Re: gem.sys sources

[Robert Krenn <d93rkr@t.hfb.se>]

On Fri, 9 Dec 1994, Eric R. Smith wrote:

> I also wish that we could have gem.sys source code. Unfortunately, this is
> almost certainly *never* going to happen. GEM is the property of
> Digital Research (now owned by Novell, I suppose) not Atari, and the license
> agreement that Atari signed is extremely restrictive. I heard that we
> couldn't even send source code to Atari subsidiaries -- only Atari Sunnyvale
> is allowed to use it!
>
This was really sad to hear... I really had hoped that someone would be 
allowed to FIX the gem.sys to work under/with MiNT-OS. Imagine: Multiple 
GEM on the same machine ;^}
 

> What we (users: I'm speaking here as an ordinary user, definitely *not*
> as an Atari employee) really need is a freeware GEM replacement. I can

Yes, MGR never did became a hit!


> see two distinct possibilities: (1) PRAX (whatever became of that? Michael?),

PRAX? Never heard of? Tell us more!


> or (2) a GEM server running on top of X11. (2) would also have the
> advantage of perhaps being portable to Linux/68K.
> 
I heard a rumour on IRC that the guys who is porting X to Linux also 
worked on a GEM/TOS emulator for X-Linux/68K. (I really should join the 
Linux/68K mailing list... )

And Now when X11R5 exist for MINT aswell ;^) Maybe that is a soloution, 
well the TOS emulation is  already ther in MiNT.. But the GEM emulator 
maybe could be ported to MiNT-X!? 

Have you tried X for MiNT, Eric? It's quite fun ;^D


> Is there interest in this? Or does no-one use the AES any more?
>
Hmmm... The AES is quite nice... Just that it has all the Memory it need, 
4Meg is just not enough any more ;^(
 

> (Again, let me emphasize that I'm speaking as a "private citizen". Atari
> is, so far as I know, not particularly keen to lose sales of MultiTOS :-)).


//Robert 

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