Atari, adding an Ext2 file system to MiNT with Hatari

[@fourthhorseman4531]

As somebody who used Atari ST/TT machines up until the mid 90s and then went to Linux on PC hardware, this video is fascinating to me. It's intriguing to see the mix of TOS and Unix/Linux. For years I've been tempted to pull my old TT030 out of storage and see if I can get some flavor of BSD to run natively on it.

[@commodoreisnottheonlyfruit]

I've not seen any specific BSD stuff, but Linux 68000 is still a thing.

[@Storm_.]

Yay I'm famous! Awesome video thx! Ps I may be wrong, but I vaguely remember that Jinnee might have an option for making the desktop colour transparent? I think this may allow the myaes desktop picture to show through. Maybe!

[@commodoreisnottheonlyfruit]

Thanks for the inspirational comment :-) On the subject of Wallpapers MyAes has a configuration option app_forcedesk that forces the myaes desktop. This is what I use in thing, ease etc. However it explicitly says not to use it for Jinee. Jinnee has built in support for a desktop background, i've just been lazy and not got around to converting my normal wallpaper to img format. I was thinking that eventually i'll do an episode on graphic apps and tools. But perhaps I'll get unlazy and fix the desktop first :-)

[@kevinhulse2983]

There is an option to TOSWIN2 -> Options ->Window Settings to enable a scroll back buffer. There's also an option in mint.cnf to set long filenames on FAT disks.

[@goddessesstartrekonlinefle3061]

Excellent! Thank you :D

[@commodoreisnottheonlyfruit]

You're welcome!

[@thetechnoshed]

Thanks for this. I don't know if you saw my comment last time, but GEMDOS mapping is available in Hatari+MiNT if you use the minthat.prg program (doesn't replace the TOS FAT handling routines).

[@commodoreisnottheonlyfruit]

Sorry I didn't see it and I try to reply to all messages. Especially ones from KZbinrs like yourself, I love your content. I'll look into minthat.prg. Are you attending / presenting at Cyber Legends V2.0 in october?

[@thetechnoshed]

@@commodoreisnottheonlyfruit Hiya. No worries, just thought it may be useful to you! Thanks for the kind words & for the all the disc images. I hope to be there, but I'm baby and dogsitting that weekend, so I may either not make it, or only be there as a punter this time out. Cheers! BW

[@GEOsustainable]

As a retired Computer Engineer, I have to wonder why anyone would be still doing this dinosaur stuff. This takes me back to frustrating days when I maintained the computers in the Pentagon. Someone mentioned TOS in the comments; I once had to shine a flashlight onto a sensor for 3 days in the Pentagon so the Navy would get paid. The 'end of tape' sensor. I was just digging into some of the most recent programming going on out there, all the amazing new APPS, and was surprised to see it is still all the 'old code', it just is more and runs faster. There is nothing new in programming since the very first machine code. Just the subroutines have different names in all the different languages. I mean, I can overwrite any Hacker attempt with good old machine code. If software were any good, it would rewrite the Kernel every few micro seconds to make hacking a thing of the past. As a former TOS and DOS slave, I use only the latest iMac now. No way would I spend time on this old stuff. What is the return except to see it run? Still, all this old code is nothing without the 12 instruction 'boot strap', which nobody teaches. It is what breathes life into TOS and DOS after all. Videos like this would be invaluable should the Apocalypse ever occur, so we don't have to figure it ALL out again. Interesting video.

[@fwingebritson]

Dinosaur stuff is fun these days. Especially considering new tech feathers out the frustrations that bound us in the past.

[@commodoreisnottheonlyfruit]

I think if you plot a curve of age along the X axis and nostalgia along the Y, it'd be exponential!

[@AdamKlobukowski]

I think you might be wrong about ext2 not supporting / in filename, but I might be wrong :P

[@commodoreisnottheonlyfruit]

I think this might have to be the hill I die on :-)

[@galier2]

Definitly / not allowed in filenames on all POSIX systems.

[@AdamKlobukowski]

@@galier2 FreeMiNT (and/or) ext2 is not POSIX.