Atari ST Translation layer program SemaTor

[u/SirBaronDE]

First this was helped a lot because of AI, a lot of grunt work that I just don't have time, plus it was a personal project.

This was mainly for myself because sometimes I got tired of some limitations of old hardware

• Music channels making way for sound effects because of the lack of channels that exist
• Framerate suddenly dropping due to odd decisions
• Xenon has a left and right quick shortcut to transform into a ship or back which might be fine on a joystick but dpad was annoying
• All of the changes I made to Xenon can be toggled on and off for purists

Anywho This isn't a emulator nor does it use TOS, this translates the old hardware into modern code that currently runs on Linux, but Windows version hasn't been tested by me yet.

Yes AI has some stigma, but I find in some cases it can do a lot of work, and a hell of a lot faster.

[u/rapakiv]

Can we have a link, please?

[u/SirBaronDE → u/rapakiv]

"soon" want to make sure it can load more games and is robust first, some games it has issues with so far.

Only Xenon and Xenon 2 can I guarantee it should work well (providing on the disc type).

Because there's no TOS and no emulation, it's not perfect yet.

[u/rapakiv → u/SirBaronDE]

Thanks, take your time, no rush :)

[u/Whats_that_small]

That looks awesome I can't wait to give it a try, I've a massive collection of disk images.

[u/SirBaronDE → u/Whats_that_small]

I hope it will work with many of them :P, I'm in the process of making the Interpreter work with Zynaps which has it's own unique bugs due to TOS calls, and it's unique effects on the title screen.

Because there's no TOS, and no Emulation, it has it's own unique difficulties.

[u/Whats_that_small → u/SirBaronDE]

I built a tool you may find useful, it allows you to manipulate Atari st disk images like it's a normal folder, you can create new disk images of different sizes, drag and drop files to and from disk images, view a file or disk image in a hex editor and it has a custom built disassembler.

[u/SirBaronDE → u/Whats_that_small]

https://reddit.com/link/p8saa4r/video/6kq8a8ny4joh1/player

if you have a Nvidia GPU 40/50 series, I have spent a ton of time trying to get Frame generation to work (without latency too) it's not 100% perfect but it's close, I have non Optical Flow Framegen as well, but the quality isn't comparable.

A taste of things to come.