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INFO-ATARI16 Digest Mon, 16 Oct 89 Volume 89 : Issue 524
Today's Topics:
Event multi
PC-Ditto II/ PC-Speed
Problems with LASER C 2.1 (2 msgs)
Tex, LaTeX, gulam, etc.
TOS 1.4 Incompatibility List
TOS 1.4 problem
TOS 1.4 release
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Date: 15 Oct 89 22:37:39 GMT
From: mcsun!cernvax!chx400!poole@uunet.uu.net (Simon Poole)
Subject: Event multi
In article <1329@gmdzi.UUCP> kloppen@gmdzi.UUCP (Jelske Kloppenburg) writes:
>
>With graf_mkstate you can *sample* the state of the mouse buttons. But the
>question is, how to wait with event_multi on either mouse button. I did not
>solve the problem and I'm waiting too for contributions.
[Sigh! This one turns up often enough to be included on a list of
commonly asked questions, did anybody ever do something about this?]
Your best bet is to install your own vdi mouse button handler, save
the "incoming" button mask in a variable and replace the original value
(if I remember correctly it's in d0) with the value for the left button.
After you've done that jump to the original button handler, the whole
thing needs just a couple of assembler instructions, so it's really
trivial. In your event loop just wait for a left button event and then
sample the stored value for the button that was really pressed.
--
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Simon Poole
poole@verw.switch.ch/poole@chx400.switch.ch/mcvax!cernvax!chx400!poole
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Date: 14 Oct 89 09:32:39 GMT
From: peregrine!ccicpg!felix!dhw68k!etg@uunet.uu.net (Eric Bennett)
Subject: PC-Ditto II/ PC-Speed
In article <22923@cup.portal.com> Xorg@cup.portal.com (Peter Ted Szymonik)
writes:
>I haven't seen PC-Speed yet, niether have Dave Small or Jim Allen.
>Their comments were that it was Germany, it was supposed to be good,
>it does require soldering, and that they can't guarantee that it will
>work with Spectre GCR or the FAST Technologies 16mhz board (in fact
>I think Mr Allen said for sure that it wouldn't work with the accel board
>because of the soldering connection.)
>
>Peter Szymonik
>Xorg@cup.portal.com
As far as PC Speed vs. PC Ditto II I think PC Ditto II will be a better
product. PC Speed is only going to support CGA. They are working on 16 color
EGA for PC Ditto II-and you will get 16 color EGA out of your standard Atari
SC1224 monitor. The price for PC Ditto II is $299. I think the EGA option
(which, by the way, they say will be the only other addition to the PC Ditto
II board) will cost extra. The original PC Ditto II release will not have it.
Eric Bennett
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Date: 15 Oct 89 19:22:12 GMT
From: mcgill-vision!quiche!depeche@bloom-beacon.mit.edu (Sam Alan EZUST)
Subject: Problems with LASER C 2.1
Anyone else have this problem:
Whenever I use the "goto line" function or the "find" command from the
shell I loose the mouse pointer.. THat is, it's there but I can't see it.
I gotta run another GEM program which switches the pointer back on before
I can see what I am doing.
grrr. how frustrating. I can't wait to get PC-Speed so I can run f*cking
Turbo C. I sent a letter to Megamax. I will tell you how long they take to
reply to it...
--
S. Alan Ezust aka "Depeche Modem" depeche@calvin.cs.mcgill.ca
McGill University Computer Science Disclaimer: I claim everything!
Montreal, Quebec, Canada (je pense que.... ) je me souviens
"This kind of pornography is a matter of artistic creativity"
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Date: Mon, 16 Oct 1989 0:31:38 MET
From: LarsErikOsterud <larserio@ifi.uio.no>
Subject: Problems with LASER C 2.1
Why do you need PC-Speed to run Turbo-C ?
There is a Turbo-C compiler for Atari ST !!
Lars-Erik / ABK-BBS +47 2132659 / ____ ______ ________________________
Osterud / larserio@ifi.uio.no / /___ / The norwegian ST
__________/ ______________________/ ____/ / Klubben, user association
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Date: 16 Oct 89 01:58:07 GMT
From: tank!news@handies.ucar.edu (NetNews)
Subject: Tex, LaTeX, gulam, etc.
anonymous ftp from terminator.cc.umich.edu.
From: ron@tartarus.uchicago.edu (Ron McClamrock)
Path: tartarus.uchicago.edu!ron
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Ron McClamrock ron@tartarus.uchicago.edu
Department of Philosophy & Committee on the Conceptual Foundations of Science
University of Chicago 1050 E. 59th Street Chicago IL 60615
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Date: 15 Oct 89 21:23:19 GMT
From: mcsun!hp4nl!nikhefh!t19@uunet.uu.net (Geert J v Oldenborgh)
Subject: TOS 1.4 Incompatibility List
The compress.ttp which was posted in comp.binaries.atari.st does not work
either. Does anyone have a working copy? (saves a lot of time on 1200baud)
G.J. van Oldenborgh
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Date: 15 Oct 89 22:32:16 GMT
From: milton!blake!charlop@beaver.cs.washington.edu (Aaron Charlop)
Subject: TOS 1.4 problem
In article <1261@cacilj.UUCP> paul@cacilj.UUCP (Paul Close) writes:
>In article <22966@cup.portal.com> Bob_BobR_Retelle@cup.portal.com writes:
>>
>>You haven't been following the "grapevine documentation" for TOS 1.4, Aaron..
>>(what..? you expected docs for your $100...? get real)
>
>Well, who got out of bed on the wrong side this morning? :-)
>
>When I bought TOS 1.4 from my dealer I got a nice, four page document from
>Atari describing the new TOS procedures. Included was the new file selector
>("formerly called item selector"), the MOVE operation (hold the ctl key when
>you drag files), warm/cold resets from the keyboard (Ctl/Alt/del
>Ctl/Alt/Rshift/del, resp.), installing auto-booting gem applications, and a
>few other things I can't remember right now.
>
>Maybe you should be flaming your dealer instead?
>--
>Paul Close paul@cacilj.CTS.COM ...!?uunet, ucsd, crash?!cacilj!paul
>
> The Obi-wan Kenobi method: "Use the Source, Luke" -Jim Fulton
Well, my dealer didn't give me anything that descibed the new features. All
I got were my ROMs and a photocopy of the sheet showing what changes to make
to the Mega mother board to install the six chip set into a two chip system.
And that was just a schematic drawing.
Could someone PLEASE post a copy of the documentation for TOS 1.4 to the net
or mail me a copy and I'll post it.
Aaron the Alchemist
Charlop@uwachem.washington.edu
"Yes, I really am a honest-to-goodness alchemist" Me
Aaron Charlop
Nuclear Physics Lab, GL-10
University of Washington
Seattle, WA 98195
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Date: 16 Oct 89 01:11:05 GMT
From: moreno@umn-cs.cs.umn.edu (Andres Moreno)
Subject: TOS 1.4 release
I went to my local dealer (Computer Fitness in Little Canada, MN) to inquire
about updating my TOS roms. They told me that they could only get 4 sets of
roms that were for the desktop publishing systems. I insisted that I had seen
in the net people from *ATARI* telling us all to take a stroll to our neigh-
borhood dealer.
ATARI, what is going on? How long do I have to wait to be able to buy a ROM
set in a major metropolitan area (mpls/st. paul)? Will you buy my ST from me
so I can buy a computer that is supported by its manufacturer?
oops! I forgot to ask if I get my little ditto sheet about the O.S. with my
receipt for $100!
Andres "I'll never buy another Atari product" Moreno
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