[GEM Development] Apricot GEM: Screenshots and bugs

John Elliott jce at seasip.demon.co.uk
Tue Dec 13 14:20:20 PST 2011


  I've recently been tinkering with my Apricot PC emulator, QDAE. Part of 
this has involved experiments with the various versions of GEM for the 
Apricot that helpful people have dredged up over the years.

  One of the things I ran on it was a tool I wrote while developing screen
drivers, which attempts to exercise various different code paths. It
obviously worked, because it found two different bugs -- one only present
in one driver, the other in all the drivers I tested.

  Accordingly, my page of Apricot GEM screenshots at 
<http://www.seasip.info/Gem/History/apricot.html> is now rather longer.

  I think GEM may come to my rescue in another way, too: as far as I can 
see, Apricot MS-DOS does not have a full-screen text editor. Fortunately
WRITE.APP might just fill that gap.

-- 
John Elliott


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