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Learn to Program the Atari 2600

OK this is nuts. AtariAge has a whole series of articles teaching you to program the Atari 2600. The 2600!!! Game programming focus, which makes it fascinating to see what those guys went through back in the day vs. what we deal with now. Absolutely brutal, low-level stuff. You're writing code to push individual scan lines to the TV. You've got 128 bytes of RAM to work with. Bytes! Not kilobytes. Not megabytes. Bytes. Respect.