12 replies to this topic

[kisrael]

For people coming late to the party who want to browse through the entire thing without hunting-and-clicking for each lesson, here are the lessons so far, in order:


ATARI 2600 PROGRAMMING TUTORIAL

Introduction
Session 1: Start Here
Session 2: Television Display Basics
Session 3: The TIA and the 6502
Session 4: The TIA
Session 5: Memory Architecture
Session 6: TV Timing Diagram
Session 7: The TV and our Kernel
Session 8: Our First Kernel
Session 9: 6502 and DASM - Assembling the Basics
Session 10: Orgasm
Session 11: Colourful Colors
Session 12: Initialisation
Session 13: Playfield Basics
Session 14: Playfield Wierdness
Session 15 - Playfield Continued
Session 16: Letting the Assembler do the Work
Session 17: Asymmetrical Playfields - Part 1
Session 18: Asymmetrical Playfields - Part 2
Session 19: Addressing modes
Session 20: Asymmetrical Playfields - Part 3
Session 21: Sprites
Session 22: Sprites, Horizontal Positioning Part 1
Session 23: Moving Sprites Vertically
Session 24: Some nice code
Session 25: Let's start with missiles perhaps...

GAME DESIGN TUTORIAL

Design #1: Primordial Ooze

[Jonny_B]

Thanks again for the organization. Makes it easier for late-comers like me to access them easier.

[RedBeard]

I second the Red Baron's motion.

This is truly helpful.

-C.F.

P.S.  This stuph is great!

[Wickeycolumbus]

thank you for doing this!

[klokwrkblu]

Hey is it possible if you can convert the tutorial to a pdf or txt so you dont have to go online to look at it?

That whould be nice

[SeaGtGruff]

klokwrkblu, on Mon Dec 22, 2008 2:05 AM, said:

Hey is it possible if you can convert the tutorial to a pdf or txt so you dont have to go online to look at it?

That whould be nice

That's already been done. I think there might be a link to it somewhere in this forum?

Michael

[SeaGtGruff]

SeaGtGruff, on Mon Dec 22, 2008 11:26 PM, said:

klokwrkblu, on Mon Dec 22, 2008 2:05 AM, said:

Hey is it possible if you can convert the tutorial to a pdf or txt so you dont have to go online to look at it?

That whould be nice

That's already been done. I think there might be a link to it somewhere in this forum?

Michael

Found it. It goes up through Session 22.

Michael

[Omegamatrix]

Cpuwiz's bandwidth just got killed. Anyhow I hope not... just how fast is your connection Cpuwiz?

Edited by Omegamatrix, Tue Dec 23, 2008 12:02 AM.

[Arjak]

The links are broken!!!

[ScumSoft]

UPDATED LINKS:

Session 1: Start Here
Session 2: Television Display Basics
Session 3: The TIA and the 6502
Session 4: The TIA
Session 5: Memory Architecture
Session 6: TV Timing Diagram
Session 7: The TV and our Kernel
Session 8: Our First Kernel
Session 9: 6502 and DASM - Assembling the Basics
Session 10: Orgasm
Session 11: Colourful Colors
Session 12: Initialisation
Session 13: Playfield Basics
Session 14: Playfield Wierdness
Session 15 - Playfield Continued
Session 16: Letting the Assembler do the Work
Session 17: Asymmetrical Playfields - Part 1
Session 18: Asymmetrical Playfields - Part 2
Session 19: Addressing modes
Session 20: Asymmetrical Playfields - Part 3
Session 21: Sprites
Session 22: Sprites, Horizontal Positioning Part 1
Session 23: Moving Sprites Vertically
Session 24: Some nice code
session 25: lets start with missiles

[Albert]

I've fixed the links in the first post, thanks for your help ScumSoft.

..Al

[ScumSoft]

No problem, glad to do whatever I can to help.

[Random Terrain]

Adapted versions of the Andrew Davie Sessions and the Robert M Lessons can be viewed here:

www.randomterrain.com/atari-2600-memories.html#assembly_language