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flashjazz··on A graphical OS for the Atari 8-bit
No special hardware is required at all; just 128K of RAM and a bank-switched cartridge.
flashjazz··on A graphical OS for the Atari 8-bit
The thing needs to be finished and documented before anyone can write anything for it; open-sourcing it (as I notice from observing other projects) won't necessarily make great things happen. The GOS can already be run in emulation, althogh I don't know what would be accomplished by using the 48 byte playfield mode if one hopes to run it on a standard monitor. It's a lot of effort for a couple of dozen pixels.
flashjazz··on A graphical OS for the Atari 8-bit
128K RAM and a banked cartridge. So: stock 130XE and an AtariMax 1Mbit cart will do.