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FilingACE supports up to ten simulated disk drives and re-directs Atari tape CSAVE and CLOAD commands to an Amiga file requester. ACE recognised all the disk, file and cartridge formats I threw at it, but some later releases are incompatible with the Atari 400 ROM it uses or emulates.If you're confident of your hardware skills you can link the emulator to a real Atari system with a cable from the Amiga parallel port to a couple of the all-purpose Atari controller ports. The documentation includes a circuit diagram and programs in 6502 and 68000 code to manage each end of the net, but you must type the 6502 code into your Atari to get started. The Atari has four controller ports, but the Amiga has only two. Switched joysticks and CD32 controllers are supported, but unfortunately not analogue joysticks or paddles, although the Amiga mouse can emulate the first two Atari proportional controllers. Documentation is an decent Amigaguide with a keyboard graphic. I'd prefer printed documentation, with more discussion of compatibility and optional combinations, but got it working with a little trial and error - more related to my dim memories of the original machine than emulator problems. Amiga B calls up an impressive-looking but sadly undocumented built-in 6502 code debugger. |
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Apple Emulators - A][ |
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VerdictsA][ works fine but Apple 2000 is better in some respects, and free - see A][ as a 'free gift' with ACE and you won't be disappointed. The menus describe ACE as version 0.1 and it's still early days. It ran half the programs I tried, giving a scrambled screen or messages on the rest. When it works, it's awesome - technically one of the most impressive eight bit emulators on the Amiga, capable of running excellent software even by 1990s standards.Further development should improve compatibility; I'd like to be able to use analogue joysticks and paddles. For emulator enthusiasts and former Atari eight-bit owners, ACE is already worth getting, and has the makings of a classic emulator in every sense. |
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Apple 2 http://cie-2.uoregon.edu/~nparker ftp://ftp.uni-kl.de /pub/apple2 Atari ftp://atari.archive.umich.edu/atari/8bit/ http://www.signus.demon.co.uk/david/atari/atari.html ftp://ftp.hackerz.com/hackerz/atari/jellystone/ |