 
INFO-ATARI16 Digest         Wed, 24 Jan 90       Volume 90 : Issue   92
 
Today's Topics:
                    Atari Lynx deserves to do well
                      Atari TT: Threat to IIcx?
                            Drive question
                      Facts, not only talking a
                   GNU-Emacs 18.55, binary patch #1
                              PCB-layout
                 poolfix2 - doesn't recognize my TOS
                      Technical Documentation (
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Date: 24 Jan 90 19:28:57 GMT
From: sdcc6!sdcc13!pa1323@ucsd.edu  (Some call me...Tim)
Subject: Atari Lynx deserves to do well
Message-ID: <6436@sdcc6.ucsd.edu>
 
In article <618@watserv1.waterloo.edu> econadm5@watserv1.waterloo.edu (BENTLEY
 BH - ECONOMICS) writes:
>In article <1739.25b0f33b@cc.helsinki.fi> jalkio@cc.helsinki.fi writes:
> I Have a suggestion for Atari to consider. Remember how Pepsi supports
> the Gameboy. How about Atari getting in contact with Coke marketing and
> Show the world that a better product also supports a better tasting
> beverage.
...
 
They already have a deal with HI-C.  There's a sweepstakes where the
first prize is an Atari Lynx, entry forms on HI-C boxed drinks.
 
Isn't HI-C a Coke company?
 
------------
Tim Mensch
tmensch@ucsd.edu
 
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Date: 24 Jan 90 11:57:00 GMT
From: mcsun!sunic!tut!ra!uwasa.fi!hv@uunet.uu.net  (Harri Valkama LAKE)
Subject: Atari TT: Threat to IIcx?
Message-ID: <1990Jan24.115700.7992@uwasa.fi>
 
In article <840@fozzy.UUCP> hendrick@fozzy.UUCP (Bill Hendricks) writes:
>As a loyal ST'er, I wanted to pass along the following:
>What follows is a quote from Macintosh News, January 15 1990,
>"The Mac's Factor" by Rick Doherty (page 13)...
>
>--- Begin quote ---
>
>ATARI TT: THREAT TO IIcx?
>
>       Still, Atari is not well known for successful
>U.S. distribution.  Indeed, while the TT labored
>through FCC testing in December, it was shipping
>in volume in Europe.  There, the machine is
>already a favorite of German industry and could
>impact Mac sales in a country that is already
>below other European companies in per capita
>Mac sales.  Stateside, Atari's lackluster distri-
 
Hey you Germans! Is it true that you have TT shipping
there? I don't believe that you have. But if yes that's
great. Could you please confirm this anyway so that we
here in Finland could put the pressure at our Atari
importer.
 
--
 
        ----------------Harri Valkama (hv@uwasa.fi)-------------
                        University of Vaasa, Finland
        anonymous ftp site (128.214.12.3) PC and Mac directories
 
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Date: 23 Jan 90 09:53:39 GMT
From: mcsun!ukc!dcl-cs!gdt!exspes@uunet.uu.net  (P E Smee)
Subject: Drive question
Message-ID: <1990Jan23.095339.6096@bath.ac.uk>
 
In article <1343@cybaswan.UUCP> csko@cybaswan.UUCP (y w ko) writes:
>>In article <1871@mrsvr.UUCP> krieg@jupiter.UUCP (Andrew Krieg) writes:
>>>I have had this weird quirk in my ST system ever since I got it (3 years ago)
>>>and I am wondering if it is normal.  I have a 520 ST, a single sided disk and
>>>a double sided disk.  The double sided disk is drive A and the single sided
>>>disk is drive B.  Whenever I access drive A, drive B spins also.  Should this
>
>It happens to me as well, but its the other way round. ie.
>               access B --> A spins,  access A --> B doesn't spin.
>
>Just wondering, is this phenomenon by any chance the result of the fact
>both drives are sharing the same power supply? or may be because they
>are (not properly) daisy-chained?
 
There is only one 'motor on' control line from the ST, which goes to
both the drives.  Many drives will turn the motor on on receipt of a
'motor on' signal, even if they are not currently selected.
(Previously, I would have said 'all drives', because I've never seen
one that didn't, but sounds like there must be some.)  The theory seems
to have to do with (a) allows a disk driver to spin the disk up before
selecting it, and (b) means that if you are copying from one disk to
the other, both can be left spinning which will be faster than having
to keep bringing one or the other back up to speed.
 
Sounds, though, like there is some manufacturer's mech which has its
internal logic set so that it will ignore 'motor on' unless the drive
is selected.
 
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Date: 24 Jan 90 18:11:53 GMT
From:
 cica!sol.ctr.columbia.edu!samsung!cs.utexas.edu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!utgpu!w
 atserv1!watdragon!tiger!swklassen@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu  (Steven W. Klassen)
Subject: Facts, not only talking a
Message-ID: <20124@watdragon.waterloo.edu>
 
In article <1990Jan24.000300.17229@gpu.utcs.utoronto.ca>
 barry@gpu.utcs.utoronto.ca (Barry Lay) writes:
 
>probably because they came from same place.  The concern I have with getting
>along without the developers toolkit is twofold, however.  Firstly, how do you
>know that you can trust the information in those generally available books to
>be correct and applicable to all releases of the TOS?  Secondly, how do you
>build resource files without the RCS?  I managed to create object trees in a
>program from the PROGEM notes, but that is a very time-consuming way to do it
>compared to the program in the toolkit.
 
1) Who to trust is a good question.  I haven't had any problems with
   the info given in the MWC manual, so far.  Virtually any good compiler
   (for whatever language) should include in its docs how to access
   Atari's systems calls (usually through 'special' functions provided
   with the compiler).
2) To build resource files you need a resource compiler.  I believe
   there is something like this included with MWC but I've never
   bothered to use it (most of my time is spent with various data
   structures and data bases; I haven't spent too much time working
   on the specific end-user details like icons, alertss and dialog
   boxes).  Some of the other C compilers may also include something
   like this (any comments from those that have used them?).
 
 
 
Steven W. Klassen                       +-----------------------------+
Computer Science Major                  | Support the poor...buy fur! |
University of Waterloo                  +-----------------------------+
 
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Date: 23 Jan 90 18:44:53 GMT
From: mcsun!unido!sbsvax!roeder@uunet.uu.net  (Edgar Roeder)
Subject: GNU-Emacs 18.55, binary patch #1
Message-ID: <2369@sbsvax.cs.uni-sb.de>
 
Oops! I forgot to patch two bytes in the relocation area. I hate those last
minute patches before the program is even out to the net. Here is the
correct(ed) patch:
 
--------------------- cut here ---------------------
 
#include <osbind.h>
 
main()
?
        int     fd;
        short   patch_area[16];
        char    ch;
 
        if((fd = Fopen("temacs",2)) < 0) return(1);
        Fseek(232092L, fd, 0);
        Fread(fd, 28, patch_area+1);
        if(patch_area[1] == 0x40E7) ?
                Cconws("Patch #1 already applied\r\n");
                goto patch_2;
        ?
        patch_area[0] = 0x40E7;
        patch_area[15] = 0x4E77;
        Fseek(-28L, fd, 1);
        Fwrite(fd, 32, patch_area);
        Cconws("Patch #1 applied\r\n");
 
patch_2:
        Fseek(380732L, fd, 0);
        Fread(fd, 1, &ch);
        if(ch != 0x08) ?
                Cconws("Patch #2 already applied\r\n");
                return(0);
        ?
        Fseek(-1L, fd, 1);
        ch = 0x0A;
        Fwrite(fd, 1, &ch);
        Fseek(+3L, fd, 1);
        ch = 0x10;
        Fwrite(fd, 1, &ch);
        Cconws("Patch #2 applied\r\n");
 
        Fclose(fd);
        return(0);
?
--
 
Mail:  Edgar R\"oder                    E-Mail: roeder@cs.uni-sb.de
       Liesbet-Dill-Stra\ss e 3
D-6602 Dudweiler                               -o-   -o-
       W-Germany                                   ~
Phone: 06897/74643                               '---'
 
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Date: 23 Jan 90 19:13:39 GMT
From: mcsun!sunic!tut!uta!vehka.uta.fi!jackin@uunet.uu.net  (Markku M?enp??)
Subject: PCB-layout
Message-ID: <816@kielo.uta.fi>
 
My friend needs a PCB-layouting program.
 
He has 520 ST (1 meg), mono mon, 48 meg HD.
He has access to various laserprinters (mac, PC).
 
Any good ones out there (auto-route is nice) ?
If I get enough answers I shall summarize.
 
Thanks in advance,
MM.
 
(email : jackin@vehka.uta.fi.uucp)
 
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Date: 24 Jan 90 14:15:23 GMT
From: att!dptg!lzsc!hcj@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU  (HC Johnson)
Subject: poolfix2 - doesn't recognize my TOS
Message-ID: <1235@lzsc.ATT.COM>
 
In article <1888@gmdzi.UUCP>, kloppen@gmdzi.UUCP (Jelske Kloppenburg) writes:
> The POOLFIX2.PRG writes to my Screen (you have to read very fast):
>
> This GEMDOS needs the pool patch, but
> this program doesn't recognize this TOS
>
> I have ROM TOS 1.4 from my local (german) ATARI dealer.
>
1. use poolfix3
2. put it in the auto folder as the FIRST one.
 
This works for me.
 
Howard C. Johnson
ATT Bell Labs
=====NEW address====
att!lzsc!hcj
hcj@lzsc.att.com
 
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Date: 23 Jan 90 23:04:09 GMT
From: mcsun!hp4nl!bsovax!albert@uunet.uu.net  (Albert van der Horst)
Subject: Technical Documentation (
Message-ID: <563@bsovax.UUCP>
 
>In article 8371 of comp.sys.atari.st:
>RON SHARP writes
>.A part time developer has a choise:  develop on a machine which has all
>the information available for $30 at any computer book store, or $300
>for a stack of photocopies from Atari.
 
Is the situation that bad on the other side?
We buy for example
"Das Grosse ATARI ST Profibuch" (editor SYBEX)
It will set you back more than $30 (90 mark or so) but it means
800 pages of solid information. (Ever heard of the "Deutsche
gruendlichkeit"). Not the way it should be or was meant, but how it
_is_, tested by German hackers. Unbelievable what they cram on just
_one_ page.
The Dutch translation costs f100,- (dutch guilders). Has this 14M
country more Atari's than the english speaking world? I would think not.
I do not know the ISBN number of the German version, but here
is the ISBN number of the dutch version:
     Jankowski, Reschke and Rabich
     Het complete ATARI ST boek
     ISBN 90-5160-152-2
If you do not want to learn Dutch or German, you may push for
a translation....
 
There is also a new book that is only about mass storage on the Atari,
I wonder whether the people at Atari would get the information
together in this form, if they tried. (Do not have the title etc.
at hand now)
 
Disclaimer : I am not affiliated with the autors or the editor,
just that one of my friends is mad about this book, that is (I admit)
even better than the 3 or 4 books about the ST I have.
 
                 Albert van der Horst
USENET : uunet!mcsun!hp4nl!bsovax!albert
SNAIL MAIL : BSO/AT,  P.O. 8052 RB,    3503 RB  UTRECHT, The Netherlands
 
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