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Stella 3.6.1

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Atari 2600 game emulator. Free

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Bradford W. Mott

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 Mac 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

What's New

Version 3.6.1:

Extended FA2 bankswitch scheme to handle 28K ROMs (in addition to the previously supported 24K ROMs).

Requirements
Intel, Mac OS X 10.6 or later

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Endie commented on 31 Dec 2011

It's not listed here but still available for Tiger/PPC:

http://sourceforge.net/projects/stella/files/stella/3.5/Stella-3.5-macosx.dmg/download

Great nostalgic fun!

[Version 3.5]

Cesco reviewed on 08 Sep 2010

If you are nostalgic, you have owned or always dreamed about owning an Atari 2600 and in the mood of playing some old games that have made history, well look no further since you won't find any better emulator than Stella.

[Version 3.2.1]

+85

Gitteboy commented on 22 Apr 2010

Maybe not right place but where canI find the roms?

[Version 3.1]

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Bezierboy commented on 22 Apr 2010

Emuparadise.org is a good place to start. Try using Google too.

Cesco replied on 16 Sep 2010

You can also find some legal ROMs on the fantastic website of AtariAge: http://www.atariage.com/. Mostly homebrew games made in these years by fans, most of these games are really impressive... check out "Thrust" by Xype, my favourite game: http://www.atariage.com/software_page.html?SoftwareLabelID=2384

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Bdkennedy1 reviewed on 22 Apr 2010

A free Atari 2600 emulator that runs the games perfectly. Written with love and much appreciated. Thank you!

[Version 3.1]

Anonymous reviewed on 16 Oct 2005

Works great. The new interface also shows the complete titles of all ROMs -- much easier than guessing from filenames like before. It also remembers the default ROM directory, where in the past you had to locate it manually.

Thanks to the developer (and all emu developers) who let us keep playing these classic games.

[Version 2.0]

Anonymous reviewed on 20 Feb 2005

Roms aren't pointed to by the developers site for a reason. It would be illegal. The original copyright holders have the ability to sue the emulator writer, if he is distributing roms. I'm sorry your teenage mind can't comprehend the concept of Intellectual Property Rights, but the emulator authors are simply trying to avoid swarms of lawyers. And by the way, the last poster was right......Do a google search on "Atari 2600 Roms" and see what you find. Your simple mind might be amazed....and it doesn't even require an FU.....

[Version 1.4.2]

Anonymous reviewed on 20 Feb 2005

Thanks for the great little app! I was playing Frogger within minutes!

I feel sorry for those who are all pissed about not being able to find ROMs... Atari ROMs are like the easiest ones to find on the net, I found the entire collection right away. It's called the "internet" - try it sometime. ;-P

[Version 1.4.2]