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Geneva & TOS programs

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Geneva & TOS programs

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I've been trying to use Geneva on and off for ages. It was partially open sourced. and offered up as donationware (that site seems to have gone now, though) a while back and I really want to like it as I've always been a bit cooperative-multitasking-curious.

I'm using Geneva 1.8 from 2017 which I got as a pair of disc images from... somewhere. Perhaps the Gribnif site. I don't remember now, I'm afraid.

GEM programs seem to work pretty well, but I seem to have continual problems with TOS programs. The GNVA_TOS wrapper program seems to really struggle with just about everything I throw at it including emucon2.tos and unzip.ttp.

Symptoms tend to be the client program never terminating properly and causing the wrapper program to remain open and unterminatable. Chosing Teminate or Terminate/Close has no effect. The task manager produces the same results.

Was this the normal experience? Am I doing something wrong? Is there a better version to use?

Anyone much experience with it?

Cheers,

BW
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Re: Geneva & TOS programs

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Sorry not a direct help, but this video series is probably the most thorough I've ever seen on Atari / Geneva. Maybe he will demonstrate programs in the series that you struggle with, and as a result you might see how he sets things up?

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Re: Geneva & TOS programs

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Hi BW,

The Gribnif site was moved to here:
https://gribnif.github.io/

V1.08 /1.8 was the last official Geneva version but as the source code is also there I vaguely recall a few forking and making different versions.

It used to be part of my daily environment when I had a 4mb Falcon as its footprint was small. I recall being impressed with the TOS in a window that didn’t hog the screen and didn’t recall any issues with it.
Maybe something broke but hopefully you can resolve it?
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