Créé par Avery Lee (l’auteur de VirtualDub), il s’agit d’un émulateur d’Atari 8 bits (800/800XL/130XE) disponible en 32 et 64 bits. Il dispose de beaucoup d’options ainsi que d’une bonne compatibilité. Il prend en charge les jeux protégés conformément à l’émulation.
2.80 final is functionally the same as 2.80-test51 except for the versioning change. The full change log is accessible from the Help menu or the website, but here are the highlights of the release:
- Profiles: Keep different sets of settings for different usage modes and quickly switch between them.
- UI: Setup wizard for easier first-time start, more flexible .zip support, better D3D9 windowed vsync performance under Vista+, and ability to set file associations as user-local without requiring admin elevation.
- 5200 mode: Now easier to use. The setup wizard asks whether you want to start in 5200 mode, and 5200 mode is now a separate default profile with partitioned settings and input maps, so it’s easier to switch between 5200 and computer mode without mixing up the settings. Fixed a number of issues with 5200 controller support and added a controller test on the boot cartridge screen so you can tell if your controllers are set up correctly.
- Input: Improved mouse support, driving/keyboard controller support.
- Accuracy: Serial bus noise, fast pot scan mode, flash toggle bits, 65C02/65C816 flag and cycle timing fixes, and 5200 power-up DRAM pattern is now more correct.
- Devices: Corvus Disk Interface, Pocket Modem, joystick dongles, IDE+2 fixes and improvements, MyIDE-II and SIDE 2 hot swap fixes, secondary IDE drive support, DragonCart fixes, 256K RAMBO mode.
- Disk drives: Improved Indus GT emulation, improved emulation of 810/1050 disk drive differences, DOS 1.x and improved SDFS filesystem support, configurable default mount mode, and new « VRWSafe » mount mode.
- Firmware: Additional fixes to built-in OS and BASIC.
- Debugger: Automatic focus switching, uninitialized memory access checking, emulated network tracing, stepping fixes, improved 65C02 and 65C816 support, and coprocessor (Veronica) execution stepping.