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Line A mouse vars & GEM diskcopy

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From: Neil Forsyth
Date: Tue, 22 Mar 1988 09:14
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I tried reading the mouse using the Line-A offsets posted here recently and
they really work but there is a catch, the mouse position can only be read
if the program is a .prg not a .tos or .ttp. Shame. Is there some other
locations that can be used instead?

Because of the plethora of ram disks and fast disk copiers I have used since I
got my ST, I found out only last night that if you drag the Drive A icon on to 
the Drive B icon GEM will ignore what the boot sector says and always copy 9
sectors per track. The copy even has the same boot sector with a different
serial number. I think this is poor and inflexible. I rather liked the
possibilty of doing dual drive backups this way but since I DCFORMAT my disks
80T & 10SPT I will have to use DC to copy them as well. I am lucky I noticed
this or GEM would make a mockery of my backups.


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From: neil@cs.hw.ac.uk (Neil Forsyth)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Line A mouse vars & GEM diskcopy
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Date: 22 Mar 88 09:14:20 GMT
Organization: Computer Science, Heriot-Watt U., Scotland
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Keywords: PRG's only & 9SPT only