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From: ONM65@DMSWWU1A.BITNET (Operator Stefan)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Gemini
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Date: 6 Feb 90 08:03:48 GMT
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Hello, world!

I've read some messages descibing the new desktop named
GEMINI and I realized, that now's the time to mail some
words of explanation.

One and a half year ago a friend of mine and I started to
develop a new desktop for the Atari ST. The actual version
offers the following features:
- Icons on the desktop background (folders and files)
- faster windows with two icon sizes and any monospaced
  GDOS fonts in text mode
- correlation between files and icons, files and applications
  via UNIX-Wildcards
- builtin UNIX-like shell, which runs in a GEM-window (using
  any monospaced font you like)
- TOS programs are running inside this window
- any program can be started as 'overlay', which means that
  Gemini is completely removed from memory and only a small
  manager (20 KB) is running.
- key-scrolling in file windows (you press 'm' and the window
  tries to display as many filenames starting with 'm' as
  possible)
- if you drag a file on a program icon, Gemini starts the program
  giving the filename as parameter
- draggable dialog boxes (flying dialogs) with shortcuts for every
  entry (of course there are menu shortcuts, too)
- many other features I got so used to that I can't think of them
  no more

How to get Gemini:
Four months ago we started to distribute the german version as
shareware and I heard that someone had posted it to usenet.
In the version 1.0 of the program all the texts were written
in english (but not the doc files), but the current version 1.1
is completely in german. Don't panic, you don't need to buy a
german dictionary! We'll make an english and german version REAL
SOON NOW and will post them to usenet. (Watch out for us!)

Gemini is a shareware program. The shareware price in Germany is
50,- DM (Deutschmark) and we're still thinking of a way to get this
over the ocean. If You have any good idea or any experiences, please
tell us!

thats all for now, cu :-)

	Stefan Eissing (pronounce it 'Icing')

	onm65@dmswwu1a.bitnet

You can send hardmail to:
	Stefan Eissing
	Dorfbauerschaft 7
	D-4419 Laer-Holthausen
	(West-Germany)

('UNIX' is a trademark of you-know-who)
('REAL SOON NOW'is a trademark of Atari Computers)