ATARI XE/XL EMULATOR / ESP32 APPLICATION
Astarta Retro Emulator
AstartA Project: Disk Drive, Cassette Recorder & other hardware emulation for ATARI XE/XL based on ESP32
About this project
About this project
Where a real Atari 8-bit machine would see disk drives and a tape recorder, this puts an ESP-WROOM-32 instead: four addressable drives D1-D4, a read-only tape emulator and an RTC over the APE TIME protocol that SpartaDOS understands. It also joins a Wi-Fi hotspot, takes its clock from NTP and serves the SD card over FTP so images can be dropped in without pulling the card. Images are mounted from ATR, XFD, two of the five PRO protections and XEX, with CAS for tapes; ATX, DCM and SCP are placeholders. An ST7735 screen and four buttons (IO33 back, IO25 up, IO26 down, IO27 select) run the menu. It is a single Arduino IDE sketch on the ESP32 Dev Module, and the SD card must be FAT32 with an astarta.cfg at the root. Status: pre-alpha.
From the README
From the README
- Feature
- four independent disk drives with an opportunity read/write (D1-D4)
- Input
- IO33 - Back (Cancel), IO25 - Up, IO26 - Down, IO27 - Select
- Limit
- Now the project is at the pre-alpha stage.
- Storage
- the main thing is that the SD card is formatted in FAT32 format
Hardware
Boards: ESP32
ESP32-class board. Verify the exact board revision, display, power source and wiring in the upstream build guide.
Media credit & rights
Upstream project media · rights remain with its owner · Credit: LessNick
Screenshots from the upstream README. Code and firmware were not executed. License notices are included.
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