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From: ONM07@DMSWWU1A.BITNET ("Julian F. Reschke")
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: Setting the seek rate
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Date: 19 Jun 89 11:06:25 GMT
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Ken Badertscher writes:

>The newest TOS adds the Floprate() xbios call which does just that. For
>earlier TOS versions, it is necessary to use the undocumented BIOS dsb
>locations.  These will be described in the documentation that comes
>with the new TOS.  Atari has also released a program (I believe it is
>called PCF554.PRG, because it was released to support the Atari PC
>external drives), available on several online services and probably from
>Atari Customer Relations, which sets the correct seek rate for using the
>PCF554 as drive B.
>...

Thanx for the support Ken. But now for the next question:

Is there a officially approved method to determine wether the TOS 1.4-
enhancements to the AES are present (knowing that there IS an
implementation of GEM 2.1 from a dutch company, that doesn't know
about wind_new and fsel_exinput)...

Equally, IF one day there is an Atari-GEM <= 2.1, will it have the
enhancements from PC-GEM (menu_unregister, Accessories with menus etc.)?