@artman
I see.
well the one thing of interest in the atari scene...at least to me, is ARAnyM, which is the unfortunately named 'Atari Running on Any Machine'
Dang Amiga Anywhere at least sounds palatable...
but don't dismiss aranym (aranym.sourceforge.net) based on its name. And by the way, this is Amiga related, in that ARAnym could easily be ported to the new amiga's, in fact it would be trivial to port it to them now since they run Linux...
It is similar to AROS....its a re-implementation of the OS..in this case a GEM/TOS machine...and it has a jit...and similar to Amithlon, in there is a stand-alone version based on linux called AFROS Aranym FRee OS.
This thing runs most Atari programs, even emulates part of the hardware, though it is not meant to be a machine emulator...but it emulates enough to have a high compatibility rate...
You can buy a cheap PC, and run AFROS and you truly do have a modern Atari...blows away any of the 060 Ataris (Hades/Medusa), or the 040 (Milan) or real Atari 030's (Falcon/TT).
It uses the Falcon ROM's but hey...Atari gave up on them long ago...maybe thats a blessing?
Well if I was an Atari fan, I could be playing DivX4 movies and burning MP3's on my superfast, lowcost machine.
All-in-all I still like the theoretical amiga approach better...except all this commercial help isn't delivering solutions....in the absence of Atari, the open source community has been able to advance in the Atari scene.
can an OS can make a re-emergence after its banishment to obscurity, well the Atari fans are about to find out.....
