Booting directly to Hatari on a Paspberry PI

In this video we create a Raspberry PI based system that boots from cold into the Hatari Emulator and boots that into a hard disk based productivity beast.

Witness the birth of my ATARI-PI !

This video will also be of use to people wanting to create kiosk applications as the techniques apply to any application you want to boot into. It covers

Chooseing a Raspbery PI image for kiosk style apps
Disabling the PI default splash screen
Disabling logging at boot
adding a splash screen to a pasberry pi
how to build Hatari from source
booting into a specific application

The hard disk image used in this recording is available on line. For instructions on where to find the HDD image and how to use it, check this out:

   • Getting and using the hard drive image for...  

Chapters

00:00 - Introduction
00:43 - Choosing the operating system
04:09 - Configuring quiet boot
09:26 - Building Hatari
11:45 - Configuring Hatari
14:31 - Lauching hatari at boot time

This is the content of the service description file

[Unit]
Description=Splash Screen
DefaultDependancies=no
After=local-fs.target

[Service]
ExecStart=/usr/bin/fbi -d /dev/fb0 --noverbose -a /home/davidb/ST/SPLASH/splash.png
StandardInput=tty
StandardOutput=tty

[Install]
WantedBy=sysinit.target

And this is the line from the rc.local script

su - davidb -c /home/davidb/bin/hatari &