ARAnyM for Linux 0.9.10

ARAnyM is a software virtual machine (similar to VirtualBox or Bochs) designed and developed for running 32-bit Atari ST/TT/Falcon operating systems (TOS, FreeMiNT, MagiC and Linux-m68k) and TOS/GEM applications on any kind of hardware - be it an IBM clone (read it as "PC" :-), an Apple, an Unix server, a graphics workstation or even a portable computer.<br /><br />ARAnyM is not meant as an emulator of Atari Falcon (even though it has a rather high Falcon software compatibility and includes most of Falcon custom chips including VIDEL and DSP). ARAnyM is better in the sense that it's not tied to specification of an existing Atari machine so we were free to select the most complete CPU (68040 with MMU) and FPU (68882), add loads of RAM (up to 4 GB), host accelerated graphics (even with OpenGL) and direct access to various host resources including sound, disk drives, optical storage devices (CD/DVD-ROMs), parallel port and more.<br /><br />Features<br /><br />Although ARAnyM is still unfinished, a work-in-progress and the current status is about beta it offers an interesting list of features:<br /><br /> MC68040 compatible CPU (including optional MMU!)<br /> MC68881 compatible FPU<br /> JIT Compiler for CPU and FPU (speeds up CPU+FPU up to 10x!)<br /> ST-RAM 14 MB<br /> Fast-RAM configurable 0-3824 MB<br /> Host accelerated fVDI graphics (large highcolor/truecolor resolutions)<br /> Access to Host OS filesystems using BetaDOS or MiNT native XFS driver<br /> Ethernet networking via host using MiNT-Net XIF driver<br /> TOS 4.x XBIOS and also DMA compatible sound (16-bit 48 kHz stereo sound)<br /> Parallel port (bidirectional)<br /> MFP, IKBD, ACIA, VIDEL, BLITTER, FDC, IDE, DSP MC56001<br /> Please note that most hardware emulation is there just to make TOS booting possible. It is not our 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, our compatibility ratio is much much higher than any of the TOS clones achieved so far.<br />

Requirements:	No special requirements
Platforms:	*nix, Linux
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