2600 Programming For Newbies

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

   By Andrew Davie, May 22, 2003
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   • Just Jeff
   • July 7, 2019

2. Book? 1 2 3 4 5

   By Andrew Davie, May 27, 2003
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   • Sikor
   • June 9, 2022

3. Atari Programming Workshop Chapter links 1 2

   By flavoredthunder, April 4, 2004
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   • Fenris78
   • January 11

4. Sorted Table of Contents

   By kisrael, September 5, 2003
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   • Random Terrain
   • February 6, 2012

5. The Celery Game (was:"Screen rolls at the start") 1 2 3 4 7

   By atari2600land, July 9, 2016
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   • vidak
   • December 6, 2017

6. Atari Roguelikes 1 2 3 4

   By DJT, August 10, 2011
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   • PFL
   • December 6, 2013

7. Bankswitching Demos/Templates 1 2 3 4

   By Wickeycolumbus, April 1, 2009
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   • zilog_z80a
   • February 27, 2018

8. Session 12: Initialisation 1 2 3 4

   By Andrew Davie, May 28, 2003
   • 75 replies
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   • Andrew Davie
   • August 11, 2014

9. WIP Battle Pong- Questions, Comments, Snide Remarks Welcome 1 2 3

   By Just Jeff, August 13, 2016
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   • Arenafoot
   • February 1, 2019

10. Coding tricks 1 2 3

    By ScumSoft, March 2, 2011
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    • Thomas Jentzsch
    • January 30, 2014

11. Session 14: Playfield Wierdness 1 2 3

    By Andrew Davie, June 1, 2003
    • 65 replies
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    • RevEng
    • January 30, 2021

12. My assembly questions thread 1 2 3

    By Lillapojkenpåön, October 30, 2018
    • 56 replies
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    • Andrew Davie
    • May 23, 2020

13. Session 20: Asymmetrical Playfields - Part 3 1 2 3

    By Andrew Davie, July 11, 2003
    • 53 replies
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    • SpiceWare
    • January 3, 2017

14. Session 17: Asymmetrical Playfields - Part 1 1 2 3

    By Andrew Davie, June 25, 2003
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    • its-a-feature
    • May 29, 2020

15. Design #1: Primordial Ooze 1 2 3

    By Andrew Davie, September 9, 2003
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    • Pat Brady
    • December 12, 2009

16. newbie seeks assistance! 1 2 3

    By MayDay, February 24, 2005
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    • MayDay
    • February 23, 2007

17. Dasm won't open 1 2

    By Atari Charles, April 24, 2004
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    • Thomas Jentzsch
    • December 21, 2005

18. Hello 2600 Homebrewers 1 2

    By The Brew that is True, June 3, 2022
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    • The Brew that is True
    • August 23, 2022

19. Session 22: Sprites, Horizontal Positioning Part 1 1 2

    By Andrew Davie, August 29, 2003
    • 43 replies
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    • juanitogan
    • September 13, 2020

20. Session 13: Playfield Basics 1 2

    By Andrew Davie, May 30, 2003
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    • SeaGtGruff
    • September 21, 2010

21. Session 23: Moving Sprites Vertically 1 2

    By Andrew Davie, November 18, 2003
    • 42 replies
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    • Sheldon Sims
    • May 13, 2018

22. Session 9: 6502 and DASM - Assembling the Basics 1 2

    By Andrew Davie, May 25, 2003
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    • SpiceWare
    • February 21, 2021

23. point and click atari programming 1 2

    By MayDay, June 28, 2005
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    • MayDay
    • December 9, 2005

24. Inverting Bytes 1 2

    By Jedd, April 20, 2004
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    • Jedd
    • May 10, 2004

25. Building DASM on Linux 1 2

    By 1FF8, January 27, 2012
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    • stephena
    • August 10, 2013

26. Am I going the right way with this? 1 2

    By johnnystarr, December 9, 2013
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    • johnnystarr
    • March 15, 2014

27. Weapons check 1 2

    By 4ever2600, January 27, 2004
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    • Nukey Shay
    • January 29, 2004

28. Session 15 - Playfield Continued 1 2

    By Andrew Davie, June 9, 2003
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    • kamakazi
    • September 20, 2010

29. Is there a name for a 60th of a second (an NTSC/PAL60 cycle)? 1 2

    By Random Terrain, December 31, 2015
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    • alex_79
    • January 23, 2016

30. Session 11: Colourful Colors 1 2

    By Andrew Davie, May 27, 2003
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    • SavedByZero
    • October 26, 2019

31. Require some dumbed down definitions 1 2

    By Random Terrain, April 7, 2011
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    • John_L
    • June 20, 2014

32. Session 24: Some nice code 1 2

    By Andrew Davie, April 6, 2004
    • 36 replies
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    • Thomas Jentzsch
    • April 20, 2011

33. T•Rex aka First Attempt at 6507 1 2

    By Secamline, October 26, 2016
    • 36 replies
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    • Secamline
    • November 7, 2016

34. What does "sta" and "lda" mean? 1 2

    By Shufflehound, December 4, 2013
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    • nanochess
    • December 10, 2013

35. Session 8: Our First Kernel 1 2

    By Andrew Davie, May 24, 2003
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    • KrazyKattapilla
    • August 18, 2019

36. Francis Ichabod Cranium 8 (was:"Missiles and coloring") 1 2

    By atari2600land, February 15, 2017
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    • atari2600land
    • April 9, 2017

37. bne jmp bpl 1 2

    By Serguei2, April 13, 2004
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    • Bryan
    • April 22, 2004

38. Session 5: Memory Architecture 1 2

    By Andrew Davie, May 23, 2003
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    • rbairos
    • January 28, 2019

39. Did I miss something while doing this dump? 1 2

    By coderbr, July 26, 2019
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    • Thomas Jentzsch
    • April 9, 2022

40. Why the ripple upward? 1 2

    By tschak909, September 4, 2016
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    • Thomas Jentzsch
    • September 15, 2016

41. Scrolling Maze Demo 1 2

    By cd-w, March 13, 2005
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    • Tom
    • March 21, 2005

42. Scrolling Playfield 1 2

    By Mikes360, February 3, 2014
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    • Wickeycolumbus
    • February 7, 2014

43. Need my code scrutinized >.> 1 2

    By johnon, April 7, 2010
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    • cd-w
    • April 8, 2010

44. My questions about my first program 1 2

    By Rabbit 2600, October 11, 2012
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    • Rabbit 2600
    • October 13, 2012

45. ok, now what? 1 2

    By Ruffsta, December 20, 2005
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    • batari
    • December 22, 2005

46. How can I draw my sprites in less cycles? 1 2

    By Robert Gremillion, May 5, 2022
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    • Ecernosoft
    • August 19, 2022

47. How do you keep in sync? 1 2

    By Shufflehound, December 29, 2013   

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    • Wickeycolumbus
    • December 31, 2013

48. Session 19: Addressing modes 1 2

    By Andrew Davie, July 2, 2003
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    • Thomas Jentzsch
    • June 3, 2005

49. Noob Playfield Question 1 2

    By kamakazi, April 27, 2014   

    • Playfield
    • Atari 2600
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      • Atari 2600
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    • SeaGtGruff
    • May 28, 2014

50. Session 18: Asymmetrical Playfields - Part 2 1 2

    By Andrew Davie, June 27, 2003
    • 25 replies
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    • Christopher Tumber
    • July 8, 2003