EmuTOS 0.9.6
2016-06-03:
EmuTOS is one of those projects that gets continously enhanced.
As a reminder; this Open Source Operating System is -emenating from the released sources of Digital Research- being developed further more or less since the turn of the millennium. Even if the development of the FireBee influenced EmuTOS in the last years, and if there is a certain personnel overlap of the developers and a mutual support, EmuTOS is a matter of a generally distinct and independent project.
This Operating System is our only completely free Open Source alternative and is flashed directly into the ROM, where it co-exists with FireTOS. At every reboot of the FireBee the desired Operating System can be choosen. For a permanent selection there are the small DIP switches at the board.
Probably, the biggest advantage of EmuTOS is, that the FireBee version was compiled specially for the ColdFire CPU, and therefore runs at maximum speed (but also no 68k-programs will work).
In the new version 0.9.6, released the end of May, there are more than 70 new features, essential bugfixes and improvements. All areas of the TOS such as AES, BDOS, BIOS, the VDI and the desktop "EmuDesk" got innovations, the performance was generally improved and FireBee users can as well profit from the newly added features.
We recommend to upgrade to the latest EmuTOS.
As always, the latest version can be found at the Sourceforge pages of the project. After unpacking of emutos-firebee-0.9.6.zip, EmuTOS will be flashed into the ROM of the FireBee respectively with FLASH060.PRG from FireTOS/FreeMiNT and with FLASH_CF.PRG from EmuTOS and will be available subsequently to a reboot –as known from Atari computers– without the need of any mass storage.
The development of EmuTOS is in the meantime progressing, thanks to the great work of Roger Burrows, Vincent Rivière and others.
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