🚀 go-pugleaf

Hi y'all!

It took some patience during this holiday season (U.S. Customs in
Chicago must've been backlogged) -- my Cumana package finally arrived!
It's Professional Atari/OSK v2.3!  (I know v2.4 is the latest
widely-used level, but hey this is all I can afford.)

It actually booted up just fine on my 520ST upgraded with 4meg RAM and
16MHz cached 68000.  Ran their CONFIG util, formatted diskettes & made
backups of the originals etc.

If/when the shop gets my multifrequency monitor fixed, I'll be able to
do color and monochrome modes.  (Heh, did you know NEC "owns" the
trademark 'multisync'?  Since my monitor isn't made by NEC...)  Right
now I'm using an actual Atari mono monitor loaned to me by the guy at
the shop.

I faxed a short page to Cumana asking about what's available for a
'graphics, mouse, and windows' package.  Yvonne Kavanagh & Chris Magee
there told me to get in touch with Reccoware's Wolfgang Ocker (they're
in Germany and responsible for the work on this Atari port).

But I need info on G-Windows and K-Windows and whatever-windows for
this Cumana-Atari port, if anyone can fill me in, please.  I'm very
used to the CoCo3 Level 2 stuff ya know.  And I've put up with TOS
about all I can.  I need real true multitasking multiuser multiprogram
time-sharing windows!

And I'll be able to begin porting my SMF Player & stuff to OSK (if
that ain't an incentive...)

The people at Cumana also suggested I get with Mr. Ocker to figure out
a SCSI ID problem we have with ICD's original interface board.  When
ya daisy-chain two or more Seagate (CDC) drives [specifically], ICD
says we must use 'even numbered' IDs, and indeed this is the only way
I can get two HDs working with TOS.  My first drive is SCSI ID #0 and
my second drive is ID #2, see.  The STHD driver in this OSK package
apparently only scans for #0 and #1.  So if anyone knows of a patch
(or how to set the device descriptor), I'm a-gonna appreciate it a
lot!

The Microware manuals are at v2.1 and v2.2 (depending on what you're
looking at).  Their v2.3 "Release Notes" say they would incorporate
the updates into a new set of books for v2.3 later that year (1989) --
did MW ever print such a set so I can get 'em?  (yeah I know it might
co$t)

And MW also mentioned they would provide their PC File Manager later
that year, too -- where/how do I get this?  (Cumana specifically said
they do not supply this or the newer books.)

Some of y'all will remember me from the CoCo days: I'm an old hacker,
trying to get the OS9 community to standardize some things so we can
have half a chance at home/office (user-friendly) markets.  I'm an IBM
mainframe system programmer, too, so I can handle the nasty techie
talk.  Don't wimp out, I am seriously wanting to get this OSK system
working properly, and honestly do want to use the windowing systems
that will be around for a while!  Thank you for taking time to help!

-- thx, Paul Seniura (from Oklahoma)

(p.s. pardon the duplicity of this message, I'm trying to cover all
the places I can directly reach via my accounts/memberships.  There's
got to be a guru out there somewhere?  :)