Setting an AI system to evolve an Atari 2600 emulator to see what kind of whacked-out coding it comes up with to impersonate the most whacked-out computer system to be in a jillion people's homes.
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@Austin_Dern The 2600 really is a bizarre system
and atari kept that inane sprite system and "racing the beam" concept for *all* their 8-bit home computers too!! why!!
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@Felthry Right? It's so bizarre that it attains a certain majestic grandeur.
Don't know why the 8-bits would keep the 2600's sprite system, but I'd put money on "we are having enough problems, let's reuse something that already works". Maybe at some point they were thinking the computers could use 2600 cartridges but they'd have to have given that up as hopeless.