Tsugaru OS – A New Free FM-Towns OS

For those missing context: "Towns OS" was an operating system made by Fujitsu in 1989 (with the last release in 1995) for their "FM Towns" line of PCs. This is a Free clone of Towns OS, so that one can run Towns OS applications without infringing on Fujitsu's copyright, akin to ReactOS or DOSBox.

Not entirely related, but here is someone&#x27;s exploration of the TOWNSOS&#x27;s graphical shell.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;gekk.info&#x2F;articles&#x2F;towns-tour.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;gekk.info&#x2F;articles&#x2F;towns-tour.html</a><p>This article at Computing History also gives some context:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.computinghistory.org.uk&#x2F;det&#x2F;60616&#x2F;FM-Towns-2DF&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.computinghistory.org.uk&#x2F;det&#x2F;60616&#x2F;FM-Towns-2DF&#x2F;</a><p>It seems that developers had a choice of either licensing the TOWNSOS to include on their bootable CDs or requiring that users boot from a floppy (presumably included with the machine).<p>This GitHub repo is for use in the latter context with modern freeware games whose developers wish to avoid a dependency on copyright Fujitsu code.

<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.m.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;FM_Towns" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.m.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;FM_Towns</a><p>I’d never heard of this. Neat!

So this is to an old Fujitsu system what Haiku is to BeOS?

There was also a console, the FM towns Marty

Will we see a return of the High C compiler extensions? <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;duriansoftware.com&#x2F;joe&#x2F;the-lost-language-extensions-of-metaware&#x27;s-high-c-compiler" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;duriansoftware.com&#x2F;joe&#x2F;the-lost-language-extensions-...</a>

this is really interesting.<p>FM-Towns was an always 32-bit approach, really really early and features a port of Strike Commander (1993) that is pretty great.<p>does anyone have any manuals from the Phar Lap Run&#x2F;386 dos extender from back in the day? sadly not preserved online as far as i have found.