Myst On The Atari 2600

A retrocomputing enthusiast named Vince spent roughly three years porting a demake of Myst to run on the Atari 2600, a console with just 128 bytes of RAM. The game runs on a custom cartridge built using parts salvaged from an original BurgerTime cartridge, leveraging the E7 bank-switching scheme to squeeze extra memory into the cartridge. The project involved overcoming numerous timing issues and hardware quirks unique to programming the 2600.

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