Re: Lisa GEMDOS - got it working

The modification I made on IDLE was on the expansion port, I suppressed the
bus error for timeout reads and writes.
I tried to add some more file for gem, but with no success for now... I'll try on real hardware, maybe emulators are wrong... or maybe this gemdos version is not finished... (as stated in atari documents)

On 22 mar, 16:40, Ray Arachelian <r..._at_email.domain.hidden> wrote:
> gilles wrote:
> > I remember I activated a dual parallel card for each slot when I tried
> > on lisaem but not sure it really helped.
>
> That did the trick!  Thanks.  Yes, so as you've said, it probably does
> something a bit unexpected when it probes the expansion port slots that
> makes LisaEm die.
>
> Turning on the dual parallel port card in each of the 3 slots probably
> makes it do something else which doesn't cause LisaEm to die.
> It of course makes the Lisa boot ROM menu look ugly, but I can live with
> that. :)
>
> I'm in GEMDOS now.  It's cute.  So it's kind of a cross between CP/M and
> DOS.   How do I start the graphics mode?  GEM.PRG says file not found.
> GEMVDI.PRG said it loaded itself in memory - I guess the way old DOS
> TSRs did.   EXIT GEM.PRG just hung the OS.
>
> The help command works, but there's no more command, however, if you hit
> Control-S / Control-Q it does XON/XOFF paging.  But you have to be quick.
> I tried a | character, but it came out as a ? for some reason, so
> couldn't find if it supported a more command.
>
> Interesting how the echo command is sort of C like with /r /c /n being
> used as tokens, and they're forward slash instead of black slash.
> It's a weird mix of different stuff.

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