[Coco] OT: Atari ST Firmware (Was: Re: DriveWire printing options )

[Gene Heskett]

On Saturday 26 December 2009, Joel Ewy wrote:
>Gene Heskett wrote:
>> On Friday 25 December 2009, Joel Ewy wrote:
>>> Gene Heskett wrote:
>>>> ...
>>>> ...
>>>> ...So the only M$ authored software here is
>>>> whatever may be in the roms of my coco's (several) or, slim chance at
>>>> best, in the roms of an atari ST I fumbled into possession of at a
>>>> cocofest (one of Ron's up in PA) quite a few years ago.
>>>
>>> I believe that the Atari ROMs were done by Digital Research.  So the
>>> Atari's TOS is inspired by Digital Research's clone (DR-DOS) of
>>> Microsoft's workalike (MS-DOS) of Digital Research's CP/M.  Or something
>>> like that.
>>
>> I was under the impression that Jack Tramiel(sp?) wrote that dos cuz they
>> called it Tramieldos or something similar.
>
>That may be.  I'm almost certain DR did the GEM GUI, but maybe Atari
>wrote the rest...  I know that the floppy disk format is very similar to
>a DOS FAT.
>
>JCE
>
I wasn't aware of that, never having gotten the one I got at the cocofest out 
of the box as the crt in the 12 or 13" monitor took longer to warm up than it 
got at the fest.

Does anyone know what sort of monitor it needs?  If NTSC, I still have a 17" 
with composite inputs.  vga or better, I have a 22" samsung tv that looks 
very nice when driven by an old liinux box with a quite old nvidia tnt card 
in it.

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