Hatari 0.90 review

Hatari is an Atari ST emulator for Linux, BSD, BeOS, Mac OS X and other systems that are supported by the SDL library.

License: Freeware OS: Mac OS X File size: 0K Developer: Hatari Price: $0.00 Updated: 11 Oct 2006

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Hatari is an Atari ST emulator for Linux, BSD, BeOS, Mac OS X and other systems that are supported by the SDL library. More precisely, Hatari is an adaption of the WinSTon source code to the SDL library, using the portable UAE CPU core instead of the original, non-portable assembler CPU core.

Although Hatari is still in an early state (and so there are many features still missing and the emulator is still a little bit unstable), you can already use disk images and run many programs, games or demos with it.

What's New:
Better Spectrum 512 support (60Hz support, improved I/O memory waitstates).
STE right border opening support (used in Obsession, Pacemaker).
Blitter Smudge mode support (used in Pacemaker demo).
Wheel-mouse simulates cursor up and down.
Work-around to FDC handling, --slow-fdc option is not anymore needed.
Bugfix to MFP, sound works now in more YMRockerz releases.
Bugfix to GEMDOS path handling (Hatari SIGSEGV).
Bugfix to emulated memory initialization (4MB was cleared earlier, now exactly the amount set up for Hatari. Saves memory on embedded systems if less than 4MB is specified.)
Re-written command-line option handling.
(Again) lots of code const/static, type usage and indentation cleanup.
Preliminary support for TOS 3.0x and 030 TT software that runs in ST resolutions and doesn't need PMMU.
Native GUI for Mac OSX.
ACSI emulation fixes to get HD formatting to work with AHDI 5. HD emulation now works quite fine with AHDI 5 (but other HD drivers are currently not supported).
Joystick shortcut changed to toggle cursor emulation between ports 0 and 1.
Keys for all Hatari shortcuts can now be configured from hatari.cfg.
Added command line option for setting ST keyboard mapping.
Joystick command line option requires now parameter for a port for which the joystick cursor emu is enabled.
Fixed relative mouse event handling in zoomed low-rez.
Hatari shows now more of the bottom borden (screen size is now 384x276 instead of 384x267).
Fixed sync delay timings
sound should now be better (e.g. on Mac OS X).
Added basic support for compiling Hatari with MinGW.

Requirements:
TOS image file (see here for details : http://hatari.sourceforge.net/download.html )