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A Multi-platform Atari 2600 VCS Emulator
Acorn Guide
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A Bradford W. Mott production in association with Aaron Giles,
Seunghee Lee, Jeff Miller, and Darrell Spice Jr.
Acorn Port by David McEwen
Version 1.0 beta
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Please also read the enclosed Stella/txt file as it covers all the standard
Stella stuff. This file contains only Acorn Risc OS specific stuff.
NEW to the port:
Mouse support for paddles
All the new features of the main core
Modified speed throttling...
Introduction
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This is a port of a very very good Atari 2600 emulator called Stella. It is
written purely in C++, but manages over 60fps on a StrongARM - however it
is speed throttled and could manage more... So much respect to Bradford W. Mott
for making such a portable & fast emulator.
How do I use it ?
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Easy - just download a game from the internet there are various good sites
around and few companies actually care what happens with these roms since they
are in many cases over 10 years old and noone is really going to buy them in
this day and age.
Once you have some ROMS you can run them by setting the filetype to C26Game and
double clicking on the file. This loads the ROM.
It is fairly intuitive to use...
The following keys are used:
[Mouse] Paddle for paddle games
[Mouse Buttons] Fire for paddle games
[q] Quit
[p] Pause
[s] Select Game
[r] Game Reset
[c] Color television
[b] Black and white television
[1] Left player difficulty B
[2] Left player difficulty A
[3] Right player difficulty B
[4] Right player difficulty A
[Up Arrow] Left joystick up
[Down Arrow] Left joystick down
[Left Arrow] Left joystick left
[Right Arrow] Left joystick right
[Space] Left joystick fire button
[Enter] Left joystick fire button
[y] Right joystick up
[h] Right joystick down
[g] Right joystick left
[l] Right joystick right
[z] Right joystick fire button
As you will note there is no frontend... this will arrive in due course as will
sound support. However the emulator is configurable via the stellavcs file in
the !Stella directory. Please read the Stella/txt document for information.
There are 2 extra variables in the Acorn distribution :
Display.SWidth
Display.SHeight
These will (in future) allow you to set resolution for the system and also allow
you to have different resolutions for each game. Currently the resolution is
fixed at 320 by 256.
*FAQ*
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Why are my Roms images not working ?
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Try downloading them again. If there is still no joy. Send the image to
Bradford Mott and see if he can find a reason.
Where's the sound ?
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This is being worked on... This will arrive at some point I am sorting out
how to do it nicely.
Do I need a special screen mode ?
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Nope the emulator runs happily in a 320 by 256 mode as the screen fits nicely.
Will you get it to run in the desktop ?
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This will be coming *eventually*!
Will you be porting any other emulators ?
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Yes!!
COMMENTS
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Any comments about the Acorn specific parts and please no inane emails giving
me ways of making money etc... just useful constructive stuff please
email : david@lizjay.demon.co.uk (HOME)
davidm@argonaut.com (WORK)
Website : http://www.lizjay.demon.co.uk/david