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
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:
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 (1568)
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:
source: aspeqt.sourceforge.net
Liquid Candy is a new cool demo for Atari VCS/2600 by Noice released at the Silly Venture 2012.
Run the .bin file in your VCS-emulator of choice (for example Stella), or use a Harmony or other cart to run it on the real thing!
Release info:
- Name: Liquid Candy
- Platform: Atari VCS/2600 PAL, 16kb ROM
- Release Date: 2012-12-08
- Code: Shadow/Noice
- Music: Ilmarque/Trilobit
Download: Liquid Candy by Noice (1107)
source: youtube.com
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) (1467)
source: bitmania.de
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:
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:
source: github.com/ilmenit/RastaConverter atariage.com/forums atariage.com/forums
Line Runner is 8-bit Atari version of the popular game for Android and iPhone. Copyright’s owner is Rober Szeleney (Djinnworks).
Line Runner is available for Atari 800XL, 65XE, 130XE, 1200XL, both PAL and NTSC and is also available a Cartridge version for a very low price.
Download: Line Runner by GR8 Software (1003)
source: gr8.atari.pl
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 12.021:
- Auto portamento.
- Buzzer Vibrato.
- Buzzer portamento.
- Unified frequent list.
- Turn Tone/Wave on-off in vibrato, bend and arpeggio.
- Vibrato Depth.
- Invert Vibrato for synth wave.
Beta 120.23 – note from the author:
i found 3 bugs in the tone-bend routine. and i have also change 2 of the functions in the program.
Before note-lock was affecting both S1 and S2 now you can set it to s1,s2 or both. I have also change bend-mode ramp-off to only turn off the source that is being bent. So if you bend only S1 then it is only S1 that is turn off after the bend is finish
Download: Ym2149 Tracker 12.023 Beta (1053)
source: bitmania.de
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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