05-04-2023, 10:00 PM
The Ben Eater video, I've been re-watching his series and he does do an 8-bit from scratch computer on a breadboard where he creates the registers, ALU, ram, stack pointer, flags, etc... I've been tempted a few times to pick up one of his kits. Now I had linked a video of David Crane a while back where goes into some detail on programming Pitfall. I also read an article about it too in Gameinformer. It still amazes me how brilliant the coding for that game was especially since the 2600 was literally designed for pong type games - hence player, missile, ball sprites...