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:
- Up to 15 disk drive emulation.
- Up to 6x SIO speed (125,000bps)
- 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, Slovak, German, Turkish and Russian)
- AspeQt client module (AspeCl) for Atari, communicates with the server and performs a variety of remote operations.
Changelog:
- Updated Turkish translations.
- Updated the AspeQt documentation.
- Added Folder Image boot support for MyDos, MyPicoDos and SpartaDos. AspeQt now offers an option to switch between those 4 different DOSes automatically. The user no longer needs to supply the required DOS files or the file containing the boot sectors ($boot.bin) as AspeQt includes them and switches from one DOS to another through the UI. The context menu (right clicking on a mounted folder image on D1:) will present a window with DOS selections. By choosing a DOS and clicking Apply on that window will switch DOSes and the next reboot of the Atari will boot selected DOS from the Folder Image. For details of the switching mechanism, the limitations of, and more, please see AspeQt documentation.
- Changed the color and boldness of the Folder Image names to visually differentiate them from other file images.
Download:
source: aspeqt.sourceforge.net
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:
- Normal full screen is finish.
- Add a second full screen mode, an oldstyle edit mode.
- Full screen view.
- Quick save.
- Quick Load.
- Recent file list (remember the last 10 files loaded / saved)
- Change the plane view window.
- On Screen Display.
- Save default startup palette for low/mid res.
- Load/Save most Degas over/under scan picture.
- Load/Save Neo over/under scan picture. (Neochrome file header had reserved space for width and height, i don’t know if they was ever used, but they are now)
- Some error fixing.
Note:
- In this beta only the first 3 screen is open, and the clipboard can only hold 15 clip.
Download: ST-Paint Beta (27/01/2013) (994)
source: fedepede04.dk
Javatari is a multiplayer Atari 2600 emulator written in pure Java with no external libs.
Features:
- Unique Client-Server multiplayer mode. Runs great in low-latency networks such as LANs.
- Cheat and turn off Collisions. Finally discover the ending of River Raid!
- Complete Save State/Load State functions.
- Scanlines and TV screen emulation modes.
- Real Atari console user interface.
Changelog;
- Many accuracy improvements.
- Better performance.
- Added support for all major ROM formats/bankswitching schemes:
- Format selectable in the Settings Dialog.
- Cycle through compatible options in realtime with ALT + B
- DPC support, with enhanced audio option.
- Adjustable DPC audio clock (ALT + HOME, ALT + END)
- Several homebrew ROMs now work correctly.
Download: Javatari JAR v3.00 (Needs Java 6) (963)
source: javatari.org
Some new games (Cracked / Trained or Unrealeased) for Commodore 64 have been released from your favorites groups: Hokuto Force, Antarctica, Nostalgia, Genesis Project and Max Hall.
Download:
source: csdb.dk
NAV, is a new file browser for the C64. NAV can use a mouse in Port 1, joystick in Port 2, or the keyboard. NAV can work with up to five drives and has been tested with the following drive types:
1541, 1571, 1581, uIEC, IDE64
Browsing through directories and disks is just point and click! Drives like the uIEC that can store gigabytes of software can be tedious and frustrating to navigate. NAV lets you easily work with D64/D71/D81/DNP/M2I disk images as well as “real” Commodore disks and the IDE64. Up to five drives at a time!
Just click a drive to browse it!Pressing the “@” key brings up a command line that acts just like the good ol’ DOS Wedge. In addition, there are a few additional commands that can be entered on the command line. Just type “@HELP” to get the complete list.
Download: NAV v9.2 (D64) (1582)
source: commodoreserver.com
NAV, is a new file browser for the C64. NAV can use a mouse in Port 1, joystick in Port 2, or the keyboard. NAV can work with up to five drives and has been tested with the following drive types:
1541, 1571, 1581, uIEC, IDE64
Browsing through directories and disks is just point and click! Drives like the uIEC that can store gigabytes of software can be tedious and frustrating to navigate. NAV lets you easily work with D64/D71/D81/DNP/M2I disk images as well as “real” Commodore disks and the IDE64. Up to five drives at a time!
Just click a drive to browse it!Pressing the “@” key brings up a command line that acts just like the good ol’ DOS Wedge. In addition, there are a few additional commands that can be entered on the command line. Just type “@HELP” to get the complete list.
Download: NAV v9.1 (D64) (909)
source: commodoreserver.com
Powerup and Testing my Sinclair Spectrum 128k (RGB with Bright MOD) after a long time.
Video:
It was released a new OS Update for the Everdrive N64 Flash Cartridge (Nintendo 64) by Krikzz. The upgrade instructions can be found here.
Changelog:
- Allows to load/save controller pak to file. Please use any .mpk file and c-down button. It works only if controller pak plugged into joy port1. /ED64/dummy.mpk file can be used for exchange.
- Ability to force default save type.
- Ability to force M-PAL TV mode. Not sure if it work properly, cuz i don’t have PAL-M system for tests.
- Os can run Banjo-Tooie U without manual patching.
Download: Everdrive N64 - OS Update v1.29 (1670)
source: krikzz.com
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:
- Up to 15 disk drive emulation.
- Up to 6x SIO speed (125,000bps)
- 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, Slovak, German, Turkish and Russian)
- AspeQt client module (AspeCl) for Atari, communicates with the server and performs a variety of remote operations.
Changelog:
- Updated the English language manual.
- Minor re-grouping of drive slot buttons.
- Added directory print capability to image explorer window (Ray Ataergin)
- Added boot capability from a Folder Image. Simply copy the DOS.SYS and DUP.SYS files from a DOS diskette to a PC Folder, mount the PC folder to drive slot#:1 as a Folder Image and boot your Atari. Currently only Atari DOS has a built-in support. MyDos will be supported on the next release. (Ray Ataergin)
- Dropped ApeTime support from AspeQt. AspeCL is now the only supported Time/Date client
- Remote Control software for AspeQt (see AspeQt documentation for more info) (Ray Ataergin)
- Implemented auto-commit remote toggle capability to AspeCL, it was previously documented as “in development feature” (Ray Ataergin)
- Implemented remote image file creating/mounting capability to AspeCL, it was previously documented as “in development feature” (Ray Ataergin)
- Implemented remote image file mounting capability to AspeCL, it was previously documented as “in development feature” (Ray Ataergin)
- Tested and fixed AspeCL client SpartaDos X date/time handling (this was not previously tested as I did not have SDX back then) (Ray Ataergin)
- Updated AspeCL client code to accomodate SDX drives 9-15 (Ray Ataergin)
- Updated AspeCL server code in AspeQt to accomodate SDX drives 9-15 (Ray Ataergin)
Download:
source: aspeqt.sourceforge.net
The Atari++ Emulator is a Unix based emulator of the Atari eight bit computers, namely the Atari 400 and 800, the Atari 400XL, 800XL and 130XE, and the Atari 5200 game console.
The emulator is auto-configurable and will compile on a variety of systems (Linux, Solaris, Irix).
Download:
source: xl-project.com
I received this computer to be repaired for a friend some days ago. The computer displays only a black screen and some times a random character without any sound beep at the startup boot.
I have replaced the PLA IC 324745-01 (UE5) and 324744-01 (UE6) with two EPROM 27C512 70ns (suitably programmed), the Universal PLA adapter was kindly donated by Manosoft.
The computer also had another defect, apparently the fault was not only in the two PLA. The computer starts with the classic beep but the screen remain black, the faulty is the IC 6545 (CRTC) and that was replaced.
This model uses a ROM daughterboard instead of a single 23128 ROM (EPROM 27C128 pinout compatible). I have made an adapter to preserve the original state of 8296 and allow the insertion of the daughterboard after the replacement of the two PLA that are different (in size) to the original one.
SID Duzz it, it’s a SID Music Editor by Geir Tjelta of SHAPE.
Download: SID Duzz\' It v2.1 (924)
source: csdb.dk
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.
Changelog:
Added:
- Color swapping fast-button – Tilde “`” button (BitBreaker’s idea)
- Show pen-diameter preview circle if diameter is bigger than the default
- *dense (pixel-scale) grid toggleable (in bigger magnifications too).
- *added ‘Deny painting’,'Reuse existing colour’ and ‘Set block colour’ mode to ClashTest – different settings on/off in case clash would happen…
- *showing zoomed area in the preview, allow going to area in zoomed mode when left-clicking on preview
- Showing ongoing progresses by text/graphics (loading/converting/drawing…)
- Selectable CRT emulation for Preview/Grid only… (for faster operation on slow machines)
- Undo step number displayed (should undo history also be saved?)
Fixed:
- Control/shift/alt stucked in Win7 with allegro devpak 4.2… -> using allegro devpak 4.4.2 version instead!
- Reduced overall CPU usage – refined timed and pixelling/detection events
- iI Windows it was slow (especially in CRT emulation) -> wrote optimized software CRT-emul.pixelling for GridDrawer, not relying on hw-acceleration
- *pressing F1..F4 fucked up (enlightens) toolbar sometimes – solution: timing stabilizer / thread safety check solved it
- Preview-zoom title-text was overwritten by Grid-Zoom-text in the smallest resolution mode with 2-digit magnifications
- *there was ‘allegro error #11′ and ‘segmentation fault’ at lower than required resolution – it was logical mistake in resolution-decider loop
- Made dithered and big-pendiameter filled rectangle/circle drawing faster (set the steps according to pen-diameter)
- *allegro filename-extension detection was wrong – if ‘.’ used in filename and no extension given, only the name before was saved to disk! -> used ustrcmp & strcat instead
- *C64-executable format name-tag (caption) now editable (deleting it disables it)
Download:
source: hermit.netne.net
Some new games (Cracked / Trained or Unrealeased) for Commodore 64 have been released from your favorites groups: Avatar, Onslaught, Bad Taste, uppercase Software and Excess.
Download:
source: csdb.dk
NAV, is a new file browser for the C64. NAV can use a mouse in Port 1, joystick in Port 2, or the keyboard. NAV can work with up to five drives and has been tested with the following drive types:
1541, 1571, 1581, uIEC, IDE64
Browsing through directories and disks is just point and click! Drives like the uIEC that can store gigabytes of software can be tedious and frustrating to navigate. NAV lets you easily work with D64/D71/D81/DNP/M2I disk images as well as “real” Commodore disks and the IDE64. Up to five drives at a time!
Just click a drive to browse it!Pressing the “@” key brings up a command line that acts just like the good ol’ DOS Wedge. In addition, there are a few additional commands that can be entered on the command line. Just type “@HELP” to get the complete list.
Download: NAV (D64) (1006)
source: commodoreserver.com
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.
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