Subject: Re: [stella] atari 2600 programming From: "Joel Park" <joelp@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Tue, 23 Oct 2001 10:23:30 -0400 |
Maxime, My suggestion is to check out this page. http://atarihq.com/danb/a2600.html#devsystems First read over the Changing graphics the Easy Way PDF file on the page. Also look at some of the Decompiled code projects and see if you can make heads or tails of them. For a good first project, I would just try doing a graphic hack of a game. Once you've toyed around with it, get the Playfield sample and start reading over it. Once you've messed around with that stuff, check out Ebay or Amazon and see if you can't find a book on Assembler. I found a Commodore 64 Assembler book that is helpful. I figured the Atari computer assmbler is very close as well. Somewhere, possibly on the page I sent you above, you can find an Assembler command reference and it tells you what each command does. That will help you understand the code a little. Good luck my friend. Joel D. Park By the way: >"Programming the VCS is hard enough for people who have >no ASM background at all, even if they're _experienced_ >coders with any other serious programming language." That's really harsh! ----- Original Message ----- From: <cybergoth@xxxxxxxx> To: <stella@xxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Tuesday, October 23, 2001 9:41 AM Subject: Aw: [stella] atari 2600 programming Hi Maxime! > 4-I know HTML code. In HTML, you have a big template > of coding that you have to used. beginning, title, > middle and end. In atari 2600, do we have to repect a > simple structure of code? If this was meant to be a serious posting and is not some very early (or late? ...) 'April Fools Day' thing, I'd suggest the following: Forget it. Programming the VCS is hard enough for people who have no ASM background at all, even if they're _experienced_ coders with any other serious programming language. HTML can't even be considered coming close to a programming language. I'd suggest starting with something way simpler than the VCS first, like any BASIC language, to get at least an *idea* of what programming _means_ first. Maybe if you'd then get more experience, probably by learning some closer-to-the-machine language like C or C++, you can carefully start to learn 6502 ASM, best by starting on a 'safe-base' like the C64 or another 'forgiving' machine. Then, after a learning process of maybe 1-3 years come back here and try your luck on the VCS. Greetings, Manuel ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Bei unserem Shoppingpartner waltherliving erhalten Sie einen Gutschein im Wert von DM 10,00 für Ihren nächsten Onlineeinkauf! Einfach hier abrufen http://www.nexgo.de/c/pub/redir.php/living1 ----------------------------------------------------------------------- - Archives (includes files) at http://www.biglist.com/lists/stella/archives/ Unsub & more at http://www.biglist.com/lists/stella/ - Archives (includes files) at http://www.biglist.com/lists/stella/archives/ Unsub & more at http://www.biglist.com/lists/stella/
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