Re:Atari 520ST Review in Creative Computing – By Paul Lefebvre
by rbanffy on Saturday June 22, 2024 @04:43PM
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It has the advantage of running on ARM, which is still easy to obtain. I also think there are OSs for the Atari ST that are open-source and still maintained, but unfortunately, no 68K processors are easy to come by.
Re:Atari 520ST Review in Creative Computing – By Paul Lefebvre
by lproven on Sunday June 23, 2024 @06:57AM
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That is true.
Several ST OSes have FOSS recreations. DR's layered, cleanly-layered design lent itself to piecemeal re-implementations.
Aranym runs AFROS, with multitasking thanks to MINT, which is a compilation of FOSS bits:
https://aranym.github.io/afros.html
Aranym needed a ROM and the devs wrote a skeleton with most stuff stubbed out. This has led to a full scale ST TOS recreation, with the original's limitations: it's single-tasking and so on:
https://emutos.sourceforge.io/
The FreeMINT OS is also FOSS:
MagiC was a 3rd party commercial re-implementation:
https://gitlab.com/AndreasK/Atari-Mac-MagiC-Sources
https://gitlab.com/AndreasK/AtariX
But there's no new 68k hardware. Emu68 is working on a JIT runtime for the Raspberry Pi:
And unlike the ST or Mac or Amiga, its OS is still around, still FOSS, still actively maintained, and runs on modern bare-metal hardware, without emulation.
https://www.riscosopen.org/content/
That says a lot about success and longevity.