Notices by GEM is truly truly outrageous (seg@oldbytes.space)

as it is the 40th anniversary of the Apple Lisa i am once again obsessing about this photo of Atari developers Dave Staugas, Jim Eisenstein and Jerome Domurat sitting in front of a few Apple Lisas and Macintoshes in March of 1985

the Apple Lisa was used to prototype the Atari ST's TOS operating system before the hardware was ready

the photo is from this Antic Podcast interview with Jerome:

https://archive.org/details/JeromeDomuratInterview/

#retrocomp #retrocomputing #Atari #AtariST #Apple #Lisa

someone pointed out there is an Apple Lisa with Atari asset tags owned by a collector in Germany?

and may still have the TOS development system on its hard drive

http://homecomputer.de/pages/f_info.html?Apple_Lisa2_5_Atari.html

could be the same one on the far right in the photo!

#retrocomp #retrocomputing #Atari #AtariST #Apple #Lisa

you can see the early "DAS BOOT" disk loading TOS boot screen, printed really big pasted up on the whiteboard for some reason

probably using that Apple Imagewriter

#retrocomp #retrocomputing #Atari #AtariST

https://youtu.be/SLmC5jWXTP8?t=637

speaking of Apple Lisa source...

source code for the GEMDOS prototype for the Apple Lisa was found among the Digital Research source code that was released under the GPL by Caldera a while back

now that's how you publicly license historical source code

and people have gotten it to run!

with a full GEM desktop!

it even runs well behaving Atari ST apps!

https://stardot.org.uk/forums/viewtopic.php?f=45&t=20964

http://www.alternative-system.com/en/revive-gemdos-for-lisa/

http://compu85.homeip.net/stuff/Lisa/Software/GemDos/

https://github.com/cheesestraws/lisa-gemdos

#retrocomp #retrocomputing #Atari #AtariST #Apple #Lisa #GEM