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Hatari is an Atari ST and STE emulator for Linux, BSD, BeOS, Mac OS X and
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other systems that are supported by the SDL library. The Atari ST was a
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16/32 bit computer system which was first released by Atari in 1985. Using
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the Motorola 68000 CPU, it was a very popular computer having quite a lot
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of CPU power at that time.
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Unlike many other Atari ST emulators which try to give you a good
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environment for running GEM applications, Hatari tries to emulate the
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hardware of a ST as close as possible so that it is able to run most
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of the old ST games and demos.
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Optional dependency: if portaudio is installed, hatari will be built
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with it, which enables emulated Falcon microphone support.
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Before you can actually run the emulator, you also need a TOS image
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file. TOS is the built-in operating system of the Atari 16/32 bit
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computers. Since it is not possible to ship one of these image files
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with Hatari, you either have to create your own image from your Atari
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or you have to use EmuTOS, a free TOS replacement.
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It's also possible to download the ROM images from the net. See
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the package hatari_tos_roms. If you're going to install the ROMs,
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it's easiest to install hatari first, then hatari_tos_roms (otherwise,
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you'll have to manually symlink /usr/share/hatari/tos.img to whichever
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ROM you want to use).
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EmuTOS is included in this package, so you can run at least some ST
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applications without installing the real ROMs, but not many programs
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work with EmuTOS (especially not games).
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