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Nice! I never had an Atari ST (stayed with Commodore to the bitter end, plus Tandy happened soon after) but I am glad someone out there is dedicated to keeping these 16/32-bit computers alive.
Apps I remember:
Revenge of the Mutant Camels remains one of the best games ever.
Calamus was also a great piece of software that predated Pagemaker for many years.
Heroes quest, police quest series of games.
There was an animation/tweenijg app for animation that blew me away.
These machines were great substitutes for amigas of the day.
I'd load the whole of U6 from 4 floppy disks, then fire it up and play, and when done, I'd save my position and copy it all back to the 4 floppy disks!
What helped were 2 things:
*Utility to format disks to high capacity
*Fast shareware disk copy utilityNice, had an Atari 800XL, then a 512STfm, and then I was one of the 3 people who purchased a Falcon 030. Learned Atari basic from a 2 page leaflet that came with my 800XL when I was 8, then progressed through True Basic and GFA Basic.
Wouldn't it make more sense to add support for this machine family to QEMU? 68k cpu emulation is already included in QEMU, all it needs is general support for the platform itself.
This is awesome! I wish I had kept my old ST disks haha. Apps I remember: Revenge of the Mutant Camels remains one of the best games ever. Calamus was also a great piece of software that predated Pagemaker for many years. Heroes quest, police quest series of games. There was an animation/tweenijg app for animation that blew me away. These machines were great substitutes for amigas of the day.
Calamus -- at least as a brand -- outlived PageMaker, though! Invers Software, the owners of Calamus, shut their doors only last year, but the web site is still up; a macOS descendant of Calamus called "iCalamus" appears to still be in active development, under relatively new owners (who are longtime Macintosh developers).
Wouldn't it make more sense to add support for this machine family to QEMU? 68k cpu emulation is already included in QEMU, all it needs is general support for the platform itself.
If you're interested in playing with an Atari ST but don't want to install anything, there's an in-browser emulator on my website here: https://jamesfriend.com.au/pce-js/atari-st/
Wouldn't it make more sense to add support for this machine family to QEMU? 68k cpu emulation is already included in QEMU, all it needs is general support for the platform itself.
If you're interested in playing with an Atari ST but don't want to install anything, there's an in-browser emulator on my website here: https://jamesfriend.com.au/pce-js/atari-st/
Was the high resolution screen that I remember really that low?