Thomas Huth

A talk about the history of the Atari ST/STE/TT/Falcon emulator "Hatari", and the difficulty of emulating these machines in a cycle-exact way. This talk is for everybody who is interested in emulation of old computers, no special previous knowledge is required.

• A short overview of the Atari ST and successor machines
• The history of the the Hatari emulator
• How to get started with using Hatari (explanation of disk images and firmware ROMs)
• Hardware tricks on the ST and why cycle-exact emulation is required here

This talk provides a survey of the different ways that can be used to configure devices and backends of QEMU via its command line options.

QEMU is a quite complex application, with lots of command line parameters and many different ways to configure its devices, backends and other options. Many of the interfaces are legacy that are kept to stay compatible with older versions of QEMU, other interfaces are well architected and the preferred way of configuration nowadays. This talk will give you a good survey of how to use QEMU directly from the command line and hopefully help to understand how and why some parameters have to be specified in a certain way. If you are new to running QEMU directly from the command line, or if you ever asked yourself a question like "what is the difference between '-net' and '-netdev'", then this is definitely the right talk for you!