Author: Johan Klockars (62.13.18.80)
Date: 11-20-2002 15:38
> > Yes, there are still people that write
> > programs for Atari, including me.
>
> But are there groups out there, comparable with Sourceforge ?
What's wrong with Sourceforge itself? Several Atari projects are hosted there.
If you are looking for Atari programmers, I'd suggest Usenet.
> Parts of (T/t)he OS must be C. Assembler may make too much work.
The OS part replacements metioned are mostly C code. There are not a whole lot of places in TOS where it makes much sense to use assembly.
Not that there's a whole lot of point in porting much of it to run natively, anyway, if you intend to run 68k applications.
> Older programs have to run in an emulator - smart emulators, so old MC68000 GEM applications may behave like native GEM programs.
ARAnyM can use JIT compilation of 68k code under Linux/x86. It also makes good use of native code and hardware for graphics, sound etc.
> Some program-binaries may also be convertable with some kind of re-compiler, but only if they are not directly using special hardware features.
You should take a look at ARAnyM. On a modern PC, with JIT compilation turned on, it can easily be ten times faster than any current TOS compatible hardware.
It does not attempt to be compatible with software that accesses Atari hardware directly, but still is to a limited degree.
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