How Retro Video Game Graphics Work

[@hovelfrog]

Hi, Gustavo. I found this link while slowly working through your Atari 2600 assembly language course. It's awesome, something I've always wanted to learn since I was a kid playing Atari in the 1970s and 1980s. I'm about halfway through and I'm really enjoying it.

[@code4fun677]

Amazing content as always, keep it up!!

[@pikuma]

Thanks! :)

[@klr607]

Well explained as usual. Please continue with the conversation. Thank you

[@claudiosettiart]

Super informative and extremely well presented. I love your teaching style. Can't wait for a 68000 course from you!

[@dKonstructed]

Solid information. I'm looking forward to your lectures on the SNES/SFCOM and Genisis/MegaDrive in the future. Also, it would be interesting to see if you can do a lecture series on the PlayStation. I know that hardware becomes a complex issue in that generation, but it would be interesting to see how that system worked and how it built upon what came before. I'd suppose that a prereq would be the low-poly graphics course you have in order understand the linear algebra working behind the scenes.

[@EmiTheLoomistar]

Please please, cover the next generations!! It would be an amazing learning experience

[@vazquezelectronics8334]

one of the best video i saw this year AMAZING Thanks for everything

[@hanspeterbestandig2054]

Bravo, bravo! 👋 Thank you, that you share your great Knowledge with us! 🙂

[@pikuma]

My pleasure! :)

[@MichaelVLang]

A light conversation, but nonetheless mind-bending.

[@theromarioaf]

Excellent content, amazing explanation! Thank you very much!!!

[@ghosthuntergr]

Your lessons in atari 2600 programming are the best in the world. Would like to see more consoles like Vectrex and also BatariBasic coverage

[@pikuma]

Thanks! Nice suggestions. 🙂 I'm working on some new stuff; ler's see if I can squeeze something about the Vectrex in it. But I don't know much about BatariBasic yet.

[@SaadAzim]

Great video. I look forward to the one on 4th gen consoles. Admittedly, Atari's "Hi-Way" made me think of "Super Spy Hunter" for the NES, that also changed modified the x position of the background layer during vertical blanking to make roads look curved. :D

[@pikuma]

Thanks for the kind words. I know! After I published the course I realized that I did not mention the background scrolling technique (not even for the NES, which was a super important feature). Oh well, there's always more to tackle in the next ones. :)

[@SaadAzim]

@@pikuma Indeed. If I remember correctly, when the Famicom came out in 1983, the ability to smoothly scroll the background was a pretty big deal. SEGA's offering, the SG-1000, which was released around the same time, looked dated by comparison.

[@jairosantos6062]

Thankx Professor, Obrigaduuuu..

[@pikuma]

Grande!

[@Lord_Biyoma]

Nice video! love your way of teaching , continue

[@pikuma]

Thank you! :)

[@MrBildo]

If you like his YT videos do check out his courses on his website.

[@4dillusions]

Hi! Will you plan Commodore 64 assembly game programming course?

[@pikuma]

That is the plan, yes. 🙂 I still have other content first, but it will happen.

[@haha-hk9tx]

As someone who just started making games this is nice to know 😁

[@pikuma]

That's great to hear. It's nice to put things into historical context. 😉

[@KrunchyTheClown78]

Atari 7800 is a console that desperately needs to be covered!

[@mr_noodler]

This guy is awesome

[@sodapopinski9922]

Could someone please go over spacerace diode sprite… I’ve looked everywhere on the net and there is nothing about it… I don’t see how diodes could render an image without memory… it would def be associated with the clock timing on which part of the space ship to draw, correct?

[@Durian_Defense]

ZX81 next please. SIr Clive would be proud.

[@pikuma]

Frankie! Great call. And maybe one day you can teach me your wizard ways on 16-bit x86 assembly as well. 👍🙂

[@gabriellanzer]

Chimarrão for the win!

[@kraftwerk974]

If you drink mate you've got to be Argentinian but you have a Brasilian accent haven't you 🤔. As a C64 programmer I can imagine how hard the VCS must be to code for without a graphic's memory. This notion of racing the beam is alien to me.

[@pikuma]

The south of Brazil has a lot of cultural overlap with Uruguay, Paraguai, and Argentina. 🧉❤️

[@mfawzi89]

Are you going to publish NES Programming with 6502 Assembly on Udemy? Your other courses are really amazing.

[@pikuma]

Hi Fawzy. We don't use Udemy for our new courses anymore.

[@maxmuster7003]

I made a "Picture to character converter" for the default DOS/DosBox text screen. Please google.

[@pikuma]

Super! 🙂

[@maxmuster7003]

@@pikuma For pictures with 112x112 pixel, 2 colors, uncompress data to display inside a block of 7x14=98 extended ASCII on 80x25 screen with 8x16 font size.

[@SiuLoong]

Mate??

[@halfsourlizard9319]

Woah. 128bytes is ... very, very close to 0 bytes.

[@ArlindoVianna]

Meu amigo faça também em português

[@Sanscripter]

Matcha matcha

[@jonshouse1]

The content looks great but the speech tics "right" and "got it" wore me down. I cant watch people who use a floating "so" or punctuate with "like" for much the same reason.