Author: Bastiaan de Bruin (bpf-debruin.ocp-s.tudelft.nl)
Date: 01-17-2001 08:49
Look, Atari and I go way back.
So when the first emulators came out, I was very happy.
PaCifiST seemed to offer the opportunity to use my good old Atari software.
Unfortunately, compatibility wasn't all that great and sound wasn't either.
Then Frédéric Gidouin suddenly stopped working on Pacifist.
All my hope for proper STE sound was gone.
I underestimated the power of Winston.
Winston offered a nice alternative for PaCifiST;
I didn't even have to use DOS !!
But, after years of perfectioning, Paul Bates recently gave up his emulator.
Rumors were the Winston source code was stolen from his PC and
there was an ever growing conflict between his day-life job and his emulator.
So here we are today.
Two alternatives:
- Stew, which is basically a Winston follow up by Darren Birks
(the author of MakeDisk) A have good hopes for version 2, the next one.
- Steem. Versions 1.3 and before weren't all that great.
Unfortunately the latest version isn't as great as I hoped it would be.
I had expected more of sound performance.
Especially since the authors claimed they'd been rewriting the code for sound
performance over and over again, until the emulator was finally capable of
delivering proper sound.
So, My point still stands:
I am disappointed. Sound performance could be better !!
Bastiaan
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