Summary
RespeQt emulates Atari SIO peripherals when connected to an Atari 8-bit computer with an SIO2PC cable.
In that respect t's similar to programs like APE, Atari810, and AspeQt. The main difference is that it's free (unlike
APE and AspeQt) and it's cross-platform (unlike Atari810 and APE).
License
RespeQt fork Copyright 2015-2017 by Joseph Zatarski, Copyright 2015 by DrVenkman, Copyright 2016, 2017 by TheMontezuma, Copyright 2016, 2017 by josch1710, and Copyright 2017 by blind.
RespeQt is based on AspeQt 1.0.0-preview7
Original AspeQt code up to version 0.6.0 Copyright 2009 by Fatih Aygün.
Updates to AspeQt since v0.6.0 to 1.0.0-preview7 Copyright 2012 by Ray Ataergin
You can freely copy, use, modify and distribute RespeQt under the GPL 2.0 license. Please see license.txt for details.
Qt libraries: Copyright 2009 Nokia Corporation and/or its subsidiary(-ies). Used in this package under LGPL 2.0 license.
Silk Icons: Copyright Mark James.Used in this package under Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 license.
Additional Icons by Oxygen Team.
Used in this package under Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 license.
AtariSIO Linux kernel module and high speed code used in the EXE loader Copyright Matthias Reichl.
Used in this package under GPL 2.0 license.
Atascii Fonts by Mark Simonson. Used in this package under Freeware License.
RespeQt icon by djmat56. Used with permission.
Support for the spanish language by AsCrNet.
RespeQt Client program (rcl.com) Copyright FlashJazzCat. Used under the GPL v2.
DOS files distributed with RespeQt are copyright of their respective owners, Joseph Zatarski and RespeQt distributes those files with the understanding that they are either abandonware or public domain, and are widely available for download through the internet. If you are the copyright holder of one or more of these files, and believe that distribution of these files constitutes a breach of your rights please contact Joseph Zatarski. We respect the rights of copyright holders and won't distribute copyrighted work without the rights holder's consent.
Special Thanks
Kyle22 for finding 2 instances of AspeQt, 1 reference to Ray Ataergin, 1 reference to Ray's website which needed to be changed, for finding that the about and user documentation dialogs were out of date (way out of date), contact information in readme.txt was out of date, and for pointing out that I forgot to update the documentation for r1.
FlashJazzCat for writing a replacement for AspeCL.
Contact
Joseph Zatarski, email,Please include the word "Respeqt" in the subject field.