Ceci est une ancienne révision du document !
Version: 2.1.0 Website: https://hatari.tuxfamily.org/
DISCLAIMER Emulation is a weird subject, It's like recording a song from the radio. You may not be aiming to sell it, but it may be illegal. Americans have like 100 years of copyright, so Americans stop reading immediately :) . Only proceed if you own a legal copy. We did not say anything last issue as we were working with music disks that were free to share, however now we will be talking about games and it must be said.
The Hatari emulator is amazing as it emulates almost any Atari allowing you to play almost every Atari game. The same cannot be said for the demoscene disks. The demoscene disks sometimes exploit hardware or software that Hatari just does not allow. Fortunately for us, the demoscene has many facets: art, music, cracktro's, intro's, bbstro's , music disks and more!
Websites like http://www.pouet.net/ and https://demozoo.org/ contain hordes of these. They have all manner of computers from yesteryear for you to enjoy, but we will be sticking with the Atari as Hatari makes it so simple.
There are quite a few 'homebrew' games available. Many of these disks contain more than one game, so be sure to try pushing the number keys or 'F' keys to try another game on the same disk. Pouet.net is not easy to navigate, but once you get to the right spot, it becomes easy. Use this link, then just change models at the top: http://www.pouet.net/prodlist.php?type[]=game&platform[]=Atari+STe&page=1
Now the old games: I never owned a 16-bit computer in my life (nor were they ever sold here), but wanted to experience it. I only learned about it from other cracktro's for other computers. Thus my knowledge of the games side is from cracking / packaging groups. There were many in the few years the Atari made a splash. Have a look at the list: http://stonish.net/menus_disks_choice
Should you search for any of these groups with a suffix of “menu disk download” or “compilation disk download”, you are sure to find them. Atari ST forums are another place, and there are few websites like: http://atari.8bitchip.info/ASTGA/astgam.php. We cannot link you directly as we do not like DMCA notices. Downloading Atari disk images, you may find many formats. If you followed our first tutorial you should be able to just double-click disks with the “.MSA” extension and run it in Hatari.
Disk images that do not start automatically - you can 'insert' into the virtual 'stiffy drive', using the F12 key and clicking on “floppy disks”. A note about machine type, speed and memory: look before you leap. If a game says “Falcon only” you will need to change your machine type and TOS image. Have a look here to see where each TOS fits in: http://www.avtandil.narod.ru/tose.html
The 16-bit CPU that the Atari used was a Motorola 68000. The Atari TT and Falcon used the 68030 and upward chips, so do not confuse the emulator by loading a chip not designed for the model that you chose.
Hatari is aimed at emulating the Atari as close as possible, but it does have “fast floppy access” under floppy disks to speed up the loading. There are a few cases where this does not work, but, in most use cases, it is perfectly okay. Should you have a problem where the Hatari emulator resets after loading a disk image, start here, by turning this off.
The Atari had a real horrible memory routine when using 4MB of memory. Try 2MB if you experience a problem. That said, 90 percent of the disks I have tried work flawlessly on 4MB of RAM.
Now back to those games: The Atari did not get ALL the games, but it had its fair share. The Atari was slightly less powerful than the Amiga, due to its custom chips, which in turn was not as powerful as SHARP X6800 due to its custom chips, but overall it was an awesome machine for games. Thus, do not expect as many colours or sprites or full-screen graphics as the above mentioned two. Most of the classics are represented on the Atari, Bubble Bobble, New Zealand Story, Outrun, etc, and Hatari makes it easy to relive them all!
When you are done playing, press F12 and reset Hatari to choose another option on the menu disk (unless you use HatariUI). That is all you need to know as that is how amazing Hatari is!
Happy retrogaming.
For more reading, head to The Little Green Desktop at: http://www.atari.st/ or http://www.atari-forum.com/ or https://www.exxoshost.co.uk/forum/index.php or http://atariage.com/forums/forum/20-atari-stttfalcon-computers/