Atari 2600 Game Development 317
gjb6676 writes "An article over at ExtremeTech is covering recent game development projects on the Atari 2600. The amount of cartridge space they have to work with is a sobering thought:
'A two-word file in Word 2002, for example, requires 20 Kbytes. "That's 20 Kbytes, five times the amount of (ROM) space developers had to work with in the 2600.'"
I think.. (Score:5, Funny)
thats microsoft.... (Score:3, Funny)
Re:oo.o rules (Score:3, Funny)
Custer's Revenge (Score:3, Funny)
Sobering thought? (Score:5, Funny)
The trick is to exploit Moore's Law, and avoid Gates. Then technology becomes a Good Thing.
4K (Score:4, Funny)
Sequels to 2600 games I want to see (Score:4, Funny)
space invaders 'EXTREME'
Atari Football 2003
Night Driver with Infrared Goggles
and Combat: Gulf War
duck pond (Score:3, Funny)
mmmm, duck pond.. now with new color graphics!
Re:Custer's Revenge (Score:5, Funny)
When I was a youngin' (Score:5, Funny)
I suppose... (Score:2, Funny)
Re:oo.o rules (Score:5, Funny)
The 4K Atari cartridge ROM is only capable of enabling you to play a silly game on your television.
20kb (Score:5, Funny)
Well, if they didn't append your medical records to every Word file, it really wouldn't be that bad. :)
Re:Wow (Score:5, Funny)
Massively Parallel Word-Processing Supercomputer! (Score:5, Funny)
Did anyone else read that and think "10,240-BIT WORDS? What kind of workstation is that running on?"
Re:oo.o rules (Score:3, Funny)
*Choke*. You're under 25, right?
My Project (Score:2, Funny)
Doom has been ported to everythinge else... (Score:4, Funny)
Doom has been ported to everythinge else, I can't wait to see the 4Kb version on the Atari 2600.
Support until 1997! (Score:2, Funny)
From the article:
Support until 1997? Microsoft won't want us to know about companies that do that. My next OS will be from Atari! Or maybe an Amiga, because it looks there'll be a company called Amiga for the rest of my lifetime.
4K Goatsex could work! (Score:3, Funny)
Re:No offense but. . (Score:5, Funny)
Granted, the OpenOffice file is merely bloated while the Word one is reminiscent of the restauraunt scene in Monty Python's The Meanting of Life.
Re:Where will the programmers come from? (Score:3, Funny)
Oh noes! 14 year old script kiddies recruited by Al-Queada are going to DDOS the White House using NETBIOS over TCP/IP exploits they found out when portscanning stuff with NANOPROBES who all buffer overflowed million of WindowsXP UNIVERSAL PLUG AND PLAY ports while zip disks all over the world are DYING along with BSD! Oh woe is me! Fortunately, our New Age online Messiah Steve Gibson will save us with his 1337 routers that can stop DDoSes and his advanced godlike ASM programming skills! HUZZAH FOR LORD GIBSON!
Re:thats microsoft.... (Score:2, Funny)
Word? D'oh! (Score:3, Funny)
Nine-tenths of a gig,
Biggest ever seen,
God this program's big:
MS Word 15!
Comes on 10 CD's,
And requires -- Damn!
Word is fine, but jeez:
60 megs of RAM!?
Oh, Microsoft, Microsoft, bloatware all the way!
I've sat here installing Word since breakfast yesterday.
Oh, Microsoft, Microsoft, moderation please!
Guess you hadn't noticed -- 4-gig drives don't grow on trees!
Win 2004 Announced (Score:2, Funny)