FireBee News
Hardware & Software Updates
Latest news from EmuTOS
Since we last reported about the EmuTOS development concerning the FireBee the following improvements have been achieved:
The FireBee FreeMiNT Setup 2022
This year we are back with a strong sign of life. Now that the website is up and running again and all information has been correctly coded in the respective languages, we are proud to present a compl...
EmuTOS 1.2 and 1.2.1
On August 07th 2022 EmuTOS Development Team published new version 1.2 of free and open-source TOS replacement. And then - it already became a tradition - developers found a bug in a new version and ni...
EmuTOS 1.1.1
On July 08th 2021 EmuTOS Development Team published new version 1.1 of this free and open-source TOS replacement and as it was found a bug just after release, on July 19th bugfix version 1.1.1 was out...
HTTP 521 Webserver is down - Hardware failure at firebee.org
Maybe you have already noticed it: Some news, pages and downloads are no longer available. This is due to the fact that our previous web server broke down about 3 weeks ago. Since then we have been wo...
GFA Basic Editor (GBE) v3.7 Released
For those not aware, the original author of GFA Basic passed away in 2011. December 9th is Frank Ostrowski's birthday. His brother was kind enough to share that information. To honor Frank's legacy, t...
New AHCC version released
After almost 3 years, Henk Robbers released version 6.0 of AHCC on November 27, 2020. As always, he also release binaries specific for Coldfire on his webpage
New Firmware, FPGA Configuration and FireTOS
Already a long while back we promised to you the new software for your FireBees. As for some time the new computers get already delivered with this software in Flash-Rom, we decided now to make it ava...
COVID-19 Watcher
If you have an Atari connected to the Internet, you may now track the coronavirus outbreak on your trusted machine. COVID-19 Watcher is an app that displays the current (more or less…) number of infec...
FireTOS addon archive
The ACP-Team collected a set of useful software, prepared to give you best singletasking experiences on your FireBee right from the start.
Atari 8-Bits at the FireBee
"Atari800" is an emulator for Atari 8-Bit Systems like the 400/800, the Atari XL/XE-Series or the 5200. At 13th of April 2019 the version 4.1.0 was released by Miro Kropáček.
Up-to-date information about the ACP project Q1/2019
It's the right time again to give you some information about the state of things in ACP. Last year we neglected the flow of information a little, and some of you got the impression that nothing was ha...
Mailsystem reorganized
We have migrated our complete mailsystem and all communication problems should be a thing of the past.
FireBee on GitHub
After some long months with no public access to our Firebee sources, we finally moved everything to GitHub.
Linear Classic icon set for Teradesk updated
The new version 1.54 represents a major upgrade of the of the 48p. Linear Classic icon set for Teradesk.
FB-Basic icon set 1.54 update
Just after the FB-Basic 1.50 major release, a minor upgrade for the FB-Basic icon set for Teradesk is arrived.
FB-Basic icon set for Teradesk updated
One year after the initial release, the FB-Basic icon set for Teradesk receives a major update.
Firebee.org Server Problems
Sadly the project is facing bigger server issues at the moment. Since last Thursday the domain firebee.org is not accessible and our mailboxes are not reachable.
GFA Basic v3.7 beta
GFA Basic v3.7 has reached beta testing stage and is available also for the FireBee. New features include: - Added all missing AES calls up to AES v4.1, plus some N.AES calls. - Added the most commonl...
MyAES 0.97 and patches
On the 30th of July 2017, Olivier Landemarre distributed MyAES 0.97.
Permanent Up-To-Date-FreeMiNT for the FireBee
As already announced we have some real great news. The last months Miro Kropáček worked extremely hard to catapult the FreeMiNT project into the 21st century.
New Version of TosWin2
Today we are publishing a new "unofficial" version of the console "TosWin2".
AHCC 5.5
On January and as almost every six months, Henk Robbers has released a new version of its AHCC development environment.
FB-Basic icon set for Teradesk
FB-Basic is a new 48pts icon set for Teradesk 4.07 running in a Multitask OS (FreeMiNT+XaAES/MyAES on the FireBee).
Mail system and server infrastructure
During the first week of January 2017, our server will go offline for a few days because it will be set up from scratch again.
Full-length report about the level shifter problem
What follows is the detailled background report about the killjoy of this summer...
Delivery and call for donations
Dear Atari-Community. The delivery of the second Firebee-series has finally begun.
FreeMiNT at ColdFire EVBs
An new exciting development was finished regarding FreeMiNT on Freescales ColdFire 547x/548x Evaluation Boards
Working Boards
This week Medusa Computer Systems received a first fully functional board from the assembly company.
Board Status
Switching out the bus driver from a TI- to an NPX-model unfortunately did not solve the problems. This presents a true challenge for Medusa, since some of the behaviours of the board still are a myste...
News about the boards
In the meantime, Medusa identified one part at the new boards, that seems - as already suspected - to be responsible for the problems. The communication with the assembling company and the producer, T...
Delivery delay of the new series - the whole truth
The new FireBee series should already be delivered by now. Today we will ruthlessly uncover why this isn't the case yet. Read here exclusively what ACP has to fight with. Some already had a hunch; oth...
A GEM coding guide for AHCC
Peter Lane, the well-known developer, creates a very interesting coding guide.
A new version of AHCC.
On the beginning of the June month, Henk Robbers has released an update of his well-known Pure C compatible compiler: AHCC v5.4. Although this version is not directly linked to the FireBee, it brings ...
LED- and Speaker-Clip
The mini-cases of the FireBee are made by a metal-working company in Vienna in small batches. While we are very pleased with these high-quality aluminium casings, the small series still meant that we ...
GEM Sokoban Game
A GEM version of the classic puzzle game Sokoban has been released by Peter Lane.
PH PDF Maker beta 3
PH PDF Maker is a new application that brings PDF-creation to your FireBees and Ataris.
Chart Library for C Programmers
The author Peter Lane created a simple chart library for C programs. The library is designed to be included in other programs, simply by copying two files to your C project: chart.h and chart.c. Three...
GFABASIC updated
Updated GFABASIC released, highlights are: GFA-Basic Editor v1.68 Improved assembler file and include file management. Compiler/Linker r27 Unchanged from previous release. Library/Interpreter r16 Rand...
Two tools for writers
In March, two programs were released for writers: BibFind, for working with bibtex-format bibliographies, and Neso, a text to HTML converter.
Scheduled Delivery Date of the 2nd Series
End of last week Medusa Computer Systems got the final delivery date ultimately confirmed by the assembling company. The FireBee PCBs of the 2nd series will be supplied to MCS at the 30th of May 2016....
New Boards ordered
Medusa Computer Systems has started the order transaction for the new series of FireBee boards.
Linear Classic icons set for Teradesk
The Linear Classic is a new 48pts RSC icons set for the Teradesk desktop. This set is a member of the Linear icons family but, while it adopts most of the pictograms from the Linear Blue set, it has d...
New games by Orionsoft
The indy developer of the well-known Myst-like adventures Elansar and Philia is once again owner of a FireBee - and he has updated both adventures.
PIC Development Revived
Today we are happy to report about a developer's new arrival at the ACP: Patrick Kohl volunteered to take care about the PIC microcontroller that's part of the FireBee.
zView codecs
Lonny Pursell has written quite a few zView codecs and updated some older ones. He has rebuilt all in all 53 codecs to be FireBee compatible. Among the image formats like Neo, Pixart, POFO, STAD, Dega...
FireBee Series 2 - Now open for pre-orders
As promised, we would like to inform you today about the upcoming production of the next batch of FireBee computers.
AHCC v5.2
A new version of AHCC, the GPL/LGPL Pure C compatible compiler/assembler for all Atari environments is available.
Firebee.org goes online
For a long time we had wishes that could not be realized with our old web site acp.atari.org. Many worldwide FireBee contributors came up with many good ideas also.
MIPS
In an internal developer discussion, mostly between Olivier Landemarre, Roger Burrows and Markus Fröschle, the ACP developers recently debated how Freescale came up with a speed of 401 MIPS for the 26...
AtariICQ 0.176 - Chat software
In the month of October 2012, Joakim Högberg had delivered a "pre-beta" version. Although the situation hasn't changed a lot, the software development has continued, and a new official version of the ...
Linear Blue icon set v.1.2b for Teradesk
Version 1.2b of the 48pts 256 color Linear Blue icon set for Teradesk 4.06 is available for . The updated set includes 24 new entries for a total number of 202 icons. The desktop.inf configuration fil...
New GBE Release
This update addresses several installation problems reported by users. It's now much easier to install, as everything needed for coding and compiling is included in one archive. The default installati...
Askin gradients for XaAES
Philippe Noble recently released Askin, a new set of gradients and widgets for XaAES, with the aim to give the FireBee and other FreeMiNT platforms supporting TC video modes a nice and modern look. Th...
EasyMiNT 1.90b
Marc-Anton Kehr just made a new version of EasyMiNT that should run on firebee now. He had some additions to ST support too but those are in alpha stage. Two things are not working until now on the fi...