Re: [stella] AEENG - Atari Electronics Engineering Course

[Aaron Bergstrom <Aaron.Bergstrom@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

John,

I think it would be a good idea. And I would probably take a course like 
that if it was offered here, but since I'm in Fargo, ND that's a pipe 
dream. I think you would get more interest if you could offer it as an 
online course, so people around the country/world could take it. If your 
college doesn't offer a service, may I suggest the NDSU College of 
Continuing and Distance Ed. The work with instructors both on and off 
the NDSU campus. http://www.ndsu.edu/DCE/

Otherwise, I think the last two sections of your course seem a bit 
over-simplified. It would be nice to see some advanced programming 
tricks between Atari Fundamentals and Atari Honours. Also, I think it 
would be nice if it covered NTSC, PAL, and Secam as well.

That's my two cents anyway,

Aaron

John Redant wrote:

> This past month, the idea of creating an Atari 2600
> game crept back into my mind....from scratch. Not just
> the coding but actually creating the cartridge as
> well. Now I got to thinking, what would a complete
> beginner need to create his very own Atari 2600
> cartridge and thought, "Holy Cow! This would make a
> pretty darn good community college course!"
>
> So, I would like to propose a rough draft (or version
> 1.0) for an Atari 2600 engineering course (no
> experience necessary!). This is assuming that teaching
> and reading material will be supplied:
>
> AEENG
> Atari Electronics Engineering Course
>
> Material List (Based on Radio Shack prices):
>
> 1 - Soldering Iron (preferably $7 - $10)
> 1 - Desoldering Iron (preferably $7 - $10)
> 1 - Supply of Solder (Around $2 - $5)
> 1 - set of Helping Hands (Around $15)
> 1 - ventilation fan and ventilation tubing
> 1 - junk walkman
> a set of EPROM chips
> a set of used Atari cartridges
> 1 - set of screwdrivers
> 1 - EPROM burner
> 1 - 486 DX (or better) computer w/ Soundblaster (or
> better)
> 1 - Atari 2600
> 1 - (tool used to hook up the soundblaster to the
> Atari 2600 cartridge whose name escapes me at the
> moment)
>
> Course:
>
> 1 - Fundamentals of soldering - How to make a junk
> walkman work again
> 2 - Basic ATARI - Taking an ATARI ROM image,
> downloading it by WAV format onto a newly constructed
> ATARI cartridge
> 3 - Assembly I - Modifying graphics on an ATARI ROM
> image
> 4 - Assembly II - Understanding and modifying logic on
> an ATARI ROM image
> 5 - ATARI Fundamentals - Understanding basic ATARI
> concepts, such as how the ATARI sees the TV
> 6 - ATARI Honours - Creating an original ATARI 2600
> game from scratch
>
>
>
> Well, that's my rough draft! So, I'm looking for
> people to massacre this, toss it around a bit, add
> stuff to it and such...wouldn't this make a neat
> community college course?
>
> John
>
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