[File] [PATCH] Add detection for Atari ST operating system ROMs

[Teemu Hukkanen]

Christos Zoulas <christos at zoulas.com> writes:

> On 2026-04-30 5:17 am, Teemu Hukkanen wrote:
>> Add detection for Atari ST operating system (TOS) ROMs.
>> 
>> The Atari ST line of computers had the operating system on ROM chips,
>> this detects file copies of those ROMs.
>> 
>> Detection also for a GPLv2+ implementation called EmuTOS, and the
>> extended header information it provides.
>>  <https://emutos.sourceforge.io/>
>> 
>> Relative offset-based detection so that EmuTOS builds for the
>> Commodore Amiga are also detected.
>
> Committed, but perhaps it could be made stronger (because it is only
> 2 bytes starting with the first being `), by only handling known
> versions.

That would indeed be better.

I've split out the version detection to a separate named block, and only
go to the rest of the details when a known version is detected, patch
attached.

> I named it atari instead of atari-st in case we want to move more
> atari stuff there in the future.

There are some Atari ST specific detections scattered around, and there
were some mails about Atari 8-bit detections earlier. I'll reach out to
the person who mentioned working on them, and see if they could use some
help.

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