[GEM Development] Shane Land GEMini 3 further details

[Shane M. Coughlan]

>> By going back to DR GEM code the license will stay the same.
>
> What does this mean? What have you changed and why?
>
> Merely curious but I find your wording rather alarming...

Hi Liam!

GEMini Release 3 and OpenGEM Release 4 will use the DR GEM 3.13 AES and VDI, 
and the FreeGEM 3.2 desktop as the core GUI.  This is different to GEMini 
Release 2 and OpenGEM Release 3, which use FreeGEM AES, VDI and Desktop 3.2.

Why have I changed things?  We were getting reports of system hanging and 
unexpected program quitting from people testing GEMini Release 3, so by 
going back to the DR GEM 3.13 code for the AES and VDI the problem seems to 
have gone away (and everything is running faster).  I'd like to debug the 
problem, and get the nice 3D code back sometime...but the main priority for 
OpenGEM Release 4 is stability for the FreeDOS platform.

Regards

Shane
gem at shaneland.co.uk
gem.shaneland.co.uk

PS:  I am thinking of having a seperate OpenGEM release using the FreeGEM 
AES and VDI.  Perhaps it could be add-on pack to OpenGEM Release 4 (using 
the new update system), and people could revert back to the DR GEM AES and 
VDI quickly if they were having problems using the new OpenGEM REPAIR option 
in SETUP.BAT.