johnj@knor.prl.philips.nl (John Janssen) (05/27/91)
Wow, I've got my Mega STe finally. However, it's only 2MB, as my local dealer only received those. A 48MB 28ms hard disk *IS* fast. I got First Word Plus (second to last version) to work, but was not able to work with long pathnames on the hard disk (but this has nothing to do with running on the Mega STe). Degas messes up the screen. Degas Elite seems to work fine. Both Degas and Degas Elite seems not to be able to get started with the PI* or PC* images loaded when double clicked on these files. Notator 3.0 works (on 8MHz), however, I could not start it the usally way. Instead of clicking NOTATOR.PRG as I was used to on my 1MB ST (error msg: "p_ybox not found"), I had to click on SOFTLINK.PRG. On its turn, SOFTLINK came up with the pop-up window saying "Not enough memory", and lead me to EDITLINK.PRG to divide the memory. Setting Memory 1 partition for Notator to 1200kB and memory partition 2 to the rest available, was still not accepted by SOFTLINK. I had to subtract a few kB from the second memory partition before SOFLINK could be started which on its turn started NOTATOR. Tonight I'm gonna try the full features of UNITOR coupled with Notator, as I used it as a simple dongle(key) until now. One bad thing: The fan is kind of noisy. This is no good for being used in a (little) music studio during (synchrone) microphone recordings. -- John Janssen Check the email address in the header, as this J.v.Deventerstr.1 may have been filled in wrong by the system. Venlo Holland +31 77 513177 Reply to: johnj@idms.prl.philips.nl
larserio@IFI.UIO.NO (LarsErikOsterud) (05/27/91)
Degas messed up my screen to (other programs that switches screen memory too) It's a bad chip called GSTTER (or something like that). If you check you will hear static on the DMA sound too :-) Lars-Erik / ABK-BBS +47 2132659 / ____ ______ ________________________ Osterud / larserio@ifi.uio.no / /___ / The norwegian ST __________/ ______________________/ ____/ / Klubben, user association
larserio@IFI.UIO.NO (LarsErikOsterud) (05/29/91)
Exacly the same problem I had.... I know of LOTS of examples of MEGA STE's with this bad chips that causes the monochrome diplay to wrap when you change screen adresse and causes static in the DMA sound, but Atari Corp won't confirm this and tell me that this is only a problem with my machine (but you are the 4th one I've heard about). Replace the chip with a chip from an old STE (not the same number so you need the print-layouts for both MEGA STE and STE to do this, the chip is called GSTSHIFTER and has to do with both video and sound in the STE machines..) I would again like a comment on this from Atari Corp. You can't just ignore this problem that applies to a great number og MEGA STE's !!!!!??? Lars-Erik / ABK-BBS +47 2132659 / ____ ______ ________________________ Osterud / larserio@ifi.uio.no / /___ / The norwegian ST __________/ ______________________/ ____/ / Klubben, user association