Scuttle130 Posted February 26, 2004 Share Posted February 26, 2004 I am "teaching myself" with the helps of many, many books and 5200Basic by Jeffry Johnson. I hope to be cool enough to make a good game like Adventure 2, but until then, I will have to figure this stuff out. I blame Andrew Davie for getting me interested in the ATARI programming with his forum "Programming the 2600 for Newbies." I will post my progress of learning as I go...I try to comment my code, but if someone has a question, please ask!!! I will explain what parts I understand. A lot of the next several programs are just tests to figure out how the 5200 will understand certain commands and the results. I am using 5200bas from http://lilly.csoft.net/~jeffryj/5200bas/5200bas.html and De Re Atari from http://www.atariarchives.org/ and the emulator Rainbow 95 from http://www.chrislam.co.uk and click on Rainbow at the top you can get the 5200 ROM from http://www.atariage.com/5200/emulation/ind...l?SystemID=5200 You can also get TASM from Dan B's 6502 Tech Page under Development Software http://www.atarihq.com/danb/6502.shtml I do welcome comments and suggestions on ways to make things more efficient. My first program is attached... I based it on Zork. You walk thru 6 rooms with the joystick. You are supposed to pick up a key in the Kitchen and the game ends when you walk back to the Bedroom. Everything works except I haven't figured out the numeric keypad part yet. I know how to stop it from continually scrolling, I just want to figure out a better way, probably with the next program. Until then, I hope those of you who have no idea about programming the 5200, and maybe some of those who do, will enjoy this. I cannot add attachments, so the listing will be a respond to this. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nukey Shay Posted February 26, 2004 Share Posted February 26, 2004 I cannot add attachments, so the listing will be a respond to this. Huh? The site should allow it as long as the program is zipped. I can even do it in IE Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scuttle130 Posted February 26, 2004 Author Share Posted February 26, 2004 This should work now... house.zip Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scuttle130 Posted February 26, 2004 Author Share Posted February 26, 2004 If you comment out the following on line 95: IF A <> $FF THEN GOTO l_JoyStick You can use the * key to search for the Key in the Kitchen. The # key to pick up the Key. Then when you go back to the Bed Room, the game will end. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scuttle130 Posted February 28, 2004 Author Share Posted February 28, 2004 Here is the next step in my 5200 programming adventure... I basically moves a sprite (in the form of a ship) across the screen from right to left until you hit the * or # key. (I dont remember which one I encoded but one or the other works ) You can see that using labels doesn't work for identifing Sprites, just use the methods on the Command Reference. I pretty much tried everything else. Oh, and there are some funny formatting problems. Especially around the PUT statements... You can't have {SPACES} in the wrong place, or it won't compile right. That only took forever to figure out. Well, here is the code and the .bin file zipped for your enjoyment. I commented a little bit better this time to help understand what I think is happening (because maybe the computer thinks something else is) Oh, and if anyone can suggest a way to slow down the movement from right to left, that would be great... ship.zip Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scuttle130 Posted February 28, 2004 Author Share Posted February 28, 2004 I've added full joystick movement to the space ship. This is actually turning out pretty well I think and I'm only up to 2K for data...30K more to go... The escape key crashes Rainbow 95, but thats not important right now... ship2.zip Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scuttle130 Posted February 28, 2004 Author Share Posted February 28, 2004 Well, here is the start of a game some of you might remember on the Commodore 64 called Final Approach. The objective is to give airplanes heading, altitudes, and airspeeds to get them to either the airfield or the exit. So far I have only designed the playfield, but it has some excellent lessons, like the LOCATE command, redefining the character set, and using a charcter set as graphics. The Ultima games are a perfect example of using character set for its graphics representation. If you look at the approach.chr file, there is a basic explanation on how to define the characters for those who don't know how. Enjoy... approach.zip Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scuttle130 Posted February 28, 2004 Author Share Posted February 28, 2004 To get it past "PRESS 'START'" press the * key or the # key...I keep forgetting which one I hard code in... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Heaven/TQA Posted February 29, 2004 Share Posted February 29, 2004 wasn't the game called "kenedy approach"? what a nice game... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andropov Posted March 30, 2004 Share Posted March 30, 2004 Is there some kind of tutorial about 5200BAS for begginers? I couldn't find one. Thanks Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shep Posted March 31, 2004 Share Posted March 31, 2004 There is a book on Atari computer programming, once you learn that, using it for 5200 shouldnt be difficult, Ive learned a few things from it...wait that is ASM, but im sure there is something for Basic on Atari computers Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+5-11under Posted April 7, 2004 Share Posted April 7, 2004 Hey, this looks pretty simple. I like it. 5-11under Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scuttle130 Posted April 8, 2004 Author Share Posted April 8, 2004 I know I haven't been working on this for a month, its still on my agenda! Work just got over swamped for a moment, and then I had visitors to the house, but I will be starting back to work on this maybe this weekend, since there will be nothing else to do... Is there some kind of tutorial about 5200BAS for begginers? I couldn't find one. I think this is as close as you will ever get. If you need me to expand on some concepts, let me know and I will do my best. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+5-11under Posted April 8, 2004 Share Posted April 8, 2004 Does anyone have a good link for finding the TASM program? I can't retrieve from the attbi site. Thanks, 5-11under Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scuttle130 Posted April 9, 2004 Author Share Posted April 9, 2004 You can get it from Dan B's 6502 Tech Page. Look under Development Software. http://www.atarihq.com/danb/6502.shtml There is some nice 5200 and 2600 action from Dan B's also.[/url] Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scuttle130 Posted April 14, 2004 Author Share Posted April 14, 2004 I just finished writing (on paper) the majority of the remaining subroutines. They handle collision detection of all the aircraft with walls, other aircraft, and the ground. I think I discovered a way to process arrays with memory offsets, which is probably the assembly way of doing things. I don't know if its efficent, but when I finally encode it, we will see if it works the way I hope it will work. The next subroutine handles moving the all the aircraft to the next position. The final one, which I probably won't get to until Sunday, will be processing the joystick and keypad input. Then their should be a decent working game. All that will be left is making it difficult with multiple aircraft, adding colors, adding various types of aircraft, and adding sound. I will try and code the subroutines over the next couple days... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scuttle130 Posted April 19, 2004 Author Share Posted April 19, 2004 Here is the latest program. In order to get the joystick commands to work, I wrote this simple program to tell you on the screen what was done to the joystick. As you will see, everything works fine except the up, down, right, left. This may take some time to work out properly. stick.zip Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Retro Rogue Posted April 20, 2004 Share Posted April 20, 2004 There is a book on Atari computer programming, once you learn that, using it for 5200 shouldnt be difficult, Ive learned a few things from it...wait that is ASM, but im sure there is something for Basic on Atari computers Except that nobody is using basic on Atari computers here. 5200Bas is a PC based program that allows you to program for the 5200 using it's (5200Bas) own version of Basic. It then saves it as assembly code (which can then be assembled in TASM). A homebrew author decided to create it to allow people not as familiar (or comfortable) with assembly to still be able to write games. Completely different than programming on an Atari system in Atari Basic. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
khryssun Posted May 15, 2004 Share Posted May 15, 2004 Hi, ... I am using 5200bas from http://lilly.csoft.net/~jeffryj/5200bas/5200bas.html ... The link seems to be dead. Does anyone know where I'll be able to find the software and the doc for download ? Thanks Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AlanD Posted May 16, 2004 Share Posted May 16, 2004 Try: http://lilly.csoft.net/~jeffryj/compilers/...as/5200bas.html Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
khryssun Posted May 17, 2004 Share Posted May 17, 2004 Works fine Thanks Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Luigi301 Posted April 30, 2005 Share Posted April 30, 2005 Anyone know where to get header.inc? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AlanD Posted April 30, 2005 Share Posted April 30, 2005 (edited) Should be in the 5200bas file that I posted the link for 2 or 3 replies up. I may have an archive of it if that one doesn't work for some reason. AlanD Edited April 30, 2005 by AlanD Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Luigi301 Posted April 30, 2005 Share Posted April 30, 2005 I've got a problem with DASM spitting out some errors compiling the hello world example. DASM V2.02, (c)Copyright 1988 Matthew Dillon, All Rights Reserved unknown mnemonic: '$BC00' line 29 hello.asm Unknown Mnemonic unknown mnemonic: '$BC20' line 47 hello.asm Unknown Mnemonic Unrecoverable error in pass, aborting assembly! I used the /d switch like the FAQ said. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Luigi301 Posted April 30, 2005 Share Posted April 30, 2005 Well, I got it to compile (sort of) but DASM spits this out and my emulator crashes. DASM V2.02, (c)Copyright 1988 Matthew Dillon, All Rights Reserved mismatch SETVECT 401f(r ) pc: 4022 line 49 HEADER.INC Label Mismatch mismatch ENDMAIN 4072(r ) pc: 4075 line 11 worm.asm Label Mismatch mismatch CLS 4075(r ) pc: 4078 line 4 WORM.1 Label Mismatch mismatch CNEXT 407f(r ) pc: 4082 line 9 WORM.1 Label Mismatch mismatch Y2K 4091(r ) pc: 4094 line 22 WORM.1 Label Mismatch mismatch Y2K0 40a2(r ) pc: 40a5 line 30 WORM.1 Label Mismatch mismatch Y2K1 40a4(r ) pc: 40a7 line 31 WORM.1 Label Mismatch mismatch Y2K2 40b0(r ) pc: 40b3 line 37 WORM.1 Label Mismatch mismatch Y2K3 40c6(r ) pc: 40c9 line 47 WORM.1 Label Mismatch mismatch CLRRAM 40e0(r ) pc: 40e3 line 63 WORM.1 Label Mismatch mismatch OPTIONS, 40f0(r ) pc: 40f3 line 75 WORM.1 Label Mismatch Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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