The Picard Maneuver@piefed.world to memes@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 days agoWhere it all beganmedia.piefed.worldimagemessage-square50fedilinkarrow-up1422arrow-down18
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minus-squareDefault Username@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·1 day agoIt has the TIA, which is as close to a picture processor (and also audio synthesizer) as you can get, but due to the 128 bytes of RAM, there was not enough RAM to form a framebuffer, hence the need to race the beam.
minus-squarebss03@infosec.publinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·23 hours agoThanks for the clarification. I was too young to program the 2600. I started programming on PC-compatible.
It has the TIA, which is as close to a picture processor (and also audio synthesizer) as you can get, but due to the 128 bytes of RAM, there was not enough RAM to form a framebuffer, hence the need to race the beam.
Thanks for the clarification. I was too young to program the 2600. I started programming on PC-compatible.