Running More Than Just Games On Castaway/gp?

[Alex.]

Lately I have been playing a lot more with Castaway/GP, skeezix's fantastic Atari ST emulator. (Ever since I can clock to 188 - the ST runs games so much better at 166Mhz)

Since Atari ST was more than just another 16-bit console, I'm sure that it had quite the software/application collection. I was unable to find anything more than game disk images for it though. I wonder if there are any software applications for it that would run on Castaway/GP. It would be fun to morph the GP32 into an Atari ST PDA

- Alex

 

[Radek]

Lately I have been playing a lot more with Castaway/GP, skeezix's fantastic Atari ST emulator. (Ever since I can clock to 188 - the ST runs games so much better at 166Mhz)

Since Atari ST was more than just another 16-bit console, I'm sure that it had quite the software/application collection. I was unable to find anything more than game disk images for it though. I wonder if there are any software applications for it that would run on Castaway/GP. It would be fun to morph the GP32 into an Atari ST PDA

- Alex

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Yesss it would be great!!!!

To tell you what I think - the Atari ST has a proper GUI and some aplications had even vector fonts (the Calamus) and going to PC (because of greatness of VGA and raw power) was somewhat half step back... But this means better emulation of the med-res and hi-res modes (640x200 and 640x400), a virtual HD support and ability to run the "68000" and faster speeds than the chipset (it will mess up the games and demos but it will be great for apps). Perfectly there should be option for dynamic translation to Arm opcodes from the 68K as it'd allow fastest speed possible.

So it's real that all those old ST's apps will be usefull but there is some work to do before.

 

[Jackie B]

Since I shouldn't link to anything of dodgy legality, I'll just say that you should do a search for atari st abandonware on Google. I found a couple of sites with some old Atari magazine cover disks that have apps and stuff on them.
This was a brilliant idea - I was thinking about using my gpx2 to store addresses, but using Castaway hadn't occurred to me!