MiNT
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MiNT (MiNT is Now TOS) is a free software alternative operating system kernel for the Atari ST series. It offers a partially preemptive, multi-tasking alternative to TOS and MagiC, with some memory protection. Together with the free system components fVDI device drivers, XaAES graphical user interface widgets, and TeraDesk file manager, MiNT provides a free TOS compatible replacement OS that can multitask a subset of the Atari ST applications.
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This is FreeMiNT. Please see the file COPYING for licensing conditions. Please send electronic mail to for further information as well as concerning the kernel development subjects. FreeMiNT development has been community-driven without a dedicated maintainer since 2016. Contributors for all subsystems are welcome, be it for bugfixing, adding new features, improving documentation or testing. Please note that if your file system doesn't support long filenames some of the files could have unpacked with truncated names.
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- 1.18.0
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MiNT (MiNT is Now TOS) is a free software alternative operating system kernel for the Atari ST series. It offers a partially preemptive, multi-tasking alternative to TOS and MagiC, with some memory protection. Together with the free system components fVDI device drivers, XaAES graphical user interface widgets, and TeraDesk file manager, MiNT provides a free TOS compatible replacement OS that can multitask a subset of the Atari ST applications.
== History == Work on MiNT began in 1989, as the developer Eric Smith was trying to port the GNU library and related utilities on the Atari ST TOS. It soon became much easier to add a Unix-like layer to the TOS, than to patch all of the GNU software, and MiNT began as a TOS extension to help in porting.