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Emulators

The most complete and polished emulator for Atari 8-bit systems

Excellent portable emulator for Atari 8-bit home computer systems

Atari800Win Plus

Excellent emulator for Atari 8-bit home computer systems with long legacy usage

A Unix and Win32 based emulator of the Atari eight bit computers, namely the Atari 400 and 800, the Atari 400XL, 800XL and 130XE, and the Atari 5200 game console. The emulator is auto-configurable and will compile on a variety of systems (Win32, Linux, Solaris, Irix).

Obsolete, but good emulator for Atari 8-bit home computer systems. Author of this emulator also owns original ROM images, usable for other Atari emulators.

Macintosh OS X Port of David Firth's Fantastic Atari 800 Emulator

A8E is a freeware Atari 800 XL emulator. It uses the SDL library for the user interface and the audio and graphics (via OpenGL) output.

A web-based Atari 8-bit emulator

Development tools

WUDSN IDE is a free integrated Apple II, Atari 2600, Atari 7800, Atari 8-bit, C64, and NES development plugin for Eclipse

MADS is a multi-pass crossassembler designed for 6502 and 65816 processors. Binaries are generated mainly for Atari 8-bit systems (supported are AtariDosII and SpartaDOS X formats).

Mad Pascal Compiler

Great new cross development system for 6502 microprocessor by Tebe, resembling Pascal, specifically made for Atari home computers. It is based on Sub-Pascal 32-bit real mode compiler for 80386+ processors v. 2.0 by Vasiliy Tereshkov, 2009

A freeware 6502 cross-assembler Windows with original syntax extensions. It is mainly targeted at Atari 8-bit computers, but it can be also used for programming Atari 2600/5200/Lynx, Commodore C64, Apple ][ and others.

This is a fast interpreter for the BASIC language on the Atari 8-bit computers and the Atari 5200 console.

cc65 is a complete cross development package for 65(C)02 systems, including a powerful macro assembler, a C compiler, linker, librarian and several other tools. It is based on a C compiler that was originally adapted for the Atari 8bit computers by John R. Dunning.

A 6502 command-line cross-assembler that is compatible with the original Mac/65 macro assembler released by OSS software. The aim of ATasm is to provide Atari home-brew coders with a comfortable and powerful toolset.

A C-compiler for 6502-based platforms creating optimized and readable assembler code. The language is 95% standard C with a few limitations and a few extensions.

A middle-level programming language for 8-bit microprocessors, this language focuses on performance, compactness, simplicity and readability.

TurboBasic XL parser tool

This program parses and tokenizes a TurboBasic XL listing in a flexible format and produces any of three different outputs

A new high level programming language for MOS Technology 6502 microprocessors. It is meant to be used for development on 8bit computers like Atari 800, C64 etc. A work in progress!

Effectus Compiler

Cross compiler for Action! programming language using MADS assembler and Mad Pascal. My project in progress!

Action Compiler

Recreating the Action! compiler for the Atari Computer and the 6502

Interactive 6502 Disassembler for Win32

Interactive 6502 disassembler for Atari binary files on Windows.

Graphics editors

The Graph2Font (G2F) program treats the image as fields with dimensions of 4x8, 2x8, 8x8 pixels. At the beginning this program had been used only to convert graphics to chars but now it also allows you to do multicolor graphics for the 8-bit Atari.

Atari Interlace Studio

Excellent graphics manipulation program for most Atari 8-bit Atari graphics formats by Tomasz "TeBe" Biela.

A set of utilities for easier developing on Atari 8-bit machines, including editors for graphics, character sets, different text modes, player/missiles and even editing source code with direct compiling to selected programming language

RECOIL - Retro Computer Image Library

RECOIL is a viewer of pictures in native formats of Amiga, Atari 8-bit, Atari Portfolio, Atari ST, Atari Falcon, Commodore 64, Macintosh 128K, MSX, SAM Coupe and ZX Spectrum computers.

Excellent player/missile editor for Atari, inspired by the "Atari Player Editor" by Paul "Playsoft" Lay. The application was written in javascript, it works directly in the browser.

Interesting display list editor for mixing different text and graphic modes, written in JavaScript. It allows you to automatically generate source code of your custom display list.

Small graphics utility for creating graphics dump of selected Windows screen section

Disk tools

ATR Image Explorer

Browser based disassembler for Atari .BAS, XEX, ATR and other files

Total Commander ATR plug-in

ATR plugin for Total Commander by Pajero/MadTeam: - supports 99% of the following DOS structures: Atari Dos - Dos2, DosII, MyDos, Sparta Dos and BW-Dos, and more...

AtariDsk is a program for MSDOS-PCs that allows you to access Atari floppy disks in double density (180k). All you need is a PC (XT or 286 should be sufficient) and a 5.25" floppy drive.

With WriteAtr you can write double density ATR-images to Atari floppy disks on your MSDOS-PC. You can also create ATR-images of double density floppy disks! All you need is a PC and a 5.25" and/or a 3.5" floppy drive.

A small PC (Win9x) tool for easy work with Atari disk image files XFD and ATR.

Character set (font) editors

Atari FontMaker

Excellent font editing program similar to EnvisionPC program in features

A font/map editing program similar to the old Envision program on the Atari

Music editors

RASTER Music Tracker

RASTER Music Tracker (RMT) is a cross-platform tool for making Atari XE/XL music on PC (OS Win9x).

ASAP - Another Slight Atari Player

ASAP is a player/converter of Atari 8-bit music for modern computers. It provides high-quality, identical to the popular Atari800 emulator, emulation of the POKEY sound chip and the 6502 processor.

Atari SAP players

The Atari SAP Music Archive players and tools

Misc

It is a cross-platform app for modern hardware (running Linux, OS X and Windows) to work with executables or disk images of Atari 8-bit machines. It is a hex editor, a disassembler (with mini-assembler) and a map editor.

Windows map creation tool for ATARI XL/XE games.

It allow Windows users to read ATASCII files. It displays the files using the same font used on the Atari 8-bit computers. Memo Pad can also display ASCII files that contain a common end-of-line character.

Small and very useful utility for creating and editing Atari screens with the feature of creating native Atari executable file from created screen. Also, you have the ability to view and edit Atari BASIC files by dragging onto the program panel in *.BAS viewer tab.

Excellent tool for packing and extracting DOS files with ability to mark segment to work on.

Creaxin1 is new freeware tool for IBM/PC with OS Win9x. It make possible to create package of Atari programs/games, which will be stored in S/XEGS RAMcart 128KB by C.P.U.

A small PC (Win9x) tool - converter from among character set layouts. It supports most used Czech layouts: Windows1250, ISO8859-2, Kamenicky, standard ASCII, Atari Czech layouts Capek, Tcheko and standard ATASCII.

AAC (ASCII ATASCII Converter)

A program for converting ASCII and ATASCII files