Author: Adam Klobukowski (217-97-216-28.tvk.tpsa.pl)
Date: 11-19-2002 21:00
> topp.atari-users.net made me curious,
> whether there are bigger Internet
> communities of Atari programmers, some
> kind of Sourceforge for Atari...
Yes, there are still people that write programs for Atari, including me.
> Well there is a lot of work to do to keep
> TOS alive. It must be reprogrammed
> completely that far sources are not
> available. There is no guarantee, that
>there will always be a MC68000 compatible
> CPU for new computers.
If you dislkie original hardware or clones becouse of speed, there is always Aranym (aranym.sourceforge.net). It is a great, and very fast emulator.
We do not need to rewrite whole TOS, there are:
EmuTOS - a TOS compatibile OS under GPL based on heavily upgraded sources released by Calders (see below)
FreeMiNT - a free multitasking kernel TOS compatibile
Xaaes - a free AES
fVDI - a free VDI
As you see, all thing are here.
> With sources in C we can port TOS/GEM
> easily to any platform we want, for
> example a PowerPC like the new AmigaONE or
> any other hardware.
Lots of assembler things has to be rewritten too.
> Unfortunately the sources of TOS are the
> secret private property of Digital
> Research.
Digital Research (now Caldera) did only GEMDOS 1.0 and sold all rights to Atari (for Atari version)
They released PC-GEM under GPL already.
It is now possible to use free Aranym, with free EmuTOS with free FreeMiNT with free fVDI with free Xaaes ;) to have totaly free TOS compatibile machine :)
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