THC> Saw it over on VID_GAMES, supposedly originating on the Internet. 
Atari 
 THC> had laid off over 100 employees, everybody from the 
 THC> CEO on down, including the cleaning staff, and was no 

 It may be worth mentioning that one of those who has "parted company"
 is Eric Smith - author of MiNT, who was hired by Atari to work on MultiTOS.
 I've talked with Eric (err emailed him) and he still intends to support
 MiNT.  

 There are also about 3 or so GEM clones coming up real soon now that use
 MiNT for all IPC.  One is from the author of WinX and allows you to
 change the RSC files for things like Windows and Alerts and such, and
 allows new programming features such as callbacks (I think this one
 will be shareware).  Another one will put all GEM commands through pipes
 so that GEM will be 'streamed' - so that buffering will speed up a 
 CPU hindred machine that is busy doing many tasks at once - this once will
 have source code.


 A socket vbased GEM should be available soon too!  I can't wait to use PERL's
 socket interface for GEM programming.  I love PERL.



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