3DO, PS1 & Atari Will

🚨 Proof of Concept: High-Performance Graphics on a Stock #Atari STFM! 🚨 In this video, I’m showing something cool: 🎮 A stock Atari STFM — no accelerators, no STe hardware, no blitter. Just running at the classic 8 MHz. The only extras connected are my @Sidecartridge Multidevice and my other gadgets — nothing more. 🧠 But what’s happening isn’t ordinary. As soon as it’s powered on, the machine runs a demo — rendered entirely by the RP2040 inside the Pico W on the Multidevice. 🚀 The demo is a proof of concept: it’s feasible to run a 50 fps horizontal/vertical scrolling scene, entirely driven by the external coprocessor. ✔️ Every frame, the background is refreshed — just like in a real side-scrolling game. ✔️ It displays up to 30 animated, masked, pixel-scrolling sprites, each 48x48 px. ✔️ There’s also overlay text rendered in real-time. ✔️ And again — no blitter, no STe, no accelerators. 🧪 The code still has a lot of room for optimization. Based on what I see now, 50 animated sprites at 50 fps seems totally within reach. 🎧 Even more exciting — the Atari ST still has enough CPU cycles left to stream digitized audio from the RP2040. 💡 Why all this? Because I want to run Doom on this little gadget — and play it on the ST at 50 fps. And now… I genuinely think it’s possible.