Atari 2600 / F164
BEING VERIFIEDTHE FREEZE IS AN INFINITE LIST-SCAN LOOP, NOT A DISPATCH CYCLE
- STATUS
- BEING VERIFIED
- AREA
- CPU
- RECORDED
- 2026-06-12
- PUBLIC SOURCE
- Research dossier / finding 164
- RECORD ID
atari2600-f164- SNAPSHOT
a58ea4ac37c644e9
CORRECTED MODEL: the "display loop" of F162/F163 is not a degenerate dispatch cycle — the CPU is stuck inside ONE C function (sub_0110C0, the same function iter-34's non-TAS natural-exit implicated) in a goto-only infinite loop; frames keep advancing solely because io_tick inside the spinning loop drives the frame clock, and the TIA snapshot state (olive bk, no objects) is whatever the last full frame left behind.
Raw traces, ROM material, local paths, and personal data are not part of this public record.
01INPUT IDhash receipt
02BYTE MAPdecode coverage
03CPU STATEtrace comparison
04BUS / TIMEordered effects
05OUTPUTvisual · audio · input
06ARTIFACTbuild identity