MagiC is a third party multitasking-capable TOS-compatible operating system for the Atari ST range of computers, including some newer clone machines. There are also variants that run as part of the MagicMac and MagicPC emulation environments.
The kernel of MagiC is largely written in hand-coded Motorola 68000 assembly language, and offers:
MagiC was originally released as Mag!X in 1992, before Eric Smith's MiNT. At that time, TOS featured only li...
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MagiC is a third party multitasking-capable TOS-compatible operating system for the Atari ST range of computers, including some newer clone machines. There are also variants that run as part of the MagicMac and MagicPC emulation environments.
The kernel of MagiC is largely written in hand-coded Motorola 68000 assembly language, and offers:
MagiC was originally released as Mag!X in 1992, before Eric Smith's MiNT. At that time, TOS featured only limited multitasking in the form of desk accessory programs, simple programs that were accessed from the "Desk" menu and that multitasked using cooperative task switching. In contrast, MagiC offered preemptive multitasking, giving the ability to run multiple (well-behaved) GEM applications as well as other non-graphical software.
The name changed from Mag!X to MagiC with the release of version 3.0, which added many improvements and a significant amount of MiNT compatibility. Version 4.0 added support for the Atari Falcon, and finally in 1995,...
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