Web site: sdx.atari8.info | spartados.com | spartadosx.com
Origin: unknown
Category: Desktop
Desktop environment: CLI
Architecture: Atari 8-bit family
Based on: Independent
Wikipedia: SpartaDOS X
Media: Install
The last version | Released: 4.49 | April 7, 2020
SpartaDOS – a disk operating system for the Atari 8-bit computers which uses a command-line interface.
SpartaDOS X (SpartaDOS 4.0) is a successor to SpartaDOS 1.0, 2.0 and 3.0, which was originally developed by Michael Gustafson in 1987-89.
The basic idea of SpartaDOS emerged in the early 1980s: A powerful DOS resembling the concept of MS-DOS on the ATARI 8-bit platform. In late 1983 the concept came to live and developed into SpartaDOS 1.1, released in 1984. Version 2.x came to market in 1985. In 1986 ICD issued the last disk-based version: SpartaDOS 3.2x.
It matured to the ‘SpartaDOS X Upgrade Project’, aiming at the future development of the best disk operating system ever created for the Atari 8-bit computer. The project comprises the DOS itself, a toolkit, several add-ons, and the documentation. The new release again proves the power of SpartaDOS X, and its unique status in the Atari 8-bit world.
The SpartaDOS X package is configurable for every Atari 8-bit system.
The SpartaDOS screenshot source: Wikipedia; License: Public Domain.
Spartados X offers memory banking facilities conceptually similar to that of CP/M 3, but with much greater flexibility. Drivers and handlers may be loaded into expanded memory along with attendant buffers and other overhead. With all its power, Spartados X uses less memory than nearly all other Atari DOS’s. Atari8.us