2600 is 8bit?

[2600 is 8bit?]

Lumpbucket,

Do you have an A3000 or what? Just curious.

 

I have a heavily upgraded Amiga 4000 (its in a tower with 5 PCI slots and 7 Zorro III slots, Voodoo 3 3000, 24bit 96KHz Zorro II soundcard, 50Mhz 68060, 90Mb RAM, etc. etc. Click the link in my sig for a realtime generated system-stats page

 

To stay on topic, the 2600 is a rare type of 8-bit, because most of what you're playing resides in the ROMs that you plug in. The 2600's actual guts were, according to everything I've heard, designed to do nothing more than move objects around and detect collisions.

 

The Atari 2600 is very simple in terms of what it can do, but quite complicated in how you get it to do it. Jay Miner and the rest of the team did a good job of making an affordable system that is capable of playing many games with the tech that was available at the time...

[Homebrew PAL carts]

check...

 

 

 

http://www.s-direktnet.de/homepages/k_nadj/a7800.html

 

 

 

my 7800 homebrew incl. sources

 

 

 

hve

 

Cool thanks ! I notice you author your webpage under AmigaOS... will you be interested in my Amiga tools for Atari 7800 development? I'm hoping to put together a fairly comprehensive SDK. DASM for the Amiga is pretty old, but i've written several 6502 assemblers and monitors in the past, so if it doesn't do enough i'll probably modify one of those...

[Fun hobby to Sick collection..]

Or you could collect what I collect:

 

http://www.clearfour.com/condiment/

 

Hey, at least collecting Videogame cartridges, or condiments doesn't take up all that much space per item... this is MY collection:

 

http://www.old-computers.com/club/collecto...ordis.asp?c=232

 

(don't forget to click on consoles, too... )

 

And most of that has to be stored in my parents loft until I get a bigger place of my own.. still it could be worse, I could have a collection like this, which is owned by a friend of mine:

 

http://www.old-computers.com/club/collecto...ordis.asp?c=235

 

[2600 is 8bit?]

Not that I love Intel, but AMD's efficiency model included exposed core design on Durons. Easy way for AMD to make money? Hav you buy another processor after the first one's core cracks when you clamp the heatsink onto it!

 

Well, I can't comment, my computers are Motorola 680x0 powered

[Homebrew PAL carts]

Why not write your code so that your game will work on both machines? Check this link to dowload Eckhard's documentation on how to do it:

 

http://quadrun.tripod.com/

 

Check 'Backdoor.zip' there info in there on how to set up for both machines.

 

Ahh yes.. I do have that, but I hadn't really looked at it closely (right now i'm concentrating on getting a 7800 from eBay, and modding it to use as a devbox, as well as making an Amiga 7800 devkit ... which is no small amount of work )

 

Also, I make 7800 carts, and would be more than happy to help you in any way to get your game released.

 

Thanks! I'll bear that in mind I wasn't sure who did 7800 carts, but I knew Hozer Video did make some Atari games..

 

Good luck and best wishes!

 

Thanks . This should be fun.. i love assembly coding, and learning strange new architectures... I make my living doing Z80 coding, but I can also program in 68000, x86, Signetics 2650, 6809 and 6502...

[2600 is 8bit?]

Don't forget the Mhz speed the main processors run at. Interesting.

 

Ahh yes.. "Mhz" and "Bits" the two tools that marketing suits use to confuse the customer.

 

A Spectrum (3.5Mhz Z80) has to have 3.5x the power of a C64 (1Mhz 6510) right? Bzzt. Wrong, its around the same, CPU power wise, not that the marketing guy will tell you that

 

Its still the same these days... now AMD have to sell their (more efficient) processors with "pentium equivalent" ratings, simply because their processors get instructions done in less cylces

[Homebrew PAL carts]

Hi!

 

I'm looking into making Atari 7800 games, even though it'll be an uphill struggle (I only have Amigas at home, so i'll have to port 7800ctrl, and that 78sign program to the Amiga before I can even start ), but I thought if I made a really good game (and I do have a couple of ideas... not saying more than that until I actually manage to get some code running on a 7800... ) it might be nice to get it made up and sold by the nice people at Hozer or Atariage.

 

The thing is, both are based in America, and I'll be using a PAL 7800 and creating a PAL game. Would they make and sell PAL carts? Are there any european people that would do the same job?