Atari800 PSP is a port of the Atari800 emulator to the Sony PlayStation Portable platform. It’s written in C and uses GU (Graphical Utility toolkit) for rendering.
Table of Contents
New Features
Version 2.1.0.1 (August 11 2009)
- Emulator updated to version 2.1.0
- Added ZIP file support
- PSPLIB updated to latest version: images are now saved under PSP/PHOTOS/ATARI800 PSP; virtual keyboard updated; screenshot previews in file browser
Installation
Unzip atari800.zip into /PSP/GAME/ folder on the memory stick.
Controls
The emulator currently comes with the following default key mappings:
For Atari computers (800, 800XL, 130XE):
| Analog stick | Joystick up/down/left/right |
| Directional pad | Keyboard up/down/left/right |
| X (cross) | Joystick trigger |
| O (circle) | Spacebar |
| Start | Start console button |
| Select | Select console button |
| ® | Show virtual keyboard |
| [L] +® | Return to the emulator menu |
For Atari 5200:
| Analog stick | Joystick up/down/left/right |
| Directional pad | Joystick up/down/left/right |
| X (cross) | Joystick trigger |
| Start | Start console button |
| Select | Pause console button |
| ® | Show virtual keypad |
| [L] +® | Return to the emulator menu |
By default, button configuration changes are not retained after button mapping is modified. To save changes, press X (cross) to save mapping to memory stick
Compiling
Emulator’s source code is available via a Subversion (SVN) repository. To check out a particular version, run
svn co http://svn.akop.org/psp/tags/atari800/version
where version is the release version (for example, 1.2.3.1). Note that for this to work, you need to have Subversion installed.
To compile the emulator, you will need zlib (svn://) and libpng (svn://).
Version History
2.0.3.27 (October 09 2007)
- This release adds the ability to switch or eject disks without resetting the system
2.0.3.26 (September 26 2007)
- Fixed a serious crash caused by having many long filenames in the same directory
- Fixed controller configuration loading bug
2.0.3.2 (September 08 2007)
- Fixed mislabeled ‘Joystick Right’ control (thanks Robert)
- Updated GUI – menu animations
- Fixed various bugs dealing with controller configuration
- Improved state saving/loading screen
2.0.3.1 (August 18 2007)
- Initial release