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KallistiOS
[[image:DreamcastGames.jpg|right|thumb|280px|Three games developed using open source development systems such as KallistiOS.]]

'''KallistiOS''' ('''KOS''') is a free, [[BSD license]]d [[software developer|development]] system for the [[Sega Dreamcast]] game console created by a team of free software developers over the internet.  It has been used to create both [[homebrew (video games)|homebrew]] and commercial games such as ''[[Feet of Fury]]'', ''Inhabitants'' and ''Maqiupai''.  

== KallistiOS and Kalisto ==
Although similar in name, the developers of KallistiOS claim no relationship to the [[warez]] group [[Kalisto]] who pioneered piracy of the Dreamcast by being the first group to discover how to rip Dreamcast [[GD-ROM]]s to recordable [[CD-R]]s without the need for a bootdisk.

== Pronounciation ==
[[Kallisti]], meaning "to the fairest" in [[Greek language|Greek]], was the inspiration for naming the system.  Pronounciations include Kallisti-Os (like a [[Cheerios|breakfast cereal]]); Kallisti O.S. (like an operating system); or the short abbreviation, KOS, may be pronounced as "[[chaos]]".

== External links ==
* [http://gamedev.allusion.net/softprj/kos/ KallistOS project website]
* [http://sourceforge.net/projects/cadcdev/ KallistOS development page] on [[SourceForge]]

[[Category:Dreamcast]]