Subject: [stella] Black Box Development system From: Richard Kennehan <rkenneha@xxxxxxxxx> Date: Wed, 20 Apr 2005 16:20:29 -0400 |
I have been researching the development environment used to create Atari 2600 games, and I have read about the "Black box" used at Atari. Programs were assembled on a PDP-11 model 20 mainframe, which then produced a paper tape that contained the BIN. This paper tape was then loaded on the "Black Box" which was an emulator/debugger which had a paper tape reader. The guy who wrote "Superman" mentioned this during the Classic Gaming Expo 2001. It was also mentioned by Jed Margolin, the Hardware Engineer for many of Atari's Vector arcade games. His excellent web-site about arcade development can be found here: http://www.jmargolin.com/vmail/vmail.htm My question is, how did the programmer view the emulator/debugger's output? Was it connected to a display terminal? Or was it a series of Hex LEDs that hand-held calculators used? Or was it connected to a printer, like the KIM-1 system sometimes was? __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail - Find what you need with new enhanced search. http://info.mail.yahoo.com/mail_250 Archives (includes files) at http://www.biglist.com/lists/stella/archives/ Unsub & more at http://stella.biglist.com
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