<table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0" ><tr><td valign="top" style="font: inherit;">Jeff,<br><br>I just WENT to the<br>http://sourceforge.net/news/?group_id=88914<br>URL.<br> It is Shane Coughlin's (I believe) description of his work with the source code to 16-bit (real-mode) DOS version of GEM (PC-GEM). In 1999(?) the (then) owners released source (that they had) of DRi's GEM product under the GNU Public License. What is spoke about on that webpage is his - and others! - work with / upon that code base.<br><br>Now, specifically what you don't want to hear:<br> there is NO work on a GEM X-WM involved, there, what-so-ever (AFAIK).<br><br>Shane hasn't, so much, abandoned his work on GEM, as that he got a job related to Free, Open-Source Software (Switzerland?) - that PAYS(?) (euro-symbol) - and has been busy with THAT, since. :-)<br><br>IF you'd like to see the "improved" GEM that now exists, look up OpenGEM 5 (I _THINK_ that was his
last release) on the web and download it. Oh, you'll NEED a DOS emulater - unless you have an old PC type system - and a DOS - available.<br><br><br>Sincerely,<br><br>Thomas Clayton<br><br>Who knows .. MAYBE Shane, himself, will join us (briefly) to update us. (?)<br><br><br>--- On <b>Thu, 11/3/11, Jeff Wood <i><rtdos@hotmail.com></i></b> wrote:<br><blockquote style="border-left: 2px solid rgb(16, 16, 255); margin-left: 5px; padding-left: 5px;"><br>From: Jeff Wood <rtdos@hotmail.com><br>Subject: Re: [GEM Development] GEM Desktop & Linux<br>To: gem-dev@simpits.org<br>Date: Thursday, November 3, 2011, 8:14 PM<br><br><div id="yiv2063692172">
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Tom,<br><br>You are correct I am interested in GEM acting as a X-DM/X-WM (like KDE using KDM or Gnome does with GDM, etc.) without using an emulator of any kind. I had read this awhile back that this was proposed:<br><br>http://sourceforge.net/news/?group_id=88914<br><br>...is this (Linux based GEM) even remotely possible?<br><br>Thanks for any help, though, everyone.<br><br>---<br>Jeff Wood<span style="text-decoration:underline;"><br><br></span><br><br><div>> Date: Thu, 3 Nov 2011 09:54:18 -0700<br>> From: topcatdrc@yahoo.com<br>> To: gem-dev@simpits.org<br>> Subject: Re: [GEM Development] GEM Desktop & Linux<br>> <br>> Liam,<br>> <br>> That was an interesting side-trip thru the web for me. First, I linked out to your google page, then to that woman-in-a-corset's page, then National Novel Month, then back to her page finding a nice cartoon about friendship and a picture of cats on a car hood (for one of my sisters - the catSS
owner) - and I hadn't even gotten to any GEM related subject matter, yet!<br>> <br>> AFrOS runs over ARAnyM and<br>> <br>> ARAnyM is a software virtual machine (similar to VirtualBox or Bochs) designed and developed for running 32-bit Atari ST/TT/Falcon operating systems (TOS, FreeMiNT, MagiC and Linux-m68k) and TOS/GEM applications on any kind of hardware - be it an IBM clone (read it as "PC" :-), an Apple, an Unix server, a graphics workstation or even a portable computer.<br>> <br>> Later on, I think it said something about a mini- ?linux?. Any way, Jeff can look that up for himself. (It is NOT acting as an X-WM - which is what I think he's interested in.)<br>> <br>> The other two ref.s have been mentioned here, before, and are GOOD.<br>> <br>> Thanks again, for the respite - from work.<br>> <br>> Tom Clayton<br>> <br><br></div> </div></div>
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