AtariST Emulation Finally Lands on Dreamcast

wraggster writes "Tonight has seen the Release of the Worlds first Atari ST Emulator for the Dreamcast by Ron of MadriDC fame & Chui. The emulator is a port of Castaway to the Dreamcast and already runs most games at full speed."

DC emulator

[Anonymous Coward]

Sorry if this is off topic, but for those who don't have a Dreamcast. There is a Dreamcast emulator that emulates Homebrews (such as this atari emulator) and commericals games at almost full speed. It hasn't been mention in /. before, so check Chankast out:

http://www.chanka.org

If you like it, don't forget to donate to encourage them for futher improvement. It will be open source once they release version 1.0.

Emulator X for Platform Y is not news anymore

[Kris_J]

Seriously, anyone who cares about specific emulators for a given platform, are already reading DC Emulation [dcemulation.com], AtariAge [atariage.com], Zophar's Domain [zophar.net] or something else that covers these events earlier and in more depth than /.

It's not like this was the first Atari ST emulator ever. It's a port for crying out loud.

Re:Obsolescence - with new improved extra oldness!

[Dot.Com.CEO]

The Atari ST was by no means a failed computer. In fact, the home computer market was 60% Amiga's and 40% Atari's. Also, due to the inspired move of putting MIDI ports to STs, you could see Ataris in recording studios well after it was abandoned by Atari.

Also, the Dreamcast, even though a failed system had great games of excellent quality. Just because the market decided it didn't like the Dreamcast it doesn't necessarily mean it was a bad console. It was not. Compared to anything else at the time, it was the best console out there.

Re:Naysayers run your self-checking routines!

[Goldberg's Pants]

He does make a good point though. All the PS2/GC/XB fan boys will bang on about it, when the DC is a fantastic machine. Dirt cheap. Tons of home brew stuff. If you're not against downloading you can pretty much get every game ever made. (Not that you can get the majority through legitimate channels anyway.)

It's criminal the machine died. It's easily up there with the PS2 on graphics. It just got killed by shitty marketing and other companies not supporting it (Electronic Arts for example).

Some of the most eclectic games I've ever played are on my beloved Dreamcast. I'd rather sit and play Tokyo Bus Guide than the latest shovelware shit from EA anyway.

Re:DC emulator

[drinkypoo]

What do you have to lose in the meantime by the fact that it's closed? It's not like they're expecting you to contribute to the program, or they'd make it open source. They probably just don't want to release code with which they are highly embarrassed. There definitely have been projects released to open source only after they have hit a certain preannounced point.