But if you really want to be retro and have fun hacking in a truly constrained environment, try coding for the Atari 2600. Grab Stella (http://stella.sourceforge.net/index.php), read up on Atari specs (http://problemkaputt.de/2k6specs.htm) and have at it. Yep you read that right -- 8bit CPU at 1Mhz, 128 BYTES RAM, max 8K of memory.
But if you really want to be retro and have fun hacking in a truly constrained environment, try coding for the Atari 2600. Grab Stella (http://stella.sourceforge.net/index.php), read up on Atari specs (http://problemkaputt.de/2k6specs.htm) and have at it. Yep you read that right -- 8bit CPU at 1Mhz, 128 BYTES RAM, max 8K of memory.