NoSTalgia, an AtariST Emulator for the Macintosh
NoSTalgia & PowerST for Macintosh (3/6/2015).
The Little Green Desktop
| Functions | NoSTalgia 1.52 | PowerST 0.3 (suspended) | |
| Processor | 68000 with better cycles calculation | 68000 with cycles calculation (PPC) | No Prefetch |
| Video Shifter | Low, Medium, High
Vbl 50Hz |
Low, Medium, High
Vbl 50Hz |
hardware emulation |
| Ram | 512ko, 1Mb, 2Mb, 4Mb,14Mb | 512Ko, 1Mb, 2Mb, 4Mb, 14Mb | |
| TOS support | 1.0, 1.02, 1.04, 1.62, 2.05, 2.06, EmuTos | 1.0, 1.02, 1.04,1.62, 2.05, 2.06 | Unmodified TOS |
| MFP | Timer A-D (events & delay mode) | Timer A-D (events & delay mode) | hardware emulation |
| FDC | Complete | Complete | Hardware level |
| Joystick | 2 | 2 | IKBD hardware level |
| Keyboard & Mouse | Complete, ST mouse driver. | Complete | IKBD hardware level, LineA |
| YM2149/PSG | Complete with samples support | No samples support | Hardware level |
| Blitter | Immediate/Hog mode only | Immediate/Hog mode only | Hardware level |
| Hard disk | 2 partitions (free now)
DMA mode |
1 partition
DMA mode |
BIOS level |
| Midi IN & OUT | Midi OUT(Quicktime) | Full support (OMS/Quicktime) | Hardware level |
| Printer Port | To file | To file | Hardware level |
| Rasters | Full: Timer B & HBL, Overscan Low, Overscan Top, Left and Right
Low & Medium resolution |
Timer B only
Low & Medium resolution |
Hardware level |
| Video Mixed Mode | Low & Medium resolution | Low & Medium resolution | Hardware level |
| VDI video mode | 640*400*16 colors | 640*400*16 colors | LineA & VDI level |
| Tested compatibles OS | Magic 6, NAES, modified TOS, Geneva, Mint, EmuTos... | NAES, Geneva, Mint, Magic 5 | |
| System requierement | PowerMac (G3)
4,5Mb of free ram Mac OS X 10.1 Color display |
PowerMac (601 @ 66Mhz, 603)
18Mb of free ram System 8.0 256 Colors display |
- Links to ST emulation -
--News--
1/6/2015
- Fixed Midi via Quicktime.24/4/2012
-Intel version for 10.7 and 10.817/10/2004
- I removed all the unzip/gz code from NoSTalgia because it was taken
from Hatari (sorry about this, but I didnt write that part of the code).
*update* the gz support was not taken from Hatari (or anywhere else).
5/6/2004: Version 1.42 available.
- Added support for GZ disk images (.gz & .msa.gz files).14/2/2004: Version 1.4 available.
- Added multiple bus errors support.
- Core Audio Support.
- The Hard disk driver is now free.
- Added support for Top/Bottom/Left/Right Borders.
- Removed 256 colors screen support.
- Removed "screen draw" option.
- NoSTalgia is now compatible with Panther (10.3)
- EmuTos Support
- Fixed some bugs in the CPU engine.
- NoSTalgia is now developped with Xcode 1.1.
- Added basic support for 512 colors images (disabled in this
version).
- Bugs fixes in MSA code.
- Mouse driver bugs fixes.
- Added full support for EmuTos.
4/4/2003:
- Fixed a bug where multiple bus error crashed the emulator.
- The sound Part is now using CoreAudio
- Some speed improvement in the 68000 engine.
- Removed the patch allowing to use some disks with damaged boot-sector
(PaCifiST and Makedisk).
- Removing OMS and starting to use CoreMidi for Midi in/out.
- Fixed a bug in the ST mouse driver crashing some games.
NoSTalgia running NAES in VDI mode.
16/3/2003: Version 1.3 available
- François Menu added/Fixed Sampled sounds.
- FDC bug fixes.
- Bug fixes in video shifter.
- Added basic support for EmuTos (included, rename to tos.img if you
want to use it)
- Lot of internal changes (needed for the next version 1.4).
28/3/2003:
- François Menu added/fixed Sample sound support.
11/2/2003:
- Fixed a bug in the FDC code preventing Supremacy to load (version
1.4).
- Added full support for EmuTos (version 1.4).
- Added basic support for Overscan Left and Right (version 1.4)
- Added basic support for 512 colors (Spectrum) images (version
1.4).
27/1/2003:
- Added (fixed) better CPU timing (version 1.4).
- Added Screen borders (version 1.4).
- Added Overscan Top (see screenshot) (version 1.4).
- Fixed bug in MSA code.

Automation 97 with Overscan top & bottom (v
1.4).
18/1/2003: Version 1.21 is out.
- Fixed a bug preventing disks with special boot sector to load.
- Fixed documents types.
15/1/2003: NoSTalgia 1.2 is out.
- Mac OS X only.
- New Speed control.
- New 'Auto frame' code.
- Fixed some bugs in the MMU code.
- New I/O, HDD code.
- Use less CPU.
- Hard disk images compatibles with DiskCopy.
- Lots of internal changes.
- Disks detection is not working (fixes Aladin and NAES).

Multpile partitions.