I got uploading to a SRAM working from an Arduino Nano! I have also tested properly resetting the 68008 from the Arduino and changing the pins to pull up. I should probably throw together a tiny bootloader and put a 512K SRAM on instead, and I think perhaps a SPLD or CPLD might replace the mess near the RAM more elegantly - a couple of daisy chained ATF22V10s might work well! It all seems stable at ~6Mhz despite being on a breadboard.

I Have neglected these projects too long . I will tidy up and get back them ASAP.

#NetBSD #m68k now has binary packages for clang and llvm.

https://cdn.netbsd.org/pub/pkgsrc/packages/NetBSD/m68k/10.0_2025Q1/All/

Does anyone want to give them a try?

Did you know that #NetBSD #m68k can compile itself from scratch?

How long would you imagine it might take to compile NetBSD 10 from source on real m68k hardware? Earlier this year I wanted to find out, so I set up a Macintosh to try it.

The toolchain, OS and installation sets started on 16-March and finished on 10-May:

build.sh started:    Sat Mar 16 17:04:20 UTC 2024
build.sh ended:      Fri May 10 00:35:54 UTC 2024
4692724.22 real   3810544.56 user    700310.18 sys

That’s 1303 and a half hours, or almost eight weeks, or 54 days.

Installing the OS using build.sh took another four hours (4:08:39).

The kernel took another almost 21 hours (20:55).

That’s a lot of time, but it worked without issues, and the system runs happily!

„Was? Die ›ST-Computer‹ gibt es immer noch? Gedruckt?“

Ja. Und grade sind von der aktuellen Ausgabe noch ein paar wenige Exemplare zu kaufen:

https://forum.atari-home.de/index.php/topic,17980.msg270939.html#msg270939

Themen:
- Taskbar 5 vs. Motosu
- MiSTeryNano
- Shotgun (Spiel)
- Hardware: Atari 2600+
u.a.

Current status: I wanted to build Clang 19.1.5, so I figured might as well enable the experimental #m68k support. There's a handy page at https://m680x0.github.io/doc/

I made a MINIX 68K system call emulator. MIT license, incomplete, but on the way to being able to run the MINIX C compiler!

https://github.com/eschaton/MINIXCompat

#Intel in 1976–1978: “1MB ought to be enough address space for anybody.”

#Motorola in 1979: “Hold my beer.”

Warum waren im deutschen Wikipedia-Artikel zu DR GEM noch keine Screenshots zur Atari-Version von GEM? Tsk.

https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Graphics_Environment_Manager