D.C.Halliday@newcastle.ac.uk (D.C. Halliday) (01/12/90)
I think I have found a bug in the STE. When booting from a floppy with a colour display, the machine allways comes up in low res. The window positions etc are correct however if the res is then changed to medium. This problem happens when using a desktop.inf saved on the STE and with the file saved on a TOS1.2 ST. Anybody know a way around this? On the compatability front the only program I have found that will not run on the STE is palace software's Barbarian. Dave Halliday. (JANET: d.c.halliday@uk.ac.newcastle)
wallace@oldtmr.dec.com (Ray Wallace) (01/13/90)
In article <1990Jan11.164342.15604@newcastle.ac.uk>, D.C.Halliday@newcastle.ac.uk (D.C. Halliday) writes... >I think I have found a bug in the STE. When booting from a floppy with a colour >display, the machine allways comes up in low res. The window positions etc are Iv'e attached a note from someone else (slightly edited) which describes two fixes for this STE bug. One bug I've found with the new 520STe is that it doesn't recal medium resolution. I just spoke to Atari's help line and they say there are two fixes for this. One is edit DESKTOP.INF and change the last byte in the #E C4 12 line for 13 (or 03 if the last byte was a 02, the 1 selects verifying file deletion). (I've read in another document that this is supposed to be 01 for low rez, 02 for med rez, and 03 for hi rez, but the support desk say set to 03) You can also send them a blank disk and they return it with MEDRES.PRG which is put in the AUTO folder and also fixes the problem. Their address: Atari Helpdesk, P.O. BOX 200, Dartford. KENT. Richard --- Ray Wallace (INTERNET,UUCP) wallace@oldtmr.enet.dec.com (UUCP) ...!decwrl!oldtmr.enet!wallace (INTERNET) wallace%oldtmr.enet@decwrl.dec.com ---
kbad@atari.UUCP (Ken Badertscher) (01/16/90)
[ wallace@oldtmr.dec.com (Ray Wallace) writes about solutions to the STE desktop.inf bug: edit the file or send off for MEDRES.PRG ] Once again, I have written a patch program which should be available at the same place you bought your STE. If it is not available, have that dealer contact their Atari dealer support representative at the appropriate subsidiary, and get a copy of STE_FIX.PRG. Editing the file is not a viable solution, because that will mess up the desktop.inf file for other STs. The bug occurs when your STE _reads_ the desktop.inf file. -- ||| Ken Badertscher (ames!atari!kbad) ||| Atari R&D System Software Engine / | \ #include <disclaimer>