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Questions and Answers for using ATARI TOS / FREE MINT

TOS On V4SA

J I

Posts 29
04 Feb 2023 18:28


I'm extremely interested running TOS on the V4SA, I have never used TOS outside of on ST(e|f) and falcon and I wonder what the compatibility is like, would games work, such as Dungeon Master for instance, and more serious applications such as APL ( EXTERNAL LINK ) for instance? What about SoftPC, PCDitto, GFAbasic and the usual photo editors? Do application generally need to be patched to run on modern TOSes?

What about networking, is it possible to use the V4SA's ethernet port with applications such as telnet/ftp, is there a dhcp client? is there a ssh client by any chance and some reasonable vt100 (or better + ANSI) tty emulator?

Is there a C compiler available? Would it support some of the unix syscalls, i.e. open(), socket(), inet_pton() etc? Does GFAbasic supports "networking" primitives on TOS or MiNT?

Is it possible to dual-boot MiNT and (emu)TOS? (note that I have never ran MiNT) and finally what resolutions are available (in color and monochrome)

Thank you for your support of the Atari systems on the V4SA, eager to get back into this; this is very exciting!


Olivier Landemarre

Posts 147
05 Feb 2023 08:19


j i wrote:

    I'm extremely interested running TOS on the V4SA, I have never used TOS outside of on ST(e|f) and falcon and I wonder what the compatibility is like, would games work, such as Dungeon Master for instance, and more serious applications such as APL ( EXTERNAL LINK ) for instance? What about SoftPC, PCDitto, GFAbasic and the usual photo editors? Do application generally need to be patched to run on modern TOSes?
   
    What about networking, is it possible to use the V4SA's ethernet port with applications such as telnet/ftp, is there a dhcp client? is there a ssh client by any chance and some reasonable vt100 (or better + ANSI) tty emulator?
   
    Is there a C compiler available? Would it support some of the unix syscalls, i.e. open(), socket(), inet_pton() etc? Does GFAbasic supports "networking" primitives on TOS or MiNT?
   
    Is it possible to dual-boot MiNT and (emu)TOS? (note that I have never ran MiNT) and finally what resolutions are available (in color and monochrome)
   
    Thank you for your support of the Atari systems on the V4SA, eager to get back into this; this is very exciting!
   

   
    TOS by itself not run on v4sa, but emutos yes, for moment it run with core 7 and 8 (some have issue wuth but patch is coming in the week) core 9 can run but with ide issue for moment ( need hot reboot to detect it strange)
    Don't expect run most game but some can run like dungein master, but we have a port of castaway running very well and very well adapted to v4sa (you can run .st or .msa just clicking from desktop
  EXTERNAL LINK 
 
    Gbe work didn't think pcditto or softpc work but not test so don't know. Guillaume software generally work, Guillaume has a v4sa and is now his main computer for dev under Atari.
    Most modern gem software work
   
    Under mint internet is possible and ssh too, netsurf work. Not test too much that.
 
  PureC and gcc work
 
 
    There is already configuration with dual boot emutos - mint (and much more) : EXTERNAL LINK   
    With nvdi near all resolution of v4sa are possible from 1 bit to 32 bit same as under Atari computer
   
    Olivier
   
   
   
   


J I

Posts 29
05 Feb 2023 17:12


Merci Olivier!
 
  Thanks for the videos, it looks extremely promising and I hope that the Core 9 issues will be figured out soon, I'm going to read the other threads on how to set it up. Mint is probably best for me so I can use gcc; which version of gcc works under Mint on V4SA?


Olivier Landemarre

Posts 147
05 Feb 2023 20:53


I think any gcc version work


J I

Posts 29
14 Feb 2023 19:28


I'm really impressed by the work that was done, and really looking forward to see updates on this forum; and try it by myself, huge thank you!


Olivier Landemarre

Posts 147
15 Feb 2023 18:06


You can find a new version of Emutos at:
EXTERNAL LINK 
Fix some issues with memory and alignement.


J I

Posts 29
17 Feb 2023 20:25


Great, but how do you install it? And the rest...


Olivier Landemarre

Posts 147
18 Feb 2023 18:31


j i wrote:

Great, but how do you install it? And the rest...

If you use one of my configuration, you have just to replace file in C:/v4sa/rom/

You can find this configuration here:
EXTERNAL LINK  This is in french but you can translate it today, this is probably better than a bad english!

Olivier




J I

Posts 29
18 Feb 2023 19:38


The requested URL /sous_domaines/v4sa-atari/download/v4_fvdi.zip was not found on this server.


Olivier Landemarre

Posts 147
19 Feb 2023 19:13


j i wrote:

The requested URL /sous_domaines/v4sa-atari/download/v4_fvdi.zip was not found on this server.

You not need this file, last fVDI is include in configuration. To start take simple configuration ready to work name DRIVE_C_simple.tar.gz

Olivier


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