2600 Programming For Newbies

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1. 3 questions

   By marienbad, March 22, 2021
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   • Andrew Davie
   • March 23, 2021

2. Top two lines of playfield not showing

   By marienbad, March 20, 2021
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   • marienbad
   • March 20, 2021

3. Turtorials

   By sparkplug.0128, March 2, 2021
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   • SpiceWare
   • March 2, 2021

4. Help Character Position

   By sparkplug.0128, February 27, 2021
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   • Andrew Davie
   • February 27, 2021

5. Help Programming a bullet

   By sparkplug.0128, February 26, 2021
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   • CapitanClassic
   • February 26, 2021

6. Session 9: 6502 and DASM - Assembling the Basics 1 2

   By Andrew Davie, May 25, 2003
   • 41 replies
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   • SpiceWare
   • February 21, 2021

7. no controls working on emulator

   By BM6JConnect, February 18, 2021
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   • BM6JConnect
   • February 18, 2021

8. The exact speed of the TIA

   By Magnus Clyde, February 2, 2021
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   • alex_79
   • February 7, 2021

9. Session 14: Playfield Wierdness 1 2 3

   By Andrew Davie, June 1, 2003
   • 65 replies
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   • RevEng
   • January 30, 2021

10. Transfer directly to Stack?

    By JohnnyRockets, January 19, 2021
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    • JohnnyRockets
    • January 19, 2021

11. Help with Skip Draw

    By j00sebox, December 2, 2020   

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    • zeurt
    • December 29, 2020

12. What is the best hex editor for Atari 2600?

    By u/usertheloset, October 12, 2020
    • 3 replies
    • 783 views
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    • Dionoid
    • December 15, 2020

13. how to create controller atari wirelless

    By Ronaldo, November 25, 2020
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    • Ronaldo
    • November 25, 2020

14. Session 25: Advanced Timeslicing

    By Andrew Davie, May 20, 2012
    • 11 replies
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    • zilog_z80a
    • October 13, 2020

15. Game copier

    By Gwrmd911, October 12, 2020
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    • Gwrmd911
    • October 12, 2020

16. How do I use DASM on Linux?

    By Marcos Moutta, September 20, 2020
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    • zilog_z80a
    • October 9, 2020

17. What's up with the arm chip inside some recent homebrew?

    By Marcos Moutta, September 17, 2020
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    • SpiceWare
    • September 18, 2020

18. Session 22: Sprites, Horizontal Positioning Part 1 1 2

    By Andrew Davie, August 29, 2003
    • 43 replies
    • 21.8k views
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    • juanitogan
    • September 13, 2020

19. How does the SBC command work?

    By Marcos Moutta, September 5, 2020
    • 6 replies
    • 533 views
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    • zbyti
    • September 5, 2020

20. Need help (btw i'm new)

    By kinetic, August 10, 2020
    • 1 reply
    • 521 views
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    • Karl G
    • August 10, 2020

21. How did Freeway draw 2p scores?

    By quohog, July 21, 2020
    • 5 replies
    • 691 views
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    • quohog
    • July 22, 2020

22. empty lines on playfield

    By Sendraz, July 9, 2020   

    • help needed
    • 6 replies
    • 679 views
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    • Andrew Davie
    • July 17, 2020

23. Any way to remember controller settings between compiles?

    By quohog, July 12, 2020
    • 12 replies
    • 610 views
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    • mksmith
    • July 14, 2020

24. how do I know if sum is <0 or >255?

    By quohog, July 3, 2020
    • 4 replies
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    • quohog
    • July 4, 2020

25. Question about DPC+ kernel and playfield resolution

    By Tickled_Pink, June 30, 2020
    • 4 replies
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    • Random Terrain
    • July 1, 2020

26. Newbie Problems with getting started VisualBB/Stella

    By GreenNerdyFrog, June 17, 2020
    • 2 replies
    • 590 views
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    • GreenNerdyFrog
    • June 22, 2020

27. Looking for a tutorial on programming Indy 500 Driving controllers

    By quohog, June 3, 2020
    • 2 replies
    • 448 views
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    • quohog
    • June 3, 2020

28. Session 17: Asymmetrical Playfields - Part 1 1 2 3

    By Andrew Davie, June 25, 2003
    • 53 replies
    • 17.5k views
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    • its-a-feature
    • May 29, 2020

29. how to get rid of ticks in audio?

    By quohog, May 26, 2020
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    • 382 views
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    • quohog
    • May 26, 2020

30. My assembly questions thread 1 2 3

    By Lillapojkenpåön, October 30, 2018
    • 56 replies
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    • Andrew Davie
    • May 23, 2020

31. Newbie Question #1

    By JohnnyRockets, April 12, 2020
    • 7 replies
    • 605 views
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    • SpiceWare
    • May 20, 2020

32. How do I set a breakpoint before the first scanline is drawn?

    By quohog, May 17, 2020
    • 5 replies
    • 437 views
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    • stephena
    • May 18, 2020

33. Sprite timing question

    By MrProper, April 21, 2020
    • 1 reply
    • 496 views
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    • SpiceWare
    • April 22, 2020

34. hacking marble craze

    By bradhig1, March 25, 2020
    • 9 replies
    • 541 views
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    • SpiceWare
    • March 28, 2020

35. Session 25: Higher Level Variable Abstraction

    By Andrew Davie, March 27, 2020
    • 0 replies
    • 367 views
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    • Andrew Davie
    • March 27, 2020

36. Does atari games are deterministic?

    By Dong, March 14, 2020
    • 5 replies
    • 560 views
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    • bluswimmer
    • March 18, 2020

37. About the pixels computation and the logic computation

    By Dong, February 11, 2020   

    • tia
    • logic game
    • 6 replies
    • 576 views
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    • SpiceWare
    • March 10, 2020

38. Instructions affected by BCD

    By FizzyChicken, December 7, 2019
    • 2 replies
    • 423 views
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    • FizzyChicken
    • December 8, 2019

39. Session 11: Colourful Colors 1 2

    By Andrew Davie, May 27, 2003
    • 37 replies
    • 17.6k views
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    • SavedByZero
    • October 26, 2019

40. Session 1: Start Here

    By Andrew Davie, May 22, 2003
    • 20 replies
    • 29.2k views
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    • mksmith
    • September 27, 2019

41. Re-post of Andrew Davie workshops (updated with post-migration links)

    By ForceInfinity, July 24, 2019
    • 1 reply
    • 981 views
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    • chad5200
    • September 10, 2019

42. NOP and timing

    By ufosolar, October 28, 2018
    • 6 replies
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    • Andrew Davie
    • September 2, 2019

43. Trouble resetting default playfield position after using pfscroll (BBasic)

    By freshbrood, August 21, 2019   

    • bataribasic,bataribasic,bb,vbb,playfield,pfscroll,
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    • freshbrood
    • August 21, 2019

44. Session 8: Our First Kernel 1 2

    By Andrew Davie, May 24, 2003
    • 35 replies
    • 24.8k views
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    • KrazyKattapilla
    • August 18, 2019

45. Session 21: Sprites

    By Andrew Davie, August 21, 2003
    • 24 replies
    • 17.3k views
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    • KrazyKattapilla
    • August 14, 2019

46. PCB with only one eprom. exist?

    By coderbr, July 30, 2019
    • 2 replies
    • 850 views
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    • coderbr
    • July 31, 2019

47. How do i hack Atari 2600 games?

    By alexjigglypuff, July 16, 2019
    • 1 reply
    • 597 views
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    • explorer
    • July 17, 2019

48. Using Wave Samples for VCS programming

    By MemberAtarian, June 17, 2019
    • 12 replies
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    • SpiceWare
    • June 20, 2019

49. Assembly Language Programming - Lesson 7 - State Machines

    By Robert M, May 15, 2011
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    • Random Terrain
    • May 12, 2019

50. Squeezing 220kb into a cartridge possible?

    By Franky666, May 4, 2019
    • 4 replies
    • 549 views
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    • Franky666
    • May 5, 2019