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:
- Cross-platform GUI with drag and drop support.
- 15 emulated disk drives with support for 512 bytes per sector disk images.
- High speed operation up to 6 times faster than the normal speed (With compatible OS / DOS)
- Ability to use PC folders as emulated disks.
- Disk image explorer for viewing and modifying disk image contents.
- Ability to run Atari executables directly without using disc images and Doses.
- Printer emulation with preview and ATASCII support.
- Cassette image playback with custom baud rate.
- Ability to save and restore AspeQt sessions with its UI settings..=
- Normal and mini UI modes.
Version 1.0.0 Preview-6 (May 23, 2014) (Ray Ataergin):
- Windows registry entries for AspeQt are now stored under “atari8warez.com” registry tree, the program will automatically migrate settings on the next run. Existing AspeQt session files storing session settings are not affected by this change
- Code needed to compile AspeQt under Mac OS X is added (David Voswinkel – optixx) (see compile.rtf file included with the source archive)
- Folder images are now emulated in DOS 2.5 disk format rather than DOS 2.0 This gives more unique sector numbers to work with before they are re-used in a circular fashion.
- Fixed the “Not a binary file” error loading certain executable files.
- Text conversion is now OS platform aware (Win, Linux, OS X)
- Explorer Window Stay-on-top feature is now user selectable and persistent across sessions.
Download:
source: aspeqt.sourceforge.net
The HxC Floppy Drive Emulator is a software and hardware system created by jfdn aka Jeff.
The aim of this project is to replace the floppy disk drive by an electronic device emulating the floppy disk drive (list of supported Computer/Hardware).
There are two differents emulators:
- A USB version which allows to connect the floppy disk drive interface of the computer to a PC via a USB cable.
- A SDCARD version which allows to emulate floppy disks which images are stored in a SDCARD.
Release notes for the HxCFloppyEmulator software v2.0.22.0:
- GUI – Track viewer window : New viewer mode -> Disk surface view mode.
- Raw loader : UKNC Russian computer support added.
- New Writer : BMP file (Disk/circular layout) -> Disk layout can now be exported into a BMP file (for disk analysis) !
- libhxcfe : Correction of the UTF8 path support in some loaders/writers.
- New Loader : SPS CT Raw file format support added. (NOTE : No flakey bits support for the moment !)
- libhxcfe : Generic flux stream analyzer enhanced.
- Disk Browser : ADFLib fseek corrected.
Download:
source: hxc2001.free.fr lotharek.pl
CBM prg Studio Version 3.0.0 is released. There are a lot of new features in this version. I’d really appreciate it if you report any bugs you find or have any suggestions/comments.
CBM prg Studio allows you to type a BASIC or Machine Code program in using a nice Windows environment and convert it to a ‘.prg’ file which you can run on an emulator, or even a real C64 / VIC20 or PET if you’re feeling brave and have the right kit.
CBM prg Studio is the result of merging C64PrgGen and VIC20PrgGen. Adding new features and fixing bugs in two apps which were 95% similar was a bit of a nightmare so merging them made sense.
It was also a good opportunity for a face lift and to add some new features, such as:
- Programs are project based, meaning all related source files, sprite files etc. are kept in one place and multiple source files can be linked more easily.
- Tabbed MDI.
- Syntax highlighting.
What CBM prg Studio isn’t is a front-end for tok64, cbmcnvrt, bastext or any other tokeniser / detokeniser / assembler. It’s all been written completely from scratch.
New features:
- 65816 assembler/debugger.
- Partial support for the VICE debugger.
- Bitmap import/export for character editor.
- Binary file import to Assembly source.
- Line and rectangle drawing tools for the screen designer.
- TASM support added to Source Converter tool.
Bug Fixed:
- Assembler:
- Using arithmetic with cheap labels would fail.
- Slow incbin performance for large binary files.
- Wrong SYScall generation for C128 projects.
- incbin with screen data imported all screens.
- Assembling past the end of memory not detected properly.
- Invalid branch not detected properly.
- Arithmetic on WORDs not carried out.
- Multiple characters in single quotes in BYTE sequences not assembled properly.
- GenerateTo only created .prg files.
- Save File As… would only save .bas files.
- Comment tool would not comment out already commented code.
- Incbin reporting ‘file too large’ error by mistake.
- Screen Designer:
- Binary file export
- Colour selection for C16 projects didn’t work.
- Wrong screen size saving C128 screens.
- Character set selection corrected.
- General:
- Some code reformatting issues.
Download: CBM prg Studio v3.0.0 (1097)
source: ajordison.co.uk
Hoxs64 written by David Horrocks is a Commodore 64 emulator for Microsoft Windows 2K/XP/Vista/Seven (DirectX 9+)
The emulator substantially reproduces this legacy machine in minute detail.
Changelog:
- Resizable main window for windowed mode.
- Fix Ultimax VIC fetch.
Download:
source: hoxs64.net
Relaunch64 is an IDE (text-editor) for C64 assembler-coding on Windows, Linux and Mac OS X. Relaunch64 has a clean and intuitive user interface, yet it offers many features that make coding faster and easier.
Java 7 or higher is required to run Relaunch64. The program is licensed under the GNU GPL 3 (or higher) and free for private and professional use.
This editor works together with common cross assemblers like Kick Assembler, ACME, or 64tass. Other assemblers might work as well, but syntax highlighting may not be 100% correct.
Download: Relaunch64 V3.0 (925)
source: popelganda.de
Javatari is a multiplayer Atari 2600 emulator written in pure Java with no external libs.
Features:
- Client-Server multiplayer mode. Runs great in low-latency networks such as LANs.
- Drag&Drop and Copy&Paste of ROM files or URLs. Very easy to try ROMs from websites!
- Scanlines and TV screen emulation modes.
- Real Atari console user interface.
Changelog:
- New concept: Savestate Cartridges!
- Store emulator state as Savestate Cartridge files to disk any time (press F8)
- Savestate Cartridges can be distributed and loaded as normal ROMs.
- Savestate Cartridges can also be embedded as auto-load ROMs.
- Support for Starpath/Supercharger Tape ROM format.
- Bugfixes and improvements.
Download: Javatari JAR v4.1 (Needs Java 6 or greater) (1014)
source: javatari.org
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:
- AFLI caption can be fully disabled (AFLIexe-patch included along with bin2array.exe)
Download:
source: hermit.netne.net
The HxC Floppy Drive Emulator is a software and hardware system created by jfdn aka Jeff.
The aim of this project is to replace the floppy disk drive by an electronic device emulating the floppy disk drive (list of supported Computer/Hardware).
There are two differents emulators:
- A USB version which allows to connect the floppy disk drive interface of the computer to a PC via a USB cable.
- A SDCARD version which allows to emulate floppy disks which images are stored in a SDCARD.
Release notes for the HxCFloppyEmulator software v2.0.20.1:
- Disk Browser : AmigaDOS disk support added ! Amiga Files can be read/write/deleted with the Disk Browser !
- New Writer : XML files -> Disk layout can now be exported into XML !
- New Loader : XML files -> A disk can be generated from an XML file !
- Raw Loader : An XML file can now be used as disk layout !
- General : Low level sector reader and track display speed-optimized.
- MacOS X : Executable now compiled with the “-mmacosx-version-min=10.5″ option -> Leopard,Snow Leopard,Lion,Mountain Lion & Mavericks supported.
Download:
source: hxc2001.free.fr lotharek.pl
CBM prg Studio Version 2.9.0 is released. There are a lot of new features in this version. I’d really appreciate it if you report any bugs you find or have any suggestions/comments.
CBM prg Studio allows you to type a BASIC or Machine Code program in using a nice Windows environment and convert it to a ‘.prg’ file which you can run on an emulator, or even a real C64 / VIC20 or PET if you’re feeling brave and have the right kit.
CBM prg Studio is the result of merging C64PrgGen and VIC20PrgGen. Adding new features and fixing bugs in two apps which were 95% similar was a bit of a nightmare so merging them made sense.
It was also a good opportunity for a face lift and to add some new features, such as:
- Programs are project based, meaning all related source files, sprite files etc. are kept in one place and multiple source files can be linked more easily.
- Tabbed MDI.
- Syntax highlighting.
What CBM prg Studio isn’t is a front-end for tok64, cbmcnvrt, bastext or any other tokeniser / detokeniser / assembler. It’s all been written completely from scratch.
New features:
- Extended colour mode for screen designer.
- Binary file import for screen designer.
- User defined links in Help.
- Batch files for user tools menu.
- Updated help file.
Bug Fixed:
- Assembler
- WORD sequences ending in , not reported.
- ROL, LSR, ADC, SBC not setting status flags in debugger properly.
- STX/STY reporting invalid address mode.
- Macros after cheap labels weren’t expanded properly.
- Macros containing tabs or comments weren’t expanded properly.
- Labels after ‘Incasm’ were not recognised.
- Indirect jumps not recognising labels
- Wrong detection of assembling past end of memory.
- Comments after macro calls were corrupting the parameters.
- Build events were not exported properly.
- Screen Designer
- ‘Undo’ undid everything, not just the last operation.
- Screen editor background colours can be set per character.
- General
- Some code reformatting issues
Download: CBM prg Studio v2.9.0 (895)
source: ajordison.co.uk
Javatari is a multiplayer Atari 2600 emulator written in pure Java with no external libs.
Features:
- Client-Server multiplayer mode. Runs great in low-latency networks such as LANs.
- Drag&Drop and Copy&Paste of ROM files or URLs. Very easy to try ROMs from websites!
- Scanlines and TV screen emulation modes.
- Real Atari console user interface.
Changelog;
- Full support for the upcoming Java security requirements.
- Both all-permissions and sandboxed deployment options.
Download: Javatari JAR v4.0 (Needs Java 6 or greater) (888)
source: javatari.org
The HxC Floppy Drive Emulator is a software and hardware system created by jfdn aka Jeff.
The aim of this project is to replace the floppy disk drive by an electronic device emulating the floppy disk drive (list of supported Computer/Hardware).
There are two differents emulators:
- A USB version which allows to connect the floppy disk drive interface of the computer to a PC via a USB cable.
- A SDCARD version which allows to emulate floppy disks which images are stored in a SDCARD.
Release notes for the HxCFloppyEmulator software v2.0.18.4:
- TRS80 DMK Loaded : Image Sanity check -> Minimum track number changed from 30 to 1 track.
- Predefined raw formats added : Ensoniq Mirage 440KB, E-mu Emax DD 800KB, GeneralMusic GEM S3 1600KB, GeneralMusic GEM WX 1440KB.
- libhxcfe : Track Generator -> hxcfe_setTrackType function added.
- libhxcfe : Track alteration functions -> hxcfe_getSide & hxcfe_shiftTrackData function added.
- libhxcfe : XML floppy file definition -> <track_list></track_list> Track definition fields working.
- New track support : Data disk Arburg format.
- New track support : System disk Arburg format.
- New Writer : SSD Speccy DOS file.
- New Writer : Amiga ADF files.
- New Loader : SCP files (SuperCard Pro) (WIP).
- New Writer : SCP files (SuperCard Pro) (WIP).
- New Writer : Kryoflux raw files.
- New Writer : BMP file (Disk layout picture).
- libhxcfe : Transitions level flux analyzer functions.
- libhxcfe : Generic flux stream analyzer enhanced.
- ADF, DMS, MSA, ST Loaders : 4 empty tracks added at the end of the disk.
- D88 Loader : Odd track number issue corrected.
- CPC EDSK writer : Some missing flag support added. (Deleted address mark & CRC flags).
- Sega System24 Loader : New format added ( 8192B + 3*1024B + 512B + 256B sectors).
- Floppy Dump : Default step rate set at 16ms.
- zlib updated : zlib 1.2.8
- Amiga/UAE Extended ADF file loader : Amiga DOS track offset loading corrected.
Download:
source: hxc2001.free.fr lotharek.pl
Javatari is a multiplayer Atari 2600 emulator written in pure Java with no external libs.
Features:
- Client-Server multiplayer mode. Runs great in low-latency networks such as LANs.
- Drag&Drop and Copy&Paste of ROM files or URLs. Very easy to try ROMs from websites!
- Scanlines and TV screen emulation modes.
- Real Atari console user interface.
Changelog;
- Support for Harmony/Melody Cart flash memory and .cu images.
- Star Castle Arcade highscores now working.
- General performance tuning.
Download: Javatari JAR v3.40 (Needs Java 6 or greater) (965)
source: javatari.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
Hoxs64 written by David Horrocks is a Commodore 64 emulator for Microsoft Windows 2K/XP/Vista/Seven (DirectX 9+)
The emulator substantially reproduces this legacy machine in minute detail.
Changelog:
- Fixed an EasyFlash cartridge fault when loading a 4KB banked CRT file or state file.
Download:
source: hoxs64.net
Hoxs64 written by David Horrocks is a Commodore 64 emulator for Microsoft Windows 2K/XP/Vista/Seven (DirectX 9+)
The emulator substantially reproduces this legacy machine in minute detail.
Changelog:
- Added emulation state file save, load and restore facility.
- Added Epyx Fastload cartridge.
- Added screen border hide options.
- Fixed Retro Reply cartridge banking fault.
- Reworked the CPU code to accommodate XAA/ANE for a MOS8500 as reported by Visual6502.org
Download:
source: hoxs64.net
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