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- When an Atari game is pushed into Minecraft it resolves itself as a 4 kilo-block chunk of land, a three-dimensional representations of raw game code. It proves to be a remarkable visual representation of the ephemeral nature of programming.
www.polygon.com/2016/12/9/13902832/you-can-play-atari-games-inside-minecraft
Dec 7, 2016 · The world's first functioning machine emulation of a game console has arrived within Minecraft. However, it's not exactly playable. The emulator renders Atari 2600 games at a refresh rate so...
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Ex-Microsoft engineer SethBling has created an Atari 2600 emulator using nothing but Minecraft.
Redstone wizard SethBling has created an Atari 2600 emulator in vanilla Minecraft, recreating game cartridges and Atari hardware using dirt blocks.
While the emulator is impossibly slow, SethBling's video details how the 1977 game console can be faithfully recreated by using Minecraft's features and some scripting wizardry.
SethBling's emulator uses a Minecraft armor stand to draw colored blocks to represent the game's 8-bit visuals. It draws information from 128 bytes of "RAM" crafted from a huge slab of dirt and stone, designed to represent the binary code. Dirt represents zeros, while cobblestone represents ones. The video provides a very visual explanation of how information is handled by computational hardware to create animation frames.
SethBling also provided tools to allow people to try the emulator for themselves in the description of the above video, which even includes a tool to convert 4 KB Atari 2600 ROMs into block cartridges for the emulator's Minecraft world state.
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Dec 7, 2016 · It uses "a couple thousand command blocks" which run the processor, the video and the memory, while also containing the ROMs that were stored on the original Atari cartridges.
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Me and u/mattbatwings2 made Atari Breakout with just redstone. This was a crazy and super fun project to work on (our biggest project yet)! We engineered all the components from scratch, including a full collision engine and support for 14 different ball velocities!
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First Atari 2600 emulator in Minecraft. US YouTuber "SethBling" sent jaws dropping on 6 December 2016, with his working Atari 2600 emulator. To get the classic 1977 gaming console running required "a couple thousand command blocks" – objects that modify the game world on multiplayer servers.
Dec 8, 2016 · A YouTuber recreates the Atari 2600 games console - by building a virtual version of the device's hardware out of Minecraft blocks.
