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The ZK81 had 1KB or RAM...Yet, we wrote games with it The Atari 2600 had 128 bytes of ram. It was well-known for its games.
by mynameishere 13y ago
The ZK81 had 1KB or RAM...Yet, we wrote games with it
The Atari 2600 had 128 bytes of ram. It was well-known for its games.
- whyenot 13y ago...but it also had 4k ROM (cartridges). Not really a fair comparison.
- kabdib 13y agoSome games were so hard up for memory that: - they used the port-direction bits in the parallel I/O chip registers as temporaries. After all, you only care about user input for a tiny part of the video frame - some games didn't use the stack . . . or not all the time. So the stack pointer was just another register, too