Sorry, this entry is only available in Italian.

Stella release v3.8.1 for Linux, MacOS X and Windows is now available.

Changelog:

• Added support for TIA RSYNC writes, thanks to Omegamatrix of AtariAge. This allows the recently released “Extra Terrestrials” ROM to run, as well as improving emulation of “Fatal Run” and several other test ROMs.
• Fixed typo in TIA HMOVE writes, thanks to Thomas Jentzsch. This fixes the constant collision issues in “Kool-Aid Man”, and several other homebrew ROMs.
• Fixed sound issues on OSX PPC machines (all sound was in little-endian format, but PPC is big-endian).
• The OSX DMG archive now contains proper modification dates.

Download: Stella v3.81 (1195)

source: stella.sourceforge.net

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;

• Better compatibility in Linux and Mac OSX.
• AdAdded Joystick support (Windows and Linux):
  • Fully selectable axes with deadzone adjustment.
  • Paddles analog emulation with adjustable sensitivity and centering
  • Other console controls can be mapped to Joystick buttons

Download: Javatari JAR v3.10 (Needs Java 6) (810)

source: javatari.org

I have repaired an Atari 800XL for a friend. The failure was caused by a faulty cpu, the computer freezes after 10 minutes of operation, using an oscilloscope i have noticed that the clock pin of the cpu did not give me more signal but when i have used the synthetic ice spray on the cpu has resumed to work.

This type of cpu (Atari customized 6502 – C014806-12 Sally) is not easy to find but fortunately a friend of mine (Carlo) has found a spare part for me.

Autopsy:

123►

This configuration includes:

• Spectravideo SV-904 Data Cassette (Boxed)
• Spectravideo SV-602 Mini Expander (Boxed)
• Spectravideo SV-803 16k RAM Cartridge (Boxed)

from Wikipedia:

Spectravideo, or SVI, was a U.S. computer company founded in 1981 as “SpectraVision” by Harry Fox. They originally made video games for Atari 2600 and VIC-20. Some of their computers were MSX-compliant or IBM PC compatible. They ceased operations in 1988.

SpectraVision was founded in 1981 by Harry Fox and Oscar Jutzeler as a distributor of computer games, contracting external developers to write the software. Their main products were gaming cartridges for the Atari 2600 VCS, Colecovision and Commodore VIC-20. They also made the world’s first ergonomic joystick, the Quickshot. In late 1982 the company was renamed to Spectravideo due to a naming conflict with OnCommand’s Hotel TV system called SpectraVision.

In the early 1980s, the company developed 11 games for the Atari 2600, including several titles of some rarity: Chase the Chuckwagon, Mangia and Bumper Bash. A few of their titles were only available through the Columbia House music club.

The company’s first attempt at a computer was an add-on for the Atari 2600 called the Spectravideo CompuMate, with a membrane keyboard and very simple programmability.

Their first real computers were the SV-318 and SV-328, released in 1983. Both were powered by a Z80 A at 3.6 MHz, but differed in the amount of RAM (SV-318 had 32KB and SV-328 had 80KB total, of which 16KB was reserved for video) and keyboard style. The main operating system, residing in ROM, was a version of Microsoft Extended Basic, but if the computer was equipped with a floppy drive, the user had the option to boot with CP/M instead. These two computers were precedent to MSX and not fully compatible with the standard, though the changes made to their design to create MSX were minor. The system had a wide range of optional hardware, for example an adapter making it possible to run ColecoVision games on the SVI.

A later version, the Spectravideo SVI-728 was made MSX compatible. SVI-738, also MSX compatible, came with a built-in 360 KB 3.5″ floppy drive. The last computer produced by Spectravideo was the SVI-838 (also known as Spectravideo X’Press 16). It was a PC and MSX2 in the same device.

Today the Spectravideo name is used by a UK based company called SpectraVideo Plc, formerly known as Ash & Newman. That company was founded in 1977, and bought the Spectravideo brand name from Bondwell (SVI owner) in 1988. They sell their own range of Logic3 branded products, and do not have any connection to the old Spectravideo products.

source: wikipedia

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:

• AspeQt v0.8.7 (Windows) (1536)
• AspeQt v0.8.7 Changelog (1355)
• AspeQt v0.8.5 Manual (English/German) (1568)

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) (955)

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) (862)

source: javatari.org

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:

• AspeQt v0.8.6 (Windows) (2952)
• AspeQt v0.8.6 Changelog (1236)
• AspeQt v0.8.5 Manual (English/German) (1568)

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:

• Atari ++ v1.71 (Linux) (1191)
• Atari ++ v1.71 (Win32) (1437)

source: xl-project.com

This is a calendar in PDF format made by Marcin Dworaczek (a.k.a. mOOnie / MSB) for the new, 2013 year.

All the graphics were presented on the latest SV2k12 edition, and come from the following authors: Piesiu, Ripek, Rocky, Ooz, Ukko, Templeton, Odyn1ec and Bracket.

Download: SillyVenture 2013 calendar (1313)

source: sillyventure.eu

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 (861)

source: virtualdub.org

SpartaDOS X (or SpartaDOS 4.0) is a disk operating system for the Atari 8-bit family of computers, that closely resembles MS-DOS. It was developed and sold by ICD, Inc. in 1987-93.

Ten years later SpartaDOS X considered abandonware has been picked up by its enthusiasts, and developed further. These unofficial revisions, incorporating many of the utilities written since 1992, cleaning many identified problems and including numerous improvements, are:

• v4.31 (2005)
• v4.39RC (2006)
• v4.40 (a leaked-out beta, 2006)
• v4.41 (Feb. 2008)
• v4.42 (Dec. 2008)
• v4.43 (Apr.2011)
• v4.44 (Jun.2011)
• v4.45 (Nov.2011)
• v4.46 (Jan.2013)

The new SpartaDOS X 4.46 runs on the following hardware platforms:

• intSDX128
• intSDX128 “flash”
• Maxflash 1Mb
• Maxflash 8Mb (contains MAN on-line help)
• Altirra and Atari800 emulators
• Turbo Freezer 2005 (contains MAN on-line help, use with Freezer ROM only)
• SIC! Cartridge (256k version contains MAN on-line help)
• IDE Plus 2.0 (contains MAN on-line help)
• Ultimate 1MB (contains MAN on-line help)

SDX Toolkit:

• Set of additional programs, drivers and utilities
• Set of SDX command descriptions for MAN utility (excerpts from the User’s Manual).

SDX images for SIDE:

• Customized SDX images with SIDE driver are available at Jonathan Halliday’s website.

Dowload:

• SpartaDOS X v4.46 (1344)
• SpartaDOS X v4.46 (Toolkit) (1231)
• SpartaDOS X v4.46 (Changelog) (1448)

source: sdx.atari8.info wikipedia

This is the 7th edition of the New Years Disc for Atari. In this issue you can find a lots of interesting things to begin a new year with our beloved Atari.

In this issue you can find:

NYD2013 Disc 1 – multidisc.atr:

• Hello 2k13 by PPs
• Frosty animation (Beware it’s mature ware!) by CharlieChaplin
• Fireworks by CreatureXL, 505 and Flash
• Xmas 2012 animation by CharlieChaplin
• Chicks on Chips by JAC!
• Doomsday demo by Inspiration Soft
• Happy 2013 by Sikor, Miker & his wife

NYD2013 Disc 2 – Blowjobb part.atr:

• A bootable disc with a DOS. When it’s ready loaded type in: N* and press RETURN.

NYD2013 Disc 3 – 320k animation.atr:

• A nice animation from miker. You’ll need at least 320k on your machine!

NYD2013 Disc 4 – multidisc.atr:

• Happy New Year animation (Needs at lease 128k!) by miker
• Sprite multiplexer  by playsoft

NYD2013 Disc 5 – ipc viewer.atr:

• After booting you’ll get into a viewer, where you can load ipc pictures. More about the whole thing can be read in the designated readme file. Synthpopalooza did a great job here. Simply press D and you’ll see, what pictures are on this disc to load them.

NYD2013 Disc 6 – ipc pictures.atr:

• Another disc with ipc files on it. Load them with the viewer of disc 5.

NYD2013 Disc 7 – multidisc.atr:

• Rough Rider by XXL & Irrlichtproject
• Dice 2013 by Sikor & Miker
• Rolling Stars by MaPa & PG

Download: New Years Disc 7th edition (2013) (1170)

source: pouet.net

Atari SAP Music Archive (ASMA) is a Atari XL-XE music collection. It is one of the largest and most accurate computer music collections known.

ASMA v3.6 contains 4630 tunes, 315 of which are new! Moreover, ASAP has been updated to the latest version and SAPMaker has been recompiled to run under the latest Windows.

Download: Atari SAP Music Archive v3.6 (1507)

source: asma.atari.org