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demoscene: Bang! for the Atari 2600 (youtu.be)

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

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[–] raktheundead@fedia.io 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I'm still struggling through Z80 assembly language myself with an ultimate aim of programming for the Master System and then the Mega Drive using SGDK. But the demoscene regularly delves into the deep magic techniques in getting things done. And programming for the 2600 at the best of times was a whole different beast because of the lack of a framebuffer.

[–] self@awful.systems 4 points 1 year ago

I’m planning a whole development environment for my Amiga, but I know that that’s easy mode compared with the 2600, a device whose only concept of timing is NOP, a device which just spews digitized pixels onto scanlines regardless of common sense or decency