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EmuCR: StellaStella SVN r2765 is compiled. 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 SVN changelog:
r2765
Some work on the TIA class (I don't know how long the current code
will be used, but at least we can improve it a little).

Eliminated the 'alignment' dimension in the various TIATables masks,
reducing the size of the arrays by a factor of 4. I could never
figure out what alignment meant, until I looked at old TIA code in
the repo. It seems that originally, there was an optimization
in the code to fill the array on 32-bit boundaries, instead of the
current 8-bit boundary. As a result, the masks had to be defined
as 32-bits, or 4 groups of 8-bits. Ah, that's where the 'alignment'
comes from.

Related to this, the colors and pointers in the TIA class are now
8-bit as well. Essentially, the TIA class has been doing extra
work to align everything to 32-bit and never actually using the
results. And it's been this way for 4+ years.

Older state files will no longer work, so the version # has been
bumped.

Download: Stella SVN r2765 32bit
Download: Stella SVN r2765 64bit
Source: Here



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