Jump to content

Flashjazzcat's Blog

A blog by flashjazzcat in General

Followers 6

entries
23
comments
26
views
46,544

Idle hands

Entry posted by flashjazzcat December 4, 2008

597 views

Followers 0

So I had some time on my hands recently and the matter of 6502 assembly language came up in conversation. I hadn't written a program in nearly ten years, and the Atari was gathering dust in a box two miles away. Two weeks ago I fetched it home and have hardly left it alone since. Why do all roads lead to Atari? I've installed a Beta of Windows 7, I use OS X Leopard, yet the Atari is more fun than either. It's not necessary to write a word processor any more, but still I'm looking forward to messing around with the source code. My Atari was vaguely productive fifteen years ago, but now I can't imagine producing anything useful with it... apart from yet more Atari software. Why is it still so enthralling? Would I be having as much fun if I could program a PC? And how come I can still remember all the 6502 op codes after a break of nearly a decade?