I’m working on a native Atari ST port of The Legend of Zelda (NES), built from Aldo Núñez’s disassembly.
It’s not emulation - it’s a real 68000/TOS executable, with ST‑specific rendering and input.

Here’s a screenshot from the current build in Hatari

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🔧 What’s done

An early but playable slice, not yet a complete game: the whole overworld and the first cave, and Level 1 up to Aquamentus and the triforce piece.

You can already:

• walk all 128 overworld screens with the original movement and collision, and scroll between them
• go into the first cave, hear the old man's speech and take the wooden sword
• explore Level 1: locked doors, bombable and false walls, shutters, the push block, the stairs to the cellar
• fight stalfos, keese, gels, ropes, goriyas, wallmasters, blade traps and Aquamentus with the sword and its beam, bombs, the boomerang and the candle, and pick up the drops
• open the inventory screen and choose the B item
• find the map and the compass and read the dungeon minimap on the ribbon and on the inventory screen
• meet the old man in the first dungeon's room $41 and read his hint
• hear the music and sound effects, ripped from the ROM's own sound engine at build time: overworld, dungeon and Level 9 themes, the item and triforce fanfares, Link's death jingle, and effects for hits, bombs, kills, rupees, keys, hearts and opening shutters

🔗 GitHub

https://github.com/georgeflower/zelda1-atarist

STOS is where a lot of people learned to make games, so I built a game creator for today's PCs in its spirit: a sprite editor, maps, animation, sound and music, and game logic you snap together, with a Play button that runs your game on the spot.

It comes with a STOS Importer disk that brings in STOS sprites, maps, music and pictures, so old projects and art can come along. It's free and runs offline on Windows; the box and floppies in the pictures are a tribute, it's a download.

I built it on my own, so it's early (version 0.4.4). If anyone here still has STOS files lying around, I'd love to hear how the importer copes with them: https://fortisq.itch.io/bitiverse-studio

I did a thing! I wanted my old Cubase 2.x and 3.x for Atart ST songs back, they were captive in *.ARR and *.ALL files in my archives that modern Cubase can't read anymore. Wrote a free converter, try it out today. No subscription, no in-app purchases, no fees, 100% free. Copy the .ARR and .ALL files off your floppies (or out of Hatari/Steem), drop them on the converter page and you get a generic, high fidelity DAWproject file that you can import directly into Cubase/Nuendo 14+, Bitwig, Studio One, as well as a MIDI file for any other DAW. Nothing is uploaded, your files never leave your computer. Link in the comments. Happy converting!

Had the Kixx re-release of SQ1 for the longest of time but it just didn’t look right next to the OG releases of 2 and 3, so I finally pulled the trigger on a matching version, and I couldn’t be happier 😄

If you have a Greaseweazle and a box of Amiga or ST disks, I'd appreciate some testers for FluxForge. No command line needed: it installs the Greaseweazle tools for you, shows a live track map while reading, and tells you exactly which tracks failed on a worn disk. You can capture raw flux for preservation and turn it into an ADF or ST later.

Download: https://github.com/freemchr/fluxforge/releases/latest

Feedback form: https://github.com/freemchr/fluxforge/issues/new/choose

I was just bidding on games with no bids as i usually do and won these 3 atari games with original box and manuals for $23 wondering which atari would i need to buy to be able to play them? thank you

I've written a post on the early history of Argonaut, the making of Starglider 2, and the response from the games press of the time (including predictions it would shift a lot more STs).

I'm blogging about the history of popular games in the UK by writing about each sales chart #1 in order and just reached Starglider 2, so I got a real sense of how impressive it looked up against the Spectrum games of the time I've been playing until now!

Hi all, I've made a free, open-source Windows tool for working with floppy disks and disk images, inspired by FastCopy:

• back up disks to .ST / .MSA / .IMG (and flux .SCP/.HFE with Greaseweazle), write images back with verification
• format for Atari ST (incl. 800–900 KB formats with an internal drive + fdrawcmd.sys), PC, MSX, Mac, Amiga CrossDOS…
• surface test with a live FastCopy-style sector map, FAT check and safe repair
• boot disks (FreeDOS, MS-DOS, Atari AUTO folder, Amiga bootblock)
• works with USB floppy drives, internal drives (fdrawcmd.sys) and Greaseweazle

Download: https://github.com/Warysek/DisketteToolkit/releases

It's a test version — I design and test it on my own hardware, the code is written with AI assistance. The exe isn't code-signed yet, so SmartScreen or some antivirus may warn about it (code signing via SignPath is in progress). I'd really appreciate feedback, especially which USB drives work with 720 KB disks and how it behaves with Greaseweazle and internal drives. Bug reports are welcome here or in GitHub Issues. Thanks!

Yes, the original 1983 laserdisc classic, running full-screen at 25 FPS with sound on real Atari hardware with a SidecarTridge Multi-device.

Now available for free through the Booster app. It features the original arcade gameplay, joystick and keyboard controls, customizable options, and persistent high scores.

In the video, I show it running on my Atari STE, including footage from the actual monitor.

Hope you enjoy seeing Dirk back in action on the Atari ST!

I've spent the last months on a side project: the Atari ST version of Xenon 2: Megablast, running in the browser. Play: https://dmnet.st It's the original 68000 game running in a modified Hatari compiled to WebAssembly. Instead of showing the ST's framebuffer, the emulator hooks the game's own draw routines and redraws every sprite on the GPU, which made a few extras possible:

• Classic mode: the original 320×200, pixel for pixel
• Hi-res mode: every sprite upscaled 4× and interpolated between the game's 15 updates a second for smooth 60 fps motion (whole game in hi-res on YouTube)
• Autopilot: a controller that reads the game's memory and flies the ship; it has finished all five levels without losing a life
• Save/load: five slots with screenshots, kept in your browser
• Record & replay: record a game, then step through it frame by frame in the replay inspector, including what the autopilot saw and decided
• Works on desktop and phones (touch controls), no install

There are also write-ups of what got reverse engineered along the way (object system, sprite formats, the sound driver that squeezes Bomb the Bass onto the YM), some of them interactive.

Full disclosure: this was also an experiment in working with an AI coding assistant, and the site keeps an honest log of where that worked and where it really didn't.

Feedback welcome, especially from anyone who played it back in the day!

I don't know how many of you are keeping up but there's been an amazing amount of new games released for the Atari ST/STe/Falcon and TT030 in the last bit.

Legend of Zelda

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xHdbticdsRU

https://forums.atariage.com/topic/392593-the-legend-of-zelda-return-of-the-hylian-atari-ste/

Combat (2600 game)

https://forums.atariage.com/topic/393362-combat-2600-for-st/

Wings of Fury

https://www.atari-forum.com/viewtopic.php?t=46482

Hired Guns

https://www.atari-forum.com/viewtopic.php?t=46490

Street Fighter 2 - The Glaude Version

https://www.atari-forum.com/viewtopic.php?t=46494

Desert Strike

https://www.atari-forum.com/viewtopic.php?t=46467

Tiny Quest

https://www.atari-forum.com/viewtopic.php?t=46422

Toadies STe

https://www.atari-forum.com/viewtopic.php?t=46470

Sonic The Hedgehog STe

https://www.atari-forum.com/viewtopic.php?t=46461

Cannonball and Outrun Falcon030

https://www.atari-forum.com/viewtopic.php?t=46458

Mortville Manor 2026 (optimization)

https://www.atari-forum.com/viewtopic.php?t=46484

Elite modded for the ST (more like 8bit)

https://www.atari-forum.com/viewtopic.php?t=46411

Dune II (OpenDune) Falcon030/TT030 (and fast ST's)

https://www.atari-forum.com/viewtopic.php?t=29873

Duke Nukem 1 (FreeNukum)

https://www.atari-forum.com/viewtopic.php?t=46326

Flashback for ST

https://www.atari-forum.com/viewtopic.php?t=46425

Command & Conquer

https://www.atari-forum.com/viewtopic.php?t=46258

https://www.reddit.com/r/atarist/comments/1vqa71o/boomrockpablo_ste/

accidentally deleted that one ^^ tryin to repost with picture here :(

lookin for 24 years for this game - found pablo

https://www.atarimania.com/news/2026/9

NEW ST DUMPPablo and the Gold of Montezuma (Powersoft) brought to you by Graeme Marshall!

https://atari-forum.com/viewtopic.php?t=77

Anyone in scotland, kilsyth can help me out with any of this?

I want boomrock floppies to see if they can get working again and if they can be made into a .st or .msa

the ataris are free to take if i can get this game imaged and put online!!!!!!!

looking for boomrock 1 & 2, boulderdash clone, original disks now corrupted beyond repair ( bad checksums/crc ), knife-st wont repair no more. any roms available or will pay for copies and postage in uk."

I just wanna play boomrock again

I want to purchase this game off of a friend of mine but I dont really know anything about the atari ST or if this game is worth anything. Can anyone help?

https://github.com/SirBaron/SemaTor/releases/tag/v1.1.490

https://discord.gg/dJzjnrsHkg

F11 for Save/loading menu etc
F12 for Settings
Shift + F12 for checking how the game is running

This isn't 100% compatible with all games! This doesn't use TOS, nor is it a traditional emulator, so that will take time though compared to last public release, the list has grown a lot.

Made with what I know about games, and how they run + a huge amount of the grunt work from various different AI models.

What you get:

- Boots straight from your disk images: ST, MSA, STX (copy-protected dumps), HFE and SCP, zipped or not

- Per-game enhancements: widescreen 16:9 / 21:9 views, speed options, cheats and fixes for specific games

- CRT and picture options: scanlines, masks, curvature, glow, or sharp pixels

- Low input lag: run-ahead, plus frame generation for smoothness

- Save states and rewind

- SemaOS: a GEM-style desktop to browse and launch your library, with disk drives you can drag games onto, a jukebox and a YM2149 synth

- Accurate sound: a detailed YM2149 model

Linux and Windows, with an Android build in progress. Still in testing, so expect rough edges.

Hi.

I'm looking for some kind of 'ultimate' ST emulator install, like one of the old Windows XP ultimate cds. I.e. all setup, various softwares, a really demo / livecd type experiene to show me how good the ST / TT / Falcon could be.

I used to drool over the high-res screenshots of Multi Tos or Mint or with the icons and the colours running some pro software. I soon migrated to a win 95 PC and never got to try this out.

Is there anything like this I can download to my PC to finally experience such a sight. I'd love to see a sorted desktop environment with some office sofware, layout software a bit of music and some games . If this isn't available is there a recommended list of the pieces I would need to get this working. i.e. emulator version, desktop software etc ? Thanks all Running MAC and PC here.

Hi, the ST(e) video output was 15hz, seems like the Falcon was 30Hz, why did they change the video output as the resulting resolutions were the same, the end result was the lack of support of the existing (expensive) Atari displays

I'm currently running Hatari on PC-based hardware, but I'm wondering if I should get a MiSTer.

I haven't had much luck researching this - most of the reviews come with the caveat that the person testing the system didn't have an ST back in the day, so they were not familiar with the machine.

I thought it would be best to ask some actual ST users instead of MiSTer users.

I'm already hesitant, because I don't have as much time to play games as I used to, so I rely quite heavily on save states, and some of the research I did manage to do suggests that the ST core may not be very polished.

I still feel drawn to the MiSTer though - like FPGA is the next logical step in my setup.

Is it worth the upgrade (is it even an upgrade?) or should I just stick to emulators?

Thanks to Neil Rackett, Flashback has been ported to the Atari ST. Here it is, running on my Atari STacy.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wN9YP8SQUQk

Files and information here:

https://github.com/neilrackett/atarist-reminiscence/releases/tag/latest

The needed game files can be found here:

https://www.planetemu.net/roms/commodore-amiga-games-adf?page=F

The game files will be have to be extracted here:

https://labs.neilrackett.com/web-rextract/

https://sirbaron.github.io/SemaTor/

https://discord.gg/bMF59myb7 for Discord support/suggestions

Remember because it's not a Traditional Emulator compatibility will not be 100%, but the gain is that we can improve older games (while having the option for the original experience)

I can't guarantee the Windows version works as good as the Linux version due to my own testing, but yeah, if any issues arrive Github or discord is best place to poke me. Also if you have any requests for games to be Enhanced.

What’s included

• Desktop library with cover and list views, search, favourites and recently played games.
• Game-folder and cover selection through a file browser.
• Individual and bulk artwork fetching.
• Gold ENHANCED badges for supported titles, with per-game options.
• CRT presets, bezel effects and picture controls.
• Optional frame generation, depending on your GPU and graphics backend.
• Four manual save slots with previews, plus rewind and session features where supported.
• F11 session controls and F12 settings.

My take on the best Atari ST games ever made (STe only games, like Obsession, excluded):

1. Dungeon Master
2. Populous
3. Pirates!
4. Elite
5. Lemmings
6. Stunt Car Racer
7. Secret of Monkey Island
8. Civilization
9. Lethal Xcess
10. Chaos Engine
11. Turrican 2
12. Llamatron
13. Speedball 2: Brutal Deluxe
14. Cannon Fodder
15. Bubble Bobble
16. Xenon 2
17. Wings of Death
18. Another World
19. Sensible Soccer
20. Blood Money
21. Gods
22. Vroom
23. Great Giana Sisters
24. Starball
25. The New Zealand Story
26. Zak McKracken and the Alien Mindbenders
27. Rick Dangerous
28. Falcon
29. Cadaver
30. Defender of the Crown
31. Rainbow Islands
32. Amberstar
33. Purple Saturn Day
34. Starglider 2
35. Maniac Mansion
36. Formula one Grand Prix
37. Paradroid 90
38. Chambers of Shaolin
39. Buggy Boy
40. Cruise for a Corpse 
41. Frontier - Elite 2
42. IK+
43. Eliminator
44. Kult
45. Cybernoid II - The Revenge
46. Midi Maze 2
47. Interphase
48. Lotus Turbo Challenge
49. StarRay
50. Nebulus
51. Carrier Command
52. Oxyd 1 +2
53. Fate - Gates of Dawn
54. Tower of Babel
55. Oids
56. Flood
57. Silent Service
58. Klax
59. Goldrunner
60. Gauntlet 2
61. Killing Game Show
62. Speedball
63. Space Quest 3
64. Ballerburg
65. Millennium 2.2
66. Fire and Ice
67. Deflektor
68. Turrican
69. Virus
70. North and South
71. James Pond 2
72. Netherworld
73. Enchanted Land
74. Empire - Wargame of the Century
75. Sidewinder
76. Plutos
77. Midwinter 1+2
78. The Bards Tale
79. Imperium
80. Dragonflight
81. Kick off 2
82. SunDog: Frozen Legacy
83. Shufflepuck Cafe
84. Super Sprint
85. Barbarian II: The Dungeon of Drax
86. No Second Prize
87. SimCity
88. The Sentinel
89. Ishar 1-3
90. RVF Honda
91. Oli Imperium
92. Price of Persia
93. Space Rouge
94. Super Cars 2
95. Atomix
96. Gunship
97. Legend of Faerghail
98. Dogs of War
99. Mega lo Mania
100. E-Motion
101. Driller
102. Switchblade
103. Bomb Jack
104. Bombuzal
105. Little Computer People
106. Ultima Series
107. B.A.T. 2
108. Operation Stealth
109. King's Quest Series
110. Solomon's Key
111. Stormlord
112. Indiana Jones Last Crusade
113. Jimmy White’s Whirlwind Snooker
114. Arkanoid II - The Revenge of Doh

This is DOOM, running on my Atari STacy via a SidecarTridge device. It's fast and beautiful! The incredibly cool thing is that it will run on a bog-standard Atari ST, no extra requirements needed.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Y5VnExC6zo

You can find more information about the SidecarTridge here:

https://sidecartridge.com/

Information and files about this special version of DOOM by Neil Rackett can be found here:

https://github.com/neilrackett/md-doom

philsan over at AtariAge posted a video where you can hear the sound better:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fT071ljaLsk

As an arcade gamer from the era, I wondered what ChatGPT's take on the top 10 best arcade ports (of all time) to the ST series was. Here's what it came up with:

This is a bit of an AI slop post, but how did you think it did? What did it miss? What do you disagree with?