[GEM Development] New GEM devs

[Shane M. Coughlan]

> Hello all
> I never post here, I'm an Atari user and developper on it for 17 years.
> With some friends we have a big project, of a new GEM computer, base on a
> PC computer. We have already done avaibility test last year and succeeded
> to do a new clone computer working on PC with a kernel linux and Atari ROM
> under a very powerfull emulator, it work fine. Now we didn't wan't have
any
> copyright on it so we wan't replace ROM by our free source. Already
> existing the Bios, GEMDOS part from Digital, there is a near complete VDI
> part for free and native, and a multitask environment with Mint, only AES
> was not very good
> (Digital research source or others AES in free), so we have start to do
our
> AES and 60% of work is done, avaible for multitask or not system, and even
> working on an other AES.
> We hope have finich this work at the end of the year or in the first part
> of 2004.
> But for us it's not enough, we would be able to mix native GEM application
> and emulated application in the same working area. In our solution GEM can
> be native. We think it could interest someone here and perhaps help us.
> Our will:
> A modern GEM system running on a kernel Linux and it's framebuffer in true
> color.
> This system will be avaible to run native applications and 68K Atari
> applications in the same working area

Hi Olivier

Well, I think perhaps the FreeGEM multitasking GEM code may be useful for
you.  You can get the FreeGEM/XM 3.0beta4 complete distribution from
http://www.deltasoft.com/downloads/gemxm.zip.  Perhaps you can put some of
the code into your AES?

You can find some GEM bits at http://www.seasip.info/Gem/gengem.html, and
development tools at http://www.seasip.info/Gem/devkit.html

Regards

Shane
http://gem.shaneland.co.uk