[GEM Development] GEM Desktop & Linux

[Thomas Clayton]

Jeff,

I just WENT to the
http://sourceforge.net/news/?group_idˆ914
URL.
 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.

Now, specifically what you don't want to hear:
 there is NO work on a GEM X-WM involved, there, what-so-ever (AFAIK).

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. :-)

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.


Sincerely,

Thomas Clayton

Who knows .. MAYBE Shane, himself,  will join us (briefly) to update us. (?)


--- On Thu, 11/3/11, Jeff Wood <rtdos at hotmail.com> wrote:

From: Jeff Wood <rtdos at hotmail.com>
Subject: Re: [GEM Development] GEM Desktop & Linux
To: gem-dev at simpits.org
Date: Thursday, November 3, 2011, 8:14 PM






Tom,

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:

http://sourceforge.net/news/?group_idˆ914

...is this (Linux based GEM) even remotely possible?

Thanks for any help, though, everyone.

---
Jeff Wood



> Date: Thu, 3 Nov 2011 09:54:18 -0700
> From: topcatdrc at yahoo.com
> To: gem-dev at simpits.org
> Subject: Re: [GEM Development] GEM Desktop & Linux
> 
> Liam,
> 
> 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!
> 
> AFrOS runs over ARAnyM and
> 
> 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.
> 
> 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.)
> 
> The other two ref.s have been mentioned here, before, and are GOOD.
> 
> Thanks again, for the respite - from work.
> 
> Tom Clayton
> 

 		 	   		  

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