The site has been largely unmaintained for a year. I've been getting interested again in the whole atari thing and I'm quite happy I didn't make the decision to sell my stuff when I lost interest a year ago. I fixed all the user accounts, deleted the spammers and deleted the spam comments. I hope to update the site more often so check back soon.

Hey guys,

Apparently my ccache build has some issues. It's not even my fault I don't think, but the command line arguments are built up with malloc and memcpy and at some point it gets a bus error with memcpy (which drills down to some asm code in the mintlib of bcopy16). I don't know what is to blame just yet but just to let you know ccache won't work properly for builds with very long commandlines, freemint being one of them!

Please refer to this page for all your Atari on coldfire needs!

Current Projects:
Atari Coldfire Project: Progress: Not stalled but slow with 2 people working.
Didier Mequignon's Efforts: Progress:
Currently Didier has TOS v4.04 running on the Coldfire board. He is using this test to mainly test his code for the CTPCI but this has huge huge huge benefit for those looking to move to Coldfire. There's no disk support on the coldfire evaluation board so right now only TFTP to a ramdisk. Check out the pictures of TOS running in high rez and high color native with no drivers except in TOS itself!

Some of you may or may not have seen my usenet post, but now available in the development packages section of this site is an RPM for ccache. ccache is a gcc preprocessor cache. It's usage can speed up build times immensely. For people who are building their development software or making incremental changes to rpm builds, any software that was previously compiled will compile lightyears faster. On my falcon freemint takes 1 hour+ to build in total, after running a build with ccache enabled, if you make distclean and make a marginal change and rebuild the whole thing, the result is it finishing in only a few minutes.

WARNING!!! The following MAY NOT work with anything other than SL-C3000. CONFIRMED it does NOT work with kernel 2.6.16. There's a bit of qvga code in 2.6.17 and clearly this is needed. The spitz kernel is available at http://aoi.atari-source.com/~mduckworth/zaurus. WARNING, this kernel has malfunctioning SD and USB host support. If you need to flash back to 2.6.16 prepare it on CF. This is an experimental kernel and is not supported officially by OZ. Use this only if you're desparate for qvga action.

This site historically has been primarily atari focused, but now I'm going to start writing articles about Linux, coding and Zaurus's. The first, being an article about the Zaurus.

Hello all, some more Coldfire news. The coldfire boards are in and the donations have been set in stone. The lucky recipients are Didier Mequignon of Aniplayer fame. He will be patching TOS to run on the Coldfire and will be working on Video and keyboard/mouse. This is of course of utmost importance! Alan Hourihane will be receiving one and will be working on linux video stuff which can hopefully be reworked for TOS. Olivier Landemarre will be working on MyAES, TOS and whatever else comes along. Finally we have Nicholas Steele whose generous credentials and time should yield some good Atari stuff.

Back again, and this time with an agreement from Freescale to donate a few M5484LITE development boards to our community. I'll be using one, and I'm going to try to get some other guys to take some but there'll be one or two left. The key things we'll need from someone who takes the boards are getting the USB and a PCI video card working on the device. Which means the freemint kernel will need the integrated PCI bios, and USB 2.0 high speed support in order to boot the rest of the system. All this must fit in the 4MB of flash. The systems have 64MB of DDR memory which is for the most part enough to work with GCC.

It's been a little while since I really updated anyone on anything. I have so many projects, so many things going on so what have I been working on? Well besides a super huge project at work ;), what I've been doing. Well GIM is fairly stable and has had no complaints (and perhaps no users ;) ). The new sparemint site seems to have a lot more interest and that's been consuming my time. Lately the most time has been spent on adding an automatic build system and completely revamping the package upload process. Now there's build farm functionality provided by simplistic shell scripts so other users can contribute. Make sure to read more ;)

A Christmas release of GEM Instant Messenger has arrived. GEM Instant Messenger is an AOL instant messenger compatible IM client for Atari systems running MiNT. This version has fixes of iconification, font selection issues fixed, it's built with Windom 2.0, buddylist size/position is saved in the configuration file, debug text has been isolated and removed, bug causing buddylist to redraw over everything fixed, and restructuring and beautification of all dialogs.

Just a note to let everyone know there's new builds available under the MinT/XaAES snapshots section. The freemint builds include a lot of stuff like the latest Toswin2, kernels, drivers, etc. The development packages section has a new binutils which so far seems pretty stable. libiberty goes with it. Additionally the sqlite package there works really well and could be fun. If you're curious, you can also download "sum-0.1a.tar.gz" which is an alpha version of the eventual standard GEM/CLI sparemint system updater client. It's getting more mature and a real release will be done quite soo