EmuTOS - a new FOSS OS for the Atari ST, compatibles & emulators

[liam_on_linux]

Something interesting that has come out of Caldera's release of the original DR GEM code as FOSS 20 years ago, and I totally missed it...

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This is a great ~40min intro to EmuTOS.

Nowadays there are two different all-FOSS OSes for STs, compatibles & ST emulators.

I knew about AFROS and have played with it -- it's a compilation of various ST GEM

Comments

[tpear]

More rabbit holes on bygone OSs. I guess these are analogous to AROS and Haiku as opensource re-implementations of closed source OSs of yesteryear. Always feel nostalgic for the 68k machines both as a former Amiga owner and because in the first project of my professional career I cut my teeth on a bare metal 68030 based workstation.

I think alongside the kiwi68k there are some 68k boards on retrobrewcomputers dot org but I think tend not to have graphics etc..

Always seems a shame that no one makes the cpu anymore. You can buy a brand new z80 or 6502 but it seems 68k family is gone forever (outside of fpga, anyway)

[liam_on_linux]

> I guess these are analogous to AROS and Haiku as opensource re-implementations of closed source OSs of yesteryear

[tpear]

OK - I thought nxp had abandoned coldfire in favour of their ARM based stream of microcontrollers, will have to check again.

Firebee looks fun - might take a look at that over the w/e.

[liam_on_linux]

You can still buy new 8051-compatible processors. :-)