Atari800 →
An open-source, cross-platform Atari 8-bit emulator. It runs software for Atari computers and the 5200 console on modern hardware.
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Tools and emulators
Atari emulators, assemblers, compilers, graphics and music editors, and file utilities.
Emulators
Atari emulation: Altirra and Atari800 →
Altirra →
Avery Lee's Atari emulator for Windows, useful for learning and development. It reproduces Atari hardware, loads media images and includes a debugger for analysing programs.
Programming
Atari 8-bit programming languages →
MADS →
Tomasz Biela's assembler runs on a modern computer and creates Atari programs.
Mad Pascal →
Tomasz Biela's Pascal compiler for creating Atari XL/XE programs on a modern computer.
Graphics and music
Graph2Font →
Tomasz Biela's graphics editor combines character sets, Player/Missile objects and colour changes during screen drawing to produce multicolour Atari images.
Raster Music Tracker →
A tracker for composing POKEY music on a modern computer. Modules can be exported for listening or included in Atari programs.
RastaConverter →
Jakub Dębski's converter searches for a way to display a modern image on Atari. Along with graphics data, it produces a program controlling colour changes and PMG objects.
Atari Graphics Studio →
Tomasz Biela's editor for drawing and converting Atari graphics on a PC. It provides conventional painting tools and a choice of interlaced and non-interlaced formats.
Text and files
The Last Word →
Jonathan Halliday's word processor runs directly on Atari XL/XE. It offers 40- or 80-column display, file handling and extensive print formatting.
SpartaDOS X →
An Atari 8-bit disk operating system developed by the DLT team. It provides a command line, directories, file utilities and device drivers.