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) (1219)
• Atari ++ v1.71 (Win32) (1470)

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 (1345)

source: sillyventure.eu

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 (1387)
• SpartaDOS X v4.46 (Toolkit) (1269)
• SpartaDOS X v4.46 (Changelog) (1484)

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) (1217)

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 (1567)

source: asma.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:

• 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:

• AspeQt v0.8.5 (Windows) (1244)
• AspeQt v0.8.5 Manual (English/German) (1638)

source: aspeqt.sourceforge.net

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

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) (1466)

source: bitmania.de

Autopsy:

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from Wikipedia:

The Atari ST is a home computer released by Atari Corporation in June 1985. It was commercially available from that summer into the early 1990s. The “ST” officially stands for “Sixteen/Thirty-two”,[2] which referred to the Motorola 68000′s 16-bit external bus and 32-bit internals. Due to its graphical user inferface, it was known as the “Jackintosh”, a reference to Jack Tramiel.

The Atari ST was part of the 16/32 bit generation of home computers, based on the Motorola 68000 CPU noted for 128 kB of RAM or more, a graphical user interface, and 3½” microfloppy disks as storage. It was similar to the Apple Macintosh and its simple design allowed the ST to precede the Commodore Amiga’s commercial release by almost two months. The Atari ST was also the first personal computer to come with a bit-mapped color GUI, using a version of Digital Research’s GEM released that February.

The ST was primarily a competitor to the Apple Macintosh and the Commodore Amiga systems. Where the Amiga had a graphics accelerator and wavetable synthesis, the ST had a simple frame buffer and a 3 voice synthesizer chip but with a CPU faster clocked, and had a high-resolution monochrome display mode, ideal for business and CAD. In some markets, particularly Germany, the machine gained a strong foothold as a small business machine for CAD and Desktop publishing work. The Atari ST also enjoyed some market popularity in Canada.

The ST was also the first home computer with integrated MIDI support. Thanks to its built-in MIDI, it enjoyed success for running music-sequencer software and as a controller of musical instruments among amateurs and professionals alike, being used in concert by bands and performers such as Jean Michel Jarre, Madonna, Eurythmics, Tangerine Dream, Fatboy Slim, and 1990s UK dance act 808 State, as well as naming German digital hardcore band Atari Teenage Riot.

The ST was later superseded by the Atari STE, Atari TT, Atari MEGA STE and Falcon computers.

In late 1989, Atari released the 520STE and 1040STE (also written STE), enhanced version of the ST with improvements to the multimedia hardware and operating system. It featured an increased color palette of 4096 colors from the ST’s 512 (though the maximum displayable palette of these without programming tricks was still limited to 16 in the lowest 320×200 resolution, and even fewer in higher resolutions), Genlock support, and a graphics co-processor chip called Blitter, which could quickly move large blocks of data (most particularly, graphics sprites) around in RAM. It also included a new 2-channels digital sound chip that could play 8-bit stereo samples in hardware at up to 50 kHz.

Two enhanced joystick ports (EJP) were added (two normal joysticks could be plugged into each port with an adaptor), with the new connectors placed in more easily-accessed locations on the side of the case. The enhanced joystick ports were re-used in Atari’s Jaguar console, and are compatible. RAM was now much more simply upgradable via SIMMs. Despite all of this, it still ran at 8 MHz.

Atari STe: More Or Less Zero by Dead Hackers Society on real Hardware.

source: wikipedia

This is a Atari STe Jacktro by Paradox for the SillyVenture Party 2012 (7th-9th December at Gdansk/Poland).

The Sv2k12 is dedicated  to all Atari fans – from Atari 2600 up to the Jaguar, right thrugh to the newest Falcon clones.

Download: Atari STe Jacktro by Paradox (1050)

source: sillyventure.eu

This is the official demo party results from the Atari Głuchołazy 2012. See also the Atari Głuchołazy 2012 homepage for more informations.

GFX Compo:

• Egg – Piesiu.
• Navigator – Odyniec1.
• Witraż – Rocky.
• Sprayman – Rocky.
• Błędny Ognik – Rocky.

MSX Compo:

• Error in line 10 – stRing.
• ASCII – Mr Beep.
• ATASCII – Mr Beep.
• Cosmic Voyage – stRing.

Code Compo:

• Parabole Tańczą – Pin + Mono.

Out of Party:

• Hurry! – Rene Sens
• Castles, tribute to Ilmenit – Nosty.

Download:

• Atari G?ucho?azy 2012 (ATR) (1151)
• Atari G?ucho?azy 2012 (PC Stuff) (1259)

source: atari.org.pl/party12/

User Friendly GUI under M$ Windows (requires .NET Framework) for the command line tool RastaConverter by Jakub ‘Ilmenit’ Debski.

Download: RastaConverter Beta 4 + GUI (M$ Win) (1314)

source: atariage.com/forums

Autopsy:

The SIO2SD is a device that allows you to load games/applications into any 8-bit Atari XL/XE computers via SIO interface from SD cards.

This version is like the original SIO2SD (based to latest schematic “version 2″) but in a smaller form with some improvements by Panos.

Panos improvements:

• As for the cpu the latest “low consumption” ATMega32A microcontroller in smd form.
• The 74LVC245 who guarantees good data transfer between the microcontroller and SDcard, in proper voltage levels also.
• New 47nf capacitors for better button response.
• Extra resistor and capacitor added in output of low dropout voltage regulator, for better voltage stability particularly at “no load” condition. As result of that is much higher reliability and compatibility with more SD cards.
• New tactile switches with smooth feeling for more comfortable use.
• Push on-Push off type SD connector.

source: atariage.com/forums

RastaConverter by Jakub ‘Ilmenit’ Debski is a command line tools for M$ Windows/Linux to convert and optimize images for use with the Atari 8 Bit computers.

Download:

• RastaConverter Beta 4 (1116)
• RastaConverter Beta 4 (Linux) (992)
• XEX Collections by Jakub \'Ilmenit\' Debski (973)

source: github.com/ilmenit/RastaConverter atariage.com/forums atariage.com/forums

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 3.1.2 (2012-06-25):

• Created VLC plugin (SAP format only).
• The JavaScript player now works in Chrome, Firefox, Internet Explorer 9 and 6, using XAudioJS.
• Flash Player, Java applet, Silverlight and JavaScript players were put in a single “web” package.
• UTF-8 encoding is supported for STIL.
• Author is no longer hidden in the converted XEX files.
• Winamp plugin opens ATR disk images and plays files inside them.
• Audacious plugin updated to Audacious 3.2 and compiled for Windows.
• BASS add-on updated to be compatible with AIMP 3 (SAP format only).
• Enabled title/author/year in the BASS add-on (only selected BASS-based players use it, for example EncoreBassing).
• Windows Media Player codec supports subsongs, AUTHOR and NAME (this works at least with Media Player Classic Home Cinema).
• JavaScript interface of the web players has been extended and now has same functionality.
• New TortoiseSVN and TortoiseGit plugins show changes in SAP tags.

Download: ASAP v3.1.2 (1011)

source: asap.sourceforge.net