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 Turkish translations.
- Updated the AspeQt documentation.
- Added Folder Image boot support for MyDos, MyPicoDos and SpartaDos. AspeQt now offers an option to switch between those 4 different DOSes automatically. The user no longer needs to supply the required DOS files or the file containing the boot sectors ($boot.bin) as AspeQt includes them and switches from one DOS to another through the UI. The context menu (right clicking on a mounted folder image on D1:) will present a window with DOS selections. By choosing a DOS and clicking Apply on that window will switch DOSes and the next reboot of the Atari will boot selected DOS from the Folder Image. For details of the switching mechanism, the limitations of, and more, please see AspeQt documentation.
- Changed the color and boldness of the Folder Image names to visually differentiate them from other file images.
Download:
source: aspeqt.sourceforge.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 (1674)
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 (1243)
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) (1619)
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) (1461)
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 (1160)
source: gr8.atari.pl
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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