GEOWORKS (was Re: Old MS-DOS & WIN Software)

[Liam Proven]

On 12/13/05, Bryan Pope <bpope at wordstock.com> wrote:

> Speaking of GUIs for older IBMs I also remember one called GEM.  Does
> anyone know who developed it?

GEM is still alive and in somewhat-active development. The PC version
has been released under GPL by Lineo, the thin-client division of the
old, not-evil Caldera; work is still in progress on it upgrading it to
add Atari ST GEM features:

http://www.deltasoft.com/

There is also a multitasking version called GEM-XM available there.

The ST version was never open-sourced but now all parts of it - the ST
ROM, which ran a CP/M-68k derivative called TOS, the AES, VDI and the
desktop, have all be reverse-engineered and rewritten, in several
versions. There are GPL versions of all of these. There is also a
Unix-like multitasking layer called MINT. There's a GPL distribution
of the whole OS under the name AFROS - the Atari FRee Operating
System. It's available as part of Aranym, a fast, JIT-compiling
emulated environment for running ST apps on Windows, Linux and OS X.

http://aranym.sourceforge.net/

This is a complete free state-of-the-art environment for emulating
enough of an Atari machine on modern hardware to run GEM apps and
software. It's pretty impressive.

--
Liam Proven · http://livejournal.com/userinfo.bml?user=lproven
AOL/AIM/iChat: liamproven at aol.com · MSN/Messenger: lproven at hotmail.com
Yahoo: liamproven at yahoo.co.uk · Skype: liamproven · ICQ: 73187508
Gmail/Google Talk/Orkut: lproven at gmail.com