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GAME: Stella/2 Ver 0.7 Now Available (Atari VCS-2600 Emulator)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (spice@ibm.net)
Mon Jun 9 14:27:14 1997
To: os2ann.DISCUSS@bloom-picayune.MIT.EDU
Date: 8 Jun 97 21:40:58 GMT
From: spice@ibm.net
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Stella is an Atari VCS-2600 emulator. It allows you to play the classic home
video games on your PC instead of your TV. The OS/2 release can be found at
the SpiceWare Homepage at: http://www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/Pines/2281
It will also soon be available on the Stella Homepage at:
http://www4.ncsu.edu/~bwmott/www/2600/
Updated Features Include:
o Throttle routines added (many games are going over 60fps on my system)
o Oscilliscope added.
o Display.Height property now supported. Window may now be taller or shorter
than 200 pixels.
o Stella now uses the SpiceWare joystick routines - no need to recalibrate
each time you run Stella.
o The game backgammon now works. Previously, the paddle support would not
allow you to select all of the gameboard positions.
o Stella Help is now in the OS/2 standard format.
o Stella Help and Cartridge help now work correctly if there are spaces in the
file path.
o Migrated OS/2 source to new 0.7 core.
* Improved emulation speed of TIA and 6507
* Added Starpath Supercharger support
* Added Tigervision bankswitching support (3F bankswitching)
* VCS files combined into a single builtin property file
* Added TIA HMOVE "feature" to support Cosmic Ark stars
* Improved TIA VSYNC code so that it works more like the real thing (0.6
VSYNC code caused the graphics of some games to be off such as Alien and
Battle Zone)
* Added two 6507 emulators: one is designed to act more like the real thing,
while the other is designed to be as fast as possible (required for
Supercharger support)
* Changed TIA peeking so lower nibble of byte read is the same as the TIA
address being accessed (Warlords now works)
Darrell Spice Jr.
- Care to play Atari, Coleco, or Sega under OS/2? Stop by the SpiceWare
- homepage to download Stella ,ColEm, and MasterGear today!
- OS/2 programming info also available.
- http://www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/Pines/2281
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