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From: apratt@atari.UUCP (Allan Pratt)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: TT beginner questions
Message-ID: <2966@atari.UUCP>
Date: 18 Jun 91 20:27:44 GMT
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Organization: Atari Corp., Sunnyvale CA
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friedric@r2d2.fmi.uni-passau.de (Carsten Friedrich) writes:

>Does anyone have some TT documantation, e.g. new tos-routines and 
>	hardware - registers ? If you only have them on paper, i would give
>	you some money for stamps, if you send them to me. (send e-mail for 
>	adress)

These kinds of documentation are available to developers through the Atari.
Call Gail Johnson at (408) 745-2022 for information on becoming a
developer.

>My version of Mint (0.6) does not seem to work with the TT is there a version
> that does ?

The latest one, 0.8, does.  However, there are some problems in exception
handling.  0.7 worked better, but I don't know if the released version of
0.7 had the TT modifications.

>Is there a switch for gcc (my version is 1.39) to use 68030 code, to use the
>	co-processor and the full TT memory ?

Yes, use -m68020 and -m68881 on the GCC command line, and use PRGFLAGS.PRG
(freely copyable, available on GEnie at least) to set the program-load and
malloc bits so your program can see all TT memory.

>I tried to connect my external 5 1/4'' floppy i used with the st to the tt
>	but failed. any ideas why ? (i just pulled the plug out of the st 
>	and into the tt, but the tt couldn't handle it. :( )

Don't know why.  Should have worked.  Do you use a hack program to change
the seek rate, or a program that makes the Floprate() XBIOS call?  In the
former case the program is probably TOS-version-specific, and in the latter
case it should work.

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