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Atari 2600 VCS - What Is the Basic Architecture?

The 6502 processor was this extremely cheap processor back then. The Atari VCS had also a chip which was responsible for sending instructions to the television set, which we usually call the TIA chip. So you have these are the two main components, sorry, the three main components of an Atari 2600. You must not use them in your course. Is there an online simulator? Yeah, so I do. There is probably the fact emulator and simulator that we talk, which is the Stella. It was actually the original name of the project, the 2600. It was supposed to be called Stella.

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