[Freemint-list] Interesting github project / ressurection

[Ryan Daum]

I"m with you. It's a hobby. Almost nobody is doing atari or other 'retro
computing' stuff for productivity or profit. Hobbies don't have to have a
rational -- with apologies to Kant, they can be an end in themself.
Nostalgia isn't the sum total of it, it's just pleasure in doing certain
things.

And as a software engineer by trade, there's things about DR's GEM and
other parts of the Atari platform that I appreciate. So seeing it improved
and carried on is a personal pleasure to watch and participate in where I
can.

Ryan

On 24 January 2017 at 19:49, Mark Duckworth <mduckworth at atari-source.org>
wrote:

> I know I'm weird but 3/4 of the fun for me is making the platform do
> things it would have been thought impossible.  Hence the desire to run
> netsurf, ct60, ctpci, firebee, etc.  Pushing the platform back towards
> usability.  So I don't see this type of thing as a future direction so
> much as an other path for playing and pushing the system.  It's not much
> different when it comes down to it than Aranym.  Absolutely insane
> performance and capabilities.
>
> Thanks,
> Mark
>
>
> On 01/24/2017 09:57 AM, Jo Even Skarstein wrote:
> > Den 24.01.2017 13:53, skrev Vincent Rivière:
> >
> >> IMHO, that concept is *the* ultimate thing to do. A system like Wine
> >> which allows to transparently run TOS programs on a host OS, without
> >> the
> >> burden of a full-blown hardware emulator. It is the way I would like to
> >> run old Atari software nowadays (if any). Combined to a JIT CPU
> >> emulator, it would provide ultimate speed. And full memory protection.
> >
> > Personally I think this is a step in the wrong direction. There are very
> > few TOS/GEM applications that are better than what we have on modern
> > platforms,
> > so why would you want to use them under Windows or Linux? In the general
> > case
> > this is a completely uninteresting solution. Technically interesting -
> > yes. And
> > almost certainly a lot of fun to implement. But of very little use.
> >
> > Let's face it, this platform has not been for "productive" use for many,
> > many
> > years. It's about nostalgia. And most of that nostalgia is gone when you
> > abstract away the platform itself.
> >
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