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INFO-ATARI16 Digest         Tue, 30 Jan 90       Volume 90 : Issue  125
 
Today's Topics:
                 Amiga Disks read by ST & vice versa
                     AtariST color monitor on PC?
                  Computer Music/ Software Synthesis
                     INFO-ATARI16 Digest V90 #121
              Meanings of Desktop Bombs needed please..
               Monitor Burnout/ Should got a MAGNAVOX!
                    Problem with asm in MEGAMAX-C
                    SCREENSAVER LIKE STARS FOR MAC
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Date: 30 Jan 90 13:43:08 GMT
From: eagle!ncastellano@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU
Subject: Amiga Disks read by ST & vice versa
Message-ID: <6086@eagle.wesleyan.edu>
 
In article <526464@sally>, root@sally (Philipp Roeder) writes:
> HI.. does anybody know a possibility to read Atari Disks with an Amiga
> and Amiga Disks with the Atari ST ?
> A friend of mine has got a mailbox. The host is an Amiga. So I want
> to give him some PD-Arc-files for download. But I can't bring my ST to him
> so we cannot transfer the files by RS-232 direktly.
> --> I need a program to read Amiga disks with the St
> and anothe to read Atari ST disks with the Amiga. I think, if both can emulate
> a PC or the Macintosh there must be a way to bring them together.
> --
>
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>
>
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This requires special software on the Amiga (I don't know the name of it) and
special hardware on the ST (Discovery Cartridge).
 
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Date: 30 Jan 90 19:22:40 GMT
From: shlump.nac.dec.com!carafe!goldstein@decwrl.dec.com  (Fred R. Goldstein)
Subject: AtariST color monitor on PC?
Message-ID: <7935@shlump.nac.dec.com>
 
The Atari ST has a fairly decent color monitor (for its price), and
resembles CGA in its resolution (640x200x16 colors).  Is this monitor
electrically compatible with CGA?  If any netlanders have tried it I'd
be curious to find out what you need... I have both machines, with
monochrome on the clone and color on the ST, but occasionally would
like color on the clone.  Thanks,
   fred
---
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                 or goldstein@delni.enet.dec.com
                    voice:  +1 508 486 7388
 
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Date: 30 Jan 90 18:04:59 GMT
From: cs.utexas.edu!uwm.edu!carroll1!dnewton@CS.YALE.EDU  (Dave Newton the Late)
Subject: Computer Music/ Software Synthesis
Message-ID: <1138@carroll1.cc.edu>
 
In article <18943@dartvax.Dartmouth.EDU> squibby@eleazar.dartmouth.edu (Clark L.
 Breyman) writes:
>       Is there a decent soundfile system for the ST? At what price?
>       ADC's or just DACS? Variable Sampling Rate?
        ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
 
   I'm afraid this one has me a little lost--in my world, these are analog-
digital conv. and digital-analog conv. respectively.  I'm not sure what
options you think there are...
 
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Date: Tue, 30 Jan 90 10:03:25 -0900
From: <AXCSH%ALASKA.BITNET@CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU>
Subject: INFO-ATARI16 Digest V90 #121
 
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Date: 30 Jan 90 13:57:34 GMT
From: eagle!ncastellano@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU
Subject: Meanings of Desktop Bombs needed please..
Message-ID: <6087@eagle.wesleyan.edu>
 
In article <1990Jan30.092235.29534@newcastle.ac.uk>, J.M.Spencer@newcastle.ac.uk
 (J.M. Spencer) writes:
> In article <90027.190559O12@PSUVM.BITNET> O12@psuvm.psu.edu writes:
>>Hello,
>>
>>Could someone out there please send me a list of the different
>>meanings of the various numbers of bombs displayed by the desktop due
>>to a processor exception occuring ? Thanks..
>>
>>                                     -JtK
>
> The number of bombs represents the number of the exception that occurred.
> See the Motorola manual for full details, but for example, 2 bombs shows
> a bus error (if memory serves me correctly) because that is exception 2.
>
> Jonathan M Spencer      q1ygq@peel.newcastle.ac.uk
 
When the ST puts up those cute little cherry bombs, it also writes out the
error number and register dump (and I think part of the stack) to an area in
memory which can survive a reset.  There is a program in the archives called
POSTMORT which will access this memory, tell you in English what the errors
were, display the registers, etc.  It also comes with a set of short binaries
to generate most of the errors.
 
                             Nick
 
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Date: 30 Jan 90 18:20:32 GMT
From: shelby!agate!stew.ssl.berkeley.edu!johnf@decwrl.dec.com  (John Flanagan)
Subject: Monitor Burnout/ Should got a MAGNAVOX!
Message-ID: <1990Jan30.182032.26630@agate.berkeley.edu>
 
In article <9001300643.AA15932@fsucs.cs.fsu.edu> boyd@nu.cs.fsu.edu (Mickey
 Boyd) writes:
>In article <3694@cuphub.cup.edu>, kar7481@cuphub.cup.edu (Dan
 Karbowsky;AtariEliteOfPghPa bbs412-384-5609) writes:
>>
>>You Shoulda gotten a MAGNAVOX 14" 8cm515 monitor...
>>2 years Parts/Labor included--standard warranty!!!
>>
>>Has ANALOG-RGB, TTL-RGB, and COMPOSITE (I'm on my 124 now watching Cinemax
>>on my MAGNAVOX....)
>>
>How easy is it to hook up to the ST?!?  I am very interested in this monitor,
>sounds like a very good deal.
>
If this is the same monitor which was being sold under the Commodore
nameplate as the 1084 for a while, it is junk.  Ask any 1084 owner
(like me).  Commodore eventually dropped Magnavox as their manufacturer
and went back to whoever made their original Amiga monitors (Phillips, maybe?).
 
It does make a great video monitor though...
 
 
John Flanagan                           Space Sciences Laboratory
johnf@sag4.ssl.berkeley.edu             University of California
(...!ucbvax!sag4.ssl!johnf)             Berkeley, CA 94720
Manners Maketh Man.                     (415) 643-6308
 
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Date: 30 Jan 90 18:14:02 GMT
From: cs.utexas.edu!uwm.edu!carroll1!dnewton@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu  (Dave
 Newton the Late)
Subject: Problem with asm in MEGAMAX-C
Message-ID: <1139@carroll1.cc.edu>
 
In article <9001300801.AA16463@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU> K298027@CZHRZU1A.BITNET
 (Michael Mueller) writes:
>        move.l #init,A0         ; this is not accepted !!!!!
>
>Why is the second mnemonic not accepted ? Has anybody an idea how to use
>labelled adresses ?
 
   My 680x0 assembler is a little rusty, but I'll give it a shot anyway...
 
   The pound sign moves immediate data into a register.  If you're trying to
put the address of init into A0, the command would be 'move.l  init, A0'.
If you want to move the contents of the location pointed to by init, then
you'd do a 'move.l   (init), A0'.  I think that's right.
   So the only reason your line doesn't work is that it (the compiler) is
expecting immediate data (a number) where you have a symbol.
 
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Date: 30 Jan 90 17:23:00 GMT
From: hp-sdd!apollo!rehrauer@hplabs.hp.com  (Steve Rehrauer)
Subject: SCREENSAVER LIKE STARS FOR MAC
Message-ID: <4858f0b6.20b6d@apollo.HP.COM>
 
In article <9001300629.AA15715@fsucs.cs.fsu.edu> boyd@nu.cs.fsu.edu (Mickey
 Boyd) writes:
>In article <9001260805.AA27676@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU>, MAXG@SUVM.BITNET ("Gerry
 Greenberg: 315-443-5378") writes:
>>Does anybody out there know about the existence of an ST screensaver
>There was such a beast on one of the last ST-Log disks (I believe it was the
>month before it's demise)
 
Hmmmm.  A question for the closet legal-eagles among us: What becomes of
copyrighted software published by a magazine which goes belly-up?  If ST-Log
is dead, does that do anything at all to the distribution restrictions placed
on their software (assuming there were any restrictions - never did buy an
ST-Log w/disk)?  Alternatively, I wonder if the people at ST-Log (or Flynt
Publishers) would/could allow the software (such as the above screen saver)
to be released here?  Anyone who keeps in touch with Lee Pappas wanna ask?
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>>"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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