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Computer Emulators:

Page	Download	Emulator	Author or Coordinator	Description
		Atari800Win PLus 4.0 Beta 6	Tomasz Szymankowski	Windows port of the great Atari800 Emulator. Version 4,0 Beta 5 release July 2005. What's new:: Ability to run the separate thread for core emulation procedures. This should reduce the crippling of sound. Since the whole Atari800 core and Atari800Win PLus graphical framework are not designed to work in multi-threading environment this option is highly experimental. In case any problems turning this option off is recommended. Due to numerous problems threaded emulation is turned off in full screen modes. Bugs in color palette configuration introduced in previous version are now removed. Options LABELS from debugger is now able to read label file generated by new X-Assembler and Mad-Assembler. Support for 2 new cart images in AtariMax format. Note: Download is the windows installer version. A non-installer zip files is available from the Atari800 Win PLus home page.
		Atari800MacX Version 2.1.0	Mark Grebe	Minor new features and bug fixes. Read What's new at the Atari 800 MacX Home Page.
		Atari 800 Ver 2.0.0	pstehlik@sophics.cz	Happy New Year 2006! Atari 800 code base has been updated to version 2.0.0. Read what's new.
		Atari ++ 1.44	Thomas Richter	Atari emulator for Linux and Windows. Read version history through 1.44.
		Atari 800 Mac Port	Derek Ledbetter	A beginning of an Atari 800 port for the Mac. I don't know if it is still being updated.
		Atari800Win Ver 2.6C	Unknown	Emulator for Win95/NT and DirectX. Read what's new.
		EMUAPC 0.92 Demo	Slawomir Koziol	New English version (0.92 Beta Demo ) now available of this Atari 8-bit emulator.
		Bounty Bob Emulator	Bill Hogue (Big Five Software)	Emulates perfectly the Atari 8-bit versions of Bounty Bob Strikes Back and Miner 2049er on Windows. (A real self contained emulator with the two games)
		WAHCE	Mike Fenton	Haven't tried this emulator yet to I can't vouch for compatability. Emulator is copyrighted but freely distributed. PAGE LINK appears to be broken.
		WACKE	Joe Fenton and Mike Fenton	Wacke Atari 8-bit Emulator for Power Mac. Shareware.
		MESS 0.103	Nathan Woods	This is a multiple home computer/console emulator that includes Atari 8bit support. Based on the MAME core. Available for DOS and Windows (as well as other OS's). Read what's new in the version history
N/A		XL-IT 0.20	Markus Gietzen	A pretty good Atari 8-bit emulator but is has no longer updated in quite a while. Copyrighted but free.
		XFORMER 3.80	Emulators Inc.	The fastest emulator although not the most accurate/compatable. You can also legally get the OS and Basic ROMs in this archive. Copyrighted but free. Good choice for slow pentiums or a 486.
		XFORMER 98	Emulators Inc.	Windows 95/98 version of PC Xformer. Requires Direct X 5 or 6. Copyrighted but free.
		XFORMER 2000	Emulators Inc.	Updated Windows 95/98 version of Xformer98. Requires Direct X. Copyrighted but free.
N/A		POKEY 0.62	Mike Hill	Had potential and looked promising, but was discontinued early on in its development. Copyrighted but free.
		Rainbow 9x/NT/2000/XP Freeware v1.36 / Mac Classic v1.4	Chris Lam	Rainbow is now freeware. Rainbow previously was a commercial emulator with limited demo versions available for download.

Peripheral Emulators:

Page	Download	Program	Author	Description
		APE: Atari Peripheral Emulator	Steven Tucker	The Premiere Atari Peripheral Emulator. Prosystem can even emulate copy protection. Allow emulation of Drives, Printers, and Modems(DOS) or Intenet Modem(Win).
		SIO2PC v4.19	Nick Kennedy	The original Atari Disk Drive/Printer Emulator for PC's by Nick Kennedy. Version 4.19. Shareware.
		SIO2OSX Demo	Mark Grebe	Sio2OSX is a peripheral emulator for the Atari 8-bit computers that allows the Atari computer to use an OSX based Macintosh as a disk drive, a cassette drive, and a printer. Sio2OSX peforms functions similar to APE or SIO2PC on Windows based computers. Sio2OSX is a shareware program, and must be registered for full operation. The unregistered version of the program will run for 5 minutes before quiting, allowing you to verify operation with your hardware setup before purchase. Costs $25 to register.
		WAV2CAS and CAS2WAV	Ernest R. Schreurs	Converts WAV files of atari cassete files into .CAS format. You can then access these images on a real atari using CAS2SIO using an SIO2PC interface. By Ernest R. Schreurs. Free.
		Floppy EMUlator	Pavel Machek	Port of some SIO2PC functionality to Linux.
		SIO2PC for Linux	Preston Crow	Based on Floppy EMUlator for Linux with some new features added.
		Atari File Management	Burkhard Rau and Andre Bertram	For Win 95/98/NT. Simulates Atari Drives via SIO2PC cable, Manipulates ATR/XFD Images. Haven't really tried yet other than loading it but looks cool. Run the homepage through a Translation page German to English for info. Freeware.
		Atari 810	Dan Vernon	Atari810 is free software (under the GNU/GPL software license) for emulating an Atari 8-bit floppy drive or hard disk on your PC. Ever Seen a Stack of Eight 810 Drives? What this means is that your PC, connected to the Atari via a serial port, appears to be a giant Atari disk drive, or rather, up to eight disk drives. Instead of using real disks, the emulator uses disk image files which are just binary files containing a copy of each sector of a real Atari disk. The emulator supports .ATR format files from tiny single-sided, single-density, 5.25" disk images (720 sectors or 92KB) to whopping hard-disk images up to 16MB. Currently on NT/2000/XP is supported
		AtariSIO Driver	hias+atari@horus.com	New version V0.30-pre1 beta: Changes since version 0.20: - atarisio: Reworked kernel driver code to improve robustness - atarisio: Added support for linux 2.6.x kernel - atarisio: Added module parameter to set name of serial device (instead of old io/irq numbers) - making the 'pre install' and 'post remove' setserial stuff (partially) obsolete. - atariserver: Added preliminary support for ATP 1.6 images - Added new userspace tools: * atr2atp converts an SD or ED ATR/DCM/DI/XFD image into the ATP format * atpdump dumps the internal structure of an ATP image * adir prints the directory of an ATR/DCM/DI/XFD image - Reworked large parts of the user space code - atariserver: Added new 'CTS' SIO2PC cable type - atarisio: Added new 'high speed SIO with inter-byte pauses' mode to fix compatibility problems with some slow high-speed-SIO routines - atariserver: Added completely new curses frontend with many new features - atariserver: Fixed "GetStatus" bug - setting drive density from MyDos now works correctly - atarixfer: Added support for reading non-standard sized disks - atarixfer: Implemented XF551-compatible format recognition - atarixfer: Added support for writing quad-density disks - atarisio: Speedy 1050 workaround in 1050-2-PC/ProSystem mode. 'ACK' instead of 'COMPLETE' is now allowed, too - atarisio: debugging level can now be set using module parameters 'debug' and 'debug_irq' The AtariSIO package contains: A Linux kernel driver to handle the lowlevel SIO protocol. The interface is quite simple, so you can develop your own applications if you like! atariserver - an Atari disk drive emulator, similar to SIO2PC or APE. At the moment atariserver supports up to 8 disk drives, 57600 bit/sec high speed SIO, and various tracing/debugging levels. atarixfer - a small tool to read/write Atari disk images to an Atari disk drive connected by a 1050-2-PC or ProSystem cable
		ATART	Vladimir Tichy	Hardware and program can peform two functions. (1) Allows your PC to emulate an Atari cassette drive. (2) Allows you to connect an Atari Cassette recorder to you PC to convert the tapes to CAS files.

Emulators Utilities:

Page	DownLoad	Program	Author	Description
		Ken's ATR/DCM Dos utilities	Ken Siders	All of myATR/XFD utilities for DOS in one zip file. There are programs to view Dos directories, extract files, make a bootable ATR from an Executable and more. Note: Their may be some bugs in these in which fixes have not benn propagated back from the AtrUtil95.
		AtrUtil95 1.13	Ken Siders	Windows 95 program to view an ATR's dos image's directory, extract files from the ATR, view files in the ATR, delete files, insert files, create a bootable ATR from an executable and view ATR statistics. To read the documentation click here. NOTE: If your system does not have either MFC40.DLL or MSVCRT40.DLL in the \WINDOWS\SYSTEM directory, click here to download the necessary files to run AtrUtil. Click to see screen shots (slightly out of date): Pic1 and Pic2
		FixRom	Ken Siders	Patches Atari XL ROM, to allow it to work better with PC XFormer. This patch keeps BASIC from getting spontaneously reenabled when you hit reset (or the program calls the warm start function). This allows more programs to run. It may cause some other abnormalities however.
		Atari File Management	Burkhard Rau and Andre Bertram	For Win 95/98/NT. Simulates Atari Drives via SIO2PC cable, Manipulates ATR/XFD Images. Haven't really tried yet other than loading it but looks cool. Run the homepage through a Translation page German to English for info. Freeware.
		Imagic	Steven Tucker	Utility to interconvert different Atari disk image formats and move files between them.
		ATR8FS	Michael Beck	ATR8FS is a ATARI 8bit filesystem for Linux released under the GPL. It originated from the 8bit ATARI machines. It allows to read disk images from a more than twenty years old computer :-)

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