GEM 1.2

GEM 1.2 Desktop

About dialog

Preferences dialog

GEM 1.2 (September 1985) made various improvements to GEM 1.1, keeping the user interface largely unchanged. New features included:

The Print Spooler desk accessory.
The Install Application screen was redesigned, and now showed a preview of the application's icon.
Applications could be associated with more than one file type.
DOS applications could be run in 'full memory', where GEM would be shut down before the application was run and restarted afterwards.
The Item Selector could now go 'up' from the root directory of a drive to show the drive list.
It was possible to scroll windows by holding down the mouse button on the scroll bar buttons; previously the user would have to click the buttons repeatedly.
Sound effects could be turned on or off. Different tones of beep were supported; double-clicking the icon in the desktop About box would play a little tune.
Internally, the memory management was changed so that if GEM was started in a low-memory situation it would use smaller internal tables and not try to load desk accessories.