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The Making of Donkey Kong for the Atari 2600 (2020) (medium.com/swlh)
4 points by erickhill on Dec 13, 2022 | hide | past | favorite | 1 comment



2600 was really limited to its tiny amount of memory. It really limited games to one to a few genres, and at very low resolution.

64 kilobytes of memory was not cheap in the early 80s. But very much worth it. A nice XL/XE demo (of an 800XL using a Unocart A8 adapter) and great Atari channel on youtube:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0jHQaT1Ei28

https://www.youtube.com/@paulwestphal7336




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