Up All Night

[Captain-Pants]

anyone know of a program that converts .st to tos.img files for atari st.
Sorry I've been looking all night though.

Is castaway the best atari st emulator?

 

[nerd of nerds]

anyone know of a program that converts .st to tos.img files for atari st.
Sorry I've been looking all night though.

Is castaway the best atari st emulator?

YIKES! you poor bastard...i do know that there is a way to convert them...but you just reaname the extension to .stt instead of .st

and yes, castaway is THE best st emulator...and the only one for that matter

 

[Tobriand]

Sorry, I think you misunderstood the readme a little. For Castaway, you need a TOS.img file, which is the operating system of the ST in order to un anything - and these will typically be called TOS.IMG or some similar. Just rename it to that if it isn't, make sure you get version 1.02, since its most compatible, and then put it in the Atarist directory.
The you select any .st disk image, and it will load and run. Its fairly complicated, but you get used to it...

 

[Captain-Pants]

Thanks a lot, I got some games running, some old sierra games, but they are insanely slow, I'm wondering if you guys know some tweaks to fix this, or if those game are just especially slow.
Thanks a lot.

 

[claus]

Sometimes you can use a higher frameskip or clock speed

 

[ColinR]

Not played any Sierra games on Castaway, but I have played a hell of a lot of other games on it, and I've not seen any games that don't appear to run at full speed. Most games just need 133MHz to run at full speed (Xenon2's intro music needs a bit more horsepower though).

 

[skeezix]

Thanks a lot, I got some games running, some old sierra games, but they are insanely slow, I'm wondering if you guys know some tweaks to fix this, or if those game are just especially slow.
Thanks a lot.

How do you "know" they're slow?

ie: Some games look slow because they're acting slow of their own volition; ie: Sierra games.. the character has a walk speed, a run speed, etc, so he may be in "walk mode" insteead of "run mode". Also, how are you makign him move? Using the emulated mouse to click where to move, or using emulated cursor keys, or joystick? I forget specifics, but I think if you "hold down" cursor keys in those games it'll move really slow.. but if you tap the cursor key to activate a walk, then tap again to stop him, it works well.

So maybe its just how you're working those games. They were fiddly

jeff