 
INFO-ATARI16 Digest         Tue,  6 Mar 90       Volume 90 : Issue  290
 
Today's Topics:
                           Computer Wanted
                      Mac Emulator, what to buy?
                      MULTISYNC RECOMMENDATIONS
                       PD Font Editor & Loader
                          Screen Resolution
   ST + HP LJ type Printer under Spectre + Macprint : R. Covert Hi!
                 STE DMA sound (documentation posted)
                                 test
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Date: 6 Mar 90 04:30:22 GMT
From:
 pacific.mps.ohio-state.edu!ohstpy!miavx1!tmwhitehead@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu
Subject: Computer Wanted
Message-ID: <1095.25f2f68f@miavx1.acs.muohio.edu>
 
In article <1092.25f29d21@miavx1.acs.muohio.edu>,
 rlcollins@miavx1.acs.muohio.edu writes:
> Help!!!
>
> I'm in dire need of an Atari 8-bit computer, anything but the 400. (This is
> for my girlfriend, and she doesn't like the membrane keyboard at all) I
> also need a disk drive too. Orginal boxes or manuals are not needed though.
> (Just in case you can't find them!!!)
>
>                       Goz
 
 
I'll sell you a rana disk drive for $50!
 
 
> --
> ????????????????????????????? Ryan Collins ??????????????????????????????????
> "When you have Super Powers,                  rlcollins@miavx1.BITNET
> hard work is easy"                             rc1dsanu@miamiu.BITNET
>  -Dufus from Ducktails
> ??????????????????????Yea, right, thats what I said.?????????????????????????
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                /  _   _/  _/        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?
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Date: 6 Mar 90 07:37:54 GMT
From:
 jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!neat.cs.toronto.edu!omicron.cs.fsu.edu!fsucs.cs.fsu.edu
 !boyd@rutgers.edu  (Mickey Boyd)
Subject: Mac Emulator, what to buy?
Message-ID: <9003060739.AA07307@fsucs.cs.fsu.edu>
 
In article <90064.123706PHB100@psuvm.psu.edu>, PHB100@psuvm.psu.edu writes:
>In article <2309@syma.sussex.ac.uk>, nickw@syma.sussex.ac.uk (Nick Watkins)
>says:
>>
>>We have a 1040 ST here in the lab at Sussex, and will shortly have a few more.
>>We are  interested in buying a Mac emulator, and we gather that those which
>>use Mac roms are better than "pure" software emulations.
>>
>Are there any "PURE" software emulators?  And if so, how are they?  Inquiring
>minds want to know...:)
>
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>In the dark, no one can hear the color of your eyes...
>
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There are two that I know of, both pirated.  One is called MacBongo, from
germany.  It is an old 64k rom hack (roms saved to disk).  The other is
a pirated version of Spectre 128, with v 1.85 software.  It bombs quite
frequently, to my understanding.  Both are quite illegal.
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              Mickey Boyd            |    "Nobody can be exactly like me.
         FSU Computer Science        |      Even I have trouble doing it."
      mail:  boyd@fsucs.cs.fsu.edu   |              - Tallulah Bankhead
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Date: 5 Mar 90 20:57:04 GMT
From: att!dptg!lzaz!bds@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU  (Bruce Szablak)
Subject: MULTISYNC RECOMMENDATIONS
Message-ID: <940@lzaz.ATT.COM>
 
My main beef with the multisync in hi-rez mode is what I term "shadowing".
I see characters and lines "echoed" in a fashion like that seen on TVs.
The problem is not too bad in reverse video mode. I suspect the cause is
the ganging of a 9 pin gender changer and 9 to 15 pin adapter to get
the NEC 3D to talk to the video box I have. Even without that problem the
Multisync is not as sharp as a true monochrome monitor.
 
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Date: 6 Mar 90 00:22:40 GMT
From:
 pacific.mps.ohio-state.edu!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!usc!cs.utexas.edu!jarvis.c
 sri.toronto.edu!utgpu!watserv1!watmath!maytag!water!ljdickey@tut.cis.ohio-state
 .edu  (L.J.Dickey)
Subject: PD Font Editor & Loader
Message-ID: <3050@water.waterloo.edu>
 
In article <1892@clyde.concordia.ca> agostino@sherlock.CS.Concordia.CA (DELIGIA
 agostino) writes:
>
>Does anybody out in net territory know of a PD font editor capable of editing
>all 256 ASCII characters with a desk accessory font loader?
 
I think that there is some form of font editor called "FED" (Font EDitor?).
But possibly it did only 94 or 128 characters.  Maybe someone who knows
more about this can answer.
 
 
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    L. J. Dickey, Faculty of Mathematics, University of Waterloo.
        ljdickey@water.UWaterloo.ca     ljdickey@water.BITNET
        ljdickey@water.UUCP             ..!uunet!watmath!water!ljdickey
        ljdickey@water.waterloo.edu
 
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Date: Tue, 6 Mar 90 00:32 EST
From: FRACHEL@umiami.Miami.EDU
Subject: Screen Resolution
 
I am writing a program in personal pascal v2.0, and i need to know the
screen sizes (in pixels) for each resolution.
 
Thanks,
 
  Frank Rachel
 
 
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Date: 6 Mar 90 02:47:21 GMT
From:
 cs.columbia.edu!cunixf.cc.columbia.edu!cunixd.cc.columbia.edu!ia4@columbia.edu
 (Imran Anwar)
Subject: ST + HP LJ type Printer under Spectre + Macprint : R. Covert Hi!
Message-ID: <1990Mar6.024721.31360@cunixf.cc.columbia.edu>
 
This message was meant for Richard Covert and also other Atari ST + HP LJ
or compatible owners....
 
Date: Sat, 17 Feb 90 16:02:07 EST
Subject: Printer
Hi......I still have saved on disk the opsting you made the day you purchased
your Pansonic printer.........I went out and finally bought the HP LJ IIp..
price was the major consideration......also I had planned on getting the
EPSON EPL 6000 that is 2 ppm fatser nd had 2 trays and 2 cartridge slots..
but the problem was that on calling Pacific Page as wella sEpson it was
discovered that the Epson would not support the Postscript cartridge from
Pacifig Page :-(......so I have the IIp.....
 
I see in you rposting a mention that Wordperfect supports soft fonts on your
4450.......I wonder if soft fonts are supported for the series II also in
WP4.1............would apprecitae your input.....
 
I am also trying to get advice on which of the 2 HP drivers for Spectre to get
the one that is Jetlink or the other called MacPrint....have you had a
chance to try them out yet/?
 
I wonder if with both of them we are stuck with the fonts they come with r can
I use the usual Mac fonts available fro  Macwrite and MacDraw etc? This is
IMportnat if I am to invest in the s/ware and the GCR......
 
Hope to hear from you  soon....
 
REgards
 
Imran
 
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Date: 5 Mar 90 21:08:53 GMT
From: att!dptg!lzaz!bds@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU  (Bruce Szablak)
Subject: STE DMA sound (documentation posted)
Message-ID: <941@lzaz.ATT.COM>
 
In article <1990Mar4.191533.329@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU>
 gl8f@astsun.astro.Virginia.EDU (Greg Lindahl) writes:
>Right. But the complaint I've seen here so far is, "Atari should bring
>out docs because the ones we have are shit!"
 
Hmmm, from what I been reading, the main complaint is how Atari is trying
to restrict technical info on the ST to those who have forked over the
developers fee. Perhaps this is the REAL reason the publicly available
docs are "shit!"
 
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Date: 6 Mar 90 07:48:50 GMT
From: mcsun!inria!loria!cartan.crin.fr!domen@uunet.uu.net  (Eric Domenjoud)
Subject: test
Message-ID: <1534@loria.crin.fr>
 
This is a test
 
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