2600 Programming For Newbies

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1. Playfield Question

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

2. Collision Not Working

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

3. Ball Movement

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

4. curious question about sprite alignment

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

5. Programming on Linux?

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

6. Reading the paddle controlers

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

7. Ball Object has holes in it

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

8. 6 digit bcd score

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

9. Moving a missile

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

10. NUSIZx pixel positions

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

11. Stella Developers List

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

12. Joystick Input

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

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

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

14. 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

15. Help debugging

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

16. The 2600 is truly challenging

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

17. Having problems with programming (asm)

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

18. confusion with sprites

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

19. atari question for the atari dunce

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

20. playfield extraction?

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

21. DASM has moved

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

22. Please HELP!

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

23. Computer systems to program on and hardware

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

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

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

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

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

26. 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

27. how do I?

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

28. question for beginner

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

29. Just Getting Started

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

30. Newbie with questions

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

31. Keypad + Joystick Together; Is it Possible?

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

32. Possibly stupid question about vcs.h

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

33. I Can't Get DASM to Run

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

34. Anyone have any 5k+roms dissembled?

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

35. DASM Link Unavailiable

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

36. Blank pixels after HMOVE

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

37. New 2600 Programmer Confused by Player Positioning

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

38. 2600 Programming For Newbies as Wikibook

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

39. Question from a beginner

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

40. Beginning Programming for the 2600

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

41. Problem with vertical sprite positioning.

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

42. a better programing enviroment

    By grafixbmp, July 24, 2007
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    • BigO
    • July 30, 2007

43. another compiling question

    By meshounah, July 17, 2007
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    • meshounah
    • July 18, 2007

44. Session 3: The TIA and the 6502

    By Andrew Davie, May 22, 2003
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    • supercat
    • May 8, 2007

45. Is there a limit to sprite size?

    By godzillajoe, April 18, 2007
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    • godzillajoe
    • April 20, 2007

46. I am need some direction

    By |*BILLY$CLINT*|, April 12, 2007
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    • |*BILLY$CLINT*|
    • April 12, 2007

47. Any more complete examples of drawing playfields?

    By godzillajoe, April 1, 2007
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    • godzillajoe
    • April 2, 2007

48. Getting ahead of myself but is this possible on a 2600?

    By godzillajoe, March 28, 2007
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    • godzillajoe
    • March 30, 2007

49. My horrid attempt at TIA audio.

    By atari2600a, March 27, 2007
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    • atari2600a
    • March 27, 2007

50. window algorithm

    By tschak909, March 10, 2007
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    • tschak909
    • March 10, 2007