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Re:Javatari - multiplayer Atari 2600 emulator written in Jav... by ppeccin on Thursday April 19, 2012 @05:34PM (#3865265)
Yes... A real Atari does the same thing! That's what the processor and the other chips produce when the machine is started with no ROM to be executed. I tried to implement the emulation at the hardware component level as accurately as I could. It happened spontaneously!
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Re:Javatari - multiplayer Atari 2600 emulator written in Jav... by TazeTSchnitzel on Thursday April 19, 2012 @05:51PM (#3865341)
Where does the randomness come from though?
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Re:Javatari - multiplayer Atari 2600 emulator written in Jav... by ppeccin on Thursday April 19, 2012 @06:02PM (#3865380)
When the processor tries to read the game program from the empty cartridge slot, it ends up reading random bytes from the data bus. Its like a random program commanding the video and audio hardware!
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Re:Javatari - multiplayer Atari 2600 emulator written in Jav... by mitjak on Friday April 20, 2012 @06:52PM (#3870153)
That is the coolest thing I've ever come across.
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Re:Javatari - multiplayer Atari 2600 emulator written in Jav... by ppeccin on Monday April 23, 2012 @03:38PM (#3880567)
That makes me very happy! Thank you.
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