[GEM Development] version of opengem for easy use for windows users

[rob at midworld.co.uk]

Greetings -

I will not be able to work on it much for a little while yet, with exam 
season looming; if you get it working on Windows then I will gladly 
assist in the munging it for Mac use and quite possibly Linux as well.  
I'll download DosBox later and give it a twirl.

I may well also be able to host it.

Thanks,

Rob

On 7 May 2006, at 21:51, veganalex wrote:

> i know that OpenGEM doesn't run straight from package on my computer
> through the basic NT commandline. i still think that it would be alot
> better for people to have a program, made for just click-and-run use
>
> @rob - i think it would be absolutely brilliant to have a gem-in-a-box
> package! - i know how to make it for windows, but MacOS would be
> rather more tricky, but i would be delighted to work in partnership
> with someone to keep such a service up to date. then for linux, i do
> have dual-boot winxp/ubuntu on my computer - i don't use linux much
> though, but i would be delighted to learn how to package/distobute
> packages for linux.
>
> overall i think that an OpenGEM-in-a-box service would be very hand to
> quite alot of people. I do not mind atall finding elsewhere to host
> such a service, Shane, because I do know that you have donated an
> awful lot of money into running the Shaneland server. i will look into
> free alternatives.
>
> i would like a more over-all opinion of this, but i am going to go
> ahead and start this project, because i believe that it will draw many
> more people into having an easy-to-use gem environment, even if it
> does run through another OS.
>
> another point i'd like to make, i know that OpenGEM is being used as a
> main freedos gui, but is there an install cd (iso) that can be
> downloaded to just install the whole thing as an OS onto a computer as
> of yet. i think that this would be a great help also to distributing
> OpenGEM.
>
> veganalex
>
> On 07/05/06, rob @ midworld. co. uk <rob at midworld.co.uk> wrote:
>> Greetings -
>>
>> On 6 May 2006, at 21:05, Shane M. Coughlan wrote:
>> > OpenGEM does not require DOSBOX to run on Windows XP.  It install 
>> fine
>> > onto XP, and runs without a hitch on my machine.  Therefore, there 
>> is
>> > no
>> > need for the creation of a 'OpenGEM for Windows' package at this
>> > juncture.
>>
>> In counterpoint to this, a DOSBox preinstalled with GEM (or at least
>> the configuration and GEM installation and so forth) would be quite
>> useful to me, at least, as I do not currently possess a windows
>> machine; thus having a command I could run to fire up GEM (or even a
>> set of directories I could copy into a dosbox directory and just hit
>> "go") in a window would be quite useful.
>>
>> Though this shifts the focus away from GEM for Windows to a more
>> general "GEM-in-a-box"...
>>
>> I think it's worth doing, personally, and could be useful.  I'd
>> certainly be willing to test and tweak on MacOS.
>>
>> Rob.
>>
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