Garak

Ok, here's mine: Console: Atari 2600 NES Super NES Sega Genesis Gameboy (original model) Super Gameboy add-on Nintendo 64 Computer: Commodore 64 Commodore SX64 (I love my portable C64) Commodore 128 Commodore Plus/4 Misc: TI82 Graphing Calc. (Yes, I'm listing it! Afterall I do have a Tetris, Super Mario, Zelda, and various Ultima clones for/on it ) Garak

Same here. I walk into a thrift shop and I find... nothing. Er, I suppose someday my luck will change Garak

Yay...!?!? Oh, wait... I thought this topic was about a new homebrew game titled "Stupid Defective Brain...".... Darn! Garak

OoOoOohhh! "Space Taxi" - that would be interesting... Hmm, others... hehehehe, "Quartet" Garak

True. And I also just realized that Osmeroid asked what it meant instead of what it said - my mistake Ah, so you have issues with them too I see? Garak

What does it mean? Cpuwiz states: "Everyone wonders what EL stands for ..." (I highlighted it then copy&paste it into notepad to read it ) Garak

Mountain King isn't too bad now that I think about it. I once had it then got frustrated with it so I, um, traded it for Joust... Garak

Yeah, I almost fell off my chair when he stated that the NES probably came out in the "late 1970's" and that it was released "some time before [he] was born" and that he is currently 15 (which means it was only a 1 or 2 years before he was born, but he still makes it sound ancient)- and this person is writing a tutorial? Kids... Yeah, I feel old too now Sheesh, the late 70's... It's only going to get worse.... I can see it now, some young person creating a Atari 2600 tutorial and stating that it come out in the 1920's way before he was born Garak

Ah, one more thing Atari Master - try checking out http://www.6502.org it's a site full of source code, 6502 tutorials, lists of 6502 books, assemblers, 6502 tech sheets, and a forum. It's a very good resource site. Garak

Oh. Sorry about the mis-understanding... Which works best? Garak

Joystick routine starts around 1330. Sprite movement is around 2150. Wow! That was quick Garak

Uh, search around THE net and see what you can DIG up. Er, you obviously missed the laughing smilyies: ' ' I placed before and after that sentence I wrote indicating I was making a joke.... based on what Atari Master said. Garak

Now all we need is some joystick code and a small sprite to move around the screen... Garak

I know I can't believe I made that mistake after all these years I need hit with Jim Butterfields' ML programming book... I guess I could go back and edit that post... Update: correction made. Thanks for finding it! Garak

Hmm, you didn't say which 6502 based computer (assuming an Atari) you wanted to program. I would stay away from the Atari2600 etc. until you get further in your 6502 programming. Perhaps a few basic ideas: If you know what POKE and PEEK do in BASIC then you have the basics of 6502 programming all ready. I'm not an Atari programmer, I just post in the Atari 2600 forum (I am a 2600 owner), but I am a C64 programmer and so my example will be based on that system. Do note that programming a C64 won't be any easier then the Atari computers. Anyway, in BASIC if I wanted to change the background color to white I would do: 10 POKE 53281,1 in 6502 that would be: (Thanks go to Nukey for finding the code mistake I made - too much Intel assembly programming I have since corrected this post) LDA #$01 ; Number assigned to color White STA $D021 ; Store into background color register Note that both do the same thing. Now if we wanted to find out what color the background was in BASIC: 10 BG=PEEK(53281) in 6502 that would be: LDA $D021 and the accumulator A would contain the current background color. LDA and STA can be used in many different ways but they always do the same thing, they either "peek" or "poke" a memory location. Next, using your book, you may want to do a small loop that would (in C64 case) go through all the background colors etc. Then you would build on that and go from there. That's how I learned - from 6502 books and from doing really small programs and keep building on them. In no time you'll be banging bits like crazy Garak

Just lick the back of it and put it back on Garak

Erg... When I lived at another house about 2 years back I was sitting at my C64 then all of a sudden a large (3-4 inch) long hideous [email protected]#! centipede ran out of the expansion port onto the keyboard and stayed on the keyboard. Freaked the hell out of me I tell you - to this day I'm still not over it. Anyway, I waited till that thing got off the C64 and smashed the living hell out of it Anyway, what would have been even freakier would have been if I was playing Centipede on my 2600 and and one came out of it. Now _that_ would be freaky! Garak

Heh! That reminds me of something... my father works at a college as a network administrator (or similar) and a few years back he kept getting calls from the library's computer center to (get this) remove music CD's from the 5.25" disk drives. Apparently some students thought the 5.25" drives were CD-ROM devices.... Garak

I've found a.... nothing, I've never opened my carts Although, if I heard a rattleing inside I probably would. Garak

Whoo, translation fun aside, it'd be nice to get a rom dump off of it. Although, King Atari is probably correct and nothing new is on it. I'd imagine perhaps some modified pirated games of some sort. Garak ( Sorry about the double post )

Whoo, translation fun aside, it'd be nice to get a rom dump off of it. Although, King Atari is probably correct and nothing new is on it. I'd imagine perhaps some modified pirated games of some sort. Garak

Nope, Berzerk was never ported at all to the C64. However, it wouldn't be too hard to do and would be great to see. Garak

Heh, I remember the stickers. I remember too that the manual was folded in a way that you could use it as a poster because it had a huge blow up of the box cover on the back. Eh, I still have the poster/manual... as for the stickers... I, um, kinda stuck them on things when I got the game.... But I still have the game cart... Garak

(un?)fortunatly?, I remember the song too... sad eh? Garak

Hehe! Anyone want to try? Garak