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Atari 2600

Overview

The Atari 2600 application is an emulator for the Atari 2600 game console.

Slide Boy in Maze Land by Vladimir Zuniga

Controls

The emulator supports up to two controllers. The keyboard and gamepad mappings are listed in the tables below.

Keyboard

Keyboard support is only available for controller one.

Name Keys Comments
Move
Fire
Reset
Select The Right Shift Key.
Show Pause Screen

Gamepad

Gamepad support is available for both controllers.

Name
Gamepad
 Comments
Move  or 
Fire
Reset Not available for Xbox and not recommended for iOS (see alternate)

Press the Menu (Start) Button.
Reset
(Alternate)		  and  Hold down the Right Trigger and click (press down) on the Right Thumbstick.
Select Not available for Xbox and not recommended for iOS (see alternate)

Press the View (Back) Button.
Select
(Alternate)		  and  Hold down the Right Trigger and click (press down) on the Left Thumbstick.
Show Pause Screen  and  Not available for Xbox and not recommended for iOS (see alternate 3 or 4)

Hold down the Left Trigger and press the Menu (Start) Button.
Show Pause Screen
(Alternate)		  and  Not available for Xbox and not recommended for iOS (see alternate 3 or 4)

Hold down the Left Trigger and press the View (Back) Button.
Show Pause Screen
(Alternate 2)		  and  Not available for Xbox and not recommended for iOS (see alternate 3 or 4)

Hold down the X Button and press the View (Back) Button.
Show Pause Screen
(Alternate 3)		  and  Hold down the Left Trigger and click (press down) on the Left Thumbstick.
Show Pause Screen
(Alternate 4)		  and  Hold down the Left Trigger and click (press down) on the Right Thumbstick.

Feed

This section details how Atari 2600 application instances can be added to feeds.

Type

The type name for the Atari 2600 application is javatari.

Note

The alias 2600 also currently maps to this application. In the future, the 2600 alias may be mapped to another Atari 2600 application (different emulator implementation) if it is determined to be a more appropriate default.

Properties

The table below contains the properties that are specific to the Atari 2600 application. These properties are specified in the props object of a feed item.

Property Type Required Details
rom URL Yes URL to an Atari 2600 ROM file or a zip file containing a ROM file.
swap Boolean No Whether to swap the controller ports. This is typically enabled when games default to using port 2 (versus port 1).

Example

The following is an example of a complete feed that consists of a single Atari 2600 application instance (type value of 2600). The rom property value is a URL that points to a Dropbox location that contains the excellent homebrew game Blinky Goes Up by Jan Hermanns.

{
  "title": "2600 Feed",
  "longTitle": "Atari 2600 Example Feed",
  "categories": [
    {
      "title": "2600 Games",
      "longTitle": "Atari 2600 Games",
      "items": [
        {
          "title": "Blinky Goes Up",
          "type": "2600",
          "props": {
            "rom": "https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/s/kkqrl8av5pwvgn1/blinky.bin"
          }
        }
      ]
    }
  ]
}

This example can be tested by adding a feed with the following URL within the webЯcade player:

https://tinyurl.com/2600-feed

References

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