Files
libretro/emulators/hatari.yml
T
Abdessamad Derraz 4231902a6c docs: write prose without dashes or semicolons
Profiles, the wiki, comments, docstrings, command output and schema descriptions carried em-dashes, clause-joining semicolons, unicode arrows, box-drawing banners and check-mark glyphs. Each sentence was rewritten rather than having its character swapped. Hashes, paths, source_ref values and every cited file:line are unchanged, which a comparison of each parsed profile against the previous revision confirms.

validate_pr comments now say PASS and FAIL in words, and source_ref values in a profile's structured blocks render as code. test_prose_style fails if any of these comes back, in tracked files or in the generated site.
2026-10-19 06:47:31 +02:00

190 lines
10 KiB
YAML

emulator: Hatari
type: libretro
core_classification: official_port
source: "https://github.com/libretro/hatari"
upstream: "https://github.com/hatari/hatari"
logo: "https://raw.githubusercontent.com/hatari/hatari/main/share/icons/hicolor/scalable/apps/hatari.svg"
profiled_date: "2026-09-17"
source_commit: "5831f66e05ae19435bd9d8ef1c6f9c93998ff6f4"
upstream_commit: "51ed9991101fdc4623b3b38ec16e5a170cf2dffa"
core_version: "2.6.1-devel"
display_name: "Atari - ST/STE/TT/Falcon (Hatari)"
cores:
- hatari
systems:
- atari-st
- atari-ste
- atari-tt
- atari-falcon
notes: |
The main branch of libretro/hatari is the upstream Hatari tree with its
experimental libretro target in src/retro, which upstream added in
January 2026, plus the port commits that follow the merge base recorded
as upstream_commit: VFS, disk control, core options and hard disk
loading. It builds as hatari_libretro (.gitlab-ci-libretro.yml:10-11,
src/CMakeLists.txt:371-404), reports library_name hatari and the
HATARI_VERSION string 2.6.1-devel (src/retro/main_retro.c:218-219,
src/includes/version.h:8). The .info shipped in the tree declares no
firmware (share/libretro/info/libretro-hatari.info). The
hatari_libretro.info in libretro-core-info took that file's metadata on
2026-09-16 and keeps a tos.img firmware entry with the TOS 1.02 US MD5,
which this code never checks.
retro_init builds <system>/tos.img, records whether it exists and passes
it as --tos (src/retro/main_retro.c:157-207). When it is absent a
frontend message is shown and retro_run only refreshes the framebuffer
(src/retro/main_retro.c:186-189, src/retro/main_retro.c:250-261). The
name is fixed by that check: the .rom and .tos fallbacks of File_Read
(src/tos.c:60-66, src/file.c:312-353, src/file.c:544-583) are never
reached under a frontend. A missing --tos file fails option parsing
(src/options.c:1026-1079, src/options.c:1937-1945), but Main_ErrorExit only
raises the quit flag in this build (src/retro/main_retro.c:478-490), so
Main_Init carries on with bUseTos cleared and TOS_InitImage installs the
built-in test stub of faketosData.c instead of reading a ROM
(src/tos.c:43, src/tos.c:1112-1131, src/tos.c:1151-1162). Without a
system directory Main_Init runs with no --tos, the TOS path falls back to
tos.img in the Hatari data directory derived from the executable location
(src/configuration.c:810-812, src/paths.c:305-356, CMakeLists.txt:422-434)
and have_bios is never set. TOS_LoadImage strips the 256-byte (34-byte
for 4.92) loader of a RAM TOS, detects EmuTOS by ETOS at offset 0x2c,
refuses images below 0x40 bytes, above 1 MB, with a version outside
0x100-0x6FF or a load address other than 0xE00000 or 0xFC0000, and
coerces machine type and CPU to the TOS version unless the image is a
512 KB or larger EmuTOS (src/tos.c:976-1097, src/tos.c:838-969). ROM
patches apply when the hatari_patch_tos option is on and the image is
not EmuTOS (src/retro/options.c:250-263, src/retro/options.c:784,
src/tos.c:1220-1222). No TOS is embedded. Because nSymbolsAutoLoad
defaults to SYM_AUTOLOAD_DEBUGGER (src/configuration.c:621,
src/includes/configuration.h:29-31), every TOS load also reads a
<tos>.sym symbol table when one exists (src/tos.c:1094,
src/debug/symbols.c:1095-1113, src/debug/symbols.c:1002-1020,
src/debug/symbols.c:372-407).
The Hatari home directory is the RetroArch save directory
(src/paths.c:236-250). Configuration is read from <CONFDIR>/hatari.cfg,
/etc on Unix and the current directory on Windows, then from hatari.cfg
in that home directory, before the --tos argument is applied
(src/main.c:260-282, src/main.c:319-322, src/configuration.c:862-867,
src/configuration.c:1061-1071, CMakeLists.txt:444-461). The boot core
options are applied right after the command line, so the machine, DSP,
CPU, FPU, memory and hatari_patch_tos keys of hatari.cfg are overwritten
by them (src/main.c:328-330, src/retro/options.c:724-789). Every other
section is honoured: the cartridge image (src/configuration.c:487-493),
floppy images, GEMDOS directories and ACSI, SCSI and IDE images
(src/configuration.c:362-364, src/configuration.c:375-483), MIDI, printer,
RS232 and SCC host endpoints (src/configuration.c:509-543), all disabled
by default (src/configuration.c:736-761) and opened by Midi_Host_Open,
Printer_TransferByteTo, RS232_OpenCOMPort and SCC_Init_Channel when
enabled (src/midi.c:342-367, src/printer.c:42-65, src/printer.c:89-106,
src/rs232.c:175-246, src/scc.c:439-500). szMappingFileName is parsed
(src/configuration.c:256) but the port's Keymap_LoadRemapFile is empty
(src/retro/keymap.c:222-224). Only the SDL build reads a keymap file
(src/sdl/keymap.c:701). The autosave snapshot is restored by
M68000_Start (src/m68000.c:332-348), which the port never calls. TT and
Falcon NVRAM is hatari.nvram in the home directory, read at NvRam_Init
and written at exit (src/falcon/nvram.c:282-294,
src/falcon/nvram.c:334-337).
Content is a floppy image, an .m3u list parsed relative to its own
directory (src/retro/disk_control.c:94-182), an .ide image put on the
IDE master, a .vhd image put on ACSI 0 or a .gem marker naming a GEMDOS
directory (src/retro/main_retro.c:369-427, src/retro/harddisk.c:32-129).
With a .gem, <system>/hatari/BOOT.ST is inserted into drive A when it
exists (src/retro/harddisk.c:105-127). A disk whose name ends in A pulls
the sibling ending in B into drive B (src/floppy.c:300-343,
src/floppy.c:385-388), and an STX image reads its .wd1772 overlay from
the same directory (src/floppies/stx.c:807-827). Savestates pass through
hatari_savestate.tmp in the system directory
(src/retro/main_retro.c:41, src/retro/main_retro.c:292-359). IPF support
is compiled in from rsn8887/capsimg when ENABLE_STATIC_CAPSIMAGE is on
(cmake/BuildDependencies.cmake:93-126). The Windows jobs build with it
since September 2026 (.gitlab-ci-libretro.yml:101,
.gitlab-ci-libretro.yml:109) and the static Vita, Wii, Wii U and Switch
jobs turn it off (.gitlab-ci-libretro.yml:193, .gitlab-ci-libretro.yml:202,
.gitlab-ci-libretro.yml:210, .gitlab-ci-libretro.yml:218).
File access goes through the libretro VFS when the frontend provides it
(src/retro/vfs.c:17-48, src/file.c:253-302, src/file.c:479-492), and a
device-prefixed path such as ux0:/ counts as absolute (src/file.c:152-164).
files:
- name: "tos.img"
path: "tos.img"
description: "Atari TOS ROM image"
required: true
min_size: 64
max_size: 1048576
validation: [size]
source_ref: "src/retro/main_retro.c:157-207, src/retro/main_retro.c:250-261, src/options.c:1937-1945, src/tos.c:60-66, src/tos.c:976-1097, src/tos.c:838-969, src/file.c:312-353"
note: >
Any TOS 1.00 to 4.04, TOS 0.00, a RAM TOS or EmuTOS. The file must
carry this exact name: retro_init only enables emulation when
<system>/tos.img exists.
- name: "tos.sym"
path: "tos.sym"
description: "Symbol table for the TOS image, nm-style text or a program symbol table"
required: false
storage: user_provided
unsourceable: "one table per TOS build, valid only beside the image it was linked with: each EmuTOS release archive carries the table of its ROM, etos512k.sym beside etos512k.img, and Atari TOS has none"
source_ref: "src/tos.c:1094, src/debug/symbols.c:1095-1113, src/debug/symbols.c:1002-1020, src/debug/symbols.c:372-407, src/configuration.c:621, src/includes/configuration.h:29-31, src/retro/main_retro.c:182-194"
note: >
The name is the TOS image path with its last three characters
replaced by sym, and the image path is always tos.img here: retro_init
passes <system>/tos.img as --tos and no other image name reaches the
loader, so a table named after another image, emutos.sym beside
emutos.img, is never opened. nSymbolsAutoLoad gates the read. Its
default is not off and no core option changes it, so the table is read
at every TOS load when present. The symbols serve the built-in
debugger.
- name: "cartridge ROM"
path: null
config_key: "szCartridgeImageFileName"
description: "Atari ST cartridge image loaded at 0xFA0000"
required: false
min_size: 40
max_size: 131076
validation: [size]
source_ref: "src/cart.c:41-47, src/cart.c:53-88, src/cart.c:97-104, src/cart.c:114-142, src/configuration.c:487-493, src/configuration.c:814"
note: >
Set through hatari.cfg. Raw images up to 0x20000 bytes or .stc
images of exactly 0x20004 bytes whose 4-byte header is skipped.
Extensions .img, .rom and .stc are tried when the configured path is
missing. Replaced by the built-in GEMDOS trampoline whenever GEMDOS
hard disk emulation, extended VDI, program autostart or OS tracing
is on.
- name: "BOOT.ST"
path: "hatari/BOOT.ST"
description: "Boot floppy inserted with GEMDOS hard disk folders"
required: false
source_ref: "src/retro/harddisk.c:78-129, src/retro/main_retro.c:391-395"
note: "Inserted into drive A when the content is a .gem file."
- name: "hatari.cfg"
path: null
description: "Hatari configuration file"
required: false
storage: user_provided
unsourceable: "user settings in Hatari's INI format, with no canonical contents"
source_ref: "src/main.c:260-282, src/main.c:319-322, src/main.c:328-330, src/configuration.c:862-867, src/configuration.c:1061-1071, src/paths.c:236-250, CMakeLists.txt:444-461"
note: >
Read from <CONFDIR>/hatari.cfg and then from hatari.cfg in the
RetroArch save directory, before the --tos argument and the boot
core options are applied.
- name: "hatari.nvram"
path: null
description: "TT and Falcon NVRAM contents, 50 bytes"
required: false
has_builtin: true
min_size: 50
validation: [size]
storage: user_provided
unsourceable: "machine state the emulator writes itself at exit, with no canonical contents"
source_ref: "src/falcon/nvram.c:96-97, src/falcon/nvram.c:116-141, src/falcon/nvram.c:148-171, src/falcon/nvram.c:282-294, src/falcon/nvram.c:334-337, src/paths.c:236-250, src/main.c:208"
note: >
Read from the RetroArch save directory at NvRam_Init. A short read
keeps the built-in defaults. Saved back on exit.