@unconditionalbranch Sorry for the late answer. In 1977 there was the release of the Bally Astrocade developed by Midway. It had a Zilog Z80 CPU with 1.789 Mhz (2600: 1.19 Mhz) and 4 Kbytes of RAM, which is 32 times the amount the 2600 provided to developers. It is considered to be the most powerful gaming console of the 70s, albeit not a very well known or successful one. It also shared one problem with the Atari: It's extremely difficult to code for.
Truly amazing! I never thought I would see something like this come out of a 2600! It compares to many c64 demos.
THIS IS AMAZING DUDE
I'm impressed. I love seeing new software innovations on retro hardware, and it doesn't get much more retro than the 2600 VCS.
simply outstanding!
Philips Videopac G7000(Magnavox Odyssey) was released in 1978. But it had some graphical and sound disadvantages.
Best music ever heard on atari 2600
@unconditionalbranch Sorry for the late answer. In 1977 there was the release of the Bally Astrocade developed by Midway. It had a Zilog Z80 CPU with 1.789 Mhz (2600: 1.19 Mhz) and 4 Kbytes of RAM, which is 32 times the amount the 2600 provided to developers. It is considered to be the most powerful gaming console of the 70s, albeit not a very well known or successful one. It also shared one problem with the Atari: It's extremely difficult to code for.
amazing stuff. respect.
1:59 how is this possible if the Atari 2600 is capable to show only 4 colors per line?
(the effect at 2:00)
image the games possible if they could have done this stuff back in the day and had 8k chips that weren't made expensive.
@y2k4ever1 121 (NTSC), repsectively 114 (PAL) colors. However, those colors can of course not all be used at the same time.
At least not in the same scanline
Are there any Atari 7800 demos like this?
cool
I'm confused I like what I'm hearing and I'm very confused by what I'm looking at. can someone tell me what this is?
Demoscene program for Atari 2600. An audio visual benchmark demonstration of the system.
How many colors did the atari have???
128 😀
@KubaPSP No, it wasn't. Even at the time of the release in 1977 there were more powerful gaming consoles available.
Ever heard of replying to a comment. You do not need to comment on the video, just reply to the comment.
@@AnonymousFrogNG for some reason YT separates replies (older than 5 years) and turns them into comments
@no1DdC Please name one.
Technically, this is awesome!!! What a crap machine! lol