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To Do List - September 2009
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If you would like to contribute to Stella's development then find something

on the list below and send email to Bradford Mott at bwmott@acm.org or
Stephen Anthony at stephena@users.sourceforge.net.

* Step-debug through disassembled zero-page and SC code.

* Either Support Distella as frontend or integrate a 6507 Disassembler.

* TIA infrastructure: further improve 'illegal' HMOVE emulation to fix

problems in several homebrew ROMs.

* TIA infrastructure: improve emulation of writes to NUSIZx while

graphics are currently being drawn.

* Look into adding Blargg NTSC filtering (perhaps as a GLSL program).

* TIA infrastructure: add emulation of RSYNC instruction.

* Add better support for 'floating' TIA reads as described here:

http://www.atariage.com/forums/index.php?
s=&showtopic=143363&view=findpost&p=1762433

* Improve debugger support for remaining cartridges with dedicated RAM,

and add source-level debugging

* Make the prompt tab in the debugger accept case-insensitive commands.

* Fix bank going over 255 (when accessing RAM) for 3E in the debugger
RomWidget view.

* Fix patching of ROM in disassembler so that if patching fails, the view

is properly updated.

* Research starting bank for 8K/F8 ROMs. Probably default should be 0

instead of 1.

* Add commandline argument to randomly generate startup bank for all ROMs
bigger than 4K. Shouldn't make a difference for all 'well-designed'
ROMS, but will pick up on errors when a ROM doesn't start from every
bank.

* Make font size be selectable for the stats info area (in TIA) and
in-game UI.

* More work to the ROM launcher, including at least the following:

 (1) Shortcut key where selecting the first few letters jumps to a
directory named that way. Basically the same as is currently
done for ROMs.

(2) Fix aliases not being followed correctly in the OSX port
(although I suspect this isn't just an OSX issue).

(3) Add tabs to snapshot view; add cartridge snapshots as well.

* More support for copy and paste.

* Add support for uncommon controllers (KidVid, Lightgun, etc).

* Fix "Tron Man Picture Cart" (32K Tigervision bankswitching) issue.

* Possible 'trace mode' in debugger (generate a file containing all

internal state).

* Automatic statesave at beginning of each frame (including state of

controllers and console switches), with the ability to 'roll back' to
a previous state/frame.

* RewindManager to set up how often to save a state, and for how long
(debugger would be once per frame, normal probably once per second).

* Extra SECAM 'quirks' (see Stella 2.4.1 release thread on AtariAge).

* Improve speed of Pitfall2 emulation.

* Add auto-detection for all remaining bankswitch types.

* Either Support DASM as frontend or integrate a 6507 Assembler.

* AVI/MPEG export.

* Client/Server networked play for up to 4 Computers via LAN/Internet.

* Find people to handle new ports, and try to more actively recruit
people into the Stella project.