Making my own atari 2600 game on my mac

[GameboyReviewer]

Hi everybody I'm a huge fan and collector of the atari 2600 and was wondering if anyone out there on this site can help me for a moment. I am trying to make an atari 2600 game on my mac but have no clue how, I know its bad but I really want to, and when its done how can I put it on a cart? Thanks you guys, peace :^)

[+Omegamatrix]

Start with Andrew Davie's lessons:

 

http://www.atariage.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=33233

[+Random Terrain]

And if that's too hard and your Mac can run PC software, you can make Atari 2600 games using batari Basic and Visual batari Basic, the bB IDE, which makes it even easier to create your own games.

[+SpiceWare]

I use jEdit for Atari coding on my Mac.

[theking21083]

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Edited June 4, 2008 by theking21083

[Wickeycolumbus]

I use the mac version of DASM and Stella os X.

 

DASM can be downloaded here:

 

http://www.atari2600.org/DASM/

 

and stella here:

 

http://stella.sourceforge.net/

 

While were at it, does any one know how to get into debugger mode on stella os x?

[+SpiceWare]

hit the ` key (right above tab)

[Torlus]

Go to Options, Input Settings, in the Emul. Events tab. Select the "Toggle debugger mode" item, click on "Erase", then "Map" and press the key you want to use to enter debugger mode.

[Wickeycolumbus]

hit the ` key (right above tab)

 

Thank you very much!

[Jakenut86]

I'm new to Mac's and cant seem to figure out how to get DASM to work. Can someone help me out??

[Wickeycolumbus]

I'm new to Mac's and cant seem to figure out how to get DASM to work. Can someone help me out??

 

You need to use Terminal (it is pre-loaded). Put DASM and your source code that you want to assemble in your home directory (on a finder window it should show your name and a picture of a house on the left. click on that, that is your home directory. see pic) and then open up Terminal. Then type in this command:

 

/users/your user name/dasm filename.asm -f3 -v5 -ooutputfilename.bin

 

I hope this helps!

Edited January 18, 2009 by Wickeycolumbus

[Jakenut86]

Edit - figured it out. Thanks for the help

Edited January 18, 2009 by Jakenut86

[Wickeycolumbus]

Edit - figured it out. Thanks for the help

 

You're welcome, glad I could help!