EmuTOS News

EmuTOS version 0.8.3 has been released. Changes since last release:

- Support for the PUN_INFO structure for block devices

- Bugfixes in the i18n functions

- The VDI function v_clrwk() has been fixed

- Improved VDI color palette functions

- The standard etos512k.img can now also be used on Aranym
(no more special build required)

- EmuTOS can now be compiled with GCC 4.2, too (not very well tested though)... read more

After a long time without new release, EmuTOS 0.8.2 has now been released to the public. This release brings you various fixes and small improvements that have gathered during the past two years:

- Mouse wheel direction is now Milan compatible.

- Updated Finnish translation.

- GEMDOS Pexec mode 50 PE_RELOCATE defined- it gets raw TOS executable data and relocates it as if it was loaded normally.... read more

EmuTOS version 0.8.1 has been released. This version fixes some annoying bugs from the 0.8 release (e.g. window dragging did not work some times), and includes now a Finnish translation and keyboard mapping support.

We are happy to announce a new public release of EmuTOS:

EmuTOS 0.8 --- May 30th, 2005

INTRODUCTION

EmuTOS is a single-user single-tasking operating system for the 32 bit Atari
computers and emulators. It can be used as a replacement for the TOS images
typically needed today for using emulators and it is also running on some
real hardware, like the Atari Mega STE. All the source code is open and
free, licensed under the GNU General Public License (GPL).... read more

Dear Atari Community!

We are happy to announce the second beta release of EmuTOS.

INTRODUCTION

EmuTOS is a singleuser singletasking operating system for the 32 bit Atari
computer emulators. It is thought as a replacement for the TOS-images you
usually need today for using emulators and it is also running on some real
hardware, like the Atari Mega STE. All is open and maybe it is also running
on totally new machines in the future.... read more

Dear Atari Community!

We are happy to announce the first beta release of EmuTOS.

INTRODUCTION

EmuTOS is a singleuser singletasking operating system for the 32 bit Atari
computer emulators. It is thought as a replacement for the TOS-images you
usually need today for using emulators and it is also running on some real
hardware, like the Atari Mega STE. All is open and maybe it is also running
on totally new machines in the future.... read more

Hello!

I'm proud to present you the EmuTOS harddisk support. See, what Petr the developer said about this:

I just commited a much cleaned up code that does the bus scanning. It scans for all available drives on ACSI, SCSI and also IDE interfaces. If
a drive is found it is scanned for partitions and all partitions are added. GEM and BGM partitions are also added to the drvbits.

I also added two XHDI functions that I needed for disk scanning. More XHDI fns will follow soon and at one moment I'll add the XHDI cookie and
MiNT filesystem drivers can start working...... read more

You can now download the first public release of EmuTOS. It is still very alpha. But it may be enough for some testing with STonX.

There is a new fast asm coded bconout function. It supports most of the things we missed, like cursor, invers video, different modes... It is nearly the original atari's driver. And there are some bugs... ;-)

EmuTOS is a very young project. We try to create a free TOS compatible OS for to let it run on Atari ST emulators of all kinds. In the moment it is just tested on SToNX. We could need help at the following points:

- implement XBIOS calls
- implement screen handling better and in assembler
- one should not have to type "make clean ; make" each time one changes a file.
- would be nice, if .o files would be in archived libs for each subdir
- add argument specifications in function prototypes
- merge identical headers, and put them all in an include directory
- cleaning function prototypes, checking compiler warnings.
- complete vt52 console, in low, med, high rez.
- low-level floppy support (rwabs, booting a floppy)... read more

The initial release of EmuTOS 010927 is checked into the CVS. This is pre-alpha software!!!