Request to add an Atari800 emulator.

[smutek110]

It would be nice to add the atari 800 emulator. There are many interesting games out there. In another esp32 based project I found a working emlator, but its drawback is that it only supports the * .rom format. Unfortunately, most of the interesting games are in the following format: (* .atr, * .com, * .xex, * .cas, * .bas). Unfortunately, my programming knowledge is very poor. I am a self-taught and it would take me years to adapt the emulator to support other formats.Maybe you could have a look at the project: (https://github.com/Jean-MarcHarvengt/MCUME).

[ducalex]

It's usually not that simple to emulate a floppy drive. A ROM you just copy to memory, but a floppy you have to care about timings, seeking, head positioin, sectors, etc. I'm not sure I can help you with that (I tried and, so far, have failed, with the Famicom DIsk System).

I don't think porting the atari800 emulator to retro-go is a good idea either. Without a keyboard I'm guessing we'd need a system to remap controls for each games?

[smutek110]

https://rossumblog.com/2020/05/10/130/ A WELL-WORKING EMULATOR.
WHAT'S ABOUT THE KEYPAD SEE THIS PROJECT : https://github.com/smutek110/espMCUME.
keyboard based on the atmega328P without oscillator.
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/lLTv_dKbF60

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z6dcOWifql0&t=50s