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Benjamin Smith
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Jun 1 2000, 4:00 pm
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.8bit
From: bensm@user2.teleport.com (Benjamin Smith) -
Date: 2000/06/01
Subject: Wanted: Atari xf551 Disk Drives! Buy or Trade!
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I'm looking for 2 Atari xf551 5.25 Floppy Drives for an upgrade project. I'm willing to Buy or Trade, but I prefer to trade. Reasonable trades considered. To look at what I have, goto my WebPage @
<h3><a href="">Click for WebSite!</a></h3>
Or, if you have what I'm looking for and want to sell, E-Mail me@
Please Direct all Replies Through E-Mail to: a@benjamin.net or bensm@teleport.com. If you can't reach me at benjamin.net see my E-Mail/Web info in my Signature at the Bottom! -- Atari 8 Bit, ST & Jaguar Hardware, Software, Books & Accessories(503)256-9974 DownLoad FREE Catalogs at ftp.teleport.com/vendors/bensmith/ or by WebSite at or try Ben's SubDomain at Catalogs Requested by & Received Through E-Mail at bensm@teleport.com or a@benjamin.net Specify 8 Bit, ST &/or Jaguar!
> On Thu, 01 Jun 2000 21:12:05 GMT, "Peter Laing" > <snailboy1REMOVECAPSTORE@earthlink.net> wrote:
> >- Clock speed (Yes I know that in some modes the difference is marginal, > > but it exists)
> How does this work?
Antic cycle steals for the various modes. When Antic is fetching data from memory the 6502 is halted. The higher the resolution the more bandwidth Antic uses, the greater the performance hit. By Resolution I dont mean map size, If you use a Graphics 0 style screen it causes antic to fetch character data too.
You can test this for yourself by coding something like:
10 graphics 3+16 20 for i=1 to 60000 30 next i
And timing how long it takes...If it's too quick for you and your stopwatch then increase the 60000
Then just change the graphics mode in line 10 10 graphics 8+16
re run the program, and be ready with a stop watch... While this is very crude it will give you an idea.
> Is there documentation that descibes the cpu hits of various modes?
Recently somebody ran some much better tests on the newsgroup and actually figured out the equivalent 6502 clock speed, if your lucky they may see this and repost the details.
Cheers Pete
CBM vs. Atari Philosophy, or, why aren't computers interesting anymore...
> >And Nestcape? hah! Microsoft IE is FAR superiour on every level. Netscape > >rarley displays web pages properly... load a page in Netscape and then try > >the same page in IE and you'll see how it's supposed to look.
> I hadn't had any problems with Netscape, and I find it runs a lot more > stable than Explorer does. I've never had a problem with improper > display, either; I've used Explorer from time to time and seen no > differences in the way the pages were displayed. Heck, I've designed > pages using Frontpage that look quite the same in Explorer as > Netscape. I'm working on pages now for a book publisher, and the only > problem I encountered was using dynamic positioning of text; it's an > unsupported feature of Netscape. Not a big problem, though; tables > work fine for positioning.
<soapbox>
It's been my experience that IE is much more tolerant of malformed HTML. Netscape adheres to the HTML RFC better than IE. IE is designed to work with the Microsoft web authoring tools (FrontPage). Have you seen the crap that FrontPage produces? Sometimes it amazes me that any browser can properly display that stuff.
I think Microsoft did this on purpose. Think about it: Newbie Joe writes some HTML. Netscape won't display it because maybe he left off the closing </table> tag. But, IE displays the page because it determined where to end the table. Joe thinks IE is better because it displayed his page when Netscape didn't. Which browser is Joe going to use? That's great for Microsoft, but bad for the web because now there's a group of people out there that cannot do anything without a graphical tool since they know nothing about HTML.
</soapbox>
-Bob
Sent via Deja.com Before you buy.
FA: Many Atari 8 bit items
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Don
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Jun 4 2000, 4:00 pm
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.8bit
From: Don <d@qnet.com> -
Date: 2000/06/04
Subject: FA: Many Atari 8 bit items
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I have listed some of my last Atari 8bit hardware on Ebay. If you want come check it out.
The above link will take you to all my auction listings.
Looking for a MIO
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John K. Picken
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Jun 5 2000, 4:00 pm
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.8bit
From: "John K. Picken" <y@victoria.tc.ca> -
Date: 2000/06/05
Subject: Re: Looking for a MIO
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On Mon, 5 Jun 2000, GaPressman wrote: > I have a MIO that I ran two MFM Seagate 4096 harddrives on my 800xl. I > cranked it up one day to find that the MIO went bad....All I get when I want > to get to the setup screen is scrambled junk. Anyone know how I can get my > hands on another one or know how this might get fixed? Or information on > how I might fix it myself...
First try shutting everything down and pulling all the connections. Then hook it back up with just the MIO and test it. Often the MIO to computer connection gets loose or the contacts get dirty. Apparently it's an electronic "no no" but I've successfully used a soft pencil eraser to clean the contacts. If you get it working, then try adding the other stuff one at a time--with mine I often find the SIO plug causes problems with the MIO and an even bigger culprit is the Real Time 8. (A dead RT8 battery can cause major problems.)
jkp
Using Odd-Sized ATR Files?
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John K. Picken
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Jun 6 2000, 4:00 pm
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.8bit
From: "John K. Picken" <y@victoria.tc.ca> -
Date: 2000/06/06
Subject: Re: Using Odd-Sized ATR Files?
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On Tue, 6 Jun 2000, Ernest R. Schreurs wrote:
> I only understood from the problem description > that SIO2PC would not load the image file.
Maybe you're the only one who understood it correctly. I certainly hadn't thought of it from that point of view.
jkp
Alan Reeve and Diamond 3 rom
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Velcro SPY
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Jun 7 2000, 4:00 pm
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.8bit
From: Velcro SPY <NOSvel@netunlimited.netPAM> -
Date: 2000/06/07
Subject: Re: Alan Reeve and Diamond 3 rom
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where's the website with the ROM?
Nelson Nieves wrote:
> I found a website with an .arc file that includes a rom of the Diamond cart. > and a text message from Alan Reeve. As it turns out Alan made the Diamond > rom available for free a long time ago. Does anyone know whether he also > posted a copy of Diamond Write for free? Or some of the other Diamond > related software packages?
> I bought the diamond developers kit along with many other packages including > Diamond Paint, but never got a chance to get Diamond Write.
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1050 ED copy utility
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Jamn
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Jun 8 2000, 4:00 pm
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.8bit
From: "Jamn" <[nospam]jdryw@ttcc.attcanada.net> -
Date: 2000/06/08
Subject: Re: 1050 ED copy utility
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Just convert over to SpartaDOS. It Rocks.
...Jamn
"John K. Picken" <y@victoria.tc.ca> wrote in message ...
> On 8 Jun 2000, RHamiIton5 wrote:
> > There is a little bit of both here; DOS 2.5 uses a different status byte in the > > directory (IIRC it is $43 & $63) for files which extend beyond sector 719 > > instead of its standard $42 & $62 for other files. DOS 2.0 and most others, > > including MyDOS, simply refuse to believe that those files exist and won't > > access them.
> The bit used in the status byte by DOS 2.5 is normally used to indicate > a file "open for write" which is why most other DOS don't see them. While > this was obviously intentionally done in some sort of attempt to maintain > compatibility with DOS 2.0, the unfortunate side effect is that you can > throw a DOS 2.5 disk in the drive and not find the file you're looking > file when using some other DOS. Years ago, our club newsletter editor > called me with just such a problem: he'd downloaded an article using > BobTerm and then logged off and booted PaperClip only to find no article. > The problem was the DOS 2.5 ED format.
> > This prevents you from copying individual files with one DOS to the other's > > disk, BUT MyDOS performs just fine to make back-up DUPLICATE DISKs of DOS 2.5 > > ED medis with the "J" & "1,2/N(1-1040)" command because even though the disk > > was formatted with the incompatible MyDOS scheme, it will be overwritten with > > the DOS 2.5 data and be a 2.5 disk. I believe the only caveat is preformat the > > disk with MyDOS to ED and then use the "/N" (=do not reformat) switch in the > > duplicate command parameters.
> Actually, I think both MYDOS and SpartaDOS are able to read all files on > a 2.5-formatted disk but will not write to the ED sectors. Sparta, in > fact, will not wrote to sector 720 on a MYDOS-formatted disk as it > assumes Atari format ends at sector 719. You shouldn't have to preformat > with the MYDOS duplicate disk format. IIRC the "/N" is mostly to save > time, if specified and the disk needs formatting anyway, the DOS should > go ahead and format.
> jkp
Wanted: Atari xf551 Disk Drives! Buy or Trade!
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Benjamin Smith
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Jun 9 2000, 4:00 pm
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.8bit
From: bensm@user2.teleport.com (Benjamin Smith) -
Date: 2000/06/09
Subject: Wanted: Atari xf551 Disk Drives! Buy or Trade!
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For faster service, Please direct all replies through E-Mail to Ben at: a@benjamin.net or bensm@teleport.com instead of NewsGroups as I find it hard to keep up with NewsGroups.
I'm looking for 2 Atari xf551 5.25 Floppy Drives for an upgrade project. I'm willing to Buy or Trade, but I prefer to trade. Reasonable trades considered. To look at what I have, goto my WebPage @
<h3><a href="">Click for WebSite!</a></h3>
Or, if you have what I'm looking for and want to sell, E-Mail me@
Please Direct all Replies Through E-Mail to: a@benjamin.net or bensm@teleport.com. If you can't reach me at benjamin.net see my E-Mail/Web info in my Signature at the Bottom! -- Atari 8 Bit, ST & Jaguar Hardware, Software, Books & Accessories(503)256-9974 DownLoad FREE Catalogs at ftp.teleport.com/vendors/bensmith/ or by WebSite at or try Ben's SubDomain at Catalogs Requested by & Received Through E-Mail at bensm@teleport.com or a@benjamin.net Specify 8 Bit, ST &/or Jaguar!
Euchre in Basic
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JTKirk
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Jun 10 2000, 4:00 pm
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.8bit
From: JTKirk <no_me_j.j_t_k@geocities.com> -
Date: 2000/06/10
Subject: Re: Euchre in Basic
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On Thu, 08 Jun 2000 01:49:42 GMT, "Brett J. Latchford" <bjla@sympatico.ca> wrote:
>Hmmm, way back in the day (my first go around with atari) I had a pretty >good euchre program written entirely in basic. I learned a lot about >programming by looking at that program, I wonder if anybody out there >has it. I actually contacted the guy I sold my 8bit to, but he says he >gave it away years ago.
If it's the one published in COMPUTE! between 1984 and 1987, then you can find it at the UMich Archives... I don't remember if that one was patched (there were some bugs or typos in the originally published listing, corrected in a later CAPUTE! column...) In any case, I've got it on my disks...
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