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--- st_mint [2024/08/15 15:05] – [With an emulator] Add correct switch for working ST Mint kdev
+++ st_mint [2025/09/12 08:32] (current) – [With an emulator] Recommend 8MB of RAM on Hatari kdev
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 ====== ST Mint: Opensource Unix for Atari ST ======
 ST Mint  is a [[https://freemint.github.io/|FreeMiNT]] distribution which provides an opensource Unix environment for the 16/32 bits Atari line of computers.
-The target platform are Atari ST(E) and Mist FPGA board with at least 4 MB of RAM, 512MB SD Card [[https://lotharek.pl/productdetail.php?id=48|drive]], ST High Resolution.
+The target platform are Atari ST(E) and Mist FPGA board with at least 4 MB of RAM, 512MB SD Card [[https://lotharek.pl/productdetail.php?id=48|drive]], ST High Resolution. It will also work on Atari TT but is not optimized for those machines.
 ST Mint is distributed in the form of a ready to boot disk image, to use for instance with [[https://lotharek.pl/productdetail.php?id=48|Lotharek's UltraSatan drive]]
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 == Disk image ==
-Download: [[https://subsole.org/static/retrocomputing/st_mint-1.4.img.zip| ACSI disk image]]
+Download: [[https://subsole.org/static/retrocomputing/st_mint-1.5.img.zip| ACSI disk image]]
 ===== Writing the media =====
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 Note that due to the very limited hardware of the ST compared to current standards, you can at most only run simple Unix command line tools.
-== Play some PCM Audio (Atari STE with 8MB RAM minimum) ==
-After a starting Unix shell, you can play on the command line some music files, courtesy of my previous [[https://subsole.org/manuka|Live Dub bands]].
-From the Unix shell:
-<code>
-cd /d/demodata
-fplay *
-</code>
 ===== With an emulator =====
-Use the downloaded .img file as an emulated ACSI device, and just boot. If you use the [[http://hatari.tuxfamily.org/|Hatari]] emulator, it would be:
+Use the downloaded .img file as an emulated ACSI device, and just boot. If you use the [[http://hatari.tuxfamily.org/|Hatari]] emulator, the command should be:
-<code>hatari --memsize 4 --mono --acsi st_mint-1.4.img</code>
+<code>hatari --memsize 8 --mono --acsi st_mint-1.5.img</code>
 == What's inside ==
   * Atari Hard Disk Driver 5 from http://www.nic.funet.fi/index/atari/diskutil/ahdi5.zoo
-  * FreeMiNT 1.19 build from 2022 snapshot
+  * FreeMiNT 1.19 2024 snapshot
   * 2048.APP from https://ptonthat.fr/two-o-forty-eight/
   * COMMAND.TOS interpreter from http://download.minix3.org/previous-versions/Atari/
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 See the Roadmap on [[https://github.com/EmmanuelKasper/mck/wiki/Roadmap | github]].
 For General Questions, please[[http://www.atari-forum.com/viewtopic.php?f=14&t=27040 | use this thread]] on the Atari Forums.
-For Bug Reports, use the [[https://github.com/EmmanuelKasper/mck/issues | Contruction Kit Bug Tracker]]
+For Bug Reports, use the [[https://github.com/EmmanuelKasper/mck/issues | Construction Kit Bug Tracker]]