2600 Programming For Newbies

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1. Hidden Cover When Player Graphic is Moved Left

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

2. some DASM help

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

3. Starting 2600 programming

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

4. Need my code scrutinized >.> 1 2

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

5. Calculating current position

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

6. Different ways to handle movement

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

7. Collision detection registers

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

8. What am I doing wrong with skipdraw

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

9. More complex kernels?

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

10. DASM issues

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

11. Help with Distella and/or DASM

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

12. sprite display not as expected

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

13. Converting diffrent base numbers for newbies

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

14. Programming Template

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

15. PAL60 & NTSC in one .asm file?

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

16. tryin to learn something

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

17. reseting player sprites

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

18. Design #1: Primordial Ooze 1 2 3

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

19. Stack confusion

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

20. New developer

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

21. In Game Sound Engine

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

22. I hope I got this right

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

23. quickest check for a missle

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

24. Killing 2 birds with 1 stone

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

25. My head hurts.

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

26. Branches? how do these really breakdown

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

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

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

28. Hello World?

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

29. Starfield with positioning glitch

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

30. Ature - An adventure game WIP

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

31. usage of datatypes/structures in dasm possible?

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

32. Playfield Question

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

33. Collision Not Working

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

34. Ball Movement

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

35. curious question about sprite alignment

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

36. Programming on Linux?

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

37. Reading the paddle controlers

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

38. Ball Object has holes in it

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

39. 6 digit bcd score

    By Primordial Ooze, February 19, 2009
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    • supercat
    • March 11, 2009

40. Moving a missile

    By Primordial Ooze, February 22, 2009
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    • Primordial Ooze
    • February 27, 2009

41. NUSIZx pixel positions

    By jrok, January 19, 2009
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    • Nukey Shay
    • February 14, 2009

42. Stella Developers List

    By Primordial Ooze, February 12, 2009
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    • Primordial Ooze
    • February 12, 2009

43. Joystick Input

    By Primordial Ooze, February 11, 2009
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    • Primordial Ooze
    • February 11, 2009

44. Pranks, Jokes, and April Fools... Enough already!

    By grafixbmp, January 25, 2009
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    • grafixbmp
    • February 8, 2009

45. Can you run non-cycle-predictable code in the VBL and/or overscan?

    By Sdw, January 12, 2009
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    • Sdw
    • January 16, 2009

46. Help debugging

    By DtY, January 1, 2009
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    • Nukey Shay
    • January 1, 2009

47. The 2600 is truly challenging

    By johncl, December 23, 2008
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    • SpiceWare
    • December 31, 2008

48. Having problems with programming (asm)

    By phider, December 3, 2008
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    • phider
    • December 3, 2008

49. confusion with sprites

    By klokwrkblu, October 18, 2008
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    • Random Terrain
    • November 3, 2008

50. atari question for the atari dunce

    By klokwrkblu, October 3, 2008
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    • klokwrkblu
    • October 15, 2008