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INFO-ATARI16 Digest         Thu, 22 Feb 90       Volume 90 : Issue  244
 
Today's Topics:
                             .snd files?
               Discontinuation of Info-Atari16 digests
                            dSuperCharger
                          Mouse Improvement
                          Printer routines.
                              Sozobon C
              Still more STuff for sale - Epson printer
                Wanted: 520st.. please send me mail...
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Date: 20 Feb 90 16:14:11 GMT
From: mentor.cc.purdue.edu!g4r@ee.ecn.purdue.edu  (David Paschall-Zimbel)
Subject: .snd files?
Message-ID: <1990Feb20.161624.16313@umn-cs.cs.umn.edu>
 
In article <7648@mentor.cc.purdue.edu>, g4r@mentor.cc.purdue.edu (Alex Lifeson)
 writes...
>   Can anyone tell me where I can ftp some .snd files?
 
There are quite a large number of sound files available in the Macintosh
archives.  You'd need a Macintosh with BINHEX and, probably, UNSIT to convert
them to binary form.  I did this with several of the files using a program which
appeared in STart a while back.
 
The Macintosh archives are on sumex-aim.stanford.edu [36.44.0.6]
 
-- David Paschall-Zimbel
 
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Date: Thu, 22 Feb 90 14:52:25 MEZ
From: UNM409%DBNRHRZ1.BITNET@CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU
Subject: Discontinuation of Info-Atari16 digests
 
Hello,
 
In Info-Atari16 Digest #234,
zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!math.lsa.umich.edu!dyer@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu
(Jon Brode) writes:
>Y'know, back in August when it was announced that info-atari16 would be
>discontinued because score was being retired, both Howard Chu and I sent
>messages to Ravi volunteering to take over the list. Neither of us ever
>received a reply...
 
I wouldn't blame Ravi for this.  Many reasons could be found to explain the
loss of your messages.  I have dared to use this group to reach people I could
not mail directly, maybe you should have, too.
 
>Well, if its not too much trouble for the person who is currently running
>it to contact me, I think we may still be able to set it up on terminator.
 
That would be VERY nice.  Maybe something good comes from my flame after all.
 
>Jon Brode  --  dyer@math.lsa.umich.edu               Boycott Apple!
                                                      ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~   I will.
 
Also, naucse!tar@arizona.edu  (Tim Roeder) says:
 
>     I agree that some of the 'discussions' are not very worthwhile,
>though I would think that the one related to the 'PHANTOM TYPIST' isn't
>too out of line.  It may help to find out the culprit and get it fixed.
 
I didn't mean to pick on those who took part in that discussion.  It just so
happened to be the one I was second-least interested in.  Sorry.
 
>(I said)
>> Or am I missing something??  Flame away.
>
>     You may indeed be missing something <no flame intended>.  I've been
>quietly bothering my System Administrator to finish our Internet link so
>that our site can be the host for INFO-ATARI16.  Ravi (et al) have been
>informed of my efforts, and have expressed hope that within a few weeks
>the move can be accomplished.
>
>     I apologize to Ravi, etc. if my response to this is somewhat
>premature.  I hadn't said anything about this before because I thought
>it would be imprudent to raise everyone's hopes while everything was
>still a bit 'iffy'.  However, I felt the need to respond to Volker's
>post.  My apologies to anyone who might be offended.
 
Thanks for responding.  So it seems that there are several possible options
for digest takeover ... this makes me feel better.
 
   Finally, a word of thanks to those who sent me personal mail. Not one flame,
all 6 messages agreed with me (Russ Evans suggested I should mention this :-).
Also, thanks for your msg to John R. Dunning, and I hope you feel a little less
discouraged now.
 
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Bitnet:  VBRANDT@DBNUAMA1 (will go away some day ...)  Volker A. Brandt
          UNM409@DBNRHRZ1 (alternative)                Angewandte Mathematik
UUCP:    ...!unido!DBNUAMA1.bitnet!vbrandt             (Bonn, West Germany)
ARPAnet: VBRANDT%DBNUAMA1.BITNET@CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU
 
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Date: 21 Feb 90 20:12:54 GMT
From: imagen!atari!portal!portal!cup.portal.com!Xorg@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU  (Peter
 Ted Szymonik)
Subject: dSuperCharger
Message-ID: <27192@cup.portal.com>
 
I have a SuperCharger and have absolutely nothing but good things to say
about it!  Its simple, easy to use, and I have yet to find anything that
doesn't run on it!  I did a full review of the unit in the last ST-Report
nr. 407.  SuperCharger promises to blow PC_Ditto II and PC-Speed clear out
of the water.
 
Peter Szymonik
xorg@cup.portal.com
 
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Date: 22 Feb 90 03:15:40 GMT
From: xanth!cs.odu.edu!src@g.ms.uky.edu  (Scott R. Chilcote)
Subject: Mouse Improvement
Message-ID: <11517@xanth.cs.odu.edu>
 
It would be neat to have a simple utility for the AUTO folder which makes
the right mouse-button on the ST function as a double-click.  If it followed
the rules it would be transparent to applications, except for those (such as
Interlink) which use the right mouse-button for other purposes.  Of course,
it should be possible to disable it with a key-combination...
 
Has anyone seen a program that does this?  If not I could attempt to write
it, with a few clues.  Advice, anybody?
 
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                                                   Scott R. Chilcote
                                                      src@cs.odu.edu
 
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Date: Thu, 22 Feb 90 11:46:08 GMT
From: n-waters%NIMR.MRC.AC.UK@Forsythe.Stanford.EDU (Nick Waterson)
Subject: Printer routines.
Message-ID: <9002221146.AA15969@nimsn41.>
 
        I have been toying with writing a printer routine to print pictures
hopefuly better in quality than a screen dump. However I have looked at the
magazines available to me (and Books), and found very little information.
Currently I am working from Basic, and can load fonts and print them easy
enough. But when it comes to scaling an image and printing the dots Im lost.
        Is this a real non-starter? Any help, suggestions and info would be
gratefully recieved.
 
                                Many thanks,
                                        Nick.
 
 
PS. I hope that this list does not 'pop its cloggs'. It is a very useful
    forum for the exchange of views, information etc vital for a healthy
    ST user base. Thanks to those who run it now and to those in the future.
 
 
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Date: Thu, 22 Feb 90 11:43:30 MEZ
From: ONM07%DMSWWU1A.BITNET@CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU (Julian Reschke)
Subject: Sozobon C
Message-ID: <9002221043.AA00452@freya.math.dmswwu>
 
In article <3740@uafhp.uark.edu> David Ewing writes:
>       Does anyone out there have any source code that would allow Sozobon C to
> use the A-Line functions and AES?  I've gotten version 1.2, but it seems to be
> lacking in a few areas, like support for all the nice graphics of the ST.  If
> anyone has any source, please E-mail me...thanks.
Please stop using Line-A-functions NOW. All programs using Line-A won't
and CAN't run properly on Mega-St-Color-cards (8-Bit == 256 Colors!!!) or
on the TT.
 
___________________________ cut here _____________________________________
Julian F. Reschke, Hensenstr. 142, D-4400 Muenster, Phone: ++49 251 861241
eMail: ONM07@DMSWWU1A.BITNET, "Julian Reschke" @ MAUS MS  (++49 251 80386)
____________________ correct me if I'm wrong _____________________________
 
 
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Date: 21 Feb 90 20:08:31 GMT
From: imagen!atari!portal!portal!cup.portal.com!Xorg@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU  (Peter
 Ted Szymonik)
Subject: Still more STuff for sale - Epson printer
Message-ID: <27191@cup.portal.com>
 
THIS GUY IS GOING TOTALLY CRAZY!!!
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Response to my "spring cleaning" has been pretty great so far,
my ICD drive now appears to have a new home (its all over except
for the arrival of the check) and my ToadFile 44 is now on order!
 
[Jeesz, these drives must be selling like hotcakes!!  When I called
 Toad was waiting on shipments of mechs, cartridges, and 3.5 inch
 floppy drives!]
 
But I'm not done yet!!!
 
Even more STuff For Sale:
-------------------------
 
No, I haven't mastered it yet, but last weekend I took the big
plunge and bought myself a new Atari Postscript laser printer!
(thanks to Rory Freeman's great sale prices at Computers Etc. in
Fairfield, CT)  So that means the dot-matrix is next on the
chopping block.  Yes, yes, I know - I should keep the dot-matrix
anyway, but right now I need the $$$ more than I need the dot-
matrix.  So out it goes!!
 
Epson LQ-850 24-pin dot-matrix printer.    $400
 
     This printer has become the standard by which other printers
are judged.  The print is clean and crisp and its *fast*.  Draft
quality print hums at 288cps and letter quality at 88cps.  The
letter quality is truly practically indistinquishable from
typewritten text too!  Its also very quiet.
 
     I bought the printer a little over a year ago and used it one
semester primarily for one major research paper (and a few other
papers) I had to finish before they finally agreed to give me my
college degree after six years of late nights.  Other than that I
use it about an half an hour a week to print out Diplomacy game
orders (I run Diplomacy games in the Games RT) and thats it.
 
     The printer is like new and has been very well taken care of,
with the printer I will include all the extra unopened ribbons I
have lying around (I think I have 3-4, and they cost about $5-7 a
pop.)
 
Send E-mail to:
 
GEnie:  XORG or DIPLOMACY-1
CIS:    72637,2272
UseNet: xorg@cup.portal.com
 
 
 
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Date: 22 Feb 90 01:50:52 GMT
From: kd4nc!rbdc!mccann@gatech.edu  (Mike McCann)
Subject: Wanted: 520st.. please send me mail...
Message-ID: <1990Feb22.015052.6801@rbdc>
 
rob@image.soe.clarkson.edu (Rob Logan) writes:
 
>I need a st anything to run a RC flight sym... sooner the better.
 
Call a friend of mine, Joe, at 703-728-9720. He is handling the sale of a 520
 with ss drive for a friend.
 
Mike
 
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