Path: utzoo!utgpu!watserv1!ria!uwovax!7103_2622
From: 7103_2622@uwovax.uwo.ca (Eric Smith)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: gulam on TOS1.4
Message-ID: <6233.267b6875@uwovax.uwo.ca>
Date: 17 Jun 90 15:24:37 GMT
References: <667@idcapd.idca.tds.philips.nl> <1990Jun17.024132.25471@water.waterloo.edu>
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In article <1990Jun17.024132.25471@water.waterloo.edu>, ljdickey@water.waterloo.edu (L.J.Dickey) writes:
> In article <667@idcapd.idca.tds.philips.nl> wilko@idca.tds.PHILIPS.nl
> 	(W.C. Bulte) writes:
>  > Does anybody know if there is a version of gulam that runs correctly under
>  > TOS1.4? This week I got a new Mega 1 with TOS 1.4 and the gulam version I
>  > used to run under the old Blitter Tos doesn't seem to like TOS1.4. Gulam 
>  > starts correctly but the execution of e.g. the mem or ls command results in
>  > a crash due to a bus error (?). (I can't remember my Gulam version right
>  > now, but it is a beta version)
>  > Any help is appreciated.
> 
> Oh, panic!  I was considering getting a 1.4 upgrade.  But it certainly
> is not worth any money if I will have to go without Gulam!

Don't panic. gulam works just fine under 1.4, except that the "mem" command
causes a bus error. It's simple enough to write a little program that uses
Malloc(-1L) to check the amount of free memory, and alias "mem" to  this
"newmem.ttp". I use gulam all the time with tos 1.4 (in fact, it's installed
as an auto-boot application, which is a good reason to get tos 1.4 -- so
you can see gulam when you turn on the computer instead of that silly
desktop :-).
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Dept. of Mathematics            ERSMITH@uwovax.uwo.ca
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