bryan@nyit.UUCP (Bryan Althaus) (12/25/87)
I only had my 1040ST for a week before the drive went and I'm still
waiting for it to come back so in the meantime I thought I'd ask a few
questions.
I've been reading about Spectrum 512 in Antics START magazine and was wondering
if anyone has disassembled the code and found out how they put 48 colors per
scan line? Does this code work for putting more colors per scan line
in medium rez? Also could anyone out there who owns Spectrum 512 tell me how
like/dislike this product?
I plan on buying it just for the feature of 512 colors but I was just wondering
how good a paint program this is compared to Degas & NeoChrome.
About how they do it, Spectrum owns the rights to Spectrum 512 not the ability
to put 48 colors per scan line. I feel Spectrum has done something that I
didn't think was possible and they deserve all the customers they can get, it's
just that I hope the how's and why's of the scan line trick become public
knowledge, for a person shouldn't have to buy the program just to be able to
have 48 colors per scan line on their ST's.
I'm currently using Mark Williams C with Beckemeyers MT C-shell and together
they make a pretty powerful programming environment. I was wondering if anyone
knows how much temp space both programs use? I set a ramdisk up and put the
most used commands from MT C-shell into it (ls, cd etc.) and was wondering how
much bigger I should make the ramdisk to hold the /tmp area which MWC & BDT
MT C-shell use for temporary storage.
Also while talking about ramdisks has anyone bought the Mega disk(?) by Alpha.
It's suppose to be a 1 meg. ram cartridge which plugs into the cartrige port
on the Atari and gives you the ability to have an 800k ramdisk + 200k printer
spooler or two 400k ramdisks and the printer spooler. Also included for $299 is
a power supply so that after you turn your computer off your data is still
intact, sort of like a mini Hard Drive. For the price it sounds good, if
anyone has bought one could you tell me how you like it and also how could
I get MT C-shell to recognize the 200k printer spooler?
Thanks in advance
Merry Christmas & Happy Holidays to all
Bryan Althaus
N.Y.I.T. - Computer Graphics Laboratory
UUCP: ...!philabs!nyit!bryan (bryan@nyit.UUCP)