Atari 8-Bit Display List Interrupts: An Advanced Tutorial

Re:Atari 8-Bit Display List Interrupts: An Advanced Tutorial by keithnz on Thursday December 05, 2019 @12:02AM (#21710114)

13-14year old me was playing around with DLI, to get up to 16 colors on the screen at the time at HIGH resolution.

Towards the end of its popularity...well, it seems popular now.....but, one of the games that made use of multiple techniques, including DLIs to get what was, at the time, an amazing graphics game was ballblazer https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qri5xavBdh4

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Re:Atari 8-Bit Display List Interrupts: An Advanced Tutorial by ido on Thursday December 05, 2019 @11:07AM (#21713441)

Was 1985 really towards the end of its popularity? The 800XL (the most popular model) wasn't even widely available until 1984.

It was never as popular as the c64 but as far as I can tell its peak was after it became dirt cheap around that time (and the follow up XE series was the cheapest).

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Re:Atari 8-Bit Display List Interrupts: An Advanced Tutorial by downerending on Thursday December 05, 2019 @12:50PM (#21714421)

Speaking as a poor kid of the day, there were a series of machines sold off for pennies in their decline, and that was the only computer hardware we ever had access to.

IIRC, for me it was the TI 99/4a first, and the 800XL second. Then later, a Xerox PC (which was actually just a re-badged Olivetti).

Bottom-feeding, FTW.

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Re:Atari 8-Bit Display List Interrupts: An Advanced Tutorial by keithnz on Thursday December 05, 2019 @03:44PM (#21716275)

well, maybe more that the Amigas came out in 85/86, and all the buzz was around that :) the 8bits were still popular.

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