FRACHEL@umiami.Miami.EDU (02/26/90)
This is a repost, since no one answered it before: Where can I get G-Dos? I have never seen it anywhere. Simple question, someone MUST know the answer. Frank
millert@boulder.Colorado.EDU (MILLER TODD C) (02/28/90)
In article <9002270817.AA13951@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU> FRACHEL@umiami.Miami.EDU writes: >This is a repost, since no one answered it before: > >Where can I get G-Dos? I have never seen it anywhere. > >Simple question, someone MUST know the answer. > >Frank You can get AMCGDOS.ARC from terminator.cc.umich.edu (35.1.33.8). This seems to be a PD version of GDOS. I believe there is also a file called GDOS.ARC, but it just has a text file explaining GDOS, not the binary. There are a couple of GDOS fonts also on terminator. I believe that the _real_ Atari GDOS is not public domain, but AMCGDOS is. Hope this helps. -Todd +------------------------------------------------------------------------------+ | Todd Miller - millert@tramp.Colorado.EDU | |Some get stoned, some get strange. Sooner or later it all gets real. Walk on.| +---------------------------------\Neil Young/---------------------------------+
fischer-michael@CS.YALE.EDU (Michael Fischer) (02/28/90)
In article <9002270817.AA13951@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU> FRACHEL@umiami.Miami.EDU writes: >This is a repost, since no one answered it before: > >Where can I get G-Dos? I have never seen it anywhere. > >Simple question, someone MUST know the answer. > >Frank From Atari. They own it. Or you can buy the commercial G+PLUS which is faster and better. ================================================== | Michael Fischer | | Arpanet: <fischer-michael@cs.yale.edu> | | Bitnet: <fischer-michael@yalecs.bitnet> | | UUCP: <fischer-michael@yale.UUCP> | ==================================================
boyd@fsucs.cs.fsu.edu (Mickey Boyd) (02/28/90)
In article <9002270817.AA13951@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU>, FRACHEL@umiami.Miami.EDU writes: >This is a repost, since no one answered it before: > >Where can I get G-Dos? I have never seen it anywhere. > >Simple question, someone MUST know the answer. > >Frank One does not "get" GDOS, one receives it (beware of anything like this!). It is included with any program that uses it. The first thing one does with such a program is replace GDOS.PRG with G+PLUS.PRG. G+PLUS is a better GDOS, which does not slow down the machine, allows one to select ASSIGN.SYS files, and does not screw up non-GDOS apps like the original atari GDOS does. It is a comercial product (G+PLUS), and costs about $35. -- ----------------------------------------------------------------------- ---------------------------------+------------------------------------- Mickey Boyd | "Nobody can be exactly like me. FSU Computer Science | Even I have trouble doing it." mail: boyd@fsucs.cs.fsu.edu | - Tallulah Bankhead ---------------------------------+------------------------------------- -----------------------------------------------------------------------
hcj@lzsc.ATT.COM (HC Johnson) (02/28/90)
In article <9002270817.AA13951@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU>, FRACHEL@umiami.Miami.EDU writes: > This is a repost, since no one answered it before: > > Where can I get G-Dos? I have never seen it anywhere. > > Simple question, someone MUST know the answer. > > Frank You can't buy gdos. A software product that uses it has to BUY it from ATARI, and put it on a disk for you. Once you buy one program with it it available for everything else. -- I bought Dollars & Sense, and got gdos1.0. AND they only can print using using gdos 1.1. -- Then I bought a CAD program and it had gdos 1.1. There is a gdos clone, called G-PLUS. about $40. Howard C. Johnson ATT Bell Labs att!lzsc!hcj hcj@lzsc.att.com
clubok@husc4.HARVARD.EDU (Ken "The Snake" Clubok) (03/02/90)
In article <1344@lzsc.ATT.COM> hcj@lzsc.ATT.COM (HC Johnson) writes: >You can't buy gdos. A software product that uses it has to BUY it from >ATARI, and put it on a disk for you. Once you buy one program with it This is all very well and good, but then how does one go about using PD programs that require GDOS? Case in point: I have Opus, and would really like to use the charting functions, but that requires making metafiles. Actually, I have GDOS, as distributed with my Wordup disks, but I still lack the META.SYS file I need for Opus. So do I need to buy a commercial program that includes META.SYS? Or can I buy it separately? Or is it public domain? I've posted this question a couple times before, with no response, so perhaps I'll have better luck this time. Ken Clubok clubok@husc4.bitnet clubok@husc4.harvard.edu
Bob_BobR_Retelle@cup.portal.com (03/04/90)
Frank@umiami asks: > Where can I get G-Dos? I have never seen it anywhere. > > Simple question, someone MUST know the answer. You can spend big bucks licensing GDOS from Atari, you can buy something like Degas Elite that comes with some version or other of GDOS (there have been several), or you can forget GDOS altogether and buy G+Plus from Codehead Software... Atari Corp spend years and years fumbling around trying to get GDOS to work right, and never did manage to fix it. Charles F. Johnson and John Eidsvoog (who ARE Codehead) spent a few WEEKS reverse-engineering GDOS, figuring out how it worked, and more importantly, how it was SUPPOSED to work. They then wrote a replacement for GDOS which not only worked the way GDOS was supposed to work, but ran FASTER to boot. The documentation for G+Plus even comes with a nice tutorial about the way GDOS works... FAR more than you'd normally get from Atari Corp. Once again, forget about the Atari product, and get the third-party product.. BobR
ONM07@DMSWWU1A.BITNET (Julian Reschke) (03/06/90)
In article <17476@boulder.Colorado.EDU> MILLER TODD C writes: > You can get AMCGDOS.ARC from terminator.cc.umich.edu (35.1.33.8). > This seems to be a PD version of GDOS. I believe there is also a file called > GDOS.ARC, but it just has a text file explaining GDOS, not the binary. There > are a couple of GDOS fonts also on terminator. I believe that the _real_ > Atari GDOS is not public domain, but AMCGDOS is. > Hope this helps. > -Todd How can You say that AMCGDOS is PD, if there is clearly a copyright in the program startup? AMCGDOS is free ONLY for NON-COMMERCIAL usage! If You want to buy a licence, You have to contact Atari Germany or the author Arnd Beissner! ___________________________ cut here _____________________________________ Julian F. Reschke, Hensenstr. 142, D-4400 Muenster, Phone: ++49 251 861241 eMail: ONM07@DMSWWU1A.BITNET, "Julian Reschke" @ MAUS MS (++49 251 80386) ____________________ correct me if I'm wrong _____________________________
jvt@its.bt.co.uk (John Trickey) (03/07/90)
In article <17476@boulder.Colorado.EDU> MILLER TODD C writes: > You can get AMCGDOS.ARC from terminator.cc.umich.edu (35.1.33.8). >> This seems to be a PD version of GDOS. .... I am very interested in obtaining a PD version if possible. However I do not have ftp access to terminator & none of the archive sites seem to have it in their catalogs. Anyone tell me how I could get hold of a copy or do I have to buy G+Plus? :- John -- John Trickey British Telecom IT Systems. jvt@its.bt.co.uk ..!mcsun!ukc!axion!its G4REV @ GB7SUT Voice: +44 21 333 3369
stephen@oahu.cs.ucla.edu (Steve Whitney) (03/08/90)
In article <Z8-#%}|@masalla.fulcrum.bt.co.uk> jvt@its.bt.co.uk (John Trickey) writes: >In article <17476@boulder.Colorado.EDU> MILLER TODD C writes: >> You can get AMCGDOS.ARC from terminator.cc.umich.edu (35.1.33.8). >>> This seems to be a PD version of GDOS. .... > >I am very interested in obtaining a PD version if possible. However >I do not have ftp access to terminator & none of the archive sites seem >to have it in their catalogs. Anyone tell me how I could get hold of a >copy or do I have to buy G+Plus? > >:- John > I've seen a number of these requests and replies, but it seems that no one has yet pointed otu the difficulty involved with GDOS clones. In order to _use_ GDOS for anything other than screen fonts, you will need device drivers and fonts. The device drivers are not public domain, and are not provided with G+Plus. (I don't know if AMCGDOS has GDOS driver clones or not, but I would _guess_ that it doesn't.) If you just want to draw fonts on the screen, you just need GDOS or a clone and fonts, otehrwise, you'll still have to buy a commercial product in order to get any use from it (just to get drivers). If you knew this already (as many of you undoubtably did), sorry for repeating it. --Steve Steve Whitney "It's never _really_ the last minute" (())_-_(()) UCLA Comp. Sci. Grad. Student | (* *) | Internet: stephen@cs.ucla.edu UCLA Bruin--> { \_@_/ } GEnie: S.WHITNEY `-----'
richardk@iscuvd.isc-br.com (Richard Kearnes) (03/08/90)
In article <9003051048.AA02991@freya.math.dmswwu> ONM07@DMSWWU1A.BITNET (Julian Reschke) writes: >In article <17476@boulder.Colorado.EDU> MILLER TODD C writes: >> You can get AMCGDOS.ARC from terminator.cc.umich.edu (35.1.33.8). ... >How can You say that AMCGDOS is PD, if there is clearly a copyright >in the program startup? AMCGDOS is free ONLY for NON-COMMERCIAL usage! If AMCGDOS is free for non-commercial usage can someone with access to the terminator archive send a copy of the package to the moderator of comp.binaries.atari.st so it can be posted to the net for those of us who do not have access to the terminator archive? -- Richard Kearnes UUCP: richardk@isc-br.ISCS.COM ISC-Bunker Ramo (uunet!isc-br!richardk) East 22425 Appleway Phone: +1 509 927-5478 Liberty Lake, WA 99019
dnd15j9z@umiami.miami.edu (Frank Rachel) (07/02/90)
I got G-Dos with the Gemini DEsktop (AMC GDOS) and now I have opus, and
it mentions something about a META.SYS file. I have no idea what it is or
where to get it. I also have an EPSON_FX.SYS and don't know how to
put it in the asign.sys file, so basically.. what do I do and where can
i get/create a meta.sys file?
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