Author Topic: atari emulators for the sharp 5500 rom? (Read 6113 times)

terrorphile · « **on:** October 19, 2004, 02:24:38 pm »

i have been trying to run some .st and .msa images but i cant seem to find a emulator that works with them.
im not fluent with the file format, but i saw somewhere that they are archives
but i have not been able to extract them to see if theres an atari executable

cwaig · « **Reply #1 on:** October 20, 2004, 06:38:21 am »

.msa is a Magic Shadow Archive - a compressed disk image. You can use this program to convert and MSA image to a .ST image (which is an uncompressed image). The castaway emulator will run (some) .ST images on an SL5500 (but only in the ST's 320x200 mode, and not very fast...).

I've had it run stuff like Pang and Arkanoid2 in the past.....

cwaig · « **Reply #2 on:** October 20, 2004, 06:42:53 am »

Oh yeah - and you should be able to mount a .ST image on your desktop linux system so you can fiddle with it using the loopback mount method (example for the Arkanoid disk image):

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mkdir atariDisk
mount ARKANOID.ST atariDisk -o loop
ls atariDisk
umount atariDisk

This doesn't work with all atari disk images 'coz there was a lot of funky format fiddling going on at the time.....but it does work with a lot of them.

ScottYelich · « **Reply #3 on:** October 20, 2004, 11:09:47 am »

I have to admit... STeem is pretty impressive.

I've been begging/pleading with the authors to release the source
for months.

I think I tried STonX ... and it worked, but the mouse calibration
became completely messed up for some reason... so the emulator
was basically unusable.

I was running pdaXrom 1.0.1

Scott

terrorphile · « **Reply #4 on:** October 20, 2004, 11:43:47 am »

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I have to admit... STeem is pretty impressive.

I've been begging/pleading with the authors to release the source
for months.

I think I tried STonX ... and it worked, but the mouse calibration
became completely messed up for some reason... so the emulator
was basically unusable.

I was running pdaXrom 1.0.1

Scott

yes i was reading what you wrote on atari forums -i think
it would be very nice if they would, release the source for steem so we could use it.

terrorphile · « **Reply #5 on:** October 20, 2004, 12:01:26 pm »

Cwaig, thankyou very much.
i found this on sunday thinking it would be best thing to use for what im trying to do

im trying to get one of these sound trackers to run
the atari tracker heaven page
through your emulator, but i keep coming up with a problem with libSDL

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castaway:  error while loading shared libraries: libSDL-1.2.so.0: cannot load shared object file: No such file or directory

i installed the libSDL from your site but even with an older one it still comes back to me with the same problem.
so i dont think it is directly related to the libSDL you have on there.
but i have not figured out a way past this yet.

the good thing about the atari tracker page is that it has alot of different trackers on it
and i can go through an try each one till i find one that works.
well preferably one that produces a file format that other/newer trackers can read.
an with your .msa to .st converter even more....

but i just first need to get past this libSDL problem that i can not seem to get past.
i guess it would be best for me to look through here to see if i can possibly find a thread about this problem.

terrorphile · « **Reply #6 on:** October 20, 2004, 12:37:38 pm »

i got past the libSDL problem i was having but now when runningi get a error
saying

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TOS-image not found, exit!
is there any solution to this?

terrorphile · « **Reply #7 on:** October 20, 2004, 12:46:19 pm »

i found a tos-image @ http://steem.atari.st/download.htm

now it deepens

terrorphile · « **Reply #8 on:** October 20, 2004, 05:14:43 pm »

i have gotten to the gem desktop
now i can not seem to figure out how to access the other files in side it

i did successfully mount the .st file
tho i cant figure out how to access it from inside the gem desktop

i guess i will just keep on trying different things

i have all of the files in /home:
/home/castaway
/home/diska
/home/diskb
/home/rom
/home/Tos206us.img
/home/atariDisk/bbs_ads.txt
/home/atariDisk/file_id.diz
/home/atariDisk/pt_st.prg
/home/atariDisk/pt_ste.prg
/home/atariDisk/sync01.mod

i cant seem to figure out how to access the directory /home/atariDisk/
so i copied all the files in /home/atariDisk/
to /home
so in reality my /home actually looks like this

/home/castaway
/home/diska
/home/diskb
/home/rom
/home/Tos206us.img
/home/Tos 102us.img
/home/bbs_ads.txt
/home/file_id.diz
/home/pt_st.prg
/home/pt_ste.prg
/home/sync01.mod

on top of things i also put castaway and the rest of the contents of castaway-rel inside:
/home/QtPalmtop/bin
so i could just type "castaway" at the bash prompt but it will only run if i type "castaway" inside /home

terrorphile · « **Reply #9 on:** October 20, 2004, 05:16:46 pm »

while i was typing that last post i got the gui working for pro tracker 2.1
i'll be posting images of it here shortly
but they are very dull for some reason

terrorphile · « **Reply #10 on:** October 20, 2004, 05:22:13 pm »

they are pretty dim and it was pretty hard getting a good focus
but here they are
#1

terrorphile · « **Reply #11 on:** October 20, 2004, 05:22:51 pm »

terrorphile · « **Reply #12 on:** October 20, 2004, 05:25:47 pm »

so now i aim to see if i can get any sound out of it
& how to get samples into it

terrorphile · « **Reply #13 on:** October 20, 2004, 05:27:03 pm »

hmm i think i am going to have to find out how to make .st images

terrorphile · « **Reply #14 on:** October 20, 2004, 05:59:19 pm »

so after playing with it some more pro tracker was acting crazy
pressing buttons on its own an such
but i loaded this one and it seems to work so far very stabley <? if thats a word

[img]http://marcer.dyndns.org/chiptrack/chipcom1_001.png\" border=\"0\" class=\"linked-image\" /]
i dont know if this ones gonna work tho cuz i cant seem to find a play button!

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