HATARI - Atari ST emulator for Linux

[HawaiiMuskrat]

I have a laptop that came with Windows Vista - I'm going to completely
switch this machine over to Linux in the near future and hope to be
able to run the Atari ST emulator on it. Has anyone else tried it?

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Hatari is an Atari ST and STE emulator for GNU/Linux, BSD, BeOS, Mac
OS X and other systems that are supported by the SDL library. The
Atari ST was a 16/32 bit computer system which was first released by
Atari in 1985. Using the Motorola 68000 CPU, it was a very popular
computer having quite a lot of CPU power at that time. Unlike many
other Atari ST emulators which try to give you a good environment for
running GEM applications, Hatari tries to emulate the hardware of a ST
as close as possible so that it is able to run most of the old ST
games and demos. Hatari is open source software and is distributed
under the terms of the GNU General Public License (GPL).
The project page is available at: http://developer.berlios.de/projects/hatari/

Features:

Hatari supports the emulation of most of the ST and STE hardware,
including some special tricks like raster interrupts, border effects
and PSG sample sound. A joystick can be emulated with the cursor keys
or with a real PC joystick. Hatari also features the possibility to
"mount" a directory of the host system as a ST drive, or to use hard
disk images with its ACSI emulation.
Note that Hatari mainly emulates the original ST and STE hardware –
the emulation of the additional hardware of the TT or Falcon machines
is currently in development and highly experimental.

System requirements:

First you need a fast (500MHz or more) machine running a Unix
compatible OS (preferably GNU/Linux) which is supported by the SDL
library. There are also some ports to other operating systems like
BeOS, please see the links page for more information. Non-Linux
systems like FreeBSD etc. are rarely tested, so if you run into
problems while compiling Hatari on such platforms, please let us know!

Have a look at the downloads page for details about the required
libraries and available packages. Some binary packages are now
available, too, but not for all architectures. So you might need to
also have GNU C on your system to recompile the source code of Hatari.

Before you can finally run the emulator, you also need a TOS image
file. TOS is the built-in operating system of the Atari 16/32 bit
computers. Since it is not possible to ship one of these image files
with Hatari, you either have to create your own image from your Atari
or you have to use EmuTOS, a free TOS replacement.

Certain versions of Hatari have successfully been tested by various
people on the following systems:

* Linux 2.6.x is the prefered platform (most developers use this
OS)
* Apple PowerMac with Mac OS X
* NetBSD 1.6
* NetBSD on a Digital Alpha
* FreeBSD 4.1 on a i486 computer, FreeBSD 4.8 on a Pentium 4 and
FreeBSD 5.1
* OpenBSD 3.5
* Solaris 8 on a SUN UltraSparc 1 (64-bit mode)
* Sharp Zaurus SL-C760 PDA running Linux
* Nokia N770, N800, N810 internet tablets running Linux 2.6
* Acorn RISC OS machines
* Amiga OS 4
* FreeMiNT on Aranym
* Windows XP
* BeOS/i86

[Phil Musgrave]

Once I get an ST emulator running I'll need to find some ST software
-- I don't know what happened to mine.
Any help on this subject?

Phil M