Chris Lam's Website - Rainbow Emulator

Rainbow: The Atari 8-bit Emulator

Rainbow emulating the Atari 400 with Donkey Kong cartridge

Click here for more screenshots.

Features include...

400/800 emulation with 48K RAM
800XL emulation with 64K RAM
130XE emulation with 128K RAM
5200 games console
Sound with 4 channels of pure tones and noise using POKEY samples
Fast large (2x) and medium (1.5x) screen displays
Support for 4 joysticks and 4 paddles using keyboard and mouse
Full keyboard support
Insert 8K and 16K ROMs... also Super Cartridges!
2 virtual drives which can read single/enhanced images
IMPORT external files from Mac/PC hard drive into your Atari DOS images
EXPORT Atari DOS files to Mac/PC hard disk
True 256 Atari colours, Full ANTIC and GTIA support
Player Missile Graphics with full collisions and priorities, NMI, IRQ and Display List interrupts, Fine Scrolling
PowerBook / Notebook friendly
Compatible with many games!

Download

Apple Mac users click here to download the Mac Classic versions (PowerPC and 680x0) of Rainbow 1.4

This SIT file is ~488K in size and needs to be uncompressed with Stuffit Expander.

Apple MacOS X users click here to download Richard Bannister's native Mac OS X port of Rainbow.

Windows users click here to download the Rainbow 95 v1.36

Rainbow 95 runs under Windows 95/98/NT4/2000/XP. This ZIP file is ~194K in size.

Other useful software

If you have DCM files to unpack, why not download Disk Communicator 3 and instructions how to use it with the full version of Rainbow. Apple Mac users click here for a Binhexed stuffed file while PC users click here for a zipped version (~14K).

For a quick way to decipher DCM images, try DCMTOATR by Mike White. This is a tiny Mac application to unpack DCM files into ATR ones (~15K).

Need to mess about with disk images? Then try Richard Carvel's Atari Virtual Disk Editor for the Apple Mac. Very useful and includes Atari DOS 2.5 and MyDOS4.5 disk images (~130K). Note: this version is 1.22 but the latest version can be found at MacUpdate.

Here's a neat little utility HexEdit for Apple Mac users to edit any files with (~81K).

Some links

Try searching on Google for 8-bit software and other resources.

For more nostalgia, look at John Goodman's excellent Reminiscing:8-Bit Atari Games for a nice collection of screenshots.

Also look at The Atari 8-bit Home Page for more links.

Why not try www.atari.nu

Rainbow 95 users can use UPJOY so they can play gameswith a real joystick! For the latest, ask in the comp.sys.atari.8bit newsgroup.

PC users may be interested in the SIO2PC cable which allows you to connect your PC directly to your Atari hard drive. For the latest, ask in the comp.sys.atari.8bit newsgroup.