The best graphics I have ever seen on an Atari 2600! Always loved Mermaid's work, more than pleased too see her talent on the 2600! And the final music is maybe one of the best I've ever heard on this platform.

That's amazing.. Does that fit on a 4K cartridge?

@pondsoftware

6 жыл бұрын

No, it's far too big for a 4K cart - all those high resolution pictures combined take more than 4K, I believe.

@ShadowOfNoice

6 жыл бұрын

Each 48 pixel-wide spritebased picture takes almost 1800 bytes, so no, unfortunately this would be impossible to fit into a 4kb cart.

@samplesmasher

6 жыл бұрын

It's 32k. You can find more info at pouet.net

@memestarhiphop5787

4 жыл бұрын

Sup 8 bit guy

@Sinistar1983

4 жыл бұрын

Still impressive for a console with only 128 bytes of ram

Quite impressive for a relatively simple system. The one strength the 2600 has compared to most of the 8bit generation is its fairly expansive color palette, which this uses to great effect.

@Asterra2

Жыл бұрын

Good point, yep. Such a weird advantage to keep through basically the entire 8-bit console history.

Imagine plunking this down in front of folks in the late 70s. Heads would have exploded.

pretty dang sweet! great dithering. and i love that whirlpool/fountain effect!

Pure 8-bit art! Well done lads and grills...

great Job

Great stuff as always. Love me some VCS demos. :)

Superb! That's some awesome demo action!

Beyond impressed!! I can only imagine my reaction in 1982!

There is a wondrous cuteness to this 🥰 But dam, Atari 2600, I had no idea, I'm impressed!!👍

Amazing!

Excellent, my friend! ;)

I like the Atari C64 staff :D hope to see a new MSX demo from you guys again one of these days. Always great to see work done on old platforms.

@retropaganda8442

6 жыл бұрын

Atari 2600 and Commodore 64 are like, different, things :p

@Vampier

6 жыл бұрын

@1:35 that staff... top = atari / bottom = c64. SoN make demos for multiple platforms ... and i know those are different platforms :)

Gorgeus!!! Wow

That’s insane.

Nice one! :)

nice job gp

Cool :)

For best quality watch in 144p....

from a coding point of view - on a modern computer; this looks rather basic, but when you see that it's meant to run on a 2600 ... that's something else entirely.

The one graphical advantage over the NES that the Atari 2600 has is that it can produce better gradient effects

Reading up on the 2600. And I knew Jay must have had a hand in things. "A second prototype was completed by March 1976 with the help of Jay Miner, who created a chip called the Television Interface Adaptor (TIA) to send graphics and audio to a television". He was a computer/electronics visionary. Rest his soul.

@JustWasted3HoursHere

2 жыл бұрын

Indeed! He helped bring the early Ataris AND the Amiga to life. He was especially great at finding ways to squeeze every single possibility out of silicon back when processors were super slow silicon was super expensive.

Funk me, how did you get those gfx to a 2600? Awesome!

So.. it's not a game gut a really impressive tech demo? It looks amazing.

@antivanti

6 жыл бұрын

Yeah it's a demoscene demo. The "scene" is computer art subculture of people who enjoy making technical and artistic showpieces on computer or video game hardware new and old :)

I don't understand what this is...is this just a tech demo? Have you guys ever viewed the Sega Master System tech demo- Bad Apple? I can't believe that is actually possible on a Sega Master System and I would love to see a version of that for the Genesis taking advantage of both of its processors' (68K Motorola and Zilog Z-80).

Amazing!