[hemmerling] The ATARI-ST, the ATARI Falcon & the world of Digital Data Deicke

History and Motivation for this Page

Once I owned an ATARI-ST computer with 4 MByte RAM, a MEGAFILE harddisk with 2 x 60 MBytes capacity, a color and a monochrome monitor. I was running the operating system ATARI-TOS with GEM and the realtime operating systemsRTOS-UH and Microware OS-9.
In Summer 2004, I got as gift for free.
- A modified ”ATARI Falcon” computer, in a “DDD desktop case”, by DDD Digital Data Deicke, with external CD-ROM SCSI drive. With the special “DDD desktop case”, the joystick jacks 0 and 1 are exchanged, i.e. you must plug in the mouse in jack 1 instead of jack 0 !
- An ATARI Mega-ST 2, with external harddisk “ddd MicroDisk” by “DDD Digital Data Deicke” and with “ddd HD-Modul II” by DDD Digital Data Deicke for high density diskdrives.

Free ATARI-ST Software

ATARI-ST Administration Software, ATARI-ST Drivers

Claus Brod "Brod für die Welt: CoCreate Modeling trivia, Atari nostalgia, and more" #.
- Claus Brod "The Atari pages".
  - Scheibenkleister and Kleisterscheibe.
  - CBHD(hard disk driver) #.
  - SED(sector editor),...

ATARI-ST Internet Software

STinG by Peter Rottengatter, maintained by Ronald Anderson - A TCP/IP stack, the successor of STiK.
- ST Computer 03/2000 "Wer ist eigentlich… Peter Rottengatter?".
- Michael Bernstein "Programmieren mit STinG".
STiK 2000 - “The ST Internet Kit” ( STiK 2.0, CAB 1.5,..).
The web browser HighWire.

General ATARI-ST Download Archives

ATARI Games

ATARI Mania - “The World's Finest Atari Database : games, demos, utilities for 2600, 5200, 400, 800, xl, xe, st and falcon”.
ATARI ST Offline Tournament.
Chebucto Community Net "Atari 400/800/XL/XE & ST/TT/Falcon Software".
ftp://ftp.funet.fi/pub/atari/, ftp://ftp.lip6.fr/pub/atari/, ftp://ftp.cs.tu-berlin.de/pub/atari/, ftp://kurobox.serveftp.net:3021/programming/.

Operating Systems, GUIs, Compilers and Development Systems for ATARI-ST

EmuTOS

SourceForge.io "EmuTOS - Free operating system for Atari ST, and more", SourceForge "EmuTOS", SourceForge "EmuTOS".

MiNT

Frank Naumann - SpareMiNT.
massi SOFT - german EasyMint support site.
MINTLIB is the 68K version of “libc”.

GNU-C/C++

Miro Kropacek.
- Miro Kropacek - Download - “gcc 4.4.3” for ATARI-ST, “binutils 2.20” for ATARI-ST running FreeMiNT.
- Dead Hackers Society "Miro Kropacek - GCC 3.3.6 useage for Atari projects" - Tutorial how to compile GCC 3.3.6 for ATARI-ST.
Olav Wosch "Howto install a cross development system for embedded MC680x0 systems on a machine running Linux".
Vincent Rivière "Vincent Rivière's port of the m68k-atari-mint tools".
Zorro, Coder at Work "Libraries, Unix port, etc..." - “GCC 3.3.6 is a port of the award winning GNU compiler for MiNT. In this archive, you can find both the C and C++ compiler( 20 Mb)”.
Olivier Landemarre "GEMTOS : GCC Tool kit".
GCCShell ( FTP Download "gccshell_49a.zip" ).
Some other GNU-C/C++ versions for ATARI-ST: GCC 2.95, 2.63.
I am still looking for download of the latest GNU-C/C++ compiler for ATARI-ST which does not need MiNT!

C Compilers

The OpenSource C compiler Henk Robbers "AHCC - A Home Cooked C compiler", “aka ANSI Sozobon”, for ATARI-ST and Coldfire ( “Coldfire binary distribution” ).
The OpenSource “Sozobon C” compiler by “Sozobon Limited”.
- FTP Download "Sozobon C".
- Michel Bernstein - Download "Sozobon C".
Lattice C Compiler.
- EN.Wikipedia "Lattice C", DE.Wikipedia "Lattice C".
Pure C Compiler.
- DE.Wikipedia "PureC".

Resources

DrCoolZic "Atari ST Site".
- DrCoolZic "Atari Programming Languages" →Lattice C Compiler, Pure C Compiler,...

ATARI Developer Communities

AtariForge - “A free service to Atari developers”.
- ATARIForge "The Unofficial XaAES Page".
  - ATARIForge "The Unofficial XaAES Page - History - The history of TOS, GEM, MiNT, MultiTOS, FreeMiNT, XaAES.

Free and Giftware ATARI-ST Emulators

Tools

Emulators,Inc..
- Emulators,Inc. "Emulators.com Downloads Page".
  - The OpenSource Emulators,Inc. "Gemulator 9" for Windows.
  - Gemulator Classic 3.8 - free Atari ST emulator for MS-DOS.
    - With this version, the virtual disk files (CDRIVE, VHD, DDRIVE.VHD, EDRIVE.VHD, FDRIVE.VHD) and the bootsector STHDBOOT.SEC are included. You may configure the configuration file GEMUL8R.INI so that You don´t need the very-special EPROM card armed with the original ATARI-TOS EPROMS anymore. Here You may download my personal gemul8r.ini file.
The OpenSource ATARI-ST emulator “Hatari” for Win32 - Win10-64bit compatible -, Linux.
- TuxFamily "Hatari".
- BerliOS "Hatari" ( - 2011-08-17 ).
- ~~Sourceforge "Hatari"~~, ~~Sourceforge "Hatari"~~ - “The project has been moved to “hatari.tuxfamily.com” now, but this site will stay for providing the historic releases before version 1.0”.
- SourceForge.io "EmuTOS - Free operating system for Atari ST, and more", Sourceforge "EmuTOS", Sourceforge "EmuTOS".
- Simple DirectMedia Layer ( SDL ).
  - SDL Wiki.
    - SDL Wiki "SDL Keycode".
- Eero Tamminen "Hatari Atari emulation related information".
  - Eero Tamminen "Hatari Atari emulation related information" - "Scan codes for Atari keyboard key positions" ( PNG ).
  - Reddit "Not a mechanical keyboard but I always liked the Atari ST keyboard, sensible keypad, actual help and undo keys (those function keys were awful though)" ⇒ ATARI-ST QUERTY keyboard.
  - AtariAge "Atari Mega ST4 and SC1224 monitor for sale".
    - AtariAge "German Atari Mega ST Keyboard" ( JPG ) ⇒ ATARI-ST QUERZU keyboard.
  - Phil Storrs PC Hardware book. The Scan Code values generated by the PC Keyboard ⇒ PC QUERTY keyboard , but with hexadecimal scan codes .
  - Keyboard Layout Info "German Layout Scancodes" ⇒ PC QUERZU keyboard , but with hexadecimal scan codes .
- Keyboard maps:
  - The original Hatari keyboard mapping is for ATARI-ST QUERTY keyboard: As with an English EmuTOS, the ST scan codes are always interpreted as scancodes of the ATARI-ST QUERTY keyboard , there will never be German Umlaute ( äöü,... ) on the screen . As scancodes do not differ if a SHIFT or CTRL is pressed, the assignment of a scancode to up to 3 different character symbols is fixed .
    - TuxFamily Listengine "[hatari-devel] keymap file for Windows/PC 101key German Keyboard -> Atari ST German keyboard" - Outdated infos of 2014.
    - “C:\Program Files (x86)\hatari\doc\keymap-sample.txt” - Current infos.
  - So if you want to use Hatari on a PC with German keyboard, you must install a German ATARI-ST operating system ( e.g. TOS 1.62 Deutsch, TOS 2.06 Deutsch & TOS 2.07 Multilanguage, TOS 3.06 Deutsch, TOS 4.04 Deutsch ). But even then, you won´t have much fun, as you can´t input some US ASCII characters ( [, \, ], {, |, }, ~ ).
Little Green Desktop.
- The free ATARI-ST emulator Steem Engine for Windows.
The Giftware Frédéric Gidouin "PaCifiST" for MSDOS - “An Atari ST emulator for the PC”.
STonX - The Atari ST Emulator for Unix/X for Linux and MSDOS.
- Sourceforge "STonX", Sourceforge "STonX".
- Sourceforge "STonX" - Download of the MSDOS version of STonX, ported by Dirk Jansen.
- SourceForge "Tony Smolar".
  - Archive.org "Tony Smolar - The Unofficial STonX Homepage", 1999-02-10.
The free ATARI-ST emulator SainT for Windows.
The discontinued Shareware ATARI-ST emulator Archive.org "Mark Slagell - TOSBOX" for MSDOS.
- Mark Slagell: “Shareware fees are no longer accepted, and registration keys are no longer available”.
- Zophar's Domain, Atari - ST Emulators "TOSBOX" → Download.
The OpenSource ATARI-ST emulator “WinSTon”.
- WinSTon Official Homepage, 1998-08-16.
- Sourceforge "WinSTon", Sourceforge "WinSTon".
- There was a free, discontinued derivate “STeW”.

Keyboard Assignments of ST Emulators


Key on PC keyboard	TOS Language	Windows Keyboard Language	Character in Hatari TOS Emulation	Comment
	German	German	@	Not available
	German	German	[	Not available
	German	German	\	Not available
	German	German	]	Not available
	German	German	{	Not available
	German	German	\|	Not available
	German	German	}	Not available
	German	German	~	Not available


Key on PC keyboard	TOS Language	Windows Keyboard Language	Character in Hatari TOS Emulation	Comment
ß	English	German	-
´	English	German	=

z	English	German	y
ü	English	German	[
+	English	German	]
ö	English	German	;
ä	English	German	'
#	English	German	´
<	English	German		No action
y	English	German	z
,	English	German	,
.	English	German	.
-	English	German	/

!	English	German	!
”	English	German	@
z	English	German	y
§	English	German	#
$	English	German	$
%	English	German	%
&	English	German	^
/	English	German	&
(	English	German	*
)	English	German	(
=	English	German	)
?	English	German	_
`	English	German	+

Z	English	German	Y
Ü	English	German	{
*	English	German	}
Ö	English	German	:
Ä	English	German	”
'	English	German	~
>	English	German		No action
Y	English	German	Z
;	English	German	<
:	English	German	>
_	English	German	?