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INFO-ATARI16 Digest         Sun, 25 Feb 90       Volume 90 : Issue  258
 
Today's Topics:
                              "Atari TT"
                     Anybody play Space Ace yet?
             Foreign exchange (was Re: Shareware Policy.)
                        Large Print for the ST
                         Load desk accessory
                                ratehd
                          wanted -- Specter
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Date: 25 Feb 90 20:09:30 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: "Atari TT"
Message-ID: <25E83B7A.15908@paris.ics.uci.edu>
 
        I am wondering if any body out there has the Atari TT or knows about it
 and tell the specs for it: speed, colors, resolutions, etc...
 
        I'd appreciate it.
 
Earl (UCI) ehood@paris.ics.uci.edu
 
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Date: 25 Feb 90 20:14:53 GMT
From: bgsuvax!sbrown@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu  (Scott F. Brown)
Subject: Anybody play Space Ace yet?
Message-ID: <5463@bgsuvax.UUCP>
 
        I was wondering if anybody out there owns the Space Ace game for the
ST yet.  I was a big fan of the original game and the demo for the ST version
makes the game look like it has a lot of promise.  I had some question for
those that do own it:
 
        1) How many disks does it take up?  The demo takes one full side and
thats for only a few seconds of action.
 
        2) How much of the original video disk does the game contain?  I
understand if you can't answer this one.  I called ReadySoft and the
person answering the phone was unsure but he said that it contained about 33
scenes.  This seems a little less than the orginal laser disk.
 
        3) How does the game play?  Is it smooth or difficult to control?
 
        4) Do you think its worth the pricetag?  (I believe I saw the price
to be in the $50 to $60 range.)
 
        5) A final question that has nothing to do with the ST version: Does
anyone know where I can get a copy of the original laser disk?
 
        Thanks...
 
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Date: 25 Feb 90 22:56:34 GMT
From:
 jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!utgpu!watserv1!watdragon!tiger!swklassen@rutgers.edu
 (Steven W. Klassen)
Subject: Foreign exchange (was Re: Shareware Policy.)
Message-ID: <21269@watdragon.waterloo.edu>
 
In article <1990Feb23.184405.26406@lth.se> qralph@dna.lth.se (Ralph Haglund)
 writes:
>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!
 
If you are going to send cash why not go down to your local bank and get
the cash in the denomination of the country you are going to send it to?
Whenever I send cash to the U.S., I send it in U.S. dollars so that the
receiver does not have to convert from my Canadian ones.  That way the
receiver gets his cash in a form he can use without having to worry
about things like exchange rates.
 
 
 
Steven W. Klassen                       +-----------------------------+
Computer Science Major                  | Support the poor...buy fur! |
University of Waterloo                  +-----------------------------+
 
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Date: 25 Feb 90 22:39:19 GMT
From:
 zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!usc!cs.utexas.edu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!utgpu!watse
 rv1!rnelson@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu  (Randy Nelson VE3WRN)
Subject: Large Print for the ST
Message-ID: <1226@watserv1.waterloo.edu>
 
        A colleague has asked me for some assistance in locating
a large print program for the ST.  It would be used to assist
an indiviadual with standard commercial progams like spread-
sheets.
        If you can offer any help in this, please write to me
via e-mail.
        Thanks,
        Randy
 
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Date: 25 Feb 90 19:29:09 GMT
From: silver!jburka@iuvax.cs.indiana.edu  (Jeffrey C. Burka)
Subject: Load desk accessory
Message-ID: <36979@iuvax.cs.indiana.edu>
 
In article <25E74315.25927@paris.ics.uci.edu> wngai@paris.ics.uci.edu (Wayne
 Ngai) asks about loading/unloading ACCs at any time...
 
There are two programs that will let your load/unload ACCs--MultiDesk
from CodeHead and DC Stuffer 1.0 from Double Click.
 
I have no experience with MultiDesk, so I can't really discuss it.
I've been using DC Stuffer 1.0 for most of a year and have been pretty
satisfied.  The 0.9 version of DC Stuffer (demo) lets you have up 32
ACCs loaded when you first hit the desktop.  For a small shareware fee
(they don't really list a price; I paid $30 to register both Stuffer
and DC Format at the same time), you get version 1.0.
 
1.0 lets you you load up to 32 ACCs upon bootup (memory dependant, of course).
It _also_ lets you load an ACC at just about any time, from within any
program.  You can unload ACCs _only_ from the ST desktop (NeoDesk doesn't
count; you'd have to quit neodesk to dump your accs).  Stuffer sometimes
has trouble loading ACCs that seems to be tied into the most recently
accessed drive (I've found that it's most reliable on loading accs from
the desktop if you the selected window is the one you're loading from).
 
I've heard good things about MultiDesk; I just happened to buy DC Stuffer
first.  I've been satisfied.
 
Jeff
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
|Jeffrey C. Burka                | "On the outskirts of nowhere           |
|jburka@silver.ucs.indiana.edu   |  on the ringroad to somewhere,         |
|jburka@amber.ucs.indiana.edu    |  on the verge of indecision..." --Fish |
 
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Date: Mon, 26 Feb 90 02:08+0100
From: Ritzert%DMZRZU71.BITNET@Forsythe.Stanford.EDU
Subject: ratehd
Message-ID: <900226010851.653244@DMZRZU71-UNI-MAINZ--GERMANY>
 
>>RateHD is buggy. The results for the access time can be considered only
>>a *rough* estimate. I found out that there is even a dependence on the
>>partition size.
>>
>Access time is seek time plus rotational delay.  I don't know exactly
>what RadtHD is measuring, but the larger the partition, the further the
>head has to move to get from one end of the partition to the other, so
>it only stands to reason that the average access time should increase.
>This is hardly a reason to call a program buggy.
 
But on a Seagate st296n with supra hostadapter, ratehd gave slower
access time on smaller partitions (and on larger partitions than 16 M). In
fact the difference to the manufacturer's specification seemed to be
smallest on a 16 Meg partition. I don't demand that ratehd reprodueces
the original spec; the readme file coming with ratehd states that this
cannot be expected. But, anyhow, I'm astonished about that *strange*
dependence which is not directly related to an obvious feature like the
number of cylinders which have to be passed by the head(s). And don't
forget that ICD claims measuring the drive independent on the way it is
formatted. In this light, any dependence like the above has to be
regarded a bug.
 
M.Ritzert
mjr@dmzrzu71.bitnet
 
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Date: 25 Feb 90 21:47:14 GMT
From: dftsrv!iris613!guest@ames.arc.nasa.gov  (Guest Account)
Subject: wanted -- Specter
Message-ID: <1001@dftsrv.gsfc.nasa.gov>
 
If anyone upgrading to Specter GCR would like to sell their old Specter,
including ROMs, I am interested.  Please email reasonable offers to the
above address.
 
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