Atari 2600 Programming

2,348 topics in this forum

1. early tia chips: 2 or 3 sprites?!?!

   By chewy, April 4, 2020
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   • DanBoris
   • April 4, 2020

2. Inconsistent scanline requirements

   By flame, March 15, 2020
   • 7 replies
   • 522 views
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   • Andrew Davie
   • April 3, 2020

3. PAL Colors Darker?

   By Karl G, March 30, 2020
   • 1 reply
   • 309 views
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   • Muddyfunster
   • March 30, 2020

4. Porting the original classic Castlevania to the 2600 1 2 3 4 13

   By grafixbmp, September 25, 2008
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   • alfredtdk
   • March 29, 2020

5. Quest of the Cranberry (WIP) 1 2

   By atari2600land, February 4, 2020
   • 32 replies
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   • atari2600land
   • March 28, 2020

6. Homebrew Development Platform

   By vcsrocks, March 27, 2020   

   • homebrew
   • development
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     • homebrew
     • development
     • developer kit
     • developement tools
     • homebrews and hacks
     • atari2600
     • atari 2600
     • batari
     • batari basic
     • multicart
     • harmony
     • unocart
     • bankswitching
     • rom
     • rom dump
   • 0 replies
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   • vcsrocks
   • March 27, 2020

7. Scrolling(Offscreen) sprites

   By flame, March 25, 2020
   • 8 replies
   • 567 views
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   • JetSetIlly
   • March 26, 2020

8. help with VBb title screen

   By Elias2600, March 25, 2020   

   • batari basic
   • vbb
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     • vbb
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   • Elias2600
   • March 25, 2020

9. Console switches

   By billyj1285, March 24, 2020
   • 1 reply
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   • Karl G
   • March 25, 2020

10. How much K is there in BASIC? discussion thread...

    By Mr SQL, March 23, 2020   

    • supercharger capacity
    • basic compression
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      • basic compression
      • ram board
    • 1 reply
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    • Mr SQL
    • March 24, 2020

11. Detecting a Hyperkin Ranger gamepad at startup

    By Dionoid, March 23, 2020
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    • 253 views
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    • Dionoid
    • March 23, 2020

12. Horiztonal Movement Code Question

    By Zexx Moore, March 21, 2020
    • 6 replies
    • 329 views
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    • NoLand
    • March 22, 2020

13. Get Player position

    By flame, March 20, 2020
    • 5 replies
    • 549 views
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    • NoLand
    • March 21, 2020

14. Anybody good at C++? I need help 1 2

    By Lillapojkenpåön, March 6, 2020
    • 37 replies
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    • Lillapojkenpåön
    • March 14, 2020

15. Porting 8-bit to 2600?

    By rallyrabbit, March 3, 2020
    • 15 replies
    • 857 views
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    • Andrew Davie
    • March 11, 2020

16. Optional HPOS/REFP

    By flame, March 10, 2020
    • 14 replies
    • 434 views
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    • flame
    • March 11, 2020

17. Starpath Game Burned to Atari PCB?

    By StephenJ, March 5, 2020
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    • 294 views
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    • StephenJ
    • March 5, 2020

18. Scrolling Playfield vs Subroutines

    By flame, March 4, 2020
    • 6 replies
    • 456 views
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    • SpiceWare
    • March 5, 2020

19. Ninja Wall Jump game - WIP 1 2 3 4 10

    By walaber, November 26, 2014   

    • homebrew
    • ninja
    • 225 replies
    • 38.9k views
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    • Gilles_B
    • March 4, 2020

20. What does the 128byte RAM contains when the game is running? Is there explicit boundary of different parts?

    By Dong, February 10, 2020
    • 7 replies
    • 1.2k views
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    • tokumaru
    • March 4, 2020

21. Neato LO/HI/BANK/state machine table definitions

    By Andrew Davie, February 26, 2020
    • 3 replies
    • 380 views
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    • Andrew Davie
    • March 1, 2020

22. Box and manual photoshop templates

    By mickmuze, February 24, 2020
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    • 327 views
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    • mickmuze
    • February 24, 2020

23. [DASM] Pseudo Ops

    By danielsega, July 6, 2018   

    • dasm
    • 1 reply
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    • zilog_z80a
    • February 20, 2020

24. Missile Command

    By TwentySixHundred, February 15, 2020
    • 4 replies
    • 733 views
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    • TwentySixHundred
    • February 18, 2020

25. pixel clock vs scan cycle start phase

    By rbairos, February 13, 2020
    • 10 replies
    • 641 views
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    • DirtyHairy
    • February 14, 2020

26. Alternating between two frames when walking

    By Daniel Manoiu, February 12, 2020
    • 5 replies
    • 451 views
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    • Daniel Manoiu
    • February 13, 2020

27. Sprite Z-Index

    By EvoMikeUK, February 10, 2020
    • 7 replies
    • 524 views
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    • stephena
    • February 12, 2020

28. Homebrew - Goon Nights

    By Glenn Main, October 10, 2019
    • 15 replies
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    • Glenn Main
    • February 9, 2020

29. Extracting Nth bit over multiple bytes

    By Karl G, February 4, 2020
    • 4 replies
    • 342 views
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    • Omegamatrix
    • February 8, 2020

30. Preview of new JRPG: Save Gaia: The Cy-Mage

    By EvoMikeUK, February 16, 2019
    • 4 replies
    • 1.6k views
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    • ZeroPage Homebrew
    • February 6, 2020

31. Making one digit always stay the same

    By atari2600land, February 3, 2020
    • 2 replies
    • 270 views
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    • atari2600land
    • February 3, 2020

32. Do Re Mi A simple reflex game

    By vhzc, July 26, 2019
    • 8 replies
    • 1.7k views
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    • Randolph Laterca
    • February 2, 2020

33. Collection of fixes and best practices for Flashback Portable?

    By Gemintronic, January 12, 2020
    • 9 replies
    • 670 views
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    • Gemintronic
    • February 1, 2020

34. Fixing 6sprite colored kernel delay?

    By MemberAtarian, January 23, 2020
    • 13 replies
    • 858 views
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    • SpiceWare
    • January 27, 2020

35. Sprite default horizontal position

    By FizzyChicken, January 23, 2020   

    • emulation
    • 13 replies
    • 740 views
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    • SvOlli
    • January 25, 2020

36. Keypad read delay

    By azure, January 24, 2020
    • 0 replies
    • 291 views
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    • azure
    • January 24, 2020

37. 2600 palettes in rgb format

    By FizzyChicken, January 18, 2020   

    • emulator
    • 4 replies
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    • tokumaru
    • January 24, 2020

38. A ROACH IN SPACE 1 2

    By vhzc, March 23, 2019
    • 35 replies
    • 16.2k views
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    • ZeroPage Homebrew
    • January 23, 2020

39. Have you ever noticed this "bug" in video olympics?

    By Arnaud Giese, January 14, 2020
    • 5 replies
    • 476 views
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    • SpiceWare
    • January 18, 2020

40. Odds and Even Number Checks?

    By KevKelley, January 17, 2020
    • 2 replies
    • 431 views
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    • KevKelley
    • January 18, 2020

41. Flicker control

    By easmith, January 17, 2020
    • 2 replies
    • 439 views
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    • easmith
    • January 17, 2020

42. Random Terrain avatar icon screen saver, now on Atari 2600

    By Kiwi, January 13, 2020
    • 3 replies
    • 430 views
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    • Random Terrain
    • January 17, 2020

43. I'm FINALLY learning assembly!

    By MantaNZ, January 5, 2020
    • 16 replies
    • 917 views
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    • MantaNZ
    • January 12, 2020

44. Generating global labels in a macro ?

    By Windless, January 11, 2020
    • 2 replies
    • 317 views
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    • Windless
    • January 12, 2020

45. Failing at 3F BankSwitching

    By Windless, January 9, 2020
    • 18 replies
    • 747 views
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    • Windless
    • January 11, 2020

46. 8 pixel back-n-forth sprite shift

    By rbairos, September 2, 2019
    • 9 replies
    • 858 views
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    • rbairos
    • January 8, 2020

47. My 1st homebrew: StarQuest

    By Alena, December 21, 2019   

    • 2600
    • 2600 games
    • (and 2 more)

      Tagged with:

      • 2600
      • 2600 games
      • homebrew
      • adventure
    • 7 replies
    • 799 views
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    • Mikebloke
    • January 6, 2020

48. Transitioning from Title Screen To Game Mode 1 2

    By Mallard Games, September 4, 2019
    • 27 replies
    • 2k views
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    • Nukey Shay
    • January 6, 2020

49. Football disassembly

    By DEBRO, December 24, 2019
    • 2 replies
    • 682 views
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    • DEBRO
    • January 6, 2020

50. Rom to test on real hardware.

    By Windless, January 2, 2020
    • 1 reply
    • 459 views
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    • tokumaru
    • January 2, 2020