A very nice tale of a dear friend of a day spent in my laboratory. Happy reading.

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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:

• AspeQt v1.0.0 Preview-6 (1442)

source: aspeqt.sourceforge.net

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 (1350)

source: ajordison.co.uk