MiNT

Alternative operating system kernel for Atari ST Operating system MiNTFreeMiNT 1.19 beta on Atari STEDeveloperEric Smith, various volunteersWritten inCWorking stateCurrentSource modelOpen sourceInitial releaseJune 1993; 33 years ago (1993-06)Latest release1.18.0 / 17 March 2013Repositorygithub.com/freemint/freemint Marketing targetPersonal computersSupported platformsAtari ST, Firebee, ARAnyM, AmigaKernel typeMonolithicInfluenced byAtari TOSDefaultuser interfaceGEMLicenseVarious, including GNU General Public License (Free Software)Official websitefreemint.github.io 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 Un