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INFO-ATARI16 Digest         Thu, 26 Apr 90       Volume 90 : Issue  480
 
Today's Topics:
                     cachexxx.prg in auto folder.
                     LaserWriter and UltraScript
      My opinion of the comp.sys.atari.st.tech proposal (2 msgs)
                            Ramdisk bootup
                         STE controller info.
                 ST Penpals list (Sixth posting! :-)
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Date: Thu, 26 Apr 90 17:40 N
From: <MFAGKCHR%HMARL5.BITNET@forsythe.Stanford.EDU>
Subject: cachexxx.prg in auto folder.
Message-ID: <9004261545.AA06928@Sunburn.Stanford.EDU>
 
I did the following:
 
Boot a mega 2 with TOS 1.4 (UK version) with AHDI 3.01 as autoboot driver.
Place cache90.prg in the auto folder. No other auto program. Cache90
says: no cache buffers added. Is this normal?
 
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Dept. of Occup. &                    Chris Evelo
Environm. Health                     MFAGKCHR@HMARL5 (BITNET)
and Toxicology.
University of Limburg                Tel: 31-43-888635
P.O. Box 616                         Fax: 31-43-436080
6200 MD Maastricht
The Netherlands
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Date: 25 Apr 90 17:50:00 GMT
From:
 sdd.hp.com!samsung!cs.utexas.edu!uwm.edu!ux1.cso.uiuc.edu!ux1.cso.uiuc.edu!cs32
 5ec@ucsd.edu
Subject: LaserWriter and UltraScript
Message-ID: <16000062@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu>
 
        Is there a version of LaserWriter that will work with UltraScript?
 
        Thanks in advance.
 
        -- Greg
 
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Date: 25 Apr 90 16:27:18 GMT
From:
 zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!sol.ctr.columbia.edu!ira.uka.de!fauern!lan!marvin.e17
 .Physik.TU-Muenchen.DE!hf@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu  (Hannes Faestermann)
Subject: My opinion of the comp.sys.atari.st.tech proposal
Message-ID: <1982@tuminfo1.lan.informatik.tu-muenchen.dbp.de>
 
jfbruno@rodan.acs.syr.edu (John F. Bruno) writes:
 
>IMHO:
 
>I think the amount of traffic in c.s.a.s. is not large enough for splitting
>into any other groups at all.  Of course it seems nice to have a seperate
>
>...stuff deleted...
>
>As the saying goes: "Don't fix something that works"
 
>---jb
 
This is exactly what I think. -> No group comp.sys.atari.st.tech
 
        Hannes
 
Hannes Faestermann      Internet: H.Faestermann@physik.tu-muenchen.de
Physik-Department E17         or: hf@marvin[.e17.physik.tu-muenchen.de]
TU Muenchen, 8046 Garching
West Germany            BitNET  : hf@dgablg5p
 
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Date: 25 Apr 90 16:30:10 GMT
From:
 usc!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!sol.ctr.columbia.edu!ira.uka.de!fauern!lan!marvin
 .e17.Physik.TU-Muenchen.DE!brunner@ucsd.edu  (Thomas Brunner)
Subject: My opinion of the comp.sys.atari.st.tech proposal
Message-ID: <1983@tuminfo1.lan.informatik.tu-muenchen.dbp.de>
 
jfbruno@rodan.acs.syr.edu (John F. Bruno) writes:
 
>IMHO:
 
>I think the amount of traffic in c.s.a.s. is not large enough for splitting
>into any other groups at all.
>.... , but anyone who has been using Usenet for a while knows that
>a good percentage of the articles will probably be posted to all of the ST
>groups, so we'll have twice the messages to wade through.
 
>As the saying goes: "Don't fix something that works"
 
There's nothing to add. It's nonsense to have several atari groups with
1 or 2 messages per day. As long as c.s.a.s have a hundert news per day
don't create a new atari group!
 
Bye,
 Thomas
 
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Date: 26 Apr 90 13:34:48 GMT
From: maytag!water!ljdickey@iuvax.cs.indiana.edu  (L.J.Dickey)
Subject: Ramdisk bootup
Message-ID: <1990Apr26.133448.26462@water.waterloo.edu>
 
In article <5046@jhunix.HCF.JHU.EDU> ins_bac@jhunix.UUCP (Ajay Choudhri) writes:
>
>I would like to have upon boot-up from floppy, a ram disk that is relatively
>fast and can automatically load in files as configured at startup time.
 
You can have two programs do what you want.
 
   (1)  Use any ramdisk that boots from the AUTO folder.
        The ramdisk has to be the first ".PRG" you put
        into the folder.  (I trust edisk21 or eternl2.)
 
   (2)  Use "bootcopy".  You create a file listing the copy
        commands you want.  Bootcopy then uses this file to
        control the copying.
 
--
    Leroy J. Dickey, Faculty of Mathematics, University of Waterloo.
        ljdickey@water.waterloo.edu
        ljdickey@water.UWaterloo.ca     ljdickey@water.bitnet
        ljdickey@water.UUCP             ..!uunet!watmath!ljdickey
 
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Date: Thu, 26 Apr 90  20:50 BST
From: Vision Newspapers <SOCS18%vaxb.york.ac.uk@NSFnet-Relay.AC.UK>
Subject: STE controller info.
 
Dear STErs,
 
Apologies for the wait for this information, but here (at last) is the info. on
the new controllers attached to the STE.
 
 
---------------------------------- cut here ------------------------------
 
 
STE CONTROLLER PORTS
 
Address Usage                Description
=================================================
FF9200  xxxx xxxx xxxx 3210  Fire buttons
FF9202  UDLR UDLR UDLR UDLR  Joystick directions
        Joy3 Joy2 Joy1 Joy0
 
FF9210  xxxx xxxx NNNN NNNN  Paddle 0 X
FF9212  xxxx xxxx NNNN NNNN  Paddle 0 Y
FF9214  xxxx xxxx NNNN NNNN  Paddle 1 X
FF9216  xxxx xxxx NNNN NNNN  Paddle 1 Y
 
FF9220  xxxx xxNN NNNN NNNN  Light pen/gun X
FF9222  xxxx xxNN NNNN NNNN  Light pen/gun Y
 
Four new joystick ports were added, directly interfaced to the 68000
bus, rather than using another IKBD controller. The table above gives the
locations of the hardware registers for the joysticks, paddles and light
gun/pen inputs. Note that the joystick registers are bidirectional, and
can therefore be written as well as read. If the registers are  written,
then the outputs are driven until the registers are read again.
 
Two paddle controllers can be connected with eight bit resolution on
each axis, and the current position of each of the four paddles are
reported in the registers shown in the table. No information is given in
the data sheets as to the voltage range that the A/D converters function
in, but I would guess that it is 0-5V. The triggers on the paddles are
bits zero and one of $FF9202 (Joystick 0 left and right.)
 
The light gun/pen position is reported in $FF9220 and $FF9222. The
x-axis accuracy is four pixels in low resolution, eight pixels in medium
res., and sixteen pixels in high resolution. The y-axis position is
accurate to within one pixel in all modes. The x position only ranges
from 0 to 319, and therefore must be left shifted for other screen
modes. Again, no electrical information is provided on how to
implement a light gun/pen.
Regards,
 
Mathew Lodge
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Date: Thu, 26 Apr 90 15:55:48
From: "Simon Chappell" <S61304%PRIME-A.POLY-SOUTH-WEST.AC.UK@CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU>
Subject: ST Penpals list (Sixth posting! :-)
 
To *ALL* Atari ST owners worldwide!
 
Are you interested in becoming involved in a snail mail list of ST
users? I know that most of you will be like me and quite happy using
the Email facilities at your site, but spare a thought for us final
year students who will soon be losing all access to such facilities if
the company we join has not got network links!! (Arrgghh, too horrid to
consider!). So to get around this I was wondering if any of you would
like to help me get a list together of interested parties who could then
keep in touch and prevent themselves losing touch with the ST community
at large (this would be especially easy if someone who still had net
access could summarise current topics or forward news and advice!)
 
I'm not thinking of anything major league for the entries on the list,
just sort of name, address, interests and optionally a few lines about
yourself.
 
eg     Simon Chappell.
       s61304@uk.ac.psw.pa (goes away after June)
       51 Amherst Road, Penny-Come-Quick, Plymouth, Devon, PL3 4HJ. UK.
       C, operating systems (UNIX, VMS) & relational databases.
 
This would be roughly what my record would read, so if you are interested
compose something for yourself along the above lines (you can have 5 lines
of text about your self if you want! :-) and send it to me either by Email
(until June) or at the above address (anytime).
 
So far this list has generated a very reasonable level of interest from
many countries around the world (both in the USA and Europe!). This is
encouraging and so I have merged the two lists into one and now the list
that many of you will be receiving will be totally global.
 
Remember: it is not too late, join now and beat the christmas rush! :-)
Joining the list does not commit you to anything, you do not have to
communicate with anyone if you do not want to! There is no pressure, I will
not sell the list to any organisations!
 
Regards,
 
Simon
 
| Simon Chappell
| BSc(Hons) Computing and Informatics (final year)
| Polytechnic South West (Plymouth)
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