Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!brunix!iris.brown.edu!mjv
From: mjv@iris.brown.edu (Marshall Vale)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: STOS Basic
Message-ID: <22309@brunix.UUCP>
Date: 6 Dec 89 16:42:33 GMT
Sender: news@brunix.UUCP
Organization: IRIS
Lines: 28
References:<CMM.0.88.628643865.larserio@kvart.uio.no> <252@bdt.UUCP> <1862@atari.UUCP>

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.

-- mjv@iris.brown.edu

"And, oh! Father Christmas, if you love me at all,
 Bring me a big, red india-rubber ball."
                                   A.A. Milne "Now We are Six"