Alphane Moon@lemmy.world to Games@lemmy.worldEnglish · 24 days agoAtari 2600: The Atlantis of Game Consoleswww.techspot.comexternal-linkmessage-square12fedilinkarrow-up123arrow-down12cross-posted to: retrogaming@lemmy.world
arrow-up121arrow-down1external-linkAtari 2600: The Atlantis of Game Consoleswww.techspot.comAlphane Moon@lemmy.world to Games@lemmy.worldEnglish · 24 days agomessage-square12fedilinkcross-posted to: retrogaming@lemmy.world
minus-squareP03 Locke@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·24 days agoWow, this “journalist” had no idea what games programming was like back then. Yars Revenge even used its own code to display the neutral zone. There were a lot of creative tricks like that to save on memory and CPU.
minus-squaremarlowe221@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·23 days agoAnd is only ONE of the reasons Yar’s Revenge is awesome!
Wow, this “journalist” had no idea what games programming was like back then. Yars Revenge even used its own code to display the neutral zone. There were a lot of creative tricks like that to save on memory and CPU.
And is only ONE of the reasons Yar’s Revenge is awesome!