EmuTOS

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EmuTOS
DeveloperEmuTOS development team
Written inC
Working stateActive
Source modelFree and open source software
Initial releaseOctober 2001
Latest release0.9.1 / 3 July 2013; 10 years ago (2013-07-03)
Repository
Marketing targetPersonal computers
Available inCzech, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Italian, Russian, Spanish
PlatformsAtari ST, Firebee
Default
user interface		GEM
LicenseGPL v2
Official websiteemutos.sourceforge.io

EmuTOS is a replacement for TOS (the operating system of the Atari ST and its successors), released as free software. It's mainly intended to be used with Atari emulators and clones, such as Hatari or FireBee. With it, the use of the old, proprietary TOS versions can be avoided, as they are usually difficult to obtain.

Features and compatibility

Unlike original TOS versions, latest EmuTOS can work (sometimes with limited HW support) on all Atari hardware,[1] and has support for features[2][3] not available before: ColdFire CPU, IDE, (VFAT compatible) FAT16 support and emulators' "Native Features" support.[4]

EmuTOS currently lacks support for some deprecated OS APIs like line-A,[5][6] and (by design) there are also differences on non-documented OS features. It has only some support for Atari Falcon sound matrix or DSP,[7] and VDI graphics support for 8-bit, not 16-bit resolutions. Because of this, certain old games, demos and applications,[8] and also some Falcon specific software will not work.[9]

New in release 0.9.1 is support for Firebee-ColdFire evaluation boards, 256 colour support for VIDEL systems and XBIOS DMA sound functions. EmuCON2 with TAB completion was added, and support for renaming folders. A full-featured desktop is also now included in the ROMs, plus other changes.

See also

References

  1. ^ Readme files describing what HW different EmuTOS build variants support
  2. ^ v0.9.0 release announcement
  3. ^ v0.9.1 release announcement
  4. ^ NatFeats specification
  5. ^ v0.9.0 release news
  6. ^ v0.9.1 release news
  7. ^ EmuTOS OS call support
  8. ^ Hatari emulator EmuTOS compatibility list
  9. ^ Hatari emulator EmuTOS compatibility list

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