We are finally releasing this new major version of zeST! This has been a rough ride. New components, updated ones, a new switchable cores system, a boot screen… Putting it all together took us longer than expected. But as good things come to those who wait, here it finally is! STE support This new release introduces Atari STE support. This is the result of months of work, in which we reimplemented the STE starting from zeST’s ST design.

I am very pleased to announce this new major release. There have been significant additions on the host platform management part, as well as in the Atari ST core. Platform management On the host software side, there have been a major update on the OS side, as well as brand new wireless device management utlities integrated into the zeST user interface menu. Buildroot update The used version of the embedded Linux distribution, Buildroot, has been updated to the latest stable version (2026.

This small release fixes an important bug in the GEMDOS drive and enables MIDI as a logging device. GEMDOS drive fix This fix solves a memory management issue with the initial release. It replaces a system call with another one, that was made available in TOS starting from version 1.04. So this fixed version now only works on TOS versions 1.04 and up. Everything is explained in the updated documentation.