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[[File:Atari 1040STf.jpg|thumb|An Atari ST showcasing the trademark GEM interface with solid green background]] The Atari ST is a microcomputer developed by Atari Corporation in the mid 1980's. It was announced in January of 1985, and released June of that year. It runs on the Motorola 68000 CPU. The "ST" stands for sixteen/thirty-two, in reference to the 16-bit external bus and 32-bit internals of the 68000 chip. It ran Digital Research's GEM (Graphical Environment Manager) on Atari's proprietary TOS (The Operating System).
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|title = Atari ST
 
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|logo = Atari 1040STf.jpg
 
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|developer = [[:Atari|Atari]]
 
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|type = [[:Category:Computers|Home computer]]
 
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|release = 1985
 
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|discontinued = 1993
 
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|predecessor = [[:Atari 8-bit|8-bit]]
 
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|successor = Falcon
 
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|emulated = {{✓}}
 
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{{for|other emulators that run on Atari ST hardware|Emulators on Atari ST}}
 
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The '''[[wikipedia:Atari ST|Atari ST]]''' was a microcomputer developed by Atari Corporation in the mid 1980's. It was announced in January of 1985, and released in June of that year. It runs on the Motorola 68000 CPU. "ST" stands for sixteen/thirty-two, in reference to the 16-bit external bus and 32-bit internals of the [[POS_(Pong_Consoles)_CPUs_and_Other_Chips#68k_CPUs|68000 chip]]. It ran Digital Research's GEM (Graphical Environment Manager) on Atari's proprietary TOS (The Operating System).
 
  
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The computer primarily competed with the Macintosh and the Amiga in most markets. At the time, Macs were solely monochrome, and Amigas were solely color.  The ST straddled the two worlds, offering separate color and monochrome screens, auto-detected by the computer's display circuitry.  The monochrome screen was excellent and high-resolution for the era, giving a non-interlaced output of 640x400 at 70Hz and providing credible competition for the Macintosh at a much lower price point. It gained a strong foothold in the business and CAD fields.  
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The computer primarily competed with the Macintosh and the Amiga in most markets. Because of it's fast CPU and high-resolution display (when displaying in monochrome) it gained a strong foothold in the business and CAD fields. It was (and still is) also a popular computer in the music industry as it was one of the first affordable home computers to include a MIDI port. A wide variety of music composition programs also came to be written for it. As a result of the ease of use and large software library, the ST is still occasionally used in music production today. In addition to its uses in business and CAD as well as music, it is also a competent computer for playing games on. Its graphical capabilities are roughly comparable to the other computers of the time, although slightly lower. The fast CPU somewhat off-sets the limited graphical capabilities.
  
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It was the first major home computer to include MIDI in/out ports as standard equipment, which prompted the development of a wide variety of music composition programs. STs became very popular in the music industry, and some are still being used in production today.<ref>[http://www.synthtopia.com/content/2010/03/10/atari-ste/ "The Atari STe – Still The World’s Tightest Music Computer?" — Synthtopia]</ref>
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==Emulators==
  
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One popular game, MIDI Maze, used the ports as an early networking device, allowing multi-machine multiplayer in a simplistic, but a vaguely Doom-like game.  ST owners had "LAN parties" long before Ethernet became ubiquitous.
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It was a reasonably competent gaming computer; the color graphics weren't exciting, but the simple architecture and relatively quick CPU gave it a fair bit of muscle.  It came nowhere near the overall power of the Amiga, but was perfectly straightforward to program, where dealing with the Amiga's multiple independent co-processors was famously difficult. 
 
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Some of the most notable Atari ST games were Dungeon Master, Oids, Sundog, and Star Glider, as well as the aforementioned MIDI Maze.
 
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==Emulators==
 
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! scope="col"|Operating System(s)
 
! scope="col"|Latest Version
 
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! scope="col"|[[Libretro]]
 
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! scope="col"|<abbr title="Free/Libre and Open-Source Software">FLOSS</abbr>
 
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! scope="col"|Active
 
 
! scope="col"|[[Recommended emulators|Recommended]]
 
! scope="col"|[[Recommended emulators|Recommended]]
 
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|style="text-align:center;"|[http://hatari.tuxfamily.org/ Hatari]
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|style="text-align:center;"|Multi-Platform
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| [[Hatari]]
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|style="text-align:center;"|1.9.0
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| align=left|{{Icon|Windows|Linux|macOS|FreeBSD}}
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|style="text-align:center;"|✓
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| [http://download.tuxfamily.org/hatari/ {{HatariVer}}]<br/>[https://buildbot.libretro.com/nightly/ libretro core]<br/>[https://www.atari-forum.com/viewtopic.php?t=43008 hatariB]<small>(libretro core)</small>
 
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| [https://sourceforge.net/projects/steemsse/ Steem SSE]
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|style="text-align:center;"|[http://steem.atari.st/ Steem Engine]
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| align=left|{{Icon|Windows|Linux}}
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|style="text-align:center;"|Multi-Platform
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| [https://sourceforge.net/projects/steemsse/files/ {{SteemSSEVer}}]
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|style="text-align:center;"|3.2
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|style="text-align:center;"|✗
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| [https://aranym.github.io/index.html ARAnyM]
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|style="text-align:center;"|[http://leonard.oxg.free.fr/SainT/saint.html SainT]
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| align=left|{{Icon|Windows|Linux|macOS|FreeBSD}}
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|style="text-align:center;"|Windows
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| [https://github.com/aranym/aranym/releases {{ARAnyMVer}}]
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|style="text-align:center;"|2.30
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| {{✓}}
 
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| [http://www.emulators.com/download.htm Gemulator]
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|style="text-align:center;"|[http://ataristeven.t15.org/Steem.htm Steem SSE]
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| align=left|{{Icon|Windows}}
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|style="text-align:center;"|Steem SSE
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| [http://www.emulators.com/download.htm#ATARIST 9.0]
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|style="text-align:center;"|3.7.2
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|[[MAME]]
 
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|align=left|{{Icon|Windows|Linux|macOS|FreeBSD}}
 
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|<abbr title="Latest development version">git artifacts</abbr><ref group=N>[https://nightly.link/mamedev/mame/workflows/ci-windows/master CI-Windows] [https://nightly.link/mamedev/mame/workflows/ci-linux/master CI-Linux] [https://nightly.link/mamedev/mame/workflows/ci-macos/master CI-Macos]</ref></br>[http://www.mamedev.org/release.html {{MAMEVer}}]<br/>[https://buildbot.libretro.com/nightly/ libretro core]
 
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| {{✗}}[https://github.com/mamedev/mame/blob/master/src/mame/atari/atarist.cpp *]
 
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| [http://steem.atari.st/ Steem Engine]
 
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| align=left|{{Icon|Windows|Linux|macOS|FreeBSD}}
 
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| 3.2
 
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| [http://leonard.oxg.free.fr/SainT/saint.html SainT]
 
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| 2.40
 
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| PCE/atarist
 
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| [http://www.hampa.ch/pub/pce/pre/ 20220220]
 
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| [https://jamesfriend.com.au/pce-js/atari-st/ PCE-js]
 
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| [https://github.com/jsdf/pce git]
 
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| [[Clock Signal]]
 
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| [https://github.com/tomharte/CLK/releases {{clkVer}}]
 
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| CaSTaway
 
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| [https://sourceforge.net/projects/castaway/files/castaway/castaway-0.9.2/ 0.9.2]
 
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| FAST
 
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| [http://fast.emuunlim.com/download.html 0.41a]
 
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! colspan="7"|Mobile / ARM
 
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| [https://sites.google.com/site/hataroid/ Hataroid]
 
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| [https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.RetroSoft.Hataroid {{HataroidVer}}]
 
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| CaSTawayGP
 
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| [http://www.codejedi.com/shadowplan/gp32.html 16.1]
 
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| HatariWii
 
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| [https://github.com/Wiimpathy/HatariWii/releases git]
 
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| DCaSTaway
 
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| [http://chui.dcemu.co.uk/dcastaway.html rc7]<br/>[https://github.com/salvacam/dcastaway git]
 
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| CaSTaway
 
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| [http://www.codejedi.com/shadowplan/castaway.html 006]
 
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| STyxDS
 
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| [https://dlhb.gamebrew.org/dshomebrew/styxds.7z 0.2a]
 
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==Models==
 
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====[http://oldcomputers.net/atari520st.html Atari 520ST]====
 
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The Atari 520ST was released in January of 1985 and was retailed for {{Inflation|USD|599.99|1985}} and had a Motorola 68000 at 8 MHz with 512K of RAM.
 
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====[[wikipedia:Atari_ST#Release|Atari 260ST]]====
 
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The Atari 260ST had a limited release in Europe which was a 520ST but with 256KB of RAM.
 
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====[[wikipedia:Atari_ST#Release|Atari 520STM]]====
 
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The Atari 520STM was released in late 1985 and added RF output.
 
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====[http://www.old-computers.com/museum/computer.asp?c=25 Atari STf]====
 
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The Atari STf had the floppy drive built in, hence the, "f" in ,"STf".
 
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====[[wikipedia:Atari_ST#STE_models|Atari 520STE]]====
 
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The Atari 520STE was released in late '89 and had the OS burned onto the ROM and had enhanced joystick ports. It came with 512KB of RAM.
 
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====[http://atari-ste.anvil-soft.com/html/facts.htm Atari 1040STE]====
 
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The Atari 1040STE was a 520STE but with 1MB of RAM.
 
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====[http://www.old-computers.com/museum/computer.asp?c=165&st=1 Atari MEGA ST]====
 
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The Atari MEGA ST was the professional version of the Atari STf.
 
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====[[wikipedia:Atari_MEGA_STE|Atari MEGA STE]]====
 
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The Atari MEGA STE was released in March of 1991 and had an M68000 CPU at 8 or 16 MHz with 1MB of RAM.
 
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====[[wikipedia:Atari_TT030|Atari TT030]]====
 
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The Atari TT030 was released in 1990 and had a Motorola 68030 at 32 MHz with 2MB of RAM.
 
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====[[wikipedia:Atari_Falcon|Atari Falcon]]====
 
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The Atari Falcon came out in 1992 and had a Motorola 68030 at 16 MHz with MMU and 1MB of RAM. Its standout feature was a powerful Motorola 56001 DSP at 32MHz, often used for accelerating sound and geometry.
 
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==References==
 
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{{reflist}}
 
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==Resources==
 
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* [http://www.atarimania.com/ AtariMania]
 
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* [https://github.com/emutos/emutos EmuTos]
 
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==External Links==
 
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* [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hI-LGKxQuEM 20 Games That Defined the Atari ST] (May 9, 2012. By applemctom.)
 
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* [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EjKnUOZ7ZN8 The Computer Chronicles - Atari ST (1989)] (Nov 8, 2012. The Computer Chronicles.)
 
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* [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cR65ZIR7KS0 AMIGA vs Atari ST: The GAMES - Which machine was the best? Atari ST/Amiga/Dos/Megadrive] (Mar 19, 2018. NX Gamer.)
 
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{{Atari}}
 
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[[Category:Computers]]
 
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[[Category:Atari ST emulators]]
 
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[[Category:68000-based]]
 

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