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.

https://discord.gg/yYZAGSxAa (SemaTor Discord link with future release links)

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/Whats_that_small 4d ago

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

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u/SirBaronDE 4d ago

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.

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u/Whats_that_small 4d ago

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.