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2600 Programming For Newbies

The aim of this forum is to provide insight into programming the Atari 2600 for people who've always been curious about it, but haven't yet made the leap. Andrew Davie will provide a series of lessons and will gladly answer questions as they arrive.

742 topics in this forum

  1. Atari Programming Workshop Chapter links 1 2

    By flavoredthunder,
    • 31 replies
    • 59.4k views

  2. Book? 1 2 3 4 5

    By Andrew Davie,
    • 103 replies
    • 44.7k views

  3. Introduction: 2600 Programming for Newbies 1 2 3 4 8

    By Andrew Davie,
    • 175 replies
    • 85k views

  4. Sorted Table of Contents

    By kisrael,
    • 12 replies
    • 76.7k views

  5. Programming Games for the Atari 2600 book -first program question

    By dukes909,
    • 1 reply
    • 42 views

  6. Writing More of My First Lines of Code in Batari Basic - Night Driver Arcade 1 2 3 4

    By Living Room Arcade,   
    • 75 replies
    • 2.1k views

  7. Missile help - I'm trying to keep my missile 4 scanlines tall 1 2

    By bkumanchik,
    • 28 replies
    • 419 views

  8. Reading book by Oscar Toledo, but can't understand some functionality of WALL BREAKER (Chapter 06)

    By Anderson_JAG,
    • 4 replies
    • 151 views

  9. Writing More of My First Lines of Code in Batari Basic - Night Driver Arcade Mini Game

    By Living Room Arcade,   
    • 4 replies
    • 161 views

  10. STELLA DEBUGGER: Question on Conditional Breakpoints, Watches and Traps

    By Anderson_JAG,   
    • 0 replies
    • 49 views

  11. displaying player0 and player1 at the same time (not on the same line)

    By bkumanchik,
    • 18 replies
    • 253 views

  12. M-Network Super Challenge Football AI Remake Thread

    By Living Room Arcade,   
    • 1 reply
    • 92 views

  13. ...

    By Living Room Arcade,
    • 2 replies
    • 115 views

  14. Help Required - Looking for a (existing) Kernel to build a HERO clone

    By protomank,
    • 2 replies
    • 167 views

  15. Blowing overscan? Blowing scanline count? Is it bad to do so?

    By Tag365,
    • 2 replies
    • 108 views

  16. Writing My First Lines of Code in Batari Basic - Miniature Golf 1 2

    By Living Room Arcade,   
    • 40 replies
    • 768 views

  17. Wondering about Harmony cart for new programmer with Atari 2600+

    By Kellertronix,
    • 4 replies
    • 267 views

  18. 2 sprites on the same line

    By pec,
    • 9 replies
    • 285 views

  19. Help With Code From Hugg's Book

    By TonyAme,
    • 5 replies
    • 314 views

  20. Techniques for drawing player sprites

    By Elijah,
    • 7 replies
    • 495 views

  21. Guidence on improving the draw loop code

    By Dagger,
    • 4 replies
    • 319 views

  22. Question. Can a playing field have movement?

    By alfredtdk,
    • 14 replies
    • 401 views

  23. Why does the movement/ collision prevention not work?

    By Cubwyn2600,   
    • 0 replies
    • 133 views

  24. Possible to change playfield color based on P0 position?

    By SUPERDIVORCE,
    • 4 replies
    • 250 views

  25. Assistance Needed with Scanlines

    By Elijah,
    • 4 replies
    • 232 views

  26. Trying fo fix atari 2600 4 switch

    By Beini,
    • 0 replies
    • 159 views

  27. Pitfall watch

    By alfredtdk,
    • 0 replies
    • 137 views

  28. Diving in to asm after 52 years... Getting nervous now...

    By dgrams2000,
    • 1 reply
    • 202 views

  29. Trouble with asymmetrical reflected playfield

    By SUPERDIVORCE,
    • 6 replies
    • 232 views

  30. Adjusting player movement speed

    By Dagger,
    • 2 replies
    • 153 views

  31. Newbie trying to figure out horizontal movement. Like a space invaders base/ship.

    By dgrams2000,
    • 11 replies
    • 275 views

  32. Pacman for younger children

    By John Smith,
    • 8 replies
    • 349 views

  33. Getting started using dasm and eclipse

    By JgSp,
    • 0 replies
    • 174 views

  34. Atari 2600 using AT28C256 EEPROM chips

    By D_S,   
    • 2 replies
    • 861 views

  35. To make a river on the playing field in VBB?

    By alfredtdk,
    • 1 reply
    • 230 views

  36. Really undecided about bAtari BASIC

    By Artist_AL,
    • 2 replies
    • 422 views

  37. Needed: VbB Syntax Error enlightenment

    By Artist_AL,
    • 0 replies
    • 147 views

  38. New to 6507 programming. Running through book by Oscar Toledo, but can't understand this code example

    By WarFreak131,
    • 8 replies
    • 468 views

  39. 80 - 1 = 73, why?

    By hzaccheo,
    • 3 replies
    • 359 views

  40. Unresolved Symbol List?

    By arwanderer,
    • 6 replies
    • 417 views

  41. DASM: compiled w/o error. Stella:Black Screen, Blank, steady screech noise

    By MachoDrone,
    • 6 replies
    • 399 views

  42. Tips and Tricks in Batari Basic

    By kikipdph,
    • 0 replies
    • 398 views

  43. Random Emoticons

    By kid_snz,
    • 3 replies
    • 550 views

  44. REALLY dumb question. How do I move sprites horizontally?

    By Pantomchap,
    • 11 replies
    • 2.7k views

  45. TIA timing not working as expected

    By lucienEn,
    • 3 replies
    • 380 views

  46. Elevator gane

    By jab,
    • 5 replies
    • 1.2k views

  47. Combine Two 4k Games Using F8 Bankswitching

    By Gemintronic,
    • 1 reply
    • 413 views

  48. Mastermind game

    By jab,
    • 2 replies
    • 664 views

  49. Does using a multicolor player sprite always use up the missile too?

    By LatchKeyKid,
    • 8 replies
    • 563 views

  50. Stella issues

    By jaymz887,
    • 6 replies
    • 498 views

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