Re: [MiNT] Language/keyboard selection and problems

[skeezix <skeezix@skeleton.org>]

On Wed, 27 Jul 2011, Jo Even Skarstein wrote:

# >  	- Mousing around I run TosWin2.app .. and its menus are in German; 
# > hitting Daten -> whatever to run the shell, and bash comes up nicely.
# 
# There is an English RSC to TosWin, but maybe not for the current
# version.

	Ah, I will check; nomatter, its operation is pretty simple anyway. 
We had to learn a lot of German back in the 80s as probably 75% of the 
best applications came from there ;)

# It doesn't work under TOS GEM because this GEM runs in supervisor mode
# "all" the time. This means no task-switching, which again means that the
# keyboard doesn't work. Try finding nohog.acc on some ftp-server, this
# will probably help. But why not just run XaAES? Works very well on the
# Firebee :)

	Ah, fair enough.

	I'd run a few builds of XaAES and found it was crashing ina  few 
odd ways -- when pulling down dropdown menus, for example; I've just 
rebuild the CF card I'm booting from and it seems to work this round .. 
perhaps it was corrupted from the many boots and crashes as I fiddled with 
building this system up.

	-- 

	Just tried a current XaAES built I got from someone .. Wow! I know 
this is old hat to most, but getting XaAES set up, with its shell pointing 
to Teradesk or others, and also running bash from Toswin2, and having the 
task manager up .. now we're talking!

	Now I'll have to port over Emacs, nethack, and SDL; I'm betting 
the gentoo's build of gcc is not including any of the Atari world of stuff 
(gemlib etc), so stll have to locate all that, or set up a PureC 
environment or something. Fun!

# >  	I don't know anything about how GEM/etc/etc determines the locale 
# > and language to use .. old old memories.
# 
# It's stored in NVRAM on the Falcon, TT and now the Firebee. There is a
# CPX for configuring that.

	Great, thanks muchly for the repoint back to XaAES!

		jeff

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