Latest news from EmuTOS
2025-06-25:
Since we last reported about the EmuTOS development concerning the FireBee the following improvements have been achieved:
June 7th 2025 EmuTOS Development Team published new version - v 1.4 .
Major changes in EmuTOS 1.4:
- General: Full support for true-color modes on the Falcon
(and on other hardware and emulators that support true-color)
- General: New Catalan translation
- BIOS: IDE driver support for LBA48 and CHS addressing
- ARAnyM ROM is now 1024 KB (see readme-aranym.txt)
- Amiga: Support for NTSC machines
Other changes:
- BIOS: Improved serial port drivers
- EmuDesk: Floppy formatting dialog supports 800K format
- Many minor and/or obscure bugs have been fixed
v1.3. (March 17th, 2024):
Major changes in EmuTOS 1.3:
- BIOS: Support for SCSIDRV API (used by software such as ExtenDOS)
- EmuDesk: Improved appearance of some dialogs
- General: New Romanian translation
- XBIOS: Support for true-color modes on the Falcon
(Note that VDI and EmuDesk support for true-color is still unavailable.)
Other changes:
- BIOS: Improved device compatibility in the IDE driver
- BIOS: Support for the CrazyDots VME graphics card
- BIOS: Better handling of incorrect values in FAT file systems
- BIOS: SD card support for some ColdFire EVBs
- Many minor and/or obscure bugs have been fixed
You can download images from this version here:
https://sourceforge.net/proje ... mutos/1.4/
or here https://avtandil.narod.ru/tose.html.
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The FireBee FreeMiNT Setup 2022
2022-12-31:
This year we are back with a strong sign of life. Now that the website is up and running again and all information has been correctly coded in the respective languages, we are proud to present a completely new FireBee FreeMiNT Setup at the end of the year.
To celebrate the tenth anniversary of our first multitasking setup, this is a completely new MiNT installation. All programs are up to date. A number of new user programs have also found their way in and can be used immediately in ...
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EmuTOS 1.2 and 1.2.1
2022-12-25:
On August 07th 2022 EmuTOS Development Team published new version 1.2 of free and open-source TOS replacement.
And then - it already became a tradition - developers found a bug in a new version and nine days later bugfix version 1.2.1 was out.
So we speaking now about both versions together.
Major changes in EmuTOS 1.2:
- AES: Add support for 3D objects (enabled in 512k ROMs and PRG)
- AES: Add support for new menu_xxx() functions in AES 3.30
- AES: Allow up to 16 windows for versions with AES 3.30 support
- BIOS: Add interrupt-driven I/O for SCC serial ports
- EmuDesk: Resize screen memory in videl modes, just like TOS4
- General: Make FireBee ROMs single-language
- VDI: Fix crash under FreeMiNT with memory protect enabled
Other changes:
- AES: Display better error message if program launch failed
- AES: Improve error checking for wind_xxx() functions
- AES: Better looking separators in menus
- BDOS: Implement undocumented TOS function Srealloc()
- BIOS: Add support for ...
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EmuTOS 1.1.1
2021-08-16:
On July 08th 2021 EmuTOS Development Team published new version 1.1 of this free and open-source TOS replacement and as it was found a bug just after release, on July 19th bugfix version 1.1.1 was out.
Major changes in new EmuTOS version:
- AES: Add support for colour icons
- AES: Add support for colour windows
- BIOS: Add support for Falcon DSP
- BIOS: Add interrupt-driven I/O for MFP and TT-MFP serial ports
- BIOS: Improve Nova video card support in several areas
- EmuCON: Allow setting of EmuCON start-up folder
- EmuCON: Initialise EmuCON default path from AES's PATH variable
- EmuDesk: Remove the non-standard 'menu click' preference
- General: Add online manual for EmuTOS
- General: Add support for Hungarian & Turkish languages
- General: Make the 512K ROMs single-language only
Other changes:
- AES: Handle '||' and '] ] ' correctly in form_alert()
- BIOS: Add early start-up message so ...
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HTTP 521 Webserver is down - Hardware failure at firebee.org
2021-03-22:
Maybe you have already noticed it: Some news, pages and downloads are no longer available. This is due to the fact that our previous web server broke down about 3 weeks ago. Since then we have been working to get it back to its original state.
The beginning of spring has not been kind to us, the weather is anything but springlike. It is wet, cold and not cosy at all. Actually, you'd rather want to hide your feet under a warm blanket, but ...
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GFA Basic Editor (GBE) v3.7 Released
2021-01-18:
For those not aware, the original author of GFA Basic passed away in 2011. December 9th is Frank Ostrowski's birthday. His brother was kind enough to share that information. To honor Frank's legacy, the full release of GBE was released on that day.
Features include:
- Build for 68k or Coldfire regardless of host machine.
- Added all missing AES calls up to AES v4.1, plus some N.AES calls.
- Added the most commonly used Bios, Xbios, Gemdos, VDI, and NVDI calls.
- Some new general-purpose commands not related to the operating system.
- Built in STiK, MiNT-Net, LDG API's and more.
- Commands for game coding, like Joypad support, blitting with masks, SNDH, etc.
- Over 500 new commands.
Some of the new commands were inspired by GFA for Windows/DOS and HiSoft Basic.
Follow the download link at http://gfabasic.net/
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New AHCC version released
2020-12-03:
After almost 3 years, Henk Robbers released version 6.0 of AHCC on November 27, 2020. As always, he also release binaries specific for Coldfire on his webpage
Besides the bug fixes and improvements (the release notes can be found here), AHCC 6.0 only has binaries produced using AHCC itself (not Pure C), has improvements in the editor and handling of nested projects.
Henk is also looking for a future maintainer for AHCC. Contact him directly (see his website) if interested.
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New Firmware, FPGA Configuration and FireTOS
2020-08-31:
Already a long while back we promised to you the new software for your FireBees. As for some time the new computers get already delivered with this software in Flash-Rom, we decided now to make it available for everyone.
All the improvements have been programmed by Medusa over the last years, and work pretty well at several dozens of machines. But, there have to be followed some precautions by you, as you could transfer your FireBee into a status, where you need external hardware, to rewrite something to the ROM and be able to boot again.
In first place there is the fact that this software is requiring each other! The new FPGA configuration needs the new BaS and the new FireTOS need also the new FPGA and vice versa! For the first time you have to flash all components directly consecutively, without rebooting the FireBee in-between. Shouldn't you flash all 3 components at once, you will not be ...
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COVID-19 Watcher
2020-03-30:
If you have an Atari connected to the Internet, you may now track the coronavirus outbreak on your trusted machine. COVID-19 Watcher is an app that displays the current (more or less…) number of infected, dead and cured cases. It should ...
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FireTOS addon archive
2019-08-12:
The ACP-Team collected a set of useful software, prepared to give you best singletasking experiences on your FireBee right from the start.
In July we published the brand-new FireTOS add-on archive on firebee.org. This collection of programs is designed for easy single task working on the FireBee. Yes, there are people who prefer working under TOS and we know that there are also "pure (Fire)TOS users" on the Bee; so for those not running MiNT this collection may be very helpful.
Similar to the “Language-Disks“ known from Atari we prepared some essential programs which can be used directly on an SD card (as floppy replacement) or from partition “C“ on mass storage devices like CF card, harddisc or SSDs connected to your FireBee.
You will find included a control panel server with some useful cpx modules, the help system ST-Guide, a text editor, ...
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Atari 8-Bits at the FireBee
2019-05-01:
"Atari800" is an emulator for Atari 8-Bit Systems like the 400/800, the Atari XL/XE-Series or the 5200. At 13th of April 2019 the version 4.1.0 was released by Miro Kropáček.
The Emulator for the FireBee works via SDL and the assembler core was excluded in the FireBee version. Beside the fact that this is the first version for the FireBee, the main news in v4.1.0 are that the emulator can now ...
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Latest news from EmuTOS
2025-06-25:
Since we last reported about the EmuTOS development concerning the FireBee the following ...
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The FireBee FreeMiNT Setup 2022
2022-12-31:
This year we are back with a strong sign of life. Now that the website is up and ...
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EmuTOS 1.2 and 1.2.1
2022-12-25:
On August 07th 2022 EmuTOS Development Team published new version 1.2 of free and ...
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