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INFO-ATARI16 Digest         Tue, 30 Jan 90       Volume 90 : Issue  124
 
Today's Topics:
                     $50,000 what a stupid idea!!
                         :Programmers at CWRU
           Chaos Strikes Back - Call for experienced people
                     Experiences with ST-speed ?
                            Hisoft's WERCS
                     INFO-ATARI16 Digest V90 #103
                     INFO-ATARI16 Digest V90 #119
               Metacomco, Lattice C and Cambridge LISP.
                        Need Hard Disk Wisdom
           POOLFIX3.ARC - fix program for TOS 1.4, TOS 1.6
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Date: Tue, 30 Jan 90 13:05 EST
From: V053QHYX@ubvmsc.cc.buffalo.edu
Subject: $50,000 what a stupid idea!!
 
Hi!!!!
I just heard about atari's new policy..you (the store) pays 50,000 and atari
sends you whatever they want!!!???!!!Here in buffalo we went from 4 ST dealers
about 2 months ago to 1 this month!!!!!THey say that they refuse to pay 50,000
to get as atari calls it the "Priveledge" to sell atari!!???! What kind of
stupid policy is this???? Its getting to the point where atari should pay
dealers to sell their equipment!!!Not have dealers pay them!! I dont mean to
say I hate Atari...I love my St but I think that the marketing and management
people at Atari are the ones that should go to school and learn sales and
marketing!!
                  Jeremy Berger
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Department Managment----------------------?MIS MAJOR
CS MINOR
University At Buffalo
 
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Date: 29 Jan 90 22:07:58 GMT
From: snorkelwacker!usc!samsung!aplcen!jhunix!rick@bloom-beacon.mit.edu  (Eric
 Ruck)
Subject: :Programmers at CWRU
Message-ID: <4063@jhunix.HCF.JHU.EDU>
 
I know this is off the subject of this SIG, but I also know that there are
Atarians who fit the following bill, and/or who know people who fit it:
 
A professor of the psych department at CWRU needs a C programmer to create
programs to run cognitive experiments on the IBM PC.  Don't respond to me
but to MSTRAUSS AT CWRU.
 
Eric
 
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Date: 30 Jan 90 14:39:07 GMT
From: xanth!xanth.cs.odu.edu!scott@g.ms.uky.edu  (Scott Yelich)
Subject: Chaos Strikes Back - Call for experienced people
Message-ID: <SCOTT.90Jan30093907@oswy.cs.odu.edu>
 
In article <733.25c41cd6@miavx1.acs.muohio.edu>
 tmwhitehead@miavx1.acs.muohio.edu writes:
> I got the maps from a local BBS about a week ago.  They are in Degas format.
> If you are interested and can;t find them locally, send me mail, and I will
> send them to you direct.
 
The problem with the maps I have seen is that they are in .pi2 format.
Printing them with picswitch or degaselite produces something that is a
little un-readable!
 
Scott
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 Scott D. Yelich                                 scott@cs.odu.edu [128.82.8.1]
 After he pushed me off the cliff, he asked me, as I fell, ``Why'd you jump?''
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Date: 30 Jan 90 15:30:56 GMT
From: mcsun!hp4nl!tnoibbc!remco@uunet.uu.net  (Remco Bruyne)
Subject: Experiences with ST-speed ?
Message-ID: <1381@tnoibbc.UUCP>
 
Hello,
 
Does anybody have any experience with ST-speed ? Preferably in a Mega 2.
Which programs do run and which don't. Is it fast ? No problems
with the graphics interface ? Can you use the mouse and if yes,
with which packages ? Did you try extended memory (should work in
the newest version) ?
 
Please respond via mail, if there is enough interest I'll summarize.
 
 
Thanks in advance,
 
Remco
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Date: 30 Jan 90 15:31:13 GMT
From: uwm.edu!cs.utexas.edu!asuvax!hrc!force!covertr@lll-winken.llnl.gov
 (Richard E. Covert)
Subject: Hisoft's WERCS
Message-ID: <48588c7a.14a1f@force.UUCP>
 
In article <570055@otter.hpl.hp.com>, gjh@otter.hpl.hp.com (Graham Higgins)
 writes:
> (Apologies for posting this reply, my email was bounced)
>
>
> I'll pass your request on to HiSoft. They don't have a usenet feed (multi
> dinero, they are most regretful about it), but they do have a section on CIX
> (U.K. version of BIX) and are quite responsive to such requests.
>
> Graham
> ======
>
> ------------------------------------------------------------------
> Graham Higgins                |  Phone: (0272) 799910 x 24060
> Hewlett-Packard Labs          |  gray@hpl.hp.co.uk
> Bristol                               |  gray%hplb.uucp@ukc.ac.uk
> U.K.                                  |  gray@hplb.hpl.hp.com
> ------------------------------------------------------------------
> Disclaimer: My opinions above are exactly that, mine and opinions.
> ------------------------------------------------------------------
 
Thanks, a lot!!
 
I appreciate your efforts.
 
I can send you a copy of my RSC/HRD files which keep getting corrupted.
Can you post a MAIL address (international mail or someothing)
so that I can send my disk back to HiSoft.
 
Also, is the USA version identical to the UK version of WERCS?? Or does
that fact that I am using a USA version of TOS have anything to do with it?
 
I have the same problems with both TOS 1.2 and TOS 1.4 (USA version again).
 
Well, I do thank you !!!!
 
.
.
.
.
 
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 Richard E. Covert, Lead Engineer of Software Tools Group
 AG Communications Systems, Phoenix AZ   (602) - 581-4652
 TCP/IP: covertr@gtephx
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Date: Tue, 30 Jan 90 08:39:16 -0900
From: <AXCSH%ALASKA.BITNET@CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU>
Subject: INFO-ATARI16 Digest V90 #103
 
UNSUBSCRIBE INFO-ATARI16 Chris Hamman
 
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Date: Wed, 31 Jan 90 01:10:24 SST
From: "S.Sujarittanonta" <AKISUJAR%NUSVM.BITNET@CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU>
Subject: INFO-ATARI16 Digest V90 #119
 
REF. Discovery Cartridge
To. Matthew G. Hetman ( Sorry I send this mail to your address at ucbvax.Berkel
ey.EDU but It bounced)
Glad to know another Discovery Cart owner. I bought the Option 2 last yea. It
came with Version 2.7 Utility Disk. When I saw Happy Computers Advertisement
mention that ther new version can read Mac disk file by file and if used with
Spectre 128 it can run Mac disk without conversion. I send Registration card in
for upgrading since June 1989. I never receive any reply from them. Would you
be so kind to enlighten me on few details below:
1. What is the latest version of Discovery Util software? How do you get your
   upgraded?
2. How to modify the cartridge to accept Spectre 128 cartridge? I beleive that
   the detail should be included with the new version software.
   ( I own both Spectre 128 and GCR but still curious to know how to make use
     of my 128 with Discovery Cart.)
3. Is the Happy Computers still exist? I can't find their advertisement in the
   recent magazine. Many thanks in advance. Suthipuntha  AKISUJAR@NUSVM
                                            School of Architecture
                                            National University of Singapore
 
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Date: 30 Jan 90 16:24:31 GMT
From: sdcc6!sdcc10!cs161fca@ucsd.edu  ( )
Subject: Metacomco, Lattice C and Cambridge LISP.
Message-ID: <6756@sdcc6.ucsd.edu>
 
In article <570054@otter.hpl.hp.com> gjh@otter.hpl.hp.com (Graham Higgins)
 writes:
>As far as Lattice C goes, Lattice are a U.S. outfit, with whom a U.K. outfit
>(HiSoft) have collaborated to produce a new version of Lattice (v5), marketed
>in the U.K. by HiSoft themselves.
>Hisoft are of the opinion that as Lattice is a U.S. operation, the U.S. side is
>probably Lattice's province. I haven't any suggestions how one might track them
>down. If there are difficulties, I could ask HiSoft if they would contact
>Lattice to see if Lattice are prepared to reveal their U.S. address.
 
 
Forget Lattice, which is a @#$% company which will not support the
US ST market.  Perhaps MichTron or Antic will be willing to be the
distributor for (Hisoft) Lattice V 5. for the ST in the US market (Antic was
once the distributor of Lattice Ver 3 in the US, and Michtron has
distributed a Lattice-C compitable C intrepreter from HiSoft in the
US.).
 
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Date: 30 Jan 90 17:40:05 GMT
From:
 usc!brutus.cs.uiuc.edu!ux1.cso.uiuc.edu!ux1.cso.uiuc.edu!m.cs.uiuc.edu!totty@uc
 sd.edu
Subject: Need Hard Disk Wisdom
Message-ID: <7500013@m.cs.uiuc.edu>
 
        Thanks for all the replies.  I am not going to be able to
        get around to start working on this project for a month or so.
        But, when I do it, I will email a summary of what people have
        mailed to me and my experiences.
 
                                                --- Bri
 
   /                      Brian Totty              o o
  /__  __  o        406 E. Michigan / Apt. 6        o
 /  / /   /             Urbana, IL 61801           \_/  "We have corn in
/__/ /   /             totty@cs.uiuc.edu                Massachusetts too!"
 
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Date: 30 Jan 90 10:03:05 GMT
From: mcsun!ukc!edcastle!hwcs!neil@uunet.uu.net  (Neil Forsyth)
Subject: POOLFIX3.ARC - fix program for TOS 1.4, TOS 1.6
Message-ID: <4231@brahma.cs.hw.ac.uk>
 
In article <2000@atari.UUCP> apratt@atari.UUCP (Allan Pratt) writes:
>klute@heike.informatik.uni-dortmund.de (Rainer Klute) writes:
>If you got a truncated version of POOLFIX3.PRG, please send me MAIL.
>If you got a good version, don't send anything.  I will mail it
>to people who got the bad copy, unless it's a LOT of people.
 
Naw! Post it Allan. We didn't even see the start of the file here.
Thanks.
 
>============================================
>Opinions expressed above do not necessarily    -- Allan Pratt, Atari Corp.
>reflect those of Atari Corp. or anyone else.     ...ames!atari!apratt
 
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