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Atari 2600 Game Development

Posted by timothy on from the support-your-local-thriftstore dept.

gjb6676 writes "An article over at ExtremeTech is covering recent game development projects on the Atari 2600. The amount of cartridge space they have to work with is a sobering thought: 'A two-word file in Word 2002, for example, requires 20 Kbytes. "That's 20 Kbytes, five times the amount of (ROM) space developers had to work with in the 2600.'"

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  1. Two words by aikido_kit · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Supercalifragulisticespialidocious.

    Twice.