The Atari800MacX 5.1.0 is available following the link below.

Fixed issue with Disk Sector editor where after doing a Goto Disk sector, the up and down arrows used the old location.

Replaced deprecated MacOS API calls, to ease porting to future MacOS versions.

Copy is only available when not in full screen, and when the Mac mouse is not being used for Mouse emulation in the emulator. The shift will go back to unpressed only if another Ctrl key was pressed. Starting in Version 4.0, Atari800MacX allows the user to copy text from the Atari to the Macintosh, and paste text from the Macintosh to the Atari.

Fixed a keyboard issue when using a Ctrl+Shift combination, where the shift key state was stuck pressed after both keys were released.

Fixed issues with keypresses still being issued along with joystick/trigger motions when using Keyboard joysticks.

This feature was in 4.x versions, but had been removed in 5.x versions.

Re-added Drag and Drop of disk, rom, cassette and XEX files to the main program screen.

MacOS has deprecated OpenGL, and this should help to future proof the program.

Updated application to use Apple’s Metal API instead of OpenGL.

(A preference on the Atari tab of the Preferences pane controls this).

Added real sounds for opening and closing of disk drives when disks are inserted and removed from emulated Disk Drives.

New Features/Bug Fixes (in version 5.1.0): Another small but welcome change was the addition of authentic Atari disk drive sounds when a new disk is inserted or removed from the drives! This new version contains an important internal change, replacing the deprecated OpenGL with Metal, which will ensure Atari800MacX will be ready for the future versions of MacOS.īesides replacing OpenGL, the Atari emulator also had hundreds of functions reviewed and any deprecated API was updated as well.Īlthough the major changes happened under the hood, Atari800MacX 5.1.0 also includes UI enhancements, like bringing back the drag & drop of disks, rom, cassette and XEX files to the main program screen.

A new version of Atari800MacX, the Atari XL/XE/5200 emulator for MacOS is available now.

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