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Atari 2600

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Overview

Introduced in 1977 by Atari, the Atari 2600 was a console system.

Technical specifications

  • CPU: MOS Technology 6507 clocked at 1.19 MHz, a cost-reduced variant of the 6502 central to early VCS games.
  • Memory: 128 bytes of RAM and no onboard video RAM; cartridges could add more via banked chips.
  • Display: TIA video chip rendered 160×192 resolution using scanline timing and a 128-color palette (through artifacting).
  • Sound: TIA audio subsystem providing two simple pulse/noise channels tied to the video circuitry.

Supported ROM extensions

a26, bin, zip, 7z

Emulators

  • stella (libretro) – Requires BR2_PACKAGE_LIBRETRO_STELLA
  • stella2014 (libretro) – Requires BR2_PACKAGE_LIBRETRO_STELLA2014
  • stella (stella) – Requires BR2_PACKAGE_STELLA

Source data: REG Linux emulationstation/es-system/es_systems.yml