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Manufacturer Maxon Computer, Germany | Date 1991 | Amiga any Amiga |
- Atari ST emulation
- a 5×12 cm board without case connecting to the external floppy disk connector
- two sockets for Atari ROMs (delivered with TOS 1.2)
- up to eight Atari environments can run at one time
- AmigaOS and TOS run exclusively, not parallel, but the user can switch between them anytime
- the special "Overtake" mode removes AmigaOS, running only TOS
- video modes:
- 640×400 - 736×568 (HighRes), monochrome
- 640×200 - 736×284 (MedRes), 4 colours
- 320×200 - 368×284 (LowRes), 16 colours
- by reducing the vertical resolution, up to 70 Hz is possible
- does not support ECS modes
- with Fat Agnus 8372A, either PAL or NTSC can be used
- does not simulate the Atari hardware registers
- programs hitting the hardware do not run
- copy protected software and games generally do not work
- a patch is supplied to run important software like Signum 2, TurboC 2.0 or Stad
- hard disk support needs special drivers - hardfiles are not supported, the emulation requires dedicated Atari partitions
- cannot read the special hyperformatted (>720 kB) floppy disks
- provides up to two RAM disks
- although the TOS does not support other than the 68000 processor, the emulation can run programs faster with later processors
- does not emulate the Atari MIDI interface
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