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Jed Margolin, ex-Atari engineer, did a great pair of articles about the secrets of the Atari vector games. Highly worth your time if you're curious. The Secret
by joezydeco 1y ago
Jed Margolin, ex-Atari engineer, did a great pair of articles about the secrets of the Atari vector games. Highly worth your time if you're curious.
The Secret Life of Vector Generators: https://www.jmargolin.com/vgens/vgens.htm https://www.jmargolin.com/vgens/vgens.htm
The Secret Life of XY Monitors: https://www.jmargolin.com/xy/xymon.htm https://www.jmargolin.com/xy/xymon.htm
- msarnoff 1y agoMy favorite part of Jed's article: "Part way through the run of Asteroids, we used up the world's supply of 7497s [binary rate multiplier chips] and Texas Instruments (the only manufacturer of 7497s) did not have them on their schedule to make more for several months"