Ryszard.Nipl@mop.luth.se (Ryszard Nipl) (09/22/90)
Hi Netters,
I have purchased the Calamus (version 1.09) from USA (thank you,
Steve, for your tips!).
Immediately after coming back from the post office and having
the parcel unpacked I put on and tried to set it up and ....
all my expectations have "gone with the wind". I got the following
diagnostics on the Calamus logo:
"CALAMUS doesn't work on this TOS version"
and very strange "R3/2" in the upper left corner of the screen just
on the Atari logo.
My computer is one of the oldest Mega4 I know with its number A1 7
(yes 1987!) and 4 (many zeroes) 232 on the very end. So I suppose it
must be TOS 1.0 what I have (or may be 1.1 as under start procedure
the GDOS resident version 1.1 comes).
My questions are:
1. which version of TOS should I buy to satisfy Calamus needs?
2. which version should I choose: 1.4 (or its Mega matched version
1.5, is it?) or may be 1.6?
3. how can I purchase the TOS chip from the USA? Do you have some
good addresses with nice prices? Which is generally price level
for TOS chips?
4. how about Calamus under Minix? Has anyone of you any experiences?
Thank you in advance
Ryszard
PS: Extra questions (rhetoric ones, I don't wait any answer!):
1. why it is nothing said about TOS version needed in the Calamus
descriptions, offerts, advertisments, even handbooks and manuals?
(Never I meet it!)
2. why contents of SYS folder described in the handbook is (in about
2/3 of the list) different from the real SYS folder contents as
delivered?
There are files: CALAMUS with extensions: ALT, CEF, CHT, HLP, RSC
ENGLISH " " : CHP, CWB
LAN_ID without extension.
May it function?
I am impatiently awaiting. Thanks
Ryszard
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Hi Netters,
I have purchased the Calamus (version 1.09) from USA (thank you,
Steve, for your tips!).
Immediately after coming back from the post office and having
the parcel unpacked I put on and tried to set it up and ....
all my expectations have "gone with the wind". I got the following
diagnostics on the Calamus logo:
"CALAMUS doesn't work on this TOS version"
and very strange "R3/2" in the upper left corner of the screen just
on the Atari logo.
My computer is one of the oldest Mega4 I know with its number A1 7
(yes 1987!) and 4 (many zeroes) 232 on the very end. So I suppose it
must be TOS 1.0 what I have (or may be 1.1 as under start procedure
the GDOS resident version 1.1 comes).
My questions are:
1. which version of TOS should I buy to satisfy Calamus needs?
2. which version should I choose: 1.4 (or its Mega matched version
1.5, is it?) or may be 1.6?
3. how can I purchase the TOS chip from the USA? Do you have some
good addresses with nice prices? Which is generally price level
for TOS chips?
4. how about Calamus under Minix? Has anyone of you any experiences?
Thank you in advance
Ryszard
PS: Extra questions (rhetoric ones, I don't wait any answer!):
1. why it is nothing said about TOS version needed in the Calamus
descriptions, offerts, advertisments, even handbooks and manuals?
(Never I meet it!)
2. why contents of SYS folder described in the handbook is (in about
2/3 of the list) different from the real SYS folder contents as
delivered?
There are files: CALAMUS with extensions: ALT, CEF, CHT, HLP, RSC
ENGLISH " " : CHP, CWB
LAN_ID without extension.
May it function?
I am impatiently awaiting. Thanks
Ryszardmicro@imada.dk (Claus Pedersen) (09/26/90)
Hi, Calamus will not run on your ST with _SCANDINAVIAN_ TOS because it is not supposed to. This is probaly one of oldest copy protection schemes for the Atari. It prevents Pirated software to be spread across the world. (My older copies of Turbo C used the same scheme, v2 does not. (in fact it was only MAS and BUG that was protected)). Klaus (micro@imada.dk)
stigvi@solan5.solan.unit.no (Stig Vidar Hovland) (09/28/90)
In article <1990Sep25.230945.23142@imada.dk>, micro@imada.dk (Claus Pedersen) writes: |> Hi, |> Calamus will not run on your ST with _SCANDINAVIAN_ TOS because it is |> not supposed to. This is probaly one of oldest copy protection schemes for |> the Atari. It prevents Pirated software to be spread across the world. |> |> (My older copies of Turbo C used the same scheme, v2 does not. (in fact |> it was only MAS and BUG that was protected)). |> |> Klaus (micro@imada.dk) I have a _SCANDINAVIAN_ TOS V1.4, and Calamus works fine !!! Stig Vidar Hovland - stigvi@solan.unit.no
larserio@IFI.UIO.NO (LarsErikOsterud) (09/29/90)
Yes, The scandinavian version of Calamus works on swedish 1.2 and 1.4, but not on my US TOS 1.4 :-( Just as System /// Heidelberg programs only works on machines with german keyboard layout (z and y exchanged) Lars-Erik / ABK-BBS +47 2132659 / ____ ______ ________________________ Osterud / larserio@ifi.uio.no / /___ / The norwegian ST __________/ ______________________/ ____/ / Klubben, user association