-Version 1.4 +Version 1.6.2
Manual written by: Thomas Huth, Matthias Arndt & Eero Tamminen
-Hatari on the WWW: http://hatari.berlios.de/ +Hatari on the WWW: http://hatari.tuxfamily.org/
-Hatari is an Atari ST, STE, TT and Falcon emulator for Linux, FreeBSD, BeOS and -other Systems which are supported by the SDL library. +Hatari is an Atari ST, STE, TT and Falcon emulator for Linux, OSX, +Windows and other Systems which are supported by the SDL library. The emulator is open source software and is distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License (GPL). @@ -166,18 +170,20 @@ Unlike many other Atari ST emulators whi environment for running GEM applications, Hatari tries to emulate the hardware of a ST as close as possible so that it is able to run most of the old ST games and demos. Of course you can run normal GEM applications with Hatari, too. -Recent versions of Hatari even feature basic STE, TT and Falcon emulation. +Recent versions of Hatari even feature STE, Falcon and basic TT emulation.
There is support for following additional STE features:
There is support for following additional TT features:
There is support for following additional Falcon features:
Hatari currently has the following system requirements:
+Hatari currently has the following minimum system requirements:
-Certain versions of Hatari have successfully been tested by various people on +In the course of time Hatari has successfully been tested by various people on the following systems:
First, you need the SDL library, you can get it at: -http://www.libsdl.org/. Most -distributions already ship a suitable version. -Make sure to install the appropriate header files as well often called -"libsdl-dev" or the like. -
-Second, you need the zLib compression library. You can get it from http://www.gzip.org/zlib/ -but the version shipped with your distribution will be sufficient in -most cases. Make sure to have the header files -for it installed as well. -
--For optional features like PNG format screenshots and Hatari window -embedding, you need to have the header files for libpng and libX11. -For Falcon microphone recording support portaudio library is needed. -
--Of course, you need the GNU C compiler and (GNU) Make, too! -
-Change to the hatari/ directory, copy -Makefile-default.cnf to -Makefile.cnf and adapt the configuration file -to suite your system. Alternatively, you can use the supplied configure -script to auto-detect all parameters (type -"./configure --help" -to see the options of the script). -Don't forget to use some good CFLAGS for the compiler optimizations, e.g. -run configure in the following way: +
Required:
+Optional:
++The versions available in your Linux distribution will be sufficient +in most cases, but make sure you have also the header files installed +for the libraries as well! Typically they're in a corresponding -dev +package.
+ ++After you've verified that you have the required libraries and their +development files, change to the hatari/ +directory. Create a build/ directory under +it and configure the build system for your environment:
-CFLAGS="-O3 -fomit-frame-pointer" ./configure +mkdir -p build +cd build +cmake ..
Then compile Hatari by typing make. -If all -works fine, you'll get the executable hatari +If all works fine, you'll get the executable hatari in the src/ subdirectory.
++Note: Instead of calling CMake directly, you can also use the supplied +configure script to run CMake and to give the arguments (like install +prefix) in a format familiar from GNU Autotools using programs. Type +"./configure --help" +to see all the options supported by this script. +
Before you can start Hatari, you have to copy a TOS ROM image to the data -directory (the data directory is specified -in the configuration file Makefile.cnf) and +directory (<prefix>/share/hatari/, by +default /usr/local/share/hatari/) and rename it to tos.img, or use the --tos command line option to tell Hatari where to find a TOS ROM. @@ -363,12 +383,11 @@ select a TOS image file from the GUI.
Type make install as root to do a -systemwide installation. In this case it is recommended -to set the DATADIR variable in Makefile.cnf to a proper value. /usr/local/share/hatari -is a good value in that case.
-The Hatari executable should now be in your PATH and accessible from -anywhere.
+Type make install as "root" user to +do a systemwide installation.
+Assuming you didn't change the default installation prefix and that +/usr/local/bin/ is in your PATH, you should +be now able to start the Hatari executable from anywhere.
When you finally have got a TOS image, try starting Hatari with the option --help to find out more about its command line parameters.
@@ -384,13 +403,31 @@ to turn on the GUI to configure Hatari to suit your needs, press F11 to toggle windowed and fullscreen mode. -Usage:
- hatari [options] [disk image name] + hatari [options] [disk image | directory | Atari program ]+
As an argument one can give either a name of:
+Booting will be done from the disk image or directory that's given +last on the command line as an option or the argument (and which +corresponds to A: or C:).
+Hatari command line options are split into several categories: