14

a surprisingly good Atari 2600 demo by XAYAX, originally presented at Revision 2014

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[-] bitofhope@awful.systems 3 points 1 year ago

Reminds me of one of my all-time favorites: Snorpung's Oh! (Video, Another on real hardware)^1^

Of course, the Atari 2600 (née VCS) makes even the venerable DMG look like a spaceship^2^. The sound chip can't even reproduce a full 12-tone equal temperament scale without complicated tricks and the base box has 128 bytes of RAM available. One eighth of a kibibyte. I probably know people who can hold more than that in their head while doing mental math.

Compare the Bad Apple port on the 2600's close relative, the 800 series 8-bit micro to see what fully tricked-out $1000 box from 1979 can do compared to the humble VCS, a $190 box from 1977.

Kind of considering posting a Bad Apple demo megathread. That's a fun rabbit hole to dive into, but I'm not sure if there's audience here that's interested yet doesn't already know all about it.

1: I love all Snorpung's Game Boy demos, but this old one is the one that made me fall in love with the DMG.

2: Indeed, the DMG features a 4 MHz CPU and 8K working RAM, roughly double the Apollo guidance computer's 2 MHz 15-bit CPU and two Kwords of RAM.

[-] self@awful.systems 3 points 1 year ago

Kind of considering posting a Bad Apple demo megathread. That’s a fun rabbit hole to dive into, but I’m not sure if there’s audience here that’s interested yet doesn’t already know all about it.

fuck yes I’m down

this post was submitted on 17 Sep 2023
14 points (100.0% liked)

NotAwfulTech

364 readers
1 users here now

a community for posting cool tech news you don’t want to sneer at

non-awfulness of tech is not required or else we wouldn’t have any posts

founded 1 year ago
MODERATORS