Bad Apple - Atari 2600

So far I have only found this to work on Stella, but to get it to work, you must right click on the file and set launch options to have it use a 3E cartridge, or it will not work. If you want to try this on real hardware, your flash cart must support 3E bankswitching with 480K ROM and 32K RAM.

[nschannel]

I watch ONE alternate version of Bad Apple, and now my recommended is _filled_ with it

[blazi]

Skyrim: I have so many ports
Doom: hold my beer
Bad Apple: amateurs

[eptio]

gotta love that 160x192 resolution
and 2 channels of ear-peircing square waves

[AnonYmous-sinj]

This can be played on a video game console that is 40 years old. A console which was released the same year as the very first Star Wars movie. The same year Jimmy Carter was sworn into office. Disco was still going strong, the Vietnam war was still fresh in people's minds, and John Lennon was still making music. Imagine it's the late 70s and you're one of the relatively few people who owns an "Atari Video Computer System", and a strange guy passes you on the street and hands you an unlabeled cartridge. You go home and pop it in your Atari, expecting to see something like Pong, and this plays.

[peachymunmagenta]

This console was notoriously challenging to program for, you have to count machine cycles _by hand_ and you have to change out data at _just_ the right moment or garbage would be written to the screen, and that’s just the graphics! This is an amazing feat I commend you

[nicolebacon]

This would probably make zero sense to somebody who doesn't know the original. Still really cool though!

[livvy]

Someone should send a flashcart with this on it to the AVGN. I wonder what he'd think.

[raviedavieu]

The tuning of the music after 3:05 pains me

[TorutheRedFox]

60FPS video playback on an Atari 2600?
WHAT IS THIS SORCERY!?

[Mace.]

Rule 35: if it exists, there's a port of Bad Apple to it... especially TI calculators

[chemergency]

Jesus Christ. Imagine showing this to someone in 1977, they wouldn't even know what to make of it.

[RustyBreadbin]

To do this demo on such ancient hardware as the 2600... what a technical achievement this is to look as good and sound as it does here.

[timurtheterrible]

We need to go full-circle and port the song to PC-98.

[glitcher]

why do i feel like the programming behind this is bank-switching hell...

[allahsizpust]

Bad Apple's sharp transitions still sound perfect and godly no matter what they're on.

[otakuatarigamer]

It still sounds amazing on a 40+ year old system and that's just shocking, shows how hackers can push the 2600 to it’s limits!
I’m gonna have to get a flashcart soon to see if this will run on my actual 2600 lol

[ciberkid]

Tune in next time for Bad apple on Magnavox Odyssey

[magicstixr]

Rule 36: If it exists, Bad Apple has been ported to it.

[ARockyRock]

graphics are amazing! can't believe there can be this much detail now!

[iancharles]

Now this is what I'm talkin' about! The more primitive the hardware a Bad Apple recreation is on, the better! It has that abstract art quality that makes it real cool, Y'know? And forget going to the MFA to see "actual" art pieces unless ya want COVID.