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firmware
This repository contains pre-compiled binaries of the current Raspberry Pi kernel and modules, userspace libraries, and bootloader/GPU firmware.
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mt32-pi
🎹🎶 A baremetal kernel that turns your Raspberry Pi 3 or later into a Roland MT-32 emulator and SoundFont synthesizer based on Circle, Munt, and FluidSynth.
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Stream
Stream - Scalable APIs for Chat, Feeds, Moderation, & Video. Stream helps developers build engaging apps that scale to millions with performant and flexible Chat, Feeds, Moderation, and Video APIs and SDKs powered by a global edge network and enterprise-grade infrastructure.
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ChrysaLisp
Parallel OS, with GUI, Terminal, OO Assembler, Class libraries, C-Script compiler, Lisp interpreter and more...
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OberonSystem
Modified version of the original from http://www.projectoberon.com/ for use with the Oberon IDE
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MiniDexed
Dexed FM synthesizer similar to 8x DX7 (TX816/TX802) running on a bare metal Raspberry Pi (without a Linux kernel or operating system)
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bmc64
A bare metal Commodore 64 emulator for the Raspberry Pi 1/2/3 with true 50hz/60hz smooth scrolling, low input latency and better audio/video sync.
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Pascal for Small Machines
It wasn't a complaint, just a fact. Btw. instead of natively porting the Oberon system, it's also possible to just transpile the Oberon code to C and then natively (cross-)compile the C code to the target architecture. That would even work with a bare-bone system. I have two Oberon system versions based on this approach (https://github.com/rochus-keller/OberonSystem and https://github.com/rochus-keller/OberonSystem3). Replacing the PAL/SDL adapter to a plain frame buffer and serial input seems feasible. Using a framework like https://github.com/rsta2/circle would make the task even easier. Of course the Oberon compiler does still generate code for the original architecture (one could replace it by a compiler using e.g. TCC as a backend).
- Circle – C++ bare metal environment for Raspberry Pi with USB (32 and 64 bit)
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MiniScript on a bare-metal Raspberry Pi
If you're a developer and feeling adventurous, you can also try building it yourself. The source is all on GitHub. It uses the circle-stdlib project (which is circle plus some additions to support much of the C and C++ standard libraries) as a submodule; hopefully I've set that up correctly, but you could always clone that separately and place it in the MiniScript-Pi folder. Check out circle's build instructions for info on setting up your toolchain. (Mac users: be careful with the configure script, which does not work properly on MacOS; find me on Discord and I'll help you fix the script or configure manually.)
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Bare Metal Emulation on the Raspberry Pi – Commodore 64
I suggest checking out circle https://github.com/rsta2/circle since it's basically a library for the pi hardware. I'm doing some experiments with it myself now.
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Assembly coding without OS
You can also run a Pi without an operating system, programming it in C or C++ probably. See for example: GitHub - rsta2/circle: A C++ bare metal environment for Raspberry Pi with USB (32 and 64 bit)
- Bare Metal Emulators and launcher for RetroFlag GPI v1
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Help with C64 Emulation (never used a C64 before in my life)?
BMC64 is VICE in a trenchcoat unikernel / bare-metal framework called Circle: https://github.com/rsta2/circle
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Smalltalk-80 on Raspberry Pi: A Bare Metal Implementation
It uses the circle library (https://github.com/rsta2/circle) to provide a minimal runtime (mainly to interface with the hardware).
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How do I get started with making my own Linux based OS on Embedded Hardware?
I experimented with circle the other day (https://github.com/rsta2/circle) Looks promising, and most likely within your knowledge of C/C++ development.
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EmuTOS: A Modern FOSS Replacement OS for the Atari ST – and the Amiga Too
Natively would be amazing but a vast amount of work.
The way Apple moved classic MacOS from 680x0 to PowerPC was to write a tiny kernel emulator, with an API to run native stuff on the metal, and run more or less the whole OS under emulation, profile it and just translate the most speed-critical bits.
That's a lot of work for a FOSS project but given the performance delta between 1980s 680x0 and 2020s ARM, total emulation of the whole thing should be perfectly fine. It's how the PiStorm Amiga upgrade works.
https://amigastore.eu/853-pistorm.html
So all I envision is something like Aranym:
https://aranym.github.io/
... running on top of Ultibo, say:
https://ultibo.org/
Or maybe Circle:
https://github.com/rsta2/circle
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