GeoWorks Ensemble applications on a Zoomer?
brian@eit.COM (Brian Smithson)
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From: brian@eit.COM (Brian Smithson)
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Subject: GeoWorks Ensemble applications on a Zoomer?
Status: RO
I finally ran out of RAM for files on my Zoomer, and so I sprung for a 5MB
SunDisk flash card. Yow, only about 100 times more expensive than SCSI disk
drives, but what the heck.
Anyway, now that I have all this wonderful space, I have started to try
something which I had wanted to do for quite a while: run Ensemble 2.0 apps on
the Zoomer. I only started on this yesterday evening, and so I have only
preliminary results to report. I'm posting this partly as a teaser and partly
to see if there are any other Zoomer owners out there who have tried this.
So here's what I've done so far:
(1) created the appropriate top-level GEOWORKS, GEOWORKS\SYSTEM,
GEOWORKS\WORLD, etc., directories on the SunDisk
(2) copied a folder of Ensemble applications into GEOWORKS\WORLD (in its own
folder so that they show up on the launcher as a submenu)
(3) started copying libraries into SYSTEM -- haven't finished this yet
I still need to copy fonts, helpfiles, templates, and all of that other crud.
It'll take a while over the serial line. I don't have a PCMCIA drive on a
desktop PC to use :-(.
And here are the results so far:
GeoManager appears to work! This is nice, because it has multiple windows and
other features which are more advanced than the Zoomer file manager. I haven't
done a lot with it yet, which is why I say "appears to work".
Text Editor works! Much more handy than using the AOL text editor. Alas,
there's no inherent handwriting support and so you have to tap things out on
that annoying little keyboard. I need to tweak the GEOS.INI file to get text
files to be associated with the Text Editor application.
GeoComm works? It comes up at least, but I didn't have a modem handy and so I
haven't been able to see if it connects to the port OK. It shows COM1 through
COM3 as being available, and greys out COM4. I'm hoping that COM1 through COM3
translate in some fashion to PCMCIA, InfraRed, and RS232.
GeoBanner works, but it's pretty boring without any fonts :-).
Scrapbook comes up, but I didn't have a scrapbook file to view nor any aps from
which I could cut a graphic, and so I'm not sure if it works.
GeoDraw, Write, Calc, and File, each report that some kind of resources are
missing (which isn't surprising, since I haven't finished copying over what I
think is needed). More about them when I get more definitive results. I'm
really hoping that I can get Draw, Calc, and File to work.
I haven't tried Preferences and will probably delete it. I'd hate to send my
Zoomer into the ozone by hosing the system preferences.
If anyone else is doing anything crazy like this, please correspond. I'd love
to collaborate on this. I'm _especially_ interested in knowing which files are
required for each application.
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