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:
- Added an option (Options/Emulation menu) to selectively enable/disable filtering of underscore character from file names in Folder Images (Ray Ataergin)
- Fixed a problem where “Unmount All” menu item was only unmounting the first 8 images. (Marcin Sochacki)
- Updated Polish language translations (Marcin Sochacki – TheMontezuma)
Download:
source: aspeqt.sourceforge.net
Some new games (Cracked / Trained or Unrealeased) for Commodore 64 have been released from your favorites groups: INFERIOR Software International, Alakran, Laxity and Genesis Project.
Download:
source: csdb.dk
Stella release v3.8.1 for Linux, MacOS X and Windows is now available.
Changelog:
- Added support for TIA RSYNC writes, thanks to Omegamatrix of AtariAge. This allows the recently released “Extra Terrestrials” ROM to run, as well as improving emulation of “Fatal Run” and several other test ROMs.
- Fixed typo in TIA HMOVE writes, thanks to Thomas Jentzsch. This fixes the constant collision issues in “Kool-Aid Man”, and several other homebrew ROMs.
- Fixed sound issues on OSX PPC machines (all sound was in little-endian format, but PPC is big-endian).
- The OSX DMG archive now contains proper modification dates.
Download: Stella v3.81 (1291)
source: stella.sourceforge.net
Javatari is a multiplayer Atari 2600 emulator written in pure Java with no external libs.
Features:
- Unique Client-Server multiplayer mode. Runs great in low-latency networks such as LANs.
- Cheat and turn off Collisions. Finally discover the ending of River Raid!
- Complete Save State/Load State functions.
- Scanlines and TV screen emulation modes.
- Real Atari console user interface.
Changelog;
- Better compatibility in Linux and Mac OSX.
- AdAdded Joystick support (Windows and Linux):
- Fully selectable axes with deadzone adjustment.
- Paddles analog emulation with adjustable sensitivity and centering
- Other console controls can be mapped to Joystick buttons
Download: Javatari JAR v3.10 (Needs Java 6) (891)
source: javatari.org
Some new games (Cracked / Trained or Unrealeased) for Commodore 64 have been released from your favorites groups: Avatar, Alpha Flight, Laxity, Bad Taste and Norbert Kehrer.
Download:
source: csdb.dk
This program works as a program launcher for Commodore machines. Even if it was originally intended for a device with sd2iec firmware, it works also with any CBM drive (without sd2iec functions of course).
It is a multi-system version derived from the discontinued sd2brwse v.0.6 by Hannu Nuotio (fork() of sdbrowse v.0.7)
The Vic-20 Mega-Cart Installer is based on sys.asm sources of mega-tools by Daniel Kahlin, sort routine by Michael Kircher.
Current supported machines:
- C64.
- C64DTV.
- Vic-20 unexpanded.
- Vic-20 +3K RAM.
- Vic-20 +8K RAM or plus (for FE3 use this version)
- Vic-20 with Mega-Cart.
- C16 / C116 / Plus4.
- C128 in 64 mode.
- C128 80 Columns.
Changelog:
- v.0.1 – 01-Sep-2009 (Start of project, C64/C64DTV only)
- v.0.2 – 21-Oct-2009 (First working version for Vic-20 +8K RAM)
- v.0.3 – 06-Jan-2010 (Added memory config auto-detection for Vic-20 selected program)
- v.0.4 – 19-Jan-2010 (Added support for Vic-20 with Mega-Cart and manual start mode)
- v.0.5 – 10-Feb-2010 (Added support for Vic-20 unexpanded and Vic-20 +3K RAM)
- v.1.0 – 05-Mar-2010 (First public version, minor issues fixed, C64 and Vic-20 supported)
- v.1.1 – 22-Jun-2010 (Added support for D41 and DNP file images, sd2iec firmware v.0.9.0 or higher required)
- v.1.2 – 09-Oct-2010 (Added SJLOAD speed-up option to the manual mode of the Mega-cart version)
- v.1.3 – 31-May-2012 (Added support for C16/C116/Plus4, Sort directories, cosmetic changes)
- v.1.4 – 19-Jul-2012 (Added JIFFYDTV speed-up support for C64-DTV, Clear screen before RUN)
- v.1.5 – 03-Mar-2013 (Added support for C128, and uppercases disk images D64,D81,D71 etc.)
Download: CBM FileBrowser v1.5 (4030)
source: vic20.it/cbmfilebrowser
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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