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|    Paul Edwards to All    |
|    Atari mini-clone    |
|    09 Jun 25 16:52:06    |
      From: mutazilah@gmail.com              PDOS-generic was invented in an Amiga forum and allowed       proof of concept of a mini Amiga clone.              But it was considered impossible to do the same thing for the       Atari because the Atari used traps.              Same as MSDOS used interrupts and MVS uses SVCs.              But in an Atari forum, a method was invented to allow       traps to be converted into callbacks.              This is totally obvious in hindsight, but it wasn't obvious       in the beginning.              Using this technique, an Atari mini-clone has been created,       and the executables can be found at the last message here:              https://atari-forum.com/viewtopic.php?t=43832              This can be run on any Linux system using qemu-m68k (user, not system).              Or you could replace the pseudobios and run it on an Amiga       (ie use the Amiga to emulate Atari - a subset of Atari executables -       ones (code for "just mine") that follow the new "A1 standard").              Note that this runs at full native speed (68000), and does not       require privilege (that's a general comment - I don't think       the 68000 has privilege). Basically you don't need to install       a trap handler. The application is expected to cooperate and       not call a trap unnecessarily.              BFN. Paul.              --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05        * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)    |
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