Tomasz “Tebe” Biela has released an update of the program Graph2Font v3.9.9.3 and the Atari Graphics Studio v2.9.9.
This project began many years ago as a simple graphics converter for Atari but over the years the features are significantly increased. The converter runs under Windows.
Download:
source: g2f.atari8.info
SNDH archive v4.4 released – 4261 SNDH files (total 8268 tunes)
Ever since the birth of the Atari ST, different chip music formats have had different ways to use them. If you are coding a chip music player for the Atari ST you would have to use dozens and dozens of special ways to replay music.
But in the mid 90′s, BDC of Aura crew became tired of this inelegant system and decided to fix the issue once and for all. He then created the ‘SNDH’ file format. SNDH is actually the original songfile and replaycode with a header bolted on top of the music and replayer. The header has a unified calling interface no matter what type of chip music is hidden beneath it, and it has extended datas about the music.
Download: SNDH Atari ST YM2149 Archive v4.4 (1539)
source: sndh.atari.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 3.2.0 (2014-06-23):
- Reduced amplitude by half to avoid clipping on loud tunes.
- Silence detection regarded GTIA and COVOX sounds as silence.
- asapconv supports conversion to one WAV/RAW/MP3/XEX file per subsong.
- File Information window in the foobar2000 plugin.
- Updated the XBMC plugin for the new XBMC.
- OS X VLC plugin no longer requires OS X 10.8.
Android changes:
- Android 4.4 can now read the memory card.
- Switch to the next song when the current one ends.
- Playback couldn’t be resumed after a while of pause.
- Search files using on-screen keyboard.
- Removed HTTP playback.
- Files with duplicate titles were lost in the details view.
Download: ASAP v3.2.0 (1563)
source: asap.sourceforge.net
SNDH archive v4.3 released - 4107 SNDH files (total 7719 tunes)
Ever since the birth of the Atari ST, different chip music formats have had different ways to use them. If you are coding a chip music player for the Atari ST you would have to use dozens and dozens of special ways to replay music.
But in the mid 90′s, BDC of Aura crew became tired of this inelegant system and decided to fix the issue once and for all. He then created the ‘SNDH’ file format. SNDH is actually the original songfile and replaycode with a header bolted on top of the music and replayer. The header has a unified calling interface no matter what type of chip music is hidden beneath it, and it has extended datas about the music.
Download: SNDH Atari ST YM2149 Archive v4.3 (1463)
source: sndh.atari.org
Tomasz “Tebe” Biela has released an update of the program Graph2Font v3.9.8.7.
This project began many years ago as a simple graphics converter for Atari but over the years the features are significantly increased. The converter runs under Windows.
Download:
source: g2f.atari8.info
FAIL is a viewer of pictures in native formats of Atari 8-bit, Atari ST, Atari Falcon and Atari Portfolio computers.
Currently the project includes:
- Fail2png – portable command-line converter to PNG files.
- FAILWin – viewer for Windows.
- Thumbnail providers for Windows Explorer and GNOME (Linux)
- Plugin for XnView.
- (de)coder for ImageMagick.
- Plugin for Imagine.
- HTML 5 based viewer.
Changelog:
- New formats: Interlace Character Editor font (ICE), GEM Bit Image (IMG), Multi Palette Picture (MPP).
This is the last release of FAIL. But don’t worry! We are just renaming our project to Retro Computer Image Library (RECOIL), because we are going to support formats from 8-bit and 16-bit machines other than Atari. Stay tuned!
Download: FAIL (First Atari Image Library) v2.0.2 (1631)
source: fail.sourceforge.net
SNDH archive v4.2 released - 3921 SNDH files (total 7389 tunes)
Ever since the birth of the Atari ST, different chip music formats have had different ways to use them. If you are coding a chip music player for the Atari ST you would have to use dozens and dozens of special ways to replay music.
But in the mid 90′s, BDC of Aura crew became tired of this inelegant system and decided to fix the issue once and for all. He then created the ‘SNDH’ file format. SNDH is actually the original songfile and replaycode with a header bolted on top of the music and replayer. The header has a unified calling interface no matter what type of chip music is hidden beneath it, and it has extended datas about the music.
Download: SNDH Atari ST YM2149 Archive v4.2 (1522)
source: sndh.atari.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 3.1.5 (2013-08-17):
- Android: fixed playback on Android 4.1+, disconnecting headset pauses playback, updates position and avoids “process not responding” during seek, starts in root directory if there’s no memory card.
- GStreamer plugin gets autoplugged (read: SAPs play in GStreamer-based players).
- WASAP plays music to its very end.
- Fixed crash on malformed RMT files.
- Restored Audacious 2.x compatibility.
- DEB packages.
- foobar2000 `*.fb2k-component` package.
Download: ASAP v3.1.5 (1385)
source: asap.sourceforge.net
This is the official demo party results from the Atari Głuchołazy 2013. See also the Atari Głuchołazy 2013 homepage for more informations.
Graphics Compo:
- 1. Fred by Piesiu
- 2. Glazy2013 by Rocky
- 3. Pszczelak by Rocky
- 4. Wampirek by Rocky
- 5. Ogrodnik by Nosty
Music Compo:
- 1. Chip Spring Tune by LiSU
- 2. Far Away by stRing
Code Compo:
- 1. Wielbłądy 2 by Lamers
- 2. Lashes of flashes by TDC
Download:
source: atari.org.pl/party13/
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 3.1.4 (2013-04-29):
- Android: plays in background, can switch to next/previous/random file, opens M3U playlists, file selector can display metadata, “back” returns to parent directory.
- WASAP fixed to avoid occasional deadlock when opening files during playback.
- VLC plugin compiled for OS X.
- 64-bit RPMs.
- Fixed time detection for CMS.
- Windows Explorer displays titles for RMT, TMC, TM2.
- “Show information about the currently playing file” restored after Winamp/XMPlay restart.
- TortoiseSVN and TortoiseGit plugins don’t depend on libz-1.dll.
- asapscan calculates SAP fingerprints (contributed by Jakub Husak).
- Experimental ASAP2WAV in Perl.
Download: ASAP v3.1.4 (1503)
source: asap.sourceforge.net
FAIL is a viewer of pictures in native formats of Atari 8-bit, Atari ST, Atari Falcon and Atari Portfolio computers.
Currently the project includes:
- Fail2png – portable command-line converter to PNG files.
- FAILWin – viewer for Windows.
- Thumbnail providers for Windows Explorer and GNOME (Linux)
- Plugin for XnView.
- (de)coder for ImageMagick.
- Plugin for Imagine.
- HTML 5 based viewer.
Changelog:
- Added Atari 8-bit formats: IP2, IMN, ICN, DIN, IRG, IR2, VZI. Added “DEGAS Elite” icon (ICN). Fixed decoding of IPC. Thumbnail provider implemented for Windows 2000/XP. Fullscreen mode in HTML 5.
Download: FAIL (First Atari Image Library) v2.0.1 (1541)
source: fail.sourceforge.net
The aim of the A8CAS project is to create software to read, save and archive tapes for Atari 8-bit computers.
Early Atari computers could store their programs on Compact Cassettes. Lots of commercial software was also sold on tapes. Some of the tapes employed different tricks to prevent creating illegal copies. A8CAS aims to correctly read and write all such tapes.
A8CAS is inspired by existing utilities, Ernest R. Schreurs’ WAV2CAS and CAS2WAV. Schreurs’ tools however did not support tapes with non-standard data (copy prevention mechanisms), and reading tapes from audio files was very unreliable. A8CAS addresses both of those issues. A8CAS now provides a superset of WAV2CAS’ features.
A8CAS consists of:
A shared library, liba8cas, that contains all routines needed to read and write cassettes (support for CAS, HEX, FSK and sound files WAV, OGG, FLAC etc. is implemented). The library can be used in emulators and drivers for SIO interfaces such as SIO2PC; a set of command-line tools, a8cas-tools, that contains a8cas-convert, a utility similar to WAV2CAS/CAS2WAV. The tools use the A8CAS library; a patch for the Atari800 emulator, that allows to load and save tape files (CAS, HEX, WAV, OGG, …) using liba8cas.
Changelog:
Liba8cas:
- Added the A8CAS_flush() function to API, which ends any chunk being written and writes data from buffers to disk.
- Fixed the inability to adjust stop bit length tolerance during recognition of data blocks. It was hardcoded at 0.25, now it uses the value of the A8CAS_PARAM_BLOCK_HEADER_DEVIATION parameter.
- Fixed crashes when setting A8CAS_PARAM_BLOCK_HEADER_LENGTH lower than 20.
A8cas-tools:
- Fixed a bug in a8cas-convert. When user provided an invalid value to a command-line parameter, the program silently ignored the parameter instead of warning the user
Download: A8CAS new Tools & Libs (1687)
source: a8cas.sourceforge.net
SNDH archive v4.1 released – 3726 SNDH files (total 7003 tunes)
Ever since the birth of the Atari ST, different chip music formats have had different ways to use them. If you are coding a chip music player for the Atari ST you would have to use dozens and dozens of special ways to replay music.
But in the mid 90′s, BDC of Aura crew became tired of this inelegant system and decided to fix the issue once and for all. He then created the ‘SNDH’ file format. SNDH is actually the original songfile and replaycode with a header bolted on top of the music and replayer. The header has a unified calling interface no matter what type of chip music is hidden beneath it, and it has extended datas about the music.
Download: SNDH Atari ST YM2149 Archive v4.1 (1369)
source: sndh.atari.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 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
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
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