Dan's Road to 2600 nirvana

Impaler_26 · January 5, 2008

You can download a few commented disassemblies that might be helpful here:

http://www.bjars.com/disassemblies.html

wogihao · January 7, 2008

Thank you thats very usefull.

Cybergoth · January 7, 2008

Promising. I'll follow this blog and see if I can be of any help

wogihao · January 8, 2008

Thanks,

Pressure is on i prommised the wife i would finish my first playfield by the end of the week.

But then its not so difficult now, now with emulators i would hate to think what the learning curve was before the advent of powerfull development platforms for the 2600 - Dammm I have nothing but respect for the guys that did it that way, so many waisted eproms! It must have been heartbreaking when it didnt work after all that effort.

One thing i was thinking was, did the first wave of programers have to work everything out for themselves or was there easy acess to the stella documentation? or was it just the support of the other coders? or maby a combination of both hmmmm.....

I noticed there are a few brazilian atari carts availble on ebay... hummm that would be intesting to take a look at.... ah well theres still 4 days...

I have some german ones on the way also and one from Oz. I have been looking for some french carts to study but they seem to be very hard to come by on ebay I will have a hunt for some roms on the net. someone must have a archive somewhere. However i rember reading that very few secam carts were produced. So it may be a hunt in vain.

Finaly after reading about the eastern block knock off of the atari i wondered if there were any programs developed there? or was it purely a pirate consumer market?