Features
Although ARAnyM is still unfinished, a work-in-progress and the current status is about beta it offers an interesting list of features:
- MC68040 compatible CPU (including optional MMU!)
- MC68881 compatible FPU
- JIT Compiler for CPU and FPU (speeds up CPU+FPU up to 10x!)
- ST-RAM 14 MB
- Fast-RAM configurable 0-3824 MB
- Host accelerated fVDI graphics (large highcolor/truecolor resolutions)
- Access to Host OS filesystems using BetaDOS or MiNT native XFS driver
- Ethernet networking via host using MiNT-Net XIF driver
- TOS 4.x XBIOS and also DMA compatible sound (16-bit 48 kHz stereo sound)
- Parallel port (bidirectional)
- MFP, IKBD, ACIA, VIDEL, BLITTER, FDC, IDE, DSP MC56001
Please note that most hardware emulation is there just to make TOS booting possible. It is not our goal to create an emulator of existing Atari machine. Don't expect that ill-designed applications will work as they would on original Atari machine. Still, our compatibility ratio is much much higher than any of the TOS clones achieved so far.
ARAnyM has been intended to run primarily on Linux/x86 but thanks to libSDL and effort of some ARAnyM team members it currently runs on the following platforms and operating systems:
- All 11 Debian GNU/Linux platforms
- MS Windows/x86 (Cygwin)
- NetBSD/x86
- OpenBSD/x86
- MacOS X/PPC
- Irix/SGI
- Solaris/Sun Sparc
- FreeMiNT/m68k (in progress)
- FreeBSD/x86 (in progress)
Please note that ARAnyM is tested and fully working on the Linux-ia32 only. Some of the other platforms/systems might not have all features enabled or might suffer from some bugs that are caused by limitations of the particular host operating system.