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Here's the un-official, bootleg Atari ST emulator for the Amiga!
This one's for NTSC.
It ran okay on an A500 with 1 meg of chip ram & 8 megs of fast ram
(but I doubt it needs that much), kickstart 1.3, a hard drive and two
floppies, and a stock 7.15 mHz 68000.
It ran okay from an icon.
It did NOT run okay on an A1200.
I'd start out in high res because it's the fastest of the three modes.
The color modes are jerky.
It's got a version of TOS 1.2 in it with some strange text in the
alert boxes.
According to a performance program I ran, the emulator runs at less than
1/2 the speed of an ST in the color modes, and about 75% the speed of an
ST in high res monochrome.
There's some problems reading the floppy drives, even the ones the emulator
formats, and you can't change resolutions from the desktop (you must pick
a res at the beginning).
Press both mouse buttons to reset the emulator.
The Amiga's power LED will flicker to let you know the emulator is working.
If it ever stays on or off, it's time to CTRL/A/A if ya know what I mean...
There is no sound support at all.
This emulator will even run executable boot sectors on disk, meaning it
can spread ST viruses! (It showed "VIRUS FREE DISK", a message that
VKILLER leaves on your floppies for you)
Compatability:
I tried several ST programs on this emulator and a surprising number of them
worked! Here's what I tried:
Program: Functionality: Resolution:
ST Control Panel perfect all 3
Desk accessories
in general pretty good
Degas Elite so-so all 3
Ripcord perfect low
Format so-so all 3
Format3 perfect med or high
Magic Shadow
Archiver perfect med or high
Tunnel Vision nope
Stonage Willy nope
Haunted House nope
Robotz nope
Arcshell, Arc, Lha,
etc. perfect med or high
Fujiboink! so-so low
Bugs nope
MidiMaze II so-so (couldn't move) low or high
Daleks perfect med or high
VKiller perfect med or high
Amiga_Fun (Joke almost med
Amiga Emulator on
the ST)
Megaroids so-so (couldn't move) med or high
Major Motion nope
Boink demo nope (too bad, to! It goes faster on the ST
than the Amiga's Boink demo!)
PD Joust nope
Qindex22 Perfect all 3
Motorcycle nope
Atom Smasher Perfect (slow, tho) Low
NeoChrome nope
Fcopy3 so-so (thought disk was med or high
write protected)
Procopy so-so (same thing) all 3
Raytraced ball demo perfect (but slow) low
(ball bounces on a
mirror next to 2 other
balls that don't)
Go nope
Experiment 42 nope
Wheel of fortune nope
Ringball demo perfect low
50HZ.PRG so-so (it loaded, ran, all 3
and exited just fine like
it was s'posed to, it just
didn't DO anything...)
Mazemaker.TOS Perfect all 3
Stats.PRG Perfect med or high
NeoDesk 3 Perfect (wow!) all 3
GFA Basic 3.5e nope
GFA Compiler almost (messed up when all 3
linking)
Compiled GFA Basic Perfect (weird, huh?) all 3
Programs
DPAINT ST almost (mouse didn't work) Low
Sundog almost (FTL logo, load low
for 30 seconds, CRASH!)
As you can see, this emulator is more of a toy than a tool. I think
they wrote it just to piss off Atari, 'cause, after all, only a better
computer can emulate a lesser one! >;)