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ThorstenOtto wrote:The 3.01 versions i have report an release date of 29. Aug 1990, so that might actually be an older version. The reported GEMDOS version is also older, 3.01 reports 0.19, and 3.06 0.20
ThorstenOtto wrote:The 3.01 versions i have report an release date of 29. Aug 1990, so that might actually be an older version. The reported GEMDOS version is also older, 3.01 reports 0.19, and 3.06 0.20
Do you have US?
dhedberg wrote:Also, I'm curious to find out what this version has besides support for 1.44MB.
I don't know if there's any interest in preserving this version
if somebody would like to spend time investigating what exactly is different
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dhedberg wrote:I'm going to replace the ROMs with 3.06 eventually. I don't know if there's any interest in preserving this version or if somebody would like to spend time investigating what exactly is different in this version compared to say 3.01? I doubt I'll find the time to do that even though I'd like to.
czietz wrote:http://toshyp.atari.org/en/010007.html has TOS 3.01 dated 09.08.1990 and 29.08.1990. The BIOS source code has...Code: Select all
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... and other comments make it clear that the format is YY/MM/DD there. So, June 1990 would be prior to the TOS release. Hence, it is really a rare version.dhedberg wrote:I'm going to replace the ROMs with 3.06 eventually. I don't know if there's any interest in preserving this version or if somebody would like to spend time investigating what exactly is different in this version compared to say 3.01? I doubt I'll find the time to do that even though I'd like to.
Yes, please dump it and post it here. I'm also interested in TOS version history.
czietz wrote:PS: Also, given that I have (part of) the contents of the version control system used for the TOS source code, I can see that Atari went through different boot screen colors for TT-TOS prerelease versions, presumably to make them easier to differentiate. They had magenta in March 1990, orange in April, dark blue and green in May, light blue in June, yellow in July, and finally went to white in August.
czietz wrote:PS: Also, given that I have (part of) the contents of the version control system used for the TOS source code, I can see that Atari went through different boot screen colors for TT-TOS prerelease versions, presumably to make them easier to differentiate. They had magenta in March 1990, orange in April, dark blue and green in May, light blue in June, yellow in July, and finally went to white in August.
czietz wrote:PS: Also, given that I have (part of) the contents of the version control system used for the TOS source code, I can see that Atari went through different boot screen colors for TT-TOS prerelease versions, presumably to make them easier to differentiate. They had magenta in March 1990, orange in April, dark blue and green in May, light blue in June, yellow in July, and finally went to white in August.
czietz wrote:PS: Also, given that I have (part of) the contents of the version control system used for the TOS source code, I can see that Atari went through different boot screen colors for TT-TOS prerelease versions, presumably to make them easier to differentiate.
Cyprian wrote:cool, that's nice piece of a history.
would be possible to share it widely?
leech wrote:Kind of curious now, since if I recall correctly, the TT was released a few years before the Mega STe, and I think the Mega STe was the first system released with TOS 2.x? So did they actually release TOS 3.x before they released TOS 2.x? This version kind of shows that they did.
penguin wrote:leech wrote:Kind of curious now, since if I recall correctly, the TT was released a few years before the Mega STe, and I think the Mega STe was the first system released with TOS 2.x? So did they actually release TOS 3.x before they released TOS 2.x? This version kind of shows that they did.
There was only a gap of about a year or so between both machines. The TT was finally shown to the public in 1989, still with TOS 3.00 (or TOS 030 as Atari called it). It was finally available a year later, with TOS 3.01. The Mega STE was shown in 1990 and delivered in 1991. TOS 2.x/3.01 share most of the code including the NewDesk that was missing in TOS 3.00. MegaSTE was the first system released with TOS 2.x, followed by the STBook (if you can call it released...). TOS 3.x was also used in the Medusa and Hades computers.
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