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INFO-ATARI16 Digest         Mon,  8 Jan 90       Volume 90 : Issue   19
 
Today's Topics:
                      Amiga Software by Atari!!
                            Archive-server
               Malloc on 2.5 Meg 1040stf - help needed
                             PC Emulators
                           rainbow tos roms
                            STacey wanted
                      Terminal program (2 msgs)
                    TOS 1.4 and hard drive booting
                            Window topped?
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Date: 7 Jan 90 05:10:31 GMT
From: ndsuvm1!mtus5!splite@cunyvm.cuny.edu  (Steve Plite)
Subject: Amiga Software by Atari!!
Message-ID: <90007.001031SPLITE@MTUS5.BITNET>
 
In article <25A69DED.29057@paris.ics.uci.edu>, jvance@ics.uci.edu (Joachim
Patrick Vance) says:
>  Developing software ports for other computers seems like a pretty cheap
>way of getting some extra profit to spend on supporting their current line
>and developing new products (if that's how they use the money).
>  If they can make some quick cash from it, maybe we'll even see the TT
>sooner. (Long shot, I know.)
>
  Yeah, that would be great; but I'm beginning to wonder what, short of divine
intervention, would give us the TT anytime soon...  :-)
  Unfortunately, given Atari's past methods, it seems to me that their "soft-
ware arm" would be spun off from the main company to make its own money.  Any
profits would probably stay inside that division, rather than being used for
ST/TT development.  I'm not a business expert, and don't know the straight
poop about Atari's organization, so I could be dead wrong.  That's just
how it looks to this layman.  Would anyone in the know care to comment?
  Hopefully we won't be seeing any Atari U.K.-type flames about the New Atari-
soft...  (??:
 
Steve Plite <splite@mtus5.bitnet>   I disclaim that I have any opinions.
 
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Date: 7 Jan 90 18:35:18 GMT
From:
 cs.utexas.edu!sun-barr!newstop!grapevine!koreth%panarthea.ebay.sun.com@tut.cis.
 ohio-state.edu  (Steven Grimm)
Subject: Archive-server
Message-ID: <35068@grapevine.uucp>
 
In article <1990Jan5.174330.6751@cs.dal.ca> bill@biomel.UUCP writes:
>I noticed that the address has changed to archive-server@panarthea.sun.com
>(no more .ebay.), although I haven't seen a posting to that effect.
 
Are you sure?  I just tried sending test messages from two different sites,
and panarthea.ebay.sun.com worked in both instances.  An alternate address
for the server is archive_serv1@ebay.sun.com (I didn't set that up -- the
local mail people just want to have addresses for everything on the mail
gateway machine.)
 
>I have a baffling problem with it -- I can get it to send help and
>indices, but it never sends the binaries I request.  I've tried to keep
>the size of the requests small.  Any ideas?
 
Are you sure your requests are in the proper form?  A very common mistake
is to say
 
send binaries/volume1/foobar
 
instead of
 
send binaries/volume1 foobar
 
The archive server chokes on the first form.  The form of requests is
"send directoryname file [file file file ...]."
 
---
"                                                  !" - Marcel Marceau
Steven Grimm            Moderator, comp.?sources,binaries?.atari.st
koreth@ebay.sun.com     ...!sun!ebay!koreth
 
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Date: 8 Jan 90 14:46:16 GMT
From: mcsun!unido!quando!hintz@uunet.uu.net  (Stefan Hintz)
Subject: Malloc on 2.5 Meg 1040stf - help needed
Message-ID: <1291@quando.UUCP>
 
In article <1055@dutrun.UUCP> hans@duttnph.UUCP (Hans Buurman) writes:
 
>I recently upgraded my 1040 stf to 2.5 Mb using a kit by Weide
>(although this is not a hardware problem). I found that one of
>the programs I use intensively (turbo c linker) won't make full
>use of the extra memory. The reason is the following:
 
>This linker uses gemdos call 0x48 (Malloc) at least twice for
>each file read. It appears that this call can only be issued
>some 300 times, after which it fails, regardless of the amount
>of free memory. This problem does not occur on a Mega ST !
>Maybe it is only present in early gemdos versions ? (I bought
>the 1040stf in March, 1987).
 
(stuff deleted)
 
 
--
 
 
I had this Malloc-Problem too, even with a Mega ST2 .
The solution was to put a FOLDR300.PRG into the AUTO-folder.
 
 
 
I hope this will help you.
 
        Stefan Hintz, Dortmund, WestGermany.
 
        hintz@quando.unido.UUCP (Stefan Hintz)
 
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Date: 8 Jan 90 17:32:47 GMT
From: voder!wlbr!wlv.imsd.contel.com!amc@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU  (Allen M. Cohen)
Subject: PC Emulators
Message-ID: <43676@wlbr.IMSD.CONTEL.COM>
 
What's the best PC Emulator for ATARI ST in the 3-4 hundred dollar
price range?
 
How do the following compare?
1) PC DITTO II
2) PC SPEED
3) SUPERCHARGER
 
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Date: 7 Jan 90 19:43:23 GMT
From:
 cs.utexas.edu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!utgpu!watserv1!econadm5@tut.cis.ohio-stat
 e.edu  (BENTLEY BH - ECONOMICS)
Subject: rainbow tos roms
Message-ID: <528@watserv1.waterloo.edu>
 
 Sure you can get Tos 1.4 Direct from Atari Canada for 100 Canadian. Thats
 better than 180. Call 1-416-479-1419.(Service Department) in Markham
 Ontario. I got mine via Mail and installed them myself! They even include
 instructions for two chip Mega Rom Versions. Anyways put it on Visa and
 order direct may be even cheaper in the west to go through Atari California
 
 Dave Tomesch , Super BBS Dual Dma , (519) 749-1206 24hrs
 
 
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Date: 7 Jan 90 16:34:06 GMT
From: haven.umd.edu!cwilliam@mimsy.umd.edu  (Christopher 'Merlin' Williamson)
Subject: STacey wanted
Message-ID: <CWILLIAM.90Jan7113406@brillig.umd.edu>
 
I am looking to purchase a STacey and have a CDC Wren 330MB 12ms SCSI
hard drive available in trade along with some cash if anyone is
interested...
 
Chris
 
 /\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\
     What I have said above may or may not be fact, you be the judge...
 
  Christopher Williamson | cwilliam@brillig.umd.edu | Arpa/InterNet
  Human-Computer Int Lab | cwilliam@UMDD            | BitNet
  Univ. of Maryland      |...!uunet!brillig!cwilliam| UUCP
  College Pk, MD 20740   | (301) 454 - 1517         | If all else fails
 
    " Horses are born trying to kill themselves.
          The best we can do is make it difficult for them... "
 
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Date: 7 Jan 90 17:37:52 GMT
From: clyde.concordia.ca!mcgill-vision!quiche!calvin!depeche@uunet.uu.net  (Sam
 Alan EZUST)
Subject: Terminal program
Message-ID: <1928@calvin.cs.mcgill.ca>
 
In article <2816@cat.UUCP> ad@cat.UUCP (Axel Dunkel) writes:
>
>Can anyone give me a hint to a nice (preferable PD) terminal program? It
>should be able to handle Z-Modem downloads, emulate at least ANSI or vt100
>terminals, and if it had a script language, I would not mind :-)
>
St-term satisfies all of the above requirements with the exception of
being a script language. Perhaps I should learn how to submit something
to an archive server....
 
but I did it before, and I suppose I can do it again... if you want it,
mail me, and I will mail it to you.
 
--
S. Alan Ezust                                   depeche@calvin.cs.mcgill.ca
McGill University Department of Computer Science - Montreal, Quebec, Canada
 
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Date: 7 Jan 90 14:43:07 GMT
From: cs.dal.ca!silvert@uunet.uu.net  (Bill Silvert)
Subject: Terminal program
Message-ID: <1990Jan7.144307.26770@cs.dal.ca>
 
In article <21634@uflorida.cis.ufl.EDU> cr1@beach.cis.ufl.edu (Chris Roth)
 writes:
>In article <2816@cat.UUCP> ad@cat.UUCP (Axel Dunkel) writes:
>>Can anyone give me a hint to a nice (preferable PD) terminal program? It
>>should be able to handle Z-Modem downloads, emulate at least ANSI or vt100
>>terminals, and if it had a script language, I would not mind :-)
>I use Uniterm 2.0e  quite a bit.  It has very good vt200 emulation, as well
>as others.  It has kermit, xmodem, and ymodem downloading.  I haven't
>been able to find a terminal program that has zmodem for the ST, but
>there is a pretty good zmodem shell out there. Both Uniterm and Zmodem
>1.8 are PD, so that fits your bill.
 
The program ZMDM (now in version 1.6) by Bammi and coworkers at Case WRU
supports Y and Zmodem.  Although I have UniTerm and think that it is a
great program, because of its size and complexity I use it only when I
need the graphics support.  The new version of ZMDM has the feature that
you can install it as an application and run it by just clicking on a
small file containing a phone directory.  I have been using ZMDM for
years and find it virtually bulletproof (I had to make a minor hack to
get it to support pulse dialing, but that is my only problem).  It is
not a GEM application, so you can run it from a shell too.
 
 
--
Bill Silvert, Habitat Ecology Division.
Bedford Institute of Oceanography, Dartmouth, NS, Canada B2Y 4A2
UUCP: ...!?uunet,watmath?!dalcs!biomel!bill
Internet: bill%biomel@cs.dal.CA         BITNET: bill%biomel%dalcs@dalac
 
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Date: 7 Jan 90 13:21:56 GMT
From: rochester!kodak!nelson@pt.cs.cmu.edu  (Bruce Nelson)
Subject: TOS 1.4 and hard drive booting
Message-ID: <2253@kodak.UUCP>
 
In article <900106.22071062.039461@SFA.CP6> Z4648252@SFAUSTIN.BITNET (Z4648252)
 writes:
>Bruce Nelson writes:
>
>>I finally got through to Supra's Tech Support. ....
Larry Rymal writes:
>    I could be wrong, but I think (??).... that Supra is wrong.
>    I have TOS 1.4 in a Mega2 that was upgraded to 4 meg of memory.  By
>allowing the light on the floppy drive to flick on|off then pressing
>the <CNL><ALT><LEFT-SHIFT> key, then I can boot off of my floppy.
>
>Larry Rymal:  |East Texas Atari 68NNNers| <Z4648252@SFAUSTIN.BITNET>
 
Supra's procedure (which I won't repeat here) worked, but, as several
other netters also pointed out, your procedure is the correct one.
 
Thanks, everyone, for your responses.
 
Bruce Nelson
 
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Date: 7 Jan 90 12:10:32 GMT
From:
 zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!samsung!munnari.oz.au!murtoa.cs.mu.oz.au!ditmela!diem
 en!tasis!jmw@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu  (John Williams)
Subject: Window topped?
Message-ID: <1243@diemen.cc.utas.oz>
 
Can anyone tell me what is the difference between the two above-metioned
AES event messages? MWC defines WM_TOPPED as 21 and WM_NEWTOP as 29. The
only documentation which I've seen make any mention of WM_NEWTOP is Abacus'
"GEM Programmer's Reference" and it is none too clear on the subject.
 
Thanx in advanx,
 
John M Williams
ACSnet: jmw@tasis.utas.oz       ARPA:   jmw%tasis.utas.oz@uunet.uu.net
UUCP:   ?enea,hplabs,mcvax,uunet,ukc?!munnari!tasis.utas.oz!jmw
 
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