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INFO-ATARI16 Digest         Sun,  7 Jan 90       Volume 90 : Issue   17
 
Today's Topics:
           Atari's Quarterly Results ($5.4 Million Lost) :)
                           Genlock inquiry
                           PageStream fonts
                        ROMmable C: compilers
                        too late for Lynx ...
                    TOS 1.4 and hard drive booting
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Date: 7 Jan 90 08:49:27 GMT
From: csusac!rohwerwd@ucdavis.ucdavis.edu  (W. David Rohwer)
Subject: Atari's Quarterly Results ($5.4 Million Lost) :)
Message-ID: <1990Jan7.084927.19588@csusac.csus.edu>
 
        The following is from "The Business Journal", p. 28, for the Week
of January 8, 1990.
 
                "Atari Corp. of Sunnyvale suffered a third-quarter
        net loss of $5.4 million, or 9 cents per share, on net sales
        of $81.44 million.  During the third quarter of the year
        before, the company earned $900,000, or 2 cents per share, on
        on net sales of $98.8 million.
 
                "For the nine-month period ended Sept 30, Atari had
        a net loss of $1.78 million, or 3 cents per share, on net
        sales of $252.96 million.  It earned $12.14 million, or 21
        cents per share, on net sales of $299.64 million during the
        comparable period for the previous year."
 
 
        Apparently, Atari is slowly fading into oblivion.  :)
 
        I don't read these newsgroups, so if you want to contact me, then
you will have to email messages to me.
 
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Date: 7 Jan 90 01:33:52 GMT
From: psuvm!sml108@psuvax1.cs.psu.edu
Subject: Genlock inquiry
Message-ID: <90006.203352SML108@PSUVM.BITNET>
 
In article <90006.120601JKT100@PSUVM.BITNET>, JKT <JKT100@PSUVM.BITNET> says:
>
>In article <678@alias.UUCP>, rhardock@alias.UUCP (Ron Hardock) writes:
>>
>> I am also unsure of what computer platform to choose.
>> Beside the Amiga, other choices I can see are:
>> - Atari STE/TT        (provides a color palette of 4096),
>> - Atari ATW   (provides 16 million simultaneous colors),
>
>Maybe, but just take one look at the tiny amount of software that
>supports this hardware when compared the the rapidly growing Amiga
>libaries, and you might change your mind rather quickly.  :-)
>
Sheesh, another commode head.  When are you guys going to realize
that Apple is the enemy, with the lion's share of the pie, whilst
you split hairs over the crumbs?  Pointlessly for your information,
there has been an EXCELLENT line of gen-lock software available
for three years now.  Yeah the amiga's a little better, but it
costs more too.  In fact, at the price of the 2000 fully equipped,
I'd put out the rest of my non-existent wad and buy security with
the Mac II.
  I develop on both machines....  They're both great, but neither
one is better overall.  All I know is that PC's suck, period. :)
Too bad you can make such a killing off them though...
 
Scott Le Grand  "If you like peanuts, you'll LOVE Sci-Fi!"
 
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Date: 7 Jan 90 04:55:31 GMT
From: rochester!kodak!nelson@rutgers.edu  (Bruce Nelson)
Subject: PageStream fonts
Message-ID: <2252@kodak.UUCP>
 
SoftLogik sells a new manual for PageStream 1.8 for $15. The complete
upgrade for PageStream 1.5 owners is $25, $10, w/o the manual. Dealers
are authorized to make copies of their 1.8 upgrade upon proof of ownership.
 
I have at least 16 public-domain fonts for PageStream, and another 30
that I bought from several companies.
 
The public domain fonts are available on Genie, CompuServe, and on
SoftLogik's BBS.
 
Bruce Nelson
 
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Date: 6 Jan 90 06:46:01 GMT
From: hpfcso!hpldola!ritchie@hplabs.hp.com  (Dave Ritchie)
Subject: ROMmable C: compilers
Message-ID: <11830068@hpldola.HP.COM>
 
>     Contact Microware in Demoines Iowa.  They have a compiler that
>will do the trick.  Runs under OS-9 which is a multi tasking multi
>user reatime romabel operating system that will run on any 68k
>machine.  I am surprised more people with ST machines don't run it.
>I would be realy frustrated by not having OS-9.
>
 
  If it didn't cost so much I would. They last I heard was that OS-9 68K
was over $500.
 
                                Dave Ritchie
 
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Date: 7 Jan 90 03:13:09 GMT
From:
 cs.utexas.edu!uwm.edu!uakari.primate.wisc.edu!aplcen!jhunix!ins_bac@tut.cis.ohi
 o-state.edu  (Ajay Choudhri)
Subject: too late for Lynx ...
Message-ID: <3881@jhunix.HCF.JHU.EDU>
 
In article <75298@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu> Mustafa Thamer
 <thamer@cis.ohio-state.edu> writes:
>   Now that Xmas is over and every kid around has a Nintendo GameBoy, I guess
>Atari can go ahead and release the relatively unknown Lynx.  Couldn't
>they speed it up a little and get it out the month before Xmas ?  I know
>they're not braindead over there ...
>  Someone, somewhere is going to tell me that they have one, right ?
Ok I will, it did come out in time for Xmas day, NYC got it and 60% of the noise
on Rec.games.video is about this GEM, supposedly LYNX's sold like hotcake
everywhere because of coverage and commerical(*WOW*) In the metro area everyone
should have seen Lynx commericals on TV, I know I have seen them more than
 once.I guess its good but Atari stock has been sliding for a while from it 52
 week artifical high.
>
>
>-=-
>
>       "Two days ago I saw a vehicle that'd  haul that tanker.
>        You wanna get out of here; you talk to me."   Max - The Road Warrior
                                                        ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
                                                         Great Flick!!
 
 
Ajay Choudhri
Atari Enthusiast, Registered Resident Vidiot
ins_bac@jhunix.UUCP
ins_bac@jhunix.HCF.JHU.EDU
ins_bac@jhunix.bitnet
..!uunet!mimsy!aplcen!jhunix!ins_bac
.
.
 
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Date: 06 JAN 90 22:07:11 CST
From: Z4648252 <Z4648252%SFAUSTIN.BITNET@Forsythe.Stanford.EDU>
Subject: TOS 1.4 and hard drive booting
Message-ID: <900106.22071062.039461@SFA.CP6>
 
Bruce Nelson writes:
 
>I finally got through to Supra's Tech Support. They said there's a new
>"feature" in Tos 1.4 which causes the ctl-shift-alt not to work. But, there's
>a workaround - place the floppy in it's drive about half way. Then, using
>three hands :-?, hold the ctl-alt-shift while turning on the computer. Now,
>after the light comes on the drive, and before the hard drive boots, push
>the floppy the rest of the way in.
>Now, could someone at Atari tell me why it works, and why the old method
>(just the keys) doesn't?
 
    I could be wrong, and this is just my own experience, but I think (??)
that Supra is wrong.
    I have TOS 1.4 in a Mega2 that was upgraded to 4 meg of memory.  By
allowing the light on the floppy drive to flick on|off then pressing
the <CNL><ALT><LEFT-SHIFT> key, then I can boot off of my floppy.  Whether
the floppy has programs in /AUTO/ folder or not, the floppy will take
priority. No partial removal of floppy--nothing.
    This is with the ICD 4.x software, by the way.  Maybe Supra hasn't
upgraded yet or something.
 
Larry Rymal:  |East Texas Atari 68NNNers| <Z4648252@SFAUSTIN.BITNET>
 
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Date: Sun, 07 Jan 90 01:48:35 -0900
From: <FTJLH%ALASKA.BITNET@Forsythe.Stanford.EDU>
 
RE MWC 2.0
   Help! I'm trying to struggle thru the intro of MWC 2.0 instructions. I'm
used to being coddled by text books presenting things in order, more-or-less,
and find myself quite lost in msh\pathnames\libraries\foo.bars.
    The question: Do any of the other compilers (Laser/Prospero/MWC 3.0)
present things any better? After 1 semester of C, I'm trying to apply it
on the ST...I'm sure I'll learn lots but the presentation of msh in 2.0 is
making it more painful than I think it should be. Any comments helpfull here.
Thanks..........   j harris \fairbanks\alaska
 
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Date: Sun, 07 Jan 90 01:52:58 -0900
From: <FTJLH%ALASKA.BITNET@Forsythe.Stanford.EDU>
 
RE ST power supplies
    The newest Edlie Electronics catalog lists 2 cheap ($11 and $20) power
supplies that mite be just the ticket for powering an ST...probably wouldn't
fit in the ST's case, but who needs the heat in there anyway? The cheapest
ps is a surplus "Adam"/Coleco but supposedly has enuff 5.0 and 12.0 to do
the job. The price is right!
 
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