Many people have helped in some capacity with Stella development over the years. Some provided technical help while others have offered suggestions and praise, or donated hardware to help the project. The Stella Team is grateful for all the help and support it has received over the years. The following is a (likely incomplete) list of the people who have played a part in bringing Stella to you:
| Main Developers | |
|---|---|
| Bradford W. Mott (retired) (http://www.bradfordmott.com) |
Original author and creator of Stella. The inspiration for the entire project, it goes without saying that without Brad, there would be no Stella project at all. |
| Stephen Anthony (http://minbar.org) |
Ported Stella 1.1 to SDL. Added extra command line options to X11/SDL versions. Added INI file support, faster startup, snapshot support, and pause functionality to core. Converted Stella 1.1 manual to HTML. Ported codebase to SDL for Windows/macOS. Added OpenGL support and Stelladaptor/2600-daptor support. Current maintainer for the Linux, macOS and Windows versions, and main developer testing Linux builds. |
| Thomas Jentzsch | Emulation core development, jack-of-all-trades. Helps with issues all across the codebase, including emulation fixes, UI themes and all things UI-related, etc. Currently the main developer testing Windows builds. |
| Christian Speckner (https://github.com/6502ts/6502.ts) |
Provided a completely new TIA core in Stella 5.0 and TIA sound core in 6.0 (based on work by Chris Brenner), and helped perfect nearly all other aspects of emulation. Currently the main developer testing macOS builds. |
| Eckhard Stolberg (retired) (http://home.arcor.de/estolberg) |
Provided a description of the TIA bug that produces the star field effect in Cosmic Ark, provided the PAL television palette, and participated in a helpful discussion on understanding the TIA's RESPx multi-sprite trick. Provided the Commavid, Megaboy, 4A50 and X07 support for Stella as well as some improved Supercharger BIOS code. |
| Brian Watson (retired) | Helped with getting the illegal CPU instruction support working with Stella. Brian also submitted a number of other changes, such as debugger support, which have been finally integrated into the 2.0 release of Stella. Without a doubt, there would be no debugger support in Stella if not for the tireless work of Brian. |
| Special Thanks | |
| Stephen Ahrens (aka 'Amstari') | Generously donated a PAL CompuMate to help with cassette load/save functionality. |
| Ian Bogost and the Georgia Tech Atari Team (CRT Simulation Project) |
Contributed code for the 'CRT simulation' OpenGL filters. The Winter 2009
team members are Edward Booth, Michael Cook, Justin Dobbs, William Rowland
and Prince Yang. Also contributed Blargg filtering code, a version of which was integrated into Stella 3.7. |
| Chris Brenner (aka 'crispy') | Generously donated C code from his FPGA project that accurately models the TIA sound circuitry, which has been adapted for use in Stella 6.0 by Christian Speckner. |
| Andrew Davie and Thomas Jentzsch (Boulder Dash) |
Generously donated a Boulder Dash cartridge, and specifically mentioned Stella in its manual. |
| Robin Edwards | Generously donated a UnoCart flash cartridge. |
| Tom Hafner (http://2600-daptor.com) |
Generously donated a 2600-daptor, 2600-daptor II and BoosterGrip controllers, as well as sample code to help with development. Also donated a very generous monetary contribution. |
| Richard Hutchinson | Generously donated an AtariVox USB adaptor to help with AVox development. |
| Thomas Jentzsch | Provided updated NTSC palette, many bug reports and debugger feedback.
Also generously donated a Star Castle Arcade cartridge. |
| Andrew Kator (http://www.katorlegaz.com) |
Provided PHP and CSS code for a major update to the Stella website, as well as a monetary contribution. |
| Richard Kennehan | Generously donated Atari light-sixer, various controllers, and several games to help in testing ROMs on a real system. |
| Alexandre Liduario | Generously donated Atari PAL-M console to help in testing ROMs on a real system. |
| minimoose | Donated a very generous monetary contribution. Thanks for the support! |
| Tifany Oslin | Generously donated a 7800 console with video mod and several games, and also several monetary contributions. Thanks for the support! |
| Fred X. Quimby (aka 'batari') (Batari Basic) |
Generously donated several Melody and Harmony Cartridges to help with development, and also donated a collectors edition of the Harmony Cart (release version including the cart, CD, SD card, etc). |
| James Randall (aka 'toymailman') | Generously donated a 7800 console and several games and manuals to help with development. |
| Darrell Spice Jr. (http://spiceware.org) |
Author of the OS/2 version of Stella. Also generously donated Medieval Mayhem, Space Rocks, Stay Frosty 2 and Stella's Stocking cartridges. |
| D. Scott Williamson (Star Castle 2600) |
Generously donated a copy of Star Castle 2600 CIB, and (as promised on the Kickstarter webpage) a very generous portion of the CD proceeds. Also specifically mentioned Stella in its manual. Thanks for all the support! |
| Albert Yarusso (http://atariage.com) |
Provided helpful feedback for the MacOSX port, and generously donated hardware and monetary contributions over the years. |
| Stella-thon 2019 | Many thanks to the organizers and all the contributors for a HUGE donation amount |
| ZeroPage Homebrew (Hosts/organizers) |
James Earl O'Brien, Aerlan, Darcy and Tanya O'Brien. Huge thanks to James and the gang, without whom this whole fundraiser would never have happened. I don't know how much work went into organizing this, but I can guess it was a LOT! Not to mention holding out for 12 hours (I could only last 8 myself). |
| Fundraiser interviews | Thomas Jentzsch (@Thomas Jentzsch), John Champeau (@johnnywc), Darrell Spice Jr. (@SpiceWare),
Dan Kitchen (@TikiDan), Stephen Anthony (Stella) (@stephena), Nathan Strum (@Nathan Strum). Thanks for all the interesting interviews. It was great hearing 'war stories', and about how Stella helps developers to make great games. |
| Items donationed for auction |
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| Auction winners | Anonymous (3), Gray Defender, Richard Grounds (@Ground_Trooper), Jason Kostempski, socrates63, Peter Steriotis (repentless2600.com), Tim Taylor. HUGE thanks for the bids. The amounts went way higher than anyone expected! |
| GoFundMe contributors | Anonymous, Neil Bockus, John Champeau, David Dalton, Drew Fillingame, David Flemming, David Gratt, Richard Grounds, Richard Ivey, Dion Olsthoorn, Steven Ramirez, Matthew Smith, Nathan Strum. HUGE thanks for the contributions. We met the fundraiser goal! |
| Contributors | |
| Anonymous | Donated different items over the years, but wish to remain anonymous and/or didn't get back to me with contact info (thanks for your support, even though nobody will know who you are :)) |
| 8-Bit Classics (http://www.8bitclassics.com) |
Offered a very good price on a Commodore 128D |
| Albert | Donated a monetary contribution |
| Eugenio "TrekMD" Angueira (plus.google.com/107727417793046863603) |
Donated several 7800 games in appreciation of the project |
| Ant (http://aqfl.net) |
Provided much feedback and testing which eventually led to a fix for the infamous ATI OpenGL 'red screen' issue |
| ArgentStar | Donated a monetary contribution |
| David Aspell | Ported release 0.7 of Stella to Java |
| Atari 2600 Game by Game Podcast (http://2600gamebygamepodcast.blogspot.com) |
Donated a monetary contribution |
| Jason Avrett | Donated a monetary contribution |
| Rob Bairos | Donated a monetary contribution |
| Christopher Bennett | Helped discover a Superchanger emulation bug in release 1.0 of Stella |
| Alexander Bilstein | Provided "A Brief History of the Atari 2600" for this manual |
| Black Umbrella Design | Donated a monetary contribution |
| Dan Boris | Provided technical information on the Supercharger |
| Pat Brady | Donated a monetary contribution |
| Jared Breland | Donated a monetary contribution |
| Robert Buchanan | Donated a monetary contribution |
| "Uncle" Carmine (http://www.carmine.com) |
Donated several 2600 games and manuals to help with development |
| Piero Cavina | Allowed "Oystron" to be included in the Stella distribution |
| James (ZeroPage Homebrew) (http://www.zeropagehomebrew.com) |
Donated a monetary contribution |
| John W. Champeau, Champ Games | Donated a monetary contribution |
| Dan Coker | Donated a monetary contribution |
| Bob Colbert | Allowed "Okie Dokie" to be included in the Stella distribution |
| Joe D'Andrea | Author of the IRIX port of Stella until release 1.2 |
| Daniel Delorme | Donated a monetary contribution |
| T. Drobot | Donated a monetary contribution |
| Joe Durnavich | Donated a monetary contribution |
| Electronic Sentimentalities | Donated a "7800 AV Mod Board" |
| Sascha Eversmann | Donated several monetary contributions |
| Renato Ferreira | Provided code to support private colormaps under Unix |
| Joe Fournell | Donated a monetary contribution |
| Stephan Freudenreich (http://www.console-corner.de) |
Donated a monetary contribution |
| Ron Fries | Author of the awesome TIA Sound library |
| Óscar Toledo G (http://nanochess.org) |
Donated a monetary contribution |
| Aaron Giles | Author of the Power Macintosh version of Stella until release 1.1 |
| Goldenegg (on AtariAge) | Donated a monetary contribution, and provided feedback/testing for OSX versions |
| David Gratt | Donated a generous monetary contribution |
| Mark Grebe (http://www.atarimac.com) |
Author of the Macintosh OSX version of Stella from releases 1.4 to 2.4; helped with Stelladaptor support |
| Sean Green (Bliss-Box) (http://bliss-box.net) |
Donated a Bliss-Box adaptor to help with development |
| Darryl Guenther (20th St Arcade) |
Donated a monetary contribution |
| Mark Hahn | Allowed "Elk Attack" to be included in the Stella distribution and provided help with the TIA HMOVE blank bug |
| Ulrik Hansen | Donated a monetary contribution |
| Pitfall Harry | Donated a monetary contribution |
| Alex Herbert | Provided much information on AtariVox and SaveKey functionality |
| Michael Hewitt | Donated a monetary contribution |
| Kevin Horton | Author of the definitive Atari 2600 bank-switching document |
| jgkspsx | Donated a monetary contribution |
| Michael Jo | Donated a monetary contribution |
| Ryan M. Johnson | Donated a monetary contribution |
| Erik Kovach | Author of the property file for release 0.7, 1.0, 1.1, and 1.2 of Stella; donated a generous contribution |
| Lance Linimon | Donated a monetary contribution |
| Matthew Logue (Matalog) | Donated a monetary contribution |
| Ashley Rose Love | Donated a monetary contribution |
| Austin Mackert | Donated a monetary contribution |
| Sandro de Oliveira Maia | Donated several monetary contributions, and provided words of support |
| Donald Maley | Donated a monetary contribution to help with CompuMate development |
| Craig Maloney (https://decafbad.net) |
Donated a monetary contribution |
| Daniel Marks | Provided improved keyboard joystick support for Stella release 0.1 |
| Ralf Matz | Donated a monetary contribution |
| James Mcclain | Provided patches for the 1.2 release to get Stella to compile with GCC 3.0 |
| Cam McCormack | Donated a monetary contribution |
| David McEwen | Author of the Acorn version of Stella |
| John Mikula (Heavy Horse Games) |
Donated a monetary contribution |
| Jeff Miller | Author of the Windows version of Stella until release 1.2 |
| Nick Montfort and Ian Bogost (Racing the Beam) |
Specifically mentioned Stella in their book |
| Dan Mowczan | Provided a Supercharger to help with Stella's development |
| Kostas Nakos | Author/maintainer of the WinCE version of Stella from releases 2.0 to 2.3.5 |
| Matt Nicholson | Donated several 2600 CIB games and Atari 800 items |
| Eric Nikolaisen | Donated a monetary contribution |
| Jack Nutting | Author of the OpenStep version of Stella |
| Omegamatrix | Provided test ROMs which led to more accurate emulation for SWCHx/SWxCNT and RIOT behaviour, and for 'illegal' TIA reads |
| Owen (loltpily21) | Donated a monetary contribution |
| Tony P | Donated a monetary contribution |
| Chris Papademetrious | Donated a monetary contribution |
| John Payson | Provided EEPROM emulation code for AtariVox and SaveKey support |
| Wilbert Pol | Provided many ideas and some sample algorithms for greatly improving 'illegal HMOVE' emulation |
| Manuel Polik | Author of the Windows version of Stella (Cyberstella) starting with the 1.2 release until its retirement |
| Jim Pragit | Author of the "Game Menu" emulator game shell |
| David Racette-Campbell | Donated a monetary contribution |
| Brent Robbins (aka 'Schizophretard') | Donated a very generous monetary contribution :) |
| [APG] RoboCop | Donated a monetary contribution |
| Rog3037 | Donated a monetary contribution |
| Jasen Rogers | Donated a monetary contribution |
| RomHunter (RomHunter ROMs) |
Provides an updated database of ROM information on a regular basis |
| John Saeger | Participated in a helpful discussion on understanding the TIA's RESPx multi-sprite trick |
| Chris Salomon | Provided information and code to help implement Supercharger support |
| Filippo Santellocco (http://www.santellocco.com/atari) |
Donated a monetary contribution, and mentioned Stella in his homebrew game manual |
| Glenn Saunders | Donated a Supercharger to help with Stella's development |
| Jason Scott | Organizer of the property file archive for early versions of Stella |
| scottlinux | Donated a monetary contribution |
| Seagtgruff | Provided test ROMs which finally fixed all remaining issues with ADC/SBC opcode decimal mode emulation |
| David Shaw | Provided make targets for the BSDI platform |
| Raul Silva | Helped with design and graphics for an early version of the Stella web site |
| James Smith | Donated a monetary contribution |
| Chris Snell | Maintained a mirror of the Stella FTP site |
| Spacedueler (on AtariAge) | Donated several homemade 'spinners' to help with testing the mouse "specific axis" mode |
| Bruno STEUX (aka 'bsteux') (https://github.com/steux/cc2600) |
Donated a monetary contribution |
| John Stiles | Maintained the Macintosh version of Stella until release 1.2 |
| Matthew Stroup | Author of the Amiga version of Stella |
| Nathan Strum | Donated several monetary contributions |
| Richard Summers | Donated a monetary contribution |
| Joel Sutton | Author of the FreeBSD version of Stella |
| thegoldenband and toiletunes (on AtariAge) | The former for creating a cartridge auction and donating the proceeds, and the latter for winning the auction |
| Greg Troutman | Allowed "This Planet Sucks" to be included in the Stella distribution |
| Robert Tuccitto | Provided valuable bugtesting and feedback which finally helped in fixing a long-standing lockup which occurred after Stella has been running for 71 minutes, and donated a monetary contribution. |
| Ultimate Patches | Donated a monetary contribution |
| Andrew V2000 | Donated a monetary contribution |
| Curt Vendel | Provided schematics of the TIA which are being used to improve the TIA emulation. |
| David Voswinkel | Maintainer of the PSP version of Stella starting with the 2.0 release until release 2.2 |
| Keith Wilkins | Maintained the DOS version of Stella until release 0.7 |
| Sheldon Williams | Donated several trakball controllers to help improve emulation in this area |
| illya Wilson (aka 'Pacmanred') | Donated a monetary contribution |
| Jeff Wisnia | Provided technical data sheet for the 6532 RIOT chip |
| Gareth Woodham | Donated a monetary contribution |
| Mauricio XV | Donated a monetary contribution |
| Alex Zaballa | Maintainer of the GP2X version of Stella from releases 2.1 to 2.3.5 |
