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diff --git a/games/hatari/README b/games/hatari/README new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000..4647e7dc12414 --- /dev/null +++ b/games/hatari/README @@ -0,0 +1,27 @@ +Hatari is an Atari ST and STE emulator for Linux, BSD, BeOS, Mac OS X and +other systems that are supported by the SDL library. The Atari ST was a +16/32 bit computer system which was first released by Atari in 1985. Using +the Motorola 68000 CPU, it was a very popular computer having quite a lot +of CPU power at that time. + +Unlike many other Atari ST emulators which try to give you a good +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. + +Hatari is open source software and is distributed under the terms of the +GNU General Public License (GPL). The SF project page is available at: +http://sourceforge.net/projects/hatari/ + +Before you can actually run the emulator, you also need a TOS image +file. TOS is the built-in operating system of the Atari 16/32 bit +computers. Since it is not possible to ship one of these image files +with Hatari, you either have to create your own image from your Atari +or you have to use EmuTOS, a free TOS replacement. + +It's also possible to download the ROM images from the net. See the +package hatari_tos_roms, also on slackbuilds.org. + +EmuTOS is included in this package, so you can run at least some ST +applications without installing the real ROMs, but not many programs +work with EmuTOS (especially not games). |