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- From: Julian F. Reschke <julian@GINA.UNI-MUENSTER.DE>
- Subject: Re: My experience with MiNT 0.99
- Date: Mon, 25 Jan 93 16:27:06 MET DST
- In-Reply-To: <9301251521.AA16137@nixpbe.sto.pdb.sni.de>; from "Frank Ridderbusch" at Jan 25, 93 4:21 pm
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- >
- > First of all my hardware configuration configuration:
- >
- > - ST520+ upgraded with
- > - 4Mb ST-Ram
- > - SST68030 with 4Mb-FastRam
- > - ST296 SCSI disk.
- >
- > First I compiled MiNT with MULTITOS defined. This version completely
- > hangs after showing the wellcome message. I didn't specify any gem.sys
- > in mint.cnf. Where do I get this? Is it the gem.prg, which was part of
- > the earlier MiNT packages.
- >
- > After this I recompiled without MULTITOS defined and got a nicely
- > working version. However I got problems with several versions of GDOS
- > programs. If I disable a GDOS version, the machine boots up fine. When
- > I enable the GDOS I get a MEMORY VIOLATION somewhere, when TOSWIN
- > loads the configured executables (EMACS and TCSH). The desktop is
- > displayed and I can move the mouse cursor, but that's all. I checked
- > three GDOS programs:
- >
- > amcgdos 3.21
- > amclight 4.0
- > gdos 1.1
- >
- > With all of these I get the same result.
- >
- > Does anyone have similar experiences?
-
- One thing to watch for (I'm not sure what MULTITOS sets up): the normal ROM
- AES doesn't work with memory protection at all. Have you tried mint -p?
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