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steve5565:
Hi im new here so I don't know much. I was wondering if there was a Atari 2600 emulator. You would think that it would be the easiest to make.

saratoga:
Theres no such emulator.  You're welcome to look into how hard it would be to make. 

Progweed:
There is this rather old patch:
http://www.rockbox.org/tracker/task/6048

LambdaCalculus:

--- Quote from: steve5565 on January 14, 2011, 03:32:37 PM ---Hi im new here so I don't know much. I was wondering if there was a Atari 2600 emulator. You would think that it would be the easiest to make.

--- End quote ---

On the contrary, an Atari 2600 emulator is actually rather difficult to program. I'll let Wikipedia explain why: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atari_2600#Emulation

Now take what that link says, and think of what you're programming on: an embedded system with limited power. You're welcome to try the patch linked above, but as mentioned, it's rather old and may need a *hell* of a lot of work to get up to speed again.

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