[comp.sys.atari.st] Gemini, AMCGDOS and GDOS Problelms

D.C.Halliday@newcastle.ac.uk (D.C. Halliday) (09/02/90)

In article <1990Sep1.141312.16944@cs.dal.ca> silvert@cs.dal.ca (Bill Silvert) writes:
>I recently posted a problem about damaged menu appearances in VIP
>Professional.  The problem turns out to be due to loading AMCGDOS.PRG in
>my AUTO folder -- no AMCGDOS, no problem.
>
>I did verify that the VIP was not damaged -- running from the original
>disk (write-protected of course) showed the same problem.
>
>Also, ALTBOOT did not work with AMCGDOS installed -- I though ALTBOOT
>came first, but I will have to check.  I'd hate to have to choose
>between VIP and Gemini!

I  to  am  having  problems with AMCGDOS and GDOS. If I boot my system
with AMCGDOS then GEMINI works fine but  other  applications  such  as
TIMEWORKS moan about not being able to find font files after rebooting
with their assign.sys. If I use GDOS 1.1 all my applications work fine
but  when  booting  with  gemini's assign.sys all the additional fonts
gemini.fnt,courier.fnt,... apear as garbage.

Has  anybody  got any ideas? I thought AMCGDOS and GDOS where supposed
to be compatible. Would G++ solve the problem?

Dave Halliday
(D.C.Halliday@newcastle.ac.uk)

rvr@fctunl.rccn.pt (Rogerio Reis (CIUP)) (09/03/90)

GDOS and G++ have a strange feature!! They ignore the Motorola format
flag. So all fonts must be in Intel (yaghh!) format (bytes are swapped
in each word).

To use the gemini.fnt,... with GDOS, you mus convert it to the Intel
format...

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