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- STonX was written by Marinos Yannikos and Martin D. Griffiths.
- This DOS conversion was done by Dirk Jansen.
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- STonX is free software. Read the file COPYING for more information!
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- You can find the latest version of STonX DOS at "emulation camp":
- http://www.mygale.org/~zoop/stonx
- Thanks to Zoop for maintaining this page!
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- to run STonX you need these things: |
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- 1. a TOS image file.
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- You need a TOS image file to run STonX. Because of copyright reasons this
- file is not included in this package.
- If you have access to a ST, you can use TOSDUMP.EXE by Tony Smolar to
- create the TOS.IMG file.
- There are three version of STonX DOS:
- stonx1.exe is for 192kb TOS (1.00, 1.02, 1.04), stonx2.exe is for 256kb TOS
- (1.62, 2.0x) and stonx2b.exe for 256kb TOS and 14 MB RAM.
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- 2. Min. 16 MB RAM memory.
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- 3. A fast cpu.
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- A Pentium CPU is recommended, but it also runs on a 486.
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- 4. A sound blaster card or compatible for audio emulation.
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- Only sound blaster cards are supported (or compatible). Try the switch
- "-noaudio" if you have problems. If your soundcard does not use IRQ 5,
- DMA 1 and port 220h, you must set the environment with
- "set BLASTER=A220 I7 D1" (This uses a sound blaster card on port 220h,
- IRQ 7 and DMA 1).
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- 5. A mouse driver.
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- some useful command line switches: |
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- Start STonX with "-h" for help. STonX also writes internal messages into
- a file named DEBUG.TXT. If STonX does not run, it would be useful to take
- a look into this file.
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- using PC file system:
- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
- If you want to access your PC hard disk, use "-fs <X>:<path>".
- for example "-fs C:D:\TEMP" uses your PC directory D:\TEMP as Atari
- drive C.
- If you use this switch, you should have at least TOS 1.4.
- With TOS 1.0 or TOS 1.2 better use the next switch:
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- using disk images:
- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
- You can use disk images with "-disk <X>:<filename>".
- for example "-disk A:C:\IMAGES\MYDISK.ST" uses MYDISK.ST as a disk image
- for drive A.
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- graphics switches:
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- With the switch "-size 800x600" you can use a greater resolution.
- You can use colour with "-color" (color is slow with 800x600).
- Only 800x600 is supported. If you try other resolutions, it may not work.
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- parallel port or serial port:
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- "-para lpt1" uses LPT1 as parallel port. You can also print to a file.
- "-serial com2" uses COM2 as serial port with 19200 baud (RTS/CTS handshake
- is not supported). You can use COM1 to COM4.
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- Configuration files: |
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- You can also use a config file for the options. write the options into
- a file named stonx.cfg without "-". You can use comments with "#". Use only
- one option per line. Use comments only at the beginning of a line. Example:
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- # STonX example config file
- #
- mono
- fs c:c:\atari
- size 800x600
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- -------------------.
- Some final words: |
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- - The source code of STonX is also available.
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- - Take a look at Nino's homepage. Here you can find more information about
- STonX: http://www.complang.tuwien.ac.at/nino/index.html
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- My e-mail address: jansen@uni-paderborn.de
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- Have fun!
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- Dirk Jansen
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