Guest Posted January 26, 2016 Share Posted January 26, 2016 Just wondering, is there any ST software out there that reliably emulates the A8 range? something designed to run on an ST that'll run 800XL software? i am aware of the irony thanks Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RodLightning Posted January 26, 2016 Share Posted January 26, 2016 ST XFormer. It's not perfect, but impressive for it's time I suppose, http://www.atarimania.com/utility-atari-st-st-xformer_s16984.html Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Justin Payne Posted January 26, 2016 Share Posted January 26, 2016 Yea, that is pretty impressive. Sounds to me like a fun project to take on. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ParanoidLittleMan Posted January 26, 2016 Share Posted January 26, 2016 8 MHt ST is not enough powerful for 100% faithful emulation of some 8-bit machine. That luxury started somewhere with 60 MHz 486 machines. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted January 26, 2016 Share Posted January 26, 2016 cheers so what's the success rate likely to be on a Mega ST4 ? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Goochman Posted January 26, 2016 Share Posted January 26, 2016 Its slow and doesnt support all features of the A8. The last release I played with didnt have sprite collision so it was fun to see which games actually utilized sprites if you didnt know. It was not very fun beyond 5 minutes. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
leech Posted January 26, 2016 Share Posted January 26, 2016 I believe the Atari800 emulator for Linux is open source, though it does use SDL (not sure how capable the ST port of SDL is). Of course what would be funny is a port of Hatari for the Falcon/FreeMiNT for ST emulation. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lynxpro Posted January 27, 2016 Share Posted January 27, 2016 Software emulation was something Atari Corp sorta promised and hoped someone else would deliver as a means of enticing a lot of Atari 8-bit owners to take the plunge and upgrade to the ST. I've thought about this a bit and I think the reason why a hardware-based option never materialized was due to cost…once you added the cost of all of the custom chips to add, you'd nearly be at the cost of a 65XE brand new. That's most likely the same reason Commodore never brought out a hardware-based C64/C128 emulator for the Amiga. And had the Tramiels stayed at Commodore and Atari Inc survived, I high doubt their successor systems would've been backwards compatible either. Even Apple only gave a half-hearted attempt to lure the Apple II fans to the Mac. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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