Atari 2600 code art

[inefficient]

This is the coolest thing I have seen in a while!

http://benfry.com/distellamap/

Like any other game console, Atari 2600 cartridges contained executable code also commingled with data. This lists the code as columns of assembly language. Most of it is math or conditional statements (if x is true, go to y), so each time there's "go to" a curve is drawn from that point to its destination.

I would pay good money to buy this as a poster so that I could hang it on my wall.

 

[nutball]

Awww man that brings back memories of poring over reams of print-out of disassemblies of my favourite games, trying to work out how they worked! (Oh God, that was 25 years ago, I'm getting old!).

 

[scificube]

Nice find, thanks!

 

[Arwin]

That is really cool ... I'd love that as a poster on my wall.

 

[NERO]

Wow. That is brilliant on too many levels to describe. I had no idea this website existed and I am floored

Programming is truly an embodiment of mathematics and art. I'm jealous of programmers.

 

[NERO]

I remember a few times as a kid playing mario games only to have someone trip over the controller wire and cause a crash on my Nintendo. The result of this on my tv screen was Mario Soup.

The deconstructulator is incredible.

 

[LunchBox]

kewl find!

i want one!