I looked around for Atari ST emulators, and the best I could find was Hatari (version 2.3.1). It was also time for my firsts printers, starting with a Citizen 120D, and a few years later, an HP Deskjet 500. This were also the times of my first tries with digital artwork. This was the era of DTP (Desktop Publishing), and I used software like “Publishing Partner”, “Calamus” or “Le Redacteur”. I had the monochrome 640×400 bitmap display, so it could run “professional” software (and, indeed, very few games). This is the machine on which I taught myself C, C++, 68000 assembly language, event-based programming, GUI programming, and wrote a lot of GFA Basic code. I have very very fond memories of it, and learned quite a bit with it !
So I opted for the “ Jackintosh” (which was sold for 6 times less, if memory serves) I still remember the price tag of 24 000 Fr (around 4 800 €, not tacking into account a 40-years inflation) when it was displayed at the Fnac stores. At the time, I use to dream of having a Macintosh 512K or a Macintosh Plus. I have been using an Atari 1040 STF back in the late 80’s. Related to this, updated the snapshot collection.In the last post, I explained how I jumped into the retro-computing bandwagon, and built a few DIY boxes for retro-gaming via software emulation, based on the RecalBox project.ĭuring the same time, I also explored how to run old computers systems on the current hardware I use day by day, namely an Intel Core 7 quad core MacBook Pro.
Updated internal ROM properties database to ROM-Hunter version 17 (thanks go to RomHunter for his tireless research in this area).Fixed state messages staying on screen forever.Fixed score mode glitch emulation corner case.Fixed color loss when switching TV mode from/to PAL.Fixed TV mode auto detection in some ARM ROMs.Fixed Stella crash due to invalid ZIP files.Extended support for older BUS (experimental) ROMs that worked with an older, obsolete version of the BUS scheme special thanks to SpiceWare for the code.Added 0FA0 bankswitching for Fotomania ROMs.Enhanced support for CDFJ+ bankswitching type.Added another oddball TIA glitch option for score mode color.Improved controller mappings for Driving controllers.Improved controller mappings for Paddles.Added option to automatically pause emulation when focus is lost.Fixed sluggish behaviour when reading large and/or invalid files.Added option to show/hide file extensions.Added virtual directories for selecting tracked games.Added tracking of user favorites, recently played and most popular games.Because of internal changes, all state files are now invalid.Because of fixes to JSON handling, all remappings will be reset to defaults if you had custom mappings, they will need to be re-entered again.
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