2014-07-02

Stella v4.0

EmuCR: StellaStella v4.0 is released. Stella is a multi-platform Atari 2600 VCS emulator. The Atari 2600 Video Computer System (VCS), introduced in 1977, was the most popular home video game system of the early 1980's. Now you can enjoy all of your favorite Atari 2600 games on your PC thanks to Stella!

Stella v4.0 changelog:
* Ported Stella to SDL2, which brings many new features. Among the

largest improvements is native hardware acceleration support for

Windows (Direct3D) and Linux/OSX (OpenGL). It is also now possible

to port Stella to iOS and Android devices using OpenGLES.

Hardware acceleration is now required, which means up-to-date drivers

are needed. Software rendering is still present, but is somewhat

unoptimized and unsupported going forward.



* Fullscreen video modes now use the desktop resolution. Switching

to fullscreen and back to windowed mode no longer rearranges icons

on your desktop.



* TIA TV effects are now available in all video modes, since hardware

acceleration is a requirement.



* Added a much more detailed view of cart extended RAM to a new

debugger tab. Special thanks to SpiceWare for this implementation.



* Added preliminary support for 'DASH' bankswitching scheme by A. Davie.



* The AtariVox and SaveKey controllers now have the ability in the

debugger to completely erase the virtual EEPROM data.



* Added 'savesnap' debugger prompt command, and also associated

context menu item to the debugger TIA output area. This saves the

current TIA image to a PNG file.



* Added 'hidecursor' commandline option, which allows to completely

disable showing the mouse cursor (useful on systems that don't have

a mouse).



* Removed 'uipalette' option, as the original palette is no longer

supported.



* Updated included PNG library to latest stable version.



-Have fun!

Download: Stella v4.0
Source: Here

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