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This guide has been written for first-time WinSTon users, or people who simply want to run the emulator as easily as possible. For people who want to get more from the emulator please read the Getting Started section from the Contents page. |
Once the emulator has been installed and run for the first time, you will see the familiar green Atari ST desktop appear in the Window. You will notice that the mouse pointer is still in Windows mode. To change the mouse input from Windows to the emulator you can press the F12 key. Now when you move the mouse around the Atari mouse will move with it. To return back to the Windows mouse mode press the F12 key a second time. To run the emulator in full-screen mode, using DirectX, you can press the F11 key. Again, you can press F11 to return back to a Window display. First time users of WinSTon can now click the 'heart' or Favourites icon on the WinSTon tool bar. You may need to press F12 to return the mouse to Windows mode. A dialog will appear listing a number of directories which when opened will show a list of games which you can attempt to run. Not all of these are compatible with WinSTon so if you cannot run an image, simply try another one. (Compatibility is improved with each new version that is released) If WinSTon cannot find a copy of the chosen disc image on your drive it will bring up an error message and give you the option of downloading it from the Internet. Save this file to the appropriate directory on your machine and then try again. If you have a joystick connected to your machine you can use it as if it were an ST joystick. For those users which do not own a joystick the emulator will default to the cursor key emulation mode. In this mode the cursor keys will control the joystick movements and CTRL or 0(on the numeric key pad) will become the fire button. For more information on the features of WinSTon return to the Contents page and browse through the sections available. If you are having problems with the emulator you can look in the Trouble Shooting section for possible answers or if that fails look on the WinSTon BBS. |