Jetpac

16Kb Beauty

I love it when I find something new - new to me. After decades of using an Atari ST, I stumbled upon a program that I'd never heard of before: Artemis. This is a Z80/ZX Spectrum emulator by Jörg Tochtenhagen and Ralf Hemsing. It features numerous options for the technically minded - not me then, lol. Thankfully, it seems to perform very well indeed on my own Atari ST (the video above is via emulation).

Feel free to tinker with the configuration. The performance, as is, is more than acceptable on the stock ST. That's a relief because Artemis doesn't work properly on faster computers! Plus, there is no support for colour, meaning your game is in black and white. Even more peculiar is that we only have one game - Jetpac.

The program uses a file format I've not heard of before --> .PRO

Can anyone provide more information or suggest other games in this format?

Playing Jetpac is never a bad thing, and even though it's not as good as the real machine (or the Speccy emulator), it is great to find something new. Note: Artemis comes with no documentation, lacks colour support, and doesn't work properly with computers other than the stock 8MHz Atari ST/e.

It needs more than one game, but I've enjoyed finding this gem deep within the ST archives.

Download: Floppyshop disk "UTL-3025"