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Hatari – Online Atari ST/STE/TT/Falcon Emulator

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Re: Hatari – Online Atari ST/STE/TT/Falcon Emulator

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Post by musha68k »

AtlasBarfed wrote: post #2

Hatari has existed as an emulator for like a decade.... I get this may be transpiled to the web, but...

More people have been flocking to "retro computing" for a while now.

My hunch is that it's partially driven by mourning over increasing loss of deterministic "von Neumann computing"; so not pure nostalgia.

It doesn't matter the platform or if "only" in software / web or whatever it's just a great hobby to dabble with in general, especially when kids are getting into it.

The ZX Spectrum Next, Commodore 64 Ultimate and the likes, same as their OG versions are still great "bicycles for the mind" and a great intro to microcontrollers etc.

I'd personally be ready for an FPGA based "Mega Atari 800" or some such!

Re: Hatari – Online Atari ST/STE/TT/Falcon Emulator

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Post by kabdib »

musha68k wrote: post #5
AtlasBarfed wrote: post #2

Hatari has existed as an emulator for like a decade.... I get this may be transpiled to the web, but...

More people have been flocking to "retro computing" for a while now. My hunch is that it's partially driven by mourning over increasing loss of deterministic "von Neumann computing"; so not pure nostalgia. It doesn't matter the platform or if "only" in software / web or whatever it's just a great hobby to dabble with in general, especially when kids are getting into it. The ZX Spectrum Next, Commodore 64 Ultimate and…

After a day of single combat with multimillion-SLOC tangleware, it's fun to work with a system that you can fit in your head

Personally, I don't do much nostalgia. I've built the PDP-11 clones and run v6 Unix again and (o dear lord) compiled world.c with BDS-C on CP/M and realized that the 70s and 80s kinda sucked, and that I really like modern computing

Re: Hatari – Online Atari ST/STE/TT/Falcon Emulator

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Post by musha68k »

kabdib wrote: post #6
musha68k wrote: post #5

Earlier quoted context omitted.

More people have been flocking to "retro computing" for a while now. My hunch is that it's partially driven by mourning over increasing loss of deterministic "von Neumann computing"; so not pure nostalgia. It doesn't matter the platform or if "only" in software / web or whatever it's just a great hobby to dabble with in general, especially when kids are getting into it. The ZX Spectrum Next, Commodore 64 Ultimate and…

After a day of single combat with multimillion-SLOC tangleware, it's fun to work with a system that you can fit in your head Personally, I don't do much nostalgia. I've built the PDP-11 clones and run v6 Unix again and (o dear lord) compiled world.c with BDS-C on CP/M and realized that the 70s and 80s kinda sucked, and that I really like modern computing

"RTFM" if available and factual to me is very satisfying.

So without much nostalgia / betting on actual hardware the (partially ST community derived) MiSTer project is just great for this kind of stuff - I guess you know it - if you will a micro PDP-11 surrogate.

I haven't tried this core myself yet but I will eventually:

https://github.com/MiSTer-Enhanced/PDP2011_MiSTer

Re: Hatari – Online Atari ST/STE/TT/Falcon Emulator

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Post by ragnar76 »

krige wrote: post #7
AtlasBarfed wrote: post #2

Hatari has existed as an emulator for like a decade.... I get this may be transpiled to the web, but...

Having used it a few months back, it certainly feels like it was made decades ago. UX is horrid all around.

Feel free to participate. We have a handfull of good coders but no UI/UX designer.

Re: Hatari – Online Atari ST/STE/TT/Falcon Emulator

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Post by lproven »

As I understand it, Hatari is mainly aimed at running classic ST games. I think its emulation core was the basis of the Amiga PiStorm and similar projects.

There's another all-software ST emulator out there called Aranym:

https://aranym.github.io/

It has its own all-FOSS ST-compatible OS distro, AFROS:

https://aranym.github.io/afros.html

Aranym is aimed at running ST GEM as well as possible on modern machines, for productivity apps and so on -- so it sacrifices absolute hardware compatibility in favour of performance and features like high screen resolutions.

I would love to see a bare-metal Raspberry Pi version of Aranym, to turn a spare Pi into the fastest maxed-out Atari TT030 ever. :-)

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