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Dec 7, 2016 · The emulator renders Atari 2600 games at a refresh rate so slow, you can only see its games, including Donkey Kong and Space Invaders, animate by using a time-lapse camera. What's cool here, in ...
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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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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.
Hi guys! 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! Sadly it only runs at 0.1 fps, but you can still play it by speeding ...
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Dec 9, 2016 · 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 ...
Dec 7, 2016 · Hey all! I did a quick search for this on the forums and hadn't seen anyone talking about it yet, so I figured I'd post it. SethBling is a youtuber who has a hobby of doing intriguing and / or strange things in games. His recent endeavor is building a functional Atari 2600 emulator in Minecraft. ...
Dec 6, 2016 · Now, he’s built a working Atari 2600 emulator in Minecraft. And he’s done it all without any mods. The emulator runs Atari 2600 games like Donkey Kong and Space Invaders using a complex system ...
