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XAYAX - Bang! (ATARI VCS 2600 demo)

MEGA - Museum of Electronic Games & Art · 123.6K views · 2014-04-22 · 8:05

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Overview

Bang! is an Atari 2600 demo by XAYAX that won first place at the Revision 2014 oldschool demo competition. It fits into a 32k ROM using F8SC bankswitching.

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Commenters hold it up as proof that 2600 programming is alive in the demoscene and as one of the most impressive demos ever made on the hardware.

Recommended by 2 HN people across 2 months · HN mentions 2014–2019

Topics

Demoscene & retrocomputing
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What people said

unimpressive · 2016-01 · Strong recommendation

On that note, this is one of the most impressive demos I've ever seen: [VIDEO] (When you're familiar with what a baseline atari 2600 game looks like, this is just beyond the pale.)

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apaprocki · 2014-10 · Strong recommendation

2600 programming is alive in the demo scene. This was just created in 2014 and is completely insane: [VIDEO]

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basementcat · 2019-01 · Reference

After seeing demos like Bang!/XayaX [1] and Chiphead/Altair [2], it is pretty clear that the hardware that I work on is ridiculously overpowered. [1] [VIDEO] [2] [LINK]

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