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From: kbad@atari.UUCP (Ken Badertscher)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: STOS Basic
Message-ID: <1862@atari.UUCP>
Date: 5 Dec 89 21:36:19 GMT
References: <CMM.0.88.628643865.larserio@kvart.uio.no> <252@bdt.UUCP>
Organization: Atari Corp., Sunnyvale, CA
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david@bdt.UUCP (David Beckemeyer) 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.


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