Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!swrinde!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!wuarchive!psuvax1!psuvm!dbngmd13!dmswwu1c!onm07 From: ONM07@DMSWWU1A.BITNET (Julian F. Reschke) Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st Subject: Re: GEMINI Message-ID: <91126.114340ONM07@DMSWWU1A.BITNET> Date: 6 May 91 09:54:09 GMT References: <1991May4.145058.2122@cs.mcgill.ca> Lines: 81 Organisation: Westfaelische Wilhelms-Universitaet, Muenster, Germany In article , steve@thelake.mn.org (Steve Yelvington) says: > >[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] > Bug #1: There is a german GDOS version in the distribution Bug #2: the error message is scrambled (known bug :-() Translation: `Your program uses an illegal VDI handle, continue?' Reason: probably a buggy desk accessory. >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?) > Don't blame Gemini or AMCGDOS for this. IF there is a bug, it's in the harddisk driver you use. >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. > > ---- First of all, you can use any other GDOS (or no GDOS at all). Try the older AMCDOS-UK version that should be available from some servers. Then, you should remove all accessories and try to find out, which one is causing the problem. To make it clear: the only problem with AMCLIGHT is the scrambled, german error message!! > Steve Yelvington, Marine on St. Croix, Minnesota, USA / steve@thelake.mn.org ___________________________ cut here _____________________________________ Julian F. Reschke, Hensenstr. 142, D-4400 Muenster, Phone: ++49 251 861241 fast eMail: ONM07@DMSWWU1A.BITNET, slow: jr@ms.maus.de (++49 251 77216) ____________________ correct me if I'm wrong _____________________________