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Unreal History of the Atari 2600

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the it-ain't-no-intellivision dept.

Such_a_geek writes "Atari fans, do you remember playing Gunther Gebel Williams' Cage Cleaner, Typing Tutor, and Peabo Bryson's Cow Tipper on your 2600? How about playing the interactive Foghat 8-track while playing with your Pong action figures? Yeah, me neither. But thanks to this totally fake but quite convincing screenshots in this alternate history of 2600 games, I almost find myself remembering these things."

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  1. Re:Wow by hanzwurst · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Entertainment purposes?

  2. Re:From the wouldn-it-be-cool-if-Atari-went-OS dep by Webmonger · · Score: 2, Insightful

    You don't need the source code for much. Just get them to release the ROMs into the public domain. If you can.

  3. Re:From the wouldn-it-be-cool-if-Atari-went-OS dep by image · · Score: 4, Insightful

    > Wouldn't it be cool if Atari open the source up on all their games?

    Think they still have it?

    I work for a Fortune 500 company, and we can't find the source code to some of our production systems.

    Wait, I shouldn't admit that, should I?

  4. Re:From the wouldn-it-be-cool-if-Atari-went-OS dep by Bender_ · · Score: 2, Insightful
    What on earth would you do with the low-level code for a 2600 game?

    Funny enough, you can find the source for many games on the web, which have been reverse engineered by enthusiast. There is still a vivid scene of hobbyist developers hacking games for the vcs 2600.

  5. Re:Mirror by bgarcia · · Score: 2, Insightful
    Yeah, that was funny the first time somebody did it.

    Now it's just old.

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