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                 Release 3.0 for Linux, Mac OSX and Windows
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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 is a multi-platform Atari 2600 VCS emulator.  It allows you to play
all of your favorite Atari 2600 games again!  Stella was originally
developed for Linux by Bradford W. Mott, however, it has been ported to a
number of other platforms.

This is the 3.0 release of Stella for Linux, Mac OSX and Windows.  The
distributions currently available are:

  * Binary installer (exe) for Windows 32-bit :
      Stella-3.0-win32.exe

  * Binary installer (exe) for Windows 64-bit :
      Stella-3.0-x64.exe

  * Binary zip for Windows, containing 32 and 64-bit versions :
      Stella-3.0-windows.zip

  * Binary distribution for Mac OSX :
      StellaOSX3.0.dmg

  * Binary distribution in 32-bit Ubuntu DEB format :
      stella_3.0-1_i386.deb

  * Binary distribution in 64-bit Ubuntu DEB format :
      stella_3.0-1_amd64.deb

  * Binary distribution in 32-bit Mandriva RPM format :
      stella-3.0-1.i586.rpm

  * Source code distribution for all platforms :
      stella-3.0-src.tar.gz

PLEASE DO NOT WRITE ASKING FOR ROM IMAGES TO USE WITH STELLA! ALL SUCH
REQUESTS WILL BE IGNORED!


Distribution Site
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The Stella distributions can be obtained from the Stella Website at:

  http://stella.sourceforge.net