Stella is written in the C++ programming language and thus is highly portable. Mott and was originally known as Stella 96. Stella was originally written in 1996 by Bradford W. It is open source, and runs on most major modern platforms including Windows, Mac OS X, Linux, Windows CE/Mobile, Sega Dreamcast, and GP2X. Stella is an emulator for the Atari 2600 game console. Caption = Macintosh GUI of the Stella emulator