Emulating other systems on Atari ST

[Noble Kale]

I've heard that the mac can be emulated on ST, are any other systems emulated on the ST?

[Silver Surfer]

I think PC, atari 8-bit, gameboy and c-64 were well represented on the atari st emulation scene...

[JazHaz]

Hi guys,

 

Also you can do CPM, Atari 8bit, Sinclair ZX81 and Spectrum (known as Timex machines in North America I think), Commodore 64 and Amiga (joke emulators). Also Oric machines were emulated. Name an 8-bit and it probably has been emulated on the Atari!

[Goochman]

The 8bit emulation was done by Darek M at emulators.com - like his PC emulator it wasn't very compatible with most 8bit software, it also was very slow.

 

I dont believe Sprite collision was ever put into it either........Though I believe Donkey Kong did work since it doesnt use sprites.

 

Not worth trying on your ST IMHO

[Noble Kale]

any 2600 emulation work done for st?

[Atari-Jess]

is atari 8-bit emulation fast though?

like 100% speed?

[Mindfield]

AFAIK there was no 2600 emu on the ST. Of course I haven't been in the ST scene for a good 4-5 years now, so there may have been developments in that area since.

 

Before I left the ST scene though I do recall running across 3 different emulators:

 

Atari 8-Bit, through ST-XFormer. Not very compatible; no binary support (BASIC only), no player/missile support. Slow (doesn't run full-speed)

 

Sinclair (Timex) ZX-81. Eminently compatible (though the ZX81 had pretty simple hardware anyway), ran fater than a real ZX81. Simplistic machine though, so good only if you were a die-hard ZX81 fan. :-)

 

Sinclair (Timex) Spectrum, through a program called Speccy! Exceptionally compatible, supported SNA and compressed SNX snapshots (48k RAM dumps), ran most programs extremely well, if slowly (ran perhaps 1/4 to 1/3 speed of a real Speccy. Some games were still playable though, if they didn't tax the Z80 CPU too much. Don't expect to play Driller or anything, but stuff like Sammy Lightfoot played acceptably). Though I never owned (or even used) a Spectrum (they just weren't avaialble in Canada) I collected furiously for it, eventually amassing over 3,000 snaps for it. Fun little emu, that one. Probably runs better on a 16MHz MegaSTE or Falcon.

[Noble Kale]

Thanks for the info. I'm looking into the programs that you've pointed out now

[Markimus of K.]

As far as emulators on the ST, it was posted that the Commodore 64 was a 'joke' emulator.

 

I've got a german C64 emulator that runs Basic V2.0 great, incuding Pokes and Peeks. The only problem I've ever noticed with it is that the 'X' and 'Y' keys are transposed on the keyboard for some reason.

 

It even communicates perfectly with my Epson printer with regular old commodore commands. And prints program listings in a very nice commodore font as well.

 

Is anyone else familiar with this very good emulator? It gave me a great Commodore fix until I got another actual Commodore system.

 

thoughts?

As always,

Markimus of K.

[Noble Kale]

Well, I dug around and found that the emulators are most likely here:

ftp://ftp.cs.tu-berlin.de/pub/atari/Emulator/

 

(Stumbled upon them while I was leeching the entire ftp for st software)

[Darius Nefarious]

The x and y keys are swapped because they are on German keyboards (you mentioned the emulator was German).

 

Some other keys are different also.