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Just for the record (I used to work for Migraph):

> The GDOS.PRG that Migraph has been sending ...
> is strictly a prerelease version ...

More accurately, it is strictly the only version that has been available
to an ST developer up to this point.  Apparently it was a direct port by DRI
from the PC ("We Port Bugs").  Migraph requested it and DRI gave the go-ahead
to release it (and Output) with Easy-Draw.

> Migraph was apparently working in an IBM -> ST
> cross-development environment (the IBM PC version of GDOS/VDI works fine,
> I guess...) ...

No, on genuine first-generation 520's. Trying to do it from the PC would
have been even more of a nightmare. The PC version of GDOS works. Just.
Easy-Draw was the first program designed to use ALL of the features of GEM
(working or not!).

> Atari ...
> worked on getting Migraph a version of GDOS that worked
> well enough to get EasyDraw out the door.  

Atari did all they could to help, under the circumstances (some of this
stuff was apparently never explicitly licensed to Atari by DRI). They
also helped Migraph *beg* DRI for the changes we all may receive shortly.

> Don't get too upset at Neil and the rest of the folks at Atari... I
> would rather wait than get a GDOS that Atari has to continually fix.

Amen! I was the lucky person who got find some of the BUGS in that 
version and report them to Atari and DRI. If all goes well, the new
version should include mulitple font loading, hard disk support, and none
of those silly boot-drive defaults (like OUTPUT.RSC and font files).

Incidentally, Migraph did not "give away" GDOS with Easy-Draw.  Each
developer should make their own agreement with Atari and DRI, not take
the stuff off the Easy-Draw disk.

Finally, I suspect (and refer this to Neil for confirmation) that the 
GDOS itself will not be the item for sale, but the *very expensive* fonts 
and device drivers which it uses.

	     Michael Longe'
	     ..!tikal!slovax!michael



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