I also contacted the original Atari800 author, David Firth, who basically agreed with me maintaining the source code and putting out source and binary releases. Later we all got in touch and started working together. The code was written with portability in mind and that allowed various people to create ports of Atari800 for PC, Amiga, Atari, Mac and machines running UNIX-like operating systems.Īs there were no new versions of Atari800 since spring of 1997 several people (Perry McFarlane, Rich Lawrence, Thomas Richter, Radek Sterba, Robert Golias and me) started updating the last available v0.8.0 source code independently. So it was available with full source code in C. While I’ve been working on uplifting the physical hardware of my Amiga 500 I’ve been playing with Atari 8bit emulation on my Macintosh.Ītari800 emulator was written by David Firth in 1995 and released under the GPL. It’s written in C and has many features which make it a very faithful emulation of the Atari 8bit series. The emulator is based on the seminal work done by David Firth in the UK.
It’s maintained by a group of contributors on Github – specifically Mark Grebe has done the work for OSX. That’s the tag line for the man page for the atari800 emulator. This post has already been read 4224 times!Ītari800 – emulator of Atari 8-bit computers and the 5200 console
