Atari800

Atari800 is an Atari 800, 800XL, 130XE and 5200 emulator with various extensions (320kB RAM, stereo sound and more).

Its main objective is to create a freely distributable portable emulator (i.e. with source code available).

Features include:

• Atari 400, 800, 600 XL, 800XL, 130XE, 5200 Games System
• 130XE compatible memory expansions: 320K, 576K, 1088K
• Optional 4K RAM between 0xc000 and 0xcfff in 400/800 mode
• Cycle-exact 6502 emulation, all unofficial instructions
• Cycle-exact NMI interrupts, scanline-based POKEY interrupts
• Cycle-exact ANTIC and GTIA emulation, all display modes
• Player/Missile Graphics, exact priority control and collision detection
• Exact POKEY registers (sound and random number generator)
• 8 disk drives, emulated at computer-to-drive communication and fast patched SIO levels
• ATR, XFD, DCM, ATR.GZ and XFD.GZ disk images
• Direct loading of Atari executable files and Atari BASIC programs
• 42 cartridge types, raw and CART
• Cassette recorder, raw and CAS images
• Printer support
• Files can be stored directly on your host computer via the H: device
• Current emulation state can be saved in a state file
• Sound support on Unix using "/dev/dsp"
• Stereo (two POKEYs) emulation
• Joystick controller using numeric keypad
• Real joystick support
• Paddles, Atari touch tablet, Koala pad, light pen, light gun, ST/Amiga mouse, Atari trak-ball, joystick and Atari 5200 analog controller emulated using mouse
• R-Time 8 emulation using host computer clock
• Atari palette read from a file or calculated basing on user-defined parameters
• Screen snapshots (normal and interlaced) to PCX and PNG files
• Sound output may be written to WAV files
• User interface on all versions supporting bitmapped graphics
• R: device (the Atari850 serial ports) mapped to net or real serial port

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