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- From: cbbrowne@csi.uottawa.ca (Christopher Browne)
- Subject: Re: MiNT 0.99 PL2
- Message-ID: <1993Jan28.012515.2077@csi.uottawa.ca>
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- Organization: Dept. of Computer Science, University of Ottawa
- References: <EJ70MSV@math.fu-berlin.de> <1993Jan27.194507.5107@csi.uottawa.ca> <1993Jan28.000130.14898@netcom.com>
- Date: Thu, 28 Jan 93 01:25:15 GMT
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- In article <1993Jan28.000130.14898@netcom.com> ersmith@netcom.com (Eric R. Smith) writes:
- >In article <1993Jan27.194507.5107@csi.uottawa.ca> cbbrowne@csi.uottawa.ca (Christopher Browne) writes:
- >>>Your problem is probably that you've forgotten to comment out "-DMULTITOS"
- >>>in the makefile. :-)
- >
- >> could
- >>someone give a 5 line description of Multi-AES, why we can't get it,
- >>and why I ought to comment out '-DMULTITOS'?
- >
- >(1) "Multi-AES" refers to the multitasking AES (version 4.0) distributed
- > with MultiTOS
- >(2) You can't get it because it's copyrighted by Atari and Digital Research,
- > and it hasn't been released yet. When it is released, you may have to pay
- > for it.
-
- Alas. I'd prefer for it to be both free, and available now. Of
- course, being available is MOST important. It's highly annoying when
- things aren't available at ANY price.
-
- >(3) You should comment out -DMULTITOS because with it, the default is to
- > try to boot C:\MULTITOS\GEM.SYS, rather than the AES in ROM; and
- > also because -DMULTITOS disables the debugging code.
-
- I was searching for BOOTGEM.PRG, and wondering why it wasn't called
- GEM.PRG. I think this explains most of that.
-
- >(4) Finally, if you're on a 68030 machine and wish to run the ROM AES,
- > you'll need to disable memory protection, either by starting MiNT with
- > a "-m" argument, or by recompiling with "no_mem_prot" defaulting
- > to 1.
- >
- >Hmmm... not 5 lines, but I hope you don't mind :-).
-
- No problem. :-).
-
- I took a look at the source, and had figured out SOME of this, once I
- heard that there was a problem with -DMULTITOS.
-
- With the change, it certainly compiles and runs like a charm. (Well,
- I had to reboot and kill some stuff that was using memory, because I
- didn't have enough RAM to get fasttext.c to compile.).
-
- It's running even as I write.
- --
- Christopher Browne | PGP 2.0 key available
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