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Atari 2600 Hacks

Posted by michael on from the things-man-was-not-meant-to-know dept.

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."

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  1. What could be geekier? by Kwikymart · · Score: 5, Interesting

    This is pretty geeky. What could be geekier? Well, for one, hooking it up to this

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  2. The New Old School Band by eric434 · · Score: 4, Funny

    Introducing the New Old School Band, with Lenny on the Atari with Synthcart, Joey on a Commodore 64 hacked to do guitar, Danny with the Drumsticks on the Apple IIes...

    On another note, if we put together a beowulf cluster of these, would we have a symphony? "Slashdot Symphony in AC Major..."

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  3. He's an Atari 2600 programmer ... by BxT · · Score: 5, Funny


    Now there's something that looks good on the 'ol resume. :)

  4. Re:This is great! by OneFix · · Score: 4, Interesting

    We've seen C64 SID chips make a comeback in the form of the SIDstation

    But, the terible part about this is that to make one of these, 2 C= 64's have to "die". Last I checked, noone was making the chip and since noone is making the C=64 now, this is sadly causing the destruction of the last "good" C-64's.

    I truly think the SIDstation is kewl, but I'ld actually like to see them start making new chips for this purpose. Or, better yet, break the C=64 down to a single chip (more than do-able) and turn it into a PDA...imagine all of the applications for a handheld C= 64...this way they would also have some processing power with that SID chip...

  5. i like it... by mattbland · · Score: 4, Insightful

    and from the majority of comments on here i can see that most of you don't. you don't see the point. he ddi this for his own enjoyment. to make a machine to something it wasn't designed to. to push the bounderies.

    most of the comments on this story have been trolls, or sad people on about why does this belong here. it belongs because it's cool.

    slashdot may be news for nerds and stuff that matters, but stuff appears on slashdot also because of it's encentric appeal or sheer coolness. don't forget it.

    btw, i had a 2600 with star raiders back in the early eighties. it came with one of those 'keyboard' pads, which i tried to plug into my spectrum and monitor the outputs so that i could use it with a game i was writing. i got nothing out of it that the machine could read, so i'm actaully glad that someone used them for something else apart from the one or two games that needed them.

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