Altirra is an Atari 8 bit Emulator on the Windows/DOS platform. Altirra emulates several models of the 8-bit Atari computers. This includes the the 800, 800XL, and 130XE versions.
It has a lot of options, and compatibility is decent especially given the emulator’s early stages. It also supports some copy protected games properly in emulation.
Download: Altirra v2.20 (898)
source: virtualdub.org
HermIRES it’s a cross-platform hires bitmap (Art Studio 1 format) editor for the Commodore 64.
The format has some restrictions, here are the rules:
- The maximal resolution of the picture is 320×200
- Only 16 fix C64 colours can be used (no gradient either)
- In a 8×8 pixel-block only 2 colours can used to be displayable by C64 (this is detected in HermIRES, but .hbm files can be saved with clashes too.)
- On a real C64 the PAL will blur the screen-content a bit, should check on CRT, or at least VICE emulator’s CRT simulation.
Download:
source: hermit.netne.net
Hoxs64 written by David Horrocks is a Commodore 64 emulator for Microsoft Windows 2K/XP/Vista/Seven (DirectX 9+)
The emulator substantially reproduces this legacy machine in minute detail.
Changelog:
- Bug fix to VIC. Removed faulty VIC ClockNextWakeUpClock runtime (not debugger) mode optimiser code that had caused the Technological Snow demo by Agony Design to fail since v1.0.6.3.
- EasyFlash v2 title screen glitch now fixed by correcting the “hard reset” code to set the sprite Y expansion flip-flops.
Download:
source: hoxs64.net
SID Known is a command line tool (M$ Windows) which you can use to identify SID tunes from SID and PRG files.
This tool can be used if e.g. you want to know which SID tune is used in a specific C64 demo or C64 game, or you have a SID tune found or ripped and you want to know if it is already in your SID collection.
Download: SID Known v1.05 (1235)
source: csdb.dk
Hoxs64 written by David Horrocks is a Commodore 64 emulator for Microsoft Windows 2K/XP/Vista/Seven (DirectX 9+)
The emulator substantially reproduces this legacy machine in minute detail.
Changelog:
- Added the EasyFlash 1MB cartridge. A simplified emulation of the AMD Am29F040 EPROM permits writing and passes EasyProg v1.6.3 tests.
- Fixed freeze and soft reset to spread randomly through the frame to improve the chance of a successful freeze.
- New cartridge emulation with freeze function. Peter Schepers CRT format is supported. The following cartridge emulations are supported: Action Replay v[6 - 2], Final Cartridge III (v3 only), Retro Replay 64K RAM, Magic Desk, Ocean 1, Fun Play, Super Games, System 3, Dinamic, Zaxxon, Simons Basic, Normal Cartridge. The CRT reader uses the in file reported chip bank numbers and not the order they appear in the file.
- Fixed misreported raster position in the debugger when starting a new frame.
Download:
source: hoxs64.net
CBM prg Studio Version 2.5.3 is released. There are a lot of new features in this version. I’d really appreciate it if you report any bugs you find or have any suggestions/comments.
CBM prg Studio allows you to type a BASIC or Machine Code program in using a nice Windows environment and convert it to a ‘.prg’ file which you can run on an emulator, or even a real C64 / VIC20 or PET if you’re feeling brave and have the right kit.
CBM prg Studio is the result of merging C64PrgGen and VIC20PrgGen. Adding new features and fixing bugs in two apps which were 95% similar was a bit of a nightmare so merging them made sense.
It was also a good opportunity for a face lift and to add some new features, such as:
- Programs are project based, meaning all related source files, sprite files etc. are kept in one place and multiple source files can be linked more easily.
- Tabbed MDI.
- Syntax highlighting.
What CBM prg Studio isn’t is a front-end for tok64, cbmcnvrt, bastext or any other tokeniser / detokeniser / assembler. It’s all been written completely from scratch.
New features:
- New source conversion tool to convert Develop64 files to asm format.
- New tutorial explaining how to use projects to manage assembly source files.
Bugs fixed:
- Relative addressing with offset, e.g. BMI *+4.
- Some invalid relative offsets not detected.
- Excluding source files from a project.
- Removing source files from a project.
- Assigning a variable to another variable.
- Warnings if invalid BASIC jump (goto, gosub etc.) destinations are detected.
- Unknown labels not detected.
- Screen designer not retaining ‘reverse off’ after new line.
- Forward-referenced cheap labels not working.
- Duplicate cheap labels not detected.
- Some UI issues.
Download: CBM prg Studio v2.5.3 (834)
source: ajordison.co.uk
AspeQt is a cross-platform, free and open source Atari 8-bit serial peripheral emulator. The name is an acronym for Atari serial peripheral emulator for Qt, Qt being the cross-platform application development framework used by AspeQt.
AspeQt emulates various Atari 8-bit peripherals like disk drives and printers via an SIO-2-PC cable. If you are familiar with software like Sio2Pc, APE, Atari810, AtariSIO etc., you probably won’t have any problems getting used to AspeQt.
Even though AspeQt is not fully mature yet, it is easy to use and, despite its shortcomings, has many features that you may find useful, the highlights being:
- 8 disk drive emulation.
- Up to 6x SIO speed.
- Support for ATR, XFD, PRO and ATX (preliminary) disk images.
- Mount folders as emulated disks.
- Disk image explorer.
- Directly boot Atari executables.
- Text only printer emulation with PC print, save, and ATASCII font support.
- Cassette image playback.
- Multilingual GUI (English, Polish, Turkish and Russian)
- AspeQt client module (AspeCl) for Atari, downloads information from the host to the Atari. Time/Date is an example with more functionality to come in the future.
Changelog:
- MainWindow of AspeQt is now fixed and can not be re-sized manually. Minimum screen resolution required is 800×600 for a proper fit on the display. Use of 1024×768 is recommended.
- Tooltips are added to display extended mounted image information.
- Added option to display/suppress message log window, setting is saved in registry/session file.
- Increased the supported drive numbers from 8 to 15 for SDX compatibility.
- Added option to display/suppress additional drives, setting is saved in registry/session file.
- Fixed SDX incompatibility of Folder Images.
- Added browsing capability for Folder Images. This release only allows read-only support with drag and drop file copying from the Folder Image. Multiple Folder Images can be mounted.
Download:
source: aspeqt.sourceforge.net
2013 C64-RetroInvaders calendar by Nautilus.
Download:
source: noname.c64.org
ST-Paint is a Drawing program that lets you make Atari St picture on Windows based PC.
ST-Paint is still in a beta phase and it’s made by Peter Jørgensen same author of the program Ym2149 Tracker.
Note from the author:
- Windows mode (not complete)
- Clipboard : Remember the last 15 clip.
- Color Replacer : Use to replace a color somewhere in the graphic.
- Poly Line: Load/save Neochrome picture / Load Degas Under/Overscan Picture*
- Some other functions have been change, like the undo buffer in the polygon function, (now while drawing a polyg, and undo you will remove the last point, when finish the polyg and undo, you will remove the hole polygon.
Download:
source: fedepede04.dk
The PRG2Sid by iAN CooG/HVSC rip and automatically attaches a PSID header to the ripped tune and identifies some players and sets init/play accordingly, also patches the header/code if needed.
Download: PRG2Sid v0.65 by iAN CooG/HVSC (837)
source: noname.c64.org iancoog.altervista.org
ASAP is a player of 8-bit Atari music for modern computers and mobile devices. It emulates the POKEY sound chip and the 6502 processor.
The project was initially based on the routines from the Atari800 emulator, but the current version has a completely new original emulation core.
Changelog ASAP 3.1.3 (2012-12-04):
- foobar2000 plugin plays files inside ATR disk images.
- VLC and AIMP 3 plugins support RMT and FC in addition to SAP.
- Audacious plugin can edit AUTHOR, NAME and year, upgraded to Audacious 3.3.
- GStreamer plugin handles TIME, AUTHOR, NAME, DATE and seek, compiled for Windows.
- Fixed JAD file for the Java midlet.
- Created RPMs for VLC and GStreamer.
- Experimental Windows 8 port.
Download: ASAP v3.1.3 (988)
source: asap.sourceforge.net
Hoxs64 written by David Horrocks is a Commodore 64 emulator for Microsoft Windows 2K/XP/Vista/Seven (DirectX 9+)
The emulator substantially reproduces this legacy machine in minute detail.
Changelog:
- Added point and click raster position breakpoints. Breakpoints can be disabled with out being deleted.
- Added command window with assemble, disassemble and C64 memory map selection.
- Added disassemble window address finder.
- Added disassemble window mouse wheel scrolling (WinXP+).
- Randomisation of drive weak bits. Minor drive timing improvement.
- The application is marked as “DPI Aware”. All Windows GUI elements are DPI aware and will render smooth clear text when used with Windows 7′s “make text bigger” option. Only the windowed mode C64 bitmapped rendering remains non DPI aware as with previous versions.
- Added a work in progress breakpoint listview with context menu options “Show Address” and “Delete All Breakpoints”
- Illegal opcode tweak for demo ‘Errata’ by Emulamer.
- CRASHFIX: Fixed stack corruption crash when reading G64 files with custom speed zones.
- CRASHFIX: Fixed application lock up bug while drag scrolling the disassembly window.
Download:
source: hoxs64.net
The HxC Floppy Drive Emulator is a software and hardware system created by jfdn aka Jeff.
The aim of this project is to replace the floppy disk drive by an electronic device emulating the floppy disk drive (list of supported Computer/Hardware).
There are two differents emulators:
- A USB version which allows to connect the floppy disk drive interface of the computer to a PC via a USB cable.
- A SDCARD version which allows to emulate floppy disks which images are stored in a SDCARD.
Firmware SD HxCFloppyEmulator v1.7.2.0:
- Microchip PIC18F4620 Rev. B5 Silicon MSSP Module Errata applied (correct possible SDCard Init issues).
- SDCard layer reviewed / corrected / enhanced : Better SDCard compatibility / Error handling.
Release notes for the HxCFloppyEmulator software v2.0.6.0:
- PRE-RELEASE – IN DEVELOPMENT: HxCFloppyEmulator software v2.0.6.0 (Windows & Mac OS X support !)
Download:
source: hxc2001.free.fr
Peter Jørgensen has released a new Beta version of his YM-2149 Tracker for M$ Windows. The sound chip YM-2149 is used in Atari ST/E/Falcon series.
New Function in Beta 14.00:
- Mixer control.
- Stereo.
- Simple reverb.
- Startup directory.
Beta 14.00 – note from the author:
The Ym2149 version 14.0 Beta is probably the most important update that I have released. I have change how the program handle the sound thread and that have improve the stability of the program very much.
Sometime when changing device / export to wav /sampling frequency, etc. the program would hang, but that should be gone now.
I have rewritten the Ym2149 emulations, so it should be closer to that of a real Ym2149 chip. I have also made a mixer window, where you can change stereo/ mono mode, reverb, and output volume of the channels. plus a lot more. I have also remove a numbers of smaller errors.
Download: Ym2149 V14.00 Beta full packed (with Ym files) (1465)
source: bitmania.de
The C64-Archiv is an easy to use file manager for C64-files.
C64-Archiv descriptions:
- Scans and stores your C64 – (games) – collection with only a few clicks.
- Easily manages your C64-programs by creating your own categories and selections.
- Starts the C64-programs in different emulators.
- Delivers instructions for the emulators VICE, CCS64, HOXS64 and EMU64.
- Works with tools e.g. 64Copy, D64Lister or DirMaster.
- Stores the C64-programs from files with the extensions: .D64, .D71, .P00, .PRG e. .T64.
- Stores files by name with the extensions: .TAP, .VSF (VICE-snapshot-file) and .C64 (CCS64-session-file).
- Stores text and information files with the extensions: .TXT, .NFO and .DIZ
- Stores PDF files.
- Searches archiv files with the extensions: .ZIP, .7Z and .CAB
- GameBase frontend with the possibility to download games.
- GameBase view with up to 30 columns.
- Supports multi-language (currently: Englisch, French, Italian, Spanish and German)
Version v3.4 – What’s new?
- NEW: Profiles for Mirco64.
- NEW: New view “Main files”
- NEW: Store directories into a text file.
- NEW: MD5 hash.
- NEW: Preview (Directory, pictures, text files)
- NEW: Spanish translation (Thanks to Juan from Lemon64 forum)
- NEW: Improved views “Last started” and “Top 100″
- NEW: Number of downloads of gamebase files are no longer limited.
- FIXED: Criteria for file endings worked incorrect.
- FIXED: Crash during import
Download: C64-Archiv v3.4 (1323)
source: Mikes Pages
Altirra is an Atari 8 bit Emulator on the Windows/DOS platform. Altirra emulates several models of the 8-bit Atari computers. This includes the the 800, 800XL, and 130XE versions.
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