[Freemint-list] Interesting github project / ressurection

[Peter Slegg]

I am weird as well then.

I like using the Milan to do things that the original ST designers
and maybe even the Milan designers would be amazed by.

I tried aranym on windos and linux but even after many hours of work
never got more than a desktop. I also dislike having to run on top of
another os that also has to be maintained. I would rather have TOS/Mint
running natively on a "foreign" cpu.

I seem to remember that Eric Smith's original MiNT was based on BSD
with the later integration of TOS functionality. Could the same trick
ever be done with BSD on intel ?

Reading about the stuff on github it seems there are a lot of similar
projects. always an issue for our platform. I never understood why we
ended up with 10 different file selectors but lacked other essential apps.

Hopefully github can end that and serve to focus efforts or maybe even
merge old projects into more useful ones.


Regards,

Peter



> Date: Tue, 24 Jan 2017 22:16:39 -0500
> From: Ryan Daum <ryan.daum at gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: [Freemint-list] Interesting github project / ressurection
> To: freemint-list <freemint-list at mail.atariforge.org>
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>     <CA+C4OS+tUdc6w-9S_zd9GJ_ur5o0p7ndvo5Lfb-90ua6vPQ5_A at mail.gmail.com>
> 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
> >
> >