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 XVII](www/picphoto/19a443df1.jpg)
John Anderson's Rally Speedway(Adventure International, 1983)
Altirra 2.20 test 17 [3.12.2012]:.
- No changelog changes
Author's comment:
- Test-16 had new code for detecting in Ultimate1MB mode whether a real OS had been activated and to suppress the emulator hooks otherwise. There was a bug in that code that caused the hooks to be disabled too often, which I fixed in test-17.
wstecz04/12/2012 22:31
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.