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INFO-ATARI16 Digest Sat, 3 Feb 90 Volume 90 : Issue 150

Today's Topics:
Cross-compiler
FORMDIAL.PRG
ICD OMTI RLL
Resettable RAM Disk
STE? Where? Here! (was: Re: Atari's Quarterly Results ($5.4 Million Lost) :)
ST Format, TOS 1.4 moans directed at Atari UK (was: HAPPY NEW YEAR, ALL!)
TeX Metafont distributions
TOS io redirection bugs
What's so good about an STE?
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Date: 2 Feb 90 13:25:17 GMT
From: hp-ses!hpbbn!hpgnd!alex@hplabs.hp.com (Alexis MERMET-GRANDFILLES)
Subject: Cross-compiler
Message-ID: <4280009@hpgnd.HP.COM>

Hi

Is there any Cross-compiler from UNIX to ST in the world ?

It could be nice to have such a compiler , for exemple to use with
a C++ pre-processor .

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Date: 3 Feb 90 07:11:10 GMT
From: obryan@gumby.wisc.edu (Mark O'Bryan)
Subject: FORMDIAL.PRG
Message-ID: <1990Feb3.071110.13656@gumby.cc.wmich.edu>

In article <20359@watdragon.waterloo.edu> swklassen@tiger.waterloo.edu (Steven
W. Klassen) writes:
>
> I found that FORMDIAL did indeed increase the speed that dialog boxes were
> drawn at. (A performance benchmark program told me this.) I also

Nope, not actually the dialog box draws. They're done at the same speed as
usual. It's the *redraws* when the dialog boxes are closed that get sped
up. By a lot.

I scratched my head over this a while myself, since QuickIndex indicated
that dialogs were running almost TWICE as fast. I watched REAL close, but
couldn't see any difference at all in how fast they were drawn. Then I
noticed how fast they were closed. Bingo. See my previous posting for
other comments.

--
Mark T. O'Bryan Internet: obryan@gumby.cc.wmich.edu
Western Michigan University
Kalamazoo, MI 49008

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Date: Sat, 03 Feb 90 14:02:00 CET
From: HAHN_K%DMRHRZ11.BITNET@CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU
Subject: ICD OMTI RLL

URGENT:
a friend of mine just bought an ICD OMTI 3527A RLL controller (plus
Atari-Interface of course) in order to use his NEC 42MB harddisk (ST 520
upgraded to 1MB with '85 TOS). The software allowed him to supply the
parameters requested; heads, cylinders, and all that. It finally requests
and accepts the bad sector list, then the FLOPPY drive works a few
seconds, and the message: 'ERROR 26' appeares.
No chance to find the error mentioned in ICD's 'manual'... :-((
So here we go: what's the meaning of this error# ? What else could
probably be going wrong ? Any hints 'bout the configuration ? Any pointers ?
Help is URGENTLY needed (my friend bought a gun yesterday...)

C'mon!
Klaus.

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Date: 2 Feb 90 09:47:18 GMT
From: hp-ses!hpbbn!hpbbi4!stefan@hplabs.hp.com (#Stefan Bachert)
Subject: Resettable RAM Disk
Message-ID: <510001@hpbbi4.HP.COM>

I use a resetable RamDisk called FLEXDISK. I use
it for development purposes and it survived most crashes.
You could changes the size of this RamDisk via an accessory without
an extra reset. Its a valueable tool to me.

It costs about 70DM ($40-$50). The distributor is

Application Systems
6900 Heidelberg
Germay

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Date: 2 Feb 90 14:13:25 GMT
From: ubc-cs!alberta!myrias!dragos!wally@beaver.cs.washington.edu (Wallace
Harshaw)
Subject: STE? Where? Here! (was: Re: Atari's Quarterly Results ($5.4 Million
Lost) :)
Message-ID: <1990Feb2.141325.17162@dragos.uucp>

References: <1990Jan7.084927.19588@csusac.csus.edu>
<720.25ada423@miavx1.acs.muohio.edu> <483f7298.14a1f@force.UUCP>
<1098@dutrun.UUCP>

Sender:
Reply-To: wally@dragos.UUCP (The Walrus)
Followup-To:
Distribution:
Organization: Orbital Mind Control Lasers, Inc.
Keywords: STE TOS 1.6 Mythos in the Machine.

In article <1098@dutrun.UUCP> etelree@dutrun.UUCP (C.van Reeuwijk) writes:
>In article <483f7298.14a1f@force.UUCP> covertr@force.UUCP (Richard E. Covert)
writes:
>>What new systems?? The Mythical 1040STe?
>Believe it or not, but this message was typed using a 1040STe!! At least
>in Holland, they are not at all mythical, but widely available for
>a price only f 300.= (about $150.=) above the normal 1040STf price.
>
>Kees van Reeuwijk

They certainly aren`t mythical here in the Great White North. My favorite
Ataridealer has had 1040 STE`s in stock for over a month now.

At least, I`ve never seen an ST with stero outputs, extra DB9 ports
everywhere,and SIMMs on the motherboard... :)

To be fair, the first ones they received came with the regular 1040STf manual,
and the control.acc did not access the extra colours available. Just a short
addendum sheet telling us that more info would be forthcoming, and what
"All them thar extry holes iz far"...

So I suppose the moral of the story is: Thumb your nose at the FCC, and take
a drive accross the border to Friendly Free Trade Canada, and buy `em now.
<How far North? Uhm, Edmonton, Alberta... >

--
O o Wallace Harshaw
( ) somewhere around here...
"] [" <you don't have to understand it, just look at it...>

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Date: 2 Feb 90 12:16:07 GMT
From: otter!gjh@hplabs.hp.com (Graham Higgins)
Subject: ST Format, TOS 1.4 moans directed at Atari UK (was: HAPPY NEW YEAR,
ALL!)
Message-ID: <570057@otter.hpl.hp.com>

> It's because they've gotten tired of slamming Commodore-Amiga. (He
> said, with half a smiley face.) It seems that some people just have to
> have SOMETHING to look down upon, to make them feel alright about the
> machines they purchased...

Yes, this *is* a known psychological phenomenon. Anyone wishing to know more
(those "enquiring minds", for example) should look up Festinger's cognitive
dissonance theory and the empirical work surrounding it. Doesn't explain
anti-STE attitudes adopted by journos though, they shouldn't be affected by
cognitive dissonance, not being personally involved in resource expenditure
decisions (the engine of cognitive dissonance).

Graham
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Disclaimer: My opinions above are exactly that, mine and opinions.
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Date: 2 Feb 90 04:20:22 GMT
From:
mips!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!uakari.primate.wisc.edu!aplcen!haven!uvaarpa!ica
se!icase.edu!csrobe@apple.com (Charles S. [Chip] Roberson)
Subject: TeX Metafont distributions
Message-ID: <1990Feb2.042022.924@icase.edu>

I have spent the last 3 days retreiving and downloading the Metafont
files from panarthea. I got metafont.arc, cm_mf.arc, mf_two.arc, and
newfonts.arc.

However, when I try to build cmss8 (which loads cmbase.mf, which loads
roman*.mf, which finally load greeku.mf which isn't in any of these
archives.

1) Can somebody send me greeku.mf (uppercase greek) or tell me where
I can find it?

2) Has anybody successfully built a font suite with the mf distribution
in Panarthea?

Thanks,
-chip
--
* Charles S. Roberson 1328-F Mt. Vernon Ave. Williamsburg, VA 23185
* Home: (804) 229-5530 Work: (804) 221-3420
* csrobe@cs.wm.edu ...!uunet!cs.wm.edu!csrobe 71500.2056@compuserve.com
* "Experience the feel of fur -- slam your fingers in a car door!"

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Date: 3 Feb 90 11:28:18 GMT
From: eru!luth!sunic!mcsun!hp4nl!ruuinf!cs.ruu.nl@bloom-beacon.mit.edu (Piet
van Oostrum)
Subject: TOS io redirection bugs
Message-ID: <2388@ruuinf.cs.ruu.nl>

Would somebody care to describe exactly under what circumstances you run into
the TOS redirection bug?
--
Piet* van Oostrum, Dept of Computer Science, Utrecht University,
Padualaan 14, P.O. Box 80.089, 3508 TB Utrecht, The Netherlands.
Telephone: +31-30-531806 Uucp: uunet!mcsun!hp4nl!ruuinf!piet
Telefax: +31-30-513791 Internet: piet@cs.ruu.nl (*`Pete')

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Date: 2 Feb 90 13:22:16 GMT
From: hp-ses!hpbbn!hpgnd!alex@hplabs.hp.com (Alexis MERMET-GRANDFILLES)
Subject: What's so good about an STE?
Message-ID: <4280008@hpgnd.HP.COM>

Hi there,

I really get confused with all rumours I have heard about STE machines.

I have red that they do not work properly with a monochrome monitor.
Especially they would get lost if one try to use the new capabilities
( Hardware scrolling , new blitter ) on a monochrome monitor.

It is a famous French ST magazine "ST-Mag" which wrote that...
It seems there are some big problems with STEs.

They have also written that external drives 3'5 and 5'1/4 could not be
accessed properly with STE machines .

Has anybody met these problems with STEs on monochrome monitors or
with external floppies ?

Is it a hardware problem or a TOS 1.6 problem ?
Is there the same problem on TOS 1.4 machines ?

Will STACY allow external 5'1/4 disks ?

Thanks a lot for your answers.

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End of INFO-ATARI16 Digest V90 Issue #150
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