Almost every commercially released ST game is likely to be archived, but mostly only in the version "edited" by crackers. From the desire to preserve Atari software "pure" and including the possibly existing copy protection, the Pasti image tool and the STX format have been created. However, those who do not use Windows with the Steem emulator could not do anything with the STX images, because Pasti support was provided via a Windows DLL file, the source code was never published.
Since the end of May there is now the first open-source implementation of an STX decoder and specifically in a preview version of Hatari. Thus the images can be used not only under OS X, Linux, Android and other operating systems, but other emulators could benefit from the work of the Hatari team. They had to do it without insight into the Pasti source code.
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