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Still got one. :-) 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, wi
by lproven 2y ago
Still got one. :-)
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/ https://www.riscosopen.org/content/
That says a lot about success and longevity.
- rbanffy 2y agoIt 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.
- lproven 2y agoThat 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 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/ https://emutos.sourceforge.io/ The FreeMINT OS is also FOSS: https://freemint.github.io/ https://freemint.github.io/ MagiC was a 3rd party commercial re-implementation: https://gitlab.com/AndreasK/Atari-Mac-MagiC-Sources https://gitlab.com/AndreasK/Atari-Mac-MagiC-Sources https://gitlab.com/AndreasK/AtariX https://gitlab.com/AndreasK/AtariX But there's no new 68k hardware. Emu68 is working on a JIT runtime for the Raspberry Pi: https://github.com/michalsc/Emu68 https://github.com/michalsc/Emu68