wilko@idca.tds.PHILIPS.nl (W.C. Bulte) (06/15/90)
Does anybody know if there is a version of gulam that runs correctly under TOS1.4? This week I got a new Mega 1 with TOS 1.4 and the gulam version I used to run under the old Blitter Tos doesn't seem to like TOS1.4. Gulam starts correctly but the execution of e.g. the mem or ls command results in a crash due to a bus error (?). (I can't remember my Gulam version right now, but it is a beta version) Any help is appreciated. _ _____________________________________________________________________ | / o / / _ Wilko Bulte Domain: wilko@idca.tds.philips.nl |/|/ / / /( (_) uucp : [mcsun,hp4nl]!philapd!wilko * Philips Information Systems Nederland * Hardware Development Department, Apeldoorn, bldg V1-B1, ph 055-432652 >> There is no problem a good miracle can't solve << ___________________________________________________________________________
ljdickey@water.waterloo.edu (L.J.Dickey) (06/17/90)
In article <667@idcapd.idca.tds.philips.nl> wilko@idca.tds.PHILIPS.nl (W.C. Bulte) writes: > Does anybody know if there is a version of gulam that runs correctly under > TOS1.4? This week I got a new Mega 1 with TOS 1.4 and the gulam version I > used to run under the old Blitter Tos doesn't seem to like TOS1.4. Gulam > starts correctly but the execution of e.g. the mem or ls command results in > a crash due to a bus error (?). (I can't remember my Gulam version right > now, but it is a beta version) > Any help is appreciated. Oh, panic! I was considering getting a 1.4 upgrade. But it certainly is not worth any money if I will have to go without Gulam!
7103_2622@uwovax.uwo.ca (Eric Smith) (06/17/90)
In article <1990Jun17.024132.25471@water.waterloo.edu>, ljdickey@water.waterloo.edu (L.J.Dickey) writes: > In article <667@idcapd.idca.tds.philips.nl> wilko@idca.tds.PHILIPS.nl > (W.C. Bulte) writes: > > Does anybody know if there is a version of gulam that runs correctly under > > TOS1.4? This week I got a new Mega 1 with TOS 1.4 and the gulam version I > > used to run under the old Blitter Tos doesn't seem to like TOS1.4. Gulam > > starts correctly but the execution of e.g. the mem or ls command results in > > a crash due to a bus error (?). (I can't remember my Gulam version right > > now, but it is a beta version) > > Any help is appreciated. > > Oh, panic! I was considering getting a 1.4 upgrade. But it certainly > is not worth any money if I will have to go without Gulam! Don't panic. gulam works just fine under 1.4, except that the "mem" command causes a bus error. It's simple enough to write a little program that uses Malloc(-1L) to check the amount of free memory, and alias "mem" to this "newmem.ttp". I use gulam all the time with tos 1.4 (in fact, it's installed as an auto-boot application, which is a good reason to get tos 1.4 -- so you can see gulam when you turn on the computer instead of that silly desktop :-). -- Eric R. Smith email: Dept. of Mathematics ERSMITH@uwovax.uwo.ca University of Western Ontario ERSMITH@uwovax.bitnet London, Ont. Canada N6A 5B7 ph: (519) 661-3638
ljdickey@water.waterloo.edu (L.J.Dickey) (06/28/90)
In article <687@idcapd.idca.tds.philips.nl> wilko@idca.tds.PHILIPS.nl (W.C. Bulte) writes: >I recently received information that the incompatibility of Gulam with TOS1.4 >is limited to the 'mem' command. It seems that Gulam uses a undocumented TOS >routine or variable and apparently this has changed with TOS1.4. Others have reported this too. Eric R. Smith, (ersmith@uwovax.uwo.ca), has pointed out that a simple C program may be aliased to mem, so that the command "mem" does not access the Gulam function, but invokes the C program that tells you the largest chunk of memory you have available for use.