Roadmap

ST Mint known bugs and limitations

• when booting with in Color Mode, as the graphical front end is configured for Mono, you will enter a boot loop when starting Xaaes, without ever entering the desktop
• On Hatari and Mist, if using a MegaSTE model, the boot hangs at "Installing BIOS keyboard type". This can be worked around by renaming MEGASTE\SCC.XDD (for example to SCC.XDX)

ST Mint with MCK Roadmap

This project has NO MAINTENANCE INTENDED as most project goals have been reached with ST Mint 1.4

Changelog 1.4

Foundation:

• copy to card image with mtools
• replace 128MB disk image with 512MB version, 4 partitions of 127MB

Features:

• rebase on latest freemint snapshot
• use GEMDOS FAT driver instead of freemint VFAT driver (reported on https://github.com/freemint/freemint/issues/155)
• upgrade script to upgrade an existing st mint installation
• add shell script to play music files via /dev/audio
• add music demo file
• add background image to mono desktop

Changelog 1.5

• increase kernel slices following https://www.atari-forum.com/viewtopic.php?t=40663
• use xaaesst kernel module to remove unused memory mode, which also disables background image
• don't be Posix pedantic, do not require mksh and bsd make to build
• update to 22/08/2024 FreeMiNT snapshot
• update build environement to Debian 12, also possible via a vagrant image
• 80 KB ram saved with EmuTOS in comparaison to previous releases

Target 1.6

• investigate EmuTOS boot loader
• add nweb web server
• replace GNU coreutils with minix utils ?
• create builds with github actions
• use EmuTos icons with Teradesk

Build Environment:

• serial console with hatari
• serial console with real STE

Pie in the sky

Graphical Mode:

• try out oaesis
• try out myAes

Community

• Freemint: report missing ethernec driver from tree
• Hatari: propose pull request for documentation on how to access AHDI partitions disk image (using udiskmount and mtools)