InfinityFox Posted November 12, 2016 Share Posted November 12, 2016 (edited) I've had some useful hints from Zombeaver regarding Atari ST emulation, but wondered what file formats I should be aiming for, at the moment my collection consists of mainly .st, .msa, and .stx files. Also, the steem SSE version doesn't seem to have any info on the website about supported file type? It seems from having a quick at the following website http://ataristeven.exxoshost.co.uk/Steem.htm that you need the original steem emulator and that you add the sse edition files to that folder. Is this correct. Zombeaver, did you mention in a post that to deal with multi disk games that you need to add a command line parameter, oh and are you using the second version from the above website Edited November 12, 2016 by InfinityFox Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Belgarath Posted November 12, 2016 Share Posted November 12, 2016 Sorry, should have mentioned that yes you have to install the original Steem 3,2 first and then overwrite with the SSE version. Steem should support st/stx/msa .st are regular disk images, stx are basically copies of original disk images and msa are compressed disk images. Shouldn't particularly matter which you use. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
InfinityFox Posted November 12, 2016 Author Share Posted November 12, 2016 Thank you for the help Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Belgarath Posted November 12, 2016 Share Posted November 12, 2016 Almost forgot, for stx support you'll need the pasti.dll which you can get from http://pasti.fxatari.com/ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
InfinityFox Posted November 12, 2016 Author Share Posted November 12, 2016 Awesome, I assume this is something to do with copy protection I recall Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Belgarath Posted November 12, 2016 Share Posted November 12, 2016 Yes, stx files are exact copies of original disks which includes any on disk copy protection. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
InfinityFox Posted November 12, 2016 Author Share Posted November 12, 2016 Does the pasti.dll go in with the roms or into the emulator folder Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Belgarath Posted November 12, 2016 Share Posted November 12, 2016 emulator folder Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
InfinityFox Posted November 12, 2016 Author Share Posted November 12, 2016 So you need this to run STX games but some may not be playable due to copy protection Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
InfinityFox Posted November 12, 2016 Author Share Posted November 12, 2016 What TOS version yields the most compatability Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
InfinityFox Posted November 12, 2016 Author Share Posted November 12, 2016 So I've got the emulator up and running and have setup the controls to use my xbox 360 controller. Does the setup look correct? I was worried that it was in the wrong section, but it seems to work. Also any setting I should be tweeking for those who have set Atari ST with Steem up. I also skipped telling Steem where my games were and also setting up a hard drive. Is this necessary to configure or can I just leave it as is? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zombeaver Posted November 13, 2016 Share Posted November 13, 2016 21 hours ago, InfinityFox said: What TOS version yields the most compatability 1.62 is what I use most, but I've got a few games that I couldn't get to work without 1.0. I just created two emulator entries in LB for them - "Steem TOS 1.62" and "Steem TOS 1.0" This is what my joystick section looks like:I also added some things to the Shortcuts section: This makes it so Left Bumper + Right Bumper toggles fullscreen; Back + Left Bumper exits Steem; Left Trigger swaps the disk between drive A and B; Right Trigger fast-forwards; Start = Space I show how to setup multi-disk games with it in this post: 1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
InfinityFox Posted November 13, 2016 Author Share Posted November 13, 2016 Zombeaver you are the man! Thanks for posting the screen shots, it's really helpful. I must admit that sometimes you get a situation where you launch an emulator and with a lack of documentation in certain cases, you look at the settings menu and think YIKES! So I'll say again, thanks and that I appreciate the images.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
InfinityFox Posted November 16, 2016 Author Share Posted November 16, 2016 Just a quick question. When you install the 3.2.8 sse version of steem into the 3.2 original folder it over writes some files. However there is a steem.exe and a Steem SSE 3.8.2.exe. Can I delete the steem.exe because today steem said ther was an update which I did and it seemed to revert me back to the original 3.2, so can I delete the steem.exe and the steemupdate.exe without any adverse effect to the program? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zombeaver Posted November 17, 2016 Share Posted November 17, 2016 Honestly, I don't remember installing one and then overwriting with the other. In fact, I'm certain that I didn't. All I did was download it from Sourceforge, threw a TOS + disk image(s) at it and it worked. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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