Stella v1.2 Windows and Linux
posted in Emulator Release by slein on Apr 25th, 2002Stella, the Atari 2600 emulator, has been updated to version 1.2. Here's what's new:
- Improved illegal CPU instruction support.
- Improved emulation of undefined TIA reads.
- More accurate NTSC and PAL palettes.
- PAL color loss is now emulated.
- TIA emulation improved to fix some problems with Pole Position, Fatal Run, Dolphin, Decathlon, Robot Tank, and Hole Hunter.
- Support for Pitfall II has been added.
- Support added for the Commavid (CV) bankswitching method.
- Support added for the Megaboy cartridge.
- Improved Supercharger emulation including a new BIOS that shows the vertical blue progress bars like the real thing.
- Code for the emulation core has been updated to work with newer C++ compilers compliant with the C++ standard.
- Basic message support added to the TIA emulation.
- The internal data structure for the stella.pro file was changed from a resizable array to a binary search tree.
- An SDL port of Stella is available (requires SDL 1.2.0 or greater).
- Added option to not load in the whole stella.pro file when starting Stella.
- Added INI file option to the X11 and SDL versions.
- Added snapshot support to the X11 and SDL versions.
- Removed stella.pro file from the binary, resulting in large space savings.
- Added pause functionality to the core.