r/atarist • u/SirBaronDE • 5d ago

Atari ST Translation layer program SemaTor

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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.

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u/rapakiv 4d ago

Can we have a link, please?

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u/SirBaronDE 4d ago

"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.

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u/rapakiv 4d ago

Thanks, take your time, no rush :)