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Description:Hatari Version 2.2.1, an Atari ST/STE/TT/Falcon emulator - Port by BeWorld
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Homepage:https://hatari.tuxfamily.org/
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Hatari

Version 2.2.1, February 2019

http://hatari.tuxfamily.org/


Contents:
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1. License
2. What is Hatari?
3. Compiling and installing
3.1 WinUAE and "old" UAE CPU cores
3.2 IPF support using capsimage library
3.3 Notes for Linux distribution packagers
3.3.1 Known distro problems
4. Running Hatari
5. Hatari tools and their run-time dependencies
6. Contact


1) License
----------

This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under
the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Soft-
ware Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any
later version.

This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY
WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS
FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details.

You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with
this program; if not, write to the
Free Software Foundation, Inc.,
51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor, Boston,
MA 02110-1301, USA

Linking Hatari statically or dynamically with other modules is making a
combined work based on Hatari. Thus, the terms and conditions of the GNU
General Public License cover the whole combination.

In addition, as a special exception, the copyright holders of Hatari give you
permission to combine Hatari with free software programs or libraries that are
released under the GNU LGPL and with code included in the standard release
of the IPF support library (a.k.a. libcapsimage, see http://www.softpres.org/
for more information) under the Software Preservation Society Licence Agreement
as it has been defined for IPF library version 4.2 and 5.1. Linking against modified
versions of the IPF library is also allowed, as long as neither the license
nor the purpose of the library (accessing .ipf or .ctr disk images) was changed.
You may copy and distribute such a system following the terms of the GNU GPL
for Hatari and the licenses of the other code concerned.


2) What is Hatari?
------------------

Hatari is an Atari ST/STE/TT/Falcon emulator for Linux, FreeBSD, NetBSD, macOS,
Windows and other Systems which are supported by the SDL library. Unlike most
other open source ST emulators which try to give you a good environment for
running GEM applications, Hatari tries to emulate the hardware as close as
possible so that it is able to run most of the old Atari games and demos.


3) Compiling and installing
---------------------------

For using Hatari, you need to have installed the following libraries:

Required:
- The SDL library v1.2.10 or newer (http://www.libsdl.org)
- The zlib compression library (http://www.gzip.org/zlib/)

Optional:
- The PNG image library for PNG format screenshots and to decrease
AVI video recording file sizes (http://www.libpng.org/)
- The GNU Readline library for Hatari debugger command line editing
- The Xlib library to support Hatari Python UI window embedding on
systems with the X window system (Linux and other unixes)
- The PortMidi library required for MIDI support on macOS and Windows
(http://portmedia.sourceforge.net/)
- The portaudio library for Falcon microphone handling
- The udev library for NatFeats SCSI driver media change detection
- The IPF support library (http://www.softpres.org/download)

Don't forget to also install the header files of these libraries for compiling
Hatari (some Linux distributions use separate development packages for these
header files)!

For compiling Hatari, you need a C compiler (preferably GNU C), and a working
CMake (v2.8 or newer) installation, see http://www.cmake.org/ for details.

CMake can generate makefiles for various flavours of "Make" (like GNU-Make)
and various IDEs like Xcode on macOS. To run CMake, you've got to pass the
path to the sources of Hatari as parameter, for example run the following if
you are in the topmost directory of the Hatari source tree:
cmake .

If you're tracking Hatari version control, it's preferable to do
the build in a separate build directory as above would overwrite
the (non-CMake) Makefiles coming with Hatari:
mkdir -p build
cd build
cmake ..

Have a look at the manual of CMake for other options. Alternatively, you can
use the "cmake-gui" program to configure the sources with a graphical
application or "ccmake" to configure them with ncurses UI.

For your convenience we also ship an old-fashioned configure script which can
be used as a wrapper for running cmake. Type "./configure --help" to see the
options of this script.

Assuming that you've used the Makefile generator of CMake, and cmake finished
the configuration successfully, you can compile Hatari by typing "make". If all
works fine, you'll get the executable "hatari" in the src/ subdirectory of the
build tree. You can then install the emulator by typing "make install".


3.1) WinUAE and "old" UAE CPU cores

Up to version 1.9, Hatari had 2 different CPU cores : the "old" UAE CPU core
used for STF/STE and the WinUAE CPU core for better TT/Falcon emulation.
Default was to use the old UAE CPU core.

Starting with Hatari 2.0, all the STF/STE specific code from the old CPU core
was integrated into the new WinUAE CPU core. Some improvements were
also added to the new CPU Core, greatly improving cycle accuracy and low
level 680xx emulation.

Therefore, the new CPU core is now the default for all emulated machines.

Old CPU core can still be used by running "./configure --enable-old-uae-cpu"
which may be useful on weakest machines too slow to run the new CPU core
at acceptable speed. Support for old CPU core will be removed soon though
as it's not anymore properly tested.


3.2) IPF support using capsimage library

Hatari can use the optionnal capsimage library to access IPF and CTR
files. Those files are created using the Kryoflux board and allow to
record MFM exact copies of original games, including the protection.

Version 4.2 of the library allows to access IPF files, while the more recent
version 5.1 fixes some bugs, as well as adding support for CTR files.

Hatari defaults to version 5.1, but you can also use the older 4.2 version
if 5.1 is not available for your OS. You can change this by modifying
"SET(CAPSIMAGE_VERSION 5)" into cmake/FindCapsImage.cmake

Refer to http://softpres.org/download and get the corresponding file
from the "User Distribution" section that matches your OS.

For version 4.2, you should have the following files in your include path :
/usr/local/include/caps/
capsimage.h
fdc.h
form.h

For version 5.1, you should have the following files in your include path :
/usr/local/include/caps5/
CapsAPI.h
CapsFDC.h
CapsForm.h
CapsLibAll.h
CapsLib.h
CapsLibVersion.h
ComLib.h
CommonTypes.h

You should also copy the libcapsimage.so* files in your library path,
for example in /usr/local/lib/caps/ or /usr/local/lib/caps5/


3.3) Notes for Linux distribution packagers

TOS tester in tests/tosboot/ directory can be used to verify that
Hatari was built fine enough that it's able to boot all tested TOS
versions in various different HW configurations and run some GEMDOS
based tests. For EmuTOS, use version v0.8.7 or newer, older versions
are buggy and fail the GEMDOS tests.

If Hatari package will have two application menu entries for Hatari,
one for the Python UI embedding Hatari, and another one for the plain
SDL version, the latter could open also a terminal window for Hatari
command line debugger and its console messages:
x-terminal-emulator -T "Hatari debug window, invoke debugger with AltGr+Pause" -e hatari

tools/hatari-tos-register.sh is a minimal example of Linux init script
registering Hatari as a (binfmt_misc) handler for TOS binaries.

Alternatively one could add a mime type for TOS binaries with xdg-mime:
http://portland.freedesktop.org/xdg-utils-1.0/xdg-mime.html
But registering handlers for mime-types seems desktop specific.


3.3.1) Known distro problems

If Hatari is built with portaudio support, ALSA aborts Hatari at
Falcon emulation startup, unless Pulseaudio server is running.

This is because:
- Falcon microphone emulation initializes Portaudio
- Portaudio doesn't have pulseaudio support, only ALSA libasound
- Many distributions enable (by default) pulseaudio module for ALSA
- ALSA's pulseaudio module aborts when it cannot connect to pulseaudio
server

Hatari audio output goes through SDL, which uses pulseaudio
library. That doesn't have this issue.


Old RHEL 5 and the derived CentOS v5.x Linux distributions ship
with a broken readline library:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=499837

To get CMake readline detection and linking working on them,
you need to give these as extra arguments to the "cmake" command:
-DCMAKE_C_FLAGS=-lncurses -DCMAKE_EXE_LINKER_FLAGS=-lncurses

They also have too old Python/PyGtk version for the python based
Hatari scripts. Here are patches for Hatari v1.5/v1.6 Python UI:
http://listengine.tuxfamily.org/lists.tuxfamily.org/hatari-devel/2012/01/msg00008.html


4) Running Hatari
-----------------

For information about how to use the running emulator, please read the file
doc/manual.html. Here are just some hints for the impatient people:

* Before you can run the emulator, you need a TOS ROM image. If one
named as "tos.img" is neither in the data directory of the emulator
(DATADIR variable in CMake configuration), or in the current
directory, Hatari will ask you to select one.

- Hatari binary packages ship unmodified EmuTOS ROM image with them
(renamed as tos.img), but you need an original Atari TOS ROM image
for best compatibility. For more information on EmuTOS, see
doc/emutos.txt.

* While the emulator is running, you can open the configuration menu
by pressing F12, the F11 key will toggle fullscreen/windowed mode.
Pressing ALTGR-q will quit the emulator.


5) Hatari tools and their run-time dependencies
-----------------------------------------------

While Hatari installs few binary tools binaries:
- hmsa (converts between MSA & ST disk images)
- gst2ascii (outputs a.out and DRI/GST debug symbol table contents)

Most of its tools are python and shell scripts. Their run-time
dependencies are:
- python (hatariui, hconsole, hatari_profile, atari-convert-dir)
- python-gtk2 (hatariui)
- mkdosfs (atari-hd-image)
- mtools (atari-hd-image / zip2st)
- unzip (zip2st)


6) Contact
----------

If you want to contact the authors of Hatari, please have a look at the file
doc/authors.txt for the e-mail addresses or use the Hatari mailing list.

Visit the website of Hatari on Tuxfamily.org for more details:

http://hatari.tuxfamily.org/contact.html


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Last Comments
Lastic
23 Apr 2024
21:42
I cannot get Hatari to use any directory as a source for MSA files or as a GEMDOS drive.

It either complains that PROGDIR: is an invalid name or even setting it to my directory that I use
Work:Hatari/ does not seem to work.

It looks like Hatari cannot resolve the pathnames used in MorphOS ?

Am I missing something or doing something wrong?