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2600 Programming For Newbies

The aim of this forum is to provide insight into programming the Atari 2600 for people who've always been curious about it, but haven't yet made the leap. Andrew Davie will provide a series of lessons and will gladly answer questions as they arrive.

730 topics in this forum

  1. Atari Programming Workshop Chapter links 1 2

    By flavoredthunder,
    • 31 replies
    • 58.9k views

  2. Book? 1 2 3 4 5

    By Andrew Davie,
    • 103 replies
    • 44k views

  3. Introduction: 2600 Programming for Newbies 1 2 3 4 8

    By Andrew Davie,
    • 175 replies
    • 83.7k views

  4. Sorted Table of Contents

    By kisrael,
    • 12 replies
    • 75.9k views

  5. Help With Code From Hugg's Book

    By TonyAme,
    • 5 replies
    • 121 views

  6. Techniques for drawing player sprites

    By Elijah,
    • 7 replies
    • 266 views

  7. Wondering about Harmony cart for new programmer with Atari 2600+

    By Kellertronix,
    • 2 replies
    • 114 views

  8. Guidence on improving the draw loop code

    By Dagger,
    • 4 replies
    • 184 views

  9. Question. Can a playing field have movement?

    By alfredtdk,
    • 14 replies
    • 268 views

  10. Why does the movement/ collision prevention not work?

    By Cubwyn2600,   
    • 0 replies
    • 53 views

  11. Possible to change playfield color based on P0 position?

    By SUPERDIVORCE,
    • 4 replies
    • 161 views

  12. Assistance Needed with Scanlines

    By Elijah,
    • 4 replies
    • 134 views

  13. Trying fo fix atari 2600 4 switch

    By Beini,
    • 0 replies
    • 46 views

  14. Pitfall watch

    By alfredtdk,
    • 0 replies
    • 69 views

  15. Diving in to asm after 52 years... Getting nervous now...

    By dgrams2000,
    • 1 reply
    • 123 views

  16. Trouble with asymmetrical reflected playfield

    By SUPERDIVORCE,
    • 6 replies
    • 124 views

  17. Adjusting player movement speed

    By Dagger,
    • 2 replies
    • 95 views

  18. Newbie trying to figure out horizontal movement. Like a space invaders base/ship.

    By dgrams2000,
    • 11 replies
    • 156 views

  19. Pacman for younger children

    By John Smith,
    • 8 replies
    • 138 views

  20. Help Required - Looking for a (existing) Kernel to build a HERO clone

    By protomank,
    • 0 replies
    • 62 views

  21. Getting started using dasm and eclipse

    By JgSp,
    • 0 replies
    • 108 views

  22. Atari 2600 using AT28C256 EEPROM chips

    By D_S,   
    • 2 replies
    • 724 views

  23. To make a river on the playing field in VBB?

    By alfredtdk,
    • 1 reply
    • 169 views

  24. Really undecided about bAtari BASIC

    By Artist_AL,
    • 2 replies
    • 268 views

  25. Needed: VbB Syntax Error enlightenment

    By Artist_AL,
    • 0 replies
    • 89 views

  26. New to 6507 programming. Running through book by Oscar Toledo, but can't understand this code example

    By WarFreak131,
    • 8 replies
    • 356 views

  27. 80 - 1 = 73, why?

    By hzaccheo,
    • 3 replies
    • 238 views

  28. Unresolved Symbol List?

    By arwanderer,
    • 6 replies
    • 341 views

  29. DASM: compiled w/o error. Stella:Black Screen, Blank, steady screech noise

    By MachoDrone,
    • 6 replies
    • 285 views

  30. Tips and Tricks in Batari Basic

    By kikipdph,
    • 0 replies
    • 294 views

  31. Random Emoticons

    By kid_snz,
    • 3 replies
    • 424 views

  32. REALLY dumb question. How do I move sprites horizontally?

    By Pantomchap,
    • 11 replies
    • 2.5k views

  33. TIA timing not working as expected

    By lucienEn,
    • 3 replies
    • 323 views

  34. Elevator gane

    By jab,
    • 5 replies
    • 1k views

  35. Combine Two 4k Games Using F8 Bankswitching

    By Gemintronic,
    • 1 reply
    • 288 views

  36. Mastermind game

    By jab,
    • 2 replies
    • 555 views

  37. Does using a multicolor player sprite always use up the missile too?

    By LatchKeyKid,
    • 8 replies
    • 430 views

  38. Stella issues

    By jaymz887,
    • 6 replies
    • 418 views

  39. Atari Flashback X

    By yelrah39,
    • 1 reply
    • 270 views

  40. collision detection for dummies

    By bigmessowires,
    • 7 replies
    • 756 views

  41. Difficulty Switches??

    By yelrah39,
    • 4 replies
    • 383 views

  42. flickering sprites - is there more than one way to do this?

    By bigmessowires,
    • 7 replies
    • 367 views

  43. Multi-Sprite Trick Emulation Bug in Javatari.js?

    By bigmessowires,
    • 4 replies
    • 275 views

  44. Pitfall 2 & Spelunker

    By alfredtdk,
    • 1 reply
    • 359 views

  45. What is the best way to learn batari Basic?

    By grayescu,
    • 2 replies
    • 264 views

  46. A 4K textual adventure experiment

    By MS77,   
    • 10 replies
    • 1.2k views

  47. DASM On DOS

    By pettapatta,
    • 6 replies
    • 376 views

  48. Question about RAM usage

    By LatchKeyKid,
    • 2 replies
    • 407 views

  49. i would like to learn how to make a game for atari 2600 but idk anything about programming

    By Achillebrac,
    • 5 replies
    • 396 views

  50. RTS jumps to unintended location

    By xX_pokeman2003_Xx,
    • 9 replies
    • 475 views

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