Processors ranging for Motorola 68000 up to 68040, running from 8MHz to 32MHz, with ou without FPU.520/1040 STs, but also STEs, Mega ST/STEs, TTs or Falcons.It can of course emulate other configurations: It worked pretty well, though the mouse pointer was sometimes a bit dodgy. I set Hatari for a Motorola 68000 8 Mhz micro-processor, with 1024Kb of RAM, a 640×400 monochrome display and a ROM with TOS 1.04. I tend to configure emulators to be as close as possible as the computers I owned. The following screenshot shows Hatari running the french version of TOS 1.04, along with the GEM desktop: 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. 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.
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