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INFO-ATARI16 Digest         Sat, 24 Feb 90       Volume 90 : Issue  253
 
Today's Topics:
                       Another PC Speed problem
             Foreign exchange (was Re: Shareware Policy.)
                    I need TOS on disk!  Help me!
                        Megaproblems question
              Mono Monitor Woes (was Re: Color and Mono)
                            Phantom Typist
                               poolfix3
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Date: Fri, 23 Feb 90 23:51:00 EST
From: Greg Csullog <01659%AECLCR.bitnet@ugw.utcs.utoronto.ca>
Subject: Another PC Speed problem
Message-ID: <90Feb23.235240est.57347@ugw.utcs.utoronto.ca>
 
Someone who has a Mega also wants to run Bedford Accounting (PC version)
using PC Ditto II or PC Speed or SuperCharger, .....
 
Today, I tried running Bedford, and just like PC GEM apps, the system goes
into never-never land after a few moments of operation. Has anyone else
had this lockup problem or heard tell of it or am I the only one (and
should I be on the horn to Michtron for support?) What could be causing
PC Speed to lock up the way it does?
 
Does anyone on the NET have a Portfolio development kit. Care to present
a summary of the package?
 
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Date: 23 Feb 90 18:44:05 GMT
From: eru!luth!sunic!lth.se!newsuser@bloom-beacon.mit.edu  (Ralph Haglund)
Subject: Foreign exchange (was Re: Shareware Policy.)
Message-ID: <1990Feb23.184405.26406@lth.se>
 
Hi,
This question about payment to other countries - I think it is mostly the
feeling that "this MUST be complicated"...
OK, sending big amounts is something else, but sending small amounts must be
easiest to do cash! All of us netters are rather international, right?! So
we can always use cash in foreign denominatons. Dollars go everywhere, DM and
Swiss Francs go everywhere. Don't make life more complicated than necessary!
 
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Date: 24 Feb 90 05:01:03 GMT
From: zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!sunybcs!ubvms!v128ll9e@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu
Subject: I need TOS on disk!  Help me!
Message-ID: <74.25e5cebf@ubvms.cc.buffalo.edu>
 
I need a copy of the latest version of TOS for the Atari ST, on disk.  I
recently acquired an Atari ST emulator for my Amiga and am dying to try it out.
It requires me to put in a copy of TOS, which I don't own.  Anyone want to sell
me one?  Please make offers through my account (E-Mail me!)
 
Cheapest bid gets it.  I would like to get the latest version possible.
Incidentally, is TOS copyprotected?  If it is, I require the orriginal disk.
If, by some chance, you had an orriginal, archived it then somehow destroyed
the orriginal, I will accept a copy if the the orriginal disk accompanies it.
 
Oh yes, just as a matter of curiosity, what is TOS?
 
Thanks,
   Rich
 
P.S.  Boy am I desperate!!!  Golly, I'm so desperate that no offer will be
refused outright.
 
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Date: 24 Feb 90 01:00:17 GMT
From:
 pacific.mps.ohio-state.edu!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!usc!orion.oac.uci.edu!uci-
 ics!ehood@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu  (Earl Wayne Jr. Hood)
Subject: Megaproblems question
Message-ID: <25E5DCA1.6417@paris.ics.uci.edu>
 
Rick Johnson posted:
 
>     My question is concerning problems I have been having with a
>Megafile 30. My system is a Mega-4, Megafile 30, and an SC1224 monitor. My
>problem is that on an intermittent basis my system simply decides not to boot
>off the hard disk. The process goes something like this.
>
>        a) The system boots with the standard messages and everything in
>           my AUTO file executes perfectly.
>
>        b) The screen flashes a colorful pattern and then restarts the boot
>           process. GOTO a)
 
Rick,
        I have a similar hardware set up as yours except the computer is
a MegaSt2.  I have had what has happened to you and the cause is either a
bad auto folder program or a bad desk accessory.  To have me help you I
need more information.
 
First, what auto programs are running
Second, what desk accessories do you have
Third, TOS version (I have 1.2)
Fourth, when exactly does the screen flash and cause a reboot.  Does the
bee cursor showup before it happens or not at all.
 
        To help pinpoint what my be cause your problem is put an auto
folder program that outputs some text during bootup (e.g. UIS II) as the last
program in your auto folder.  If the system reboots before the installation
message of the program comes up then it is probably an auto program.  If reboot
after then it is problably something to do with the desk accessories
 
-Earl (UCI)
 
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Date: 24 Feb 90 05:59:07 GMT
From: silver!sl198004@iuvax.cs.indiana.edu  (Vincent Schonau)
Subject: Mono Monitor Woes (was Re: Color and Mono)
Message-ID: <36924@iuvax.cs.indiana.edu>
 
In article <6670@brspyr1.BRS.Com> tim@brspyr1.BRS.Com (Tim Northrup) writes:
>boyd@fsucs.cs.fsu.edu (Mickey Boyd) writes:
>> ljdickey@water.waterloo.edu (L.J.Dickey) writes:
>>>
>>>Is there a product that will allow a color monitor to be used (badly,
>>>perhaps) as a monochrome monitor?
>>
>>  ....  I would recommend that you get a real mono,
>>as they are cheap (hell, you might be able to get a used one for $60) and
>>they look sooo good (70Hz is hard to beat, best monochrome screen I have
 seen).
>
>$60!!!!!??????!!!!  I would settle for finding one for $100!
>
[stuff deleted]
>                                                       -- Tim
>--
>Tim Northrup                     +------------------------------------------+
>+---------------------------------+         GEnie:  T.Northrup               |
>UUCP: uunet!crdgw1!brspyr1!tim    |   Air Warrior:  "Duke"                   |
>ARPA: tim@brspyr1.BRS.Com        +------------------------------------------+
 
 
I have used a product from GfA (the makers of GfA Basic, although I am not
sure if that is known here at all-I have been away from my ST for too long),
that was a beta/demo version I get through PD channels in Holland.  The
official release was somewhere between $40 and $50 (converted, current
exchange rates).  I have seen it emulate a Monochrome on color, but that
was really not worth your time.  The color-emulation was a lot better,
though buggy.
 
Vincent.
sl198004@silver.ucs.indiana.edu || vschonau@amber.ucs.indiana.edu
                     VSCHONAU@IUBACS.BITNET
(sorry, I still have to figure out how to make a signature file :)
+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
Vincent Schonau - from the Netherlands but lost in
Indiana.  sl198004@silver.ucs.indiana.edu, or
vschonau@amber.ucs.indiana.edu, and also
 
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Date: 23 Feb 90 00:24:25 GMT
From: ucsdhub!hp-sdd!ncr-sd!ncrlnk!ncrwic!wsucsa!mwjester@ucsd.edu
Subject: Phantom Typist
Message-ID: <14033@wsucsa.uucp>
 
In article <27180@cup.portal.com>, Bob_BobR_Retelle@cup.portal.com writes:
> I assume, based on KBad's comments that Alan Page is a poor programmer too,
> or possibly I didn't sprinkle enough dried chicken blood around my ST, as
> I've had the "Phantom Typist" hit me while using FLASH as a text editor...
>
> Seems odd that someone who's been so involved with the ST has never heard of
> this "feature" that's existed as long as the ST has been available...
>
> BobR
 
I used to use Flash occasionally as an editor while online ( before I switched
to Uniterm :~) - thanks Simon!), but I never ran across the phantom typist
while doing so - in fact I've never had it happen to me.  I have the 85 ROMs
and normally have some fairly minor accessories running - the control panel
and so forth.  What kind of things were you doing when it hit?
 
Max J.
 
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Date: 23 Feb 90 18:20:08 GMT
From: eru!luth!sunic!lth.se!newsuser@bloom-beacon.mit.edu  (Ralph Haglund)
Subject: poolfix3
Message-ID: <1990Feb23.182008.26175@lth.se>
 
This question is actually directed to Alan Pratt, but as he never answers  my
direct e-mail I will send it on the net:
I have heard that TOS 1.4 is available for users in Sweden now -I don't know
details. Anyway:
as official developer I have been begging for it for half a year now from
Atari Sweden, never got anything at all.
The Swedish TOS, both 1.2 and 1.4 as far as I know, has had a bug when it
comes to the scan codes, the shift+arros and shift+Ins/Home has just given 0;
I sent the patches for that for 1.4 to Atari, Stockholm after they wanted it
during a telephone call. Never heard from them after that so no idea if they
have incorporated it.
Besides, in the EPROMs I have incorporated 5 well-known and -documented
German patches, like fixing the serial port etc.
Now I got a problem. Lots of people want my patched EPROMs. They want to be
able to use editors like First word + (where obviously the shift-arrows
never worked), they want to use fast modems on the serial port etc. What do
I do????? Do I tell them it is illegal according to Atari to have a working
Atari ST or what?????????
 
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