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NAME

2600 – emulator

SYNOPSIS

games/2600 [ -a ] [ -x scale ] romfile

DESCRIPTION

2600 is an emulator for the Atari 2600. It exectues the romfile given as an argument, and controls as if using a regular 4-direction 1-button joystick, using space button and directional keys. The q, w, e and r keys correspond respectively to the reset, select, player 1 difficulty and color mode switches. Other keys:

F1

Pause the emulator. If already paused it will step one video frame.  

F12

Toggle the emulator’s speedometer. It shows in the upper left, off-viewport corner, the ratio between the expected and observed time it took to draw 60 frames.  

t

Toggle tracing of the emulator.  

‘

It uncaps the 60fps frame rate and lets emulation go as fast as possible.  

Esc

Pause the emulator.  

Del

Exit the emulator.  

Command line options:

-a

Enable audio output.  

-x

Scale the screen to a given factor regardless of the window’s size.  

SOURCE

/sys/src/games/2600

BUGS

Yes.

HISTORY

2600 first appeared in 9front (November, 2014).