Free atari software for linux

Atari800 project is an Atari 8-bit computer and 5200 game system emulator for multiple platforms.
It runs on DOS, Windows, Amiga, Atari ST, Mac, and Linux/UNIX.
It includes support for Atari cartridge ROMs, popular Atari disk images files, running Atari binaries directly from the host system, and accessing the host filesystem from within the emulated Atari.
Main features:
- Atari 400, 800, 600 XL, 800XL, 130XE, 5200 Games System.
- 130XE compatible memory expansions: 320K, 576K, 1088K.
- Optional 4K RAM between 0xc000 and 0xcfff in 400/800 mode.
- Cycle-exact 6502 emulation, all unofficial instructions.
- Cycle-exact NMI interrupts, scanline-based POKEY interrupts.
- Cycle-exact ANTIC and GTIA emulation, all display modes.
- Player/Missile Graphics, exact priority control and collision detection.
- Exact POKEY registers (sound and random number generator).
- 8 disk drives, emulated at computer-to-drive communication and fast patched SIO levels.
- ATR, XFD, DCM, ATR.GZ and XFD.GZ disk images.
- Direct loading of Atari executable files and Atari BASIC programs.
- 42 cartridge types, raw and CART .
- Cassette recorder, raw and CAS images.
- Printer support.
- Files can be stored directly on your host computer via the H: device.
- Current emulation state can be saved in a state file.
- Sound support on Unix using "/dev/dsp".
- Stereo (two POKEYs) emulation.
- Joystick controller using numeric keypad.
- Real joystick support.
- Paddles, Atari touch tablet, Koala pad, light pen, light gun, ST/Amiga mouse, Atari trak-ball, joystick and Atari 5200 analog controller emulated using mouse.
- R-Time 8 emulation using host computer clock.
- Atari palette read from a file or calculated basing on user-defined parameters.
- Screen snapshots (normal and interlaced) to PCX and PNG files.
- Sound output may be written to WAV files.
- User interface on all versions supporting bitmapped graphics.
- R: device (the Atari850 serial ports) mapped to net or real serial port.

Stella is a multi-platform Atari 2600 VCS emulator.
Stella was originally developed for Linux by Bradford W. Mott, however, since its original release several people have joined the development team to port Stella to other operating systems such as AcornOS, AmigaOS, DOS, FreeBSD, IRIX, Linux, OS/2, MacOS, Unix, and Windows. The development team is working hard to perfect the emulator and we hope you enjoy our effort.
On this site youll find information about downloading, installing, using, and enhancing Stella. Youll also find useful information about the Atari 2600 and emulation.
Enhancements:
Added new video sub-system where fullscreen and windowed modes are treated
differently. Windowed modes now use -zoom_tia and -zoom_ui arguments,
while fullscreen modes can be specified by resolution using the new
-fullres argument.
- Widescreen video modes are now supported; Stella will simply center the
image with surrounding black borders.
- Many UI-related changes, including resizable ROM launcher and debugger
windows, and a new UI palette (the previous classic palette is still
available). This is still a work in progress.
- The locations of all major config files (statedir, palette file,
cheat file, properties file, etc) are now configurable from the
commandline and within the UI.
- Updates to TIA palette support. Added SECAM support, and removed the
built-in original palette. Standard, z26, and user are still
available.
- Various bugfixes to some debugger commands. The run command no
longer causes a crash, and several others have better error-checking.
- Added more complete cartridge auto-detection for Commavid (CV), 3E,
3F and Activision (FE) formats.
- Removed XStart and Width ROM properties, since the forthcoming TIA
rework wont be using them.
- Reworked internal storage of ROM properties to be faster and take up
less space.
- Added several different ways of stretching the OpenGL image to the
-gl_fsmax argument, for more flexibility.
- Removed OpenGL aspect ratio setting favour of the previously mentioned
video changes. Well see how this goes.
- Removed dirty-rect support from software rendering, since it was actually
sub-optimal in Windows and OSX and defaulted to off in previous versions.
- Added support for gzipped ROMs.
- Re-added pause support.
- Re-added support for Windows 98.
- Removed support for STELLA_BASEDIR environment variable, since each
config file can be now configured separately.
- Removed -fastscbios argument, since it must always be turned on.
- Removed PSP support, since it hasnt been updated in over a year, and
someone else is maintaining another port elsewhere.
- For the Unix/Linux port; fixed make install issues, and changed icon to
PNG format.

KStella is a KDE frontend to the Atari 2600 emulator, Stella. It currently supports the display of snapshots, labels, manuals, the configuration of individual game settings and of course, the ability to play games with just a click of the mouse.
All these features are fully customizable to allow maximum flexibility.
KStella is NOT an emulator. It is merely a frontend to Stella, a multi-platform, Atari 2600 emulator.
Enhancements:
- Fixed a bug where ROMs with the #" symbol wouldnt appear in the ROM list.
- Added a progress dialog box when loading ROM information from disk.
- Fixed problem with compiling on Mandrake 9.2 when using older versions of QT.
- Finally fixed the long-standing bug where KDE items (icons, rc files, etc.) would be installed in the wrong places. This was due to a bug in the configure script generated by KDevelop. Thats what I get for relying on a GUI development environment.
- Tested this release on Mandrake 9.2 and 10.0, Libranet 2.8.1 (Debian) and Suse 9.0.

Mad Bomber project is a SDL-based clone of Activisions 2600 game.
Mad Bomber is a clone of Activisions 1981 Atari 2600 classic, "Kaboom!" The Mad Bomber rushes back and forth at the top of the screen and drops bombs which you must catch with your bucket. If one drops, you lose a bucket and go back one level.
One or two players can play, using keyboard or mouse.
There is also a "versus" mode where player two controls the Mad Bomber.
Main features:
- Runs on a variety of platforms, including PDAs!
- Controlled with mouse or keyboard.
- One- and two-player modes, including two-player versus.
- On desktop systems, Mad Bomber can be run in a window or fullscreen, in 640x480 resolution.
- Mad Bomber optionally supports stereo sound, and includes music. Volume settings can be changed in the options screen.
- You can choose to play either with an attractive photo-realistic background, or with a plain (zen) Kaboom!-style background.
- A handicap can be set for either or both player, reducing the width of their bucket to half-size.
- High score and options are saved.
Enhancements:
- Now takes advantage of SDL_mixers left/right stereo panning support. (For splashes and explosions.)

ARAnyM comes from Atari Running on Any Machine and is virtual machine software for running the Atari ST/TT/Falcon OS.
It is a virtual machine software for running the Atari ST/TT/Falcon operating systems (TOS, FreeMiNT, MagiC and others) and TOS/GEM applications on any kind of hardware - be it an IBM clone (read it as "PC", an Apple, an Unix server, a graphics workstation or even a portable computer.
We started this project to fill the demand of modern applications, games, demos and multimedia for higher CPU/graphics power. Quite frankly, you cant expect that 9-17 years old Atari hardware will replay fullscreen DivX movies, encode sound to Ogg Vorbis in real time or just compile a new FreeMiNT kernel or SDL game in a reasonable amount of time. Is that a reason to give up on Atari TOS/GEM altogether and switch to another platform/OS? No! ARAnyM is here to give you the much asked CPU speed, large amount of RAM, huge colourful graphics and anything else you need to keep running your favorite TOS/GEM applications.
We would like you to think about ARAnyM as about yet another TOS clone, similar to Medusa, Hades or Milan, but actually much cheaper and way more powerful. Our goal is to create a distribution installable from a floppy/CD that would turn any PC machine into full featured Atari power machine. If we were a hardware vendor we could even sell computers that would boot directly to TOS desktop! That could help all the remaining Atari users that wish to upgrade their aging machines.
Main features:
- MC68040 compatible CPU (including optional MMU!)
- MC68881 compatible FPU
- JIT Compiler for CPU and FPU (speeds up CPU+FPU up to 10x!)
- ST-RAM 14 MB
- Fast-RAM configurable 0-3824 MB
- Host accelerated fVDI graphics (large highcolor/truecolor resolutions)
- Access to Host OS filesystems using BetaDOS or MiNT native XFS driver
- Ethernet networking via host using MiNT-Net XIF driver
- TOS 4.x XBIOS compatible sound (16-bit 48 kHz stereo sound)
- Parallel port (bidirectional)
- MFP, IKBD, ACIA, VIDEL, BLITTER, FDC, IDE, DSP MC56001
Please note that most hardware emulation is there just to make TOS booting possible. It is not our goal to create an emulator of existing Atari machine. Dont expect that ill-designed applications will work as they would on original Atari machine. Still, our compatibility ratio is much much higher than any of the TOS clones achieved so far.
ARAnyM has been intended to run primarily on Linux/x86 but thanks to libSDL and effort of some ARAnyM team members it currently runs on the following platforms and operating systems:
- All 11 Debian GNU/Linux platforms
- MS Windows/x86 (Cygwin)
- NetBSD/x86
- OpenBSD/x86
- MacOS X/PPC
- Irix/SGI
- Solaris/Sun Sparc
- FreeMiNT/m68k (in progress)
- FreeBSD/x86 (in progress)
Please note that ARAnyM is tested and fully working on the Linux-ia32 only. Some of the other platforms/systems might not have all features enabled or might suffer from some bugs that are caused by limitations of the particular host operating system.
Enhancements:
- New release brings major speed up of the MMU version. FreeMiNT with MMU or Linux-m68k can be run on an average ARAnyM machine faster than on any real MC680x0 now. Mac OS X target has been improved and many smaller bugs have been fixed.

inSAP is a XMMS input plugin based on libSap.

SAP Library is a software emulation of CPU 6502 microprocessor and Pokey chip.
Those two chips are used in Atari XL/XE computers.

SAP Library is used to run programs written in 6502 machine language, programs that are using Pokey chip to play tunes and sounds.

disktypes purpose of disktype is to detect the content format of a disk or disk image. It knows about common file systems, partition tables, and boot codes.
The program is written in C and is designed to compile on any modern Unix flavour1. It is self-contained and in general works without special libraries or headers. Some system-dependent features can be used to gather additional information.
As of version 8, disktype knows about the following formats:
File systems:
- FAT12/FAT16/FAT32
- NTFS
- HPFS
- MFS, HFS, HFS Plus
- ISO9660
- UDF
- ext2/ext3
- Minix
- ReiserFS
- Reiser4
- Linux romfs
- Linux cramfs
- Linux squashfs
- UFS (some variations)
- SysV FS (some variations)
- JFS
- XFS
- Amiga FS/FFS
- BeOS BFS
- QNX4 FS
- 3DO CD-ROM FS
- Veritas VxFS
- Xbox DVD file system
Partitioning:
- DOS/PC style
- Apple
- Amiga "Rigid Disk"
- ATARI ST (AHDI3)
- BSD disklabel
- Linux RAID physical disks
- Linux LVM1 physical volumes
- Linux LVM2 physical volumes
- Solaris SPARC disklabel
- Solaris x86 disklabel (vtoc)
Other structures:
- Debian split floppy header
- Linux swap
Disk images:
- Raw CD image (.bin)
- Virtual PC hard disk image
- Apple UDIF disk image (limited)
Boot codes:
- LILO
- GRUB
- SYSLINUX
- ISOLINUX
- Linux kernel
- FreeBSD loader
- Sega Dreamcast (?)
Compression formats:
- gzip
- compress
- bzip2
Archive formats:
- tar
- cpio
- bar
- dump/restore
Enhancements:
- Added file systems: Amiga SFS.
- Added other structures: Linux cloop (detection only), EFI GPT, Windows/MS-DOS boot loader, BeOS boot loader.
- Improved file systems: Amiga FS/FFS, Amiga PFS, Linux squashfs.
- Improved other structures: Amiga "Rigid Disk" partitioning, LILO, ISO9660 El Torito.