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From: george_seto@brains.UUCP (George Seto)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: lharc
Message-ID: <4821@brains.UUCP>
Date: 23 Sep 89 11:00:07 GMT
Reply-To: george_seto%brains@iisat.UUCP
Organization: Cerebral Cortex BBS
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 Re: lharc:

  Those problems are what kept me from using it. There is a new program
called LZH.TTP, which comes with LZHSHELL and works fine. Check that out.

  To NEWSTV1@CARLETON.CA @CU.CP6
  Re: PC Ditto II

   See the section following.

  To Joachim Vance @ paris.ics.uci.edu AND Clifford M Stein @
jarthur.Claremont.E
  Re: ParSec

  See following

 89Sep23 10:25 am from George Seto @ Lair (Nova Scotia Atari Computer Users)
  Got the new ST mags from Britain yesterday.

   1 - Atari UK reports there is a problem with the HDX software version 3.
Problem is most likely to happen when using TOS 1.4. The problem occurs in
the AHDI.PRG. Bug shows up during *_SOME_* write operations. According to
HiSoft's Andy Pennell " There is a problem with a pointer stored in register
A1, in the low level driver. Under certain circumstances, when writing to an
odd  address, it will write zeros or garbage, instead of your data". One way
of  telling which you are using is look at the size of AHDI. The buggy AHDI
is  7875 bytes, and the corrected one is 7936 bytes.

   2 - All three mentioned the new Parsec Graphics Engine for the Atari ST.
Two of them had full Previews of this new Elmtech "peripheral" for the ST.
The board is based on the TMS34010 graphics chipset from Texas Instruments.
The chip uses a 50MHz clock and the first board is for the ST, versions for
other computers are being worked on. The ParSec 4768 will offer 4096 colours
at the same time and a screen resolution of up to 1024x768 pixels. Speed?
Well how about shifting 12.5 million pixels PER SECOND. This board will
support 4 independent colour planes, and have sockets for scanners,
digitizers, cameras and video. Price is 918 British Pounds.

   3 - There was an article which showed the ST in use in a Glasgow hospital
being used by anaesthetists and hooked up with various instruments to
patients. Such situations really need dependable machines for that stage as
well as research, and they feel they found it with the Atari ST.

   4 - Review of a new Word Processor, That's Write. This seems that it will
rival Word Perfect, and include Wordstar keyboard commands. The program
incorporates IMG graphics, use of up to 5 columns and GEM fonts
*___WITHOUT__* GDOS. A Fonts designer comes with it, and 140 fonts comes
standard. It will also generate an Index and a Table of Contents if directed.

   5 - A demo was supplied on the ST Format mag's disk called That's Fun
Face.  Do you remember the stories of the Police doing a workup of a perp's
face  using an Indentikit? Well the That's Fun Face demo is part of a package
being  worked on for the police forces in Europe. It allows someone to
"design" a  face on screen. The demo doesn't allow for saves, but it seems
interesting  anyway.

   6 - Ads for Cavendish Distributors touting a new product. An MS-DOS
Hardware Emulator, PC Speed. It supports mono and colour monitors, and allows
use of the standard peripherals, mouse, Floppy, Hard Drive and printers.
Supports IBM monochrome, CGA and Hercules Graphics Emulator. Only problem is
that it is 379 British Pounds. They say there are Trade and Educational
Discounts available. Anyone want to import this into North America?

   That's most of the interesting things.
  Message also presented on STadel-Net in Atari ST
  These bit and pieces are culled from ST Format #2, ST World #42, and Atari
ST User Volume 4 #7. 
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