[MiNT] Fwd: RE: Extendos and MiNT

[Jan Krupka <krupkaj@ol.ngbox.cz>]

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Subject: RE: [MiNT] Extendos and MiNT
Date: Tue, 1 Apr 2003 10:26:47 +0200
From: "Julian Reschke" <julian.reschke@gmx.de>
To: "Jan Krupka" <krupkaj@ol.ngbox.cz>, "Martin Tarenskeen" 
<m.tarenskeen@zonnet.nl>, <mint@fishpool.com>

> From: mint-bounce@lists.fishpool.fi
> [mailto:mint-bounce@lists.fishpool.fi]On Behalf Of Jan Krupka
> Sent: Tuesday, April 01, 2003 10:12 AM
> To: Martin Tarenskeen; mint@fishpool.com
> Subject: Re: [MiNT] Extendos and MiNT
>
> Dne út 1. duben 2003 09:54 Martin Tarenskeen napsal(a):
> > Which makes me wonder: What's current the development status of the
> > SPIN cdrom driver ? Who owns the rights and sources ? Has development

Me.

> > stopped ? Or is anyone thinking of or working on an alternative cdrom
> > xfs driver for MiNT, as an open source FreeMiNT project ?
>
> What I know Julian stoped work on SPIN some years ago. But I have another

Correct.

> question. Is there some open replacement of MetaDos? I know that  Julian

had

> sources of original MetaDos. But I don't know what happens with them.

There used to be a project called "BetaDOS" (I'm not sure about the status).
The MetaDOS sources (why would you need them for a MiNT-related project
anyway???) belong to whoever owns the copyright to TOS, and I'm not going to
publish them. As MetaDOS itself is only a few thousand bytes of assembly
code, it should be trivial to reverse-engineer, if anyone is *really*
interested.

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Regards, Julian