"There is much pleasure in useless knowledge." — Bertrand Russell
While looking for something completely different, I ran across the code and binary images for my old Atari 2600 “Pong Clock”. I realized that my previous post on the matter didn’t have pictures of my final version, so just for fun, here are a couple of Stella screengrabs (in NTSC “TV” mode, for enhanced realism). […]
Years ago, I remembered that someone (couldn’t remember who) had invented a clock which looked like a version of the classic video game “Pong”. A few minutes of searching now reveals who that was: Sander Mulder. I thought it was a cool idea, and I was thinking of a project that could get me back […]
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