News and rumours

Arok party is a multiplatform demoparty (histrically it was the C64 demoparty) in Ajka-Ajkarendek/Hungary. It will be held from 16th to 18th of July 2010.

Organisers welcome all Atarians cordially.

UPX 3.05 has been released. UPX is a free, portable, extendable, high-performance executable packer for several different executable formats.

Guillaume Tello released new version of M_Player. Added support for:

* long file names
* lowercase names

MPlayer plays videos:

* the most known: Quick Time, AVI, Mpeg1, Mpeg2
* some a bit older on PC: FLI, FLC, FLH or DL
* and Atari specific formats Video Master, FLM Lexicor, SEQ Cyber Paint

Sommarhack 2010 will take place 2. - 4. 7. 2010 in Grado / Sweden.

You can get nice invitro for Atari STE now.

New version of EmuTOS is released. EmuTOS is a GEMDOS compatible operating system for Atari ST series computers. It is made from Digital Research's GPLed original sources and will be a free and open source replacement for common TOS images.

The SAP file format has been extended with the "NTSC" tag. A BASS add-on (works in AIMP) has been created. A crash in XMPlay has been fixed. The XMMS plugin now works correctly on big endian machines. There’s a new Windows Explorer extension which displays metadata (title, author, year, duration, mono/stereo, number of subsongs, PAL/NTSC) and on Windows Vista/7 can edit them. A simple player in C# has been created.

ASAP (Another Slight Atari Player) is a player of 8-bit Atari music for modern computers. It emulates the POKEY sound chip and the 6502 processor.

New issue of this great diskmag for Atari XL/XE was released.

The tos.hyp is documentation (in English and German) about TOS, but also about MagiC, N.AES, MyAES, Geneva, XaAES, oAESis and some emulator.

MPlayer STE is special 68000 version of the video player for STF/STE/Mega.

Forever was at new great party place in Horna Suca near Trencin.

Unofficial Atari results are here:

Intro compo:
1. 530 p. Rescue on F. 2010 - Raster/C.P.U.
2. 507 p. Scroll F'ever - MaPa + PG
3. 474 p. Pyxides - Bob!k/C.P.U.

Graphics compo:
1. 522 p. Nibiru - Piesiu
2/3. 511 p. Solar Trip - Ooz/LaResistance
2/3. 511 p. Slumber - Piesiu
4. 492 p. Mupy Mup - Raster/C.P.U.
5. 473 p. Susanne - Irwin
6. 425 p. Hitchhiker - Dely/Blowjobb
7. 383 p. Marby Ninja - Rikfuzz/Renderion
8. 364 p. Porsche 917 - Krupkaj/JAY Soft
9. 325 p. One plus one - Factor6/Hooy - Program
10. 290 p. HAL - Patarik/Satantronic

Music compo:
1. 490 p. ILM - Raster/C.P.U.
2. 470 p. Phase08 - PG + Raster
3. 452 p. Jest sprawa - LiSU

It is only one week to Forever, and party place is going to be at the same place as year before:

SOU Strojarske (high school), Pod sokolice (street), Trencin, GPS: 48.8903,18.0602

News version has been released. KK Commander is Total Commander mock-up for Atari ST compatibles.

Altirra is an 8-bit Atari computer emulator. It is designed with emulation quality in mind, sometimes over speed and polish. It's designed as a system emulator and debugger instead of a games machine. System requirements: Windows 2000, XP, Vista, 7, or later (either 32-bit or x64 edition).

GemPLAY is a music player for Atari computers with GEM. In this version is added support for *.FLX (Flex tracker modules - plays via DSPMOD, so replay is a bit crippled, bacause it lacks Flex tracker's DSP effects).

MyMAIL is a mail client program for TOS based computers. Works with STinG/STiK and mintnet and magicnet if Gluestik is used.

Satellite is new game for Atari XL/XE computers. Authors are Xeen and Zilq.

This is the 4th edition of the New Years Disc - demopack for Atari XL/XE. It contains 3 disks full of new year demos, intros, animations, pictures, songs...

AspeQt is the free Atari serial peripheral emulator for Qt. This program emulates various Atari 8-bit family peripherals, most notably the disk drives via an SIO2PC cable.

Demo contains features sixteen screens plus intro, menu and reset.
Crews involved in the megademo:
- Paradox
- Atari Legend
- MJJ Prod
- No Extra
- Paradize
- BiTS
- KÜA
- Dead Hackers Society
- RGCD
- Elite
- Excellence in art
- The X'Press Crew

Realtime is new great demo for Atari STE with 1MB RAM form MJJ'Prod, released at Alchimie 2009.

EtherNEC adapter is solution for the Atari to have Ethernet from the old ST up to the TT and Falcon.

TipConv is a PC utility to convert images to TIP or HIP (Atari XL/XE) format.

Require any PC with any OS running JRE6, which also should be installed previously.

New version of this multiplatform emulator is available.

AHCC is a Pure C compatible compiler/assembler for the ATARI ST and its offspring.

Dbug of Defence Force have released a new STe demo at Kindergarden 2009.

Patrice Mandin released new version of SDL library for Atari 16/32 bit.

SDL is a library that helps you to make multimedia software which are multi-platforms.

FOReVER:2010 - main pages has been opened. Visitors list is online...

Forever is biggest pure 8-bit demoparty on the world!!!

Rodolphe Czuba is planning to send CTPCI before Christmas! And still have last few boards for selling.

The CTPCI is expansion card for your Atari Falcon that brings you at last the PCI connectors to your Falcon CT60/63 to use the graphical cards RADEON 7000/7500/9200, and some other cards like Ethernet, USB, S-ATA, Audio, etc...

With CTPCI + Radeon couple, you can use all LCD monitors with a great working area in some screen resolutions like 1920*1200 (wide / HDTV is 1920*1080), 1600*1200 or 1280*1024 in 16 Millions, 65K or 256 colors by example...

The CTPCI gives you a second IDE faster port to connect up to 4 IDE devices on your Falcon (2*HDD + CDROM + CompatFlash reader by example).

Atarionline.pl released new game (remake) for Atari XL/XE.

As MiKRO wrote on atari.org:

Hi everybody,

New version of popular (mainly in Amiga world, slowly in Atari world :) ANSI C/C99 compiler is available. Short list of changes:

- Using vasm 1.4b and vlink 0.12f with many improvements and bug fixes.

- The compiler itself is for the first time compiled with optimization enabled. So it is a little bit faster and smaller.

- Included vbccm68ks (16 bit integer) in distribution, which is required for the Atari TOS target.

- The 68k config files aos68k, tos and mint do no longer have to set optimization options. The OPT directive is completely supported by vasmm68k_mot since 1.3d.

- M68k code generator: Fixed many ColdFire bugs. But the ColdFire support is still far from being perfect.

- M68k code generator: Fixed \"target error: illegal use of registers\", which could be caused by case statements, since V0.9, and during jumptable generation.

- M68k code generator: Generated illegal data constants when -const-in-data and -sd were specified together.

- M68k code generator: Fixed a crash, which could occur with constant pointers (e.g. *(int *)0x1234=x) in certain situations.

- M68k code generator: Calling a constant address no longer leads to an internal error.

- M68k code generator: Fixed a wrong condition code test when converting to smaller integral types.

- vclib: strtod() fixed: the endptr (when given) was incorrect.

- vclib: ctype.h was wrong for all 68k targets (toupper()/tolower() inlines didn\'t work).

- vasmm68k: Got a noticeable performance improvement on parsing the input source by a factor between 3 and 30.

- vasmm68k: M68k cpu settings were lost when assembling a source vbcc generated with -g option.

- vasmm68k: Wrong M68k optimization of move.w #0,An into suba.w An,An left garbage in the MSW.

- vlink: Erroneously prefered a symbol from a library over a symbol with the same name from the referencing object module.

- vlink: Fixed problem with merging common symbols from serveral modules.

- many smaller bugfixes

vbcc is both native (TOS and FreeMiNT) and cross (nearly any host) C compiler emerged from Amiga world and successfully tested on some Atari projects as well (most notably my Starstruck demo port :)

Graph2Font - new version is available. Graph2Font allows you to do multicolor graphics for the 8-bit Atari on PC.

CTPCI will be produced!!! Rodolphe Czuba have 106 CTPCI orders today.

Rodolphe Czuba and Didier Méquignon released new firmwave for CT60/CT63 and CTPCI.

XXL released new game for Atari XL/XE. It is port of Nightshade from computer BBC Micro.

New version of ARAnyM is here. ARAnyM is an acronym: Atari Running on Any Machine. It is a virtual machine software for running the Atari ST/TT/Falcon operating systems (TOS, FreeMiNT, MagiC and others) and TOS/GEM applications on any kind of hardware - be it an IBM clone (read it as "PC" :-), an Apple, an Unix server, a graphics workstation or even a portable computer.

XXL, KAZ and XLENT released new game for Atari XL/XE.

Version 1.3.0 of the Atari ST, STE, TT and Falcon emulator Hatari has been released.

Jo Even Skarstein released new version of his great tool Taskbar. Taskbar is a Windows-like taskbar, with a list of all running applications and a start-menu. Taskbar should currently work on XaAES and N.AES, but this version has some minor issues under N.AES. Taskbar needs an AV-server for most of its features.

Matosimi released new 1k game for Atari XL/XE. This game was created especially for MiniGame Compo 2009.

Thanx to Atarionline.pl and D-Bug we have this popular game for Atari ST.

Patrice Mandin released his CT60 firmware. When he used 1.04 firmware, his Falcon was unstable and crashed, so he made some patches from 1.04 firmware backported to 1.03c. It contains:
- Bugfix in VT52 emulation
- STMicro flash chip support
- Setup application

Eiffel is PS/2 Keyboar & Mouse adapter for Atari ST/TT/Falcon.

r0x is new game for Atari STE.

Pajero/Madteam released new version of his ATR plugin for Total Commander.

Graph2Font - new version is available. Graph2Font allows you to do multicolor graphics for the 8-bit Atari on PC.

There are first photos of CTPCI.

gwEm of PHF released new version of maxYMiser. maxYMiser is one of the best and most up to date chip tracker for Atari ST.

TeBe/Madteam released new version of this Atari files cross-packer for Windows. It is based on compresion Deflater and Exomizer from Super Packer by Bewesoft.

Isora is a new logical game for Atari XL/XE computers. Authors are Xxl (code), Miker (msx), Vidol (gfx) and Mr. Beepa (msx).

MiKRO/Mystic Bytes released Starstruck demo for Atari Falcon 060 - originaly made by TBL for Amiga computers.

Rodolphe Czuba receives CTPCI PCB prototype ...

Patrice Mandin releases new versions of this classical 3D games, now with some fixies ...

Results and downloads from Outline 2009 are online. Outline was held in The Netherlands between May 21 and May 24 2009.

New version of this multiplatform emulator is available.

SNDH archive v3.0 contains 3203 SNDH files (total 6197 tunes) now.

SNDH collection contains different chip musics from Atari ST in SNDH format.

ASMA v3.3 contains 2843 tunes now.

The Atari SAP Music Archive is a free project which has the aim to collect most of the ATARI XL/XE music in one huge collection. The tunes in ASMA are stored in SAP format that can be replayed by a SAP player currently available for many platforms.

Pajero/Madteam released new version of his ATR plugin for Total Commander.

Raster Music Tracker (RMT) is a cross-platform tool for making Atari XE/XL music on PC. New version is available now.

ACP is a new computer Atari-compatible based on a ColdFire CPU.

New version of ARAnyM is here. ARAnyM is an acronym: Atari Running on Any Machine. It is a virtual machine software for running the Atari ST/TT/Falcon operating systems (TOS, FreeMiNT, MagiC and others) and TOS/GEM applications on any kind of hardware - be it an IBM clone (read it as "PC" :-), an Apple, an Unix server, a graphics workstation or even a portable computer.

MiKROs compilation of the latest FreeMiNT and XaAES for Atari Falcon 030, CT60 and EtherNAT. Just unzip, set IP address and you can surf the Internet from your Atari.

New version of TeraDesk is available. TeraDesk is open-source desktop for the 16-bit and 32-bit lines of Atari computers.

Francois Le Coat released ARAnyM Minipack = new 0.9.7beta+CVS ARAnyM version. Macintosh - PC/Linux - PlayStation 3 are all supported with both Mac OS X and GNU / Linux.

There are some minor improvements in documentation package, new photos and new version of SDrive Atari control program (v01 20090403) with a lot of new features.

Outline is a multiplatform demoparty (histrically it was the Atari demoparty) in Eersel/Netherland. It will be held from 21st to 24th of May 2009.

Guillaume Tello released new version of M_Player. He wrote:

Finally, I managed to make M_Player run under Aranym. The "dirt" programming is back!

I plan to improve two importants points:
- the disassembling of an animation (to TGA and sound)
- the creation of an animation (the BATCH file is a bit hard for most users, I try to make a clearer interface)

- the direct conversion only works under TOS with a very ... personal system (M_PLAYER calls a second M_PLAYER!)

Well, for those of you who made long time ago some sequences with CyberPaint (*.SEQ, *.DLT) with Lexicor (*.FLM) or digitized videos with Video Master (*.FLM) this is the chance to view them again if you don't own your original Atari anymore. And with the disassembling and creating functions, you should be able to convert them to a more modern format such as AVI or MOV.

New issue of this great diskmag for Atari XL/XE is released.

Atari800 is an Atari 800, 800XL, 130XE and 5200 emulator for Unix, Amiga, MS-DOS, Atari TT/Falcon, SDL and WinCE, with a very precise emulation.

Atariada 2009 is comming. It will be in Prostejov/CZ in day 28.3.2009 from 09:00 to max.24:00. Atariada is well-known Atari users meeting in Czech republic.

Demo compo:
1. 507 p. Ilusia - MAD TEAM
2. 415 p. Just For Fun - GPRS
3. 371 p. Summertime - MatoSimi,Nooly,KoZyCa

Intro compo:
1. 554 p. Shademorph - Raster/C.P.U.
2. 474 p. Balls Forever - MaPa

Graphics compo:
1. 577 p. elFi - Powrooz/LaResistance
2. 490 p. Temple - Powrooz/LaResistance
3. 483 p. Corelation - Dely/Blowjob
4. 387 p. Super Babe - Exin
5. 314 p. Prasatko - Factor6
6./7. 252 p. 1930 - Kozyca
6./7. 252 p. Ghoul - Raster/C.P.U.

Music compo:
1. 435 p. M.A.B. - Raster/C.P.U.
2. 434 p. Wyjasnijmy to sobie - LiSU
3. 387 p. Amelie - Nooly

WARNING!!! There is a change of party place (because the building has been sold to a new owner). New party place is not known yet. At the moment we have several options, and we are trying to choose the best one. The most important thing is that Forever will be for 100%. All information about new party place will be available at the old place from tomorrow afternoon. If you have any questions, contact me by telephone or sms (txt message) on +42l 9O5 5l4 23O (-XI-/Satantronic), but I will have more information about new party place on Friday afternoon.

AHCC is a Pure C compatible compiler/assembler for the ATARI ST and its offspring.

News version has been released. KK Commander is Total Commander mock-up for Atari ST compatibles.

Version 2.13 of the SainT has been released. SainT is a Windows based cycle accurate ATARI-ST emulator, written by James Boulton and Arnaud Carré.

Graph2Font - new version is available. Graph2Font allows you to do multicolor graphics for the 8-bit Atari on PC.

Now is registered 48 visitors and compo contributors (Atari: 4xMSX, 2xGFX, 4xINTRO, 1xDEMO)

Forever is biggest pure 8-bit demoparty on the world!!!

AHCC is a Pure C compatible compiler/assembler for the ATARI ST and its offspring.

The source distribution also contains TT-Digger, which is from now on open source. Publication of AHCC comprises the free standing editor AHCX.

All software is published under the GPL.

Version 1.2.0 of the Atari ST, STE, TT and Falcon emulator Hatari has been released.

News:
- Fixed a bug that could write data to the wrong disk image (resulting in data loss)

The SuperVidel will be graphics card for Atari Falcon with CT60 (it will be 100% hardware register compatible with the old Videl and it will snoop all accesses to the old Videl).

Features:

- The SuperVidel is a CT60 expansion board, sitting on the internal CT60 expansion connector.
- DVI-I connector: support for both digital and analog output using a splitter cable. This means the SuperVidel supports output to two screens at the same time.
- Features all the colour depths and resolutions of the old Videl chip, from mono to 16-bit, by functioning exactly as the old Videl on the hardware register level
- Adds a 24-bit (16,777,216 colors) color depth as a 4 byte RGBA mode.
- Adds an 8-bit chunky mode.
- Ability to generate a resolution of up to 1600x1200 at 75Hz even in the 24-bit color depth.
Pixel clock supports the old 25.175MHz and 32MHz settings. We will extend the pixel clock frequency settings to achieve 50 up to 225 MHz at steps of 25MHz. At 225MHz 1600x1200@75Hz is possible.
- Onboard 128MB 32bit wide DDR2 memory at 333MHz, yielding a theoretical bandwidth of 1350MB/s. A resolution of 1600x1200@75Hz 24bit RGBA (4-byte) requires 576MB/s, so there should be plenty of bandwidth left for play.
- An integrated Super Blitter, but not necessarily compatible with the old Blitter, because it was rarely used on the falcon anyway.
- MPEG2-support.
- Hardware 3D support in the form of a polygon texture mapper. This requires lots of space in the FPGA though. This feature is not included in the first release of the SuperVidel, to save time, but the board is easily upgraded later in the same way as you upgrade your CT60.

As Rodolphe Czuba wrote on comp.sys.atari.st:

Hello,

Happy new Year 2009 to all atarians.

A new batch of 20 CT63 may be produced this month and shipping planned for March (no delay this time).

I need 20 buyers and I have 14.

It is the really last batch because of new projects after (CTPCI and an other ) and the factory difficulty to solder correctly all parts (I had 7 boards to repair on the previous batch ! ) because of the lost of the solder mask inox (too expensive to produce again) when the previous factory closed.

You last chance to get a CT63 on your Falcon.

Price stills 320 EUR.

UltraSatan is a hard disk replacement for Atari ST and other Atari's with ACSI port. It uses SD/SDHC or MMC cards as a storage, which are hot-pluggable.

Specs:
- why? for the same reasons as 'Why SatanDisk?' (MMC and SD cards are cheap and noise-less, etc.)
- it has 2 slots for SD/MMC cards, so replaces 2 SatanDisks attached to 1 computer
- the SD/MMC cards are hot-pluggable, i.e. you don't need to power off and on the UltraSatan when you change the card
- has a battery backed up RTC chip
- up to 4 different firmwares can be uploaded from ST without a need for any additional HW (no flash programmer needed for update)
- it has 1 base (non overwritable) firmware, so even if you screw up the FW update, the device won't become unusable
- it's faster than SatanDisk

As MiKRO wrote on dhs.nu:

Hi everybody,

I'm more than happy to announce the end of our effort to port vbcc/vasm/vlink tools to the TOS platform. Thanks to dedicated work of Frank Wille we've got:

- modern & superb assembler with nearly all devpac directives, i.e. you can finally use your fave assembler under any modern multitasking OS (i.e. FreeMiNT)

- linker with many input and output formats

- fully compliant ANSI C99 compiler that produces hell of optimized code

The whole toolchain was heavily tested on one big project, i.e. we killed quite a many bugs so you should get very well tested product.

As suggested, this toolchain is aimed to be replacement for bloated gcc/gas/ld toolchain which is quite unusable on anything but aranym/ct60. vbcc is lightweight package that runs fine on 4 MB machines, even without FreeMiNT (i.e. under plain TOS!)

Primarily, it's focused to run under FreeMiNT, so I post here little tutorial for the first hello world, in case you're interested in making setup for commandline compiler/assebler under single TOS, feel free to contact me. So, the easiest way to compile "Hello World" under FreeMiNT:

1. go to the website (http://sun.hasenbraten.de/vbcc)
2. download vbcc_bin_mint.tar.gz and vbcc_target_m68k-atarimint.zip
3. directories "bin" and "config" from vbcc_bin_mint.tar.gz copy into /usr/local/vbcc
4. create environment variable called "VBCC" with the value of "/usr/local/vbcc"
5. directory "targets" from vbcc_target_m68k-atarimint.zip copy into /usr/local/vbcc
6. tweak access rights for /usr/local/vbcc/targets/m68k-atarimint/include/* and /usr/local/vbcc/targets/m68k-atarimint/lib/* with "chmod +r+w"

type "vc -o hello hello.c" and you should get Atari ST compatible binary! Please refer to the manual of vasm/vbcc/vlink for advanced usage. You can contact me (see my website) for Atari specific things or Frank in case you fall into some trouble.

What? Did I hear you don't need new C compiler since you're happy with your gcc/g++ but still like the idea of having new assembler? Well, no problem! vasm is able to produce fully compliant a.out mint object files, so you can link vasm output with gcc, yeah! Beat this with devpac!

What again? Maybe you would use the vbcc but the gcc offers cross compilation possibility? Well, vbcc as well! You can produce amiga, elf, atari etc binaries on amiga, linux, freemint, windows etc based machines! No complicated configuration, just run "make TARGET=xxx" on any machine you want!

Hope you'll enjoy it, I was looking for some decent devpac replacement for years and now I got it!

Gerhard Stoll created a small program XaMagiC which add some new AES function to MagiC:

- more appl_getinfo() modes.
- appl_control with the mode APC_HIDE, APC_SHOW, APC_TOP and APC_HIDENOT.

Patrice Mandin released new version of this toy. This program is a background image viewer and movie player for Resident Evil games. Currently, it supports most RE1,RE2 and RE3 games and demos, both from Playstation and PC versions of these games..

New version of TeraDesk is available. TeraDesk is open-source desktop for the 16-bit and 32-bit lines of Atari computers.

Version 1.1.0 of the Atari ST, STE, TT and Falcon emulator Hatari has been released.

Emulation changes:
- Falcon DSP emulation good enough to improve some few games/demos, e.g. Virtual City. (most still work better with emulation disabled, though)
- New sound engine that fixes all problems with the old one
- 16-bit stereo sound (instead of 8-bit mono)
- Improved blitter emulation (blitter cycles emulation, blitter interrupt)
- Improved STE support for some video registers (hscroll, linewidth, ...)
- Improved printer emulation
- Improved STE microwire emulation
- Improved support for games & demos which are accessing IKBD directly (including a fake 6301 emulation for the known IKBD programs)
- ACSI emulation fix to get HDDriver working
- Some other minor bugfixes to ST/STe emulation (FDC, MFP, PSG, RS-232)
- Improved MFP emulation
- Improved 68k emulation (move.b Ax,(Ay) and extb.l)
- Fixed bugs in the GEMDOS HD emulation (Pexec() etc.)

General program changes:
- Statusbar and overlay led features
- Screenshots work also in VDI/TT/Falcon mode and are saved as PNGs
- Support for automatic frameskip and pausing emulation
- Support for embedding Hatari window (on X11) and control socket
- Improved memory snapshot function
- Improved the "trace" debug function

Graph2Font - new version is available. Now with VBXE support. G2F allows you to do multicolor graphics for the 8-bit Atari on PC.

News in this Total Commander mock-up:
- less memory usage (when long list of file to transfer)
- ZIP archive files support (PKZIP). STORE and DEFLATE methods only.

The zip file is opened as it was a folder. Carefull when adding a file, if same name, the old one will be deleted.

When deleting, zip file is copied into a temp (.zmp) to take only the wanted zipentries. So you should have a hard disk drive.

DEFLATE archiving and INFLATE extraction are managed by a LDG library called deflate.ldg (zlib port, see the KKcmd sources), so install the LDG system. What you need is in the GOODIES folder of KKcmd.

CAREFULL: DEFLATE compression is not yet reliable. Seems to work okay. Winzip, Macoxs, unzip (from zlib) inflate well, but STZIP fails very very badly. So if you have to make public releases, keep using STZIP (carefull also there, STZIP corrupts zip files when modifications/deletes). Or tell explicitly to use KKcmd.

INFLATE seems to work well.

Generally speaking, perform some tests with KKcmd before giving important files (ie test with winzip, macosx unzippers, zlib, infoZip...).

One more remark: in Options, misc, unselect free disk space verification under MiNT or Aranym or MagiCMac. If there's too much space, the function returns false.

Version 2.12 of the SainT has been released. SainT is a Windows based cycle accurate ATARI-ST emulator, written by James Boulton and Arnaud Carré.

New version of EmuTOS is released. EmuTOS is a GEMDOS compatible operating system for Atari ST series computers. It is made from Digital Research's GPLed original sources and will be a free and open source replacement for common TOS images.

New version of ARAnyM is here. ARAnyM is an acronym: Atari Running on Any Machine. It is a virtual machine software for running the Atari ST/TT/Falcon operating systems (TOS, FreeMiNT, MagiC and others) and TOS/GEM applications on any kind of hardware - be it an IBM clone (read it as "PC" :-), an Apple, an Unix server, a graphics workstation or even a portable computer.

It is a small card that plugs on the CT60/63 expand slot and uses a LOCAL-PCI bridge, the PLX 9054. This last generation PCI bridge is the successor of the well known PLX9080 that is used on the Milan motherboard. It is register backward compatible...

Features:
- PCI BIOS & ATI RADEON driver incorporated in the CT60/63 Flash : the boot screen is directed on the Radeon graphical card!
- 4 PCI slots 3.3V/5V & 33 MHz.
- The adaptor allows slave and master PCI to local transfers : this means that the PCI cards will be able to initiate a PCI master transaction to local bus and so SDRAM of the CT60 without CPU (the eclipse board is just slave, no PCI mastering and the CPU does all transfers in the 2 senses !). Two DMA channels are available to ensure CPU free transfers.
- Compatible with CT60/63 from 66 to 105 MHz (to be tested and confirmed).
- EtherNAT board compatible (to be tested and confirmed for highest frequencies).
- Falcon case compatible (PLX board, not PCI board although all is possible...)
- PCI slots PCB is cuttable between the first and second PCI slot (to have a single PCI slot card) to allow some of you to try to integrate a small graphical card into their falcon case...(why not).

ATADIM is small PC (Win9x) tool for easy work with Atari disk image files XFD and ATR. It supports standard single/medium/double XFD format and all types/sizes of ATR format (also megaimages). Main features: directory listing, rename, delete, make directory, import, export.

Resulst are:

HW Compo:
1. SDrive - Robert Petružela a Radek Štěrba - 429 p
2. CMI08 PS/2-mouse-interface - Christian Krüger - 415 p
3. 16x OS-Switcher PLUS / BIOS4Config - Christoph Büssow - 406 p
4. 512K SRAM-enhancement - Bernd Herale - 392 p
5. ASCB (ABBUC SIO Connector Board) - Wolfram Fischer - 336 p
6. 7.16 Mhz accelerator for the 1200XL - Bob Woolley - 299 p

SW Compo:
1. XDOS 2.4 + YASH 1.0 - Stefan Dorndorf - 467 p (util)
2. Animal Party - Mario Caillahuz - 437 p (game)
3. SDG Statistical Data Graphics & Analysis - Claudio Fernandez Loquenz - 355 p (util)
4. Blackbox - Chris Martin - 336 p (game)
5. Zedi - Winfried Fiedler - 280 p (util)
6. Pokey Glider - Bart Jaszcz - 275 p (util)

Reminiscence is an interpreter that enables playing Delphine Software Flashback on Atari Falcon030 home computer. To play a game you need original Flashback data files from PC version (not included due to legal reasons). Optionally you can install module pack from Amiga version for digital music and american version SegaCD speech files (new feature in 0.1.9 - some ingame dialogs are spoken, but not the ingame cutscenes, so don't report it as a bug).

Additionaly I've added support for Atari jagpad controllers, introduced some improvements from PSP/GP2X ports by Rlyeh and Sektor, added functionality to make TGA screenshots and removed all debug info from release build.

Somekind of accelerator board (bus and/or CPU is strongly recommended). Under MiNT disable all software screen expanders, this version doesn't work with Aranym.

FOReVER|neXt main pages has been opened. Visitors list is online...

Forever is biggest pure 8-bit demoparty on the world!!!

Bomb Jack is here! After long time we have this cool game for Atari XL/XE, too. Authors are Vega, TeBe and Tezz.

Patrice Mandin released new version of SDL library for Atari 16/32 bit.

SDL is a library that helps you to make multimedia software which are multi-platforms.

ATADIM is small PC (Win9x) tool for easy work with Atari disk image files XFD and ATR. It supports standard single/medium/double XFD format and all types/sizes of ATR format (also megaimages). Main features: directory listing, rename, delete, make directory, import, export.

News in this Total Commander mock-up:
- fix: when copying/moving, correct dates of files and folders
- fix: when already existing formular - exit click and Enter works
- fix: better disk informations (Ctrl+I)

In icons list, on A or B:
- floppy disk format
- floppy disk quick format (FAT erase, keeping bad sectors positions)
- convert floppy disk to .MSA file (with RLE compression)

In files list, on .MSA or .ST file:
- can open a floppy disk image as if it was a folder (delay of work if compressed .MSA file), can walk throught folders and list files.
- can copy those folders and files to a real folder/disk (ie files extraction)

Ctrl+M is key shortcut on floppy disk or .MSA or .ST files.

As MiKRO/MSB wrote:

Hi again,

since there were no complaints about VGA/50 Hz and Kalms was so kind he helped me with the last bug, I'm happy to tell you Ocean Machine is here!

Btw this demo is true delicacy for CT60 users with Nemesis/Phantom/bus boost and ~80 MHz -- on my setup I haven't seen one effect under 25 FPS and 50 FPS wasn't anything special at all! :)

OK, enough crap, enjoy the view :)

As MiKRO/MSB wrote:

Hi everyone,

after some experiments with 8-bit coding (I failed, I wasn't able to code one simple slideshow :-) I'm back in Falcon coding.

I was thinking about making some update to Silkcut because there was awful bug in the 1.01 version -- fading routine was totally messed up which results in incorrect display of TBL logos + affects framerate as well.

So this update fixes it plus adds:

- VGA 60 Hz support (I really hope no one will have problems with LCDs anymore)
- color greetings! (Kalms and me decided it doesn't look *that* bad, esp. on TV)
- special version of greetings for 60 Hz (thanks, Kalms!)
- much nicer tunnel sequence

On the other side, there's some hidden bug (in my port, in the original demo, in the universe, ... :-) which means that tunnel looks either fantastic or jerky. In in week I wasn't able to catch it, I give up, sorry folks. It's just a port after all... It seems the best chances to see perfect effect you have on 66 MHz machine, it's kind of sync problem, that's all I can say about it...

P.S. I'd like to ask -- how many of you had problems with that 50 Hz version? I ask because Ocean Machine is much, much more knitted to 50 Hz than Silkcut and citing Kalms: "fixing" that will be a bitch :-)

KK Commander is a local adaptation of Litchi and Total Commander mock-up. Meant to manipule easily with the keyboard files to copy/move/launch. Can serve as an alternative desktop, since 320*200 screen and 1 MB RAM.

ATADIM is small PC (Win9x) tool for easy work with Atari disk image files XFD and ATR. It supports standard single/medium/double XFD format and all types/sizes of ATR format (also megaimages). Main features: directory listing, rename, delete, make directory, import, export.

SuperVidel prototype PCB is getting close to completion. As we can read at Nature pages:

Now we consider the PCB of the SuperVidel to be around 85% complete. Note that this percentage does not include the VHDL code that will control the behaviour of the FPGA, but when the board layout is finished we may finally order the prototypes to be manufactured, and then it will not be easy to stop us from developing all the cool stuff like the SuperBlitter, MPEG-support and 3D-support. :)

The SuperVidel will be graphics card for Atari Falcon with CT60 (it will be 100% hardware register compatible with the old Videl and it will snoop all accesses to the old Videl).

Yastuna vol. 1 & vol. 2 are a freeware compilations of Lynx games to be used with an Atari Lynx or emulator.

Who lost the wallet is new oldschool demo for Atari XL/XE from Czech autors Poison, PG and Fandal.

Coda (Jan Thomas) released a new version of his USB mouse driver v0.92. It's still alpha, but it shouldn't crash now when run in 060 mode with a NetUSBee.

As MiKRO/MSB wrote:

hi guys,

it has been some time since i managed to release something. it's time my another (you remember quake, right? :) dream to become reality!

many of you have asked what i am working on at outline... people, *this* is it.

oh, you still don't know what i am talking about? some of you complained quake is quite boring and old and wellknown from PC... so this is... real reason for buying ct60? best of the best? some amiga stuff? some tbl stuff? some silkcut? :)

ENJOY!

P.S. Just got message from Kalms -- that first-scene bug is well known thing in Amiga version, too :)

Some results:

Atari Bootsector
1. 210 p. ZrObOtEr by Checkpoint
2. 162 p. DISTORTure by Cyclone^X-Troll^Alive
3. 161 p. Boot my piggy game by TinKeR (only :P)
4. 156 p. Balls by RA/pdx
5. 154 p. RGB by RA / pdx
6. 97 p. DF K!LL5 D4 B00753C70R III by D!LD0 F47w4

Atari ST Demo
1. 199 p. again by Paradox
2. 198 p. Meikever by Lineout and Reservoir Gods
3. 183 p. Morphonic Lab VI by Checkpoint
4. 99 p. Wee wee by Dildo Fatwa

128b Intro
1. 171 p. 128chess by lsl/checkpoint
2. 147 p. Picky by Seven/Fulcrum

For further results you can look at the homepage of Outline.

As Hencox writes at dhs.nu: The SuperVidel is definitely not dead. :)

The SuperVidel will be 100% hardware register compatible with the old Videl and it will snoop all accesses to the old Videl. This means that old unmodified games, demos and applications will run as before on the SV but you will get the output through the new DVI-I port (digital + analog). There will be no speed increase though until the games/demos are modified to use the DDR2 graphics RAM. This is a small patch. Of course we'll also have to add new hardware registers for all the new functions.

Development of the SuperVidel is progressing. Now I get some help with the PCB from my brother Torbjörn. Earlier we had the job split up so that I do the PCB and he does the VHDL code for the FPGA with some help from me. The schematics design is nearly complete and I've begun looking at the layout. I don't have to do it all from scratch since I've already done the layout to almost completion a couple of times before...

The current specs of the SuperVidel are:

- 128MB 32bit-wide DDR2 "333Mhz" yielding 1350MB/s internally on the SuperVidel. Accessing the graphics RAM from the CT60 is limited by the speed of the CT60 bus and will probably reach 100MB/s or slightly above. Still, that’s a lot better than the 5.5MB/s you get from the old STRAM today. :)

- One full DVI (DVI-I) connector, i.e. both digital and analog output.

- Dual screen output, one via the digital signals and the other through the analog, thanks to dual internal pixel decode pipelines. This means you may at the same time display two different screens (for example a stretched GEM desktop) or the same screen on both monitors.

- All the old resolutions are supported (because the SV is Videl compatible…) and the upper limit will be around 1600 x 1200 x 24bit x 75Hz.

P2AM is abbreviation of 'PS2 to ATARI/AMIGA mouse'. Just connect a PS2 mouse to it and connect the P2AM to your computer - you can then use that PS2 mouse with your computer. The device works with all Atari 16/32-bit computers, from simple 520ST to the Falcon030 with latest upgrades. The same goes for Amiga range of computers, every model should work -- from A1000 to A4000. There's even possibility to use this device and PS/2 mouse with your 8-bit Atari or other 8-bit computer since some software support connection of Amiga/Atari mices via its serial ports.

New issue of this great diskmag for Atari XL/XE is released.

Atariada 2008 is comming. It will be in Prostejov/CZ in day 12.4.2008 from 09:00 to max.24:00. Atariada is well-known Atari users meeting in Czech republic.

MyAES 0.91 has been released. Hand exchanges are listed hereafter:

- Better redraw managment one functions locking applications (form_alert, fsel_input, menu_popup..), now when move the object (file selector for example) customer Windows are redraw.
- Menu_popup() can' T work correctly when year hierarchical finely was attach to it (impossible to C Copy in closed RSM for example because popup before Be whitebait to select the Copy item because it closed when has hieriarchical finely was open flying one has item previous item closed when go out of this)

MyAES is a free, fast, reliable and modern AES.

The software company Norbyte has finally made Rainbow II Multimedia for Atari Falcon available as freeware

Version 1.0.0 of the Atari ST, STE, TT and Falcon emulator Hatari has been released. A lot of things have been changed this time.

Version 3.95 of TeraDesk open-source desktop for the 16-bit and 32-bit lines of Atari computers is available.

Updated (17.3.2008 11:27):

fixed: 2. 483 p. High Tide - Born/LaResistance
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Updated (17.3.2008 00:14):

All Atari compo contributions were released.
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Results of Atari competitions from FOReVER|9 demoparty are here:

Demo compo:
1. 585 p. Jozin z Bazin - GPRS
2. 537 p. Recall by Resurrection
3. 403 p. Unexpected - MEC

Intro compo:
1. 605 p. Twirlee - Eru & X-Ray
2. 550 p. Fluid Chessboard - Raster/C.P.U.
3. 465 p. Outlaw - Fandal

Graphics compo:
1. 505 p. Neptune's Daughter - Powrooz/Laresistance
2. 493 p. Surfer's Dream - Kozyca
3. 462 p. Binary Celebration - Raster / C.P.U.
4. 448 p. Throne - Kozyca
5. 390 p. IMBAL - Dely

Music compo:
1. 522 p. I'm sure - Raster/C.P.U.
2. 483 p. High Tide - Born/LaResistance
3. 472 p. Funny - LiSU
4. 466 p. Samantha - Pin
5. 436 p. AOKI - Nooly
6. 361 p. Astrosphere - Kozyca
7. 302 p. XIXE - -XI-/Satantronic
8. 186 p. 30minutes - Elan

KK Commander is a local adaptation of Litchi and Total Commander mock-up. Meant to manipule easily with the keyboard files to copy/move/launch. Can serve as an alternative desktop, since 320*200 screen and 1 MB RAM.

There is a new version of chip tracker maxYMiser available now. News of 'Live' version:
- MIDI clock out
- Sync24 I/O
- MIDI controller support
- Enhanced live resequencing
- Polyphonic MIDI input
- Many bug fixes and small enhancements

New version of EmuTOS is released. EmuTOS is a GEMDOS compatible operating system for Atari ST series computers. It is made from Digital Research's GPLed original sources and will be a free and open source replacement for common TOS images.

MyAES 0.90 is out. It was test on TT, Falcon CT60 and Aranym. MyAES is a free, fast, reliable and modern AES. It should be at least as good as "standard" AESes (MagiC and NAES are the references).

SuJi is a replacement for MGSEARCH which is bundled with MagiC, but it can also be used under other operating systems. News of version 1.37:
- Search for folders (as well as files).
- No more problems with memory protection under FreeMiNT.
- If the TOS cannot produce extended objects (checkboxes) then these will be created by SuJi.
- GEMScript support for the following commands:
- AppGetLongName() : Returns \"SuJi\"
- Copy() : List -> Clipboard
- Quit() : Exit SuJi
- ToFront() : Top SuJi window
- More flexible output to the clipboard

New version of ARAnyM is here. ARAnyM is an acronym: Atari Running on Any Machine. It is a virtual machine software for running the Atari ST/TT/Falcon operating systems (TOS, FreeMiNT, MagiC and others) and TOS/GEM applications on any kind of hardware - be it an IBM clone (read it as "PC" :-), an Apple, an Unix server, a graphics workstation or even a portable computer.

Patrice Mandin released new version of this toy. This program is a background image viewer and movie player for Resident Evil games (some demos are also supported).

In 2008 starts two ABBUC contests. For hardware and for software. All users can partizipate.Of course all users they are not an ABBUC member, too.

Rules for the ABBUC-Software-Contest 2008 (short form):
- everyone can participate
- no demos, only games, apps and utils
- must run on standard xl/xe
- first release through ABBUC
- previews and teasers are allowed
- the deadline for the software contest has been set to the 31st of August 2008 (until midnight). ABBUC will therefore spend the following prizes:
1st place: 500 Euro
2nd place: 250 Euro
3rd place: 125 Euro
4th place: 75 Euro
5th place: 50 Euro
6th - 10th place: a small consolation prize
Note: this is a short summary of the contest rules!

Rules for the ABBUC-Hardware-Contest 2008 (short form):
- Hardware/Extensions for the family of ATARI 8-Bit-Computers (600XL, 800XL, 65XE, 130XE).
- The Deadline for the Hardware-Contest has been set to 31. August 2008. Instead the ABBUC will spend the following Prices:

Hardware (Final):
1. Place: 500 Euro
2. Place: 250 Euro
3. Place: 125 Euro
4.-10. Place: a small consolation gift!

Hardware (in Development):
1. Place: 100 Euro
2. Place: 50 Euro
3. Place: 25 Euro
4.-10. Place: a small consolation gift!
Note: this is a short summary of the contest rules!

Eddy v.1.01, the new sector editor to replace DiskRx under SpartaDOS. Allows you to edit disks formatted to 512 bytes per sector.

Atariada 2008 is comming. It will be in Prostejov/CZ in day 12.4.2008 from 09:00 to max.24:00. Atariada is well-known Atari users meeting in Czech republic.

Graph2Font - new version is available. G2F allows you to do multicolor graphics for the 8-bit Atari on PC.

New issue of RGCD is here. RGCD is a new downloadable CD-ROM based magazine for retro gamers. Main focus is on the new releases for 8/16-Bit computer platforms, Atari computers included.

Gerhard Stoll released database system Phoenix v5.2 with sourcecode.

A front end for the various Atari hardware emulators, primarily the Atari800WinPlus emulator. The Atari Launcher allows lists of program images to be sorted and managed, as well it stores and sets individual emulator settings for each image.

D-Bug have decided to have an Atari Advent Calendar full of goodies for you all!

Leonard of Oxygene fixed his great demo from STNICCC to run on 16 Mhz (ST) machines.

Atari Commander is file manager for Atari XL/XE computers. New version is available now.

FOReVER|9 main pages has been opened. Visitors list is online...

Forever is biggest pure 8-bit demoparty on the world!!!

Dark Angel/Aura released new version of Musicmon with some bug fixes.

FOReVER - biggest pure 8bit party on the world is comming

- date: 14.-16.o3.2oo8 (nonstop)
- location: EARTH/EUROPE/SLOVAKIA/TRENCIN/SOMMER CLUB
- more information will be online 1.12.2007

-XI-/Satantronic released small tool for testing Stereo upgrade in Atari XL/XE computers.

On Google groups we can see this (with Babelfish translator) :

I am quite conscious that my times become immense and that I do not give a news.... Each WE that I return, I think that I will update the site and each time I set out again into 4 the ieme speed of at home with flock.... (I miss the week)....

I thus took certain resolutions... - I bought elements of PC (240 Euro of expenses) to mount a PC of race with the pieces that Thierry had spun me (super good the caseThierry)... This PC will be brought into service this week in my studio and I install there the signal of the signal as regards electronic CAD.... Then it will occur many hours to take again in hand it software, but once that it is maitrisé, it is very powerful and one can make a car routing partial or total of the chart without breaking the bottom as with EAGLE... which is prehistory compared with it software (MENTOR GRAPHICS for those which know).

This known as I advance on the CTPCI.... yesterday in the train I controllé it pine out of the PLX9054 with an aim of placing it in best the position on the chart compared to exit NCV and the buses Dated and Add from connector of the CT60. This well on in order to simplifying the routing and especially to allow me locker pines of the CPLD in best positions on the CPLD, there too to simplify the routing... Well on the CPLD is finished... donc the most intellectual part is finished one can say... oh, there A will be surely debuguage but nothing with to see with that of ABE or SDR on the CT60... besides when I throw an eye with the sources as of the these 2 chips I think that I had made very extremely....;-) I do not know so today I would still manage to do one similar trick considering the little of time qua I have.... Y has 5 years when I coded and debuguais the ABE and SDR I worked far also of at home, but the wages and conversion monètaire of my wages towards the euro made that I did not need to make hours sup... donc I had complete evenings.... This year, I am obliged to thus work 55h/sem when I return I have with all to break 1 hour of free, when I still have forces.... this job is also more physical...

What goes can be to change very soon (and one hopes well extremely) it is that my partner will find job and thus I will be able to cease the hours sup... donc more time for the CTPCI...

Veiled... and I have 10 more CTPCI to finish and to dispatch because I miss it generator of untraceable clock on the planête or at a price of insane... I besides will regulate this prob this we....

I also made 1 or 2 sketches of the archi of the CPLD of the CTPCI, and it is necessary that I place them on the site.

Andreas Bertelmann opened new portals ataritoday.net, .org a .de, with similar contentas as before have ataritoday.com.

Gerhard Stoll released programs Chatter (IRC client) and Teli (Telnet) with sources.

Olivier L. released new Afros-Falcon. As he said: I made small to a config (AFROS) minimalist allowing of to transform Aranym into basic a Falcon emulator, here not of Mint, no the modern AES, not of vdi native, therefore with Emulation videl active.

New version is here. Litchi is FTP client for TOS.

Madteam released improved version of game Mario Bros originaly from Nintendo company.

Resulst are:
1. 421 p. Yoomp!
2. 400 p. Crownland
3. 366 p. Mule Wars
4. 363 p. Speed up!! Gold Edition
5. 334 p. Eckn
6. 264 p. Game Harry
7. 238 p. Sprite Engine
8. 227 p. Chareditor to move in Font

New version of this multiplatform emulator is available.

The second MAIN demoparty and the Micromusic Data Airlines festival will be held in Marseille, France, from november 1 to 4, Espace Julien Theater, in the center of the hot city...

Discount at door is for the foreign visitors and the registred sceners = 20 euros !

Check the site for the whole line up and the music http://www.dataairlines.net

Artists like Crazy-Q, Goto80, Dubmood, Sidabitbal, Nervous Test Pilot, Stu @Schmx, Meneo Paza, Bit Shifter and many others will rock the bits every night with Atari vs. Gameboy vs. C64 vs. scratching soundclashes!

Next good conversion from D-bug is here. GGN has fixed Graftgold's excellent conversion of Rainbow Islands and has made it hard-drive installable for bog standard ST's and also made it work 100% with the Falcon.

CALP project - Czech Atari Literature Preservation project.

Atari8 - news, provide to us news from various Atari portals and his RSS chanels.

AtarICQ (aICQ) is made in an attempt to provide an ICQ clone with a decent GUI for all Atari users out there. AtarICQ is a shell that relies on the presence of an overlay (AICQ.OVL) developed by Dan Ackerman. New version is available now.

Kronos is Atari bench utility for 16/32bit computers. Now is new version available.

XXL, Kaz and Miker released new port of game Jetpac (from ZX Spectrum) for Atari XL/XE.

Atari Commander is file manager for Atari XL/XE computers. New version is available now.

Graph2Font - new version is available. G2F allows you to do multicolor graphics for the 8-bit Atari on PC.

Raster Music Tracker (RMT) is a cross-platform tool for making Atari XE/XL music on PC. Now new version is available.

Here are results and download from 24h compo organized by Atari Area:

1. 31 v. Komary - Fox
2. 9 v. Starsplexer - pr0be
3. 4 v. BangPong - Pajero
3. 4 v. Sprites - Vidol

Fandal released new file version of game Commando. It required 256 kb of XRAM. This game was originaly released only as prototype on cartridge for Atari XL/XE.

A new EasyMiNT version is online, it fixes problems with the network dialog under some circumstances and some other bugs.

Jo Even Skarstein released beta version of his great tool Taskbar. Taskbar is a Windows-like taskbar, with a list of all running applications and a start-menu. Required XaAES, N.AES >= 1.1.0, Magic > 5.0, Geneva >= 005 and AV-server.

Smurf 1.06 GNU/GPL has just reappeared on the page of Gerhard Stoll. Smurf is one of excelent image processing software for Atari Falcon.

Distribution of SatanDisks to first preorders has started today. Satandisk is SD and MMC interface for Atari ST computers.

Alive diskmag about Atari ST/STE/Falcon computers issue fourteen released.

x128 is Spectrum 128 emulator for Atari Falcon 060. PeP updated his x128 port again. Apart from some corrections and minor improvements, he added SNDH output support. PeP ported this with FreeMiNT in mind, but it seems to work in TOS and should work in MagiC too, except for some minor glitches. Joystick still requires freemint though.

Version 3.93 of TeraDesk open-source desktop for the 16-bit and 32-bit lines of Atari computers is available.

UPX 3.01 has been released. UPX is a free, portable, extendable, high-performance executable packer for several different executable formats.

Patrice Mandin released new toy - Reevengi. Reevengi is just a background image viewer for some versions of the games. Supported games: Resident Evil (PS1 Demo, PS1 Game PAL, PC Game), Resident Evil 2 (PS1 Demo, PC Demo), Resident Evil 3 (PS1 Game PAL, PC Demo)

Coda (Jan Thomas) released his USB mouse driver v0.90. The driver is an ALPHA release, but it is useable and works on ST/TT/Falcon with EtherNat or NetUSBee, in TOS and MiNT (As for MagiC, you'll have to try it to see if it works, since the author does not own MagiC himself).

Thanx to Holyna, now we have online version of text-based adventure game Parodya (in czech language). Parodya is originaly made by Ivan Straka in 1996 for Atari 800 XL/XE.

VBXE - Video Board XE is new video board for Atari XE serie computers, created by Electron/Taquart.

Version 3.91 of TeraDesk open-source desktop for the 16-bit and 32-bit lines of Atari computers is available.

Fox released new version of decompresion inflate for 6502 CPU.

Litchi is FTP client for TOS. News: console and statistic

ASAP (Another Slight Atari Player) plays and converts Atari 8-bit music (*.sap, *.cmc, *.mpt, *.tmc, ...) on modern computers.

Little bugfix release, XaAES couldn´t be choosed. And there were an error message when installing ghostscript from X11 package. Updated kernel, XaAES and Teradesk with the latest (cvs) versions.

ASAP (Another Slight Atari Player) plays and converts Atari 8-bit music (*.sap, *.cmc, *.mpt, *.tmc, ...) on modern computers.

Greg Stanton released new version of his Atari 7800 emulator for Windows.

Bob!k & Raster (C.P.U.) makes new web page about his PCB for Stereo upgrade for Atari XE computers.

With this tool you can convert Quicktime movies to Cinepak smooth film file for creating video CD for Atari Jaguar. If you are unfamiliar with the Jaguar-Encryption, you can visit the "Creating Jaguar CDs" page.

Owners of Atari machines with hard disks want to run games from hard disk. This small program will allow for many Atari ST games - to run them from floppy image files on real Ataris, without need to write images on floppies.

Graph2Font allows you to do multicolor graphics for the 8-bit Atari on PC.