Discussion about Atari micros

in the 1983, Atari XL was released, Epyx and Activision released Summer
Games and Ghostbuster.  In 1985 to 1990, Winter Games, Summer Games II,
Ghostbuster II, Championship Baseball and more were released for Apple II
and C64. Why did Epyx, Activision, other software companies stop making the
games for Atari? Poor Graphics, color or enough memory ???

Of all the OS’s written for the A8, which is the best XL/XE OS? (It
must recognize the parallel bus.)  And which is the best 800-type
"compatability" OS used on the XL/XE for older software? And of course
— WHY did you pick your favorites?

My favorite is the the Ultra Speed + OS from CSS.  It is "the best"
because it works so well with the Black Box and Floppy Board.  But even
without the BB, it handles UltraSpeed so transparently.  It also
provides an extremely floppy-like ramdisk if you have expanded ram.
720 sectors, single or DD.

My favorite 800-type OS is Omnimon — hands down, no contenders — love
that monitor!!!  I must admit, however, that especially using a VGA
up-converter, Omniview is very impressive.  But it’s still way behind
Omnimon, because there is so little 80-column software.
-Larry

Has anyone had any experience doing this?  I have a couple of XL/XE OS
that have pretty "ugly" viewability, and I’d like to alter the color
and luminance for better viewing.  I haven’t any success searching
through the OS code for the color register(s) or shadows.  
-Larry

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Anyone know what happened to www.emulators.com/xformer.htm  ???

This site had good info on using a Xformer Cable on a PC  if I remember
correctly.

I was doing research on something similar awhile back. Not sure if I saved
the Web info
 from this site or not.

Reason I ask about it:  This site showed you how to alter the normal Xformer
Cable to work
on a PC. It was easy to do, only a wire or two needed changed.
Anyone happen to know how to do it or have a text file on modifying it?

Hopefully, it will come back up later.

phant…@bellsouth.net

Hi guys

Just to let you know we’ve posted our first effort on porting the
excelent New Rally X game by Namco to the Atari 8bit. This demo is in a
very early developement stage, but it’s a start.

Here are some links to the screenshots and the Atari executable you can
play on your favorite emulator, or even on your real Atari!

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v688/monitorero/nrx02.png

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v688/monitorero/nrx01.png

http://www.atariware.cl/foro/download.php?id=158

If you read spanish, you can read the feedback here:

http://www.atariware.cl/foro/viewtopic.php?p=4534

…and if you read english, you can read the feedback there:

http://www.atariage.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=83947

Enjoy!

lbaeza AKA Dr. von Byte
Member of the AtariWare Team
www.atariware.cl

Was wondering what are the best programs on the 8-bit Atari to view
pictures such as .GIF or some of the other popular formats?

Is there one that will display Atari ST 16 color pictures or better?

Also Sound and Music files,  What are the best programs to play
Sound and Music files?

Any that will play Atari ST Digitized Sound files or other Digitized Sound
formats?

I remember one that would display .GIF pictures, but it was slow and thats
been a few years ago. Hoping something better has came along.

Phantom
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