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INFO-ATARI16 Digest         Fri, 16 Feb 90       Volume 90 : Issue  218
 
Today's Topics:
                   Another PC Speed Update (2 msgs)
                   DISK DRIVES, UNITERM AND TOS 1.4
                            Fine scrollin'
             STuff for sale, hard drive and floppy drive
                             Suggestions
                                UUCALL
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Date: Fri, 16 Feb 90 22:30:00 EST
From: Greg Csullog <01659%AECLCR.bitnet@ugw.utcs.utoronto.ca>
Subject: Another PC Speed Update
Message-ID: <90Feb16.223314est.57891@ugw.utcs.utoronto.ca>
 
After a lot of flakey behaviour with my newly installed PC Speed board,
I opened up my Mega and resoldered the 64 pin socket onto my 68000. The
board is a lot more stable now but not completely so.
 
Here is a list of some of the stuff I have tested.
 
1. NORTON Utilities (SD, SI, LD, NCD [NCD no longer locks up])
 
2. PCBoss
 
3. WP 4.2 (no longer locking up with fast help screen changes)
 
4. dBASE III Plus (also not locking anymore with fast menu changes)
 
5. GEM 3.01 desktop can be installed but it is just as slow as on
   a real XT. Word Plus, GEM Paint also tested. They work for a while
   but after a few minutes the machine just hangs.
 
   Before the flames hit, NO, I don't see any point in using PC GEM on
   an ST under PC emulation. Atari GEM is vastly superior, especially
   when running NEODESK. However, I wanted to test applications that
   were graphics intensive. Looks like bad marks so far!
 
6. LOTUS 123 ver 2.01 worked fine. No hangups found yet.
 
7. Smart Term 240. When connected to a CYBER (that's how I started this
   session) extraneous characters popped up all over the screen. Sort of
   looks like a parity problem. To continue the session I did a warm
   boot back to Uniterm (didn't drop the line).
 
   I have used VersTaTerm Pro and Red Ryder on Macs and Crosstalk, Kermit
   Connect, Zstem and Smart term 240 on PCs and not one of these is as
   versatile and easy to use as Uniterm on the ST. Thank you Simon Poole,
   wherever you are.
 
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Date: Fri, 16 Feb 90 22:30:00 EST
From: Greg Csullog <01659%AECLCR.bitnet@ugw.utcs.utoronto.ca>
Subject: Another PC Speed Update
Message-ID: <90Feb16.223314est.57891@ugw.utcs.utoronto.ca>
 
After a lot of flakey behaviour with my newly installed PC Speed board,
I opened up my Mega and resoldered the 64 pin socket onto my 68000. The
board is a lot more stable now but not completely so.
 
Here is a list of some of the stuff I have tested.
 
1. NORTON Utilities (SD, SI, LD, NCD [NCD no longer locks up])
 
2. PCBoss
 
3. WP 4.2 (no longer locking up with fast help screen changes)
 
4. dBASE III Plus (also not locking anymore with fast menu changes)
 
5. GEM 3.01 desktop can be installed but it is just as slow as on
   a real XT. Word Plus, GEM Paint also tested. They work for a while
   but after a few minutes the machine just hangs.
 
   Before the flames hit, NO, I don't see any point in using PC GEM on
   an ST under PC emulation. Atari GEM is vastly superior, especially
   when running NEODESK. However, I wanted to test applications that
   were graphics intensive. Looks like bad marks so far!
 
6. LOTUS 123 ver 2.01 worked fine. No hangups found yet.
 
7. Smart Term 240. When connected to a CYBER (that's how I started this
   session) extraneous characters popped up all over the screen. Sort of
   looks like a parity problem. To continue the session I did a warm
   boot back to Uniterm (didn't drop the line).
 
   I have used VersTaTerm Pro and Red Ryder on Macs and Crosstalk, Kermit
   Connect, Zstem and Smart term 240 on PCs and not one of these is as
   versatile and easy to use as Uniterm on the ST. Thank you Simon Poole,
   wherever you are.
 
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Date: 16 Feb 90 13:19:31 GMT
From: rochester!rit!cci632!ccicpg!paulm@pt.cs.cmu.edu  (tmp Paul Moreau usenet
 acct)
Subject: DISK DRIVES, UNITERM AND TOS 1.4
Message-ID: <58459@ccicpg.UUCP>
 
In article <3859@harrier.ukc.ac.uk>, pfg@ukc.ac.uk (P.F.Gisby) writes:
>
[....]
>
> Help!!!
>  Could someone post me uniterm 2.0e please!!!
>
 
   I use uniterm 2.0c every day but have yet to find 2.0e!
 
   If someone could post it to me also I'd be glad to pass it around.
 
   THANX in advance, Paul
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Date: 16 Feb 90 14:23:57 GMT
From: mcsun!hp4nl!spcc386!stefan@uunet.uu.net  (Stefan Posthuma)
Subject: Fine scrollin'
Message-ID: <590@spcc386.UUCP>
 
Horizontal fine scrolling on the ST is not very easy. I have some experience
with demo/game programming on the ST and I'll tell you, nobody likes to do
it because it guzzles processor time.
Forget the blitter, you might be able to scroll 30-40% of the screen with it,
and lose all processor time.
Since the screen of the ST is just a dumb memory map, pixel-scrolling can
only be done by actually shifting the screen image. A long list of LSR of
LSL instructions will do this for you, but no way you can make this work
properly, because you simply haven't enough time. You might be able to do it
in 4-5 vbls, but then it looks awful. Add to this that the low-res screen
is divided into four planes and the horror is complete.
Now clever tricks will help you a bit, but scrolling the whole screen still
is very hard to do. Storing your images pre-shifted and blitting the right
frame is one trick, but this uses lots of memory (imagine storing everything
shifted 16 times)  Using screen buffers and clever code is also possible.
One last alternative is 'Sync scrolling'. This is a incredibly difficult
trick that uses a glitch in the Shifter/MMU to open screen borders. Mess
around properly with them and screen borders will be opened ('Overscan'),
mess around even more and the physbase will start moving around, scrolling
the screen, but this is only for the superfreaks amongst us.
 
Happy hacking!
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Date: 16 Feb 90 16:21:56 GMT
From: portal!portal!cup.portal.com!Xorg@apple.com  (Peter Ted Szymonik)
Subject: STuff for sale, hard drive and floppy drive
Message-ID: <26987@cup.portal.com>
 
For Sale:
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ICD FaST 50-meg hard drive  $575
 
This is the famous 'under-the-monitor' FaST case.  Inside is a new
Seagate 157N SCSI hard drive mechanism, the mech is less than one
month old and is fully warrantied for three years.  (One year from
Seagate, two years left on an extended warranty purchased from the
supplier.)  The case has room for an extra 3.5 inch hard drive
mechanism for easy expansion.  I even have all the necessary
brackets and screws as well as the double crimped SCSI cable and
power cable are for the extra drive, if you chose to expand the
drive your only cost would be for the mechanism itself!  If you
wish I'll partition the drive for you and pack it with all the PD
software I can get my hands on (which is a lot.)
 
 
Atari SF314 external double-density drive  $135
 
The drive sees very little use since I do 99% of all my work using
the hard drive and the internal drive.  In excellent condition and
very quiet.
 
 
Or buy them both for $675!  I'm selling these guys because I find
myself using Spectre GCR and SuperCharger a lot and I'd like to
have a removable hard drive so I can have one platter for each type
OS.  First come, first served, the external drive will not be sold
seperately unless the hard drive is sold.
 
Thanx
Pete
GEnie:  DIPLOMACY-1
CIS:    72637,2272
UseNet: xorg@cup.portal.com
 
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Date: Fri, 16 Feb 90 22:38:00 EST
From: Greg Csullog <01659%AECLCR.bitnet@ugw.utcs.utoronto.ca>
Subject: Suggestions
Message-ID: <90Feb16.224135est.57546@ugw.utcs.utoronto.ca>
 
1. On the UIS, have a button that says RUN PROGRAM. Then, a user could
   run another program from within any program that accesses the UIS.
 
2. ALT-click on a file ICON in NeoDesk to call up a comment field to
   affix annotations to files (much like NORTON's FI.EXE)
 
3. Post digitized photos of Atari staff so we can see who we're
   'talking' to.
 
4. Put a FAX machine in Avant-Garde's office so messages can be sent
   through. I have tried at least 20 times to call and cannot get voice
   connection.
 
5. Put a toll free 800 number and a FAX to send messages to Atari USA
 
6. Send me cash in small unmarked bills so I can pay my lawyer's bill
   (the custody battle was hell).
 
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Date: 16 Feb 90 21:55:01 GMT
From: ubc-cs!alberta!ccu!charltn@beaver.cs.washington.edu  (Jim Charlton)
Subject: UUCALL
Message-ID: <1990Feb16.215501.21457@ccu.umanitoba.ca>
 
Does anyone know where I can get a copy of UUCALL, the uucp companion
program for STadel.  I need the version that runs with STadel vs 3.3d.
If someone on the net has the program and docs, and could e-mail them
to me, I would very much appreciate it.
   jim...     Jim Charlton                    charltn@ccu.umanitoba.ca
              Department of Chemistry
              University of Manitoba
 
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