Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!seismo!rutgers!ucla-cs!zen!ucbvax!CZHRZU1A.BITNET!K538915 From: K538915@CZHRZU1A.BITNET Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st Subject: The Mega ST's arrive! (and the first problems too :-)) Message-ID: <8707271604.AA11579@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU> Date: Mon, 27-Jul-87 14:03:35 EDT Article-I.D.: ucbvax.8707271604.AA11579 Posted: Mon Jul 27 14:03:35 1987 Date-Received: Tue, 28-Jul-87 03:22:59 EDT Sender: daemon@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU Distribution: world Organization: The ARPA Internet Lines: 17 The Mega ST's started selling today in Switzerland ('selling' = you can go in the shop payup 3000 SFr and walk away with one). So at last we know how long immient is :-). The bad news is (well at least in my opinion) is that they are being sold without blitter (I don`t think anyboady actually believes it will ever be available!). One interesting point is that the price difference between 2 and 4 Mega versions is only 400.- SFr (~$270), so our local shop expects only to be selling the 4 Mb version. Another point to note is that UniTerm will not run on the ST-4 (I haven`t tried it on a ST-2) with german ROM`s, the xbios setscreen call seems to have changed, in any case the switching between text and help screen doesn't seem to work anymore. Can anybody at Atari shed some light on this (BTW it would be nice if some of the more widely spread PD and Freeware stuff could be tested for problems with new ROM releases). Simon Poole K538915@CZHRZU1A.BITNET