Software and Hardware to create full length color movie + audio cartridges for stock Atari 2600
September 11 1977
Introducing MovieCart.
This revolutionary new product will allow for the first time ever, anyone to experience the joy of the silver screen directly from the comfort of their own home, in stunning digital accuracy. Boasting an impressive 80 x 192 resolution, 7 bit color and 4 bit monaural audio, begin building your full length feature film library today.*
Technical Specs:
Two fields are alternated at 60 frames per second. Each field consists of a checkerboard pattern of 10 x 262 cells. Each cell contains one of 128 colours and is 8 pixels wide by 1 pixel deep. This produces an effective resolution of 80 x 262 @ 30 frames per second, with 10 colors per line.
Each field requires 2.5K of data.
Sound is 4 bit mono produced at 15.720 KHz.
A 1K Kernel is made available to the 6507 via a dual port ram. A 16 MIPs microcontroller monitors 3 address lines to selectively update portions of the kernel with information streamed from an SD microcard. Joystick controls brightness, volume, and shuttle position. Console switches control b/w, ten second rewind and full rewind.
Each second requires the equivalent of 75.5 Combat cartridges, or over half a million cartridges to produce a full length 2 hour movie.
Hardware consists of only 3 through-hole components, plus a few passives. No assembly of SMT parts are required.