New Version of Atari800MacX Released

[atarimac]

 

Hi All,

I wanted to make sure people saw this, as it was mentioned in the old thread about sound not working.

I know I've been for the most part silent for the past 4+ years. I've had my head down completing my PhD, and then this fall teaching my first semester of classes as a Computer Science professor.

I finally managed to get enough time over the holidays to make the changes to integrate the new version of libSDL 2.0 into Atari800MacX. The 2.0 version makes wholesale changes to many things, including rendering, sound, and keypresses, so it took me about 2 weeks of effort to make the changes. The good news is that moving to 2.0 should enable the emulator to with stand changes to Mac OSX in future versions, assuming that the library authors keep up with them.

I want to thank Paulo (pedgarcia), as he fixed sound independently of me, and has been helping with changes to this new version.

The changes fix the sound and full screen issues, as well as printer emulation which wasn't working anymore either. Be aware though it is still Alpha quality software, as the amount of testing I have done is limited (although I'm sure all of you can help there ).

I'm still waiting to hear from Al on the website FTP, but for now, you can grab the new release from Github if you like:

https://github.com/atarimacosx/Atari800MacX/releases

Please use the issue system there on github to enter issues you find. I will update the main web page when I can, but I may move to using github.iio pages as well in the future.

The source has been moved there as well, at least for 4.6 and 5.0. Anyone who would like to get involved in future development, please let us know, or just fork the project.

Thanks,

Mark

[Forrest]

Thanks for updating Atari800MacX - will try it out.