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EstyJS 2.0 (emulator for the Atari ST, written in 100% pure JavaScript)

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Re: EstyJS 2.0 (emulator for the Atari ST, written in 100% pure JavaScript)

#14

Be cool if it supported midi in browser for cubase jungle makin'!

The MIDI support in _all_ the emulators I've seen has been fairly... not-great... overall. I should look again but I remember reading through the source for Aranym around this and being pretty disappointed. Must... resist... temptation... to write my own

I've used STEEM to run Dr T's fairly extensively, with Midi I/O routed to either VSTHost or Reaper running as a midi rack, using loopMIDI and never really had a problem other than the occasion where I forget which way is in and out and end up with loopMIDI disabling ports due to feedback loops.

Re: EstyJS 2.0 (emulator for the Atari ST, written in 100% pure JavaScript)

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My only complaint would be that it doesn't lock the mouse, so it is a bit confusing having two mices, other than that, great achievement.

You actually can do that by pressing the 'lock' button below the 'monitor'.

Ah that wasn't clear to me, thanks.

Re: EstyJS 2.0 (emulator for the Atari ST, written in 100% pure JavaScript)

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post #14

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The MIDI support in _all_ the emulators I've seen has been fairly... not-great... overall. I should look again but I remember reading through the source for Aranym around this and being pretty disappointed. Must... resist... temptation... to write my own

I've used STEEM to run Dr T's fairly extensively, with Midi I/O routed to either VSTHost or Reaper running as a midi rack, using loopMIDI and never really had a problem other than the occasion where I forget which way is in and out and end up with loopMIDI disabling ports due to feedback loops.

to be fair last time i looked at steem for midi was... 20+ years ago

Re: EstyJS 2.0 (emulator for the Atari ST, written in 100% pure JavaScript)

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What's with the influx of Atari ST postings lately? I'm surely enjoying it! Can EstyJS run in monochrome (640 x 400) mode? There were some great games in b&w, like Bolo and Oxyd [0] by Meinolf Amekudzi. I remember studying the 'Hitchhikers Guide to the BIOS' [1], which was the only piece of documentation I initially had for the ST when it had just come out. If I'm not mistaken, it did ship with a C compiler and assem…

Hey I'm all for the postings too. It's a great system that really got me into learning assembly for the first time as well.

Re: EstyJS 2.0 (emulator for the Atari ST, written in 100% pure JavaScript)

#20
Oh the ST... :-)

Back in school in 1994 I was into DOS. But my friend insisted the ST was superior in every way. We wrote assembly games to impress eachother.

One day he told me he was working for a company making games.

I didn't really believe him back then.

Turns out the company in question was UDS (Unique Development Systems) and he was in fact making games for the ST.

We were 14 years old.

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