{"id":17335,"date":"2026-11-12T12:09:49","date_gmt":"2026-11-12T19:09:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/?p=17335"},"modified":"2026-09-27T12:26:20","modified_gmt":"2026-09-27T19:26:20","slug":"myst-on-atari-2600","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/?p=17335","title":{"rendered":"Myst on Atari 2600"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In an amazing technical achievement, <a href=\"https:\/\/hackaday.com\/2026\/09\/22\/myst-on-the-atari-2600\/\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/hackaday.com\/2026\/09\/22\/myst-on-the-atari-2600\/\">Vince\/Deater has done a &#8216;demake&#8217;<\/a> that brings <a href=\"https:\/\/hackaday.com\/2026\/09\/22\/myst-on-the-atari-2600\/\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/hackaday.com\/2026\/09\/22\/myst-on-the-atari-2600\/\">Myst on the Atari 2600<\/a>. Originally it was done using Harmony Cartridges that have 70MHz 32-bit ARM microcontrollers on them handling the bank-switching and other signaling. But could you get it to work on actual vintage 1980s cartridge hardware?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It is playable, but likely not really understandable if you hadn&#8217;t already played the original or knew what certain things were. Then again, it might not be the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=rw-9c6QZxBkhttps:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=rw-9c6QZxBk\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=rw-9c6QZxBkhttps:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=rw-9c6QZxBk\">most<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=5pw9BI7-t-o\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=5pw9BI7-t-o\">confusing<\/a> game for the 2600.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 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\" title=\"YouTube video player\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/wF09y25MMj0?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\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In the end, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.deater.net\/weave\/vmwprod\/myst_vcs\/e7_cart.html\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"http:\/\/www.deater.net\/weave\/vmwprod\/myst_vcs\/e7_cart.html\">deater.net<\/a> was able to use a M-Networks &#8220;E7&#8221; chip using the full 16k of ROM and 2k of RAM capacity, but it turns out possibly no one had ever used all 2k of RAM before. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full is-resized\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"640\" height=\"454\" data-attachment-id=\"17336\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/?attachment_id=17336\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mattfife.com\/wp-content\/themes\/mattTheme\/headerimgs\/2026\/09\/image-2.png?fit=700%2C497&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"700,497\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-title=\"image\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mattfife.com\/wp-content\/themes\/mattTheme\/headerimgs\/2026\/09\/image-2.png?fit=640%2C454&amp;ssl=1\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mattfife.com\/wp-content\/themes\/mattTheme\/headerimgs\/2026\/09\/image-2.png?resize=640%2C454&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-17336\" style=\"width:489px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mattfife.com\/wp-content\/themes\/mattTheme\/headerimgs\/2026\/09\/image-2.png?w=700&amp;ssl=1 700w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mattfife.com\/wp-content\/themes\/mattTheme\/headerimgs\/2026\/09\/image-2.png?resize=380%2C270&amp;ssl=1 380w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mattfife.com\/wp-content\/themes\/mattTheme\/headerimgs\/2026\/09\/image-2.png?resize=300%2C213&amp;ssl=1 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This is very impressive considering the original Myst barely fit on a CD-ROM with 650mb of storage:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 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\" title=\"YouTube video player\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/EWX5B6cD4_4?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>In an amazing technical achievement, Vince\/Deater has done a &#8216;demake&#8217; that brings Myst on the Atari 2600. Originally it was done using Harmony Cartridges that have 70MHz 32-bit ARM microcontrollers on them handling the bank-switching and other signaling. But could you get it to work on actual vintage 1980s cartridge hardware? It is playable, but likely not really understandable if you hadn&#8217;t already played the original or knew what certain things were. Then again, it might not be the most&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"><a class=\"btn btn-default\" href=\"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/?p=17335\"> Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">  Read More<\/span><\/a><\/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_hide_featured_image":false,"_jetpack_featured_image_duplicate_dismissed":0,"_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":[9,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17335","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cool","category-technical"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4WECr-4vB","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17335","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=17335"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17335\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17688,"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17335\/revisions\/17688"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17335"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17335"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17335"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}