http://wiki.aranym.org/ 2012-05-18T07:45:29+02:00 http://wiki.aranym.org/ http://wiki.aranym.org/lib/tpl/default/images/favicon.ico text/html 2006-12-29T12:16:14+02:00 http://wiki.aranym.org/afs/floppy_unix?rev=1167390974&do=diff From a real floppy disk Creating a floppy image from a real floppy disk is dead simple: $ dd if=/dev/fd0 of=/path/to/floppy.img From scratch (top l33t!) First, we create an empty file, which has the same size as a 1.44 MB floppy. $ dd if=/dev/zero of=/path/to/floppy.img bs=1024 count=1440 Then, we format it (using either vfat or msdos file system): text/html 2006-01-28T22:45:20+02:00 http://wiki.aranym.org/afs/hd_create?rev=1138484720&do=diff Run ARAnyM, once you reach the GEM desktop, press Pause (or the OS-dependent key which has this feature, read the doc), and go to disk submenu. There you can choose the floppy disk image, and one hard disk image for each IDE device (master and slave). Select Path and choose the location (and name) of the hd image. Then select the size (in MB), and click Generate. ARAnyM asks for confirmation, then does its job. A geometry has been chosen for this hd image (C/H/S = 8/16/63). Enable it by select… text/html 2010-07-22T17:42:22+02:00 http://wiki.aranym.org/afs/hd_partition_atari?rev=1279813342&do=diff We could use several Atari Hard Disk drivers: * AHDI, from Atari (partition utility is named hdx) (3) (9) (17) * CBHD, from Steffen Engel (3) (9) (17) * Cecile, from Centek (10) * HD Driver, from Uwe Seimet (5), demo at (3) (9) * SCSI tools, from Julian Reschke * ADSCSI, from ICD (9) text/html 2006-01-28T22:54:18+02:00 http://wiki.aranym.org/afs/hd_partition_linux?rev=1138485258&do=diff Linux come with several partition utilities: mpartition (from mtools), cfdisk, fdisk, sfdisk, parted and many more. All these tools will create a PC-like root sector on the hard disk image, so not all Atari hard disk drivers can be installed on these. ID you can use for partitions are 04 (FAT16<32MB), 06 (FAT16), 83 (Linux) for the most useful for an Atari system. EmuTOS supports the PC root sector format without an hard disk driver. BEWARE! Partitionning a disk image from host side, is ma… text/html 2010-06-05T22:35:48+02:00 http://wiki.aranym.org/afs/links?rev=1275770148&do=diff FTP archives Chapelie archive <ftp://chapelie.rma.ac.be/atari/> * (1) utilities/disktools directory * (2) utilities/cd-rom directory * (18) mint/gem/aes directory Lip6 archive <http://ftp.lip6.fr/pub/atari/> * (3) Disk directory * (4) CD-rom/Drivers directory text/html 2006-02-04T20:45:37+02:00 http://wiki.aranym.org/afs/mint_base?rev=1139082337&do=diff On Sparemint website (16), you can retrieve a recent (albeit beta) build of the MiNT kernel along with Xaaes as a replacement AES. Warning: there is no desktop application with it, but you can launch GEM applications (thus a desktop like Thing or Teradesk (19) for example). text/html 2006-01-28T23:10:19+02:00 http://wiki.aranym.org/afs/nf_audio?rev=1138486219&do=diff With the Falcon, Atari added specific Xbios system calls to drive the sound hardware. So now it is possible for different hardware to be used by Atari applications, provided they use the system calls. Under MiNT, an audio device driver should be used when it will be done/debugged/stable. ARAnyM has some DMA audio emulation, but it may not be sufficient for programs to operate properly. Well-written applications use Xbios, and could use the ARAnyM audio driver. Run 'zmagxsnd.prg' to install t… text/html 2006-01-28T23:03:41+02:00 http://wiki.aranym.org/afs/nf_cdrom?rev=1138485821&do=diff This driver 'nfcdrom.bos' allows usage of CD-ROM (and playing audio CD) from your Atari applications. To access the files on a CD-ROM, you'll need an ISO9660 filesystem driver, that you should already have with the program you use to load the driver. In the MetaDOS (or other) configuration file, you just have to add a line like this: text/html 2008-01-09T02:16:45+02:00 http://wiki.aranym.org/afs/nf_ethernet?rev=1199841405&do=diff 'nfeth.xif' is the MiNT driver for ARAnyM networking. It emulates an Ethernet card on Atari side. Beware ! There is a bug in 1.16.1 kernel that hangs the kernel when loading any .XIF module. So you should either wait for a new MiNT kernel release, or compile a CVS version yourself. text/html 2006-01-28T23:04:57+02:00 http://wiki.aranym.org/afs/nf_hostfs?rev=1138485897&do=diff This disk driver allows you to access host filesystem directly without passing through the hard disk emulation layer. There are drivers for both Metados 'hostfs.dos' and MiNT 'hostfs.xfs'. MetaDOS driver First as said before, you need to install MetaDOS, Spin, BetaDOS or ExtenDOS to load the driver at boot time. All have a configuration file 'config.sys' or 'bdconfig.sys' depending on the loader. Note: after some tests, it appears the driver does not work with MetaDOS (and Spin which uses Meta… text/html 2006-01-28T23:05:46+02:00 http://wiki.aranym.org/afs/nf_jpeg?rev=1138485946&do=diff If you know Brainstorm's JPEG DSP decoder for Falcon, you know it is much faster to decode JPEG images than poor Falcon 030/16 MHz cpu. With this driver, it is the host cpu that will decode the image for your Atari applications. Just install 'nfjpeg.prg' in the AUTO folder to run it at your system's boot. This program is TOS resident, so it must be run before MiNT kernel. text/html 2006-01-29T17:16:47+02:00 http://wiki.aranym.org/afs/nf_osmesa?rev=1138551407&do=diff This one is a little tricky, there are both a device driver 'nfosmesa.xdd' required for MiNT, and a library 'osmesa.ldg' for Atari applications. LDG (14) must be installed for the library to be loaded/usable by applications. OSMesa is an OpenGL offscreen renderer, i.e. it renders images using host CPU in RAM. The result is then passed to the Atari application for final display. For OSMesa to operate properly, you must have OSMesa host's libraries compiled and installed, see Mesa (16) project p… text/html 2006-01-28T23:09:40+02:00 http://wiki.aranym.org/afs/nf_pci?rev=1138486180&do=diff Latest Atari compatible hardware like Medusa, Hades or Milan have PCI bus to improve the system extensions. However, specific drivers are required for each PCI card. Currently the nfpci driver only allows you to list host PCI devices (a good start!). Just install 'nfpci.prg' in the AUTO folder to run it at your system's boot. This program is TOS resident, so it must be run before MiNT kernel. text/html 2006-01-29T17:14:04+02:00 http://wiki.aranym.org/afs/nf_vdi?rev=1138551244&do=diff FVDI (7) is a replacement VDI like the well-known NVDI. It allows usage of custom video and printer (among others) drivers to be used on your Atari system. 'fvdi.prg' is a TOS resident program that must be run from the AUTO folder. It has a config file 'fvdi.sys' at the root of the boot drive. In the config file, you'll find the line PATH= which points to a directory ('c:\gemsys' as default) where to find its drivers (and fonts). ARAnyM needs its 'aranym.sys' driver to be put there. Near the e… text/html 2006-10-05T21:02:07+02:00 http://wiki.aranym.org/afs/partition?rev=1160074927&do=diff Create 512 MB partition in a file dd if=/dev/zero of=/path/to/disk.img bs=1M count=512 Format the partition to ext2 /sbin/mke2fs /path/to/disk.img Configure ARAnyM to use it Add the following section to your ARAnyM config file: [PARTITION0] Path = /path/to/disk.img Present = Yes PartID = $83 ByteSwap = Yes ReadOnly = No text/html 2006-01-28T22:29:26+02:00 http://wiki.aranym.org/afs/setup_emutos?rev=1138483766&do=diff Just like TOS, edit the config file, in the [GLOBAL] section, you'll get the EmuTOS= line to fill with the complete path to a EmuTOS ROM image file. If you have both TOS and EmuTOS available, ARAnyM defaults to TOS. You can force EmuTOS usage using -e command-line parameter: text/html 2006-12-04T14:39:38+02:00 http://wiki.aranym.org/afs/setup_linux?rev=1165239578&do=diff You can download a Linux/m68k kernel and ramdisk to boot from Debian m68k (12) page. Linux/m68k settings have a special section [LILO] (for Linux loader), where you have some work to do. You must provide the kernel image file to use (of course) in the line Kernel=. A list of arguments to pass to the kernel to tell it some infos about the system, in the line Args=, and a root filesystem. The Args= line must be filled with some infos, like the Atari frame buffer format, or more precisely, the … text/html 2006-01-28T22:24:39+02:00 http://wiki.aranym.org/afs/setup_tos?rev=1138483479&do=diff Just edit the config file, in the [GLOBAL] section, you'll find the TOS= line to fill with the complete path to a TOS 4.04 ROM image file. If you run ARAnyM with it, after the Atari logo, you should reach the well-known GEM desktop. $ aranym ARAnyM 0.9.2pre1 Using config file: '/home/patrice/.aranym/config' [snip] TOS 4.04 loading... [OK] NVRAM loaded from '/home/patrice/.aranym/nvram' TunTap(0): ERROR: aratapif not found. Ethernet disabled! TunTap(0): ERROR: aratapif not found. 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