Stella for Mac
Atari 2600 game emulator.
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Stella overview
Stella is a multi-platform Atari 2600 VCS emulator released under the GNU General Public License (GPL). Stella was originally developed for Linux by Bradford W. Mott, however, since its original release several people have joined the development team to port Stella to other operating systems such as OS X, AcornOS, AmigaOS, DOS, FreeBSD, IRIX, Linux, OS/2, and Unix. The development team is working hard to perfect the emulator and we hope you enjoy our effort.
Oh, for those of you too young to remember, 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 Mac thanks to Stella!
Note: While the software is classified as free, it is actually donationware. Please consider making a donation to help support development.
What’s new in version 7.0
- Enhanced ROM launcher to allow multiple images per ROM.
- Made heaps of additional images available for the ROM launcher.
- Added searching by filename for ROM launcher images.
- Added option to start random ROM.
- Added automatically enabled phosphor modes.
- Enhanced Game Properties dialog for multigame ROMs.
- Added 2nd UI theme and hotkey for toggling UI theme.
- Added bezel support (incl. Sinden Lightgun).
- Added optional type format detection based on colors used.
- Added Joy2B+ controller support.
- Added auto detection for QuadTari attached controllers.
- Enhanced Kid Vid support to play tape audio.
- Added port selection, used for controller default mapping.
- Added missing PlusROM support for E7 bankswitching.
- Enhanced movie cart (MVC) support.
- Accelerated emulation up to ~15% (ARM).
- Added limited GameLine Master Module bankswitching support.
- Added 03E0 bankswitching for Brazilian Parker Bros ROMs.
- Added WF8 bankswitching used by some certain Coleco white carts.
- Added JANE bankswitching used by Coleco's Tarzan prototype.
- Added ELF mapper for Mattress Monkeys.
- Added BUS bankswitching support for some older demos.
- Fixed broken 7800 pause key support.
- Added developer option for random hotspot peek values.
- Added user defined CPU cycle timers to debugger.
- Removed 'launcherroms' option, since it was causing some issues.
- Codebase now uses C++20 features, which means a minimum of gcc-11 or clang-10 for Linux/Mac, and Visual Studio 2022 for Windows.
Stella for Mac
Free
In English
Version 7.0
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Nov 14 2024
Version: 7.0
The version "7.0" rollout is a big fat MESS. Don't bother until 7.1 comes out, or something like that. PROBLEMS: (1) It will not boot on macOS, Apple complaining that they can't test it for malware, even if you use the CTRL-Open trick. Try dropping ROMs on it to see if that gets past Apple's complaints. (2) The devs still have the thing labeled as being version 6.0. IOW consider 7.0 to be worse than alphaware. *sigh* --> If you figure out a way to get around Apple's problem, please post.
May 17 2021
Version: 6.5.3
I couldn't believe, I find this app. Oh, my God, thanks!
Feb 13 2018
Version: 5.1
Remember you were a kid once? Now I do! Thank you soooo much!!!
Oct 31 2015
Version: 4.6.7
Awful graphics, awful sound, awful controls, ... I LIKE IT ! :-) Best 2600 emulator
