{"id":16818,"date":"2026-08-26T18:13:46","date_gmt":"2026-08-27T01:13:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/?p=16818"},"modified":"2026-07-16T18:15:24","modified_gmt":"2026-07-17T01:15:24","slug":"atari-2600-in-action","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/?p=16818","title":{"rendered":"Atari 2600 in action"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Alex Mordvintsev <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tomshardware.com\/video-games\/retro-gaming\/mad-scientist-visualizes-atari-2600-fetching-data-from-rom-for-mesmerizing-light-show-signal-propagation-through-the-circuits-animated\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.tomshardware.com\/video-games\/retro-gaming\/mad-scientist-visualizes-atari-2600-fetching-data-from-rom-for-mesmerizing-light-show-signal-propagation-through-the-circuits-animated\">shared a spectacular new CMOS FET-level visualization<\/a>. In the video below, you can see the\u00a0<em>Floppy Rescue<\/em>\u00a0homebrew ROM running on a FOSS silicon clone of an\u00a0Atari 2600. What is magical is that the data being fetched from ROM is visualized using multicolor light traces.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-4-3 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/BMzr-M_CO4k?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-US&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Alex Mordvintsev shared a spectacular new CMOS FET-level visualization. In the video below, you can see the\u00a0Floppy Rescue\u00a0homebrew ROM running on a FOSS silicon clone of an\u00a0Atari 2600. What is magical is that the data being fetched from ROM is visualized using multicolor light traces.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[9,33,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16818","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cool","category-retro-computing","category-technical"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4WECr-4ng","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16818","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=16818"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16818\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16819,"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16818\/revisions\/16819"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16818"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16818"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16818"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}