Stella v1.2 Windows and Linux

posted in Emulator Release by slein on Apr 25th, 2002

Stella, 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.
You can get it at the following pages: Atari 2600 Emulators Atari 2600 Emulators for Unix/Linux