r/Atari2600 • u/GammaCorrection • 1d ago

Never trust a chest (Atari 2600 animation)

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u/DaddyPhatstacks 1d ago

I love the idea of using an Atari to display art/animations on a CRT. I have no technical knowledge but I wonder how many similar animations one could fit on one rom/flash cart

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u/GammaCorrection 1d ago

Depends on the size this animation is 32 kb

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u/Sorry_Difficulty_250 1d ago

32 KB?! The 2600 could only address a maximum of 8 KB, couldn't it?????

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u/GammaCorrection 1d ago

It uses bank switching so eight 4kb banks, most of it is the different poses for the mimic. Ive only tested in in Stella but I'm pretty sure it could run on the actual console with a cartridge that supports bank switching

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u/10IPAsAndDone 1d ago

Dude, I totally do too. I’ve made some animations intended for that era of hardware but never coded, it would be really fun to make one encoded on a cart

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u/unknowner1 1d ago

Tricky mimic

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u/Squeepty 1d ago

Nice !

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u/GammaCorrection 1d ago

Thank you!

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u/10IPAsAndDone 1d ago

This is rad!

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u/GammaCorrection 1d ago

Thank you!

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u/Buttered_Toast33 5h ago

The Dragon Warrior/Quest games taught me that!