Gemulator Explorer

                      Reviewed by Sue

Recently I had an email from someone who'd been onto the SynTax
website and noticed the Zak McKraken demo in the SynTax library.
He emailed to ask if I still had it and I said, yes, but I didn't
know if it still worked because I no longer had an ST.  I offered
to send him the disk if he'd be able to extract the files and send
them back to me on a PC formatted disk but he told me about this
useful program instead so I could do it myself.

Gemulator Explorer is a freeware program that, among other things,
enables you to read non-DOS disks such as Mac, Atari 8-bit and
Atari ST disks on the PC.  Well, there's handy, I thought, not
having had time to get to grips with a 'proper' emulator.

The program can be downloaded from www.emulators.com and I've
also put it onto the SynTax homepage. You may also need an extra 
SCSI adaptor to be able to read ST and Mac hard disks, so that's 
also included, but I didn't personally need it.

Basically it opens an Explorer-type window with two panes. The
left pane shows all your drives, referenced as MS-DOS files, while
the right pane shows their contents. Double-clicking on the bottom
option, Non-DOS Floppy on A, opened my Zak disk which I'd popped
into the A drive. There were all the files. I must admit I gave a
little "Whoop!" of satisfaction.

You can create an image from the files and copy them to a floppy,
but instead I just dragged them onto the Desktop. I found this
worked only when I copied one file at a time which is a bit of a
pain but at least I could get to my files again. Evidently the 
full Atari emulator Gemulator will let you copy more than one
file at a time.

Very, very, VERY useful!


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