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Subject: GEMINI
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Date: 4 Mar 90 04:11:00 GMT
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in INFO-ATARI16 Digest V90 #279 swrinde!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!uwm.edu!
        ux1.cso.uiuc.edu!ux1.cso.uiuc.edu!cs325ec@ucsd.edu writes:

>       Anyone try out Gemini yet?  I run Gemini.prg after booting
>       with either AMCGDOS or GPLUS and get two bombs...???

>       Anyone got it to work want to comment?  I tried removing
>       every auto prg and acc save amcgdos and shell0... No luck.

>       Went through the configs... set it for drive C: still
>       no luck.

>       Damn, I really wanted it to work... Is it any good in
>       a 1040 anyway? (Memory usage?)

>       Thanks for any tips

>       -- Greg

GEMINI crashed on me the first time I tried to run it (two bombs). After
running shell0 it worked fine.  Since then it has worked whether I run shell0
or not.  Would someone explain just what shell0 does?

Overall, GEMINI has just about everything I've been wishing for in a graphic
shell.  Kudos by the ton.  I have encountered three problems that are slightly
irritating.

        1.  If the mouse cursor is on the menu bar when exiting from the
shell the mouse starts leaving crud all over the place
        2.  I think I don't have it configured quite right, since I get a "this
application could not find file" when I quit back to the (standard, boring)
desktop.
        3.  Timeworks DTP quit back to GEMINI suddenly after printing a file.
GEMINI then quit back to the desktop, which locked up.  This has only happened
once, and I haven't had time to try to duplicate it. (I've only had GEMINI for
about, what is it? 23 hours now.)  I hope this is not caused by AMCDOS.  Not
only does it speed up GDOS text, but bitmap drawing is _much_ faster and
smoother.

These aren't really GEMINI problems

        4.  Whenever I try to load GEMINI or UNITERM fonts into the FONTZ!
program they always end up chopped horizontally, with offset character
boundaries.  What is causing this?  Is there a better font editor that doesn't
do this?

        5.  Is it possible to create your own custom icons for GEMINI?  This is
probably in the dox, but I don't know German.

Thanx
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Jason Steiner           STJLHI33@WOOSTER.BITNET         Kyrie eleison