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.

Happy new year! It has been quite some time without any zeST release, so let’s celebrate this new year with a new release! On the menu: a brand new GEMDOS drive, real-time clock implementation, improvements around network connectivity and joystick/gamepad management and some driver updates. A new GEMDOS drive The GEMDOS drive is a new way of implementing a hard disk drive on zeST. It maps the contents of a directory on the local Linux system to a logical disk drive on the Atari.