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INFO-ATARI16 Digest         Wed,  4 Apr 90       Volume 90 : Issue  404
 
Today's Topics:
                           Amiga/Atari help
                        Computer dying: HELP!
                       Gribnif network address
                            Gulam Keyboard
                              MidWinter
                          Mono monitor blues
                          SHEET New Release
                          STe compatibility
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Date: 4 Apr 90 15:40:42 GMT
From:
 pacific.mps.ohio-state.edu!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!usc!wuarchive!kuhub.cc.uka
 ns.edu!zeus.unomaha.edu!fh007@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu
Subject: Amiga/Atari help
Message-ID: <10365.2619c11a@zeus.unomaha.edu>
 
In article <40345@iuvax.cs.indiana.edu>, jkain@silver.ucs.indiana.edu (Jeffrey
 Kain) writes:
> Greetings-
>
> I am a current Macintosh user and am selling my Mac and plan to buy either an
> Amiga or an Atari ST.  I have been trying to find information regarding these
> computers from the net and from magazines at the bookstores, but I haven't
> been able to find anything both objective and accurate.  My questions are as
> follows:
>
> 1- Is there an Amiga system with a 68030 microprocessor, capable of running
>    a real implementation of UNIX?
>
> 2- Is there an Atari ST system with a 68030 microprocessor, capable of running
>    a real implementation of UNIX?
>
> 3- Do either of these companies offer discounts to college students (even if
>    their campus micro-supplier doesn't carry these lines)?
>
> 4- And if there are no educational discounts, where would be a good place to
>    buy these computers for cheap (comp.sys.mac suggested trying the local
>    supermarket, but I haven't had any luck at Kroger ;)
>
> 5- Any additional insight you could share would be greatly appreciated.
> jkain@silver.ucs.indiana.edu
 
1-you can get an accelerator board for any amiga and use a 68030, Commodore
  is currently developing UNIX for the Amiga.
2-I dunno!
3-Commodore does for sure, a plan just implemented, about 40% I believe, to any
  student.
4-does not apply!
5-The Amiga has a custom chip set that takes care of many processor jobs,
  speeding up programs that have heavy data movement and such. The graphics
  have 4096 colors, displayable all at once. Don't throw away your software,
  you can get the Mac emulator. The amiga 3.5 has 880k where the Atari has
  about half. You can get a hardware emulator for a 286 pc.
                                        Bob
 
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Date: 4 Apr 90 15:56:44 GMT
From:
 snorkelwacker!usc!brutus.cs.uiuc.edu!dali!ogicse!zephyr.ens.tek.com!orca.wv.tek
 .com!splat!richb@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu  (Richard Bousquet;685-2850;60-444)
Subject: Computer dying: HELP!
Message-ID: <6683@orca.wv.tek.com>
 
In article <1198.261310ee@miavx1.acs.muohio.edu>
 tmwhitehead@miavx1.acs.muohio.edu writes:
|PRoblems!!!!
|
|System:  1040 STf version 1.0 tos (I think) Color Monitor Hard drive
|
|Problem:  The computer seems to turn itself off.  It's especially bad when I
|first turn it on.  I'll be typing, or just sitting there watching it, and it
|will just sortof shut down.(Monitor goes balck, power light goes off)  Then if
|I tap the computer, it comes back on.  Sometimes it stays on for a long time,
|other times it flickers for a few seconds and then dies again.  I thought about
|reseating the chips, but I couldn't figure how to remove the big square ones.
This sounds like a *very* common 1040STf/520STFm problem.  That is why I am
posting here instead of only responding by Email.
The Power Supply has a lot of problems with *poor* soldering.
This is especially true on the older style power supplies.  The solution is
to open your ST (remove the AC power first, of course) and remove the power
cover and then remove the power supply. Remove the four (4) screws that hold
the power supply circuit board down and gently flip the board over so the
solder side is exposed.  Inspect all the solder connections paying particular
attention to area around the center of the board.  Using a 25 watt (or so)
soldering iron touch up all questionable connections and be careful not create
any solder bridges (*zap*).  If you have *any* doubts about your ability to
do this correctly contact your nearest Atari repair.
|
|Please, if you have ANY suggestions at all, send me mail....
|
|tmwhitehead@miavx1 (bitnet)
|or try the above address
|
|
|thanx!
I hope this information helps.
|--
|              ____
|                /  _   _/  _/        Todd Whitehead
|               / /_/ /_/ /_/        Miami University
|                                      Oxford, Ohio
|            If it looks like I said it, I probably did...
|_____________________________________________________________________________
|         I'm graduating in May as a Systems Analysis Major!
|                       Anybody wanna hire me?
|-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
 
Richard Bousquet
richb@orca.WV.TEK.COM
(503) 685-2850
 
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   "It's worse than that, he's dead Jim" attributed to Dr. McCoy
 
Rich Bousquet <richb@splat.WV.TEK.COM>
Phone: 685-2850
 
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Date: 3 Apr 90 22:36:09 GMT
From: mcsun!ukc!edcastle!aimd@uunet.uu.net  (M Davidson)
Subject: Gribnif network address
Message-ID: <3143@castle.ed.ac.uk>
 
Hi,
   I got a newsletter from Gribnif software detailing their new products
and changes to NeoDesk. I'd like to ask them some questions about these
products, esp. the Neodesk CLI but although I've been searching, I can't
seem to find any email address for either Gribnif or Dan Wilga himself.
 
   Does anyone have their adddress? Please email it to me....
 
Eternal thanx!
Mark.
 
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Date: 4 Apr 90 15:03:37 GMT
From: mcsun!inria!irisa!lebrac.irisa.fr!sanchez@uunet.uu.net  (Patrick Sanchez)
Subject: Gulam Keyboard
Message-ID: <1990Apr4.150337.24797@irisa.fr>
 
In article <9004030709.AA10423@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU>,
DUJARDIN@FRESE51.BITNET writes:
|> Many thanks to all for keyfix.tos (I got ten answers !). I didn't know there
|> were so many ST users on Usenet in France...
|> Well, I dowloaded keyfix.tos from Panarthea (which I should have done for a
|> long
|> time). Someone else sent it to me too (Merci Fethi !). I uu-decoded
it, tested
|> it and ... it doesn't work ! I tried different system setups (TOS 1.4, 1.0,
|> 1.6)
|> with/without DAs, and it keeps on giving me an 'insufficent memory
tos error'
|> (#
|> 39) (even with a debugger : maybe an error in the program header). It seems
|> that
|> I'm facing a transmission error, but there's exactly the same problem
with both
|> versions !
|> Now i've ordered the source from panarthea (hey, I didn't forget to
have a look
|> in my lists before crying for help !), so I hope to have a fixed Gulam soon.
|> Thanks anyway,
|>                 Eric
|>
|>
|> Eric Dujardin
|> Ecole Superieure d'Electricite  ( SUPELEC )   -   France
Tu peux telecharger gulam version francaise ici
        ftp irisa.irisa.fr
name:   anonymous
 
Patrick SANCHEZ
INRIA-IRISA (Rennes) Campus de Beaulieu  F-35042 Rennes Cedex  FRANCE
PHONE : +33  99 36 20 00 ext 492             EMAIL : sanchez@irisa.fr
 
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Date: 4 Apr 90 16:50:08 GMT
From: motcid!wyman@uunet.uu.net  (Mark S. Wyman)
Subject: MidWinter
Message-ID: <2048@ruby.UUCP>
 
I know this is not a very technical message but
who cares! Need to relax at some point right?
 
I just bought a new game called MidWinter.
It is a mixture of strategy, adventure, and
adventure.  The basic idea is to protect your
island from an invasion force.  This takes
place during a new iceage.  You have 32 people
you can ultimately control.  The objective is
to slow the invasion so you can send a small
group to destroy the enemy headquarters.  The
modes of transportation are
skiing
snow buggying
hang gliding
snow lift
 
All these are from first person perspective
Each person has a sniper rifle, grenades, and
dynamite for sabotage.  The enemy is composed
of different snow vehicles.
 
This is a sweet game.  Good to sink into after
work or school.
 
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Date: 4 Apr 90 17:12:52 GMT
From:
 pacific.mps.ohio-state.edu!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!uakari.primate.wisc.edu!uf
 lorida!beach.cis.ufl.edu!cr1@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu  (Anubis)
Subject: Mono monitor blues
Message-ID: <22822@uflorida.cis.ufl.EDU>
 
Symptoms:  *SLIGHT* upward distortion on left side of monitor.  Every
once in a while the whole screen shakes, as if the monitor is swaying.
 
What do you think is causing this?
 
 
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Date: 4 Apr 90 15:26:47 GMT
From: mcsun!inria!laas!ralph@uunet.uu.net  (Ralph P. Sobek)
Subject: SHEET New Release
Message-ID: <RALPH.90Apr4172647@orion.laas.fr>
 
I'm interested that there's a new release.  My old version, 1.5 I
believe, had interesting features eventhough being bugged.
 
My question to the net: does there exist a demo version of SHEET
between my version 1.5 and the new announced 3.0?
 
Also, how does SHEET compare to OPUS?
 
As an aside: I saw SHEET, and other shareware, being sold on public
domain disks here in France.  Maybe the authors should collect
royalties?   :-)
 
As always, you may reply personally and if there's enough interest
I'll post a summary.
 
Thanx.
 
--
Ralph P. Sobek                    Disclaimer: The above ruminations are my own.
ralph@laas.fr                              Addresses are ordered by importance.
ralph@laas.uucp, or ...!uunet!laas!ralph
If all else fails, try:                               sobek@eclair.Berkeley.EDU
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Reliable software should kill people reliably! -Andy Mickel, Pascal News #13,78
 
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Date: 4 Apr 90 16:54:20 GMT
From: psuvm!blekul11!GHGADMO@psuvax1.cs.psu.edu  (Kris Van Hees)
Subject: STe compatibility
Message-ID: <4Apr1990165702135@BLEKUL11.BITNET>
 
Hi there.
 
I have a problem concerning the compatibility of the 1040 STe.  I tried
to run STOS on it, and it results in about (no sure) 4 2 bombs.  Any
idea why?
 
Next question: Is there any public domain software on the net which uses
               the specific abilities of the STe (scrolling, DMA sound,...)
 
Are there any patches to the TOS?
 
These are my questions (for now).  Hope anyone can answer them.
You can get me at:  GHGADMO at BLEKUL11
 
Kris Van Hees.
 
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