What the Heck is a Hatari?

Based on the name Hatari alone you may think this is a mythical beast from the days of old, well you would be half right it is from the days of old but its no beast. Fresh from Rtype a Dev over at PSX Scene comes this Emulator from the days of old... Atari our favorite wood paneled console is now on the PS3.  Ok so its a bit of a convenience at the cost of wasting hardware beyond the need but who cares Qbert rocks. Check out the quote from the Rtype below.

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A Lame hatari 1.6.1 DBG release for PS3.

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What?: A quick port of hatari 1.6.1 to ps3 using PSL1GHTV2.
Why? : Because i like old atari computer
Who? : Rtype

So far ,i ve just compil the lastest hatari src (1.6.1) with psl1ghtv2 (SDL used) and i only make few hacks to done it work (a little) .
All the credit to the HATARI TEAM ( http://hatari.tuxfamily.org ) and to the PS3DEV team .

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Know Problems:

- Works only with a keyboard & a mouse cnx to the ps3 !

- Some pb with SDL1.2 hatari code (ex: code Keysym 1.2 different from 1.3) so i make quick dirty hack , not all the keys are working
and its seem to break a lot keyrepeat .

- Hatari & sdlgui use partial screen update , and PS3 SDL dont have hardware cursor code , so i make another quick & very bad hack to
show something we can call a mouse pointer (hum i know its a square) and force the gui redraw , this make the gui very bad and slow,
and there is a big lag between mouse action and screen update. Apologize for this.

- In fullscreen mode Gui seem not working correctly so change to desktop mode if needed.

- XMB seem to freeze PS3 when calling from home button so exit from the gui or AltGr-Q combo.

- I ve not tested all the option , just few games , so maybe other pb around …

Sorry for all this problems but i hope you enjoy anyway ( i mean Atari lovers ) somes old good games .

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Quick Install & Start:

- Create somes dir in /dev_hdd0/ :

/dev_hdd0/HOMEBREW and /dev_hdd0/HOMEBREW/ST/ and /dev_hdd0/HOMEBREW/ST/TOS/ and /dev_hdd0/HOMEBREW/ST/CONF/

- Put a valid tos named rom in:

/dev_hdd0/HOMEBREW/ST/TOS/

- Put some ST/MSA dsk in :

/dev_hdd0/HOMEBREW/ST/

- Install the pkg .

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INGAME CONTROLS :

works only with a keyboard & a mouse !
joystick:LSTICK= JOY MOVE CROSS= Button1 SQUARE= button2

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Credit:

Special thanks to PS3DEV guys , KaKaRoTo (very big thanks for your works) , Hermes ,Oopo , Deroad (for help with V2) .

Bonjour chez vous!

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