Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!usc!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!stanford.edu!msi.umn.edu!cs.umn.edu!thelake!steve From: steve@thelake.mn.org (Steve Yelvington) Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st Subject: Re: GEMINI Message-ID: Date: 5 May 91 00:54:44 GMT References: <1991May4.145058.2122@cs.mcgill.ca> Organization: St. Croix Valley C and Ski Lines: 48 [In article <1991May4.145058.2122@cs.mcgill.ca>, jon@nabob.cc.mcgill.ca (Jonathan Carroll) writes ... ] > In article steve@thelake.mn.org (Steve Yelvington) > writes: >> I unpacked and installed GEMINI from comp.binaries.atari.st last night >> after only a moderate amount of muttering and cursing about LZH. However, >> I wasn't able to get the GDOS clone, AMCLITE, to work. It seems to install >> (but accomplishes nothing) if no ASSIGN.SYS file is available. If >> ASSIGN.SYS is available, I get at least four bombs. I'm NOT running this >> from the auto folder -- I'm reluctant to put it there until I'm reasonably >> sure that I'll be able to boot the computer from the hard disk without it >> blowing up. > > That may be the problem. I beleive it MUST run from the auto folder. Hasn't > worked for me any other way. Don't worry, it doesn't blow up... (Well not in a > big way anyways.. ;-) ) Well, I thought it would work that way, but ... \AUTO\AMCLITE.PRG turned out to be an even bigger mess. AMCGDOS installs itself and reads the ASSIGN.SYS file just fine, but as soon as the GEM Desktop comes up and tries to open a window, I get a dialog box that says: GDOS-Warnung: Ihr Programm benutzt ungultige [WEITER] I don't know any German, but if I were to judge the meaning of WEITER it would be ``Blow the entire system right to the moon.'' I get a large number of bombs (too brief a display to count) and the system reboots, leading to a repeat performance, ad infinitum. I wasn't even able to get Supra's hard disk software to force-boot from a floppy; the old control-shift-alt trick had no effect whatsoever. (Is this a TOS 1.4 side effect?) The only way out of it was to disconnect the data cable between my Wren and my Adaptec controller, boot from the floppy disk, reconnect the data cable and run SUPRBOOT.PRG manually, allowing me to get into the hard disk and get rid of AMCLITE.PRG. David P-Z has offered to send me a self-installing AMCLITE archive ... I'll try the setup that worked on his system and see if I can get more Weiter-fireworks. ---- Steve Yelvington, Marine on St. Croix, Minnesota, USA / steve@thelake.mn.org