Re: Lisa GEMDOS

IDLE compiles on OSX, you need sources (on sourceforge) and the Allegro game library...
but I don't have a mac (no recent macs).

On 21 mar, 13:35, Nama <forums6..._at_email.domain.hidden> wrote:
> Unfortunately I have had no luck getting GEMDOS to load on LisaEM
> 1.2.6 for the Mac.
> I'm not sure why, but it hangs after showing the fish (which is
> actually split in half, and the halfs flipped with some other possible
> corruption), then LisaEm crashes.
>
> On another probably unrelated note. For some reason my LisaEm is
> having trouble saving it config file and I get the following report:
>
> 21:30:26: Failed to create a temporary file name (error 2: No such
> file or directory)
> 21:30:26: can't open user configuration file.
>
> Does anyone have any idea how to fix this, it's annoying to have to
> redo all my settings each time I start the emulator. I've tried
> downloading LisaEm again and using that but the problem persists.
>
> Also, Is there an OS X build of IDLE anywhere?
>
> Phil
>
> On Mar 21, 5:53 pm, gilles <gilles.fe..._at_email.domain.hidden> wrote:
>
>
>
> > since lisa gemdos binary runs (at least in text mode), I think porting
> > gem and gemdos application will be direct (maybe xbios will need to be
> > a bit upgraded). I have other project but I'll try a bit.
> > I'm now waiting a formal answer (about FAT12 implementation) to
> > release the tool transfer as sources.
>
> > On 21 mar, 08:38, Nama <forums6..._at_email.domain.hidden> wrote:
>
> > > Well, I'm very excited about GEMDOS as I'm hoping in the near future
> > > it will allow us to do something on the Lisa that has never been done
> > > before (except maybe in mac OS, but that's not the same)...play
> > > games :-)
>
> > > I don't know anything about Atari's, so I'm wondering if there would
> > > be any good game candidates for porting, or maybe something that will
> > > possibly run with no porting involved?
>
> > > On Mar 20, 8:46 am, gilles <gilles.fe..._at_email.domain.hidden> wrote:
>
> > > > > wonder, with this information, how hard a port of FreeDOS would be?
> > > > > Is the Lisa even fast enough to run it?
>
> > > > Don't really know... But a more modern 68k os is mint
> > > > This gemdos is very interesting for new develpoments and also to port
> > > > some atari programs (some should run  natively)

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