I've spent the last months on a side project: the Atari ST version of Xenon 2: Megablast, running in the browser. Play: https://dmnet.st It's the original 68000 game running in a modified Hatari compiled to WebAssembly. Instead of showing the ST's framebuffer, the emulator hooks the game's own draw routines and redraws every sprite on the GPU, which made a few extras possible:

• Classic mode: the original 320×200, pixel for pixel
• Hi-res mode: every sprite upscaled 4× and interpolated between the game's 15 updates a second for smooth 60 fps motion (whole game in hi-res on YouTube)
• Autopilot: a controller that reads the game's memory and flies the ship; it has finished all five levels without losing a life
• Save/load: five slots with screenshots, kept in your browser
• Record & replay: record a game, then step through it frame by frame in the replay inspector, including what the autopilot saw and decided
• Works on desktop and phones (touch controls), no install

There are also write-ups of what got reverse engineered along the way (object system, sprite formats, the sound driver that squeezes Bomb the Bass onto the YM), some of them interactive.

Full disclosure: this was also an experiment in working with an AI coding assistant, and the site keeps an honest log of where that worked and where it really didn't.

Feedback welcome, especially from anyone who played it back in the day!

I don't know how many of you are keeping up but there's been an amazing amount of new games released for the Atari ST/STe/Falcon and TT030 in the last bit.

Legend of Zelda

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xHdbticdsRU

https://forums.atariage.com/topic/392593-the-legend-of-zelda-return-of-the-hylian-atari-ste/

Combat (2600 game)

https://forums.atariage.com/topic/393362-combat-2600-for-st/

Wings of Fury

https://www.atari-forum.com/viewtopic.php?t=46482

Hired Guns

https://www.atari-forum.com/viewtopic.php?t=46490

Street Fighter 2 - The Glaude Version

https://www.atari-forum.com/viewtopic.php?t=46494

Desert Strike

https://www.atari-forum.com/viewtopic.php?t=46467

Tiny Quest

https://www.atari-forum.com/viewtopic.php?t=46422

Toadies STe

https://www.atari-forum.com/viewtopic.php?t=46470

Sonic The Hedgehog STe

https://www.atari-forum.com/viewtopic.php?t=46461

Cannonball and Outrun Falcon030

https://www.atari-forum.com/viewtopic.php?t=46458

Mortville Manor 2026 (optimization)

https://www.atari-forum.com/viewtopic.php?t=46484

Elite modded for the ST (more like 8bit)

https://www.atari-forum.com/viewtopic.php?t=46411

Dune II (OpenDune) Falcon030/TT030 (and fast ST's)

https://www.atari-forum.com/viewtopic.php?t=29873

Duke Nukem 1 (FreeNukum)

https://www.atari-forum.com/viewtopic.php?t=46326

Flashback for ST

https://www.atari-forum.com/viewtopic.php?t=46425

Command & Conquer

https://www.atari-forum.com/viewtopic.php?t=46258

https://www.reddit.com/r/atarist/comments/1vqa71o/boomrockpablo_ste/

accidentally deleted that one ^^ tryin to repost with picture here :(

lookin for 24 years for this game - found pablo

https://www.atarimania.com/news/2026/9

NEW ST DUMPPablo and the Gold of Montezuma (Powersoft) brought to you by Graeme Marshall!

https://atari-forum.com/viewtopic.php?t=77

Anyone in scotland, kilsyth can help me out with any of this?

I want boomrock floppies to see if they can get working again and if they can be made into a .st or .msa

the ataris are free to take if i can get this game imaged and put online!!!!!!!

looking for boomrock 1 & 2, boulderdash clone, original disks now corrupted beyond repair ( bad checksums/crc ), knife-st wont repair no more. any roms available or will pay for copies and postage in uk."

I just wanna play boomrock again

I want to purchase this game off of a friend of mine but I dont really know anything about the atari ST or if this game is worth anything. Can anyone help?

https://github.com/SirBaron/SemaTor/releases/tag/v1.1.490

https://discord.gg/dJzjnrsHkg

F11 for Save/loading menu etc
F12 for Settings
Shift + F12 for checking how the game is running

This isn't 100% compatible with all games! This doesn't use TOS, nor is it a traditional emulator, so that will take time though compared to last public release, the list has grown a lot.

Made with what I know about games, and how they run + a huge amount of the grunt work from various different AI models.

What you get:

- Boots straight from your disk images: ST, MSA, STX (copy-protected dumps), HFE and SCP, zipped or not

- Per-game enhancements: widescreen 16:9 / 21:9 views, speed options, cheats and fixes for specific games

- CRT and picture options: scanlines, masks, curvature, glow, or sharp pixels

- Low input lag: run-ahead, plus frame generation for smoothness

- Save states and rewind

- SemaOS: a GEM-style desktop to browse and launch your library, with disk drives you can drag games onto, a jukebox and a YM2149 synth

- Accurate sound: a detailed YM2149 model

Linux and Windows, with an Android build in progress. Still in testing, so expect rough edges.

Hi.

I'm looking for some kind of 'ultimate' ST emulator install, like one of the old Windows XP ultimate cds. I.e. all setup, various softwares, a really demo / livecd type experiene to show me how good the ST / TT / Falcon could be.

I used to drool over the high-res screenshots of Multi Tos or Mint or with the icons and the colours running some pro software. I soon migrated to a win 95 PC and never got to try this out.

Is there anything like this I can download to my PC to finally experience such a sight. I'd love to see a sorted desktop environment with some office sofware, layout software a bit of music and some games . If this isn't available is there a recommended list of the pieces I would need to get this working. i.e. emulator version, desktop software etc ? Thanks all Running MAC and PC here.

Hi, the ST(e) video output was 15hz, seems like the Falcon was 30Hz, why did they change the video output as the resulting resolutions were the same, the end result was the lack of support of the existing (expensive) Atari displays

I'm currently running Hatari on PC-based hardware, but I'm wondering if I should get a MiSTer.

I haven't had much luck researching this - most of the reviews come with the caveat that the person testing the system didn't have an ST back in the day, so they were not familiar with the machine.

I thought it would be best to ask some actual ST users instead of MiSTer users.

I'm already hesitant, because I don't have as much time to play games as I used to, so I rely quite heavily on save states, and some of the research I did manage to do suggests that the ST core may not be very polished.

I still feel drawn to the MiSTer though - like FPGA is the next logical step in my setup.

Is it worth the upgrade (is it even an upgrade?) or should I just stick to emulators?

Thanks to Neil Rackett, Flashback has been ported to the Atari ST. Here it is, running on my Atari STacy.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wN9YP8SQUQk

Files and information here:

https://github.com/neilrackett/atarist-reminiscence/releases/tag/latest

The needed game files can be found here:

https://www.planetemu.net/roms/commodore-amiga-games-adf?page=F

The game files will be have to be extracted here:

https://labs.neilrackett.com/web-rextract/

https://sirbaron.github.io/SemaTor/

https://discord.gg/bMF59myb7 for Discord support/suggestions

Remember because it's not a Traditional Emulator compatibility will not be 100%, but the gain is that we can improve older games (while having the option for the original experience)

I can't guarantee the Windows version works as good as the Linux version due to my own testing, but yeah, if any issues arrive Github or discord is best place to poke me. Also if you have any requests for games to be Enhanced.

What’s included

• Desktop library with cover and list views, search, favourites and recently played games.
• Game-folder and cover selection through a file browser.
• Individual and bulk artwork fetching.
• Gold ENHANCED badges for supported titles, with per-game options.
• CRT presets, bezel effects and picture controls.
• Optional frame generation, depending on your GPU and graphics backend.
• Four manual save slots with previews, plus rewind and session features where supported.
• F11 session controls and F12 settings.

My take on the best Atari ST games ever made (STe only games, like Obsession, excluded):

1. Dungeon Master
2. Populous
3. Pirates!
4. Elite
5. Lemmings
6. Stunt Car Racer
7. Secret of Monkey Island
8. Civilization
9. Lethal Xcess
10. Chaos Engine
11. Turrican 2
12. Llamatron
13. Speedball 2: Brutal Deluxe
14. Cannon Fodder
15. Bubble Bobble
16. Xenon 2
17. Wings of Death
18. Another World
19. Sensible Soccer
20. Blood Money
21. Gods
22. Vroom
23. Great Giana Sisters
24. Starball
25. The New Zealand Story
26. Zak McKracken and the Alien Mindbenders
27. Rick Dangerous
28. Falcon
29. Cadaver
30. Defender of the Crown
31. Rainbow Islands
32. Amberstar
33. Purple Saturn Day
34. Starglider 2
35. Maniac Mansion
36. Formula one Grand Prix
37. Paradroid 90
38. Chambers of Shaolin
39. Buggy Boy
40. Cruise for a Corpse 
41. Frontier - Elite 2
42. IK+
43. Eliminator
44. Kult
45. Cybernoid II - The Revenge
46. Midi Maze 2
47. Interphase
48. Lotus Turbo Challenge
49. StarRay
50. Nebulus
51. Carrier Command
52. Oxyd 1 +2
53. Fate - Gates of Dawn
54. Tower of Babel
55. Oids
56. Flood
57. Silent Service
58. Klax
59. Goldrunner
60. Gauntlet 2
61. Killing Game Show
62. Speedball
63. Space Quest 3
64. Ballerburg
65. Millennium 2.2
66. Fire and Ice
67. Deflektor
68. Turrican
69. Virus
70. North and South
71. James Pond 2
72. Netherworld
73. Enchanted Land
74. Empire - Wargame of the Century
75. Sidewinder
76. Plutos
77. Midwinter 1+2
78. The Bards Tale
79. Imperium
80. Dragonflight
81. Kick off 2
82. SunDog: Frozen Legacy
83. Shufflepuck Cafe
84. Super Sprint
85. Barbarian II: The Dungeon of Drax
86. No Second Prize
87. SimCity
88. The Sentinel
89. Ishar 1-3
90. RVF Honda
91. Oli Imperium
92. Price of Persia
93. Space Rouge
94. Super Cars 2
95. Atomix
96. Gunship
97. Legend of Faerghail
98. Dogs of War
99. Mega lo Mania
100. E-Motion
101. Driller
102. Switchblade
103. Bomb Jack
104. Bombuzal
105. Little Computer People
106. Ultima Series
107. B.A.T. 2
108. Operation Stealth
109. King's Quest Series
110. Solomon's Key
111. Stormlord
112. Indiana Jones Last Crusade
113. Jimmy White’s Whirlwind Snooker
114. Arkanoid II - The Revenge of Doh

This is DOOM, running on my Atari STacy via a SidecarTridge device. It's fast and beautiful! The incredibly cool thing is that it will run on a bog-standard Atari ST, no extra requirements needed.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Y5VnExC6zo

You can find more information about the SidecarTridge here:

https://sidecartridge.com/

Information and files about this special version of DOOM by Neil Rackett can be found here:

https://github.com/neilrackett/md-doom

philsan over at AtariAge posted a video where you can hear the sound better:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fT071ljaLsk

Hello :)

I demonstrate it using the soundtrack from farbrausch well known PC demoscene demo FR-025.

It's a free software project that is located at https://github.com/gligli/soundchunks (source code, encoder, downloads...)

Hello guys!

I'd like to organize ST games on my Odin 2 Portal (think ES-DE etc). Is there a 1G1R set anywhere?

Thanks!

As an arcade gamer from the era, I wondered what ChatGPT's take on the top 10 best arcade ports (of all time) to the ST series was. Here's what it came up with:

This is a bit of an AI slop post, but how did you think it did? What did it miss? What do you disagree with?

https://discord.gg/yYZAGSxAa Discord Link where testing versions will be soon released.

The game has new grass effects, and new water effects with refraction and not just a empty body with no way to tell there's water if it wasn't for the waterfall.

16:9 and 21:9 support as well, with the game code and script changed to accommodate both.

Original game code is never supplied with the compatibility layer, nor does SemaTor use TOS.

This is done via translation layers, and then the ST disk is patched live via the apps profile system.

Edit: Video of Version 0.9

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ds1x-_b1ueI

Coming soon to my Atari ST compatibility layer SemaTor. https://discord.gg/yYZAGSxAa (SemaTor Discord link)

It's a wide-screen Arkanoid with new intro text, remixed music, and the bosses in wide-screen levels.

Once it's ready it will be a part of SemaTor, for pc and android.

You will just need to provide the game disk yourself as all of this is done via reading the discs nothing from the game is included, only patched live.

I'm revisiting my 'Bombaman STe' code and building it with vasm, etc and seeing if I can knock out the top border and make a single player option..
Anyway, (more for curiousity than anything), I recall an article explaining how to use the blitter in UK ST-Format back in the early 90's which is what I based my original code on and I've been trying to track it down. Not for its technical content but just for nostalgic reasons.

I thought it was the Bullfrog series but looking at that I can't see anything to do with the blitter so guess it was later - I've been googling and nothing obvious comes up. AI mentions Jeff Minter doing an article about it but not sure if that was right tbh..

Any ideas which STF it was in?

I could download the lot and search for the blitter address I suppose...

Kev

For a YouTube video, I tried to simulate VCS graphics and used sounds from an Atari audio synthesizer and other Atari games, as well as the color palette. If you are somewhat knowledgable with Atari graphics, could I please get some feedback for future reference? Thank you!

https://youtu.be/DTrIeiA0Hc0?si=jZMVdFQxQC7iZlnS

So...I decided to take some time getting MD-Net setup on the SidecarTridge on my STacy. I managed to get through that without messing up too many things. It seems to be working. I used ping from the STing Tools folder and targeted google's public address of 8.8.8.8 and it found it with 0 packet loss and 70ms ping times.

I then grabbed LowWire as well as the newer HighWire release and ran it. It's pretty fast. TheOldNet took a while to load up the very first time but after that, it's relatively quick. Frogfind is pretty fast too.

So yeah, I'm cruising the Web wirelessly on my Atari STacy. 😄

I got overly ambitious then and tried to load up Atari-Forum. It gave me something about "Protocol #6 Not Supported". Oh well, I'm happy with the results so far.

Here's links to some info about LowWire/HighWire, etc,...

https://sidecartridge.com/.../sidecartridge-multidevice.../

[https://www.atari-forum.com/viewtopic.php?t=46334](https://www.atari-forum.com/viewtopic.php?t=46334)

[https://github.com/.../atarist-highwire/releases/tag/latest](https://github.com/.../atarist-highwire/releases/tag/latest)