Phaeron opublikował kolejną wersję swojego emulatora Altirra pozwalającego na emulację 8-bitowych konstrukcji firmy ATARI i całej gamy rozszerzeń i dodatków jakie powstały aby dozbroić oryginalną konstrukcję w rozwiązania, które pojawiły się w międzyczasie.
![[ATARI] Altirra 2.20 Test XIV](www/picphoto/19a443df1.jpg)
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Altirra 2.20 test 14 [20.11.2012]:.
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- Not really done yet, but I wanted to show why I've been doing such heavy rework on the display code lately. This version adds the beginnings of a full-screen menu, which you can get to by moving the mouse to the top of the screen. It's got some bugs and choosing any option that pops up a dialog will pop you back out of full screen mode, but you can choose all of the toggle and radio options. I figure that this combined with a file chooser will make full screen mode a lot more usable. Fonts are currently hardcoded, although I plan to make that more adaptable. Let me know if those of you in different languages see problems -- the text code should handle Unicode, but I haven't tested it with characters that have diacritics.
wstecz20/11/2012 23:01
I had access to a number of 8-bit computers in my childhood, but my most favorite was the Atari 800, a 1.79MHz 6502-based computer with color graphics and a disk drive, and which as the predecessor to the Amiga, another favorite of mine. Over a decade later, I was struck by both nostalgia and ambition and started to write a new 8-bit Atari emulator from scratch. This is the result.
At this point, I've learned a lot more about the Atari and Altirra now emulates more than I ever had or did years ago, but I still work on it periodically. It also serves as a modularity test for the VirtualDub code base, from which Altirra shares some components. If you are struck by nostalgia too or have a desire to do some Atari development, perhaps it might be useful to you, too.