Atari ST Emulators

After the Commodore, Spectrum and Amstrad (and all of the other 8 bits of course) there were two new big boys in town - the Atari St and the Commodore Amiga. These were the machines to own back in the mid to late eighties and so schoolkids everywhere left their 8 bit camps and joined the ST or Amiga gangs. The machines may have been different but the 'Mine's better than yours' chants were exactly the same. Now if you read the history the ST was first released as a competitior to the business machines of IBM, Apple and Commodore back in late 1985 - released under the Slogan 'Power without the Price' - The Atari 520ST had 512K Ram, a windows ...  Read the complete review

Ok, how many of you people out there used to have an ST? Well I did, so it was great to find a decent ST emulator at last.. It's called PaCifiST. It's at www.pacifist.fatal-design.co.uk and software can be found at www.lgd.fatal-design.co.uk. Basically it's a DOS-based ST emulator. Everything works... the games look as wonderful as they did when they first came out, it's a real nostalgia trip. The ST emulator scene's died down a bit recently, it used to be quite lively but i think the main contributors to the whole scene have moved on to pastures new.. oh well. Anyway, back to the point, PaCifiST is a brilliantly bug-free ...  Read the complete review