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In article <1862@atari.UUCP> kbad@atari.UUCP (Ken Badertscher) writes:
> | In article <CMM.0.88.628643865.larserio@kvart.uio.no> 
larserio@IFI.UIO.NO (LarsErikOsterud) writes:
> | >One of my friend has STOS and TOS 1.2 but we tried it on my MEGA4 with
> | >TOS 1.4 - It worked OK, BUT you can't move the mouse-pointer !!!!!
> 
> | Applications generated with STOS seem to exhibit this same behavior.
> 
> This is because STOS used absolute, undocumented memory locations for
> mouse position.  More's the pity, because a legal way of getting at
> these variables _is_ documented.  A couple of other software packages
> exhibited this behaviour in Rainbow TOS testing here at Atari, as well.
> 
> I believe Antic has a new version of STOS that works better with Rainbow 
TOS.

 I just received a catalog from some place in California which sold PD and
commercial software.  On one of their PD disks was a patch for STOS running
on TOS 1.4.  If you are interested, mail me and I'll e-mail the address
and info back.

Enjoy.

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