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Today's Topics:
                             FTP sites ?
                       How to Fix a Dead ST???
                         Megamax C questions
           POOLFIX3.ARC - fix program for TOS 1.4, TOS 1.6
                             Supra Noise
                       Technical Documentation
           Where is AES entry point?!? (Please Help Me. :-)
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Date: Thu, 25 Jan 90 09:35:31 GMT
From: Michael Mueller <K298027%CZHRZU1A.BITNET@CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU>
Subject: FTP sites ?
 
Just two days ago, Joachim Vance gave a list of available anonymous ftp sites.
Most of these sites were situated in the US. What about Europe ?
 
P.S.: What does I.P. Address mean ? Are there interesting subdirecories at the
simtel20.army.mil milnet node ?
 
Please reply via EARN/BITNET: K298027@CZHRZU1A or in this conference.
 
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Date: 23 Jan 90 21:38:03 GMT
From: ucsdhub!hp-sdd!hplabsy!hpfcso!hpldola!hp-lsd!col!don@ucsd.edu  (Don
 Allison)
Subject: How to Fix a Dead ST???
Message-ID: <370005@col.hp.com>
 
How do you go about maintaining your Atari ST?  I managed to kill mine in the
process of upgrading the memory (it was flakey anyway, but it is really dead
now--when you turn it on, the color screen flashes a random color, the speaker
clicks with the power on, and that's it...no disk access, no bombs, nothing!)
I returned it to it's original 520 ST state, and it is still dead.  Using
a scope and the two drawings that came with the developer's package, I've
about decided that the MMU is bad, since it appears that it is not driving
the enables of the 373's and 244's on the data bus, but I'm not sure.  My
question is, how do others get theirs fixed if and when they break?  My
temporary solution was to get another one while I was working on this one,
but I need to get this one working again since I want to use the 4 Meg
upgrade kit I have (and I don't want to have TWO dead ST's on my hands!).
 
Our local dealer and "authorized service center" knows less about electronics
than I do, and I think his test fixture requires the system to at least boot
before it can diagnose anything--and besides, I heard on the radio this
morning that his shopping center is being gutted by fire right now and
everything there is a total loss.  Does Atari still have it's repair/exchange
program?  If so, does anyone know how to get in touch with someone there to
start the process?  If not, does anyone have any ideas on what might be wrong
or how I can get it fixed?  I'd hate to have to just toss it (although I
had one salesman tell me that the machines were good for about 3-4 years
before they died a permanent death, and this one is about that old).
 
Help!
 
Thanks,
Don Allison
don@col.hp.com
HP Colorado Springs Division
 
(Sorry to bother everyone, but I haven't had much luck lately playing phone
tag with Atari, and my last email message there disappeared into the ether--
besides, I'm hoping someone else had this problem already and found a fix
for it!  Email me and I will summarize if I learn anything useful.  Thanks
again!)
 
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Date: 25 Jan 90 10:00:08 GMT
From:
 zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!samsung!umich!wsu-cs!pandora.cs.wayne.edu!pbh@tut.cis
 .ohio-state.edu  (Patrick B. Haggood)
Subject: Megamax C questions
Message-ID: <1040@wsu-cs>
 
I am learning C programming in GEM, and would like to use the examples
in my MWC book, but I am hoping not to have to type all of them
in.  Does any one know if the examples in the MWC book are available
in electronic form anywhere (i.e. ftp, disks, etc)
 
Thanks!
 
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Date: 24 Jan 90 07:39:12 GMT
From: mcsun!unido!laura!klute%heike.informatik.uni-dortmund.de@uunet.uu.net
 (Rainer Klute)
Subject: POOLFIX3.ARC - fix program for TOS 1.4, TOS 1.6
Message-ID: <1914@laura.UUCP>
 
In article <1912@laura.UUCP> klute@heike.informatik.uni-dortmund.de (Rainer
 Klute) writes:
>If this a global problem could you please repost it, Allan? Or
>else, could someone please mail it to me?
 
Thanks to all who answered, I have it now.
 
>  Dipl.-Inform. Rainer Klute      klute@heike.informatik.uni-dortmund.de
>  Univ. Dortmund, IRB             klute@unido.uucp, klute@unido.bitnet
>  Postfach 500500         |)|/    ...uunet!mcvax!unido!klute
>D-4600 Dortmund 50        |\|\    Tel.: +49 231 755-4663
 
 
  Dipl.-Inform. Rainer Klute      klute@heike.informatik.uni-dortmund.de
  Univ. Dortmund, IRB             klute@unido.uucp, klute@unido.bitnet
  Postfach 500500         |)|/    ...uunet!mcvax!unido!klute
D-4600 Dortmund 50        |\|\    Tel.: +49 231 755-4663
 
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Date: 24 Jan 90 15:55:37 GMT
From: ucsdhub!hp-sdd!hplabsy!hpl-opus!hpnmdla!hpsad!randyh@ucsd.edu  (Randy
 Hosler)
Subject: Supra Noise
Message-ID: <750045@hpsad.HP.COM>
 
   I just got a used Supra 20meg drive.  My problem?  It's *VERY* loud.
 
   I remember seeing a fix or something posted a few months back.
 
   If anyone has that information could you please mail it to me or post it.
 
 
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   Thanks, Randy                              randyh@hpsadpk
                                    ...!hplabs!hpsad!hpsadpk!randyh
 
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Date: 25 Jan 90 08:21:28 GMT
From: mcsun!sunic!nuug!ifi!m2cs.uu.no!tomas@uunet.uu.net  (Tomas Felner)
Subject: Technical Documentation
Message-ID: <1990Jan25.082128.7504@m2cs.uu.no>
 
albert@bsovax.UUCP (Albert van der Horst) writes:
>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)
 
It's called "Scheibenkleister II, Massenspeicher am ST". It's almost 900
pages of solid information about floppies, hard disks and related
topics. Just the TOC is 16 pages, the index is 9 pages smallprint.
Here's a short overview of the contents:
 
  1. Basic information about mass storage, files, etc. (ca. 10 pages)
  2. Files under GEMDOS (ca. 45 pages)
  3. Structures on a floppy (ca. 35 pages)
  4. Floppyprogramming using BIOS and XBIOS (ca. 45 pages)
  5. FDC, DMA and the rest of the world (ca. 20 pages)
  6. Recording mechanisms (ca. 25 pages)
  7. The floppy controller (ca. 40 pages)
  8. & 9. Description of the software supplied with the disk (ca. 70 pages)
 10. Copy protection (ca. 25 pages)
 11. Floppy hardware (ca. 45 pages)
 12. Harddisks on the ST (ca. 25 pages)
 13. The harddisk controller (ca. 50 pages)
 14. Description of supplied HD software (ca. 70 pages)
 15. More details about harddisks (ca. 40 pages)
 16. Your own drivers in the BIOS (ca. 25 pages)
 17. Infos about CD-ROMs (ca. 60 pages)
 18. Finals (ca. 45 pages)
 
    and
 
 11 appendices summarizing everything in tables, schematics, etc (ca. 130 pages)
 
Apart from all the information, it is fun to read the book, since it is
written in a very humourous (is that the correct word ?) style.
 
The book has the ISBN number 3-927065-00-5 and can be obtained from
 
   MAXON Computer GmbH
   Industriestr. 26
   D-6236 Eschborn
   West Germany
   phone: I don't have it handy right now
 
Disclaimer: I am not affiliated with the authors or the editor, it's is
just my most favourite book about the ST, since I love to play around
with this stuff, especially harddisks.
 
Oh, and the price is around 60 German marks (as far as I remember).
 
--
                          Tomas Felner
     Modula-2 CASE Systems AS  |  Internet: tomas@m2cs.uu.no
            Maridalsveien 139  |  Phone: +47 2 379784
        N-0461 Oslo 4, Norway  |  FAX: +47 2 356448
 
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Date: 25 Jan 90 07:27:47 GMT
From: agate!saturn!ucscb.UCSC.EDU!rome@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU
Subject: Where is AES entry point?!? (Please Help Me. :-)
Message-ID: <10489@saturn.ucsc.edu>
 
Hello/Bonjour/Hola/Gutentag:
 
        I was up all last night trying to call a file selector using
assmebler code mixed with a C source file.
 
        I am trying to send the extended information to the AES file
selector function that is picked up and utilized by LGF's File Selector.
 
        In the documentation for the LGF FS, there is in-line assembler
code provided to type into a C program to get it to call the file selector.
 
        One of the instructions is "bsr  AES" ... Well, Laser C does
not seem to have any constant "AES" defined.
 
        Does anyone know the absolute memory entry point for the AES?
        Can anyone help?  We'll see.
 
                Thanks!!!!
                rome@ucscb.ucsc.EDU
 
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