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I'd wonder if the idea of a cycle-perfect emulation for a 2600 is a poor target. It doesn't just rely on cycle-accurate timing of the chips themselves, it's ab
by hakfoo 3y ago
I'd wonder if the idea of a cycle-perfect emulation for a 2600 is a poor target.
It doesn't just rely on cycle-accurate timing of the chips themselves, it's abusing the old analogue TV formats to do its magic, and nothing that plugs into a HDMI socket will exactly emulate that trickery. It's up there with hacks like "CGA could eke out extra colours through dithering and hacking the colourburst on composite outputs."
OTOH, the actual delivered goods by the 2600-- even late, better titles, are pretty anemic, so maybe we're not missing much magic.
- mlyle 3y agoMiSTer can do pretty close to cycle-accurate 2600/7800 emulation. Postprocessing can include emulating the effects of composite video and projecting realistic scanlines and shadow mask, etc. (Of course, you can plug it into a composite monitor, too). https://github.com/MiSTer-devel/Atari7800_MiSTer https://github.com/MiSTer-devel/Atari7800_MiSTer https://youtu.be/7RNv5k0B-ww?si=OkR_-ac2ogcW8vnZ&t=1219 https://youtu.be/7RNv5k0B-ww?si=OkR_-ac2ogcW8vnZ&t=1219