I can’t really give a great answer to that, pretty sure it was all just electrical hardware. I’m curious now, I’ll look around and let you know if I find something.
Edit: yep, no code, just circuits. Here is the original circuit diagram from Atari
Essentially the “program” was baked into the hardware design itself. It didn’t have a rom chip or something, it just had hardware circuits dedicated to each function, like drawing the paddle etc.
Start with googling “pong chip”. There is a Wikipedia article about it, and then look for the chips “name” AY-3-8500, under which you will find lots of information about this chip.
Am I too stupid…how did it work?
I can’t really give a great answer to that, pretty sure it was all just electrical hardware. I’m curious now, I’ll look around and let you know if I find something.
Edit: yep, no code, just circuits. Here is the original circuit diagram from Atari
Essentially the “program” was baked into the hardware design itself. It didn’t have a rom chip or something, it just had hardware circuits dedicated to each function, like drawing the paddle etc.
Start with googling “pong chip”. There is a Wikipedia article about it, and then look for the chips “name” AY-3-8500, under which you will find lots of information about this chip.
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