GradualGames Posted December 26, 2017 Share Posted December 26, 2017 (edited) Hi all, I've been coding for the NES since about 2008, so I've got quite a bit of 6502 under my belt. As such I do not need a very detailed tutorial. But I would be curious to find a very basic guide to the 2600 hardware and maybe a template program. Does anyone use ca65? I FINALLY acquired my mother in law's 2600 (she tends to like to hold on to things), I'm in the process of fixing it up and I have a harmony cart in the mail. Edited December 26, 2017 by GradualGames 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GradualGames Posted December 26, 2017 Author Share Posted December 26, 2017 I did find this page, sorry for posting in haste before I found it, but I wanted to say hi anyway. http://atariage.com/2600/programming/index.html Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Random Terrain Posted December 26, 2017 Share Posted December 26, 2017 I have an Atari 2600 assembly language section at my web site: randomterrain.com/atari-2600-memories.html#assembly_language 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ZackAttack Posted December 26, 2017 Share Posted December 26, 2017 The Stella programmer's guide would be a good place to start if you haven't already read it. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vidak Posted December 26, 2017 Share Posted December 26, 2017 You can check out my (nearly complete) annotation of the Stella Mailing List here: http://bootlicker.party/commo-dig 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+SpiceWare Posted December 27, 2017 Share Posted December 27, 2017 You may find my Collect tutorial to be useful, it covers the creation of a 2K game from scratch. Due to it being a tutorial I put in lots of extra comments in the source. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr SQL Posted December 27, 2017 Share Posted December 27, 2017 Hi all, I've been coding for the NES since about 2008, so I've got quite a bit of 6502 under my belt. As such I do not need a very detailed tutorial. But I would be curious to find a very basic guide to the 2600 hardware and maybe a template program. Does anyone use ca65? I FINALLY acquired my mother in law's 2600 (she tends to like to hold on to things), I'm in the process of fixing it up and I have a harmony cart in the mail. I think you might like the ASDK (Abstract Assembly Development Kit) included with Flashback BASIC, it lets you program in Assembly using a Nintendo PPU style soft blitter chip. Examples are on the Flashback BASIC site linked in my signature. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GradualGames Posted December 28, 2017 Author Share Posted December 28, 2017 I'm finding the Atari 2600 101 tutorial: http://atariage.com/2600/programming/2600_101/to be a good enough starting point, thanks folks! Looks as though dasm is pretty much the standard assembler. I actually don't think the fancy bells and whistles of ca65 would even benefit me much with the Atari 2600. This system makes me feel downright spoiled as an NES developer. Like, I look at the Atari 2600 then I move to NES and I'm like: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+SvOlli Posted January 6, 2018 Share Posted January 6, 2018 I'm pretty confident with using ca65, though it feels like I'm the only one here... You can take a look at the source code of my demos at https://xayax.net/ . Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scitari Posted January 7, 2018 Share Posted January 7, 2018 I found Steven Hugg's Atari 2600 programming book to be useful in addition to the resources mentioned above. See: https://www.amazon.com/Making-Games-Atari-2600-Steven/dp/1541021304 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JeremiahK Posted January 7, 2018 Share Posted January 7, 2018 I found Steven Hugg's Atari 2600 programming book to be useful in addition to the resources mentioned above. See: https://www.amazon.com/Making-Games-Atari-2600-Steven/dp/1541021304 I second that, I learned a lot from that book. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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