2600 Programming For Newbies

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1. Am I going the right way with this? 1 2

   By johnnystarr, December 9, 2013
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   • johnnystarr
   • March 15, 2014

2. Scrolling Playfield 1 2

   By Mikes360, February 3, 2014
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   • Wickeycolumbus
   • February 7, 2014

3. Coding tricks 1 2 3

   By ScumSoft, March 2, 2011
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   • Thomas Jentzsch
   • January 30, 2014

4. Has anyone gone through Andrew's tutorial?

   By godzillajoe, November 1, 2006
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   • Glade Swope
   • January 20, 2014

5. Tile Kernel?

   By Cybearg, January 10, 2014
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   • Mr SQL
   • January 11, 2014

6. How do you keep in sync? 1 2

   By Shufflehound, December 29, 2013   

   • wsync
   • vsync
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     • wsync
     • vsync
     • sync
     • horizontal hold
     • glitch
     • newb
     • argh
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   • Wickeycolumbus
   • December 31, 2013

7. Sound Length?

   By Shufflehound, December 20, 2013
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   • RevEng
   • December 29, 2013

8. Atari Flashback 64 ?

   By sportman4, December 15, 2013
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   • SpiceWare
   • December 15, 2013

9. Kernel Segmentation

   By johnnystarr, December 12, 2013
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   • SpiceWare
   • December 12, 2013

10. What does "sta" and "lda" mean? 1 2

    By Shufflehound, December 4, 2013
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    • nanochess
    • December 10, 2013

11. Atari Roguelikes 1 2 3 4

    By DJT, August 10, 2011
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    • PFL
    • December 6, 2013

12. Troll Face - My first Atari 2600 ROM

    By Andromeda Stardust, November 6, 2013
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    • Random Terrain
    • November 9, 2013

13. Macro Variable Sharing

    By Mikes360, August 27, 2013   

    • Macro
    • DASM
    • 14 replies
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    • Mikes360
    • August 28, 2013

14. Odd lines on the side of the screen

    By johnnystarr, August 22, 2013
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    • iesposta
    • August 23, 2013

15. The mysterious BIT instruction....

    By shazz, August 21, 2013   

    • opcode
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    • Omegamatrix
    • August 22, 2013

16. Understanding TIM64T

    By johnnystarr, August 20, 2013
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    • johnnystarr
    • August 21, 2013

17. Understanding Sprites

    By johnnystarr, August 20, 2013
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    • johnnystarr
    • August 21, 2013

18. Faster memory shifting routine ?

    By shazz, August 15, 2013   

    • algo
    • 24 replies
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    • johnnystarr
    • August 21, 2013

19. How to get a routine address pointer ?

    By shazz, August 16, 2013
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    • bogax
    • August 17, 2013

20. DASM -d for debug mode

    By johnnystarr, August 15, 2013   

    • dasm
    • 4 replies
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    • SpiceWare
    • August 15, 2013

21. Looking for a better kernel example

    By johnnystarr, August 13, 2013   

    • tia
    • kernel
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    • johnnystarr
    • August 15, 2013

22. Issues with sprite position on left side

    By shazz, August 14, 2013   

    • sprite
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    • shazz
    • August 14, 2013

23. Counting is not... easy :)

    By shazz, August 9, 2013   

    • cycle count
    • 17 replies
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    • shazz
    • August 12, 2013

24. Building DASM on Linux 1 2

    By 1FF8, January 27, 2012
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    • stephena
    • August 10, 2013

25. Pitfall II: The Lost Caverns scrolling

    By Yars, July 23, 2013
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    • SpiceWare
    • July 23, 2013

26. After the Davies introduction

    By jonmower, July 20, 2013
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    • Random Terrain
    • July 21, 2013

27. Advice on Unnecessary Code

    By jonmower, July 11, 2013
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    • jonmower
    • July 15, 2013

28. Newcomer with some questions

    By dhalsimrocks, June 24, 2013
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    • SpiceWare
    • June 25, 2013

29. Need Help w/ commands

    By jonmower, June 16, 2013
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    • jonmower
    • June 18, 2013

30. Quadrun Voice Synthesis - How much space needed

    By jdrose, January 4, 2012
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    • SpiceWare
    • June 1, 2013

31. I can't remember

    By Rabbit 2600, May 27, 2013
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    • Rabbit 2600
    • May 27, 2013

32. Any programmers in Ohio?

    By John Chubb, May 26, 2013
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    • John Chubb
    • May 26, 2013

33. Head First Part 2 and 1/2

    By codernator, May 25, 2013   

    • assembly programming missile
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    • codernator
    • May 25, 2013

34. Jumping in Head First

    By codernator, May 24, 2013   

    • development
    • timing
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      • timing
      • assembly
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    • Godzilla
    • May 25, 2013

35. 6502 practice exercises for noobs?

    By marienbad, February 20, 2013   

    • practiceexercises 6502 asm
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    • v666
    • May 21, 2013

36. Trying to Learn Assembly (Please Help an Idiot)

    By Cybearg, March 17, 2013
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    • jdrose
    • April 7, 2013

37. What's the Point(er)?

    By Cybearg, March 19, 2013   

    • assembly
    • sprite
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      • assembly
      • sprite
      • pointer
      • color
      • bB
      • DPC+
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    • Cybearg
    • April 4, 2013

38. RESP0 while pixel position is negative/low

    By louisg, February 3, 2013   

    • horizontal positioning coarse
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    • SeaGtGruff
    • February 7, 2013

39. It Might Not Be Much

    By Aamp, January 27, 2013   

    • Progress
    • Might have some questions
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      • Progress
      • Might have some questions
      • Make a simple game?
      • DevLog
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    • Aamp
    • January 27, 2013

40. Easier way of displaying a logo?

    By louisg, January 21, 2013   

    • logo bounce
    • 6 replies
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    • GroovyBee
    • January 21, 2013

41. I'm thinking about making a Fantasy Role Playing game for the Atari 2600

    By Cador, January 9, 2013   

    • rpg
    • 1 reply
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    • GroovyBee
    • January 9, 2013

42. A Guide to hacking ROMs (cheating) plus 100 cheats

    By born2code, December 14, 2012   

    • 2600
    • cheetah
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      • cheetah
      • codes
      • cheat
      • stella
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    • born2code
    • December 15, 2012

43. My first game : Need help about the compiler

    By Zer0Soul, November 24, 2012
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    • Zer0Soul
    • November 25, 2012

44. At section 8 for Atari 2600 Programming for Newbies

    By John Chubb, November 5, 2012
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    • Christopher Tumber
    • November 23, 2012

45. How to do a signed div?

    By Perra, November 5, 2012
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    • Perra
    • November 6, 2012

46. My questions about my first program 1 2

    By Rabbit 2600, October 11, 2012
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    • Rabbit 2600
    • October 13, 2012

47. Trouble Drawing Missile Correctly

    By raiderred, October 8, 2012
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    • raiderred
    • October 8, 2012

48. Color changing?

    By Rabbit 2600, September 15, 2012
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    • SeaGtGruff
    • September 29, 2012

49. I want to program, I have an idea, help me learn please.

    By HatefulGravey, September 18, 2012
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    • HatefulGravey
    • September 24, 2012

50. 6502 Memory Map resource?

    By JohnnyRockets, September 11, 2012
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    • JohnnyRockets
    • September 11, 2012