2600 Programming For Newbies

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1. quickest check for a missle

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

2. Killing 2 birds with 1 stone

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

3. My head hurts.

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

4. Branches? how do these really breakdown

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

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

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

6. Hello World?

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

7. Starfield with positioning glitch

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

8. Ature - An adventure game WIP

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

9. usage of datatypes/structures in dasm possible?

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

10. Playfield Question

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

11. Collision Not Working

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

12. Ball Movement

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

13. curious question about sprite alignment

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

14. Programming on Linux?

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

15. Reading the paddle controlers

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

16. Ball Object has holes in it

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

17. 6 digit bcd score

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

18. Moving a missile

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

19. NUSIZx pixel positions

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

20. Stella Developers List

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

21. Joystick Input

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

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

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

23. 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

24. Help debugging

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

25. The 2600 is truly challenging

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

26. Having problems with programming (asm)

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

27. confusion with sprites

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

28. atari question for the atari dunce

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

29. playfield extraction?

    By eegad, September 27, 2008
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    • eegad
    • September 27, 2008

30. DASM has moved

    By Andrew Davie, September 20, 2008
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    • Andrew Davie
    • September 20, 2008

31. Please HELP!

    By kamakazi, August 5, 2008
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    • Thomas Jentzsch
    • August 5, 2008

32. Computer systems to program on and hardware

    By DreamQuake, September 24, 2006
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    • kamakazi
    • July 31, 2008

33. Positioning p0 sprite horizontally according to variable (0-150)?

    By Propane13, May 2, 2008
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    • supercat
    • May 25, 2008

34. I don't understand extra cycles for crossing Page boundaries

    By Propane13, May 17, 2008
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    • supercat
    • May 18, 2008

35. I know nothing - where to start for 7800

    By the.golden.ax, May 8, 2008
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    • the.golden.ax
    • May 8, 2008

36. how do I?

    By midnight8, April 18, 2008
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    • midnight8
    • April 18, 2008

37. question for beginner

    By midnight8, April 7, 2008
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    • midnight8
    • April 8, 2008

38. Just Getting Started

    By catbox_9, March 5, 2008
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    • stephena
    • March 13, 2008

39. Newbie with questions

    By slonda828, January 29, 2008
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    • Nukey Shay
    • January 30, 2008

40. Keypad + Joystick Together; Is it Possible?

    By Gemini, January 18, 2008
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    • Gemini
    • January 18, 2008

41. Possibly stupid question about vcs.h

    By Devin, December 24, 2007
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    • SeaGtGruff
    • January 18, 2008

42. I Can't Get DASM to Run

    By R. Jones, August 4, 2006
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    • Cybergoth
    • January 14, 2008

43. Anyone have any 5k+roms dissembled?

    By wogihao, January 6, 2008
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    • wogihao
    • January 7, 2008

44. DASM Link Unavailiable

    By Primordial Ooze, December 25, 2007
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    • Primordial Ooze
    • December 26, 2007

45. Blank pixels after HMOVE

    By Devin, December 21, 2007
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    • Devin
    • December 21, 2007

46. New 2600 Programmer Confused by Player Positioning

    By brainwagon, September 8, 2005
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    • Devin
    • December 21, 2007

47. 2600 Programming For Newbies as Wikibook

    By anarkavre, May 11, 2007
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    • Fort Apocalypse
    • September 22, 2007

48. Question from a beginner

    By rosutokami, August 28, 2007
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    • rosutokami
    • August 28, 2007

49. Beginning Programming for the 2600

    By Kamaria, August 15, 2007
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    • CurtisP
    • August 20, 2007

50. Problem with vertical sprite positioning.

    By R. Jones, August 5, 2007
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    • R. Jones
    • August 6, 2007