ATARI Links (mainly for programmers)
- STonX
a freeware Atari ST emulator for Unix/X11 [Austria].
- PaCifiST, a
giftware Atari ST emulator for PC/DOS [France].
- After you have setup either of the above with an appropriate TOS
ROM image, you might try out one of the best Atari shareware
games, the
STarball
pinball game which differs quite a bit from the normal pinball
because there are a lot of other object moving on the table
besides the ball... Some other nice free/shareware games that
work are e.g. Conquer demo and Super Breakout (mono). Most of
the GEM programs of course work with both too.
- XaAES,
a freeware multitasking AES replacement [England].
- N.AES is a commercial, faster and more stable MultiTOS / AES
replacement [Switzerland]. (needs a WWW address!)
- Programs I compiled for MiNT/X11. [Finland]
- Some ST-Guide hypertexts
I have put together. [Finland]
- An
Atari programmers' page by Christer Gustavsson [Sweden].
- St Internals HTML
[England].
- Kay Römer's
MiNTnet
page [Germany].
- Preliminary
MiNT installation FAQ [England].
- MiNT
software [england].
- A good ftp-site for
MiNT sources [German].
- Konrad M.
Kokoszkiewicz alias Draco has done latest MiNT fixes
(VM and security related) and compiled latest MiNT binary
(v1.14.5) [Poland].
- After Knarf and *nox switched to Intel based unices, MiNTlib was
for some time without proper maintenance, but happily there's now
a new maintainer, Yves Pelletier, who has put MiNTlib
PL47 on funet and onto
his own site. The
changes since PL46 include better UTC support and finer
gettimeofday() resolution (earlier one was 2 seconds!).
- MiNT
mailing list archive [England].
- Linux m68k,
official [Aachen, Germany].
- Linux m68k,
updated [Belgium].
- Johan Klockars' www site has
his programs and several Atari mailing lists. Johan's programs
include Mgif, the best freely available image manipulation program
for Atari, QL emulator and RTOS real time kernel [Sweden].
- Alexander Clauss's
Atari stuff includes CAB, a WWW-browser and OCR software [Germany].
- Petr
Stehlik's home page includes Ncurses and
GEM++ libraries [Czechoslovakia].
- Julian Reschke's
(knows probably more about hard disks than any other Atarian) Atari stuff. [German]
- Even Skarstein's
home page [Norway].
- Martin Maisey's
Durham home page [England].
- Mark Smith's
Atari pages [England].
- Atari
Ghostscript (PostScript Interpreter) [Austin, TX, USA].
- Chris Herborth is
former active atari owner. Although he now works for QNX and
owns a BeBox he still got some Atari programs on his pages
[Canada].
- Dirch has
compiled POV raytracer (v.2.2) for Atari and made GEM shell
for it. [German]
I'll put here a special mention about Timo Tiihonen and
Mikko Larjava, of which the former is a friend of mine
keeping the best Atari BBS (02 235 5892) in Finland. Currently the
STafia-BBS runs on Timo's new Medusa Atari-compatible and has two modem
lines over ISDN. The UOY BBS system is programmed by the latter fellow,
a friend of Timo.
The BBS system is unique one because it's programmed in GFA
Basic! Before you'll raise your eyebrows, let me add a couple
of facts. Mikko would gladly convert it to C, but the program has grown
too large (20k-lines) for doing that by hand, has quite a few things
written in assembly language and works only under MiNT because it uses it's services quite a lot.
From the BBS user's point of view it works like MBBS systems.
Other things Mikko has programmed (in C) are a fileselector and fully
GEM (supports AV-protocol, drag&drop etc.) compliant file viewer. I
don't know whether they are publicly accessible though. I had put link
here otherwise :-). He's also programming a new GFA compiler.
Atari is GO terminology
and means 'threatened' (a group which has only one liberty left and
hence is about to be captured), in case anybody needed to know :).