StellaAI
August 13th, 2009
StellaAI was the first Atari emulator with extensions to facilitate development of AI agents. Along with allowing seamless reading of the graphics, RAM, and game controls, there was also specialized tools for detecting objects, scripting, and C/Java bridges.
This projected was motivated by the Pitfal Project and later there was some work with Marc Lanctot to integrate StellaAI with RL-Glue. Do the intense C/C++ code, people of the Reinforcement community opted for a simpler Java Atari emulator rendering this project not needed.
In 2009 IEEE created a competition with Infinite Mario based very closely to this project, however it is much simpler than what StellaAI offered. (Objects are given and must not be detected).