JStella - Bazzie Bizzle.com

JStella is a Java-based Atari 2600 VCS emulator. It allows one to play old Atari 2600 games in an operating system independent manner. It also supports web page based applets. Its emulation core is based on Stella-Atari 2600 Emulator.

JStella is an open-source Atari 2600 emulator that is programmed in Java, and thus can be played on most major operating systems (Windows, Mac, Linux, etc).

Currently, there are 2 different ways of running JStella.

It can be directly from the JAR file.
It can be run as a Java Applet on a web page.

- Taken from the JStella homepage and/or documentation
- Some excerpts edited for grammar, length, and clarity

As you can see below JStella is currently at version 0.95, however we could only find source code for version 0.75. If you have the source for the most current version or know where to find it, please contact us.

- Important notes from the Bazzie Bizzle.com staff

Filename	Version	Author*	Size	Updated				Help Mouse over any icon below for a short description of what each item means.
`jstella_0_95.jar`	0.95	Bradford W. Mott	368.436 kb	04/27/2008	.jar File A JAR archive contains one or more files that have been compressed (same compression as ZIP files) to reduce file size or stored as-is and then appended with the .jar extension, however unlike most archive... click for more	Cross-Platform Applications that are designed to run on multiple operating systems or platforms are often refered to as cross-platform or multi-platform. They're two different types of cross-platform software, those requ... click for more	Checksum The following are the Md5 and SHA1 hashes of this file. MD5: `c565b25f0259223d51a5b7e8057609b6` SHA1: `5dc712c2e748bbc29b501c85cdb90c8eb6b790af`	Download Click here to download your file. Please be patient as it may take 3-5 seconds to initiate the file transfer.
`jstella_src_0_75.zip`	0.75	Bradford W. Mott	210.205 kb	09/06/2007	.zip File A zip archive contains one or more files that have been compressed to reduce file size or stored as-is and then appended with the .zip extension. This data compression and archive format was originally cre... click for more	Cross-Platform Applications that are designed to run on multiple operating systems or platforms are often refered to as cross-platform or multi-platform. They're two different types of cross-platform software, those requ... click for more	Checksum The following are the Md5 and SHA1 hashes of this file. MD5: `25836aa63b03431713deb8d000a15ab6` SHA1: `5d73bfd7afd880465ecc574072d042ab32c33098`	Download Click here to download your file. Please be patient as it may take 3-5 seconds to initiate the file transfer.

* Author refers to the current or last maintainer of the distribution; see the emulator's documentation or homepage for full credits. Click the author's name to send them an email (if provided) or look for a alternative contact option on the emulator's homepage.

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Posted by: Jay March, 02, 2009, 06:59:16 pm

JStella brings all the quality of Stella into your favorite web browser! If you want to let people play Atari 2600 ROMs on your website, this is the perfect emulator for you, but nothing stops you from downloading it and using it to play games on your local machine either. It does require the ROM to be named "myROM.bin" though, so it may not be very practical. However, in the quite unlikely scenario that your operating system isn't supported by it's own Stella port, but it does have Java.... it may be a viable option. Speed and compatibility seem to be good, although not quite as good as the original Stella.

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