While doing some research on my Atari 2600, I came to IFA 1981. It was that exhibition were I first played a game of Asteroids on the Atari 2600. And a few weeks or (months?) later I bought them both.
On the very same show, I accidentally stepped by a booth were I watched something completely new to me too. At that time I did not know where this came from, but a few years later I found out.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_pqvjfW9yHo&feature=player_detailpage
What I had watched was
Question: What do you get when you combine interleaved flicker for mixing colors with horizontal scrolling? See attachment! (scrolling left every 2nd, right every 3rd frame)
ParaTest3.bin
When reading some stuff about one of my old C64 favorites "The Sentinel", I wondered if something similar would be possible for the 2600. Since 3D was sure impossible it had to be in 2D. Attached is a very preliminary result.You now watch the game top-down, your own position is at the bottom of the screen. Your sight is limited but you will be(!) able to rotate in 90° (maybe 45°) degree steps. For the heights, various colors are used, starting with dark magenta, then blue, cyan, green, yellow, o
Last Wednesday morning I smelled some burned rubber in the kitchen. But I was unable to detect the origin. A few minutes later, my whole flat lost power. Since all my fuses where on, I thought about a power loss in the building. But the light outside my building was OK. So I informed my landlord who send an electrician pretty immediately. Meanwhile my power had come back (and the smell too). The electrician checked my fuse box and electric meter and found... nothing! But he identified the orig
After participating in 2015 myself and therefore starting to watch it for the first time, the Revision demoparty has become a fixed date in my schedule. So I did spend Eastern watching the Revision 2018 via Twitch live stream (and YouTube for the too late events). And it was a blast again! Not all compos, but most of them. Besides the Oldschool compos, I mostly liked the ones where size is limited. If you want to watch any compo relive, go here. Please note that the entries are ordered by t
I realized that there is no place where people can download my ROMs. So I decided I should use my blog to provide them.
There will be ROMs of all my homebrews. And maybe I will add some demo or unfinished stuff later too.
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