r/atari8bit • u/FredSchwartz • 2h ago
Mandelbrot Set on 800XL
Nine selected mages from a program generated with Claude to compute Mandlebrot and Julia Sets using Atkinson dithering, running on an Atari 800XL.
It's using 16 bit fixed-point math and takes about 35 seconds to generate each one of these images. It's taking advantage of the extra memory (compared to stock 800) in the 800XL to compute and store a 32K table of squares.