| In your previous note, you mentioned that you can get a little 2-inch
wide screen dump. This tells me that the printer accepts the same
bitmap format as the regular Epson printers.
I use a 24-pin Toshiba printer. (I'm working on some great software
for it, by the way. I'm already up to printing text files in old
English fonts and script fonts and stuff like that.) I have written
programs and desk accessories that can print a portion of the screen
and scale the bitmaps up to a reasonable size, but the Toshiba printer
does not accept the same format as the regular Epson printers. For
various reasons, I will be soon writing code that dumps bitmaps in
Epson protocol, and will retain all of the abilities to scale up the
bitmaps when I do so. I would then be able to easily provide you with
a desk accessory that could drive your printer.
HOWEVER, assuming that I get around to it, I don't think this will help
you, because if I understand you correctly, you said that you already
had a desk accessory that could do this for you, and what you needed
was something that would hook into the ALT-HELP key, which does
print-screen functions even when the desk accessories are inaccessible.
(By the way, I've been getting by just fine without ALT-HELP working.)
As of yet, I have not been able to get definitive documentation on how
to splice my own application into the ALT-HELP print screen function.
If somebody knows how to do this, I would really like to know, so that
I could write a driver for my Toshiba printer's bitmap format, and
would then be in a good position to solve Jan's problem as well.
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| Some more info:
the desk utility I use is called snapshot, it came with 1-word plus.
Snapshot takes a snapshot of (a portion of) the screen, and saves
this in DEGAS, DOODLE, or NEO format . So to print the screen I
then must start DEGAS, load the picture file and print.
So I am still interested in a desk utility that will print my screen
directly.
The only thing that makes the screendump worthless is that the printer
will not perform a normal line-feed after each printed line, but
performs a line-feed which is about 6 times smaller.
For some programs like games, or basic I still need the alt-help
combination, I now know were to find the info (in the start magazine
of summer 1986), but I still can't get it.
Does anybody know if you still can get this copy from antic?
(I sure hope so, but I don't think so)
Or is there someone out there who could copy this and perhaps other
articles (in the old note file I read that that first issue was
full of interesting stuff).
Oops, I just remember that I will need the disk too (and I haven't
got a modem!).
So if someone could send my a copy of the article and a disk with
the program, I will send him/her lots of money!!!!!!!!!
Anyway : what is the adress of start?
" " " " " C.T.??????
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| Finally got my screendump routine for my NEC P2200.
It's a PD utitity for NEC P5,P6,P7 24-pin printers, but it is also
working with my P2200.
The routine is made by NEC Germany, I got it from one of the PD-groups
here in Holland.
The program must be executed once, it then is placed in RAM.
At execution the type of printer is asked (P5,P6,P7);
then the resolution is asked 180 dpi (faster) or 360 dpi;
then there is a choise for portret or landscape !
and last and not least the width of the screendump can be chosen !
, so you can get small or large screendumps.
These settings can only be entered once, to alter them you have
to reboot (but I can live with that).
I can't upload the program (haven't got a modem), but if someone
is interested I can send them a disk (or check out your local PD
group).
JAN-WILLEM
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|
Got this off the USENET. It's a listing of most (maybe all?)
the current publications for Atari users.
Moderators. . .if this is in any way in violation of the
P&P's regarding solicitation, please feel free to delete.
Matt
From: DECWRL::"kiki@uhunix.uhcc.hawaii.edu" "Jack W. Wine" 5-APR-1991 00:30:52.50
To: dweezl::bagdy
CC:
Subj: Atari mag. info
Hi. The following information is from Freenet (freenet-in-a.cwru.edu). They
keep a good repository of information on the major personal computers,
including back-issues of electronic news like Znet and STreport.
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Welcome to the Atari Computer Magazine & Books listing!
The following list is Atari supporting magazines currently in
publication in the United States. If you know one that is not
mentioned then please give us the name and information on subscribing
to it so we can post it here.
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Atari Explorer Magazine
John B. Jainschigg, Publisher/Editor
(218) 723-9202
Owned and operated by Atari Corp.
USA Canada* Foreign*
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STart Magazine
James Capparell, Publisher
Thomas R. Byron, Editor
Subscription Customer Service:
1-800-234-7001
12 issues and 12 disks is $79.95
Other subscription rates may be available.
STart
Mt. Morris, Il. 61054
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ST Informer
R.S. "Rod" MacDonald
Published by MacDonald Associates
Subscription Fee: 1 year (3rd class mail) $19.95 w/disk $55.95
1 year renew (3rd class) $18 w/disk $52
2 year (3rd class) $37.95 w/disk $105.95
2 year renew (34d class) $36 w/disk $104
(1st class, APO, FPO) 1 year $27 w/disk $63
1 year renew $26 w/disk $60
2 year renew $51 w/disk $119
1 year Canada $29 w/disk $65
2 year Canada $56 w/disk $126
Foreign Sub. Service 1 year (AIR) $69 w/disk $105
1 year (ground) $36 w/disk $72
ST Informer
909 NW Starlite Place
Grants Pass, OR 97526
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Current Notes
Joe Waters, Publisher
Frank Sommers, ST Editor
Len Pogiali, XE Editor
Subscription $24/year
Current Notes
122 N. Johnson Rd.
Sterling, VA 22170
703-450-4761
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AIM (Atari Interface Magazine)
Patricia Snyder-Rayl, Managing Editor
Bill Rayl, Editor
Subscription rates: U.S. - $18 for a year, $32 for 2 years
Canadian - $30 for 1 year, $55 for 2 years
Foreign - $36 for 1 year, $65 for 2 years
Please make check or money order payable in U.S. funds to Unicorn
Publications, 3487 Braeburn Circle, Ann Arbor, MI 48108
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For Immediate Release.....
3/7/91
FREE MONTHLY ATARI MAGAZINE ANNOUNCED, AVAILABLE IN MAY.
COVINA, CA -- Quill Publishing, publishers of ST JOURNAL
MAGAZINE, have replaced the Journal with ATARIUSER, the first and
only FREE ATARI SPECIFIC MAGAZINE. ATARIUSER will be distributed
free internationally through computer stores, Atari dealers,
developers, distributors, and registered Atari user groups.
Select book and retail stores and businesses will offer it for
free or $1.00 per issue, at their option.
Preferred delivery subscriptions to ATARIUSER are available,
direct mailed for only $12 a year. All outstanding subscribers
to extended ATARIUSER subscriptions.
AtariUser will cover the ENTIRE Atari computer product lineup,
including the TT, STe, ST, MEGA, MEGA/STe, Portfolio, Lynx, and
even the out-of-production Atari 8-bit series of computers. It
will also grow as the Atari product mix grows in the coming
years. ATARIUSER's editor-in-chief is well-known industry
journalist JOHN NAGY. Says Nagy, "We'll focus on the facts that
will make it easier to be an ATARI USER. Every month we will try
to cut to the meat of what is happening, what is available, what
it can do for you, and how to get it. And we'll do it FAST, with
less than two weeks between final edits and distribution. Our
concept and goal is to be your standard monthly reference for all
Atari interests... at a price Atari Users can truly say is POWER
WITHOUT THE PRICE... FREE!"
ATARIUSER will begin with the May 1991 issue, expected to be
available starting April 15. Distribution will be at a minimum
of 30,000 per month. P. Kevin Horn, Quill's Marketing Director,
said "ATARIUSER is the most inexpensive Atari national
lowest cost per thousand. No one can beat us!"
Dealers and user groups interested in providing ATARIUSER
monthly, free, to their customers and users should contact Quill
Publishing directly, and quickly, if they wish to receive
sufficient quantities of the May '91 issue. Groups are also
solicited to suggest and perhaps cooperate in placement of
ATARIUSER distribution points in their areas as part of their own
membership outreach. Simply call our offices and let us know how
many issues your group can realistically place.
Single sample issues will be available by mail after April 20 -
send $1.00 to Quill Publishing. Potential advertisers should
contact P. Kevin Horn. Aspiring writers should contact Editor
John Nagy or Editorial Assistant John King Tarpinian at the Quill
offices below.
ATARIUSER magazine from Quill Publishing Co.
113 W. College St.
Covina, CA 91723
818-332-2869 - Fax.
818-332-5473 - Direct advertising line.
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From: vanleejf@udcps3.cps.udayton.edu (James Van Leeuwen)
Subject: STart Suspends Publication...
Date: 16 May 91 23:07:07 GMT
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Z*NET INTERNATIONAL ATARI NEWS SERVICE - Z*BREAK #91-20 - 5/15/91
START MAGAZINE CEASES PUBLICATION
Story by John Nagy
After days of conflicting rumors, it was confirmed by START Magazine
staff members today that the bi-monthly Atari magazine START will NOT
publish another issue until further notice.
"STart has suspended publication pending a sale of the magazine," said
Editor in Chief Tom Byron. A sale is said to be in the works with
unidentified parties, and no timetable is being discussed publicly.
Byron also said that the next issue, the June/July edition, is complete
and was waiting for printing when he got the news today that the
suspension was in effect.
The resolution of the fates of subscribers and the many writers to whom
STart has owed moneys dating back to mid 1990 is not known or
predictable at this point. If STart is sold, it may be that those owed
will be paid from the revenues, or the new owner may assume the
liabilities of the company. A third possibility is that there would be
a liquidation and sale of assets held by STart itself, which may be
negligible.
Z*Net will continue to follow this story which is of great concern to
the entire Atari community. STart is the last commercial "slick"
magazine for the Atari in the U.S.A. It will leave behind only Atari
Explorer, Atari's owned house magazine, and newspaper-type publications
like AtariUser and ST INFORMER.
Look for followup on the STart story in Z*NET #91-21, this weekend on
telecommunication services and bulletin boards world-wide.
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