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‘Mad scientist’ visualizes Atari 2600 fetching data from ROM for mesmerizing light show

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Get Tom's Hardware's best news and in-depth reviews, straight to your inbox. You are now subscribed Your newsletter sign-up was successful Self Organizing Systems researcher and self-confessed mad scientist, Alex Mordvintsev, has shared a spectacular new CMOS FET-level visualization. In the video below, you can see the Floppy Rescue homebrew ROM running on a FOSS silicon clone of an Atari 2600. What is magical about the video, though, is that the data being fetched from ROM is visualized using multicolor light traces. The scene is almost as mesmerizing as witnessing attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion. This simulation tool appears to be still in development and not distributed, as Mordvintsev indicates they are still “working on it.” The embedded video starts with a full-screen overview of the Tiny Atari 2600, which is a clone of the classic VCS console’s SoC that forms part of Tiny Tapeout 9.…

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