Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!seismo!mcvax!diku!jesper From: jesper@diku.UUCP (Jesper L. Lauritsen) Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st Subject: Lots of questions Message-ID: <3332@diku.UUCP> Date: Mon, 20-Jul-87 08:02:31 EDT Article-I.D.: diku.3332 Posted: Mon Jul 20 08:02:31 1987 Date-Received: Wed, 22-Jul-87 05:18:55 EDT Organization: DIKU, U of Copenhagen, DK Lines: 57 Hi there! I have finally decided to purchase an Atari ST and now have some questions and requests for software. I guess that several of these questions has been discussed in this newsgroup before, but I am new to the newsgroup (I imagen other newcomers have some of the same questions). I suggest that you email replies to me, and I will then summarize to the net. If you have any of the software requested please don't send the software right away, but send name and version of the program and an offer to send it later. I will then pick one of the offers. If you send me a request I will be happy to forward any software I receive. 1) What are the newest version availably anywhere of TOS, the Desktop and other system software? 2) What harddisks exist for the ST, and what are there prices? 3) What C compiler should I get? I now that such questions may start religious wars, so I will put up some characteristics of the compiler I am looking for: - Price is a matter. - Fast compilation and run times are nice but not life or dead. - I would like an ANSI compiler, and standard UNIX extensions to K&R is a must (void,enum and struc. assignment). - Lint and make would be very nice. - (UNIX) stdio library or something alike is a must. Sources would be nice. - There should be a reasonable interface to TOS (do one need the equivalent of a resource editor on the Macintosh?) - You should either be able to write inline assembler or be able to link in assembler routines. 4) All programs on the net seems to be encoded. Will someone please offer me the sources for the encode/decode programs? 5) Does anybody know of a free/cheap ANSI terminal emulator? VT100 will do but not VT52. Tektronix 4014 emulation would be nice. Sources preferred. 6) Will someone please offer to send Kermit? Sources preferred. A Kermit with VT100 emulation and perhaps even Tektronix 4014 emulation would be wonder- full. 7) Has anybody ported Xlisp to the ST? Sources preferred. 8) Do you have any nice fonts you want to share? Or perhaps a font editor? 9) Any other freeware you think every newcomer should get? 10) Does there exist any good introductions to (C) programming on the ST that don't spend most of the pages to teach programming in general? Thanks in advance. I really appreciate your help, and hope others can use the answers/software I get. I return with a summary of the replys. --------------- Jesper L. Lauritsen, U. of Copenhagen, Denmark email: jesper@diku.UUCP (old uucp mailers: ...!mcvax!diku!jesper)