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  1. zilog_z80a
    Hi to all the ATARI 2600 VCS community!!

    this it's gonna be a long journey (i hope), this borns a couple of years ago from a chat between me and my brother Piter.

    We were talking about Atari 2600 and in some part of the chat we ask our self...

    how would be look Pyjamarama for the Atari 2600? A silence be came to us.... ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pyjamarama)

    the second question was... do you imagine that? --------- laughter ----------

    Ok..... there i was, writing on google, atari 2600 programming tutorial
    then the Learn 6502 assembly in one step! then.... the Excellent Andrew Davie tutorial for newbies, etc.

    and here i'm, still learning and trying to do my best, i know that is not an easy task but i know too that impossible is nothing.

    now this days i'm reading the Frosty source code from the super cool Darrell Spice Jr Atari Programmer.

    by now i have some mock up done on real atari source code and running.

    i need to learn about bands and screen sectors.

    all in a time was to imagine about how something is done, and once in the real thing... the thing is to adapt our mind to get it thrugh the Atari 2600 way.

    all here is a constant metamorphosis between what we thought and what really is.

    will write later, thanks to all!!
  2. zilog_z80a
    Remember, i was looking a tutorial about Atari 2600 programming.... my idea in that moment the same that now.

    YAY!! AYE!! WANNA KNOW HOW TO PROGRAMME A VCS PYJAMARAMA!!!

    i was a little less anxious than now, lol, and i think i was reading :




    Session 21: Sprites
    Started by Andrew Davie, Aug 20 2003 7:59 PM




    so... IS POSSIBLE TO READ A TABLE GRAPHICS?! WOW!!
    when i read the excercises on Session 21 i wasn't able to do them all, but.... that table thing..... wtf is a table?!! read a table?






    then i remember my hunger of code, just to see what is all this about, graphics....sound!! BUT HOW?!! (we are always on the run)

    then, i read code... and code and code, being a newbie is something stresant and sometimes even confusing.

    and may be--- that afternoon i found a table related to a playfield, then a playfield editor, so i think i found THE TABLE WORD.

    That was enough to lead me at google and search again about graphics.

    there it was, the SKIPDRAW thing!! jesus!! was too much for my newbie brain so in a matter of days i did at GOOGLE a new search .



    SKIPDRAW site:atariage.com



    SKIPDRAW couldn't use or understand it so i did it work my way, a bad and erroneous version of skipdraw, but it did work lol ...... the important thing was that I had learned my rainbow (from davie's tutorial) and my first graphic.

    funny to remember. pure anxiety

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