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- Path: sparky!uunet!stanford.edu!ames!pacbell.com!pbhya!dbsuthe
- From: dbsuthe@pbhya.PacBell.COM (Daniel B. Suthers)
- Subject: Re: GEM.. what needs to be fixed, and soon!
- Reply-To: dbsuthe@PacBell.COM (Daniel B. Suthers)
- Organization: Pacific * Bell, San Ramon, CA
- Date: Thu, 27 Aug 1992 16:21:22 GMT
- Message-ID: <1992Aug27.162122.6521@pbhya.PacBell.COM>
- Summary: Some have been fixed, Some are trouble with his machine.
- References: <1992Aug27.100551.4716@bas-a.bcc.ac.uk>
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- FORWARD: MR. Usher describes several TT troubles. Most appear to be
- due to a virus or hardware trouble specific to his machine.
-
-
- In article <1992Aug27.100551.4716@bas-a.bcc.ac.uk> ucacmsu@ucl.ac.uk (Mr Stephen R Usher) writes:
- >
- >From what I've heard, the new version of GEM for the FALCON seems a great
- >improvement. I hope that at least some of the following gripes I have with
- >GEM are fixed, and the rest to be fixed ASAP if the Atari machines are to
- >get anywhere:-
- >
- >(1) Response time for mouse button presses.
- >
- > Has anyone noticed that it takes about a second for a mouse press to
- >be acted upon under GEM? This delay is the same on the TT as on the ST. This
- >has put off a large number of people when I've tried to promote the ST/TT
- [ TEXT DELETED ]
- THIS IS A PROBLEM WITH YOUR COMPUTER. MY SON'S ST HAD A BAD HARD DRIVE THAT
- CAUSED SIMILAR PROBLEM. ALL THREE OF MY STS PROVIDE INSTANT MOUSE RESONSE.
-
- >(2) Printer drivers have to be assigned at INSTALL time or by editing a
- >file. [ TEXT DELETED ]
- FONT GDOS ALLOWS YOU TO HAVE MULTIPLE DRIVERS DEFINED. JUST LIKE WINDOWS,
- YOU MUST EXIT AND RESTART IF YOU WANT A TOTALLY NEW ONE INSTALLED FROM A FLOPPY.
-
- >(3) GDOS IS AN OPTIONAL EXTRA.
- [ TEXT DELETED ]
- FONT (OR FSM) GDOS SHOULD BE INCLUDED WITH ALL NEW SYSTEMS (I HOPE )
-
- >(5) The low speed of the VDI routines.
- >
- > The speed of plotting a pixel on the screen using VDI on the TT is
- >so slow... dumping a 320x240 picture using point plotting with VDI can take
- >up to a minute.. the is UNACCEPTABLE.
-
- IF I HAD SUCH PROBLEMS, I TOO WOULD AGREE. IT APPEARS YOUR SYSTEM HAS
- A SERIOUS TROUBLE. MINE WORK AT "BLINDING ELECTRONIC SPEED".
-
- Daniel B. Suthers, CCP
- Technology Consultant, PCS & IN Development Lab, Pac*Bell
- Voice: (510) 671-1325 UUCP: dbsuthe@Pacbell.COM
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