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Visualizing the code of Atari 2600 games

Published on 2005-11-22 by Mark VandeWettering

Ben Fry has some cool graphics which visualize the code in several old Atari 2600 video games. Basically, he disassembles code and marks all possible branches with arcs between the lines of code, and changes all data tables to graphical representations of the bit patterns, revealing many sprites and other data tables. I dunno how useful it is, but it’s kind of neat.

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Last updated May 14, 2025

Based upon Sunaina Pai's excellent makesite.py script

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