Sunday, December 22, 2024
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Video: Apple Watch loads Frogger onto an Atari 2600

Our buddy Niles Mitchell (AKA napabar on YouTube) is back with another one of his fun videos. This time, Niles is using a Starpath Supercharger plugged into an Atari 2600 game console, connected to a small Bluetooth receiver that’s linked to his Apple Watch. With a tap on the Apple Watch, he quickly loads Frogger onto the Atari console and away we go!

By the way, it’s always somewhat nice to know that the Atari 2600 is really an ancient piece of technology — it was released on September 11, 1977, before I graduated from engineering school! I was just 19 years old at the time. 

The Supercharger added a whopping 6KB of RAM to the 128 bytes of storage built into the Atari 2600. 128 bytes… think about it. 

Steve Sande
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Steve is the founder and former publisher of Apple World Today and has authored a number of books about Apple products. He's an avid photographer, an FAA-licensed drone pilot, and a really bad guitarist. Steve and his wife Barb love to travel everywhere!