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I'd love to see a dev setup for using the PDP-11 and the Atari 2600 for doing gamedev. I did a quick search on youtube and the search engines and couldn't find
by sitkack 3y ago
I'd love to see a dev setup for using the PDP-11 and the Atari 2600 for doing gamedev. I did a quick search on youtube and the search engines and couldn't find anything.
- reaperducer 3y agoI'd love to see a dev setup for using the PDP-11 and the Atari 2600 for doing gamedev. I did a quick search on youtube and the search engines and couldn't find anything. The photographs I've seen aren't all that interesting. A VT-52 terminal and a hand-built cart wired into an RS-232 port, all on a long desk. Hopefully there are more exciting photographs out there that I haven't seen.
- rahen 3y agoHave a look at the PDF document here: https://forums.atariage.com/topic/259003-intellivision-development-back-in-the-day/ https://forums.atariage.com/topic/259003-intellivision-devel... Also check out the links provided at the end of the document. Besides the PDP-11, I'm glad to see the beloved PDP-10 was also used by game developers back in the days.
- sitkack 3y agoBe see, I mean a demo of what it is like to dev Atari 2600 games using a PDP-11. I mean there are PDP-11 emulators, we could setup a pure virtual Atari dev system.
- bradknowles 3y agoWe had a PDP 11/70 for undergraduate work when I started studying for my BSCS in 1984. Nothing pretty, just glass vt52 and vt100 type terminals. Oh, and a 110 baud line printer that could also be used as a terminal. That line printer was not fun, but I had to use it on occasion when all the good terminals were taken. IIRC, ours had 64KB of RAM in two banks.