S.Usher@ucl-cs.UUCP (07/10/89)
From: S.Usher@uk.ac.ucl.cs Today I recieved this piece of E-Mail:- >Date: Fri, 7 Jul 89 16:46:14 EDT >From: Lee Dickey <ljdickey@ca.uwaterloo.water> >To: uunet!mcvax!ukc!strath-cs!nott-cs!ucl-cs!S.Usher@ca.uwaterloo.water, > S.Usher@uk.ac.ucl.cs >Subject: Re: Multiface >Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st >In-Reply-To: <318@ucl-cs.UUCP> >Organization: U. of Waterloo, Ontario >Cc: S.Usher@uk.ac.ucl.cs > >In article <318@ucl-cs.UUCP> you write about Multiface > >Is this a commercial product, shareware, or PD? > >-- > L. J. Dickey, Faculty of Mathematics, University of Waterloo. > ljdickey@water.UWaterloo.ca ljdickey@water.BITNET > ljdickey@water.UUCP ..!uunet!watmath!water!ljdickey > ljdickey@water.waterloo.edu The answer to this question is that the product is very much a commercial product and consists of both some software and a cartridge (The Multiface). The Cartridge has a button on it which, when pressed, stops whatever program was running, saves the screen if it can, and drops you into a monitor/editor program (which is in the ROM onboard). From here you can save anything to disc (as long as you can fit it onto a disc). Stephen Usher Addresses:- (JANET) S.Usher@uk.ac.ucl.cs or UCACMSU@uk.ac.ucl.euclid --8<-------------- Cut ------------------- Here ---------------------------
colas@mirsa.inria.fr (Colas NAHABOO) (07/17/89)
From article <329@ucl-cs.UUCP>, by S.Usher@ucl-cs.UUCP: > The Cartridge has a button on it which, when pressed, stops whatever program > was running, saves the screen if it can, and drops you into a monitor/editor > program (which is in the ROM onboard). From here you can save anything to > disc (as long as you can fit it onto a disc). Yes. Except that nearly all recent programs mask the interrupt(s) generated by Multiface, so it is useless with all the recent programs I own (Populous, Archipelagos, DM, starglider II, etc...), which will ignore the press on the multiface button. (I borrowed a friend's multiface to test it). It is only useful with Falcon, which is stopped, and so you can save/restore a game anywhere (just before landing!) Colas NAHABOO -- colas@mirsa.inria.fr BULL Research FRANCE -- Koala Project -- GWM X11 Window Manager