#hatari emulator

[michellepamelalyons]

The other day I installed Hatari, which emulates the Atari ST range of 16 bit computers. This happened shortly afterwards

[ranuunculus]

does any1 have any experience running Captain Blood on the Hatari emulator? I’m having problwms executing the game 😣

[linuxlife]

Linux Life Episode 47

Hello once again and welcome back to Linux Life. Well since our last episode I have upgraded the graphics card in the i7 desktop from the GT 630 that was in there to a more modern GTX 1030 although both have 2GB texture memory the 1030 has GDDR5 and many more graphic units the 630 had 64 the 1030 has 512 so a much faster card overall.

The reason I got the GTX 1030 was it was capable of Vulkan as it’s a DX12 compatible card which the GT 630 wasn’t.  So many more games are playable now.  Not that I am a huge games player but I do like to have an odd game or two now and again.

So major graphics upgrade meant I tried a few games obviously I tried a few of the native Steam games and sure enough they work fine.  Things look good in things like Castlevania Lords of Shadow.

OK on to more daring moves.  I used to play Unreal Tournament 2004 a lot in the olden days when I used to play regularly.  I was never good at FPS games but an occasional blast is fun.  So I know Unreal Tournament 4 is free to download but obviously it uses the Epic Launcher which is Windows and Mac only at the moment.

Tried running it with Wine it failed to install.  So off I went looking around the net apparently UT4 has a Linux test application which is 10GB of download.  So I downloaded it read the thread on how to install it and run it.

Sure enough I now can play Unreal Tournament 4 on Antergos.  I have yet to play it online but I am sure having fun getting my skills back with the bots.  

With that under my belt I went one step further... As I mentioned earlier this new card has Vulkan capability.  So I downloaded Lutris and decided to try Path of Exile.  I am a sucker for a good Diablo-style game.  I spent hours with Diablo, Diablo II, Torchlight and Torchlight 2.

Now I tried PoE in its early days in Windows and it was quite fun but got sidetracked and never played it again.  It has vastly improved since I last played it.

I also had to install DXVK which is a tool which converts Direct X calls into Vulkan instructions so Linux can run these games.

So I download the script, install the game using it and set it to go.  I wish I had checked the script as it set the desktop on PoE to 1920x1024 and it was off the edge of my screen.

A few tweaks later I have it running full screen at 1280x960 and I can now see all of the screen.  I also turned off the FPS counter as to be honest I don’t really care.

However the mouse on the menu I have to move under the item I want by quite a bit to select it which is odd.  I get the game going and the mouse is fine in game until I open my inventory screen.  Once again the mouse pointer is out of sync regarding objects.

It seemed it was am issue as the game was not running in full screen.  It still has issues but I can at least correct it.  Bit fiddly but it can be done.  Not ideal but playable once it is sorted.

Moving away from games I have been playing with the Hatari emulator.  I admit, I never owned an Atari machine of any era.  Not at all.  I have used many of them due to other people owning them but I myself have never actually had any.

Now Hatari is an ST/TT/Falcon emulator.   So I managed to get the basic ST setup and games running which is pretty standard and easy to do.  However I decided to attempt running a Falcon Demo.

Having never used a Falcon or a TT but a bit of a read through the manual I tried to run a 68060 demo which I did not get manage to get it working.  However I did manage to get a 68030 demo running.

I have an i7 3770K with 24GB of memory and it struggled to run the demo without frame skipping.

What is odd is I can run an Amiga emulator such as FS-UAE, as a 68030 with no major performance hit so why does Hatari struggle.  Especially since I believe both FS-UAE and Hatari use the UAE core base for their 68K series emulation.  So they should be comparative but not the case.

However I do admit I think the major slowdown factor was having to emulate the Falcon DSP sound processing as opposed to the issue of the processor emulation.  Sound emulation is always a headache in any major project involving emulators and is always one of the last things implemented as it takes a lot of work to get right.

So I may be able to forgive Hatari in that respect as in time someone will figure out the DSP stuff to be optimized.

Well I think that’s enough for this episode.  So until next time... Take care.

[thebizzyb]

Messing around with a #emulator #hatari #atarist running #cubase3 #oldskool #jungle

[hylst]

Hi to ATARI & GFA basic mates :) This week-end, i share the last of the 7 compiled gfa demo / screens of Japemo unfinished Atari ST Megademo, another average demo i've mainly coded between in 1996-99 if i remember well, but one more time stopped because too many bugs / unable to compile it at that time) : Nfi DenTrO Arranged to be a little faster, with several bugs removed and compiled ~15 years after. Video recorded with Hatari emulator (STe) and upscaled to nearest neighbor with ffmpeg about 2-3 weeks ago. Low design, slow / heavy effects, far not enough polished / optimized, hasardous japanim old gfx, bugs, but a very nice chiptune music : Wonderland Speedway by DMA SC Very big & big sprites, bouncing-bumping-jelly raster like deco, animated hlines colourful waves raster like, animated atari zooming checkerboard, dis/appear fx, or fx, full picture vertical distortions, stars + night lines + bubbles, dotted object bouncing moving + 'voxels' waves, dancing colorful lines & rectangles, vertical scroller with ugly curves plotted, rough v disto / wave, unlimited bobs, 4 planes sprites moving + ascii text color waves , ... Japanim / manga style gfx. Kinda lazy demo Code & Gfx : Hylst Music : Dma-Sc Should run on ATARI STf 520. Link to prg & data files in zip (106 kb) : https://hylstlair.fr/wp-content/uploads/ZIP/NFIDENTR.zip https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=beYZnB71l8g

[cipherhunter]

Thanks to you and your epic video edits, now I keep picturing Robotnik and Agent Stone singing and dancing everytime I listen to Hatari songs. And I LOVE Hatari since the 2019 ESC. Robotnik singing Matthías' vocals and Stone singing Klemens' of course ;)

hahhahaaa oooh you and me both! also i’d be lying if i said i hadn’t thought about these scenes from klamstrakur but with robotnik and stone emulating their poses on more than a few occasions:

[hatari-translations]

Not hatari related but is there an Icelandic version of the phrase "hell yeah"? Thanks for your time

In colloquial speech, you’re going to hear “fokk já” (technically “fuck yeah”). That’d be an enthusiastic answer to a question. As an exclamation, you’ll instead hear “Jess!” which is... literally just English “yes!” but in Icelandic has specifically that exclamation-of-joy connotation - something you might shout when your team scores in a football game or you get great news.

Neither of those would fly in respectable edited writing (except when specifically emulating natural dialogue), thanks to using straight English loanwords. As an enthusiastic affirmative answer to a question, you might get “Ekki spurning!” (No question!) or “Ekkert smá!” (No small amount!) - the former when it’s a straight yes and the latter if directly or indirectly asking for an amount, like, “Are you looking forward to the Hatari concert?” (Both of these sound significantly more natural than in English.) As an exclamation, something like “Ójá!” (Oh yeah!) could do.

If you want to keep the sweary aspect, “Fjandakornið, já!” is definitely something you’d see in writing, especially as a translation of phrases like “Fuck yeah!” (but you’re rarely going to hear this spoken). If what you’re really asking about is whether there’s a close equivalent to “Hell yeah!” specifically, this is it - it’s not literally hell, yeah but rather fiend grain, yeah (don’t ask me why it’s a grain, it’s just how the phrase goes), but it’s the same general idea. (It’d be used as an answer to a question; I’m pretty sure it’s too long and unwieldy to sound reasonable for anyone to use as an exclamation.)

Of course, just a very emphatic JÁ! will also do the job when it comes to exclamations.

[tartan-earmuffs]

Honk honk, clown squad!

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[archiveosorg]

Hatari

Hatari – an Atari ST/STE/TT/Falcon emulator for GNU/Linux, BSD, Mac OS X, Windows and https://archivegame.org/hatari/

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[linuxlife]

Linux Life Episode 48

Hello and welcome back to Linux Life, my eternal quest to find enlightenment via the world of Linux.  Well sorry I have not put much up lately afraid family life has been a bit hectic getting in the way of me sitting down at my computer.

So I am still intending to do a complete review of video editors but at the moment I have had very little time to write scripts.  Episodes have been planned and video capture started.  The project is still alive just letting you know.

However I have been able to do the occasional small project such as playing with Previous which is an emulator for NeXT machines.  It seems very similar to the Hatari emulator even the main interface is the same.  Don’t know if it’s the same people who wrote it I didn’t really check.

Using the emulator I am running NextStep 3.3 I did try doing that with Qemu but the results were not good.  Eventually I managed to get Openstep 4.2 running using VMware but Previous seems to run Nextstep 3.3 quite well.

Now the only thing about Previous is it is not in the AUR.  I had to download the source files from their server and build it.  Luckily because of the AUR I had all the dependencies so it built first time.

Must admit the 68040 emulation is definitely faster than Hatari.  So although it shares the same configuration interface it definitely seems to be coded better using more up to date UAE code.

Admittedly I am no expert at Nextstep as I have not really learned how to use it but it was always one of those operating systems that interested me.  In fact I was a bit of a geek about NeXT machines I just never owned one.

I have the Peanuts ISO archive down from archive.org but I can’t remember how to unarchive stuff.  I did get it working on OpenStep and once you have a pkg file (OS X uses the same extension as they have a similar base) but to be honest I have forgotten how I did it so I am yet to really try it with anything complex.

The other thing I have installed between my rushing around like a complete lunatic sorting out things for other people was a game.

The game in question was The Dark Mod now it is basically a homage to the game Thief.  It’s a full 3D first person environment where you have to steal certain things using stealth.  I also believe there is some characters you have to persuade to your cause.

I could be wrong as I have only tried the first basic tutorial level and not really put much time in on the game.  But on the Nvidia 1030 it seems to run pretty smoothly.

There is lots of missions you can play many of them provided by the community itself.  Reason being it also has a level editor you can download by the name of Dark Radiant.

One thing that is odd is how you install the game.  First you download the TDU Updater in my case the 64 bit version.  Set it to executable.  Now open a terminal and sudo as root.  Now you run the Updater and inform it not to update the updater as you are using it.

It will then download the files from a series of mirrors from around the internet some faster than others.  It can take a while to do so, so be patient.  Once installed it will install a 32 bit version and a 64 bit version of the game.

This will be automatically set to executable as you ran the updater as root.  now sign out as root and run the appropriate The Dark Mod file in my case thedarkmod.x64

It doesn’t install itself to any menus so if you want to run it you will either have to enter it manually to the menu system or create a launcher shortcut.  Obviously you can just run it from the terminal if in the right directory too.

I would like to play it more in-depth see if the game is any good so far I have walked around a bit and interacted with a few objects and jumped.  There is more to learn and there is quite a few keys/actions to remember.

Now one thing I will say of note is that I am absolutely rubbish normally at stealth games.  The last game I played which allowed stealth elements was Deus Ex: Human Revolution and I just massacred everyone in sight with guns if they got remotely hostile.  I was about as stealthy as a rhinoceros that has been been painted bright neon hot pink running thorough a china shop in broad daylight (but with guns).

So we will see how it goes with this one as I get caught for the nine hundredth time and have to fight my way out of everything in sight.  Even in the tutorial mission I buggered up there was this book you were supposed to read on a lectern in the second room.  Now I read the first book fine which instructed me basic movements which was pretty obvious as I had used them to walk up to the book.

However in the second room there was a book that was I think supposed to teach me how to pick up objects.  However the tutorial got overzealous and I picked up the book, could not put it down and was walking around with it.   I could not figure how to put it back down or how to read it if I was carrying it.  This is the basic tutorial people before I have even started the true game so I think I may be onto a bit of a losing battle.

However only time will tell.  Well I think that is enough waffle for this episode.  Sorry it took so long to get here and hopefully I should be able to post more regularly once things settle down a bit.  

So until next time... Take care

[omg-toowolfcollection-things]

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[hylst]

This evening, i present you an ATARI ST intro i've coded in GFA between in 1996-99 if i remember well ( 22-26 years ago !! ) : LaRquOry demo Arranged to be a little faster, with several bugs removed and compiled ~15 years after. Better quality of video recorded this week with Hatari emulator (STe) and upscaled to nearest neighbor with ffmpeg. Low design, overall old (around 1996 and before) bad quality graphics, slow / heavy effects, far not enough polished / optimized, bugs, but a cool chiptune music by Frazer : i thought by mistake it was from DMA SC which is a very good chiptune composer, but i was wrong this time... Memory flies through age and more ^^ Coded as a screen for unfinished JAPEMO GFA Megademo. Star wars dot scroller, field of dots, 3d dotted landscape trip, sprite + vu meter + basic screxx, binary falls + bouncing message greetings display, parallax scroller with sprites wandering, plasma like in window, nested ascii waves of text, lines & dots waving, turning, dancing, vertical checker straight or crossed diagonal along vertical waves, kinda 'shades bobs' agitation, the tree moving on wind (not my code, just adaptation for fun), dragon wavin' smokes + 1bit horyzontal screx ,... Japanim / manga style gfx. Kinda lame / lazy demo though 8S ^^ Own production. Code & Gfx : Hylst Music : Frazer (not DMA SC, my mistake) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8WGzl4wu__s

[likeappletrees]

recognizing trends in ástrós and sólbjört's dance moves, like crossing their arms above their head during x and hatrið mun sigra or holding their chin in hatrið mun sigra and klámstrákur

that whole four-part dance sequence they do in a lot of songs that you can't help trying to emulate, you know the one

ástrós and sólbjört mechanically pumping their fists in spillingardans then immediately standing still, as if to incite the crowd to dance the corruption dance but being above dancing it themselves

how ástrós and sólbjört's moves are more mechanical and robotic and sometimes deeply unsettling and andrean's are more deliberately sensual

andrean's death drops (sometimes you can hear his body hit the floor and it's very troubling. babe r u ok)

when ástrós, solbjort and andrean all dance in perfect sync aaaaaaahhhh

OUTFIT AND ACCESSORY SHARING

that whole damn intro which better be on the fucking album because it SLAPS

klemens going absolutely BUCKWILD with the headbanging

@weirdointhehouse mentioned this: hatari stepping off the stage and letting bashar perform multiple songs :')

chances are somebody in the audience is waving a palestinian flag

honorable mention to the eurovision preparty performance where einar couldn't play his drums so to give him something to do they gave him andrean's leash

little things in hatari live performances/unreleased songs that i love

the echo and layered sound of matthías’ voice in 14 ár

how klemens sounds more desperate and pained in the second verse of þræll

klemens’ moans at the end of the kexport performance of dansið eða deyið and how they lead perfectly to biðröð mistaka

also klemens playing guitar!!!

klemens’ low notes in engin miskunn

how ógleði never fails to make me feel melancholy even though i understand next to nothing of what klemens is singing (not just because it’s in a language i don’t understand, because i could follow along with the lyrics, but because klemens sounds virtually unintelligible even to icelandic speakers)

the way matthías mixes up the lyrics at the end of spillingardans

the PERFECT transition from spillingardans to klámstrákur (esp. klemens’ little “ooh ooh ooh"s)

matthías’ improvised speeches before dansið eða deyið and spillingardans that just leave you feeling PUMPED and READY TO OVERTHROW THE GOVERNMENT

feel free to add your own

[ataricrypt]

Hatari v2.1 has just been released!! 🎉 #AtariST