[GEM Development] Fw: Hello from the land of GEM

[Shane M. Coughlan]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Luca Navone" <lucanavo at libero.it>
To: "Shane M. Coughlan" <shane_coughlan at hotmail.com>
Sent: Sunday, October 05, 2003 10:12 AM
Subject: R: Hello from the land of GEM


> Hi, Shane. Excuse me for the late of this message but a virus eated my
> system some days ago. No, I can't use Gem in my classroom for two reasons:
> 1) the old 486 with 4 mb of ram don't accept opendos and also drdos. I
can't
> immagine why... It crashed during the installation.
> 2) I haven't had the time for try a re-installation of freedos.
>
> I hope that soon I'll try to install freedos+opengem and I'm very anxious
to
> test the new gem version. (Also the children in my classrom are very angry
> because now they can't use the pc...).
>
> I send to you (but pheraps you already know it) a freeware program that
can
> convert some image format (.gif, .pcx and .pic) in a .img format
compatible
> with gempaint. It's name is "Picem".
> It seems to save in .img format only in black and white (also if it can
read
> also coloured .gif, .pcx, .pic). It need some study. A partial solution
for
> the problem is to transform the image with some advanced program with some
> kind of dithering (for have the effect of grey scale with only
black&white)
> and then to read the imagine with picem and transform it in .img. Not all
> the .gif files are read by Picem, it depends by resolution, dimension,
> number of colors, etc.
>
> For save the image you may press the "w" key of the keyboard when you are
> seeing the image and to select the format .img. Then press Enter key.
Done.
>
> Another good program that I've found for this kind of works is Graphic
> Workshop 6.1, more good than picem in terms of results, but it is
shareware,
> not freeware. It is on simtel.net.
>
> With this kind of programs it is possible to use potentially every kind of
> images with opengem!
>
> I've very appreciated the basic language (locomotive basic) in yours
> opengem. It's also opensource? Where I can find a manual?
>
> A little question: what is 1st mail? I can't guess the use of this
program.
> Is it for create e-mail?
>
> Regards, Luca.
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Shane M. Coughlan <shane_coughlan at hotmail.com>
> To: Luca Navone <lucanavo at libero.it>
> Sent: Wednesday, October 01, 2003 9:56 PM
> Subject: Hello from the land of GEM
>
>
> > Hi Luca, it's Shane.  I was just wondering if you will be using OpenGEM
in
> > the school this year, and if so how I can be of any help.  The newest
> > version of OpenGEM is 2.2.0, and it's a lot more stable than previous
> > versions, especially 1.2.0.
> >
> > Regards
> >
> > Shane
> > http://gem.shaneland.co.uk
>