From: lecoat@atari.org   
      
   Hi,   
      
   Chris Ridd writes:   
   > Francois LE COAT wrote:   
   >>>> I watched this from a link on Facebook - pretty interesting stuff!   
   >>>>   
   >>>> Loved the way that TOS desktop was using DRI GEM PC icons and sort of   
   >>>> resembled a Mac (Lisa?). Coolness.  :)   
   >>>   
   >>> It looks quite like https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/    
   >>> GEM_(desktop_environment)#/media/File:Gem_11_Desktop.png    
   >>   
   >> The Graphic Environment Manager (GEM) from Digital Research existed both   
   >> for ATARI ST and IBM/PC (or AmstradPC, or whateverPC) written mainly in   
   >> "C" language, portable, and almost free software now. It could be ported   
   >> on the ATARI VCS (a computer from ATARI S.A.!) so that ported ATARI 68k   
   >> software (written in "C", cross-compiled, like mine) could run with it,   
   >> eventually with the usage of a virtual machine in a first period, like   
   >> ARAnyM. That's how Apple have done with the Mac, transitioning 68k ->   
   >> PPC -> Intel -> ARM. Transitioning from Apple, was simple to users and   
   >> developers, ask them! I've lived it using all different Apple computers.   
   >>   
   >> That could be the rebirth of ATARI computers, forty years after ST =)   
   >> I'm not kidding! Do you know GEM, ATARI VCS, "C" language, ARAnyM, Mac?   
   >    
   > Actually I'd be kind of intrigued if someone can build Aranym for iPad.    
   > The hardware is really pretty powerful and I'm sure SDL supports iOS.    
   > Think different!   
      
   Well, iPad is a tactile mobile device, and not a computer. ARAnyM means   
   "ATARI Running on Any Machine", that means on any computer. The ATARI   
   virtual machine is not supposed to be supported on the iPad device.   
      
   The ATARI VCS is half a console and a computer, and ARAnyM is supported   
   on it. Because ARAnyM runs under GNU/Linux that is ATARI VCS's native OS   
      
   If the ATARI VCS could boot on EmuTOS, that means a x86 version of it,   
   that would be a huge step forward. EmuTOS is currently only booting on   
   68k computers. But EmuTOS is portable. Do you know it? It's free   
   software. ARAnyM virtual machine uses EmuTOS and boot with it.   
      
   That's how Eureka 2.12 runs with ATARI, Amiga, Macintosh and Lisa =)   
   If DR/GEM was ported to ATARI VCS natively, that would make sense...   
   Eureka 2.12 could run natively with the ATARI VCS computer, 40 years   
   after the ATARI ST.   
      
   Regards,   
      
   --    
   François LE COAT   
   Author of Eureka 2.12 (2D Graph Describer, 3D Modeller)   
   https://eureka.atari.org/   
      
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