Digital Research's GEM opens a new window on Linux
11-09-2026 11:16 via theregister.com

Digital Research's GEM opens a new window on Linux

Digital Research's GEM was one of the earliest graphical environments for PC compatibles, and an inspired hack has now resurrected it on Linux. GEM for Linux is a port of the Atari ST's graphical desktop, created by prolific Slovenian developer Tomaž Štih. Applications share a display server that can output directly through Linux's framebuffer or display the desktop in a window using Štih's SDL2-based Rasta framebuffer emulator. In his Linkedin post, he says that it is "derive
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