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Ep. 113: Bally Professional Arcade

Video Game History Hour

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The Rise of the Homebrew Community

The Belly Basic Hackers Guide let you access the machine language routines built into the operating system and the built-in games. Jamie Fenton also explained how to hack the cassette interface so you could do other stuff with that same code or same hardware. A lot of these cassettes are preserved online on balially.com, which the guy who runs that Adam Trianfoe has blessed him for basically saving all of the history over 20 odd years.

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