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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
>
> 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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