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Re:Pacman in 512 bytes of x86 boot sector machine code by mysterydip on Monday July 08, 2019 @07:43PM (#20387783)
The 2600 was such an interesting machine for its lack of video RAM. Developers "raced the beam" to draw things just in time for them to be displayed, changing colors and sprites partway through a line to make all the cool (for the time) effects.
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Re:Pacman in 512 bytes of x86 boot sector machine code by makapuf on Tuesday July 09, 2019 @07:51AM (#20390855)
Funny, my smallish ARM Cortex-M / VGA DIY video console also works like that, with less RAM than needed for a framebuffer. There are framebuffer modes, but with less pixels/bpp than natively output by the video signal output.
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Re:Pacman in 512 bytes of x86 boot sector machine code by zachsnow on Monday July 08, 2019 @07:53PM (#20387829)
Still cool.
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