Retro Demo Coding

Description	You learn something new every day, how about learning something retro? Like coding a demo for a game console that was created in the late 70's. The Atari 2600 VCS provides 128 bytes of RAM, an address space for 4k of ROM and NO framebuffer.
Website(s)	http://svolli.org/atari2600/#workshop
Type	Workshop
Kids session	No
Keyword(s)	software, art, coding
Tags	Retro, 8-bit, Demo
Processing assembly	Leitstelle511
Person organizing	SvOlli SvOlli,
Language	de - German, en - English de - German, en - English
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Subtitle	Your own Atari 2600 VCS demo in just three hours
Starts at	2014/12/29 21:00
Ends at	2014/12/30 00:00
Duration	180 minutes
Location	Hall 13

If you've got some general coding experience (like C, python, etc), you can go from zero to a small demo just in a few hours. Bring a computer running Linux, Mac OS X or Windows together with your favorite text editor, and I'll give you the tools you need to get your code running in an emulator.

You can bring along a logo or image that you would like to include in the demo. A png image using two colors (background/foreground) with exactly 40 pixels in width and about 32 pixels in height will do.