Changing Atari VCS Graphics The Easy Way
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interesting graphic conversions of an Atari VCS game is. Space Invaders by Yak (of Tempest 2000 fame) ... replace some Atari game graphics with some of your ...
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Changing Atari VCS Graphics The Easy WayPage 1Changing Atari VCS Graphics The Easy Way of 5Changing Atari VCS Graphics The Easy WayBy Adam TrionfoYou The ReaderYou think of yourself as a real VCS fan a truecollector. Perhaps instead you are just a casual VCSplayer. You have all the best games and even most ofthe worst ones. Maybe you just have a handful of yourfavorites. When you heard of the Stella Gets a NewBrain compilation for the Starpath Supercharger you hadto have one. Possibly you have no idea what the StellaGets a New Brain CD even is. You have an Atari VCSemulator installed on your computer along with everyROM image that you can get your hands on. Or youdespise playing emulators preferring the real thing everytime.Whichever category you place yourself indoesnt matter. This article is aimed squarely at theplayer (not the programmer) who is interested in makinga VCS game a little more of their own by changing thegraphics that have become so familiar to us all.A devout scouring of the Net for VCSinformation will pull up enough to keep anyone occupiedfor a lifetime. So if you are just a little bit curious wheredo you start? That was the proposition that lay beforeme last summer. I looked around for information thatwas aimed at a nonassemblyprogrammer: I never foundany.On the Internet there are a number of games thathave had the graphics changed. One of the moreinteresting graphic conversions of an Atari VCS game isSpace Invaders by Yak (of Tempest 2000 fame). Thegame is infested with what else Llamas. It was thisgraphic conversion that first intrigued me to look beyondthe mere playing of VCS games. After a little work Iwas able to change Space Invaders myself.I wish to encourage tinkering with VCS games.I have tried to make this a stepbystep approach tochanging the graphics in a 2600 game specifically SpaceInvaders. This article is a guideline to the programs anda few of the techniques that I u ...
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