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Re: [video] ATARI ST at CES'85

From	Chris Ridd <chrisridd@mac.com>
Newsgroups	comp.sys.atari.st
Subject	Re: [video] ATARI ST at CES'85
Date	2025-02-12 19:45 +0000
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On 11/02/2025 21:45, Francois LE COAT wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Chris Ridd writes:
>> Francois LE COAT wrote:
>>>>> I watched this from a link on Facebook - pretty interesting stuff!
>>>>>
>>>>> Loved the way that TOS desktop was using DRI GEM PC icons and sort of
>>>>> resembled a Mac (Lisa?). Coolness.  :)
>>>>
>>>> It looks quite like https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ 
>>>> GEM_(desktop_environment)#/media/File:Gem_11_Desktop.png 
>>>
>>> The Graphic Environment Manager (GEM) from Digital Research existed both
>>> for ATARI ST and IBM/PC (or AmstradPC, or whateverPC) written mainly in
>>> "C" language, portable, and almost free software now. It could be ported
>>> on the ATARI VCS (a computer from ATARI S.A.!) so that ported ATARI 68k
>>> software (written in "C", cross-compiled, like mine) could run with it,
>>> eventually with the usage of a virtual machine in a first period, like
>>> ARAnyM. That's how Apple have done with the Mac, transitioning 68k ->
>>> PPC -> Intel -> ARM. Transitioning from Apple, was simple to users and
>>> developers, ask them! I've lived it using all different Apple computers.
>>>
>>> That could be the rebirth of ATARI computers, forty years after ST =)
>>> I'm not kidding! Do you know GEM, ATARI VCS, "C" language, ARAnyM, Mac?
>>
>> Actually I'd be kind of intrigued if someone can build Aranym for 
>> iPad. The hardware is really pretty powerful and I'm sure SDL supports 
>> iOS. Think different!
> 
> Well, iPad is a tactile mobile device, and not a computer. ARAnyM means
> "ATARI Running on Any Machine", that means on any computer. The ATARI
> virtual machine is not supposed to be supported on the iPad device.

Well I disagree. An iPad is just a machine, and I don't see anywhere in 
the Aranym docs restricting what hardware it is "supposed" to run on. In 
fact on https://aranym.github.io it explicitly says "any kind of hardware".

The mouse emulation would be an interesting challenge, though of course 
iPads do support pointing devices nowadays.

-- 
Chris

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    Re: [video] ATARI ST at CES'85 Chris Ridd <chrisridd@mac.com> - 2025-01-25 10:28 +0000
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            Re: [video] ATARI ST at CES'85 Chris Ridd <chrisridd@mac.com> - 2025-02-12 19:45 +0000
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