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harrysintonen@infosec.exchange

Harry Sintonen

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oldskool democompo just had the most mind blowing entry I've seen in a very long time: Atari VCS/2600 demo "Triplet" by Otomata Labs -

Revision video stream recording: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=enYdR-rfLc0&t=1107s

Live recording by AnnoyedArt1256: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qkA8PhxL2q8

Demozoo: https://demozoo.org/productions/389801/

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harrysintonen@infosec.exchange

Harry Sintonen

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Atari 2600 has 128 bytes of memory and no graphics framebuffer. The video has to be generated by racing the beam, real time, while also dealing with the actual effect itself you want to render.

Just displaying a static oomplex image on screen is extremely difficult. Heck, EVERYTHING is extremely difficult.

28c3: The Atari 2600 Video Computer System: The Ultimate Talk:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qvpwf50a48E

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hrw@society.oftrolls.com

Marcin Juszkiewicz 🙃

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@harrysintonen handling the screen is 75% of cpu time.

And you have to generate exact amount of lines if you want to have colours. Miss by one line and all is greyscale.

I did joke 8k intro for VCS once. In BASIC. Never again.

https://marcin.juszkiewicz.com.pl/2019/09/03/my-first-8k-intro/

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pavel

Pavel Machek

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@harrysintonen I guess easy way to "program" atari 2600 is to insert RAM / ROM into the cartridge slot... and make your life easy.

I guess best way would be to insert Pi Pico and then use 2600 for output only :-).
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