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0xcde4c3db on April 26, 2016 | parent | context | favorite | on: Let Chris Crawford teach you to program Atari's 8-...

What I meant was the graphics hardware rather than the systems in general, which I could have been clearer about. Looking at the registers for the 2600's TIA and 400/800/etc. CTIA/GTIA, they seem far too similar (while simultaneously being considerably different from other graphics hardware of the time) to write off as coincidence.

kabdib on April 26, 2016 | [–]

You have to look beyond the registers, to the whole system; those registers are largely useless without the system RAM to make them work.

protomyth on April 26, 2016 | [–]

Jay Miner did both then went on to Amiga. I would imagine the similarity is the learning and experience showing.

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