Actually, most of these folks have pretty much saw the light.. They released
ARANYM.. AKA Atari Running on Any Machine. It is a virtual machine software for running the Atari ST/TT/Falcon operating systems (TOS, FreeMiNT, MagiC and others) and TOS/GEM applications on any kind of hardware Including Intel PCs- be it an IBM clone (read it as "PC" :-), an Apple, an Unix server, a graphics workstation or even a portable computer.
other features include:
* MC68040 compatible CPU (including optional MMU!)
* MC68881 compatible FPU
* JIT Compiler for CPU and FPU (speeds up CPU+FPU up to 10x!)
* ST-RAM 14 MB
* Fast-RAM configurable 0-3824 MB
* Host accelerated fVDI graphics (large highcolor/truecolor resolutions)
* Access to Host OS filesystems using BetaDOS or MiNT native XFS driver
* Ethernet networking via host using MiNT-Net XIF driver
* TOS 4.x XBIOS compatible sound (16-bit 48 kHz stereo sound)
* Parallel port (bidirectional)
* MFP, IKBD, ACIA, VIDEL, BLITTER, FDC, IDE, DSP MC56001
Please note that most hardware emulation is there just to make TOS booting possible. It is not a goal to create an emulator of existing Atari machine. Don't expect that ill-designed applications will work as they would on original Atari machine. Still, compatibility ratio is much much higher than any of the TOS clones achieved so far.
Actually this software could be ported to the AmigaOne. Making it an AtariOne :-)
