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 ====== ST Mint: Opensource Unix for Atari ST ====== ====== ST Mint: Opensource Unix for Atari ST ======
 ST Mint  is a [[https://freemint.github.io/|FreeMiNT]] distribution which provides an opensource Unix environment for the 16/32 bits Atari line of computers. ST Mint  is a [[https://freemint.github.io/|FreeMiNT]] distribution which provides an opensource Unix environment for the 16/32 bits Atari line of computers.
-The target platform are Atari ST(E) and Mist FPGA board with at least 4 MB of RAM, 512MB SD Card [[https://lotharek.pl/productdetail.php?id=48|drive]], ST High Resolution.+The target platform are Atari ST(E) and Mist FPGA board with at least 4 MB of RAM, 512MB SD Card [[https://lotharek.pl/productdetail.php?id=48|drive]], ST High Resolution. It will also work on Atari TT but is not optimized for those machines.
  
 ST Mint is distributed in the form of a ready to boot disk image, to use for instance with [[https://lotharek.pl/productdetail.php?id=48|Lotharek's UltraSatan drive]] ST Mint is distributed in the form of a ready to boot disk image, to use for instance with [[https://lotharek.pl/productdetail.php?id=48|Lotharek's UltraSatan drive]]
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 == Disk image == == Disk image ==
-Download: [[https://subsole.org/static/retrocomputing/st_mint-1.4.img.zip| ACSI disk image]]+Download: [[https://subsole.org/static/retrocomputing/st_mint-1.5.img.zip| ACSI disk image]]
  
 ===== Writing the media ===== ===== Writing the media =====
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 Note that due to the very limited hardware of the ST compared to current standards, you can at most only run simple Unix command line tools. Note that due to the very limited hardware of the ST compared to current standards, you can at most only run simple Unix command line tools.
  
-== Play some PCM Audio (Atari STE with 8MB RAM minimum) == 
-After a starting Unix shell, you can play on the command line some music files, courtesy of my previous [[https://subsole.org/manuka|Live Dub bands]]. 
-From the Unix shell: 
- 
-<code> 
-cd /d/demodata 
-fplay * 
-</code> 
  
 ===== With an emulator ===== ===== With an emulator =====
-Use the downloaded .img file as an emulated ACSI device, and just boot. If you use the [[http://hatari.tuxfamily.org/|Hatari]] emulator, it would be: +Use the downloaded .img file as an emulated ACSI device, and just boot. If you use the [[http://hatari.tuxfamily.org/|Hatari]] emulator, the command should be: 
-<code>hatari --memsize 4 --mono --acsi st_mint-1.4.img</code>+<code>hatari --memsize 8 --mono --acsi st_mint-1.5.img</code>
  
 == What's inside == == What's inside ==
   * Atari Hard Disk Driver 5 from http://www.nic.funet.fi/index/atari/diskutil/ahdi5.zoo   * Atari Hard Disk Driver 5 from http://www.nic.funet.fi/index/atari/diskutil/ahdi5.zoo
-  * FreeMiNT 1.19 build from 2022 snapshot+  * FreeMiNT 1.19 2024 snapshot
   * 2048.APP from https://ptonthat.fr/two-o-forty-eight/   * 2048.APP from https://ptonthat.fr/two-o-forty-eight/
   * COMMAND.TOS interpreter from http://download.minix3.org/previous-versions/Atari/   * COMMAND.TOS interpreter from http://download.minix3.org/previous-versions/Atari/
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 See the Roadmap on [[https://github.com/EmmanuelKasper/mck/wiki/Roadmap | github]]. See the Roadmap on [[https://github.com/EmmanuelKasper/mck/wiki/Roadmap | github]].
 For General Questions, please[[http://www.atari-forum.com/viewtopic.php?f=14&t=27040 | use this thread]] on the Atari Forums. For General Questions, please[[http://www.atari-forum.com/viewtopic.php?f=14&t=27040 | use this thread]] on the Atari Forums.
-For Bug Reports, use the [[https://github.com/EmmanuelKasper/mck/issues | Contruction Kit Bug Tracker]]+For Bug Reports, use the [[https://github.com/EmmanuelKasper/mck/issues | Construction Kit Bug Tracker]]
  
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