Issue 29: Mar 2003
Features
- | Foreword
- | Tip of the day
- | Atari Day in the Netherlands
- | Retrovision III
- | Atari lives on in many form factors
- | A Passport To Great Music
- | The PVG Experience
- | Atari 4 Peace
Review
- | ScatBox
M@ilbox
| Atari lives on in many form factors Last month I mentioned that Ataris are still alive and well all over the world, from the largest country to the smallest islands. Along the same lines, almost every modern major operating system has an emulation program allowing the use of Atari software in the form of ROM files. Linux l Atari is still finding new ways of making it onto all types of operating systems as seen at this link on Atari Linux emulators: http://simon.mooli.org.uk/LXF/Atari/Atari.html Apple Mac Although once arch rivals, the Atari and Apple worlds have worked together at the user level for years. We had the Magic Sac and Spectre 128 for our STs to emulate the Macintosh. Now the Mac world has its Atari emulators. Talk about full circle. Atari on an Apple Mac: http://www.serve.com/derekl/atari/atari_emu.html Unix Atari not only runs on Linux, but Unix as well. Atari on Unix: http://www.complang.tuwien.ac.at/nino/stonx.html PDA / Pocket PC As noted before, you can run an Atari on your PDA as well as your desktop PC. Atari on a Pocket PC: http://www.zophar.net/ppc/atari.html Windows Several flavors from all over the world crowd the Windows PC desktops. This may include the ST, XL, or even 2600 VCS emulators. Atari on a Windows PC: http://pcdesktops.emuunlim.com/emu-atari01-05.shtml Last but not least you get various flavors of each type of emulator. This helps keep Atari alive for the guys who have given up their hardware, but not their love for Atari. Atari Stuff emulators: http://www.cheek.org/atari/emulator.htm If you want more information on how these emulators work contact Matthew Preston at mpreston@myatari.net, he is our resident emulation expert. So if keeping the old Atari hardware is no longer something you want to do, just find the emulator that meets your needs and load it on whatever flavor OS you are currently using. On a final note, a desktop designer recently sent a link to me of his Atari 2600 flavored desktop images. What a wonderful assortment of old Atari and other video game desktops. Check out http://www.kjeldesign.com/desktops/atari_2600/index.html. Next month a little venture into a new operating system that will work on several older computers. RTDOS will it work the way it is billed? del@myatari.net
Useful links
Del’s Atari Small fry http://members.tripod.com/dgmccool/page2.htm Atari on Linux http://simon.mooli.org.uk/LXF/Atari/Atari.html Atari on an Apple Mac http://www.serve.com/derekl/atari/atari_emu.html Atari on Unix http://www.complang.tuwien.ac.at/nino/stonx.html Atari on a Pocket PC http://www.zophar.net/ppc/atari.html Windows http://pcdesktops.emuunlim.com/emu-atari01-05.shtml kjeldESIGN http://www.kjeldesign.com/desktops/atari_2600/index.html
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