Falcon Questions...

[t.skid]

I'm doing my first steps with Falcon, and I need to know somethings... i.e. how to start MultiTos

I think that the Multitos wasn't installed on my hd, but I've ask to a friend that give me a disk with it (he says that it is the last MultiTos Atari did). So I've copied the files but I didn't see any change.

[Gaiyan]

Did some files load from the Auto folder? Basically MultiTOS looks the same as regular TOS but you can run several applications at the same time. MultiTOS is old, slow and buggy. I recommend you installing MiNT or MagiC or even Geneva. MiNT is free.

 

Joshua

[t.skid]

Well, I try to put the multitos files inside the auto folder (basically there's three files, gem.sys and other two).

I'm trying to use multitos, only for make the falcon able to surf on the web.

About MinT, I've read something. For your known, it's difficult to set-up?

 

Thanks

[Gaiyan]

MiNT is very easy to install. MiNTNet itself can be a little hard. MagiC on the other hand is a breeze.

 

Joshua.

[t.skid]

Probably you already understand that I'm a newbie with Falcon I was a user of ST in the past ('86) but I didn't know much with this new little beast.

 

It's normal that the desktop looks very similar to the ST? I mean drive icons & windows. 'Cause I see on the 'net some screenshots of falcon desktop that have a nicer icons. BTW, under tos, ot mint, MagiC etc.

 

Another question: multitos have only two files? I have "gem.sys" and the config file "gem.cnf"

 

Thanks!!

[Clint Thompson]

I'm using MultiTOS too, just got my Falcon the other day.

 

So MiNT is free eh? Where can I aquire it?

 

Thanks

 

Clint

[Paolo]

I used MultiTos on my STe, just for CAB and PPP connect, since I didn't want to master the absurd STiK2 installation (at that time).

I wouldn't use Mtos, nor Mint now, unless I needed some multitask. Just use STinG.

[Paolo]

As usual, I left the links off the message

 

ftp://ftp.phil.uni-sb.de/pub/atari/mint/KGMD-1.0 german MiNT distribution

 

http://freemint.de/en/ freemint portal

 

http://www.cs.uni-magdeburg.de/~fnaumann/ frank naumann, the freemint manteiner

 

Hope this helps

[Tempest]

Not to change the subject, but I have a TT030. What's the best OS to use? I was thinking about using MiNT myself, is it any good? Never heard of STiNG before...

 

Tempest

[Paolo]

STING is 'just' a tcp/ip connection package providing LAN and internet access to everybody

[Paolo]

STING is 'just' a tcp/ip connection package providing LAN and internet access to everybody