PocketAtari

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Pocket Atari is the official Windows CE port of the open source Atari 800 emulator. It emulates the 8-bit series of computers made by Atari in the 1980s. This includes computers such as the Atari 400, 800, 800XL, 65XE, 130XE and several others. Being in development for many years, the emulator core delivers, undoubtedly, the best emulation experience of the Atari 8-bit machines.

The Windows CE port enables users of handheld devices to enjoy their favorite games and apps in their Pocket PCs and Smartphones. The WinCE port was originally done by Vasyl Tsvirkunov. Kostas Nakos joined the development team from version 2.0.0 onwards and is responsible for the WinCE port. This is the web page to check out for the latest stable binaries and development builds.

Supported Devices

The WinCE port supports both Smartphones and Pocket PC devices using a single binary. It is built targetting the 2002 version of the OS. This means that it will probably run OK on devices using a newer version of the OS, as there seems to be backward compatibility. It has been tested WinCE 2002, 2003 and WM5 devices and it ran just fine. It would be nice to contact me if you get it to run on different devices.

What you really need is a WinCE device featuring an ARM processor. This is not a severely limiting requirement, as all modern devices designed for Windows CE 2002 and later are ARM enabled. Aside from that, for Pocket PCs supported displays are monochrome, palleted (256 color) and high color (65536 color) with resolution greater than 240x240. For Smartphones the supported display is high color with resolutions of 176x220 and 240x320. If you'd like me to include support for different display configurations, you can use the feature request facility of the Atari 800 Source Forge page.

As stated above, PocketAtari was originally coded by Vasyl Tsvirkunov. Kostas Nakos maintained it from version 2.0.0 until now. For more information, check out the original PocketAtari homepage.

Also note that PocketAtari and Atari800 for Windows CE are the same emulator. This can be confusing for those that are new to Atari800 because the archive's name is atari800-x.x.x-wince.zip, but the documentation refers to the emulator as PocketAtari. The download is also available on both the Atari800 and PocketAtari homepages. We've made it available here and left it off the Atari800 page to prevent confusion .

Filename	Version	Author*	Size	Updated				Help Mouse over any icon below for a short description of what each item means.
atari800-2.0.3-wince.zip	2.0.3	Kostas Nakos	298.785 kb	07/21/2007	.zip File A zip archive contains one or more files that have been compressed to reduce file size or stored as-is and then appended with the .zip extension. This data compression and archive format was originally cre...   click for more	Pocket PC A small handheld computer-like device capable of storing and retrieving e-mail, managing contacts, playing multimedia files and games, exchanging text messages, surfing the web, and more. The Pocket P...   click for more	Checksum The following are the Md5 and SHA1 hashes of this file. MD5: 9f0269dba140b6431b6c75176e2056be SHA1: becf82eceaf2557ffff3882fdff40d8712adf35a	Download Click here to download your file. Please be patient as it may take 3-5 seconds to initiate the file transfer.

* Author refers to the current or last maintainer of the distribution; see the emulator's documentation or homepage for full credits. Click the author's name to send them an email (if provided) or look for a alternative contact option on the emulator's homepage.

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