Historical GEM Driver Source
The following files are reconstructed source for original GEM drivers. They're included mainly for historical interest rather than use; they won't have as many features as the latest FreeGEM drivers.
I created these by starting with the released GEM/3.0 driver source and successively building earlier (GEM/2.2, GEM/2.1, GEM/2.0 etc) and later (ViewMAX/1, ViewMAX/2, GEM/4 etc.) versions. Note that because I started with GEM/3 and travelled back in time, the number of drivers increases the older the version gets - the GEM/2.1 driver pack has GEM/2.1 versions of all the drivers in later versions plus any unique to GEM/2.1, and so on.
Exceptions: Some GEM/2 drivers didn't make the jump back to GEM/1, so the number decreases there; the only GEM/4.0 drivers are the seven originally distributed with CCP's Artline II; and the solitary GEM/5.0 driver is the VGA one.
Version | Driver count | Download |
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GEM/1.1 | 14 | Source code (273k). |
2 | Source code (146k) for the two drivers supplied with the BBC Master 512 | |
GEM/1.2 | 17 | Source code (390k). |
4 | Source code (280k) for the drivers supplied with the Apricot F1 and FP | |
5 | Source code and binaries (295k) for updated versions of the Apricot drivers, with various rendering bugs fixed and support for 256-line video modes. | |
GEM/1.? | 13 | Source code (299k). |
GEM/2.0 | 17 | Source code (398k). |
GEM/2.1 | 16 | Source code (355k). |
GEM/2.2 | 14 | Source code (359k). |
GEM/3.1 | 10 | Source code (344k). |
ViewMAX/1 | 3 | Source code (278k). |
ViewMAX/2 | 3 | Source code (316k). |
ViewMAX/2 (DRDOS 6.0/V) | 3 | Source code (133k). |
GEM/4 (ie, Artline II) | 7 | Source code (349k). |
GEM/5 | 1 | Source code (118k). |
John Elliott 2008-01-18