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Hatari: An Atari ST/STE/TT/Falcon Emulator

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Re: Hatari: An Atari ST/STE/TT/Falcon Emulator

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Post by bdamm »

That's so cool. There's a few old programs I'd love to see but since it's been over 30 years I can't recall their names.

- A music composer that took advantage of the MIDI ports. Connecting the software to synths etc would allow the Atari ST to not only control the synth, but also to record the music in note form as it was played.

- A BASIC interpreting environment. Noteworthy for no reason other than this was the place where I wrote my first program ever.

- A desktop publishing application with similar functions to the early Pagemaker.

Re: Hatari: An Atari ST/STE/TT/Falcon Emulator

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Post by evo_9 »

bdamm wrote: post #4

That's so cool. There's a few old programs I'd love to see but since it's been over 30 years I can't recall their names. - A music composer that took advantage of the MIDI ports. Connecting the software to synths etc would allow the Atari ST to not only control the synth, but also to record the music in note form as it was played. - A BASIC interpreting environment. Noteworthy for no reason other than this was the pl…

I believe the BASIC interpreter was TrueBasic: https://www.truebasic.com/atari

And probably PageSteam for the the desktop publishing app.

Not sure on that MIDI composer.

Re: Hatari: An Atari ST/STE/TT/Falcon Emulator

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Post by lazyjones »

evo_9 wrote: post #5
bdamm wrote: post #4

That's so cool. There's a few old programs I'd love to see but since it's been over 30 years I can't recall their names. - A music composer that took advantage of the MIDI ports. Connecting the software to synths etc would allow the Atari ST to not only control the synth, but also to record the music in note form as it was played. - A BASIC interpreting environment. Noteworthy for no reason other than this was the pl…

I believe the BASIC interpreter was TrueBasic: https://www.truebasic.com/atari And probably PageSteam for the the desktop publishing app. Not sure on that MIDI composer.

The most famous BASIC environment was the incredible GFA Basic.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GFA_BASIC

Re: Hatari: An Atari ST/STE/TT/Falcon Emulator

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Post by mhd »

bdamm wrote: post #4

That's so cool. There's a few old programs I'd love to see but since it's been over 30 years I can't recall their names. - A music composer that took advantage of the MIDI ports. Connecting the software to synths etc would allow the Atari ST to not only control the synth, but also to record the music in note form as it was played. - A BASIC interpreting environment. Noteworthy for no reason other than this was the pl…

Masterscore? Wasn't too much into MIDI back then.

GFA Basic was a popular Atari ST replacement

Calamus? Although it never struck me as horrible as PageMutilator.

Re: Hatari: An Atari ST/STE/TT/Falcon Emulator

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Post by t0mek »

bdamm wrote: post #4

That's so cool. There's a few old programs I'd love to see but since it's been over 30 years I can't recall their names. - A music composer that took advantage of the MIDI ports. Connecting the software to synths etc would allow the Atari ST to not only control the synth, but also to record the music in note form as it was played. - A BASIC interpreting environment. Noteworthy for no reason other than this was the pl…

> A music composer that took advantage of the MIDI ports.

Cubase or C-Lab Notator.

> A BASIC interpreting environment.

GFA BASIC.

> A desktop publishing application

This may be Calamus. Interesting fact: "an Atari Desktop Publishing system consisting of an Atari Mega ST computer, mono hi-res monitor, SLM804 printer and desktop publishing software cost less then an IBM or Apple laser printer alone." [1]

http://www.atarimuseum.com/computers/16bits/printers/laser/s...

Re: Hatari: An Atari ST/STE/TT/Falcon Emulator

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Post by tom_ »

bdamm wrote: post #4

That's so cool. There's a few old programs I'd love to see but since it's been over 30 years I can't recall their names. - A music composer that took advantage of the MIDI ports. Connecting the software to synths etc would allow the Atari ST to not only control the synth, but also to record the music in note form as it was played. - A BASIC interpreting environment. Noteworthy for no reason other than this was the pl…

Plenty of ST BASICs mentioned here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_BASIC_dialects

Atari ST MIDI stuff, with screenshots: http://www.atari-music.fddvoron.name/timidi.htm - Cubase was the famous one, but since the ST had MIDI ports built in there was no shortage of others.

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