Back to Basics

Entry posted by tschak909 May 26, 2006

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It's so strange to be coming back to this platform, after not seeing it since 1989. I completely missed the eastern european renaissance that occurred in the early to mid 1990s (which is still happening even today.), and am amazed to see just what has been created for the ANTIC based Atari systems since I left.

It seems I am not the only person who has decided to come back, After combing the posts here on this site, there are a lot of developers pumping out things here too! Wow, a Rally-X game, a Super Mario Bros platform game, and a few other things, very impressive. The development tools have also improved too! EnvisionPC is fantastic! And the breadth of host-side 6502 cross assemblers made my head spin. (I decided on using MAC/65 )

I started early this morning, basically re-learning everything from scratch. Damn! I forgot it all :sad: ) I found copies of some very good Atari 800 programming materials on AtariArchives.org and started reading and typing things in, just to get the hang of it again.

I am currently trying to make some basic macros right now, namely, I finished the first version of my system equates file, and I started working on my own set of core macros which i will want to use throughout my code.

Currently trying to debug my memory clearing routines.. darn, it's spiraling out of control. Will try to re-write it again to use a different approach.

I seem to be making basic mistakes as to the operations of the compare instructions. Will look at some existing code to get a better approach.

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