2600 Programming For Newbies

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1. problem with DASM in OSX and DOS

   By deto, October 30, 2010
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   • GroovyBee
   • October 30, 2010

2. Beginner question

   By Killer-Duck, October 5, 2010
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   • SeaGtGruff
   • October 17, 2010

3. Atari 2600 IDE in Linux?

   By PSW, September 9, 2010
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   • ZagNut
   • October 9, 2010

4. Probably a Simple Question...

   By Octavio, October 4, 2010
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   • SeaGtGruff
   • October 4, 2010

5. need help with my game

   By Inferno7600, September 28, 2010
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   • Nukey Shay
   • October 2, 2010

6. Storing certain bits of playfield registers.

   By Animan, September 25, 2010
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   • Nukey Shay
   • September 26, 2010

7. Homebrewing

   By Videogamecollector123, April 11, 2010
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   • SeaGtGruff
   • September 21, 2010

8. Session 13: Playfield Basics 1 2

   By Andrew Davie, May 30, 2003
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   • SeaGtGruff
   • September 21, 2010

9. Session 15 - Playfield Continued 1 2

   By Andrew Davie, June 9, 2003
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   • kamakazi
   • September 20, 2010

10. BASIC Computing language

    By delmero, August 29, 2010
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    • Animan
    • August 29, 2010

11. "Fatal assembly error" when opening dasm?

    By O'Bobson, August 2, 2010
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    • O'Bobson
    • August 4, 2010

12. Session 7: The TV and our Kernel

    By Andrew Davie, May 24, 2003
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    • SeaGtGruff
    • August 2, 2010

13. Hidden Cover When Player Graphic is Moved Left

    By Primordial Ooze, April 7, 2010
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    • Nukey Shay
    • June 8, 2010

14. some DASM help

    By rpgfaker, May 2, 2010
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    • Nukey Shay
    • June 1, 2010

15. Starting 2600 programming

    By Orion_, April 23, 2010
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    • GroovyBee
    • April 24, 2010

16. Need my code scrutinized >.> 1 2

    By johnon, April 7, 2010
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    • cd-w
    • April 8, 2010

17. Calculating current position

    By johnon, April 6, 2010
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    • SeaGtGruff
    • April 7, 2010

18. Different ways to handle movement

    By johnon, March 31, 2010
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    • johnon
    • April 7, 2010

19. Collision detection registers

    By johnon, April 6, 2010
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    • johnon
    • April 6, 2010

20. What am I doing wrong with skipdraw

    By yllawwally, April 2, 2010
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    • Omegamatrix
    • April 5, 2010

21. More complex kernels?

    By johnon, April 1, 2010
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    • johnon
    • April 1, 2010

22. DASM issues

    By johnon, March 30, 2010
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    • Omegamatrix
    • March 31, 2010

23. Help with Distella and/or DASM

    By RobR, March 24, 2010
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    • SeaGtGruff
    • March 25, 2010

24. sprite display not as expected

    By yllawwally, February 3, 2010
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    • yllawwally
    • March 18, 2010

25. Converting diffrent base numbers for newbies

    By grafixbmp, November 21, 2008
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    • grafixbmp
    • March 9, 2010

26. Programming Template

    By ScumSoft, September 16, 2009
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    • ScumSoft
    • January 28, 2010

27. PAL60 & NTSC in one .asm file?

    By eshu, January 8, 2010
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    • eshu
    • January 12, 2010

28. tryin to learn something

    By Tr3vor, November 19, 2009
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    • grafixbmp
    • January 8, 2010

29. reseting player sprites

    By swiley, December 16, 2009
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    • SeaGtGruff
    • December 17, 2009

30. Design #1: Primordial Ooze 1 2 3

    By Andrew Davie, September 9, 2003
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    • Pat Brady
    • December 12, 2009

31. Stack confusion

    By eshu, November 26, 2009
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    • GroovyBee
    • November 26, 2009

32. New developer

    By Pat Brady, November 19, 2009
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    • Pat Brady
    • November 20, 2009

33. In Game Sound Engine

    By Richi_S, July 27, 2009
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    • Random Terrain
    • November 19, 2009

34. I hope I got this right

    By grafixbmp, October 20, 2009
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    • grafixbmp
    • October 28, 2009

35. quickest check for a missle

    By grafixbmp, October 13, 2009
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    • Ben_Larson
    • October 17, 2009

36. Killing 2 birds with 1 stone

    By grafixbmp, October 13, 2009
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    • grafixbmp
    • October 16, 2009

37. My head hurts.

    By Fischer500, October 6, 2009
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    • ScumSoft
    • October 8, 2009

38. Branches? how do these really breakdown

    By grafixbmp, September 9, 2009
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    • AtariLeaf
    • September 10, 2009

39. The BIT instruction... does it do anything useful?

    By Richi_S, September 9, 2009
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    • Richi_S
    • September 9, 2009

40. Hello World?

    By yuppicide, August 11, 2009
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    • yuppicide
    • August 13, 2009

41. Starfield with positioning glitch

    By Richi_S, June 18, 2009
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    • grafixbmp
    • June 20, 2009

42. Ature - An adventure game WIP

    By beoran, June 5, 2009
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    • beoran
    • June 14, 2009

43. usage of datatypes/structures in dasm possible?

    By roland p, May 23, 2009
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    • roland p
    • May 27, 2009

44. Playfield Question

    By Primordial Ooze, May 21, 2009
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    • Primordial Ooze
    • May 25, 2009

45. Collision Not Working

    By Primordial Ooze, May 16, 2009
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    • SeaGtGruff
    • May 16, 2009

46. Ball Movement

    By Primordial Ooze, May 12, 2009
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    • SeaGtGruff
    • May 15, 2009

47. curious question about sprite alignment

    By grafixbmp, May 10, 2009
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    • Omegamatrix
    • May 11, 2009

48. Programming on Linux?

    By TriumphantVCS, February 2, 2009
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    • littleman jack
    • May 6, 2009

49. Reading the paddle controlers

    By Primordial Ooze, March 29, 2009
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    • Wickeycolumbus
    • March 31, 2009

50. Ball Object has holes in it

    By Primordial Ooze, March 28, 2009
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    • Nukey Shay
    • March 28, 2009