COBB@BRANDEIS.BITNET (wes cobb) (01/28/88)
[ this is forwarded from a friend ]
Recently I received two issues of the German magazine c't. It has all kinds of
interesting articles, so I'd like to share a short summary of them with you.
I don't read German, so this is my approximation of the contents.
I would *love* it if someone who spoke German would post a summary each
month...
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Summary of c't articles concerning Atari ST; February 1988
p. 32 "Atari Laserdrucker SLM804" -- Review of Atari laser printer.
p. 40 "Echtzeitbetriebssystem PDOS fur Atari" -- Review of yet another
multitasking-multiuser operating system for the ST: PDOS. Didn't
really look at this much as I already have OS-9 ;-)
p. 48 "Btx-Manager Fur Atari ST" -- Review of a graphics program
for mono STs under TOS.
p. 68 "Blitten mit und ohne Blitter" -- Demonstration program using
the ST blitter.
p. 84 "Atari ST und Harddisk an einem Netzschalter" -- Seems to be a
circuit that delays turning on your computer until after the harddisk
has had time to spin up.
p. 106 "ST greift um sich" -- Programming article describing a driver
program for a robot arm on an ST with a 68020 accelerator board
running under RTOS-UH.
p. 126 "Billigloesung - Preisgunstige PC-Harddisk am Atari" -- complete plans
for adding an IBM PC-compatible slot (they have a hard disk plugged
into theirs) hanging off the DMA port. The slot interface is about 1.5"
by 4" and consists of 3 connectors, 2 capacitors and resistors, and...
5 simple 74LSxxx chips. It looks like you could buy the parts for it
at Radio Shack and put it together in an evening. Of course, it will
take a while to type in the harddisk driver and formatting software,
which is provided, written in assembler and Lattice C. The article is
10 pages long.
Page 14 talks about new products that Atari is releasing this year; the PC5
is an 80386 PC klone. Funny, haven't seen one of those on my local store
shelves ;-)
In previous issues they have had articles about a 68020/881 board that
piggybacks onto the ST motherboard and runs RTOS at 12.5 mhz. Next issue
they plan an article on running TOS on the '020 board... they have patched
the ROMS and could run 98% of the 300 programs that they tested with it.
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I'm really excited about this stuff, and I would *love* to see someone making
interface kits (hint hint). Also, a monthly column by someone talking about
these articles would be welcomed.
I have no connection with c't (and I didn't even pay for this copy ;-)
Greg Lindahl |
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