Welcome to The Atari/TOS Clone Directory
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An Atari/TOS clone? What is that?
Since this page now is the official site for the Ac (Atari Clone)
Mailing list, and one important requirement to become a member of it is to
own an Atari/TOS clone, we, sad as it may sound, actually have to define what
an "Atari/TOS Clone" is. And here is the definition of such a machine; A TOS
clone is a machine built to run TOS as soon as it gets power. A TOS clone is
hardware made to run TOS, with the intention of being a TOS machine. The only
difference between a real Atari and an Atari/TOS clone, is that Atari built
the real ones, third parties built the clones. Their intentions were the
same, hardware that runs TOS!
Do we all agree on this now? The Ac (Atari clone) mailing list is a closed mailing list where owners of one of the abovementioned Atari Clones can share information, experiences and ideas regarding the use of these fine machines. There is only one very important criteria that must be met before a person is allowed onto the Ac Mailing list;
What is the purpose of this site? For those new (or old, but not updated ;-) ) to the world of Atari anno Y2k, there were developed three different Atari clones during nineties. The first Atari clone that was available was the Medusa T40, produced by a Swiss company called Medusa Computer Systems. The T40 is now discontinued. Then, a couple of years later, the Hades040/060 became availabe, also made by Medusa Computer Systems. The Hades was the first Atari clone that could use a 68060 CPU and had 4 PCI slots, 3 ISA slots and a VME slot (as found in the TT). Some years after the Hades was released, a new company called Milan Gmbh, located in Germany, released their Milan. This machine was, at the time of release, a lot cheaper than the Hades, but came in 68040 configurations only. The Milan also have 4 PCI slots and 4 ISA slots, but no VME. Follow the link to the individual manufacturers site for more info. For some time, Milan had a follow-up machine in development, the Milan II, but this development has been dropped, and is now a dead project. The reason for the demise of this project is that vital parts are not available anymore, and adapting the motherboard is considered too big a project and too expensive for the small market. However, now the Milan is available with 68060 CPU as well. This page is dedicated to users of the abovementioned Atari/TOS Clone machines. Here you can find information about other Hades/Milan/Medusa users. As most people still using Atari computers, or follow what happens around the Atari scene knows there have been developed some Atari clone computers. Owners of these clones are hard to come by, and this is an attempt to keep a 'directory' of users and what machine(s) these users have. This page was formerly maintained by Lonny Pursell, but he asked me if I wanted to host/maintain this page. I think he asked me because I actually had a Hades060, and he didn't at the time. But that situation changed, fortunately ;-) Congrats with your new Hades060, Lonny! ;-) Lonny tells me that input was rather rare when he hosted this page. So, if you're a user of one of these machines and not on this list, COME ON, mail me your info so I can add you.
How to get listed here!
If you own an Atari/TOS clone and is not listed here, then do the
following. Mail me your complete name,
where you live (city, state, country), URL to your 'main' web page and an
ASCII file describing your system, or alternatively, an URL to your own setup
page (do not confuse this URL with the 'main' URL) You may actually send both
a small text and URL to your own setup page. The URL must, however, go
directly to a description of your system! You may include as much or as little
information (E-Mail address, web URL) as you like. If you have an e-mail
address, it must be included, if you don't have one then please include your
full mailing address. Please do not send images as my web site is limited in
space. Thanks.
NEWS! This column will contain "News of the month", starting now (Jun 1,
2001). Older news will be kept separate.
Older news....
June 2001
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