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Started by franco
Tue, 08 Apr 1986 01:31
Re: ST software
Author: franco
Date: Tue, 08 Apr 1986 01:31
Date: Tue, 08 Apr 1986 01:31
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I am the person who offered to copy three disks worth of ST software for
anyone wishing it. I would like to report that so far this operation is
going very smoothly. I get an average of one request a day and everyone
has cooperated nicely by sending postage, a SASE, packing material.
Therefore, the offer still stands. The following items are on the disks:
Languages: XLISP, TINY BASIC, PROLOG (built on top of XLISP) and, until
I hear an objection from Mr. Bradley, the FORTH I posted
earlier.
Accessories: Breakout, Puzzle, CLI, Clock, Fontload, 4 RAMDISKS, Snapshot,
File, memory, disk editor (plus a few others)
FONTS (for fontload.acc): about 30 fonts (inc. Greek and Hebrew)
Utilities: drive checkers, icon editor, microemacs, disk editor, crash
analyzer, fast copier, pack/unpack (for transmission of many
files (like shar but not as sophisticated)), squeeze/unsqueeze
(we all know what that is, right?), UUDECODE, CLI, working
spooler, xmodem/vt52 emulator (from CWRU and better than anything
I have seen sold in stores), utility to change volume labels on
disks (surprizingly handy once you have it) plus a few more.
C Source: all XLISP, XMODEM .c,.h
Docs: XLISP, microemacs plus some utilities (not a complete set since I do
not have a complete set.
By the way I received, copied and sent back disks to the following people
who I could not reach using CSNET: DeMillo, Skehan, Moore, Chiu, Gibson.
I hope you got your disks ok.
Notes: The FORTH only works with TOS in ROM.
The FONTS only work with TOS in RAM.
Put all fonts on a separate disk, hit font accessory - follow prompts
TOS in ROMers need only have a second boot disk with the
fontload.acc (renamed to deskn.acc where n is an integer between 1
and 6) and TOS.IMG (hope you did not throw that away).
The INTERSECT RAMDISK is hard to set up as has been pointed out.
It has two problems: you must cycle power on the 520ST module (not
too serious - the chips should be able to stand it) to reboot and
it uses 50k more space than it should. But it is very handy since
it can be resized and removed easily. If I need as much of my 1 MEG
as I can get (for C compiles) I use the 650k or the 709k ramdisks
(from the ATARI BBS). These beauties take almost no extra space
but are always in place. To set up all RAMDISKS create drive icon
D and save desktop (more details in docs).
You may send your disks, SASE, packing material to
John Franco
2535 Spicewood Lane
Bloomington, IN 47401
USA
Special requests honored as long as demand remains steady.
Note: If you are mailing from outside the United States please enclose
$2.50 US instead of postage (Bloomington, Indiana is located in
the middle of the USA and people here have only vaguely heard of
places like Germany or France so you can imagine that sending your
native currency to me, as pretty as it might be, is useless) or one
disk (disks here in Bloomington cost between $2.00 and $2.50 in
packages of 10 - what do they cost where you live?)
Remember: You are taking a risk - your disks might be lost or damaged in
the mail and I cannot be responsible for that.
Also: If I get too many requests I will raise a flag on the net until
I am caught up.
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