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Atari SAP Music Archive (ASMA) v3.6

December 30th, 2012 1 comment

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 (1464)

source: asma.atari.org

Categories: Atari, News & Rumors, Today

AspeQt v0.8.5 (Atari serial peripheral emulator for Qt)

December 30th, 2012 No comments

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

ST-Paint Beta (27/12/2012) by Peter Jørgensen

December 28th, 2012 No comments

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:

  • Windows mode (not complete)
  • Clipboard : Remember the last 15 clip.
  • Color Replacer : Use to replace a color somewhere in the graphic.
  • Poly Line: Load/save Neochrome picture / Load Degas Under/Overscan Picture*
  • Some other functions have been change, like the undo buffer in the polygon function, (now while drawing a polyg, and undo you will remove the last point, when finish the polyg and undo, you will remove the hole polygon.

Download:

source: fedepede04.dk

Atari VCS/2600 Demo: Liquid Candy/Noice

December 13th, 2012 No comments

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 (1047)

source: youtube.com

Categories: Atari, News & Rumors, Today

ASAP v3.1.3 – Another Slight Atari Player

December 7th, 2012 No comments

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 (893)

source: asap.sourceforge.net

SNDH Atari ST YM2149 Archive v4.0 released.

November 5th, 2012 No comments

SNDH archive v4.0 released. 121 SNDH-files added or updated!

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 v4.0 (1258)

source: sndh.atari.org

Categories: Atari, News & Rumors, Today

Ym2149 Tracker 14.00 Beta

November 4th, 2012 No comments

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) (1395)

source: bitmania.de

SNDH Atari ST YM2149 Archive v3.4 released.

October 9th, 2012 No comments

SNDH archive v3.4 released. 73 SNDH-files added or updated!

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 v3.4 (1557)

source: sndh.atari.org

Categories: Atari, News & Rumors, Today

ST-Paint by Peter Jørgensen

September 23rd, 2012 No comments

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.

Download:

source: fedepede04.dk

Atari Demo: SillyVenture Jacktro 2012 (Sv2k12)

August 16th, 2012 No comments

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 (973)

source: sillyventure.eu

Atari Głuchołazy 2012 (2K12) party results

August 1st, 2012 No comments

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/

Atari 8-Bit Tools: RastaConverter Beta 4 GUI v0.0.1.3

July 15th, 2012 No comments

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) (1241)

source: atariage.com/forums

Unboxing SIO2SD Micro by Panos Santos

July 14th, 2012 1 comment
SIO2SD Micro (testing)

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

Atari 8-Bit Tools: RastaConverter Beta 4 by Jakub ‘Ilmenit’ Debski

July 11th, 2012 No comments

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

ASAP v3.1.2 – Another Slight Atari Player

June 26th, 2012 No comments

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 (914)

source: asap.sourceforge.net