Atari ST emulation on your PC. Standalone Hatari and LaunchBox integration

[@javidThoman]

Thank you very much. I already had everything I needed when I started this tutorial but it would not work using retroarch. So I downloaded Hatari and watched your tutorial. Now everything is working. Beautiful games really. Thank you.

[@BytesNBits]

Glad it helped

[@Martinshobbies]

you got the best tutorials! Thank you!

[@BytesNBits]

Glad you like them!

[@periurban]

A trip down memory lane. I played Oids again. My favourite ST game. So, thanks for that!

[@BytesNBits]

Hi. Great! Now to try all those games you couldn't get hold off back in the day.

[@periurban]

@@BytesNBits There were no games I didn't "get hold of". The only one I didn't play that I wanted to play was Dungeon Master, because it didn't work with my ST's floppy. But I have played it since.

[@kellerkind6169]

It is the one game that every Amiga user I knew at the time was envious of. This and oh....Dungeon Master at least until it finally arrived on the Amiga as well, whih did take quite a while afair

[@periurban]

@@kellerkind6169 I couldn't run Dungeon Master. My ST had one of the strange drives that didn't read certain sectors of the disk, and DM needed those. So, I was well jealous too!

[@virtuafighter3]

Very good video. Hard work in here and information rich.

[@BytesNBits]

Glad you liked it!

[@maxwellvideos1271]

You can´t believe how much you helped me with this Explanation. You are the Best. Thank you so much.

[@BytesNBits]

No problem. Glad you found it useful.

[@philmarsh5593]

Certainly made setting up Hatari much easier, thanks! I do still have my working STFM from 1989 but was curious to see how this ran. Only problem I had was getting Hatari to recognise my wireless game controller - didn't register. So I set the keyboard up as port 1 and some games recognised the keyboard ok and some didn't. Trial and error as to what works clearly. But very much enjoying your tutorials, thanks.

[@BytesNBits]

Great to hear you're having some success with the emulators.

[@beamrider356]

Merci pour ce tuto super clair et simple à suivre. Vidéo très bien faite, bravo !

[@BytesNBits]

Glad you found it useful.

[@zdp-189]

I've used Hatari standalone instead of the one with RetroArch with much better results over years, launch through Launchbox. But learned a lot from your vid, changing my RAM to 4 MB, and I had only TOS 1.0....going to try that EmuTOS now. Excellent video, especially for someone with zero beginning experience with it- well done, explicit, with helpful images and vid. Man reminds me of when I first started going hardcore with retro collecting/modding/emulating in 2017...setting up Amiga files to work with Launchbox I had to do this crazy UUID thing or something with pointers, I don't even remember what it was now lmao. Further revisions of LaunchBox/RetroArch made integrating Amiga files much easier however.

[@BytesNBits]

Great. Have fun with the emulation.

[@macdox69]

I've always used standalone as well, but recently switched to the updated hatariB retroarch core by BBBradsmith. It's updated to the latest standlone version and works much better and Get to use the awesome Retroarch shaders and bezels. (My favourite are the Duimon shaders)

[@denisjardin8168]

Exelete funciono 100% para jugar un juego de mi infancia el Starray

[@BytesNBits]

Great. Glad to hear you got it to work.

[@umutkayacan7659]

cool vid as usual

[@BytesNBits]

Thanks again!

[@Twinny4242]

Thank you for this helpful video. I'm all set up but using this emulator I haven't been able to find a working version of Ranarama, IK+ or Thundercats. All of the versions I download simply crash. Same with Leaderboard.

[@Twinny4242]

PANIC: Address Error etc.

[@BytesNBits]

Emulation isn't always perfect. Have you seen people emulating these games. Some just don't work. Others you need to find the working ROM set.

[@Twinny4242]

I've managed to solve the issue. I wasn't paying attention to some of the things you said in your video. Thank you so much for your help. I'm now reliving my teenage gaming years :) @@BytesNBits

[@Junyaytb]

When I reboot, (step at 11:30 of the video) nothing happened, just back to the desktop screen, help me please !

[@BytesNBits]

It sounds like Hatari didn't recognise your game disk. Either it might be corrupted (try downloading another version) or your disk setup wasn't quite right (when you get back to the desktop check if there is anything listed in the floppy drive). I hope this helps.

[@mantovannni]

Didn't you say you did a similar tutorial for the Amiga? I cannot find it on your list of videos.

[@BytesNBits]

Hi. Ooops. I think I only covered the Amiga on the Raspberry PI. Looks like another video is needed!

[@mantovannni]

@@BytesNBits hiya I did actually come across your Amiga on the PC video, I couldn't find it on your channel though, the link for it was attached to the video entitled "Play Amiga games on your browser" I think it was.

[@elarmuzik]

can anybody tell how to run MCA file on HATARI ?

[@BytesNBits]

Hi. Sorry. I haven't used any of those.

[@daishi5571]

Does anyone know the name of the SHMUP in the intro sequence. Looks a lot like Starship Command on the Acorn BBC

[@BytesNBits]

It's based on Starship Command but one of my coding courses - Space Commander. kzbin.info/aero/PLvOT6zBnJyYH8vKAg_B5-DpWnJjgTo3fJ

[@michaelroberts1120]

Good review of Hatri, but why no mention of creating and setting up a hard drive?

[@BytesNBits]

Hi. Maybe in a follow up video.

[@Richardstevens1234]

We hed a shop called bits and bytes in ipswich it was a bit crap it was too small

[@JohnSmith-bh4zx]

Hi. I've followed your video. but at 14.03 the "Computer" platform is not displayed? It just shows Consoles. Any Ideas? Also can you do a video on installing PS2 on LaunchBox. Thanks

[@BytesNBits]

Hi. The Computers folder is just a category inside Launchbox. If it hasn't created one for you you can create it manually. Don't worry about that stage during setup as you can skip it and come back to it later.

[@filevans]

hello please do you know how to get hatari running in NTSC 60hz?

[@BytesNBits]

There is a command line option to set the country code. This will force it into NTSC. Check out the user manual. hatari [options] [disk image | directory | Atari program ] --country Set EmuTOS ROM country code on Mega/ST/STe machines lacking NVRAM, when EmuTOS indicates supporting multiple ones. In 512k EmuTOS images, country code selects the TOS keyboard layout and screen refresh (US = 60Hz NTSC, 50Hz PAL otherwise). In 1024k EmuTOS images (coming with Hatari binaries and supporting multiple languages), country code selects also TOS language. Alternatively, one can use "tos-lang-change" tool from EmuTOS project to modify country code in the ROM image file itself. That works also for TOS v4

[@TPau65]

Great video to get into Hatari easily. This Launchbox also is an interesting program to bring all your retro games into one user surface! 👍 Personally Hatari isn't the first choice for me when it comes to games, especially mouse controlled games. These are almost impossible to play, as Hatari unfortunately has no "screen limits" and the mouse could leave the active emulator screen! I really don't know why the programmers of Hatari had chosen that strange way of mouse implementation. 🤔

[@BytesNBits]

Hi. What emulator do you use?

[@TPau65]

@@BytesNBits Steem, as I find it easier to configure and handle. But most important because of it's mouse control, which works as you would expect it from an emulator and not that crazy as in Hatari! Of course Hatari has more possibilities and can also emulate a Falcon (if you know how), but as said mouse control destroys it for me.

[@BytesNBits]

@@TPau65 Hi. I did have a play with Steem before making the Hatari video. Very good emulator.

[@TheBazwinder]

@@TPau65 Doesn't the mouse issue go away on full screen?

[@TPau65]

@@TheBazwinder Yes, in fullscreen mouse limits are as they should be. But normally I use emulators windowed.

[@jajabinx35]

Can you save state? I've tried in 'Memory' option in Hatari Menu and there is a 'save' option there, but can't seem to get it to work....Great vid btw.

[@BytesNBits]

Hi. I think you're looking in the right place. The save option should let you create a save state file. Then use the memory -> restore option to restart from where you left off. Make sure you've got the same emulated hardware setup. I'm not sure if the save state saves the configuration as well.

[@donwald3436]

Is there any way to translate a game controller to joystick, that's the only thing I'm missing.

[@BytesNBits]

That should be possible but I haven't used the emulator for a while. Have a look in the documentation.

[@KeyAndrew]

Awesome video... When I go into my Launchbox pause screen to exit a game it does not work.... I can exit after messing with the keyboard and exiting through the emulator.... Is there a fix to make the emulator exit via the Launchbox Pause screen? Also is there a way to get scanlines in this emulator? Thanks for the video...

[@BytesNBits]

Hi. Some of the emulators override the LaunchBox controls, especially when you use the standalone emulators. For these you just have to go through the emulator exit process. For scan lines go to the Hatari menu and select the Atari screen. Set the monitor type to TV. I hope this helps.

[@KeyAndrew]

@@BytesNBits sounds good... thanks for responding

[@ainolcrystal6182]

I cannae find a combo correct for tau ceti (1986 crl game -nowdays abandonware) to launch via Hatari =((((

[@BytesNBits]

Hi. If you try to find the game manual it might give you some hints about the hardware setup it needs. You can also try to get hold of the original BIOS ROMs in case there is some incompatibility there. Good Luck!

[@FD-ze1xg]

hello everyone! is it possible to copy/paste from windows? Ex: file coding gfa basic, Etc etc.. Thank you all!

[@BytesNBits]

Hi. I don't think so. The clipboard on the PC won't be connected to the keyboard function in the emulator. You might be able to create text / code files for the emulator on your PC and then load those into the emulator but I haven't looked into it.

[@mehere3013]

I had this them bought amiga to copy the st protected games

[@BytesNBits]

If you look around you'll find cracked versions of most games out there.

[@mehere3013]

@@BytesNBits this was at the start of the st / amiga lives , before the Internet, so I got games from friends and library to copy , then I progressed to swapping from magazines , ahh they were the days , waiting on a delivery from a fellow pirate