minus-squarethejbw@lemm.eetoRetroGaming@lemmy.world•Found a brand new, unused Pong console from 1979 in an Edinburgh charity shop for 20£linkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·1 month agoEssentially the “program” was baked into the hardware design itself. It didn’t have a rom chip or something, it just had hardware circuits dedicated to each function, like drawing the paddle etc. linkfedilink
Essentially the “program” was baked into the hardware design itself. It didn’t have a rom chip or something, it just had hardware circuits dedicated to each function, like drawing the paddle etc.