Stella emulates most Atari 2600 peripheral devices, including standard joysticks, paddle controllers, the Atari Video Touch Pad, the Atari Keyboard Controller, Atari Indy 500 Driving Controllers, the CBS Booster-Grip controller, the Atari TrakBall/AtariMouse/AmigaMouse trackball controllers, the Sega Genesis controller, and the AtariVox and SaveKey controllers. It has cycle-exact emulation for the TIA chip (graphics and sound) the Stella Team estimates that current TIA emulation is nearing 100% completion. Support is included for NTSC, PAL and SECAM in 60 Hz/50 Hz varieties, including autodetection of those formats (based on the number of scanlines generated in each frame).
The emulator supports all Atari 2600 cartridge bank switching schemes and has support for nearly all Atari 2600 titles. Stella is written in the C++ programming language and thus is highly portable. Mott, and is now maintained by Stephen Anthony.
Stella was originally written in 1996 (and known as Stella 96 ) by Bradford W. It is open-source, and runs on most major modern platforms including Windows, Mac OS X, and Linux. Stella is an emulator of the Atari 2600 game console, and takes its name from the console's codename.
AmigaOS, Dreamcast, GP2X, Nintendo DS, Wii, Windows CE/Mobile
