On Tue, 9 Jun 1998, Magnus Kollberg wrote:
> > If not, MiNT would have to become a real TOS replacement that would be
> > started as the first AUTO program and then probably rebooted again (just
> > like MagiC). All TSR/drivers and so on would then be loaded into MiNT.
>
> This would certainly be very nice. As I think the main part which lacks
> in MiNT is GEMDOS (or atleast parts of it) and as GEMDOS for Atari is
> available as sources maybe someone could do just that? :-)
MiNT replaces most of GEMDOS, and with the new TOSFS there's very little
GEMDOS left. What's missing is the low-level stuff, bios and xbios.
Rewriting this would probably be a good idea, but it's very
time-consuming. Remember, you have to write drivers for all kind of
hardware.
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Received on ti. juni 09 1998 - 20:01:00 CEST