Post subject: Stella v6.7 Posted: Jun 14, 2022 - 09:22 AM
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Eine neue Version des Atari 2600 Emulators Stella wurde veröffentlicht.
A new version of the Atari 2600 emulator Stella has been released.
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IMPORTANT NOTES:
Because of fixes to JSON handling, all remappings will be reset to defaults; if you had custom mappings, they will need to be re-entered again.
Because of internal changes, all state files are now invalid.
Completely reworked the file launcher:
Redesigned user interface
Added tracking of user favorites, recently played and most popular games
Added virtual directories for selecting tracked games
Added quick path navigation
Added navigation history
Added icons for files and directories
Added option to show/hide file extensions
Extended context menu and shortcuts
Fixed sluggish behaviour when reading large and/or invalid files
Added hotkey display to tooltips.
Added option to automatically pause emulation when focus is lost.
Added option to toggle autofire mode.
Improved controller mappings for Paddles.
Improved controller mappings for Driving controllers.
Improved Mindlink support.
Added another oddball TIA glitch option for score mode color.
Enhanced TV jitter emulation (TODO: doc).
Enhanced support for CDFJ+ bankswitching type.
Added 0FA0 bankswitching for Fotomania ROMs.
Added ARM chip auto detection.
Extended support for older BUS (experimental) ROMs that worked with an older, obsolete version of the BUS scheme; special thanks to SpiceWare for the code.
Fixed Stella crash due to invalid ZIP files.
Fixed TV mode auto detection in some ARM ROMs.
Fixed color loss when switching TV mode from/to PAL.
Fixed score mode glitch emulation corner case.
Fixed state messages staying on screen forever.
Added M1 support for the macOS build.
Debugger improvements:
added PlusROM information
fixed patching code in ZP-RAM
improved bank origin detection
Updated internal ROM properties database to ROM-Hunter version 17 (thanks go to RomHunter for his tireless research in this area). Related to this, updated the snapshot collection.