1. Re: Atari! Off topic.
- Posted by Brian Broker <bkb at CNW.COM>
Oct 13, 1999
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Last edited Oct 14, 1999
On Wed, 13 Oct 1999 16:51:57 -0500, Mike Hurley <mikehurley2 at NETZERO.COM>
wrote:
>My brother was messing around with some demo CDs that we got and found a
>huge archive of Atari 2600 games! It comes with an emulator for DOS and
>443 different games! Frogger, Invaders, and the other classics are
>there. I can't believe somebody took the time to reprogram all this.
>
>Anybody interested in it?
>
>Mike Hurley
>
An emulator is a program that simulates the behavior of digital hardware
components. So nobody took the time to 'reprogram' all of those games.
What you have is a piece of software (the emulator) that simulates the
hardware of the 2600 console (which is no easy task, BTW) and all of the
games are images of the cartridges. By images I mean that the original
cartridges have ROMs containing the game program and somebody connected the
ROM to a reader and created a binary image of that program. Feed that into
your emulator and play any game on your PC. Another of my hobbies is
following the development of various emulators including MAME, the Multi
Arcade Machine Emulator which currently supports over 1,000 different
arcade games. ROM images for any emulator are already on the web if you
look for them...
I've often wondered if Euphoria would be a suitable language for creating
an emulator but I'm not ready to undertake such a huge project at this
time...
-- Brian
