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Re: GEM Card for Apple II

Michael Black wrote:

Kim Heui Jung (spix2000@kornet.net) writes:


I've read an article about GEM software emulator card for Apple IIe (A+. JAN
86) It said GEM software for Atari 520ST and othe r68K based machines
running on Apple IIe.  Have ever seen or heard it?

Kim



A card (I've never heard of such) or GEM?

GEM was the window software that ran on the Atari.  It came from Digital
Research, CPM's maker, and was intended to make a bigger wave than
 it did.  Atari had to be the big user of it.

Like the original Windows, it ran on top of an operating system.  CPM68K
(or whatever the 68000 version was called), and in the Atari on top of
 "TOS" which may or may not have been CPM68K.
CP/M-68K, yes. TOS was a modified GEMDOS (itself mainly a clone of MS-DOS 2.11 ported to the 68000, prolly sat ontop of a modified CP/M-68K core as the x86's DOSPLUS did). 

There is a PC version of GEM too; as GPLware it is still maintained.

Moll.