Hey,
How come anyone has never decided to build an Atari 2600 Game Design
Program?!
A lot of people are going to put it more elequetly than me, but here's my
answer. Because of the relationship between the 6507 and the TIA and all
the cycle counting mess that has to take place in order to make a really
interesting game I suspect that the creation of any sort of quick and easy
system would be next to impossible. I am trying with Afterlife to make a
nice editor to ease the programming process with a few nifty tools and
automatic cycle counting, but the 2600 is just too tempermental to be
squezed into a completely automated system like that. Shifting one little
STA WSYNC can utterly destroy a program and I suspect that no automatic
programming system can be smart enough about system recource management to
be able to make even a crappy game. That's just my opinion though.
Christopher Rydberg
solitaire0@xxxxxxxxxxx
afterlife.100megsfree4.com
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