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You can now play games and menu disks directly on Atari Legend, without downloading anything or setting up an emulator. A real Atari ST boots right in your browser, on the very disk images from our database.

Wherever a game has a dump available on the site, look for the little play icon:

- In the Releases card of a game page, next to each release that has a dump
- In the dump table of a release page, to start one specific dump
- In the game search results. Tick "Download / playable" in the search form to list only the games you can play
- On menu disks: click the screenshot of a disk on its menu set page, or in the Menus card of a game page

Click the screen to give it the keyboard. The cursor keys move the joystick and right Ctrl fires. The emulator has buttons for a warm or cold reset, fullscreen and mute. Games with several disks have a button for each disk, so you can swap the disk in drive A as the game asks for it.

Games that need medium resolution or a monochrome monitor start in the right mode automatically (assuming the resolution has correctly been recorded in the Atari Legend database).

This is still a work in progress, and we have more work to do to support different TOS versions, and STE titles. If you find a dump that misbehaves, let us know in GitHub!

None of this would be possible without:

- Hatari, the brilliant open source Atari ST/STE/TT/Falcon emulator, and its many contributors over the years
- Atariaviary by tIn of Newline, the Atari ST demo browser whose WebAssembly build of Hatari is what runs on our pages

A huge thank you to both. Now go and load up an old favourite!

To give this excellent tool its full name, it is the Atari ST Floppy Image Toolkit and it runs in your browser.

All of the magical coding was done by Frederik Lindholm.

It supports:

*) Opening .ST, .MSA as well as these types of disk image inside .ZIP files up to 11 sectors per track. (Make sure there's only the disk image inside the .ZIP file otherwise there will be an error)
*) Import and export .ST and .MSA formats.
*) Create standard images (single or double-sided with 9 or 10 sectors per track)
*) Extract a few files or the whole contents of the disk (in a .ZIP file)
*) Shows if files are Hidden or Deleted (and with an option to recover deleted files if all parts are available)
*) View and extract image data / pictures within the disks or any other files (Degas, Neochrome etc.)
*) Unpack and examine executable files packed with known packers such as Ice, JAM and others with more packers in the pipeline to be added.
*) View/extract text messages / hex dumps from the file(s).
*) Look inside compressed archives that are on the disk (.ZIP, .LHA/.LZH, .ARC & .ZOO)

I used the latest version of this tool on the Flame of Finland / Superior disk images to help me extract the scrolltexts for their entries in our little old Atari Legend database!

For the above use case, I requested quite a few additional features for this program, some of which are already on the list above. There's more to follow including an anti-virus tool (a preview of it is situated in the simulated C: drive).

Previously I'd used a combination of Total Commander (Windows tool) with the Jacknife plugin by GGN. I found this newer tool to be much easier to use when doing bulk jobs like this.

(When the .PRG depack library is extended, I won't have to dive into STEem to depack files, then use WinHex to get the scrollers out!)

To use it, save this link to your favourites. Believe me, if you mess around with any kind of Atari ST disk images, you'll love this new tool!

Get it from here: https://flab.se/ataristimagegem/

Click here for our in-depth interview with one of the Atari ST's coding greats.

Thierry Levastre, an accomplished and talented graphic designer who worked at Ocean France, Delphine Software and Ubi Soft, passed away suddenly on Thursday 19 February 2026 at the age of 55 from acute pancreatitis.

He was well known for his work on the excellent Pang on ST and Amiga, as well as Cabal, Plotting and Liquid Kids, and later on the immense Flashback and Cruise For A Corpse. His full list of games that he worked on (c/o Moby Games)

To those who knew or appreciated him in the ST world, spare a thought for him!

(dlfrsilver for posted this news originally on Atari Forum as he'd peronsally known Thierry for over 20 years)

GemTos is a French convention for all Atari fans that will held in St Just en Chaussée (in France) on May 2nd & 3rd 2026.

For more details, including how to book your tickets, visit the GEMTOS website or book your tickets via the French/English forms on this page.

We are deeply saddened to share the news of the passing of Shredder.
Shredder (Vincent Casiez) was a valued member of Atari Legend and will be greatly missed by all who knew him. Our thoughts and heartfelt condolences go out to his wife, son and loved ones during this difficult time.
May their memory live on in the hearts of everyone they touched.