01659@AECLCR.BITNET (Greg Csullog) (02/17/90)
After a lot of flakey behaviour with my newly installed PC Speed board, I opened up my Mega and resoldered the 64 pin socket onto my 68000. The board is a lot more stable now but not completely so. Here is a list of some of the stuff I have tested. 1. NORTON Utilities (SD, SI, LD, NCD [NCD no longer locks up]) 2. PCBoss 3. WP 4.2 (no longer locking up with fast help screen changes) 4. dBASE III Plus (also not locking anymore with fast menu changes) 5. GEM 3.01 desktop can be installed but it is just as slow as on a real XT. Word Plus, GEM Paint also tested. They work for a while but after a few minutes the machine just hangs. Before the flames hit, NO, I don't see any point in using PC GEM on an ST under PC emulation. Atari GEM is vastly superior, especially when running NEODESK. However, I wanted to test applications that were graphics intensive. Looks like bad marks so far! 6. LOTUS 123 ver 2.01 worked fine. No hangups found yet. 7. Smart Term 240. When connected to a CYBER (that's how I started this session) extraneous characters popped up all over the screen. Sort of looks like a parity problem. To continue the session I did a warm boot back to Uniterm (didn't drop the line). I have used VersTaTerm Pro and Red Ryder on Macs and Crosstalk, Kermit Connect, Zstem and Smart term 240 on PCs and not one of these is as versatile and easy to use as Uniterm on the ST. Thank you Simon Poole, wherever you are.