Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!rutgers!lll-lcc!ames!ucbcad!ucbvax!ndsuvm1.BITNET!UD140469 From: UD140469@ndsuvm1.BITNET.UUCP Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st Subject: Some Questions Message-ID: <8701270644.AA04473@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU> Date: Mon, 26-Jan-87 23:10:49 EST Article-I.D.: ucbvax.8701270644.AA04473 Posted: Mon Jan 26 23:10:49 1987 Date-Received: Wed, 28-Jan-87 06:14:52 EST Sender: daemon@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU Reply-To: UD140469%NDSUVM1.BITNET@forsythe.stanford.edu Organization: The ARPA Internet Lines: 41 Received: by NDSUVM1 (Mailer X1.23) id 3492; Mon, 26 Jan 87 18:10:26 CST Date: Mon, 26 Jan 1987 17:53 CST From: Scott Udell Subject: Some Questions To: Hi there! Being new to the network, and having been away from a reliable source of ST information for several months, I have several questions to ask. 1.What have people been hearing about the Ms. Em MS-DOS emulator from Paradox? Does it work well? Slow or fast? Does it support any IBM graphics? Does it work wit DOS 3.2 on a 3 1/2" drive? How about software compatibility? 2. I've been working on a program in OSS Pascal that, at one point, does a printout to the printer. I'd like the user to be able to press a key or to click a button for pause, but have been unable to find a routine that works. I try to do an event call for both key and mouse clicks (using the OSS event call), and the program (an accessory), locks up. I've also tried doing a call to BIOS call #11, kbshift, but it never returns anything but 0. According to ST Internals, you pass a -1 to get the status (of keyboard or mouse), but in other sources I've read I haven't seen that the call accepts any parameters. Any ideas? 3. Speaking of OSS, a few weeks ago I heard a nasty rumor (third- or fourth-hand) that OSS has gone Chapter 11. Can anyone confirm (I hope not!) or deny this rumor (I sure hope so!)? 4. I've heard that there are two pd emulators floating around now--one for the Apple II, and one for the Atari 8-bits. I don't know anything about the apple one, but I'm told that the Atari one emulates Atari BASIC and some of the graphics modes, and is also slow. Any other words on these two items? 5. Are there any flyers or official printed info from Atari on the new Mega and Atari PC machines? Please, please, please send any rumors on them? 6. Regarding the Mega machines, if you by a 1- or 2-meg model, will you be able to upgrade to 4 megs (or to 2 megs from 1 meg) on the motherboard, or will you have to use that internal slot for memory boards? That's all (!!) I can think to ask right now. Thanks for any info you can give.