buying an Atari ST

On 27 December 2012 15:00, William Barnett-Lewis <wlewisiii at gmail.com> wrote: Very good, I believe. There are various emulators for gamers which can emulate different early/original models with great fidelity so that you can run demos and so on - this is the main focus. There are also some emulators for those who wish to run desktop TOS apps. Also, x86 PC GEM itself is now GPL open-source: http://www.deltasoft.com/Default.htm (The FreeGEM community is where I first "met" CCmper Gene Buckle.) There have been efforts to bring across some of the Atari improvements, but development largely stalled quite a few years ago. On the Atari side, various people wrote replacements of various bits of TOS - the VDI, the AES, the desktop and so on - and some of these parts were FOSS. Eventually, the result was a complete FOSS Atari OS, containing almost no original Atari code but highly compatible. It's called AFROS and it runs best on an emulator called ARANYM, which is designed for running TOS and TOS apps on PCs, rather than games. http://aranym.org/