SpartaDOS X

SpartaDOS X
Command prompt (4.42-beta)
DeveloperICD, Inc. (4.0-4.21)
Fine Tooned Engineering (4.22)
DLT (since 4.31)
Written in6502 assembler
OS familySpartaDOS X
Working stateCurrent
Source modelClosed source
Initial release1988; 36 years ago (1988)
Latest release4.49 / April 7, 2020; 4 years ago (2020-04-07)
Latest preview4.49g / January 9, 2022; 2 years ago (2022-01-09)[1]
Available inEnglish
PlatformsAtari 8-bit
Influenced byMS-DOS
Default
user interface
Command-line interface
LicenseProprietary
Official websitespartados.com

SpartaDOS X (or SpartaDOS 4.0) is a disk operating system for the Atari 8-bit computers that closely resembles MS-DOS. It was developed and sold by ICD in 1987-1993, and many years later picked up by the third-party community SpartaDOS X Upgrade Project, which still maintains the software.

  1. ^ SpartaDOS X Upgrade Project page: Current beta version