  |
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Date: Wed,  8 Nov 89  23:03:46 MST
From: SYTANG%CSUGREEN.BITNET@CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU
Subject: HDX 3.01
 
Hello everyone:
Local BBS has a file called HDX301.ARC which suppose to have the newest Atari
hard drive software HDX 3.01. And the doc. file stated this should be 3.01,
but when run the Installer and look under the Info one get version 3.00.
    Is this right? Did Atari forgot to change the version # in the Info?
or someone packed wrong stuffs? What's the date should be for the 3.10?
(Thanks.
===========
Shoou-yu Tang; Colorado State Univ. Phys.
sytang@csugreen.ucc.colostate.edu
 
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Date: Thu, 9 Nov 89 02:59 EST
From: V053QHYX@ubvmsc.cc.buffalo.edu
Subject: MODULA 2
 
Hi, I think I've finally realized how to post a message over the net!
If anyone reads this outside UB please respond.  Here's the problem:
 
I'm taking MOdula-2 in school, we use a compiler from a company called
Metcom on the macintosh.  Hateing the macintosh, I decided to D/L a PD
MODULA-2 from anasystems(actually its shareware)  After spending 5 days
trying to figure out why my program wasn't working I realized it was the
compiler that had problems with the OpenInput,OpenOutput statements.  Can
anyone suggest a Modula compiler either commercial or PD?  Does anyone know
anything about the TDI modula-2 compiler?
     Thanx alot,
       Jeremy Berger
       v053qhyx@UBVMSA
 
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Date: 8 Nov 89 23:06:39 GMT
From: mcsun!sunic!tut!hydra!hylka!jalkio@uunet.uu.net  (Jouni Alkio, University
 of Helsinki, Finland)
Subject: TT and MAC-,PC-emulators
 
I would like to know if the Spectre 128(possibly with the CGR) works
with the TT? If it doesn't (won't) I'd like to know if there is going to
be a MAC-emulator for the TT?
 
I'd also like to know same kind of things concerning the PC-emulators.
 
 
                                Jouni Alkio
 
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