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From: zerobeat@intacc.uucp (Ferenc Szabo)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: Neo Desk 3
Message-ID: <1991Jun13.065820.3914@intacc.uucp>
Date: 13 Jun 91 06:58:20 GMT
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In article <43160@cup.portal.com> Azog-Thoth@cup.portal.com (William Thomas Daugustine) writes:
>
>I just ordered Neo Desk 3 today (cant recall the publisher) and am
>just looking to see if anyone has any opinions on it. It looks pretty
>good in the ad (which is why I ordered it:-), but I was looking for
>someone who has used it, and has any general observations on it.
>
>Ill be running this on a 520ST, and two DS 3.5" floppys, and a colour
>monitor (no hard drive, or RAM expansion. _yet_)

I use NEODESK 3.0 on my Mega STe with 4 Megabytes and the desktop eats away a   few hundred K.  You should check this out first cuz maybe some programs won't   work with only a couple of hundred K remaining (I can think of a few programs   that won't even work with a 520).




>PS: a question totally unrelated. Is there any way to fake the ST out
>when using a colour monitor, into thinking its a monochrome? Id like 
>to get the high res, but dont wanna have two monitors. I am thinking
>maybe dropping or raising a line marked 'monochome detect' that I 
>see in the pinout.

I dunno .......but......
Is there any way of using LO or MED res programs on a HI res monitor??


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