______________________________________ |////////////////////////////////////| |////////////////////////////////////| |//SYNDICATE ZMAGAZINE ISSUE #98//| |//--------------------------------//| |//PUBLISHER/EDITOR: RON KOVACS //| |//ASSIT PUBLISHER : KEN KIRCHNER //| |//MANAGING EDITOR : MR. GOODPROBE //| |////////////////////////////////////| |////////////////////////////////////| | March 21, 1988 (c)1988 SPC/Kovacs | |____________________________________| | Welcome Spring 1988 | |____________________________________| |Contents: | |____________________________________| |*|Editors Desk | |*|SPC Newswire | |*|Special Edition Feature | |_|__________________________________| ______________________________________ Editiors Desk ______________________________________ by Ron Kovacs This week we follow with another BBS software issue. Last week we debuted the release (pre-release) of Express Pro. This week after the news story, we will expand on previous coverge of Carina II BBS system. Please read ST-Report this week for information on the Word Perfect news from last week. Interesting reading for everyone. Thanks again to everyone who has sent email and cards for the baby. It was unexpected and appreciated. Disk mailings are taking place this week to those of you who have sent in disks for Zmagazine reproductions. I am sorry for the long delay, I have been under alot of backlogged paper and am finally begining to see some light. Official Zmag registration details will be listed in an upcoming issue. All Zmag systems carrying our magazines are required to atleast register for a user number. We are setting up a network and want to get systems on the list for mailings and special survey information. This is not a mandatory request. But if you want coverage and mentions in Zmag, you must be registered. ______________________________________ SPC Newswire ______________________________________ From the Associated Press ATARI ACCUSES MICRON TECHNOLOGY OF ILLEGALLY EXPLOITING MEMORY CHIPS SAN JOSE, Calif. (MARCH 15) AP - Atari Corp. of Sunnyvale has charged Micron Technology Inc. of Boise, Idaho, with illegally exploiting a shortage of computer memory chips. The computer and video company on Monday filed suit in U.S. District Court, seeking an order to make the Idaho semiconductor manufacturer pay the California company an unspecified amount of damages. The suit charges breach of contract, bad faith and violation of federal antitrust law. There was no immediate response from Micron Technology. Micron Technology is one of only two U.S.-based companies that make the most common kind of computer memory chip, known as dynamic random access memory chips, or D-RAMs. The other is Texas Instruments Inc. of Dallas. The shortage of the chips has been caused by strong sales of personal computers, the changeover to a new generation of chips, and a 1986 accord between the United States and Japan aimed at ending Japanese ''dumping'' of the chips at unfairly low prices. ATARI ON LIST OF AMEX 10 MOST ACTIVE STOCKS THIS WEEK NEW YORK (MARCH 16) - The 10 most active stocks in American Stock Exchange composite trading Wednesday, March 16. Stock Sales Last Net Chg. ====================================== Lorimar Tel 764,300 14 7/8 off 1/2 Texas Air 368,000 13 up 1/8 Western Digi 291,700 16 up 1 Asamera Inc 285,200 9 5/8 up 1/8 Wang Lab B 285,100 12 7/8 up 1/4 *Atari Corp* 285,100 7 7/8 off 1/2 Ntl Patent Dv 281,900 8 5/8 up 3/4 Dome Petro 271,500 1 unch Alza Corp A 175,600 28 3/4 up 1/8 Fst Aust Prm 173,600 8 7/8 unch FCC REPORTEDLY TO SCRAP PLAN TO RAISE PHONE RATES FOR COMPUTER USERS WASHINGTON (MARCH 17) AP - The Federal Communications Commission plans to scrap a proposal that would substantially increase telephone charges for business and home computer users, sources said Wednesday. FCC Chairman Dennis R. Patrick has concluded that, based on strong and nearly unanimous opposition to the proposal, the plan should be dropped, according to sources at the commission and on Capitol Hill. Commissioner Patricia Diaz Dennis said Patrick had not spoken with her about a recommendation to drop the plan, but she said she agreed with the idea. 'There's a lot on our plate right now and I don't think I'd miss not seeing that on it,'' she said. The third commissioner, James Quello, could not be reached for comment. Patrick's office had no comment on the reports. The commission was expected to vote in two to three months to drop the proposal. Users of these services flooded the FCC and Capitol Hill with thousands of letters opposing the plan, which would add about $4.50 an hour to the cost of hooking up to information services. They said the increased charges, which would double the hourly hookup price for some information services, would drive many of them off the computer networks and crush a fledgling industry. Rep. Edward J. Markey, D-Mass., chairman of the House Energy and Commerce telecommunications subcommittee, said that in light of the commission's apparent reversal on the proposal he would delay indefinitely introduction of a bill preventing the FCC from imposing the access charges. ______________________________________ CARINA II PREVIEW ______________________________________ Captured by Ron Kovacs The following capture contains commentary and facts about the Carina II BBS system. Jerry Horanoff took me through the tour which lasted approx 3 hours plus. I have tried to keep the contents flowing and there are parts where I have gone off in the wrong direction. You are invited to take a look at the system yourself. Give the Carina BBS a call. The number is a the end of this review. Now Mr. Horanoff speaks: Before anyone gets too excited, let me first state that you MUST use SpartaDos to run this BBS. No if/ands/or buts about it. It is also HIGHLY recommended that you have atleast a 192k ramdisk (although it is not required) and/or a hard drive. You certainly don't need a hard drive, but if you don't have a ramdisk, it would be MUCH more of a benefit to have one. You can run this system on as little as 500k of storage space (including ramdisk and disk drives), but the more space you have, the more impressive the system will be. ɠ 䠠󠠠  堠 󠠠  󠠠 󠠠󠠠 󠠠󩠠 栠Ӡ 󠠠Ǡ 󠠠 󩠠 󠠠 𠠠𠠠 į̠ 堠 堠 䠠堠 Notice that Carina II can now use single letter input now. No need for you (if not an expirenced Carina user to activate a ctrl and letter command. Simple one letter key commands make life a bit easier for you (lazy) people. Hehehe ______________________________________ Carina II supports many different types of terminal emulation. ASCII/ ATASCII, VT-52 monochrome, VT-52 color, line-feeds on/off, etc... Switching from ASCII to ATASCII is as simple as switching your terminal program's translation and hitting RETURN at any command prompt (no sense making things difficult, right?). Switching your other terminal options is done by use of the "Settings" command: Settings- ݠ䠠 ______ ݠ堾 24 ݠ堠 012 ݠ ݠ󠠾 [ ] ݠ [*] ݠ [ ] ݠ󠠾 [ ] ݠ󠠾 [ ] ݠԭ堠 [ ] ݠԠ򠠾 [*] ݠ򠠠 [*] ݠ Read All New,Browse All New ݠ D |堠|| |Electronic Mail |PRIVATE | *|The Area |GENERAL | *|The Universe |CARINA | *|The Ԡ Forum |ST | *|The Zone |ATARI | *|The ͠ Executives |IBM | *|The World |AMIGA | *|The Pub |COMMODORE | *|The Orchard |APPLE | *|The Tavern |TANDY | *|The ɠ Files |II_FILES | *|The Corner |GAMER'S | *|The ï  Members |ACC/PB | *|The Room |DEBATE | *| ֮ɮЮ Members |VIP | *|The ɠ Area |ROBOWAR | |̠|| κ As you can see, there are a lot of different settings that you can personalize to your own needs. Carina II supports 80 columns now, page breaks, continuous read, and others.. The header can be toggled along with the features above. There is also a macro that you can define to be anything you want (the "$" key). This is not a command, it's a string that can contain multiple commands that you use use frequently (just like you would set a macro in your terminal program, you can set a macro on the BBS as well (in case your terminal program doesn't support such things)). It can be up to 30 characters long. Message Bases ______________________________________ Unlike Carina 1, Carina II is devided up into Sections (Special Interest Groups (SIGs for short)). Each section has its own message base, file area, database area, game area, voting poll, and you can even assign it its own SysOp! Each section also has its own bulletin file. Below is a sample of a few areas and the different bulletins and commands available to navigate through the message areas. Here are the different Sections available on this BBS (yours, can, of course, be personalized to your own needs as a SysOp): ______________________________________ Sections If I wanted to switch to, say, the Atari section, I would type:  The Area 025 䠺 Go atari The Zone ᠺ Yes 87 ᠠ Yes 82 ᠠ No No Yes You are then shown what this section has to offer. This section has a message area and there are 87 new messages. It has a file area and there are 82 new files. This section has no game area or database, but there is a votepoll. Let's take a look at some of the messages.  The Zone 024 䠺 Read 1-87 ۿݽ ? 𠠠 젠 󺠠 5 5- 5-35 堠 庠 LAST 򺠠 LAST 10 NEW 򠠠 庠 5/21/87  5/21/87-6:30:00pm 堠 亠 MARKED 1-87 ۿݽ new ݠۿݽ ? 𠠠 FROM  TO ᠠ 庠 TITLE ᠠ Ạ TEXT RETURN 쮠 ݠۿݽ } 1 The Zone 10/29/87 - 12:29:30am All 84-WALTER WILLIAMS 㠠Electronics... 堠Electronics... 1 ______________________________________ Boutique has discontinued all Atari hardware excepting the XF551 when it comes out. _______________________________________ ۿݽ Notice that the message header displays a title AND a topic. When a message is posted, the Topic always stays the same, but the message Title can change when people reply to this message (or replies to those replies). It also displays how many replies to this message there are, and will also tell you whether a message has been received by the person it was sent to. Here is a list of the different commands you can use at this prompt: 2 The Zone 10/29/87 - 12:33:09am 84-WALTER WILLIAMS SysOp:1-JERRY HORANOFF 㠠Really? 堠Really? 1 ______________________________________ What did they decide to discontinue Atari stuff? That's wierd (especially since they use to be known as 'Games&Gadgets'... Hmm. Do you have any idea why? _______________________________________ ۿݽ ? [1-87] Π堠 ۫ ۭ렠 ۣ堣 ۿ󠠠 ۽ ۿݽ Let me define a few of the less obvious functions here: [+] will skip forward within the message base (example: +, typing +10 at this prompt would skip the over 10 messages). likewise, typing -10 would skip back 10 10 messages. This is much more convenient than having to quit reading and enter the read command when you want to change directions (for example, if you were reading forward and you wanted to start reading reverse, you don't have to quit the read to do it). You can also just type a message number at this prompt and it will immediately go to that message! You have true random access to messages. These message bases also have full threading capability. You can [T]race back to the message that the current message is a reply to, or [F]ind replies to this message. You can [M]ark messages normally used when scanning to search for message titles that sound like they may be interesting and then go back and read marked messages. Let me demonstrate a few of these: 3 The Zone 11/1/87 - 11:10:38pm All 18-PARTY DOG 㠠here we go again! 堠here we go again! 1 ______________________________________ The Twilight Zone BBS will be going down for a little while. I should have the board back up in a week, but I am not sure. I will post a message here, when I have it done. I won't tell you why, but you will understand why when you call it. It's a surprise, and I'll never tell......Now you who know.... mum's the word. Such a corny cliche, why did I say that? I don't know.... well,...see ya' when it's back up in a week or so....maybe this weekend... pd ______________________________________ ۿݽ ? [1-87] Π堠 ۫ ۭ렠 ۣ堣 ۿ󠠠 ۽ ۿݽ 50 50 The Zone 1/18/88 - 2:37:43am 7-ALBERT YARUSSO 50-KATT 㠠Phantasmal Alchemy 堠Hmm.. 1 49 ______________________________________ Another beta tester, eh? Hmm... sounds fun. I can't wait. ______________________________________ ۿݽ -5 [1-87] Π堠 ۫ ۭ렠 ۣ堣 ۿ󠠠 ۽ ۿݽ -5 45 The Zone 1/7/88 - 11:30:39pm All 9-PARTY DOG 㠠... 堠... 1 ______________________________________ ..Call The Twilight Zone BBS 305-588-4930 300/1200 baud Carina twelve on-line games many downloads.... Yes, Al. Y. that was a plug too....heh heh, thank You The Party Dog SysOp ..haven't heard from you in a while Al....where are ya'? ______________________________________ ۿݽ t ۿݽ f 46 The Zone 1/8/88 - 2:12:21pm 9-PARTY DOG 7-ALBERT YARUSSO 㠠... 堠Alive 1 45 ______________________________________ Where am I? Well at the moment about to be buried in a big nor'easter.. Hmm I like snow.. oh well it will not explain where I have been in the past few weeks.. I have been very busy with a few things: College Applications Work School (homework) RoboWar II modifications/docs an Inventory Control Program on the Macintosh for a company Alternate Reality: The Dungeon (A Fantastic game, a must have!) and throw in the occassional reading of a book (asimov, clarke, donaldson, pier, to name a few) and that basically fills my time. Oh yea. Sleep, eat and that other human necessity that you never see being done on TV.. Well, maybe on HBO.. Later, ______________________________________ ۿݽ f 48 The Zone 1/9/88 - 5:36:51pm 7-ALBERT YARUSSO 9-PARTY DOG 㠠... 堠glad to hear.. 0 46 ______________________________________ Pressing [N] for next section will immediately take you to the next section (obviously) allowing you to read messages there. This comes in handy when you are doing a "Read All" (i.e. Read ALL messages in ALL sections). You can also define only those sections that you want to define the word "All". For example, if you only had the Atari 8-bit section and the ST section tagged for "All" then when you do a "Read All" it will only go through those sections, omitting sections that are not of interest to you (like Commodore <- hehe). You can tag/untag these sections by use of the settings command demonstrated earlier: 䠺 Settings ݠ䠠 ______ ݠ堾 24 ݠ堠 012 ݠ ݠ󠠾 [ ] ݠ [*] ݠ [ ] ݠ󠠾 [ ] ݠ󠠾 [ ] ݠԭ堠 [ ] ݠԠ򠠾 [*] ݠ򠠠 [*] ݠ Read All New,Browse All New ݠ D κ com ||堠| | |Electronic Mail |PRIVATE | |*|The Area |GENERAL | |*|The Universe |CARINA | |*|The Ԡ Forum |ST | |*|The Zone |ATARI | |*|The ͠ Executives |IBM | |*|The World |AMIGA | | |The Pub |COMMODORE| |*|The Orchard |APPLE | |*|The Tavern |TANDY | |*|The ɠ Files |II_FILES | |*|The Corner |GAMER'S | |*|The ï  Members |ACC/PB | |*|The Room |DEBATE | |*| ֮ɮЮ Members |VIP | |*|The ɠ Area |ROBOWAR | ||̠|| κ Good. We got rid of commodores. Luckily this section does have a file area. Of course, it does not have to have one (the General section doesn't for example). It doesn't have to have a message base either for that matter. If you are us~nsure about what features are in an area, you can type "Sec-Stats" (or Ctrl-K or simply "K" followed by a RETURN) to see what's in the section. 䠺 k ᠺ Yes 87 ᠠ Yes 82 ᠠ No No Yes Since we have a file area, let's take a look around. 䠺 Browse 󠠠 1-82 ۿݽ 1- ݠۿݽ 堣1 The Zone JACKPOT.BAS 8960 10/29/87 - 4:26:41pm 25-GARY LOVELESS 4 栠 SLOT MACHINE GAME BASIC/ GAME/ ______________________________________ GO TO LAS VEGAS AND PLAY WITH THE PROS... 8-Bitter ______________________________________ ۿݽ ? [1-82] Π堠 ۫ ۣۿۭ렠 ۽ 󠠠 㠠䠠 ۿݽ The file area works almost identically to the message area. Once you learn the message area, you'll already have a very good idea about how to use the file area. The file area is one of the best features of Carina II. It puts CompuServe to shame. The header displays quite a few things about the file: The file name, it's size, who uploaded it (and when), how many people have downloaded it, a brief description about the file (used when doing a directory in 80 columns -- this brief file description comes in handy), and key-words that can be used to help locate specific files (by searching for key-words). You also have 4 -k file descriptions (up to 4 k). From the "Command [?]=Menu: " prompt you can do the following things that you (of course) cant do in the message area: [D]ownload this file [V]iew the contents of an ARCed file And if you are using a batch protocol (like Y-modem Batch or C-modem), you can even mark files and download them all at once! (can't do that on CompuServe, Oasis! or Express! Pro for that matter - hehe). 䠺 Directory You can also search for files (or even messages) by date if you'd like. As precise as to the second: 䠺 Directory 1/1/88-12:00:30pm Π堠կ̧䠠 30 AMODEM75 BAS 22625 1/03/88 2 31 AMODEM75 COM 4920 1/03/88 0 32 AMODEM75 HLP 828 1/03/88 1 33 NOSEDEMO COM 22485 1/03/88 23 34 REZDEMO 18252 1/03/88 5 35 XEDEMO COM 65317 1/03/88 7 36 AMODM751 ARC 13689 1/06/88 18 37 SXEXPRES OBJ 33865 1/06/88 8 38 SWANDEMO COM 32009 1/12/88 1 39 SPIRAL BAS 2476 1/12/88 1 40 VIEWGR9 COM 7949 1/13/88 2 41 GIRL GR9 7807 1/13/88 3 42 MEGABUG COM 4253 1/13/88 2 43 MEGABUG DOC 6071 1/14/88 2 44 OILDEMO COM 38447 1/19/88 1 45 PHOBOS TXT 7277 1/22/88 4 46 QMEGBBS COM 1020 1/24/88 4 47 SHRINKXE COM 4682 1/25/88 0 ۿݽ ? Π堠 ۫ ۣۿۭ렠 ۽ 䠨䩠 ۿݽ v 36 󠠠堠 AMODM751.COM Packed 5135 5170 䠾 5170 ۿݽ Let me tell you about access (since I reminded myself). There are no access levels per-se anymore... You either have access to do something or you don't. You either can use a command or you can't. And with sections there are 4 different levels of access. No access, read-only access, full access, or SysOp access. The read-only access is good if you are running a D&D type adventure sig. This way you can let everyone see what's happening, but only your players can participate. Time limit is also independant of access level now. With this setup, there are 3.169 times 10 to the 29th different combinations of access levels! Here is a example of the formula: (2^32*~)*(4^26)*(255) the answer is:> 4.9517601 ~E27 On-line time is independant... You can assign a user anywhere from no tim (quite useless) to 255 minutes (i.e. 4+ hours). 䠺 Other BBS ۱ݠƧ ۲ݠ̧ ۳ݠħӠ砠 庠 1 ݠۿݽ ? ۱ݠ堠 ۵ݠ堠 ۲ݠ򠠠 ۶ݠ堠 ۳ݠ堠 ۷ݠ堠 ۴ݠ ۸ݠ䠠 ݠۿݽ Ӡ堠Ӡ POOR MANS BBS 305-457-9290 2400 Alternate Universe 305-747-9196 2400 The Launch Pad 201-343-1426 1200 KACE BBS 606-754-9639 1200 West Coast Syndicate 415-825-2952 2400 The Twilight Zone 305-588-4930 1200 Phantasmal Alchemy 203-443-5200 1200 L.B.C.S. 213-631-7328 1200 The Space BAr 203-739-3311 1200 Dark Side 312-438-9356 1200 Hawk BBS:CamelotWest 716-297-9596 1200 ACC/PB 305-641-5372 1200 The Crypt ][ 305-581-9426 1200 P.A.U.G.S 602-242-4259 1200 ۱ݠƧ ۲ݠ̧ ۳ݠħӠ砠 庠 2 ݠۿݽ state NJ The Launch Pad 201-343-1426 1200 576K 130XE NJ Carina! 2 24 Hrs. Good Carina run out of 512K RAMDisk Jerry: by the way, if we were in 80 columns, that brief description (seen above) would also be displayed when doing the brief descriptions. 䠺 Other BBSs add Ӡ庠 Syndicate BBS Ӡ 201-968-8148 堠 1200 Ӡ  Atari 䠺 NJ Ӡ 俠 FoReM XEP 堠 󩺠 10 24 ᠱӠ Zmag/ST-Report Hdqts Syndicate BBS 201-968-8148 1200 Atari NJ FoReM XEP 10 24 Zmag/ST-Report Hdqts Yes Ӡ 䠺 Other BBSs brief state "nj" Ӡ堠Ӡ The Launch Pad 201-343-1426 1200 Syndicate BBS 201-968-8148 1200 The databases works exactly like the help file (and so does the Game menues). The're the exact same routine... 䠺 Help ɠ堠 ݠɠ ݠɠ ݠ󠠠 ݠ򠠠 ݠ ɠ褐 ݠۭν C 迠 ݠ䠠 ݠ ݠ ݠ렠 ݠ󠠠 ݠ ݠ ݠ󠠠 ݠ󠠠 ݠ栠 ݠ ݠ ݠ󠠠 ݠ󠠠 ݠ󠠠 ݠ젠 ݠ ݠ ݠ ݠ𠠠 ݠ ݠ堠 ݠ䠠 ݠ䠠 ݠۭν T Example usage: Help Help me! Help me please! Each of the above-mentioned usages will get you the same amount of help - this help database (Since you are here, you obviously already know how to use this command). 庠 䠺 Menu ɠ 䠠󠠠  堠 󠠠  󠠠 󠠠󠠠 󠠠󩠠 栠Ӡ 󠠠Ǡ 󠠠 󩠠 󠠠 𠠠𠠠 į̠ 堠 堠 䠠堠 䠺 Topics ||㠠| |1 |Electronics... | |3 |here we go again! | |5 | | |8 |Atari 1050 | |11 |I'm Back! | |21 |IT'S BACK!... | |33 |This Weekend | |35 |Back up! | |36 |Zenobia! | |40 |sorry....... | |41 |8-BIT SYSTEM... | |42 |back up | |43 |Vt52 - vt100 | |44 |Uploads | |45 |... | |47 |TFS BBS | |49 |Phantasmal Alchemy | |53 |BBS | |54 |News | |61 |test | |62 |New Beta tester | |64 |N | |74 |Hi | |85 |I FORGOT | ||| ______________________________________ File Downloading 䠺 Download 47 ۱ݠͧح ۲ݠçحà ۳ݠͧ٭˭ ۴ݠ§٭詠 ۵ݠͧí詠 ۶ݠӧɠ If you were downloading MARKED files, you would only be shown the batch protocols (Y-Modem Batch and C-Modem). 䠺 Upload 堨 14549093 ۱ݠͧح ۲ݠçحà ۳ݠͧ٭˭ ۴ݠ§٭詠 ۵ݠͧí詠 5 ŮԺ 3232.232 Filenames must be in the format of a 1-8 character filename and an optional 1-3 character extender. The first character of the filename must be a letter, and any of the following characters may be either a letter or a number. If you use the optional extender, a period must proceed it. Examples: FILENAME.EXT PROGRAM1 PROGRAM1.BAS GAME.OBJ FILE.5 Examples of invalid filenames: 5GAMES.ARC <=- First character must be a LETTER. FILE 6.PRG <=- No Spaces. UTILITIES.ARC <=- Maximum of an 8 character filename. .GAM <=- Must have a filename field. ŮԺ TEST.PRG 栱 This is a test program. 栠 宠 Π BASIC/ BASIC-XL/ BASIC-XE/ OBJECT/ MAC-65/ ACTION 1: BASIC 栠 宠 Π GAME/ UTILITY/ APPLICATION/ COMMUNICATION/ DOCUMENTATION/ DEMO/ PRODUCTIVITY/ PICTURE/ AMS 2: COM 栠 𠠠 宠 Π䮠 3: TEST 4: STUPID 5: LITTLE 6: FILE 7: BASIC/ COMMUNICATION/ TEST/ STUPID/ LITTLE/ FILE ˿ Yes 䮠  This is just a test... don't worry about it! ? 堠 ۿ  򺠠 ؠ堠 נ䠠 à Ҡ堠 ïҠ򠠠 䮠 E (1-2): 2 about it! 󠢯 about it. Used for the capture in the Special Edition of ZMAG98! (hehehe) f 亠 Zmag98 堾 3 p This is just a test... don't worry About it. Used for the capture in the Special Edition of ZMAG98! (hehehe) you can also center or right justify text (in the message editor or this description editor) like so: c  Special Edition of ZMAG98! (hehehe) (Note: Usage of the Ctrl-R command were deleted since they will cause havic with terminal programs or in the ascii transfer of this issue after completion.) Don't Forget to read it!!!!!!!!!!! p This is just a test... don't worry About it. Used for the capture in the Special Edition of ZMAG98! (hehehe) Don't Forget to read it!!!!!!!!!!! 忠 Yes Syndicate BBS (201) 968-8148 䠺 Menu Ok.. One neat thing about Carina II is that I have a status window that I can toggle from non-existant, to 5 -line, to full-page. When in the full -page mode, I get a cursor and I can edit your status (even while you are still using the BBS. You won't even notice I'm doing it)... Let me give you some SysOp access so I can demonstrate some of the SysOp features to you. ok... there we go... 䠺 go at ᠺ Yes 87 ᠠ Yes 82 ᠠ No No Yes Syndicate BBS (201) 968-8148  The Zone 014 䠺 Edit p Well, this is the Atari section. It's mainly to be used for 8-bit discussions and files. Any Public Domain Atari 8-bit files can be placed in this section, but if they would fit better in another SIG then put them there first. This is more of a General Atari Sig. Let's get some discussions going here. I know there's not much to talk about, but I'm sure you guys can think of something to say! Also, check out the voting topics and give us an idea about yourself! - Thanks, Katt [Sig-Op] This is the bulletins file for the Atari Section. Katt is the SysOp of this section and he is responsible for keeping the bulletins up to date... 堠 ۿ  򺠠 ؠ堠 נ䠠 à Ҡ堠 ïҠ򠠠 䮠 r 忠 Yes c ɠ󠢯 Welcome to the Atari Section! This is the bulletin's file for this section.... As a SysOp of this section, I can edit this file. Whenever someone enters this section, they will be shown this bulletin file (if they have not already seen it before). p Welcome to the Atari Section! This is the bulletin's file for this section.... As a SysOp of this section, I can edit this file. Whenever someone enters this section, they will be shown this bulletins file (if they have not already seen it before). f 亠 before 堾 10 before) ------ r 躠 already p } Welcome to the Atari Section! This is the bulletin's file for this section.... As a SysOp of this section, I can edit this file. Whenever someone enters this section, they will be shown this bulletins file (if they have not already seen it already). c ɠ󠢯 already). Your Sysop, Katt p Welcome to the Atari Section! This is the bulletin's file for this section.... As a SysOp of this section, I can edit this file. Whenever someone enters this section, they will be shown this bulletins file (if they have not already seen it already). Your Sysop, Katt l 1> 2> Welcome to the Atari Section! 3> 4> This is the bulletin's file for this 5> section.... As a SysOp of this 6> section, I can edit this file. 7> Whenever someone enters this section, 8> they will be shown this bulletins file 9> (if they have not already seen it 10> already). 11> 12> 13> 14> Your Sysop, 15> 16> 17> Katt s 䠺 go general The Area ᠺ Yes 172 ᠠ No N/A ᠠ No Yes No Syndicate BBS (201) 968-8148 䠺 Bulletins RoboWar II is now Online in the new RoboWar II section. Check it out! Area code of the West Palm Beach area will be changing from 305 to 407 real soon! ______________________________________ As you can see, each section does indeed hav its own bulletins file. Let's check out the vote poll (now that I'm thinking of it) for the Atari Section. 䠺 Vote-Poll at The Zone Ӡ  1 Which DOS do you use?  17 V 砠 A....Sparta Dos B....MyDos C....TopDos D....Dos XL E....Smart Dos F....Atari Dos 2.0 G....Atari Dos 2.5 H....Other ݺ A 忠 Yes 젠 67%....Sparta Dos 6%....MyDos 0%....TopDos 0%....Dos XL 11%....Smart Dos 0%....Atari Dos 2.0 17%....Atari Dos 2.5 0%....Other Π Ӡ  2 Do you own Basic XL and/or Basic XE?  17 V 砠 A....Yes B....Nope ݺ B 忠 Yes 젠 56%....Yes 44%....Nope Π Also as a SysOp (of this Section) you are able to give other users access to your section via the U-Edit command: 䠺 U-Edit 󠠠 183 SAM GRIDLEY 2 Ǡ [*] 87 The Zone 79 ۿݽ BOB TROTMAN 3 Ǡ [S] 87 The Zone 82 CHARLES HOYLE 4 Ǡ [*] 0 The Zone 0 ۿݽ ? Π򠠠 ۫ ۭ렠 ۣ堣 ۿ 堠ۡ堠 ۰ݠ Ҡݠ ۿݽ ron kovacs RON KOVACS 59 201-968-8148 Ǡ [*] 50 The Zone 3 ED BOWLES 60 Ǡ [*] A few of these commands you cannot access (because you are only a Sig SysOp). For instance, you cannot blacklist someone. Only a SysOp of Electronic Mail can access these types of commands... When you are a SysOp of E-Mail, you get to see a lot more also.... TERRY FOSTER 61 Ǡ [*] 2 The Zone 0 ۿݽ q 䠺 U-Edit pr Electronic Mail 󠠠 183 ۿݽ ron kovacs RON KOVACS 59 A201-968-8148 B C30 D12 E3/19/88 F4 G1 H16:30:45 I0 J0 ______________________________________ K Commands ************** گ L+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ ______________________________________ MPO Box 74 Middlesex, NJ 08846 ______________________________________ Nֵ O P Q R S T U V24 W10 X12 Y ZRead All New,Browse All New 1244 Electronic Mail 12 ŭ0 ƭ0 ۿݽ Here is all of the different items associated with your account. The A-Z items are the Sections that you have access to. The line underneath that is all of the commands that you have access to (some of them are not used so users can add their own commands if they want). SysOps of sections are also responsible for validating files that are uploaded.... Let's check to see if there are any. 䠺 Validate at The Zone 堣 1 SPCOBER 8234 127-R.I  3-19-88 10:36am 栠 GOOD GAME OBJECT/ GAME/ ______________________________________ GOOD GAME ______________________________________ ۿݽ ? Π堠 ۫ ۣۿۭ렠 젠 ۿݽ 堣 2 NUDEDEMO.COM 20736 28-GARY LOVELESS  3-17-88 8:38pm 栠 INTERESTING NUDE DEMO OBJECT/ DEMO/ ______________________________________ THIS DEMO GOES ON FOR AWHILE, BUT THE GRAPHICS ARE GOOD...WORTH HAVING A LOOK AT. 8-Bitter ______________________________________ ۿݽ + 堣 3 TOPTEN37.BAS 6235 180-CHARLES AMOROSE  3-18-88 1:55pm 栠 Carina 1.0 Top Ten Lister Ver. 3.7 BASIC/ UTILITY/ CARINA/ BBS/ ______________________________________ This is the latest version of my Top Ten Lister for Carina 1.0 Line 1100 is where it looks for the Password.Fle, so you will probably have to change the drive number. Line 2000 is where the list gets saved, so you might want to change that also. ______________________________________ ۿݽ ? Π堠 ۫ ۣۿۭ렠 젠 ۿݽ v now if we take a look, it should be there... 䠺 browse last 堣83 The Zone TOPTEN37.BAS 6235 3/19/88 - 4:49:07pm 180-CHARLES AMOROSE 0 栠 Carina 1.0 Top Ten Lister Ver. 3.7 BASIC/ UTILITY/ CARINA/ BBS/ _______________________________________ۿݽ ? [1-83] Π堠 ۫ ۣۿۭ렠 ۽ 󠠠 㠠䠠 ۿݽ q and so it is... ~ SysOps can also make votepolls, compact their file area physically deleting all files that have been tagged for deletion), and they can also write form letters (this is pretty neat). Observe: 䠺 Post ﺠ all 0-All 庠 The Atari Sig! 堨󠢯 Hello there %!01, Welcome to the Atari 8-bit sig! In case your have forgotten, your account number is %!02, your phone number is %!04-%!05-%!06, and you have %!10 minutes left! How come you are only cali~ling at % %!25 baud?! I thought you were rich! Sincerely, Your SysOp l 1> Hello there %!01, 2> 3> Welcome to the Atari 8-bit sig! 4> 5> In case you have forgotten, your 6> account number is %!02, your phone 7> number is %!04-%!05-%!06, and you have 8> %!10 minutes left! 9> 10> How come you are only calling at 11> %!25 baud?! I thought you were rich! 12> 13> 14> Sincerely, 15> 16> 17> Your SysOp p 88 The Zone 0-All 59-RON KOVACS 㠠The Atari Sig! 堠The Atari Sig! Hello there %!01, Welcome to the Atari 8-bit sig! In case you have forgotten, your account number is %!02, your phone number is %!04-%!05-%!06, and you have %!10 minutes left! How come you are only calling at %!25 baud?! I thought you were rich! Sincerely, Your SysOp s Syndicate BBS (201) 968-8148  The Zone 055 䠺 Read last 88 The Zone 3/19/88 - 4:54:17pm All SysOp:59-RON KOVACS 㠠The Atari Sig! 堠The Atari Sig! _______________________________________ Hello there RON KOVACS, Welcome to the Atari 8-bit sig! In case you have forgotten, your account number is 59, your phone number is 201-968-8148, and you have 055 minutes left! How come you are only calling at 1200 baud?! I thought you were rich! Sincerely, Your SysOp ______________________________________ ۿݽ Pretty neat eh? One thing you will notice when first logging onto a Carina II BBS is that, unlike Carina 1, Carina II is very fast. Because it is SpartaDos-only, an enourmous speed increase was possible. Carina II consists of 19 modules! (not 5 like Carina 1), as you can see, VERY powerful. It is also easier to use than Carina 1 (with the single letter input and all). However, the power of the system was in no way sacraficed for this. You still have the ability to program on-line, go to SpartaDos on-line, and even run different programs! 䠺 Ext-Sys ݠ ݠ ݠ련 ݠ ݠΠà ݠà ݠӠ ݠ BASIC READY NEW READY LIST READY 10 REM LET'S DO A DIRECTORY OF DRIVE 1 20 DIM I$(40) 30 O.#1,6,0,"D1:*.*" 40 TRAP 100 50 INPUT #1,I$:?I$:GOTO 50 100 END LIST 10 REM LET'S DO A DIRECTORY OF DRIVE 1 20 DIM I$(40) 30 OPEN #1,6,0,"D1:*.*" 40 TRAP 100 50 INPUT #1,I$:? I$:GOTO 50 100 END READY RUN X32D DOS 052 ASSEMBLY 002 CARINA1 002 CARINAII 002 SPARTA 002 UTILTIES 002 MODULE 002 SYSMOD 002 SYSTXT 002 SYSTEM 002 BACKUP 002 EXTRA 002 BBS_LISTDAT 031 CONFIG DAT 002 CALLER DAT 002 TERMCONFDAT 002 USRVAL_0DAT 002 USRVAL_1DAT 002 USRVAL_2DAT 002 INDEX FLE 018 CD1 BAT 002 C BAT 002 I BAT 002 CD2 BAT 002 BACKUP BAT 002 ZHAND COM 005 MOE COM 050 PASSWORDFLE 186 BACKDIR 005 VTCODE 005 STRIPZ 002 VTCODE2 005 HDBACKUPCOM 006 HDRESTORASM 027 HDBACKUPASM 023 HDRESTORCOM 008 BBS BAT 002 HDBACKUPBAT 002 DRIVE5 BAK 012 CHK BAT 002 XINIT BAT 002 LOGOFF VT 008 TRAN16_8 002 MAKEINDX 012 ROBOPASSFLE 049 LASTCBATDAT 005 LASTHBATDAT 005 LASTCKILDAT 005 LASTHKILDAT 005 LASTATOMDAT 005 MAKEMAN 006 960 FREE SECTORS READY But of course, there's no need to write this program when you can always go to Dos! 䠺 Ext-Sys ݠ ݠ ݠ련 ݠ ݠΠà ݠà ݠӠ ݠ SpartaDOS D1:dir Volume: Directory: MAIN X32D DOS 12890 2-17-86 2:10p ASSEMBLY 1-31-88 1:40p CARINA1 1-30-88 5:55p CARINAII 1-30-88 5:55p SPARTA 1-30-88 8:24p UTILTIES 1-30-88 8:31p MODULE 1-31-88 1:40p SYSMOD 1-31-88 1:40p SYSTXT 1-31-88 1:40p SYSTEM 1-31-88 1:40p BACKUP 1-31-88 1:41p EXTRA 1-31-88 1:41p BBS_LIST DAT 7424 8-23-87 1:30p CONFIG DAT 22 3-16-88 7:24a CALLER DAT 9 3-19-88 4:30p Break Abort D1:CHKDSK Volume: 47 1C Bytes/sector: 256 Total bytes: 10747648 Bytes free: 9205760 Write lock: OFF D1:CHKDSK D2: Volume: 50 BD Bytes/sector: 256 Total bytes: 16776960 Bytes free: 16307456 Write lock: OFF D1:MEM Memlo: $5730 Memhi: $9C1F D1:HMMMM... LET'S BACKUP THE HARD DRIVE DIRECTORIES File not found D1:HDBACKUP D1: D2:DRIVE1.BAK Hard drive directory backup; ver 1.0 by Jerry Horanoff D1:ASSEMBLY> D1:CARINA1> D1:CARINA1>DISK1> D1:CARINA1>DISK2> D1:CARINA1>MOE> D1:CARINA1>UTILITY> D1:CARINAII> D1:CARINAII>D1S1> D1:CARINAII>D1S1>MODULE> D1:CARINAII>D1S2> D1:CARINAII>D1S2>MODULE> D1:CARINAII>D1S2>SYSMOD> D1:CARINAII>D2S1> D1:CARINAII>D2S1>SYSTXT> D1:CARINAII>D2S2> D1:CARINAII2EII> D1:SPARTA> D1:UTILTIES> D1:MODULE> D1:SYSMOD> D1:SYSTXT> D1:SYSTEM> D1:BACKUP> D1:EXTRA> Hard drive directories all backed up Here is a list oo~f all of the different modules that Carina II uses: D1:dir D7:MODULE> Volume: RamDsk 7 Directory: MODULE WINDOW BIN 387 1-13-88 1:12a TRANSFER BIN 806 2-13-88 10:50p BOOTBBS 3725 3-16-88 12:39a WAITCALL 6622 3-13-88 3:14p GATEWAY 14382 3-13-88 3:27a USERCOM 14808 3-17-88 4:06p MAILCOM 14213 3-18-88 12:10a FILECOM 12734 3-17-88 4:07p MAILTRAN 14846 3-06-88 2:18a FILETRAN 11575 3-06-88 2:18a FILERECV 12883 3-01-88 10:08p XY_TRAN 6562 2-25-88 11:44p CM_TRAN 7831 3-02-88 4:39p 819 FREE SECTORS D1:DIR D7:SYSMOD<~> Volume: RamDsk 7 Directory: SYSMOD SYSCOM 13235 3-13-88 2:02a USEREDIT 12029 2-28-88 4:34p FILEVAL 6471 2-15-88 1:58a MAKEVOTE 2697 1-17-88 5:12p COMPACT 3326 3-16-88 1:20p EDIT 7648 3-18-88 12:14a COPY 1906 1-27-88 11:35p TERM 4710 2-27-88 8:49p MAKEMAN 1110 3-17-88 6:15p 819 FREE SECTORS D1: I think that is 20 modules (not including the .BIN files). It's a pretty massive system. D1:CAR READY RUN"D7:M~SYSMODU~>SYSCOM Config 7-ݠ͠堠 7-ݠԠ堠 1-ݠįدӭԠ堠 7-ݠŠ堠 7-ݠ堠 24-ݠ堠 N-ݠɠ N-ݠ N-ݠ𿠠 N-ݠ󿠠 3-ݠ ݠԠ䠠 ATS10=255 κ Create/Edit Sections Ơ堠 PRIVATE 0534Electronic Mail GENERAL 0530The Area CARINA 0534The Universe ST 0534The Ԡ Forum ATARI 0534The Zone IBM 0534The ͠ Executives AMIGA 0534The World COMMODORE 0534The Pub APPLE 0534The Orchard TANDY 0534The Tavern II_FILES 0504The ɠ Files GAMER'S 0530The Corner ACC/PB 0530The ï  Members DEBATE 0530The Room VIP 0530 ֮ɮЮ Members ROBOWAR 5530The ɠ Area Ơ堠  If I ever decide that I want to change the location of a particular subdirectory, I can do it from here... I can also change the section name, keyword, etc...  q Global Mask ݠ砠 ݠ砠 ݠ ݠE ۱ݠ砨󩠠 ۲ݠ砨 2 گ 纠 l گ  纠 t گ   纠 v گ    纠 忠 No Exit ӭ孹 And that's about it... There are a few more commands (like make a vote poll) etc... but you pretty much get the idea of what it does. The program is basically completed... I'm working on the manual right now. It should be out by the end of April! It will be available for $65.00 to non-Carina 1 owners. Carina 1 owners can subtract $10.00 and if they sent in their registration card they can subtract another $10.00. ______________________________________ ZMAGAZINE 98 March 21, 1988 (c)1988 SPC/Ron Kovacs ______________________________________