Re: [MiNT] EasyMiNT / Aranym issues?

[Paul Wratt <paul.wratt@gmail.com>]

On Thu, Jun 10, 2010 at 6:35 AM, Eero Tamminen <oak@helsinkinet.fi> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> .. snip ..
>
> EasyMiNT installation is from this:
> http://atari.st-katharina-apotheke.de/download/easymint-1.70-aranym.tar.gz
>
> And Aranym is latest v0.9.10 release.
>
>
> I selected the EasyMiNT option where MiNT runs init instead of GEM.
>
> Otherwise everything seems to be working fine, but:
> * less crashes easily
> * screen editors (like vi) don't work, they don't show any or most
>  of the lines in the files.
>
I have recently tried to get my EasyMiNT install working with ARAnyM
(cygwin-build on windows) and it bombs. I have not had a chance to
investigate why. (works with <0.9.10 on linux)

> Even to view files I need to use:
>        cat file.txt | less
> to see the content.
>
> Any idea what could be wrong / how to fix it?
>
> Using "aes" to start XaAES & Teradesk, I can use "vi" in TosWin2, but
> its output is almost non-readable (there are vertical lines and every other
> character is a black box) and cursor moves strangely.  Qed work and looks
> perfect though.
>
try the suggested "tw100" it is the only way I can get decent console
output. In certain situations (maybe console build specific) "tw52"
did work, but not with later builds (?)

>
> I also tried the latest Aranym AFROS:
> http://sourceforge.net/projects/aranym/files/afros/8.12/afros812.zip/download
>
> But when its config file uses "Bootstrap = system/mint.prg" option, MiNT
> doesn't seem to respect my mint.cnf changes (to the
> drive_c/mint/1-17-cur/mint.cnf file).  How I can give MiNT config options
> when the Bootstrap option is used with Aranym?
>
>
>        - Eero
>
the bootargs, can be used, but it is the same as the output recorded
in mint.ini, and does not allow loading of specific config files.

the "system/mint.prg" should respect 1-17-cur folder in your MiNT
directory (C:\mint\1-17-cur). I have tested this at length and never
had a problem, unless that folder (1-17-cur) was renamed, and this is
true for 1-16-cur too (you can have both in C:\mint)

I have a setup which can flick between any number of versions of MiNT,
but there are a few requirements that need to be adhered to:
1) "mint.prg" must be run from "C:\mint"
2) there must be the associated -cur folder (1-16-cur or 1-17-cur)
within "C:\mint"

This means that I have for do some folder renaming or file copying
when flicking to a different version of 1.17 (to keep the 1-17-cur
valid)

I did have to play with the init settings originally in the easymint
install (1.16.3), but it did work out of the box, just not how I
wanted it too..

Hope there is something in here you can use..

Paul