Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!think.com!yale!quasi-eli!cs.yale.edu!cs.yale.edu!fischer-michael From: fischer-michael@cs.yale.edu (Michael Fischer) Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st Subject: Re: GEMINI Message-ID: <1991May6.141727.3714@cs.yale.edu> Date: 6 May 91 14:17:27 GMT References: Sender: news@cs.yale.edu (Usenet News) Organization: Yale University Computer Science Dept., New Haven, CT 06520-2158 Lines: 37 Originator: fischer@ginkgo.CS.Yale.Edu Nntp-Posting-Host: ginkgo.theory.cs.yale.edu 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. > >Any tips? I'm using TOS 1.4, a 2.5MB ST, a Supra host adaptor and Supra >hard disk software, and a monochrome monitor. The directory layout is the >same as that included in Steven Grimm's monster archive, and the fonts are >available. I updated to Gemini version 1.21 from the code that was just posted to comp.binaries.atari.st. I tried AMCLIGHT.PRG and it worked fine, but I think it does have to be run at boot time. Your problems are most likely with the ASSIGN.SYS file. You have to make sure that the path listed at the top is correct and that the fonts you give all exist. I did run into trouble when using the font BAGE09.FNT with G+PLUS. It was distributed in Motorola format instead of Intel format. AMCLIGHT.PRG apparently accepts either format, but G+PLUS gets all confused. Without realizing what the problem was, I tried fixing it with FONTZ. FONTZ reads it in okay but for some reason, it changed the "bottom" parameter from 3 to 4 in the font header. I finally went in with a file editor (XXED) and patched the output from FONTZ and now have a working font. By the way, I am running on a Mega-4 under TOS 1.4, using a Supra drive and software. -- ================================================== | Michael Fischer | ==================================================