*************************************** * * * Portfolio User 8 * * February 1996 * * * * The Internet Magazine For The * * ** Atari Portfolio ** * * * * Edited By: Paul Jolliffe * * paulj@jollyp.demon.co.uk * * * *************************************** Contents: ========= Introduction Are You Addicted ? Any Port In A Storm Portfolio Clubs PF On The Net New WWW Sites New FTP Mirror Site A Quick Note From A Portfolio Professional ATARI ST users, finally a program for you and your Portfolio!!! Portfolio's younger brother SHARP PC 3000 and PC 3100 Where to find old postings to comp.sys.palmtops An opinion on Portfolio from an old user Is it possible to get old-dos software? PCMCIA adaptor available Portfolio In Poland Programming Modification To Turbo Pascal 3.01a To Run On The Portfolio Working With Turbo Pascal 3.01a Addresses Of The Smart Parallel Interface New Programming Language For The Portfolio General Questions Suggestion Questions/Sugestions/Tips From Portfolio Users High Prices Of Portfolio Addons The HPD700 RAM Upgrade Tips On Serial Interface Using ANSI Terminal On Portfolio Why do I need UPDATE.COM ? Portfolio Tools Crypt v1.0 by Don Messerli For Sale Computerhandel - Stefan Kaechele Portfolio - Jan Sedlak Supplier Lists and Products Introduction ============ Sorry for missing out January's Portfolio User but I have been very busy with work and trying to find a new job. Currently I spend up to 3 hours a day driving to 160 mile round trip to work and back. So I am looking for something closer to home which will allow me to spend more time looking after PF related stuff. I have been in touch with Stefan Kaechele who sells various bits and pieces for the Portfolio, including a manual for upgrading the PF's memory and other bits and pieces (see the end for more details). If you know how to solder or know someone who can solder properly then go for it, if not send your PF to either him or Jan Sedlak for an upgrade, it's cheaper and easier. I thought I was good at soldering but I managed to rip a track off my PF during the upgrade, so I am currently PF less. But my new one should be arriving in a couple of days !! I have finaly managed to get elm compiled on my UNIX machine and I am currently trying to get an info server compiled and running that will allow people to send a message to the list server requesting software that I have or old PF User Letters etc automatically when it receives an email request. I will also merge various articles in previous editions on topics such as programming, once these are ready I will send out a list of the documents and how to obtain them. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Palmtop Addiction ================= From: Steve Zweibel, CompuServe ID: [71543,1345] Are You Addicted To Your Palmtop ? ---------------------------------- I was thinking about our Palmtops and the effects they have on our lives and the lives of our friends, spouses and other family members. In a CompuServe message someone mentioned being addicted to their Palmtop. I decided to go back to my medical books and dig out the official DSM-III-R (Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders) definition of addiction or as they call it "substance dependence" (in this case, the Palmtop is the sub- stance). Below is the definition - see if it doesn't fit to your use of the Palmtop! If three out of the nine describe your rela- tionship with the Palmtop, your an addict. I've added comments after each criteria, proving that I am (and most of you) are addicted to the HP Palmtop. 1. The Substance is often taken in larger amounts or over a longer period than the person intended. "Honey I'll only be on the Palmtop 5 more minutes - I promise!" .... 20 minutes later ..... "Sorry honey, only 5 more minutes!" 2. Persistent desire, or one or more unsuccessful efforts to cut down or control substance use. Self explanatory. 3. A great deal of time spent in activities necessary to get the substance, taking the substance or recovering from its effects. "Where can I get the new 200LX? I need it now!!!" or from your loved one, "Honey, it's 3am - turn that thing off and get into bed!!" 4. Frequent intoxication or withdrawal symptoms when one is expected to fulfill major obligations at work, school or home, or continued use of substance when it is physically hazardous. "Where is Dr. Zweibel? Is he still playing with that computer toy of his? The patient's turning blue and we need him quickly!" or "Honey, keep your eyes on the road and put that computer away while you are driving!!") 5. Important social, occupational, or recreational activities given up or reduced because of 'substance' abuse. "Where is Steve? This party is great!!" "He's at home installing acCIS 3.0 on his Palmtop!" 6. Continued substance use despite knowledge of having a persistent or recurrent social, psychological, or physical problem that is caused or exacerbated by the use of the substance "I know we'll be late to our wedding, but I MUST back up my RAM card first and answer all those HPHAND forum messages!" 7. Need for increased amounts of the substance (at least a 50% increase) in order to achieve intoxication or desired effect, or markedly diminished effect with continued use of the same amount. "I really need a 10MB flashRAM card D this 2MB card is just not doing the job!" or "I wish the Palmtop had a Pentium processor and 10 Gigabytes of internal memory!" 8. Characteristic withdrawal symptoms when substance is removed. "What do you mean I'll be without my Palmtop for two days to get it fixed!? That's impossible! I NEED it to function!" 9. Substance often taken to relieve or avoid withdrawal symptoms. "Great - you mean Express Exchange sends me another unit BEFORE I send them my old one so I am never without a Palmtop!!" So, according to the above definitions - are you addicted to your Palmtop? -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Any Port In A Storm =================== I received an email from Jan Sedlak letting me know about a someone called K. Swaine who has collected 48 disks worth of PF software. I have written to Mr Swaine who has sent me back a list of files that he has. He runs the 'Any Port In A Storm' club as a wat of trying to keep the PF alive. He currently does not have email access but has given me his postal address and the details of the service he offers. You can order any of the disks from him, he makes a nominal charge of 5GBP which covers the copying charges and postage. He is always on the lookout for new software, if anyone is interested he can be contacted at: K Swaine Any Port In A Storm 90 Ivy Avenue, Bath, Avon. BA2 1AN. United Kingdom. Tel: +44 (0) 122 531 9057 I can email the index files if anyone is interested. Below is a short extract from his index files: Index for Set AP1 - Applications 1 Program Bytes Description ----------- ------- --------------- powerup.com 8744 Example of animated logo for the Portfolio powerup.doc 877 Document file for powerup.com jog.exe 9919 Works out jogging stats - Jog dist time etc. mom 5240 Example Expert program for QA.EXE portrun.doc 184 Notes on running qa.exe on the Portfolio portuse.doc 276 Notes on running RPN on the Portfolio qa.c 10075 C source code for qa.exe qa.doc 3004 Document file for qa.exe qa.exe 9445 Simple Expert program r.bat 24 Batch file to start RPN with SM.com read.me 667 Read.me file for VC programs readme.v30 3318 What's new in RPN version 3 rpn.exe 36381 HP type scientific calculator rpn.man 23987 Document file for rpn.exe sm.com 100 Portfolio screen mode switcher trig.doc 1053 Document file for trig.exe trig.exe 5147 Gives Sin Cos and Tan for entered angle trouble 13862 Expert file for qa.exe tsjog.nws 1782 News on the TSJog program tsprog.inf 4724 Info on other programs by TSJog author vc.doc 2894 Document file for vc.exe vc.exe 3481 Verify credit cards-enter no. gives type vc.pas 919 Pascal source code for vc.exe vericard.pas 1109 More Pascal source code for vc.exe vericard.tpu 1456 Turbo Pascal Unit for VC program -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Portfolio Clubs =============== German PF Club and ways to use Portfolio ---------------------------------------- From: Lenz Grimmer <93ti016@ba-mannheim.de> > Did I tell you about German Portfolio club? Let me know > if you want to be in touch with them. I read about it in the PF-News you wrote. I read all issues today, very good work! The more i read about the PF the more I want to know about it, especially the internals. I think I'm going to buy me one of the books that are offered from the Germans to learn more about it, maybe programming it with A86. Today I decided to write a windows program that includes X-Modem-Filetransfer and the same functionality that the diary and the adress-database offer. Do you think there is a need for such kind of program? I think it makes no sense to include a spreadsheet, since Excel can import 1-2-3-Files. I can use a very neat C-Development-environment in my company called LabWindows/CVI (from National Instruments) that I will use for the prog. Did I tell you the a friend of a friend of mine uses his PF for navigation purposes on a boat? He has connected it to some kind of fax-modem to receive the latest forecasts of the weather. And he also uses it as a frontend to a GPS Navigation System! If that would be interesting for the PF News, I might be able to get some more information about that (I'm interested by myself how he did that !) -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The Portfolio On The Net ======================== New Web Pages ------------- From: Lars Lyngeled I have made a homepage for the portfolio (and other palmtops), but it needs a little work to be ok. I have also put your mail-adress on it, and I want to check if it's ok with you? I want to make the page more interesting than a page with links to other pages. I would like some comments and critics, if you drop by to look at the page. The address of the page: http://www.hfb.se/~m95lly/portfoli.htm It's made with/works with Netscape, and I don't know how it works with other browsers. Lars Lyngeled Swedenage for the portfolio (and other palmtops) From: "Andrew C. Diller" My web page for the Portfolio (and other computers) has MOVED: Please update your info: http://tesseract.eng.umd.edu/pages/comp/atari/portMain.html I have made links to the Portfolio Page in England, which has your software news available. I am working on making your Portfolio News look nicer by putting it into HTML. From: Willem Alexander Klein Look for pages: http://www.pi.net/computer/atari.html http://rzserv2.fh-lueneburg.de:8080/Portfolio >From s0157475@rz.fhtw-berlin.de Fri Jan 12 16:22:30 1996 I just started working on a portfolio WWW Page w3.rz.fhtw-berlin.de/~s0157475 It is not much, yet, but I try to fill it up with Informations !! New FTP Mirror Site ------------------- >From dave@toad.net Sat Nov 25 14:32:24 1995 We are now mirroring your Portfolio software archive at ftp://ftp.toad.net/pub/portfolio. I figured it would bring that archive a little closer to this side of the ocean! David Troy --- ToadNet Information Services [dave@toad.net] -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- A Quick Note From A Portfolio Professional ========================================== From: Jim Tittsler, Tokyo 7j1ajh@amsat.org I worked for Atari for 10 years. I was the Atari engineer in charge of the Portfolio technical development. I also did the add-on modem and floppy disk adapters (which were never released by Atari). >sedlakj> I think that Portfolio must have been distributed in Japan too, >sedlakj> but maybe under different brand. Yes, it was distributed here. It was sold as the Atari Portfolio. >sedlakj> There is Japan character set built in Portfolio and so >sedlakj> there is no problem to convert the system into a Japanese mutation. Only Katakana (one of the two phonetic alphabets here) is in the character generator. (It is a standard, off-the-shelf part, not something Atari specific.) To be a viable Japanese system, you would need Kanji support... which really would require a much higher density LCD to be practical. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ATARI ST users, finally a program for you and your Portfolio !!! ================================================================ from: larserik@oslonett.no Portlink ST - Program for file transfer between Portfolio and Atari ST ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Since the sales have been low I now release it into the public domain! To companies that sell other products for communication Portfolio-ST: this is not a rip-off, but a result of hard work and lots of research with the help of other Atari ST developers both in Norway and Germany. The ST software communicates with the build-in Portfolio file-transfer- program and use the Portfolio parallel-interface and Portfolio-PC cable The cable needs some modifications, but no one should have any problems The communication speed is much faster than with a PC - And it's free ! Binaries & documentation at: ftp.oslonett.no/user/larserik/portlink.zip or at ABK-BBS in Norway: Call +4767132659 and get the file PORTLINK.ZIP Source-code is available on request, send email to adress in signature. -- Lars-Erik 0sterud Home +4767131571 Data/fax 67132659 larserik@oslonett.no Atari Developer Work +4722886938 Mob/page 94441729 leo@merkur.sds.no SysOp ABK-BBS Info/Picture at http://www.oslonett.no/~larserik/ -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Portfolio's Younger Brother SHARP PC 3000 And PC 3100 ===================================================== from: sedlakj Many people ask if there ever will be released another so handy, useful, and favourite a palmtop like Portfolio. They often call this dream Portfolio II. The answer is that Portfolio II has been released, but has not been successful on the market. To explain the matter, do not let us forget that Atari Portfolio was not developed by Atari, but was only manufactured under lincence. The real developers were DIP (in England) who made the hardware and software. You can spot their logo after the cold boot on Portfolio. Portfolio has a lot of problems, like any palmtop, or any PC. Especially small RAM, small LCD and partial incompatibility and data loss on low batteries made DIP to go on developing what might be called Portfolio II. Then this product was finished it was again offered for licencing. Atari did not care to manufacture and sell this product. (I think it was a good decision.) Sharp company bought the licence and gave it the name SHARP PC 3000 and SHARP PC 3100. If you know Portfolio's good and bad sides, you can easily understand why SHARP PC 3x00 was mot successful. I think the reasons are: Too expensive (really extremely) Very, Very short battery life span. Too big in size Too heavy. Data loss problems again, locking up of the machine. Incopatibility. Graphics not much supported. If you want to learn more about SHARP PC 3x000 to learn what Portfolio II would be like, look for the file PORTY2.LZH. I will put the file onto FTP server: dec59.ruk.cuni.cz pub/upload/portfolio -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Where to find old postings to comp.sys.palmtops =============================================== from comp.sys.palmtops: Last saturday night my daughter tripped on the telephone chord while I was reading comp.sys.palmtops. Naturally I lost the connection. When I got back on line, the 74 posts were gone!! I was so broken hearted. (By the way, this is the only news group I read which behaves like that. When I read comp.sys.laptops, get off and come back, all 400 posts are still there, which rather anoying (that's why I don't like to read that group. It takes too long). Anyway, I went on a web search to see whether I could still read those 74 messages, and, lo and behold, I found a site! It is very slow and cumbersome to read, each time I reload the index it loads the whole thing (about 1000 messages listed), and it list messages by an index number, not alphabetically. But at least I got to read a lot of the messages that I lost. I would not make it a habit to read there, though. But I though, a lot of people complain about missing threads, so here is a reasonable way to catch up. It is at: gopher://news.nips.ac.jp:8021/12%3acomp.sys.palmtops I hope it is useful for someone. P.S. Notice that it can be reached with a gopher server (I did not try it that way yet, though). -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- An Opinion On Portfolio From An Old User ======================================== From: aftyde@a.crl.com (Arthur F. Tyde III) You could allocate ALL the available memory to the RAM disk and use the internal apps exclusively. Being in ROM, they didn't require big chunks of user RAM. I had a 128K card in mine which allowed me to allocate all internal memory to user RAM and function off A:(RAMCARD) for storage. That seemed to be the optimal config. I agree- the Portfolio for it's time was a remarkable machine. I used mine with a Tandy Portable Disk Drive II (a disk drive that plugs into a serial port) which was great for storing those tiny port programs and backing up data. I still have the entire system in a shoebox somewhere. Atari also came up with something called the PC Card Drive. You could plug the port cards into this thing and access them as drives on a PC. Pretty slick- you could xcopy all the stuff from your portfolio to your PC's hard disk just as if from diskette. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Is it possible to get old-dos software ? ======================================== Many Portfolio users ask where to get the old 8086 (XT) software which may be run on Portfolio. It is a real problem. You can either stole if from old XTs or ..... From: fmc@aphasia.us.com (Frank McConnell) > I am looking for a source of old software that will run on a > 8086 with no extended memory and take very little storage space. They do exist. Two such with which I have done business are: (1) Surplus Software Incorporated 489 North 8th Street Hood River, OR 97031 (800) 753 7877 International orders: +1 503 386-1375 FAX: +1 503 386 4227 At least here in the US, if you call them they will send you a catalog. (2) Herb's Software 4406-A Enterprise Place Fremont, CA 94538 Tel: +1 510 490 6335 675 East Brokaw Road San Jose, CA 95112 Tel: +1 408 453 3870 I don't know that they have a catalog. Both locations are in industrial-park settings, but they are open to walk-in business (10:00 AM to 6:00 PM Monday through Saturday) and all my dealings with them have been in person. If you have something in particular in mind I suppose you could call. As a sort of bonus: (3) Computer Recycling Center 1245 Terra Bella Road Mountain View, CA These folks are really in the non-(profit-)business of taking old disused PCs and refurbishing them for use in schools. Donations that they can't use gets sold. They have lots of books and somewhat less down-rev software for sale on the second Saturday of every month from 10:00 AM to 2:00 PM or thereabouts. It is not well organized; what you might want might be anywhere, and so you have to spend some time looking through bookshelves. (Some of us think this is fun.) They have a web page that concentrates on their primary mission. Look at http://www.rahul.net/a2iUsers/ and you should find it somewhere on that list. If there are electronics or computer surplus stores in your area, I would recommend checking them out too. Weird Stuff in Sunnyvale CA and Action Surplus in Sunnyvale CA (or is that Santa Clara? -- it's practically across Lawrence Expressway from Weird Stuff, but the dividing line runs near Lawrence) also have selections of software. Disclaimer: poster is a satisfied customer with no other financial relationship to mentioned organizations. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- PCMCIA Adaptor Available ======================== Is there any way to connect a PCMCIA device to Portfolio? Maybe the following articles will get an answer: From: Stefan Kaechele -PCMCIA-Interface for PoFo. I`ve a PCMCIA-interface for usage of normal PCMCIA-memory-cards up to 1MByte. It works with the PoFo-card-slot as well as the PC-card drive. This interface could be rebuild if interest is high(50 orders). It is possible to integrate this adaptor in the card-slot of the PoFo for exclusive usage of PCMCIA-card with PoFo. Togheter with the PC-card-drive this interface is a cheap solution to get a PCMCIA-drive as well !! Naturally just memory-access is supported(not all the other PCMCIA-possibilities) Pricing estimated 130.-DM/Interface. From: mrcndist@ix.netcom.com (Mark Walsh) In the last week or so, I have had a lot of newgroup followers sending e-mail and asking questions about the new PA-70 Palmtop adapter from Greystone and the DD-95 DiskDock products. Here are some brief descriptions below: PA-70: This product does two things. First it extends your PCMCIA Type I or II slot outside your palmtop or handheld and allows you to use Type II or III products. Second, it adds power to the PCMCIA slot so you can use devices like 28.8 Fax Modems, ethernet cards, etc which would normally drain your batteries and AC power adapter to the point where your handheld would not function, including PCMCIA hard drives. DD-95: Allows you to attach an industry standard 2.5" hard drive to your PCMCIA slot of your notebook or desktop computer. No it will not work with 3.5" or larger drives, but will support any 2.5" drives. What is neat is that this card (with a driver program) will work from any palmtop or handheld (like HP or Poqet) which runs on DOS 5.0 or above. "How does that work?" you ask, indicating that a 2.5" HD would surely toast your handheld's power supply. "Simple" I reply. "Plug the PA-70 into your palmtop and the DD-95 into your PA-70. Load the drivers and bingo, you have a 2.5" hard drive running on you HP200LX (or Poqet or ...)". "Will this work on my Zaurus?" you ask. "No - only DOS based palmtops, handhelds and notebooks! Zaurus is none of the above." Ok, enough of that. If you want more details, send me a reply. Both products should be ready and shipping by the end of the month. Mark... --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Portfolio In Poland ------------------- From: pila@maloka.waw.pl IJ> I am glad to meet you. It was looking for any PF fans from Poland IJ> for a long time. We are running complete Portfolio support IJ> and there are many new things we have for PF. Cool. Here in Poland we have a great Portfolio support, too. I am writing articles for one of the biggest Polish computer magazine - ENTER. There is a company, called Karin, which makes cool Portfolio hardware stuff. And of course, we have here a lot of Portfolio fans :-) IJ> I have a database of nearly 150 portfolio users on Internet. I also IJ> have a database of about 150 Portfolio owners in the Czech Republic. IJ> There is also a big Portfolio club in Germany with about 300 people. Cool! When I bought the Portfolio in January this year, I thought Portfolio is dead in Poland. I wanted to buy it in '90, but all money for Portfolio I have spent for hardware for my PC (Sound Blaster, CD-ROM drive, i486, more RAM, then Gravis UltraSound and faster CD-ROM - all that hardware were bought for money spared for Portfolio :-) ). And suddenly I bought it and it was really cool, as I expected. But when I talked to people nobody knew what that "Portfolio" is. I decided to tell to all Polish people what's that. After school I write articles for GAMBLER magazine (about games). The same publishing house, which publishes GAMBLER, publishes an ENTER magazine, which is not about games, but about PC's, Mac's and utils for them. I went to ENTER and told them I want to write articles 'bout Portfolio. They said 'Ok' and took my two articles. There were quite good, so they pubished them. And now they are calling me each week that I must write an article for the coming issue of ENTER - they are interested in Portfolio! :-) Cool. I have a lot of ideas about Portfolio and I am earning a little bit by the way. :-) In March I found in the directory a company, which makes Portfolio hardware. I called them and now the guy which is the one and only worker of the company, is my friend. He expanded my RAM to 512 kB, made me an "combo" "two-in-one" interface (RS-232C and Centronics in one box) and all that for free :-) And I am writing in ENTER advertisements of his company and giving him all my Portfolio software downloaded from internet. And it's ok! ;-) IJ> I have a lot of questions: IJ> 1. Are you in contacts with other PF users in Poland? Not many. Personally I know about 30 people. Not everybody here in Poland has an internet account, so they can't contact me... But today I thought I can make a questionaire in ENTER to know, how many Portfolio users are reading this magazine... IJ> 2. How many PF fans in Poland do you know/ How many Portfolios were IJ> sold in Poland? About 3000. Karin is selling 3 Portfolio's each week and there are more companies in Poland which are sellingAtari palmtops. But as I said, maybe I will try to make a questionaire in ENTER to know that exatcly (not exactly - not every Portfolio user is reading ENTER). But ENTER is published each month in 50.000 issues, so it can be bought in whole Poland. IJ> 3. I saw info about a Polish company that makes hardware for Portfolio. IJ> Does this company still exist? (RAM cards, interfaces) Sure, it exists. It's called Karin. The address is: KARIN ul. Przemyska 11a Warszawa tel. +48-22-659-34-14 They are making ram expansions (up to 640 kB), SRAM disks (128 kB to 2 MB), interfaces (serial, parallel and "two-in-one"), polish letters in ROM, and some other things which I don't remember now. They sell Portfolio's, too and PC Card Drives. IJ> I think they may have addresses of a lot of people. No, Mr. Geisler (the only worker of Karin) is not interested in taking addresses. He has no time to write messages thru e-mail or something... IJ> 4. Are there any other companies, Atari dealers who IJ> support/sell Portfolio? Sure, one is in Wroclaw (you can find it on the Polish map). I have only their phone number: +48-44-44-54-47. There is a company called Larix, but I forgot their address... IJ> I have a lot of new info for you: IJ> 5. We have developed a national version for Portfolio. Portfolio IJ> can DISPLAY any character set WITHOUT replacement of ROM. Is it done graphically? I think it's slow... is it? IJ> It means that you just start a program and the Portfolio writes IJ> in Polish with all its letter readable. NO ROM replacement needed!!!! IJ> a> Do you think that Portfolio users in Poland would be interested IJ> in this software? Sure! Karin replaces ROM with the letters generator, but it costs 50 zloty (about $20). It isn't very cheap and not everybody wants to pay for it. They are searching for polish letters done totally in software. IJ> b> I understand that ROM were replaced in some Portfolios in Poland. IJ> Is there any estimation of how many Portfolios has been nationalized IJ> this way? (What is the number of remaining un-polish Portfolios?) Mr. Geisler said me yesterday (we had a phone conversation), that he installed approximately 100 ROM-s. The remaining up-polish Portfolios is 2900 (i think) IJ> 6. We also produce hardware. Here is a brief info about our IJ> fine products: IJ> FolioDrive - a pocket diskette unit. Works with IBM PC 1.44 MB IJ> diskette. A superb device! You can read and write IJ> diskettes direct Mr Geisler wanted to do something like that. But he had no time to make a project. But here it is! How much is it worth? I am really interested to buy it and write about it in ENTER... IJ> 128 KB RAM cards - professional quiality. Battery life: 5-8 years IJ> All contacts are gilded. Only?... Karin makes 128 kB, 256 kB, 288 kB, 512 kB, 542 kB, 1024 kB and 2048 kB. The 128 kB costs 100 zl ($40), the 2040 kB costs 600 zl ($250). IJ> Parallel interface - a smaller and cheaper version of the interface Karin makes a Parallel interface (100 zl - $40), serial interface (140 zl - $50) and "two-in-one" (200 zl - $80)... All Karin's products have 1 year warranty ;-) -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Programming =========== Modification Of Turbo Pascal 3.01a To Run On The Portfolio ---------------------------------------------------------- Copyright (c) 1991, BJ Gleason This document will tell you have to make a minor modification to Borland's Turbo Pascal, version 3.01a, (TP3) to have it run on the Atari Portfolio Computer. WHY TP3 WILL NOT RUN It will... it just takes an amazingly long time. When TP3 starts up, it tries to determine the clock speed of the computer. It does this by waiting for a couple of timer ticks. On a standard PC, these ticks are generated 18.2 times a second. On the Portfolio, these ticks occur about every 2 MINUTES! So TP3 sits and waits. It needs to determine the speed for the DELAY and SOUND functions. WHAT NEEDS TO BE DONE The result of the speed determination is stored in memory. Instead of calculating this variable automatically, we will place a constant value in there, and skip the calculation. The constant value will be hexadecimal EC. The is the number TP3 calculates for a standard 4.77 Mhz PC. This is the duration for 1ms. Since the Portfolio run slightly faster, you may want to adjust this value upwards. I did not, since EC should be close enough. MODIFYING TP3 You will need TURBO.COM and DEBUG.COM. 1. Make a copy of TP3 to patch. DO NOT MODIFY YOUR ORIGINAL! COPY TURBO.COM PURBO.COM 2. Execute DEBUG to patch PURBO.COM DEBUG PURBO.COM 3. Find the speed variable. The code for initialization it should be at address 199 hex. -U 199 xxxx:0199 MOV WORD PTR [0012],006E : : - If you do not see this statement at address 199, look about for it. If the address is different, the rest of the addresses will also be different. 4. Modify the 006E to 00EC. -E 19d xxxx:019D 6E.EC - 5. Insert a RET instruction to skip the rest of the routines. -E 19F xxxx:019F 2E.C3 - 6. Save it and exit DEBUG. -w Writing xxxx bytes -q C:\> 7. To use PURBO.COM, you should set the following system variables (/|\ S): DISPLAY EXTERNAL -> TRACKED REFRESH -> BOTH 8. Now you should be able to edit, run and compile TP3 programs on the Portfolio. The compiled programs will also run on the PC, but any the timing might be off, depending on the clock speed of the PC. Enjoy. bj gleason 73337,2011 Working With Turbo Pascal 3.01a ------------------------------- From: i2b02a@iut-nantes.univ-nantes.fr (i2b02a) In the first menu, you have got several choices: Run Compile Edit Work Dir ... Edit Work : push E or W to edit an existing or new file ( .PAS ). Compile Run : push C to compile the current file. pushing R will compile and run the file directly in the editor. example : E (keypress) hello.pas in the editor type : begin writeln('Hello, World...'); end. Type ESC ESC or Ctrl K D to leave the editor then type R to run and it will display Hello, World... on portfolio screen. You can push S to save your program (the source file .PAS), Q to leave Turbo Pascal, W if you want to change the current file. If you want to make an executable program ( a .COM file ) you must type O then C then Q and C to compile. It will make a .COM file on the disk you can run without TURBO.COM. You must leave Turbo Pascal to run it. If you don't know turbo Pascal a lot here are some commands : graphmode; puts you in graph mode draw(x,y,x1,y1,c); draws a line between x,y and x1,y1 with color c ( 1 for black 0 for white) pset(x,y,c); the same for a pixel textmode; back to text mode I hope it will help you programming in turbo-pascal 3. Addresses Of The Smart Parallel Interface ----------------------------------------- From: ran@elc.beijer.se > I have some questions regarding the"Smart Paralell printer Interface". > * What is the base address of the 8255-PIO? Try following addresses: OUT 8078h d0-d7 OUT 8079h control lines IN 807ah control lines > * The pinout of the 25pin D-SUB. The pin-out was taken from original Atari parallel port guidebook. 1 out strobe 2 out d0 3 out d1 4-8 ............. etc. 9 out d7 10 in acknowledge 11 in busy 12 in paper error 13 in select 14 out auto feed 15 in error 16 out initialize 17 out select input 18-25 ground New Programming Language For The Portfolio ------------------------------------------ Hello out there, About a year ago I wrote a programming language for the Portfolio. It is special in the following ways: - It is semi-compiled; meaning each line you type is being tokenized immediately. The advantage of this technique is that the required storage for the PL1-programs is very small and that it is executes fast (nearly as fast a compiled code). This is unlike PBASIC which stores the complete programs text an interpretes that when asked to run. - It has an build-in editor (using the build-in line editor of the Portfolio). - It is usable on the PC (you can develop your software on the PC) - It supports floating point arithmetic (unlike many other programming languages for the Portfolio) - It supports displaying characters in any size on any position on the graphics screen. - It supports fonts, file handling, string manipulation, structured programming, graphics (for example the CIRCLE command), dynamic memory usage and more. - This all in less then 12 Kb! Disadvantages are: - There is very little documentation because it was intented for personal use only. - The language is not as easy as BASIC (but very powerfull). The language is stack oriented like FORTH. Because I think it can be of use to you I am sending it to you (for free). If you are interested please let me know. Maybe I can do some things for you (also for free). In the attach file the following files resides: PL1.COM The language itself PL1PC.COM The language itself for PC HELP Little help SNAKE Little game ASTRO3 Example program STAIN Example program For a demonstration do the following: Download everything except PL1PC.COM to the Portfolio. Type on the portfolio: PL1 STAIN (press space to end) PL1 ASTRO3 (press space to end) PL1 SNAKE (use cursor keys to play game) To see/edit a program type on the Portfolio: PL1 LOAD ASTRO3 EDIT use cursor keys to scroll (PgUp/PgDn/Home/End work too) use the INSERT key to insert new lines use the DELETE key to delete lines use the cursor right key to edit a line use the ESC key to go back to command mode type SAVE ASTRO3 to save edited program type RUN to start program type LOAD HELP followed by EDIT to see keywords You can try to use PL1.COM on the PC, but sometimes the check if running on a Portfolio or PC fails. Then you should use PL1PC.COM. Enjoy it! Kind regards, Marcel Bokhorst (The Netherlands) (M.Bokhorst@ect.nl) General Questions ----------------- From: Jens Larsson > Recently I -- on behalf of a friend of mine -- posted a question > to one of the Atari newsgroups, concerning the Atari Portfolio. > I got an email reply saying that I could try getting in touch with > you, since you apperently should be knowledgeable in this subject. > Anyway, I was looking for technical information about the Atari > Portfolio, both software and hardware, for instance: > interrupt lists PC compatible, a few difference, INT 60 and INT 61 are Portfolio-only supporing the built in functions. > ports IN/OUT ports are mainly incompatible with PC. You should use BIOS in order to make PC software run on PF. If the soft (from PC) goes to HW directly it usually locks. > memory 1MB XT PC assignment > adresses, instruction sets 8086 instuction set Everything about Portfolio BIOS is decribed in Portfolio Tech. Guide. It used to be distibuted by Atari in early Portolio days for 60 USD. It is not officially available now. We "sell" a xerox copy of this book for 29 USD (copying and binding expanditures). It has 120 pages and 1.44 MB diskette with source codes for the things described in the book. I think it is worth ordering this book if you wanna learn more about PF. E-mail me if interested. I have published a listing of IN/OUT ports for Portfolio. It is free of charge try: (it is on one isseu of Portfolio News bulletine) http://rzserv2.fh-lueneburg.de:8080/Portfolio in order to get the listing and more info about Portfolio. Suggestion ---------- From: "Andrew C. Diller" There have been many 'attempts' to explain how to begin to program for the Port. But as of yet, there has not been one, all inclusive artice on how to do it. THis would be great to have, for I would like to play around with C, or even Basic, but it seems very confusing - as to which software would work. What exact software packages (the versions) would run on the Port for Pascal or C? In other words, you would probally want OLDER versions of Borland, so that it would be more compatible with the Port. Certianly, the DOS version- and one as small as possible! Has anyone attempted to put EXACTLY what one needs to program effectively on the Portfolio? If so, where is it, and if not, this would be a good thing to begin to explore. I have the knowledge of the LANGUAGES, and wish I could do somthing with the Port that I have, but usually I can't take the time to SORT out what I would need, find it and test it etc.... Perhaps in the future, but not now. Joke (unfortunatelly too much true) ----------------------------------- Q: What's the difference between MicroSoft Windows and a virus? A: Apart from the fact that virusses are supported by their authors, use optimized, small code and usually perform well, none. PAULJ> I will do a series over the next couple of months, reveiwing the various methods that are around to program the Portfolio, including the positive and negative points of each. These will include 'C', pascal, assembler, various basics and the generic languages that have been written. If any one wants me to look at anything in specific then please email me. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Questions/Sugestions/Tips From Portfolio Users ============================================== High Prices Of Portfolio Addons ------------------------------- From: lionello@stack.urc.tue.nl (Lionello Lunesu) > But the prices I saw in the Portfolio newsletter were rather > (How should I say it) shocking.. Why are those prices so high ? The parts > needed for an upgrade aren't that expensive, or are they ? The reasons for high price: - all the products we sell are new, with 2 year warranty - top parts are used (LowLowPower SRAMs, gilded boards) - I and my colleague Tomas make living by developing Portfolio hardware and software - it is a job + a hobby - we sell via dealers, so at least 20% must be reserved for them And yet the prices are often twice less than original Atari prices. Here in Czech Republic, Portfolios are still sold for the original Atari prices - e.g. new 128KB Portfolio = 300 DM. > By the way, I still have 4 128Kb SRAM's, how can I use them for a RAM-card ? Basically yes. But they should be SMD, LowPower at least. You will have problems with the card-connector and with the back-up battery. Developing your own card would cost you a lot of time. Try to evaluate your time (the money you would get in your job). Let's say you can earn 20 DM per hour. Then only 6 hours of experimenting with the RAM card makes the same as the price of one 128 KB card we sell (120 DM). Decide which is better: to spend your time by experimenting or save your time, and buy our product for the saved money? PAULJ> I recently looked into doing the 512K upgrade to my PF, as I have mentioned in the introduction, I fried it. The cost of the components is actualy very high, a low power RAM chip costs (trade price) $24, about 12GBP excluding VAT and delivery. The HPD700 RAM Upgrade ---------------------- From: Stephan Knaus > HPD 700 Upgrade your PF RAM to 512 KB > Do I have to send in my Portfolio? > I've never open it yet, is it safe to do so? Upgrade is a "brain" operation and requires skill. You can do it yourself, but the risk and the price you might pay for destroying your Portfolio CPU board together with the time you need for the replacemnt are much higher than what you pay for the replacement by professionals and the shipping. > Didn't find any screws, > so i wonder if i'd break it... 2 screws are under each end of the rubber on the bottom of PF. 2 screws are on both sides of the BUS connector. That is all. You cannot crack your PF then. But the 128->512KB means much more. Especially removing the chips and soldering in the new ones and the new address-lines is very difficult. PAULJ> I have already burned one PF trying it, unless you know someone who is very adept at SMD soldering send your PF to one of the professionals. Its worth it. Tips On Serial Interface ------------------------ >From pila@maloka.waw.pl Sun Dec 10 19:41:47 1995 IJ> 1. Booting up "bare" Portfolio with serial interface IJ> ---------------------------------------------------- IJ> Is there any way to upload a software onto "bare" Portfolio with IJ> serial interface? It is a question many users ask. It is a question IJ> many people answer NO. But the true answer is "YES!", booting up IJ> a Portfolio with serial interface only IS POSSIBLE. Yeah, it's true. But PFBoot uses interrupt 14h, which works only on special cables. I've tested it. Int 14h doesn't work on a simple 3 wire cable (send, receive and ground pins are connected). Direct hardware access aplications like XTerm or Acom are working on such a wire, but Slave (uses int 14h), PFboot (uses 14h, too) doesn't. You must assemble a special cable. I've sent a little comm proggy, called 300BM.RAR. My friend wrote that. He included also the special cable documentation, which you can spread to all Portfolio fans. If you don't believe me, try it :-) Try to run slave on a simple 3 wire cable, and then on a special cable. I've tested it... BTW: ACOM RuLeZ, it works on all types of cables and has a cool built-in transfer protocol. I use it to transfer my files to or from Portfolio. It has the ability to work on faster speeds than 9600 bps (like PTerm - up to 57600). You must have then a special cable, and run it with the option "h". Have fun! BTW2: PTerm RuLeZ 4 EvEr!!!! I've connected my USR SportSter 28.8 modem to my Portfolio and called at the full speed (28800 bps)!!! Cool! But the Zmodem option is blocked... And the 80*10 mode is cool! Maybe you can tell your friends they can write a word processor working in 80*10 mode.. Or a text file viewer, so PF Fans could transfer text files to their Portfolio and view them without scrolling!! Think 'bout it... ;-) Using ANSI Terminal On Portfolio -------------------------------- Subject: ANSI term programs for port From: dburkey@pcug.org.au (Darrell Burkey) > I used my port to call a BBS here recently but most of them use > ANSI characters. The BBS gives you the option to turn them off > but I would rather keep them on. > Do you know of any comms programs for the port that support ANSI? > I assume the problem is the unique addressing of the port LCD > screen which I understand is non-standard. I realize now that this just requires me to install ansi.sys via the config.sys file. I gave it a go and it works fine. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Portfolio Tools =============== From: dburkey@pcug.org.au (Darrell Burkey) I am sure you are familiar with the following programs but I have been so impressed with them I thought you would enjoy hearing about it. I think Crypt 1.0 by Don Messerli is fantastic. I really don't like the idea of my files being readable should the Port go missing. With this program you just press F6 while using your editor and you will have the option to encrypt or decrypt the current file. What could be easier? I love it! I have now also had time to play with Port Book by Jean-Francois Davignon which is a Windows program that lets you load your .adr files and read/modify them in a Windows enviornment. This is just fantastic because essentially the .adr format is a flat database and has many uses. Now that I have memory cards and a PC Card unit combined with all the software I have found floating around, I can see some real use for the Port not only as a personal organizer but also for data collection to be used for later collation on a PC. The Port can be a little difficult to get organised to this point, but its well worth it. Thanks for all the help that fellow Port users have given me, especially Jan Sedlak. Darrell Burkey (dburkey@pcug.org.au) Why do I need UPDATE.COM ? -------------------------- An anser to rozee@elec.canterbury.ac.nz (1) If you have PF ver. 1.090 and above. Then I think you do not need the UPDATE.COM. I have ver. 1.133 and the bugs are already fixed in ROM. My friend has 1.090 and he does not need the UPDATE either. (2)The necessity of UPDATE.COM may be recognized by a simple procedure: copy con file.txt F6 Enter 'remark: this will make 0 bytes file Now open the Editor and try to load this 0 bytes long file. If it works (and the file is really 0 bytes) then you do not need UPDATE. If "System error" appears -then quit by CTRL-ATL-DEL -> you need the update. (3) What is the last vesrion of update.com? The last version I have is 1.072. And I have never spotted a later version. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Tips On Using Optrol Cards =========================== >From dburkey@pcug.org.au You noted you use the PC Card Drive without the problems I have experienced. I note that you do not appear to use the 1meg card which has its own driver that must be loaded after the PC Card driver, CD.SYS. This allows the card to have two drive designations, one for the boot sector and one for the data area. The problems I have been having may be related to this driver as the documentation states: "In order to properly use the FMAP1 with the Card Drive you should insert the card and reboot the PC to allow the driver to acquire file location information from the card. Reboot each time you put a different or changed card in the drive." I have not been doing this which might explain my problems. I don't know about you but this proceedure strikes me as impractible but I guess I have no choice. I have to reboot my machine anyway as I am running Win95 and don't want the PC Card Drivers loaded as they are 16bit, so I reboot into my old DOS configuration to use the cards anyway. I would imagine this procedure will eliminate the corruption and file loss that I have experienced. From: dburkey@pcug.org.au (Darrell Burkey) > Has anything more been decided about making a CD with all the > available Port software? No progress. I would like to get a permittion from Dave Stewart to scan all issues of Re:Port and put them on CD. > I think I discovered another possible source of what happened > to my 1 MB card when it became corrupted. I used it in my PC > Card Drive and noticed that even though files appeared to copy > to it from my PC when I put it in the Port they were not there. I have experienced an original ATARI RAM card corruption in PC card drive twice. Once our 128KB card became corrupted. So, I am sure the driver may accidentally corrupt the card. I think if the card is plugged in during the start-up of the PC, then random values may be written to the PC card memory area. > Had a good look at my PC setup and noticed that my CD ROM drive > and the PC Card drive were being given the same drive letter. > I made a separate configuration for the PC Card Drive that did > not install the CD ROM and all was fine. I'll have to investigate > this further but thought I would pass this info on to you as well. Have a look at your config.sys file in c: root directory. The CD ROM must have its "device=......" line and the same must have the PC card reader. Each "device",if designed for working with disks, adds another letter to available drives. It is imposiible for 2 devices to share one letter except for very, very faulty and corrupted instalation. PC Card Drive ------------- From: dburkey@pcug.org.au (Darrell Burkey) Do you know of any problems with using the Portfolio PC Card Drive? I have noticed that when I use mine to create subdirectories on a card when I put the card back into the Port it does not recognise the directories I created. I thought the problem might be due to some disk caching in my PC so I did a test eliminating Smartdrive and running from DOS as to eliminate any tricks Windows might be up to. Things still seem a bit odd as when I copy some programs to the Port when I attempt to run them I get the error "Exec error". But I can copy the same program to the root directory of a card, then internally copy it to a subdirectory and once it worked and another time it didn't. I'm a bit worried about using the PC Card drive because I have already corrupted several memory cards and had to reformat and start over. I really don't want to spend a lot of time getting the cards set up with programs and data just to have to start over again. Have you any similar experiences? Perhaps you could post this in the Port Newsletter for me? -------------------------------------------------------- Stefan_kaechele@eisbaer.bb.bawue.de Teningen, im Januar `96 Computerhandel Stefan Kchele Mozartstr. 10 D-79331 Teningen Telefon: 0049/7641/47649 Internet: Stefan_Kaechele@FR.Maus.DE Here's a list of ATARI-Portfolio/Pocket PC items I sell: (Prices include VAT, additional s+h charges mentioned in brackets) 1 Upgrade-Manual (english version) -------------------------------- Consists of 23pages, DIN A 4, 7 schematics, 2 colour photos of the main pcb. This manual gives detailled description how to upgrade the PF to 224KB, 320KB or 512KB, how to increase the clock speed to 6.5MHz, how to increase internal backup power (without batteries) to more than 48hrs., how to use the par. interface and PBASIC as an I/O interface: Cost: 30.-DM(s+h: 5.-DM) 2 PoFo-Vermchtnis, (not available in English !) --------------------------------------------- more than 40p. DIN A 4, 20 schematics. This is vol.2 of the upgrade-manual describing how to increase the volume of the speaker, how to increase the clock speed up to 10/12MHz, how to access the serial interface, how to get an internal drive B: with 128K, how to create an internal backlight for the display, how to use an A/D-controller for measurements and hardwarecontrol, how to connect a stepper-motor, a simple speech- and soundsampler with soft- and hardwaredescription, schematic of a PCMCIA-adaptor for PCMCIA-memory-cards to a max of 1MB, how to fix a broken display cable, including the mentioned software and more. If there is enough interest in this manual I'd ask Chris Thompson to find some technical inclined studends with good knowledge of the German language to write a translation of the most important passages. (Vol. 2 of this manual is currently updated, reworked and enhanced). Cost: 35.-DM(s+h: 5.-DM) 3 The 384K-Memory-Card With English Manual ---------------------------------------- This card is an IMPROVED version of the one which has been discussed in he PF-connection's last issue. 3 onboard 128KB chips are selected manually by a small dil-switch. Including write protect. Same size as the original cards but no additional cover, pcb covered with polyurethan enamel. VERY RELIABLE. Cost: 180.-DM(s+h: 5.-DM) 4 384K Do-It-Yourself-Kit Includes board -------------------------------------- Build your own RAM card at an unbeatable low price ! German Manual schematics included, but does not include RAM chips or SMD parts Cost: 30.-DM(s+h: 3.-DM) 4.1 128K-SRAM chip for internal memory upgrade(224K needs 1 chip, 512K needs 4 chips) and to fit onto the 384K-card-board: 23.-DM(s+h: 1.-DM) 4.2 Battery for 384K-card(CR 1216 or CR 1220): 3.-DM(s+h: 2.-DM) 5 RECONDITIONED display cable --------------------------- Fully tested, 100% O.K. Cost: 12.-DM(s+h: 1.-DM) 6 Portfolio leather case ---------------------- Currently available only in brown (black cases available soon). Genuine leather, especially designed for the PF, takes up the Portfolio, RAM cards, documents. Separate small pocket for batteries Cost: 42.-DM(s+h: 8.-DM) 7 PortWalk -------- Is an interface which is used together with a Parralell Interface (not included) and a tape recorder (not included). You can save up to 2 MBytes on one 60 min. tape !! Data is transmitted with max. 4480 bauds. BEST BUY ! VERY RELIABLE ! ENGLISH MANUAL ! Cost: 60.-DM (s+h: 8.-DM) 8 Do-It-Yourself-Kit for display backlight ---------------------------------------- Comes with custom foil and transformer to fit into the Portfolio, consuming about 50mA max. (Currently updated, with GERMAN manual) Cost: : 125.-DM(s+h: 5.-DM) 8.1 Build-in service for backlight: 100.-DM/each. 9 Custom parallel interface -------------------------- This inferface is fully compatible and comes complete with a cable to link the Portfolio with a PC using FT.COM. Manual in english: Cost: 89.-DM(s+h: 8.-DM) 10 Custom Serial Interface (fully compatible) ------------------------------------------ Includes english manual and PC software (without cable). The PD-software enables you to transfer a terminal program (e.e. XTERM, ACOM) to the Portfolio to connect it with your PC, C64/128, AMIGA, MAC, etc.: Cost: 119.-DM(s+h: 8.-DM) 11 Universal interface ------------------- This will combine both the serial and parallel interface it is currently under development, available in about 3 months. Price is not yet fixed. 12 FolioDrive ---------- The ONLY floppy drive to fit in the PF's system-bus. Run 1.4MB/720K directly from the PF ! Small and FAST ! Parallel port INCLUDED ! Comes complete with 32K RAM card (incuding all necessary software) and English manual: Cost: 349.-DM(s+h: 16.-DM) 13 Original ATARI 64K Memory Card: 50.-DM(s+h: 3.-DM). 13.1 Take 3 and SAVE 30 -DM, 120.-DM(s+h: 8.-DM) 14 Original ATARI 128K-card Only A Few Left! Cost: 95.-DM(s+h: 3.-DM) 15 PF-PCMCIA-adaptor ----------------- for PCMCIA-memory-cards ! (1MB max.) NOT YET READY ! (ask for details) 16 PF-diet-kit ----------- Exchange several parts on your PF against custom parts to loose between 55g and 75g of weigth. German description: Cost: 25.-DM(s+h: 3.-DM) 17 PC-card-drive (limited): 200.-DM(s+h: 20.-DM) 18 Upgrade-service --------------- We will upgrade your PF between 224K and 512K,including an increase of the clock speed to 6.5MHz. Upgrade to 224K / 130.-DM, Upgrade to 320K / 160.-DM, Upgrade to 512K / 200.-DM(s+h:16.-DM). Please allow about 14 days for an upgrade. 18.1 Repair service(e.g. broken displaycable) Cost: 37.-DM including new cable (s+h: 16.-DM) 19 CD-ROM ------ Contains most of the Portfolio free-/shareware-soft and a lots of demos of new products. Let yourself be surprised ! Including fotos of most of the above mentioned accessories and some schemes for additional Portfolio-upgrades. (In preparation, available soon): Cost: Price 40.-DM(ask) (s+h: 5.-DM) 19.1 File-list of the CD-ROM on disk for PC with demo of Foliolink `95: Cost: 2.-DM(s+h: 3.-DM) 20 PFAX ---- Is a FAX-software(send+receive), works together with most FAX-modems. Turn your Portfolio into a complete FAX-station(German manual + soft, but software in english, too) Cost: 49.-DM(s+h: 5.-DM) 21 If you are searching for anything special Such as software, hardware, replacement bits etc then feel free to ask, because there is lots of unmentioned goods and goodies such as midi-interface, packetradio, Foliolink`95 etc ... Payment terms: I accept Eurocheques and cash (german or swiss currency ONLY, please remember to put your signature and a valid EC-card number on the cheque). Additional fee for handling the EC cheque: 3.-DM. If you prefer C.O.D. please add another 10.-DM for postal taxes. PORTFOLIO PRODUCTS - valid from 20 September 1995 ------------------ PERIPHERALS MADE IN THE CZECH REPUBLIC - 2 year warranty Here is the price list for the products that we can offer you. All prices are in German Marks (DEM) and all prices do not take local tax and VAT into consideration. code description quant./price END PRICE 1-5 6-30 31-100 101-250 251-1000 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- HPD 103 Genuine Leather 29 20 19 17 16 15 Case with battery pocket HPD 300 Parallel inteface 79 60 55 50 45 40 25 pin, cable, software HPD 350 Serial interface 115 86 80 75 70 60 9 pin, RS 232, software HPD 400 RAM Card 128 KB, 119 94 89 79 65 60 min 2 yr. battery life-span HPD 450 PORTFOLIO MEGA-PACK RAM Card 128 KB, Parallel interf. 25 pin, soft, cable, file man. more, soft instal. 169 136 130 118 105 95 HPD 500 FolioDrive 3,5TS FDD Unit to read and write 1,44 MB diskettes from Portfolio Par. inferf., NiCd battery pack, cable, soft and 32 KB RAM Card incl. in the price 349 280 260 call call call HPD 600 PortWalk tape recorder interface mono/stereo 2MB on 60 minutes tape 59 35 30 25 22 20 --------------------------------- LITERATURE HPD 202 Portfolio Technical Guide in English 120 pgs,+ disk 29 18 17 15 14 13 HPD 203 Portfolio Programmier 29 18 17 15 14 13 Praxis, in Deutsch 345pgs,+ disk --------------------------------- ORIGINAL ATARI PRODUCTS HPC 402 AC adapter 220 V 24 14 12 - - - --------------------------------- OTHER SUPPORT HPD 700 Upgrade your PF RAM to 512 KB 195 150 call - - - HPD 801 60 pin BUS connector 14 10 7 - - - HPD 802 128KB SRAM chip 20 16 15 - - - ---------------------------------------------------- NOTES: END PRICE - suggested end-user price, we sell to individuals at this price call - get current information personally ---------------------------------------------------- contact person: Jan Sedlak sedlakj@dec59.ruk.cuni.cz Portfolio Sarajevska 29 120 00 Praha 2 The Czech Republic Tel: + 42 2 99 61 894 Fax: + 42 2 29 51 86 To order please e-mail Jan and he will let you know about availability, shipping costs etc..., his bank details are as follows: Czech Portfolio Club Bank Connection ------------------------------------ BANK: Ceska sporitelna Jugoslavska 19 120 00 Praha 2 the Czech Republic BANK CODE: 0800 OWNER OF ACCOUNT: Jan SEDLAK - Portfolio Sarajevska 29 120 00 Praha 2 The Czech Republic NUMBER OF ACCOUNT: 720252-028/0800 Portfolio Products Available ---------------------------- Here is a listing of places, where NEW Portfolio products are sold. There may be other places in the world. If you know any other place, let us know. Name Person Contact/Details ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Portfolio Jan Sedlak sedlakj@dec59.ruk.cuni.cz Czech Republic +42 2 691 11 63 phone/modem/manual.fax +42 2 29 51 86 fax all products on stock Permadata Wolf-Th. Holl 100113.2626@compuserve.com Germany +49 203 299 880 phone/fax all products on stock Stefan Kaechele Stefan_Kaechele@FR.Maus.de Germany +49 7641 47649 phone only all products, RAM cards ACN Marc Drost no Inet address Holland +31 23 536 1444 fax (wholesalers) RAM cards, other products on order reconditioned Portfolios original spare parts OXO Mathieu Petrovic oxo@@iprolink.ch Switzerland all products on order OPTROL Inc. no Inet address USA +1 919 779-3377 1MB, 2MB, 4MB RAM cards ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Epilogue ======== Well thats it for another month, in nexts months issue there will be a complete list of all known bugs in the DIP-OS (PF Bios) and the first part of Programming the PF. - Paul 12/02/96 paulj@jollyp.demon.co.uk -------------------------------------------------------------------------