lean@sbcs (Lean L. Loh) (10/25/87)
> I was all ready to order my Atari 1040ST Color System, so I call the > store, only to find that they'd jacked all their prices up about $300! > They told me Atari had forced them to do it for the holidays, but I > > Anyway, I'm really considering getting a monochrome system instead. > I'm more interested in the finer resolution than color and games > Advantages to monochrome? Disadvantages? Opinions sought. > > Also, I would like someone to give me a fairly technical review of > Personal Pascal. Right off the bat I'll need to know if it runs on > monochrome, but I'd also like to know how faithful it is to UCSD > As an afterthought, is there a good monochrome font editor, and does > anyone have the Cyrillic font? The official dealer here also said that Atari has imposed a price hike on the 1040ST (about $125). I think some of the big guys at Atari are as brain-damaged as TOS. If you like clear, crisp text (like a monochrome SUN), then get the mono system. It's very very crisp. The color system is very nice, but not really appropriate for text processing. So for nice graphics and games, get the color; for serious word-processing, programming, etc., get the monochrome. I have the earlier version of Personal Pascal; it's pretty comprehensive (supports standard Pascal and more). Works on both color and monochrome. Check out the new version though. Yes, I just posted a font editor, font loader and a nice font file to comp.sys.atari.st about 3 weeks ago. It works on the monochrome only (i think) The font editor is very good. PS> Is Uniterm 2.0 out?? -- CSNET: lean@sbcs.csnet ARPA: lean%suny-sb.csnet@csnet-relay.arpa UUCP: {allegra, hocsd, philabs, ogcvax}!sbcs!lean