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INFO-ATARI16 Digest         Tue, 20 Feb 90       Volume 90 : Issue  233
 
Today's Topics:
                             .snd files?
                           Calamus PD Fonts
                            Color and Mono
                      Need answers for questions
                       SID trio sound digitizer
               SM124 mono monitor adjust query (2 msgs)
                             Starstrk.acc
             ST Informer (Was: Need answers for question)
                      Various problems - A cry..
                       XEDIT-type editor fo ST
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Date: 20 Feb 90 04:51:29 GMT
From: mentor.cc.purdue.edu!g4r@ee.ecn.purdue.edu  (Alex Lifeson)
Subject: .snd files?
Message-ID: <7648@mentor.cc.purdue.edu>
 
   Can anyone tell me where I can ftp some .snd files?
 
 
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Date: Tue, 20 Feb 90 13:30:04 +0100
From: Arne Olav Sommer <arneso@ifi.uio.no>
Subject: Calamus PD Fonts
Message-ID: <9002201229.AAstoren03838@storen.uio.no>
 
(Stuff deleted)
 
> The reason they're missing letters and things is because they are *not*
> PD fonts... they are demo versions of Shareware fonts from Sol Guber
> (S.GUBER on GEnie).  You should also have received the ReadMe files that
> indicate how you can get full alphabets.  I believe his price is quite
> reasonable, and is based on the number of fonts you get... if I remember,
> it was about $12 US a set.
 
I did not receive a Readme file, just the fonts.  Could you please post
it to the net.
 
> Look for the MS fontsets that will be distributed shortly as well... they
> are quite well done and very interesting.
 
Sounds interesting! Could you tell a little more?
 
 
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Date: 20 Feb 90 02:44:06 GMT
From:
 cs.utexas.edu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!utgpu!watserv1!watmath!maytag!water!ljdic
 key@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu  (L.J.Dickey)
Subject: Color and Mono
Message-ID: <3001@water.waterloo.edu>
 
Is there a product that will allow a color monitor to be used (badly,
perhaps) as a monochrome monitor?
 
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Date: 19 Feb 90 22:56:29 GMT
From: rochester!rit!ritcsh!derrick@rutgers.edu  (Derrick Williams)
Subject: Need answers for questions
Message-ID: <2335@ritcsh.cs.rit.edu>
 
In article <9002170530.AA19950@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU> S54394GR@ETSUACAD.BITNET
 (Robert Gambs) writes:
>
>Finally, is there a PD program which lets you display a color (PI2?) picture as
> the background of your desktop instead of Atari Green?  I know one exists for
>monochrome, but I need color.
>
>                                Robert Gambs (S54394GR@ETSUACAD.BITNET)
 
 One I know that puts a picture in the background in all three resolutions
is Video Easel. I have had the demo version for about a year. I thought it
was neat, so I went to look for the commercial version. However, my local
dealer stopped carrying it a long time ago, and software mail order places
don't seem to have it. But the pictures that came with the demo version
(you are stuck with the ones it comes with, but in the commercial version
you can choose your own) are ok. It cost $16, which made it sort of a frivolous
purchase, since that's all it did.
 Anybody know what happened to this program? Is it pd or shareware now?
Anybody want to sell their copy?
 
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Date: 20 Feb 90 10:41:11 GMT
From:
 zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!brutus.cs.uiuc.edu!ux1.cso.uiuc.edu!ux1.cso.uiuc.edu!
 uicbert.eecs.uic.edu!dillenbu@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu
Subject: SID trio sound digitizer
Message-ID: <63300008@uicbert.eecs.uic.edu>
 
  As a matter of fact I designed a sound digitizer for a school project
on my ST.  I designed the circuit (very simple actually, just a A/D converter
and an amplifier) and implemented it on a Douglas prototype board.  I
used wire wrapping and the toal cost for making it was under $30.  However,
the A/D converter I used would be very difficult to obtain.  I got mine
by asking for a sample to be sent out for "an Engineering Project" I was
involved in.  I also wrote software that can sample the converter at up to
64 kHz (it might even go higher but I haven't tried).  The software is GEM
based and allows you to play/edit a number of digitized sounds at once.
If you are interested, I might be cajoled into making it public domain
I also have a LaTeX document with my final report on my project's status, I
would certianly be willing to send this out to those interested.  (Figures
not included, I drew most be hand.)
      dillenbu@uicbert.eecs.uic.edu
 
       John Dillenburg
        "You can't keep a man down without staying down with him."
           -- Ali
 
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Date: 20 Feb 90 04:34:47 GMT
From:
 zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!rpi!uupsi!rodan!rodan.acs.syr.edu!jfbruno@tut.cis.ohi
 o-state.edu  (John F. Bruno)
Subject: SM124 mono monitor adjust query
Message-ID: <2137@rodan.acs.syr.edu>
 
  My monochrome SM124 monitor has a problem where the right side of
the screen is shorter than the left side, so the screen isn't a
perfect rectangle.  Has anyone else had this problem? Is it even
fixable?  There aren't any Atari Service Centers nearby (of course)
and I don't really feel like forking over a flat rate service charge
for something that (I hope) is a simple adjustment to make...
 
I'd appreciate any help w/this
 
---jb (jfbruno@rodan.acs.syr.edu)
 
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Date: 20 Feb 90 12:29:02 GMT
From: maytag!water!ljdickey@iuvax.cs.indiana.edu  (L.J.Dickey)
Subject: SM124 mono monitor adjust query
Message-ID: <3003@water.waterloo.edu>
 
In article <2137@rodan.acs.syr.edu> jfbruno@rodan.acs.syr.edu (John F. Bruno)
 writes:
>
>  My monochrome SM124 monitor has a problem where the right side of
>the screen is shorter than the left side, so the screen isn't a
>perfect rectangle.  Has anyone else had this problem? Is it even
>fixable?  There aren't any Atari Service Centers nearby (of course)
>and I don't really feel like forking over a flat rate service charge
>for something that (I hope) is a simple adjustment to make...
 
I had a slightly different problem.  The right side of my screen got
the squeeze.  For me this easiest to describe this way:  When used in
terminal emulator, the characters at the right hand edge of the screen
were narrower than the rest.  About two days later, the monitor quit
altogether.  I agreed to pay the flat rate service charge.
 
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        ljdickey@water.UUCP             ..!uunet!watmath!water!ljdickey
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Date: 20 Feb 90 06:40:28 GMT
From: mcsun!sunic!lth.se!newsuser@uunet.uu.net  (Ralph Haglund)
Subject: Starstrk.acc
Message-ID: <1990Feb20.064028.16565@lth.se>
 
After complaining (loudly) about starstrk.acc and my dear TurboC I put
in PYRO instead, and have experienced no problems.
Can't wait to get TurboC 2.0 hopefully at CeBIT in Hannover end of March.
Hope all of us are going there - could have a party...
 
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Date: 20 Feb 90 03:25:45 GMT
From:
 zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!samsung!cs.utexas.edu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!utgpu!w
 atserv1!watmath!maytag!water!ljdickey@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu  (L.J.Dickey)
Subject: ST Informer (Was: Need answers for question)
Message-ID: <3002@water.waterloo.edu>
 
In article <90021910143087@masnet.uucp> david.schreiber@canremote.uucp (DAVID
 SCHREIBER) writes:
>
>  I've been looking for ST Informer, which I've heard is an excellent,
>newspaper-format ST journal. Is subscription the only way to get it?
 
I'd also like information about this.
 
 
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Date: Tue, 20 Feb 90 08:50:55 EDT
From: Wolfgang Thiel <UPSYF173%DBIUNI11.BITNET@Forsythe.Stanford.EDU>
Subject: Various problems - A cry..
 
-> 1.
I had similiar problems, not with accessories, but with programs in the auto
ordner. I finally found out that some sectors of my harddisc sometimes cannot
be read. since I marked these as bad sectors all is ok. another source of
these problems could be bugs in some programs or in the BIOS: I had problems
with programs manipulating the keyboard and/or rs232 interrupts.
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Date: Tue, 20 Feb 90 09:53:56 MEZ
From: KPH107%DJUKFA11.BITNET@CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU
Subject: XEDIT-type editor fo ST
 
Date: 20 February 1990, 09:49:35 MEZ
From: Vilmar KLemt              (49) 02461/61-4391   KPH107   at DJUKFA11
      KFA Juelich
To:   INFO-ATA at WSMR-SIMTEL20
 
David Megginson writes:
 
>I've spent half my life trying to escape from CMS (Xedit, etc.). Well,
>OK, not half my life, but it's close. The University of Toronto gives
 
Using CMS/Xedit daily on a mainframe IBM I am astonished that the
qualities of the Xedit editor have not been recognized yet in the
Atari world. Bruce Blanar should be highly praised if he would port
it to the ST.
Or can anybody tell me another editor that is as powerful and yet as
easy to use? Isn't the commandline orientation a very useful alternative
to other editors?
Does any other editor support such useful commands as
   SHIFT, ZONE, MERGE, OVERLAY etc.?
 
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