Stella versions

Enables playing games from Atari 2600 on PC
Oct 24, 2021
9.1
Feb 14, 2011
9.0
Feb 14, 2011
8.1
Mar 24, 2011
8.0
Feb 15, 2011
5.1
Mar 12, 2010
Review
4.7
Jan 27, 2016
4.6
Mar 23, 2015
4.5
Jan 11, 2015
4.2
Nov 5, 2014
4.1
Sep 4, 2014
4.0
Jul 12, 2014
3.9
Jun 29, 2013
3.8
Aug 24, 2010
3.7
Apr 19, 2010
Review
3.6
Mar 22, 2012
Review
3.5
Jan 12, 2012
Review
3.4
Jun 1, 2011
Review
3.3
Nov 17, 2010
3.1
Apr 25, 2010
Editorial review
rating
3.0
Sep 11, 2009
2.8
Jun 13, 2009
2.7
Jan 21, 2009
2.6
Aug 17, 2008
2.5
Aug 24, 2008
2.3
Jul 25, 2008
2.2
Aug 7, 2008

What's new

v5.1 [Mar 12, 2010]
- Fixed crash in OpenBSD when quitting the app, which can also be happening on other systems (no reports yet, but the problem is now fixed for good).
- Fixed configure/build scripts to work natively under OpenBSD.

v3.4 [Jun 1, 2011]
- Re-enabled 'grabmouse' commandline argument and associated functionality with the following changes:
1. it is changed in the "Input Settings' UI, not in 'Video Settings'
2. it only has meaning while in emulation mode
3. it is enabled by default
- Fixed bug with emulation of paddles using the mouse most evident in Warlords; movement was being filtered out if the mouse was moved too fast. There's still more work required in this area, however.
- Fixed bug with analog axes on gamepad devices, whereby jittering in these axes would override input from digital axis, hat or keyboard input.
- Fixed bug when switching to the debugger and back again would sometimes cause an extra mouse motion event (which would cause the emulation to think the mouse was moved and move the player accordingly).
- Tweaked bankswitch autodetection code for 4A50 bankswitching; several more test ROMs are automatically detected.
- The 'saverom' debugger command now saves ROMs in your home directory by default if you don't specify a valid path. This fixes a bug whereby ROMs were saved in strange locations and couldn't later be found.
- Fixed bug in automatically executing the debugger 'autoexec.stella' file; any commands it contained weren't actually being executed.
- Zero-byte ROMs are no longer loaded and mis-detected as Supercharger images.

v3.1 [Apr 25, 2010]
Stella release 3.1.2 for Linux, MacOS X and Windows is now available.
* Modified 'showinfo' command to accept levels of output, where increasingly larger numbers provide more debug output. Related to this, added UI item to modify 'showinfo'.
* Updated DPC+ bankswitch scheme to latest specifications, including support for 32K ROMs with ARM code (the ARM code is ignored for now).
* Fixed bug in saving patched ROMs using DPC and DPC+ bankswitch schemes; the saved image didn't actually include any changes made by the user.
* Removed 'uselauncher' from the UI, since disabling it will remove the ROM launcher on all future runs, and not allow one to enable it again. It's still available from the commandline, for those that have a need for it.

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