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Hatari – Online Atari ST/STE/TT/Falcon Emulator

https://hatari.frama.io/hatari/online/hatari.html
By: gregsadetsky
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pjmlp - 8 minutes ago
Kind of unusable on my HDPI monitor, get a tiny rectangle on the page, and the mouse locations don't map correctly.

Still kind of cool I guess.

Aldipower - 1 hour ago
Still using my real Atari for MIDI sequencing. It is one of the tightest and jitter free setups you can get even today. As far as I know the midi ports are directly bound to the CIA which itself is directly connected to the CPU. If you compare this to MIDI over USB, then there are worlds between it. This also also one of the limitation of the Hatari emulator. You cannot use it for midi stuff as you do not get the advantages.
gregsadetsky - 28 minutes ago
Could you talk about your setup? I'd love to learn more. Are you using Cubase or something else? Are input/output/backups complicated / do you commit to a floppy disk process?

Do you recommend finding a working Atari? Are they still reliable in your experience?

Thanks!

pipes - 28 minutes ago
I believe norman cook aka Fatboy slim still uses one?
lproven - 1 hour ago
As I understand it, Hatari is mainly aimed at running classic ST games. I think its emulation core was the basis of the Amiga PiStorm and similar projects.

There's another all-software ST emulator out there called Aranym:

https://aranym.github.io/

It has its own all-FOSS ST-compatible OS distro, AFROS:

https://aranym.github.io/afros.html

Aranym is aimed at running ST GEM as well as possible on modern machines, for productivity apps and so on -- so it sacrifices absolute hardware compatibility in favour of performance and features like high screen resolutions.

I would love to see a bare-metal Raspberry Pi version of Aranym, to turn a spare Pi into the fastest maxed-out Atari TT030 ever. :-)

AtlasBarfed - 12 hours ago
Hatari has existed as an emulator for like a decade....

I get this may be transpiled to the web, but...

musha68k - 7 hours ago
More people have been flocking to "retro computing" for a while now.

My hunch is that it's partially driven by mourning over increasing loss of deterministic "von Neumann computing"; so not pure nostalgia.

It doesn't matter the platform or if "only" in software / web or whatever it's just a great hobby to dabble with in general, especially when kids are getting into it.

The ZX Spectrum Next, Commodore 64 Ultimate and the likes, same as their OG versions are still great "bicycles for the mind" and a great intro to microcontrollers etc.

I'd personally be ready for an FPGA based "Mega Atari 800" or some such!

kabdib - 5 hours ago
After a day of single combat with multimillion-SLOC tangleware, it's fun to work with a system that you can fit in your head

Personally, I don't do much nostalgia. I've built the PDP-11 clones and run v6 Unix again and (o dear lord) compiled world.c with BDS-C on CP/M and realized that the 70s and 80s kinda sucked, and that I really like modern computing

musha68k - 2 hours ago
"RTFM" if available and factual to me is very satisfying.

So without much nostalgia / betting on actual hardware the (partially ST community derived) MiSTer project is just great for this kind of stuff - I guess you know it - if you will a micro PDP-11 surrogate.

I haven't tried this core myself yet but I will eventually:

https://github.com/MiSTer-Enhanced/PDP2011_MiSTer

j45 - 11 hours ago
Nothing wrong with it re-introducing.
vardump - 12 hours ago
Try quarter of a century.

Time flies.

krige - 4 hours ago
Having used it a few months back, it certainly feels like it was made decades ago. UX is horrid all around.
ragnar76 - 2 hours ago
Feel free to participate. We have a handfull of good coders but no UI/UX designer.