Atari 2600 Hacks

olclops writes "Check out this guy's projects. He's an Atari 2600 programmer who's created, among other things, a cartridge that uses the 2600's sound generators to turn your atari into a full polyphonic synthesizer! The demos sound insane. Imagine being able to play console-perfect pitfall music from an atari hooked up to an amp. His other games look cool, too. Apparently, he'll be at the Classic Gaming Expo next weekend."

Comments

Is this really relevant?

[electricmonk]

I mean, I understand the need to support some people who refuse to give up on their legacy hardware, but is this really necessary?

Just because someone now found a way to hack into an Atari 2600 doesn't mean it belongs on the front page of Slashdot. Shit, they don't even use those for commercial applications. I doubt they can even run a webserver! So why would this guy spend so many years and man-hours trying to hack the 2600 when there are much more productive things to do, like audit Linux code for security holes that hackers could exploit? At least he'd be doing something constructive instead of purely malicious hacking.