A collection of resources for developing software for the 16/32 bit Atari series of computers.
- AtariAge
- AtariCrypt
- Atariforum
- A forum dedicated to Atari ST development and discussions.
- AtariAge Forums
- Atari Mania
- atariscne.org
- D-Bug
- Exxos Forum
- A forum focused on Atari ST hardware and software development.
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Atari ST Platform
- Atari Document Archive
- The Atari Compendium
- Probably the most extensive technical reference ever published for the Atari ST and derivatives.
- The Atari Wiki
- The Documentation for TOS
- The famous
tos.hyppages.
- The famous
- Beyond Brown
- BUS ERROR Atari 16/32 Bit Development Info Page
- Has some very useful information about cross compilation and assembly, hardware reference materials and tools.
- DrCoolZic Atari ST Site
- Contains a lot of detailed information about the hardware and software side of the Atari ST.
- Overscan Techniques
- MiKRO's homepage
- Hatari
- STeem
- ARAnyM
- ARAnyM is a software virtual machine designed and developed for running 32-bit Atari ST/TT/Falcon operating systems.
GFA Basic is easily the most popular programming language for the Atari ST.
C is the primary programming language used for professional Atari ST development.
- Makefile tutorial
- A very useful guide to writing Makefiles.
- Object Oriented Programming in C
- Explains how to implement object-oriented programming concepts in C.
- The references at the bottom of the page are also very useful.
- 68000 assembly tutorials for Atari ST by perihelion of poSTmortem
- RMAC
- A great, modern assembler for 68k based on the old Madmac assembler by Atari.
- Devpac 3 Manual
- Bugaboo usage
- Some very interesting and useful Bugaboo debugger tips and tricks.
- M68000 Programmer's Reference Manual
- Cycle Times
- A handy click-through table to find CPU cycle times.
- Cycle counting in the Atari ST
- Yet Another Cycle Hunting Table
This section contains resources for cross-compiling Atari ST software from other platforms. Developing on the Atari ST itself is often limited by its hardware capabilities and with cross-compilation, you can leverage more powerful development environments.
- Thorsten Otto's m68k-atari-mint cross-tools page
- A page full of resources for cross-compiling for the Atari ST using GCC.
- Vincent Rivière's m68k-atari-mint cross-tools
- M68k LVVM documentation
- Resources for users of M68k LLVM toolchain.
- VBCC
- A highly optimizing portable and retargetable ISO C compiler.
- GCC online documentation
- GNU Binutils User Guide
- Concise Atari ST 68000 Programmer's Reference Guide: Atari ST hardware
- ST/STE Scanlines
- This page provides pseudocode descriptions of various processes involved in the generation of each frame of the video output, in both the Atari ST and the STE.
- hardware-register-listing
- ReservoirGods/GODLIB
- An extensive C library by Resevoir Gods that provides many features that can be useful for game development.
- Agtools - Game prototyping system for Atari ST/e
- Compiler Explorer
- Handy tool to see live compiler output asembly. Supports M68K GCC compilers and M68K assembly.
- Amiga & Atari Bitmap Converter
- A command line tool to convert bitmap images into ready to use binary data.
- CycleSpitter
- A cycle-accurate scanline splitter tool for Atari ST fullscreen (sync) programming.
- SidecarTridge
- Various devices that make working with legacy hardware in modern times more pleasant.
- Lightning ST
- The Lightning ST is a pcb with two USB 1.1 compatible ports, an IDE interface and an adressdecoder for TOS2.06.