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

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Post by EricE »

mhd wrote: post #7
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.

PageWrecker was actually pretty cool - did lots of school newspapers (legit and underground) back in the days...

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

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Post by bdamm »

mambodog wrote: post #16

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/

IT HAS LOGO ON THE FLOPPY DISK!!! You wonderful, wonderful person! Aaaa the busy-bee icon!

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

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Post by j45 »

chipotle_coyote wrote: post #26
j45 wrote: post #22

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.

While Calamus was indeed a great piece of software (IIRC, Linotype-Hell actually sold a very high-end printing system using an Atari ST and Calamus as the control system for a Linotype Imagesetter), it did not predate PageMaker. Aldus PageMaker came out in July 1985; Calamus DTP came out two years later, in July 1987. Calamus -- at least as a brand -- outlived PageMaker, though! Invers Software, the owners of Calamus…

Appreciate the clarification about Pagemaker, reading your post reminded me about Aldus :)

I might have to look up the Mac version

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

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Post by vardump »

myrandomcomment wrote: post #29
zozbot123 wrote: post #14

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.

Systems like the ST and Amiga used custom HW chip sets for things like graphics and sound. It is not just about emulating the CPU.

Yes. More importantly, for game and demo compatibility you need to tie HW chip emulation on cycle level with the CPU. QEMU would get more on the way than help.

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

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Post by bewo001 »

TomVDB wrote: post #28
mambodog wrote: post #16

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?

Monochrome was that insanely high 640x400 resolution.

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

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Post by thomasfl »

I remember going through lengths to make my old Atari ST look like a Mac. I installed the Monaco font and wrote a program, in assembly, to draw rounded corners on the screen like the Mac had. Now I sit on a MacBook Pro and I am trying to run Atari ST on it. Full circle.

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

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Post by snvzz »

I wish the Amiga had a similar development community.

Unlike EmuTOS, AmigaOS is still closed, proprietary code.

Unlike Hatari, we've got winuae (windows-only) and a bunch of feature-cut, special purpose and/or abandoned ports to other platforms.

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

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Post by Fins »

chipotle_coyote wrote: post #26
j45 wrote: post #22

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.

While Calamus was indeed a great piece of software (IIRC, Linotype-Hell actually sold a very high-end printing system using an Atari ST and Calamus as the control system for a Linotype Imagesetter), it did not predate PageMaker. Aldus PageMaker came out in July 1985; Calamus DTP came out two years later, in July 1987. Calamus -- at least as a brand -- outlived PageMaker, though! Invers Software, the owners of Calamus…

There was also for a while a native Windows NT version of Calamus (they even had Alpha et al versions, if I remember correctly) that was quite good; I used it to make money for quite a long time, and although by now I guess there must be something that approaches its functionality (haven't followed DTP world in years), at the time it had features that Quark or Adobe couldn't touch.
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