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If you wish -}to back up a BBS, for example, you can back up 16 Megabyte partitions in this way. There is a DOS shell. You can -} lock the data line, but for most setups, it should remain automatic. You can get directories of you PC files, or of- } Atari files within a particular ramdisk image. You can install a PC file as a ramdisk image or write a ramdis-!}k image to a PC file. You can toggle the status line at the bottom of the screen on and off if it bothers you. You -"}8can jump to Ultraspeed I/O and back to normal speed.< There are also hidden commands, which are not on the menu-#}, and allow you to redraw the screen (handy if you have just printed from the Atari to the screen) or blank the scree-$}Gn. Another hidden command turns off the beep that comes when a bad sector is found reading from the 1050 in the parall-%}%el port (versions 4.10 on), and the clicks that are found on floppy access in version 4.16. The status line shows the -&}= following entries: HDL - file handle number -- useful F din checking if file is open m vor closed} -'} 0 CMND - current command to drive5 Y LAST - previous command to drive] DEV - device number being a-(} ccessed  0(explained in docs for this 9 Aprogram)V y COM - High/low status of Atari} -)} command line( Q ERR - error codes Nick Kennedy usesZ xin debugging (symbol doesn't } -*} always mean error)! J SEC# - sector number being accessed S h(decimal -- 4 digits)p RAM - nu-+}mber of kbytes of PC % :conventional RAM leftB ` SPEED - N for normal; H forj kt UltraSpee-,}d Hitting "A" from the main screen takes you to the timing submenu, from which re-timing can be --} done. Also available at this submenu are a choice to change the configuration of a disk, to change the sense of-.} the command line, or to bring up two more submenus -- the 1050-2-PC submenu and the hardware diagnostics submenu. The -/} 1050-20-PC submenu is used only with that special interface I spoke about before. It will allow a 1050 drive, conne-0}cted through that special interface, to read 720 or 1040 sector files from the 1050 into ramdisk images, to write fro-1}m a ramdisk image to the 1050, to read a block of sectors to a file, to format an Atari disk in the 1050, to scan se-2}ctors for status and errors and to edit sectors, and, of course to go back to SIO2PC. The diagnostics submenu -3} allows the Atari, running software provided by Nick Kennedy, to enter an "intercom" mode with the PC, or to toggle -4}the status of the input, output and command lines with some restrictions elaborated in the docs, or to send sec-5}tors from the Atari to the PC and vice-versa, and, of course, to exit back to SIO2PC. I haven't assembled or used-6}G the special interface for the 1050. I don't think I'm going to do that, since I'd need another one for PC -7}7Xformer, and a third for A. P. E. I know that some people have reported good results with the 1050 in SIO2PC. I also -8} see that Nick Kennedy has included some features in SIO2PC that allow working with copy-protected software. I don'-9}t know if he did this because of competition from A.P.E. or because other users asked for it. I do know that I haven't -:}had time to try it, and it's unlikely that I will in the next little while. SIO2PC has worked reliably on my syst-;}em. Although I had to re-time 3.19, as stated above, I haven't had to do that with 4.10 or 4.16. I can mix physica-<}Zl floppies and ramdisks and copy from one to the other without any problem._ Printing through the IBM -=}khasn't been a problem. Above all, Nick Kennedy has been very cooperative with the community.o He has dev->}eloped a product that he states is a hobby, but his approach to it has been most professional. Nick will get you th-?}e software and construction plans for a shareware fee. He also sells kits of parts for his interface and will assem-@}ble an interface for you for an additional fee. He can be reached at: Nick Kennedy 300 South Vancouver Street Russ-A}ellville, Arkansas 72801 (501) 967-3483 E-Mail: nkennedy@cswnet.com A. P. E. (Atari Peripheral Emulator) is a system b-B}y Steven Tucker that relies# on an SIO2PC hardware interface to work. I am describing version 1.10 here. -C} The actual screens are much more elaborate than those of SIO2PC software. Steven distinguishes between distr-D}@ibution versions (which are sometimes betas) and registeredD Mversions.R The registered versions of A. P. E. do-E} come with advanced features. Steven maintains a Web page from which you can download any or all of his product-F}s, register them, etc. Most of the SIO2PC functions are also included in A. P. E., sometimes with more bells and whistle-G}s. A. P. E. includes a "Pro" system (for which you also have to build an additional interface) which connects a -H}G1050 to the PC through the parallel port, and allows making disk images of copy- protected software which will then-I}I run only in that Pro system. This is for personal archival use only, although Steven did include some Pro image -J}files in some versions of the A.P. E. software. I didn't test them. There are a couple of features in A. P. E. tha-K}t SIO2PC doesn't have. What is disturbing to me about A. P. E. is that its performance tends to vary more from system t-L}o system than does SIO2PC. But, I don't really wish to rate A. P. E. down, because many people have reported g-M}reater success with it in the newsgroup. So, let me describe its intended features for you, and if you wish to -N}try, please do and please let me know how it worked. The main screen will come up right after the title screen, if you-O} have a registered version of A. P. E. If you don't, there will be a delay of some seconds while you are reminded-P} to register your copy. The A. P. E. main screen has a two-part layout. The top of the screen shows the status -Q}of all eight ramdisk bays, and it is possible to have all eight ramdisks in memory or disk access at the same time. -R} For each ramdisk you will see the SIO command most recently associated with it, the sector being accessed i-S}n decimal, the total number of sectors, the bytes per sector (Dns), the Pro status (P), whether the file is protected-T} from writes from the Atari or not, and the image filename, which might be truncated. Below this table you will -U}see an indicator for the Ultraspeed status, and whether the emulation of the drives is "smart" or "stupid." At the b-V}(ottom of the screen is a scrolling, display of all SIO commands, only a few lines long, but potentially val-W}uable, since every sector's commands come up. Pressing "!" from your keyboard takes you to a DOS shell. You exit back-X} to A.P.E. by typing "EXIT ," just as in most DOS shells found in other PC programs. Pressing "|" from the keybo-Y}ard resets the file system in A. P. E. That is to say, it closes all files, resets all pointers, and remounts all .A-Z}GTR images. Pressing "@" from the keyboard toggles the concurrent I/O. This mode activates automatically when-[}[ you are using the PC's modem, but it may have to be reset after disk access takes place during an upload or do-\}wnload. Pressing "H" from the keyboard brings up a Help Screen full of commands. The one you should try FIRST is "Z",-]}Ǜ which brings up the configuration submenus. Of these five, the first is the most important. The very first -^}wchoice you have to make on this one is the SIO2PC type. Here, you choose whether you have a one-chip or two-chip{ in-_}terface. The wrong setting just won't work. The second choice tells A. P. E. in which of your COM ports the SI-`}O2PC interface is located. The third, fourth, fifth, and sixth choices tell A. P. E. in which of your COM ports yo-a}ur PC's modem is located, what its maximum baud rate is, and how to set the PC's DTR and RTS lines (these are most-b}e probably high - the default setting.) The seventh choice is somewhat critical, and mayi mneedq some experi-c}menting. It lets A. P. E. know how fast hardware flow control takes place with your modem. Steven Tucker suggests that -d}8 the number start at setting 1000 for 19.2 Kbps.= I found modem use with this program to present many problems.-e} There is a paragraph #later' )on- Vin this installment that describesZ the difficulty I was having. -f} Steven seemed to have no solution for the problem. Choice 8 is also somewhat critical, and needs some experiment-g}Hation, and it has led to a good deal of frustration on myL Qpart.V It designates a framing threshold f-q}B%DOS SYSB*)DUP SYSBSRAMDISK COMBVMAINMENUHLPB^WELCOME SCRBfAUTORUN SYSBhAUTORUN COMBiPRESSPRTMNUBSmUNARC COMB#GRABANAPBASBDNEWSLTR BASBCEMU03 TXTBTDNLRV TXTB! ECALCUL TXTB/BGRASSCALARBSKULL BASC STRING1 STRING2 0zROCKET BASqor Ultraspeed on the SIO bus, and Steven suggest that your initial setting should be 8. I have run it as high as i-r}ts maximum and as low as its minimum and still can't get ramdisks and physical floppy drives to cooperate in-s}T my system. Again, there is a paragraph later on in this installment thatX adescribese my difficulties in more-t} detail, but here I can rationalize and say that A. P. E. was meant to ELIMINATE writes to physical Atari drives an-u}d that I shouldn't mix them into the system. Choice 9 takes the SIO command monitor off the screen. This -v}is vital if your PC is very slow, since leaving the command monitor there would slow down reads and writes. Choi-w}ce 0 toggles the verbosity of the SIO command monitor, and choice % serves to filter out some of the commands s-x}[hown so that you can concentrate on the more common ones during trouble-shooting._ To use these filters, you-y} must provide the hex numbers of the commands you wish to filter. Registered users may assign macros to the letter-z}s A-Z for use in the A. P. E. program. Configurations can be saved with CTRL-S, loaded with CTRL-L, an-{}d defaults restored with CTRL-D. The second configuration submenu deals with printer configuration. The choices-|} here are similar to the ones described for SIO2PC, and pretty much self-explanatory. The third configuration submenu d-}}eals with default paths and filename extensions and can be quite useful in automating A. P. E. The program has a -~}COfeature called block configuration, which makes it possible to hit one keyS (thus running one "block configurat-}ion" file) and automatically load several pre- specified ramdisk images into several pre-specified bays-}. The fourth configuration submenu allows you to adjust the IRQ and base addresses of your PC's COM ports for thos-}e very unusual situations occasionally encountered. The fifth configuration submenu sets Ultraspeed for US Do-}ubler drives. Choice 1 locks the speed at normal SIO speed. Choice 2 sets Ultraspeed as the default. Choice 3 set-}s the "APE+ Ultraspeed," which is about three times as fast as normal SIO. This is only useful for US Doubler -}kdrives. I don't have one, so I couldn't test it. Sparta Dos 3.2G automatically switches too APE+ Ultraspe-}ed when it boots up. You are advised, if you use this DOS, to include the command, KEY OFF in your startup.bat file-}. Let's go back to the main screen, assuming configurations are set as you wish and saved. Here, again, pres-}sing "H" will give you all of the commands you can use from the main screen. I'll lay them out for you so that you can-}_ understand the features of A. P. E. Perhaps the most important command is "C."c This command allows you-} to create a new .ATR image. This is always a MyDos image, and about the same sizes, side, density and sect-}or/track configurations of ramdisk image that are found in SIO2PC can be created in A.P.E. (Steven Tucker, by the way,-} gives a great illustration of how to make up a 16 megabyte hard drive disk image in MyDos in his documentation.) Howev-}er, the procedure is different from SIO2PC in a few important respects. In SIO2PC, you select density, and-} the bay in which the image will reside, create the image by selecting its size, format it, write to it, and only-} get to name it when it is actually written to your hard drive or a floppy. In A. P. E., you must calculate some o-}f these sizes on screen. In addition, you must name the image first. You are cautioned to be careful naming an-}G image, since it will overwrite one with the same name on the same drive. Before the disk is created, you are given -}EE a summary of the size choices, name, and destination you have selected before you give the final command to cre-}ate the ramdisk. After creation, you are prompted to format the ramdisk. Once this is done, the created ramdisk is sho-}wn on the main screen, in the bay you have designated. You can write to it, read from it, copy it, etc. -}Suppose you have an already-created ramdisk image. You simply use the "L" command to load it into a bay that you-} designate. If you don't specify a filename, a file-finder comes up and you can use it to find the file you wan-}t. Later versions of SIO2PC do this, as well. If you have designated a bay that's already occupied, the program wi-}ll ask you if you wish to replace the image that is in that bay. When the file appears on the main screen, it's nam-}e and statistics are also there. In addition, if the ramdisk has come from a "PC Mirror drive" (more about t-}hat later) its name will be in inverse red. If the file is in A.P.E.'s Pro system, its name will be in inver-}se purple. Now, suppose you want to switch the images you have to different bays. You press the bay number for an ima-}ge, followed by the bay number to which you wish to switch it, and the switch is done. The "R" command releases, -}or removes a disk image from a designated bay. The "A" command will convert a .DCM or .XFD image to an .ATR so that i-}t can be used with A. P. E. This feature is very handy. Before it was included, you'd have to go out to anoth-}er utility to do the job. I have some of those utilities. They are very nice, but they involve switching pr-}ograms. In fact, one of them, Imagic, which operates under Windows 95, was written by Steven Tucker. The "B" c-}ommand sets up the block configurations described above. The "P" command changes to the Pro Emulation mode, and is-} available for registered users only. Again, I didn't test this mode because it would have me building -}Ganother interface. The "S" command sets up the PC Mirror drive. PC Mirror is a feature that allows you to get directo-}ries of your PC's files, with proper subdirectory listings, from your Atari. It can become very convenient. You -} may write to your PC Mirror drive only if you're a registered user of A. P. E. The "T" command toggles "smart" and "s-}tupid" emulation. "Smart" recognizes all disk configurations, skews and speeds, etc. "Stupid," according -}to Steven Tucker, makes A. P. E. most like a 1050 drive, and is useful only for earlier versions of Superdos. The "U-}" command toggles Ultraspeed. The "V" command brings up a text viewer that usually automatically recognizes ATA-}SCII, ASCII or Unix text files. If it fails to recognize the type of text file, you can toggle within the viewer with -}the "F" key. If you wish to switch text files from within the viewer, you can use the "N" command. ESC takes you b-}ack to A. P. E. If you are a registered user of A. P. E., you can use this viewer from a command line. The "W"-} command toggles write protection for an image on and off. The "Q" command quits the A. P. E. program. Steven -}Tucker has tried to provide Atari users with a way to access their PC's modem using the Atari and programs like -}BobTerm. It's a great idea, and I'm quite sure that it works for some people or it wouldn't have been released. Of-} course, as I mentioned earlier, you have to have a registered copy to go to the 19.2 Kbaud of which BobTerm is capab-}. 2,334,512,000,000(2 trillion etc.) FEATURES OF THE CALCULATOR. Repeat the keystrokes as shown in the6-} examples. ^R means hold the CONTROL KEY and press R. ADDITION: 25 + 25 = ANS(50) SUBTRACTION: 50 - 30 = ANS(20) MU6.}LTIPLICATION: 25 X 4 = ANS(100) DIVISION: 50 / 10 = ANS(5) PERCENT: 90 X 6 % = ANS(5.4) SQUARE ROOT: 64 ^R = ANS(8) S6/}QUARE OF A NUMBER: 7 ^S = ANS(49) HEX TO DECI.: $FF ^D = ANS(255) DECI TO HEX: 1000 ^H ^H = ANS($3E8). (Press ^H TWICE!60}) CHANGE SIGNS: T (TOGGLES) FROM +/- AND -/+ GET 2 DECIMAL PALCES: # 2.345 + 3.569 = 5.92 (ROUNDED OFF TO NE61}AREST HUNDREDTH) PUT A NUMBER INTO MEMORY: 100 ^+ SUBTRACT A NUMBER OUT OF MEMORY: 25 ^- FROM MEMORY TO MAIN DISPLA62}GY: ^M CLEAR MEMORY: ^C CLEAR A CURRENT ENTRY: Z CLEAR ALL (EXCEPT MEMORY): CLEAR or RETURN PRINT: P(TOGGLES ON/OFF63}3) Printer QUIT PROGRAM: ^Q When a HEX number is put into the memory it will automatically be converted to a 64}decimal number. (All HEX numbers must be preceeded by '$'). If you want to disable the BREAK KEY remove the REM 65}nin line 1910. You can renumber this program (TURBO BASIC) to higher numbers such as starting with 3r0 and attach66} it to another program. To do this do the following: 1) Renumber the program 2) SAVE it with LIST. Example: LIST "D:67}GRASSCAL.LIS" 3) Type in NEW 4) LOAD your original program into the computer. 5) LOAD your listed program with the ENT68}ER command. Example:ENTER "D:GRASSCAL.LIS" 6) Save your newly created program. You now have attached the calcul69}^ator program to your original program. You can call the claculator program with a GOTO 3b0. To return to your or6:}Liginal program change line 490 in the calculator program from 490 Q.`:END to 490 d.:GOTO 10. Now every time6;} you press ^Q(Quit) you will be going to the begining of your original program. MAKING A MASTER DISK: Format a disk6<}Ǜ in single density. If you use TURBO BASIC your calculator will be faster. The new TURBO BASIC shows a prompt of TURBO.6=} The old shows a prompt of READY. PUT DOS on your disk. 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