Rainbow
Multi-Atari Emulator

Rainbow is designed to emulate several models of Atari 8-bit systems, specifically the 400/800/XL/XE series of home computers, and the Atari 5200 Super System home video game.  The current version is V. 1.36.  This emulator is shareware, and requires registration in order to access all of the features.

   
Berzerk, Galaxian, and Gyruss for the Atari 5200 running under Rainbow
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The Atari 5200 Super System is a curious machine with more or less the same hardware as an Atari 400/800 series computer.  It has only 16K RAM but can accept 16 or 32K ROMs.   The full size keyboard is gone and has a simple numeric keypad on the controllers instead.  Since the hardware chips are mapped to different areas in the 5200, standard 400/800 software is incompatible but 5200 games *can* be converted to run on the 400/800 with some programming know-how.

The monitor ROM is a tiny 2K OS which just sets up the 5200 for operation and draws the pretty rainbow Fuji logo.  You can insert either 16K or 32K 5200 ROM images in this mode.  Once again, 400/800/800XL/130XE games will *not* work with the 5200 and vice versa.


Rainbow Features:

• Emulates the Atari 400/800, 800XL, 130XE series of home computers, and the Atari 5200 Super System home video game.

• Has 48K RAM for 400/800 machines; full 64K RAM for 800XL; full 128K for 130XE

• Large (2x) and medium (1.5x) screen displays

• Accepts 8K and 16K cartridge images; accepts 16K and 32K ROMs for 5200

• Runs "Super Cartridges"

• True 256 Atari colors

• Full ANTIC/GTIA graphics, namely all ANTIC modes, Player/Missile Graphics, fine scrolling and Display List Interrupts

• Superb 4 channel sound using POKEY samples

• Two virtual disk drives capable of reading single and enhanced density images

• Transfer files between disk images and your PC hard disk

• Four joysticks (via keypad) and four paddles (using mouse)

• Plays many games such as Pac-Man, Defender, Joust, Qix, Eastern Front, Zaxxon, M.U.L.E., Montezuma's Revenge, Donkey Kong, Miner 2049er, Necromancer, Karateka, Drol, Kaboom, Pole Position, Star Raiders, BallBlazer, Alternate Reality, Caverns of Mars, etc.
  
  

The demo has the full graphics emulation of the shareware version except for vertical fine scrolling. Other features such as larger screen displays and full 800XL/130XE emulation and 4 channel sound are not active in this demo.

System Requirements:
You need a speedy 486 PC system (preferably Pentium)
Windows 95 or Windows NT
Microsoft Direct X


IMPORTANT:
Before you can run Rainbow you will need an image of one (or more) of the following:

400/800 10K Operating System ROM

800XL/130XE 16K Operating System ROM and 8K BASIC ROM

5200 2K monitor ROM

Due to copyright restrictions, Atari ROM images are not included.

Go to the Rainbow homepage

This emulator can be downloaded directly from it's homepage.

NOTE: In order to run this emulator, you must have the emulator itself, and a copy of the ROM's from the original system.  The emulator itself is Freeware.  The ROM's are copyrighted by the programmer or the manufacturer. You are only legally entitled to use ROM files if you own the actual game, or a PCB/ROM Cartridge from the game that you are emulating.

ROM's are not available on Back In Time,
but they can be found on the Internet.