Atari ST emulator.

voodoorida

As a complete newbie.
Can anyone tell me if an Atari ST emulator is included with Retropie or will I have to source & download/install it myself?
I am very eager to relive my youth & play Llamatron which was an Atari ST game, & is the main reason I want to buy a raspberry pi3.
Any help would be great.

BuZz

@voodoorida did you check the documentation?

https://retropie.org.uk/docs/Atari-ST-STE-TT-Falcon/

Installable from retropie-setup / manage packages / optional packages

voodoorida

@BuZz Many thanks for your help Buzz.
Appreciate it.

guythp

@voodoorida Let me know how it goes - I love Llamatron too. I have only just got a pi3 with a couple of joypads and an sd card with retropie installed and I was planning to put only console games on it but now you mention that I think I'd like to put some ST games on there too at the ST was my first computer. My laptop runs linux so I'm familiar with Hatari and if it's the same on the pi, it's a pretty good emulator and runs most demos properly too.

If you have an iphone/ipad I believe you can still buy a version of Llamatron that Llamasoft made called 'Minotron 2112' (as well as a few others including gridrunner).

AlexMurphy

@guythp I don't mean to sound rude, that is not my intention but why don't you try it yourself? Just follow the instructions posted above.

guythp

@AlexMurphy TBH I probably will :)
The pull of being able to play stunt car racer, IK+, wings of death, vroom, enchanted lands, nitro, oids, rick dangerous, quartz and so on my main TV may well be too much.. I'll have a go at transferring the roms and images I've downloaded on to my PC over to the pi in the next few days so I guess I'll be letting you all know how it goes... I may as well try some demos too.

Then it's just a slippery slope to amiga emulation and that's a pain even with a pc! ;)

AlexMurphy

@guythp Go on... You know you want to! No point in waiting on someone else, just DIY.

voodoorida

@guythp Hi.
Do it!
Do it now!!
It works.
It was quite easy....even for me!
Just enabled Hatari from the optional install menu & located the Llamatron rom online & popped that in the correct folder & was playing it on widescreen!!!
But as also mentioned, the Amiga emulator is a real pain & I am still trying to suss it out. When I do get a game to work, I cannot find a way to exit back out leaving me with no option but to kill the power to the pi. Not ideal.

voodoorida

OK guys. Its up and running on retropie, nice & easy but when I try & do the same on a downloaded image/build it wont load.
Any ideas?
(I have posted a new topic in the forum trying to explain my problem)

stoogesfan87

I tried to run ThunderCats on my AtariST Emulatior on RetroPie but it keeps on getting stuck on me. Got any ideas?

mitu

@stoogesfan87 Don't re-open 3 years old topics, if you have an issue or trying get support, open a new topic and explain your problem, adding the info from https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/3/read-this-first.