[GEM Development] GEMDOS for Lisa resurrected
rob at midworld.co.uk
rob at midworld.co.uk
Mon Oct 4 10:10:53 PDT 2021
Hi folks -
I take it the deadness of the mailing list explains why my previous email on this subject never in fact arrived...
Last year I managed to resurrect the build system for GEMDOS for the Lisa, so it can be built from source again. This was partly as a historical exercise, and partly because Digital Research's hard disc driver didn't actually work, and I wanted a GEM installation on a hard disc on the Lisa.
It turns out the source code in the GEM Porting Kit was reasonably complete, but not entirely; one or two bits were totally missing. And once I got it working, I couldn't help but clean up a couple of other things that were annoying me: I stuck Tom Stepleton's ProFile driver in in place of DR's, which I never got working, and tidied up some other stuff (like not having hardcoded boot devices).
There's a discussion thread here:
https://68kmla.org/bb/index.php?threads/gemdos-on-the-lisa-can-be-built-again.35896/
The source code for anyone who wants to have a look is here:
https://github.com/cheesestraws/lisa-gemdos
Have fun
Rob
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