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For many years, the Atari 2600 reigned supreme as the most popular game console on the market.
Years later, Ataris stranglehold on the market would dissipate as the Nintendo Entertainment System redefined 8-bit gaming, but die-hard fans and collectors still continue to support the Atari.
One would think that the weak Atari 2600 should be simple to emulate, because of its primitive architecture.
It is very difficult to write a efficient and working emulator because the Atari programmers used many devious tricks to make such an early machine to function.

Enhancements
- Added CRT simulation effects as described in the AtariAge posting
- CRT emulation for Stella. For now, this requires OpenGL 2.0 or
- greater with support for GLSL (GL Shading Language). This code
- will be expanded on and optimized in future releases.
- Adding editing of extended RAM in the debugger RAM UI. The RAM
- spreadsheet now shows the entire address space of RAM in the
- system, in 128 byte increments. The first bank shown is zero-page,
- with the others following in consecutive order. The UI takes care
- of read vs. write port differences, so you dont have to worry
- about the offsets. For now, all SuperChip based ROMs (EFSC, F4SC,
- F6SC, F8SC) as well as 3E, CV, E7 and FASC are supported.
- All ROMs which include SC extended RAM will now have memory erased if
- you attempt to read from the write port. Related to this,
- entering/exiting the debugger will no longer erase the extended RAM.
- Patching of ROM for bankswitch types 0840, SB, UA and X07 is now
- implemented, but hasnt been extensively tested.
- Visual improvements to the CPU register UI in the debugger; the
- SP/A/X/Y registers now have separate decimal and binary views.
- Tweaked paddle control so that all positions are reachable in game
- 4 of Activision Casino in both NTSC and PAL versions.
- SuperCharger/AR ROMs now start with a random value in the CPU
- accumulator. This should fix issues with Dragonstomper always
- starting in exactly the same state.
- Auto-detection for 3F bankswitching improved; several ROMs
- previously detected as F8 now work correctly.
- Updated internal ROM properties database to ROM-Hunter version 5
- (thanks go to RomHunter for his tireless research in this area).
- Added -exitlauncher commandline argument and associated UI item,
- to specify what happens when you exit a ROM. Normally, exiting a
- ROM brings up the ROM launcher, but this can be disabled for those
- using an external frontend (in which case exiting a ROM also exits
- from Stella).
- Re-added -fastscbios commandline argument, and added an associated
- UI item. When enabled, the SuperCharger load bars are now completely
- removed (and not just sped up as in previous releases).
- The -listrominfo commandline argument now shows all ROM
- information built in to the internal database, taking into account
- any information in personal stella.pro files.

gbsplay emulates the sound hardware of the Nintendo Gameboy. It is able to play the sounds from a Gameboy module dump (.GBS format) over /dev/dsp and NAS.
Included is an XMMS input plugin, a tool to display information about a .GBS file, and a demo song.
gbsplay is written in C and runs on a variety of platforms: Mac OS X, Linux, FreeBSD, and Cygwin have been reported to work so far.

Enhancements
Bugfixes:
- remove possible garbage sounds on songchange
Removals:
gbsxmms:
- As it is currently broken and propably wont be fixed soon, building of the XMMS plugin is now disabled by default. If you want to try to fix it, use configure --with-xmmsplugin
Enhancements:
gbsplay:
- more accurate handling of channel 3 and master volume
- add MIDI plugout
contrib:
- clarify license of gbs2ogg.sh (its GPLed)
- add (unfinished) bash completion script for gbsplay and gbsinfo
build process:
- installation of contrib scripts is optional
- gbsplay test run is optional
- remove bashishms from configure script

To understand POWDER, you should first understand roguelikes. "Roguelike" is a term applied to a wide variety of games which share a common inspiration from the game Rogue.
A non-exhaustive list of such games would be: ADOM, Nethack, Crawl, Diablo (I & II), Moria, and Angband. Apologies to the many excellent roguelikes not listed.
What characterizes these games? The exact specifications are a matter of debate but these are a few of them:
- Tactical play. The unit of action is based on the individual adventurer. The game is not twitch oriented (like Quake, rewarding reflexes & well trained actions) nor is it strategy oriented (like Civilizations or Warcraft, requiring working on the large picture)
- Based in Hack and Slash. A roguelike isnt primarily about plot development or telling a story. It is about killing things and acquiring treasure.
- Random games. A roguelike is a dungeon crawler where no two games are the same. The maps are different, the items are different, there are no guaranteed win paths.
- Permadeath. You die, that is it. No restoring a savegame. Good roguelikes delete your save game after loading them. This is compensated by the replayability of the game.
- Complex interactions of properties. While the commands for a roguelike are simple, the potential interactions are pretty complicated. My favourite example is equipping a silver ring as a weapon in order to damage a creature vulnerable to silver, but not ones other weapons. [Editor: This matches the Hack branch of the roguelike tree, not the Angband branch]
- Steam rolling monsters. If a critter is in your way, and weak, you shouldnt even notice it is there.
For more information about roguelikes there is the Rogue Basin, a Wiki documenting this genre, and the Temple of the Roguelike, a newsite tracking developments in the field.
Having defined Roguelike, POWDER is easy to describe: A Roguelike designed for the Gameboy Advance and Nintendo DS.
How to Win
Descend into the depths of the dungeon until you reach the foul daemon known as "He who the author cannot spell consistently", or, Baezlbub. When you have slain Baezlbub in heroic combat, or, if Baezlbub dies in any way, retrieve his black heart and bring it to the surface world.
You may then go the nearest newsgroup such as rec.games.roguelike.misc, and post YAAP (Yet Another Ascension Post).

Enhancements
- Two new exciting changes in this release. First we have a new spell: Animate Forest, for those who were wondering what the point of the Grow Forest spell was. Second we have the run mode which lets you auto-follow corridors, hopefully cutting your keystrokes substantially.
- Daemon now has the a in the summon daemon spell description. (FEG)
- If a daemon decides not to be summoned, an a is put in the daemons name.
- PSP character dumps should now say PSP Version rather than Linux version. (Dave Hong)
- If you were in the habit of quitting without saving, the random number seed would keep being the same between games, resulting in very similar games. For those keeping track, yes, this was caused by my naive attempts to make things *more* random. (Erik Spigel)
- If you manually climb a ladder while autoprompt is enabled you no longer are immediately prompted to climb back up the ladder when you get to the other side.
- New Run command, r for SDL users, which will cause you to run in that direction until something interesting happens. You will turn corners if there is only one way to do so. You can interrupt by hitting a key / pressing a button, useful if you find yourself running a closed loop. As the name implies, this is not meant to be some super safe way to explore the map. (PBP)
- Vi keys now support the Ctrl modifier to turn them into safe walk (David Damerell, Cuboidz)
- New spell: Animate Forest (Adam Boyd)
- When level teleporting via Wishing, do not start on same square as a monster.
- Diminishing returns on piety gains when gods already like you.
- List of items in character dump should now match order of list in inventory. (Meddyan, Cuboidz)
- Soul Suck spell no longer grants caster spells or skills that are present only due to items such as staves. (Eilu)
- Creatures that die underground should no longer have their corpse and items float to the surface. (Meddyan)
- Properly assign guilt to party responsibly for filling holes with boulders. (Meddyan)
- Properly credit kills for creatures that die from suffocation from a boulder you place. (Meddyan)
- The support programs now include cstring.h so should compile with the latest gcc. (Joe B)
- Fixed the #define guard in stdafx.h (Malte Helmert)

• Audio recording no longer stops when emulator is switched to background, provided that the option to keep emulating in background is on. Recording will still stop if the emulator does.
• Brushed metal mode is now off by default on new installs, as well as existing installs where users press the Default button.
• Fixed an obscure endian bug that resulted in odd window sizes when an emulator preferences file was moved between PowerPC and Intel.
• Fixed several minor visual glitches in the Preferences dialog box.
• Modified the behaviour of the Quick Freeze function, so that the last ten quick freezes for each game are kept in ~/Library/Application Support/Bannister/(emulator name)/Saved States. You can restore these at any time using the Defrost menu command. Added code to stop the quick freeze and quick defrost keys from being repeated. Thanks to David McCabe for the suggestion.
• Replaced custom about box with standard HIAboutBox. Removed option to pause execution when about box is open.