 
INFO-ATARI16 Digest         Mon, 15 Jan 90       Volume 90 : Issue   44
 
Today's Topics:
                    Atari Lynx deserves to do well
                Font editor for 24-pin printers needed
                      How to read the joystick ?
                     Laser C vs. Prospero vs. ???
                    Loneliness in the Atari World?
                  PC Ditto II availability (again)?
                  SM124->MultiSync Board from IKS...
                                timer
                    WANTED: LONG. & LATITUDE DATA
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Date: 14 Jan 90 21:46:35 GMT
From: mcsun!sunic!tut!hydra!hylka!jalkio@uunet.uu.net
Subject: Atari Lynx deserves to do well
Message-ID: <1739.25b0f33b@cc.helsinki.fi>
 
In article <604@watserv1.waterloo.edu>, mgardi@watserv1.waterloo.edu (Mutual
 Life) writes:
>
> This is not to put the Gameboy down -- at $90 U.S. it is also a very
> good buy and I enjoy both Super MarioLand and Castlevania a lot --
> but let's face it, it is not even in the same class as the Lynx.
>
> There is talk of a portable sega-genesis on the drawing board, and
> I'm sure others will follow -- but for now Atari has the field to
> itself.  I hope that it makes the most of it.
 
I have read about the Gameboy II, which will have colour graphics.
 
>
> David Rowley
> mgardi@watserv1.waterloo.edu
 
                                Jouni Alkio
 
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Date: Mon, 15 Jan 90 01:20:00 SET
From: VBRANDT%DBNUAMA1.BITNET@CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU
Subject: Font editor for 24-pin printers needed
 
Hello all,
 
   I need to design a font for 24-pin matrix printer (the NEC P6, but I think
the fonts are the same on any generic Epson-compatible 24 pin printer).
 
   I have a PD font editor, but am nowhere near satisfied with the program.
I would have sent in the shareware fee for the sources, but the program was
written in Basic which I hate.
 
   Does anyone know of a good font editor for 24-pin printers in the public
domain, that takes into account such things as the "No-needle-may-fire-twice"
problem etc., or source to a font editor that could be adapted without too much
work?
 
   All sources in a serious language, such as C, Pascal, or APL, will be con-
sidered.  If I adapt and/or modify the program, the result will be placed in
the PD as well.
 
   Thanks for any and all info.
 
PS: As a last resort, I'll take a PC program as well!  :-)
 
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Date: 15 Jan 90 12:20:37 GMT
From:
 snorkelwacker!usc!brutus.cs.uiuc.edu!samsung!munnari.oz.au!rgg@BLOOM-BEACON.MIT
 .EDU  (Rupert Graham Goldie)
Subject: How to read the joystick ?
Message-ID: <3006@munnari.oz.au>
 
I have been using code similar to the following to read the joystick, but I
want to know whether this is a 'legal' method. I know it works on TOS 1.0 and
1.4 (Yes you can get TOS 1.4 in Oz now 8-) but I haven't tested it on other
versions of TOS and I would like to be able to sure it will work with future
versions.
 
Here is the code:
 
-------
#include <osbind.h>
 
main()
?       int     i;
        int     *loc;
        long    *ssp;
 
        loc = 0xfffc02;
 
        ssp = Super(0);
        for (i = 0; i < 500; i++)
                printf("%d    %d\n ", Bconin(4), *loc);
 
        printf("turning off mouse.\n");
        Bconout(4, 0x12);
 
        printf("turning joystick on.\n");
        Bconout(4, 0x14);
 
        for (i = 0; i < 500; i++)
                printf("%d    %d    %x\n ", Bconin(4), *loc, *loc);
 
        printf("Turning mouse on.\n");
        Bconout(4, 0x08);
        Super(ssp);
?
-------
 
By the way the Bconin doesn't seem to provide anything useful, just a constant
value.
 Thanks in advance for any help,
 
        Rupert G. Goldie
 
rgg@munmurra.cs.mu.OZ.AU
uunet!munnari.mu.oz!munmurra!rgg
 
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Date: 15 Jan 90 03:25:19 GMT
From: sdcc6!sdcc13!pa2027@ucsd.edu  (Stupendous Man)
Subject: Laser C vs. Prospero vs. ???
Message-ID: <6103@sdcc6.ucsd.edu>
 
Hey, I need to buy a decent compiler for the ST... How does Laser C
rate vs. Prospero C?  I know megamax has been around longer and so I
tend to trust their compiler a tad more, but then I saw an add
stating that Prospero was ANSI... is Laser? How about bugs in both
compilers?  Anything major? (Mark Williams is full of bugs).
 
If anyone has ANY experience with either Laser or Prospero, please
e-mail me some info..   thanks in advance!
 
    -Brad
 
 
--
Michael Butler - "Water, water everywhere nor any drop to drink"-
S.T. Coleridge and Iron Maiden////   Brad McQuaid - When reality
obscures your dreams, mind becomes a graveyard of memories, that
wander like the lonely breeze... -Fates Warning, No Exit
 
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Date: 13 Jan 90 21:58:01 GMT
From: van-bc!rsoft!mindlink!a23@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU  (Joel Murray)
Subject: Loneliness in the Atari World?
Message-ID: <932@mindlink.UUCP>
 
> scott writes:
>
> Msg-ID: <1216@jpusa1.UUCP>
> Posted: 14 Jan 90 16:02:25 GMT
>
> Org.  : JPUSA - Chicago, IL
> Person: Scott Van Court
>
>
> --Well Atari miht know what Commadore found out.  The siz able ad blitz over
> theholidays cost them alot and was a flop.  I'm not sur
> e the answer is just
> large ads.  If it is it would take a long time and alot of money to be
> effective.
> Scott
>
> scott
 
 
How do you know that the "siz able ad blitz" [sic] was a flop?  From all
indications, it's too early to tell how well or how poorly Comm_o_dore did.
 
--
     //    ///         CIS: 73200,3117
   \X/oel ///urray  Usenet: a23@mindlink.UUCP
 
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Date: 14 Jan 90 22:05:58 GMT
From: rochester!rit!ultb!clf3678@rutgers.edu  (C.L. Freemesser)
Subject: PC Ditto II availability (again)?
Message-ID: <1921@ultb.isc.rit.edu>
 
In article <1254@electro.UUCP> carlo@electro.UUCP (Carlo Sgro) writes:
>
>Back in November I asked this and got minimal response.  So I ask again ...
>
>       Has *anyone* received PC-Ditto II yet?  If so, how long ago?
>
>Please E-mail and I'll summarize if there is interest.
>--
>
>Carlo Sgro                         Vote for your favorite .signature!
>watmath!watcgl!electro!carlo       Call 1-900-GOODONE ($2 on your phone bill).
 
Somebody on the BBS I run posted a message saying that it has shipped,
and he has his.  The first (few) batches will go to those who have
already sent in their coupons to get PCD II for $150.  Then I guess it
will be available to everybody else.
 
 
 
 
Chris Freemesser, Rochester Institute of Technology :BITNET:%clf3678@RITVAX
    |||        ____________                         :GEnie: C.FREEMESSER
    |||       /___    /          (and 8-bit too!)   :USENET: clf3678@rit.isc
   / | \   ______/   /                              :        .edu
Call the A.C.O.R.N BBS (716)436-3078, 300/1200 baud :<-or my BBS
 
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Date: 15 Jan 90 10:38:14 GMT
From:
 cs.utexas.edu!wuarchive!brutus.cs.uiuc.edu!ux1.cso.uiuc.edu!ux1.cso.uiuc.edu!ux
 a.cso.uiuc.edu!glk01126@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu
Subject: SM124->MultiSync Board from IKS...
Message-ID: <111500080@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu>
 
        A company in Germany called IKS has come out with a US$90 product
        that installs in your SM124.  I read a review in the January
        issue of 68000ST, and they seemed to think it was a solid product.
        It produces grey scale to emulate the low and med resolutions
        of the ST.  If anyone is interested in the address, or if any
        Germans out there have the product, I'd be interested to hear
        from you.  I will order one in late January and post my experience.
 
        Prices listed were DM129 for the board and chips
                           DM149 for the board assembled
                           DM259 (I think) to send in your monitor and
                                 have it installed...
 
        Gregory Mathias Lemperle-Kerr
        #include <whoneedslousydisclaimers...>
 
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Date: 13 Jan 90 04:35:04 GMT
From: m2c!wpi!jstorey@husc6.harvard.edu  (John R Storey)
Subject: timer
Message-ID: <6667@wpi.wpi.edu>
 
I'm writing a C program and have a small problem - I want to time how long
a call to the Random ( ) XBIOS function.  The problem is that I can't figure
out how to time it in increments smaller than 2 seconds.
 
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Date: 15 Jan 90 10:38:32 GMT
From:
 cs.utexas.edu!uwm.edu!ux1.cso.uiuc.edu!ux1.cso.uiuc.edu!uxa.cso.uiuc.edu!glk011
 26@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu
Subject: WANTED: LONG. & LATITUDE DATA
Message-ID: <111500081@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu>
 
        I am looking for data pertaining to the longitude and latitude of as
        many cities in the world as possible in order to write an
        astrological plotting program.  Does anyone know where I may
        find them or could someone possibly send them?
 
        Thanks in advance.
 
        G.M.L-K.
 
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