Atari800

What it is

Atari800 is the emulator of Atari 8-bit computer systems and 5200 game console for Unix, Linux, Amiga, MS-DOS, Atari TT/Falcon, MS-Windows, MS WinCE, Sega Dreamcast, Android and other systems supported by the SDL library. Our main objective is to create a freely distributable portable emulator (i.e. with source code available). It can be configured to run in the following ways :

"simple" version (many platforms) - uses only the standard C library
curses (many platforms)
X Window + Optional XVIEW or MOTIF User Interface
CBM Amiga
MS-DOS (DJGPP)
Atari Falcon/TT and compatible machines
MS Windows (DirectX)
SDL (running on _many_ platforms)
WinCE
Sega Dreamcast
JVM (Java applet)
Android

A bit of history

Atari800 emulator was written by David Firth in 1995 and released under the GPL. So it was available with full source code in C. The code was written with portability in mind and that allowed various people to create ports of Atari800 for PC, Amiga, Atari, Mac and machines running UNIX-like operating systems.

As there were no new versions of Atari800 since spring of 1997 several people (Perry McFarlane, Rich Lawrence, Thomas Richter, Radek Sterba, Robert Golias and me) started updating the last available v0.8.0 source code independently. Later we all got in touch and started working together. I also contacted the original Atari800 author, David Firth, who basically agreed with me maintaining the source code and putting out source and binary releases.

Since then many new talented programmers joined the Atari800 development team and helped improving the emulator. For more information please see the Development page.