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Thanks for all of these answers, they really helped me a lot! I just wanted to let you know that I've finally solved my issue, which seemed to be a cause of a little mistake in my assembly file (as you people suggested!) and me simply not knowing that DASM actually output any files since they for some reason are placed in a rather obscure directory (the "Users" folder). Nevertheless I'll hopefully be able to start coding some simple 2600 games soon, all thanks to you people!

Thanks for all of these answers, it really helped me a lot! I just wanted to let you know that I've finally solved my issue, which seemed to be a cause of a little mistake in my assembly file (as you people suggested!) and me simply not knowing that DASM actually output any files since they for some reason are placed in a rather obscure directory (the "Users" folder). Nevertheless I'll hopefully be able to start coding some 2600 games soon, thanks to you people!

Hmm... Although that does seem to change the result to the better, it doesn't seem to be the source of the problem. DASM still doesn't output any file, and by the looks of the message it doesn't even seem to read the file: Maybe it's my version of DASM? All of the topics I've read have pointed me to a domain called http://atari2600.org/dasm, but this link is down and therefore I have no clue on what version I really should download. I'm really sorry for bothering you people so much, but making my own 2600 game has been a dream of mine for a long time. Thanks for understanding!

Hey everybody! Recently I've been looking into programming the Atari 2600, and I think that I'm starting to understand the basics of it thanks to Mr. Andrew Davie's excellent tutorials. But I have met one major roadblock that prevents me from getting into it for real: I can't get DASM to work correctly, and thus I can't even assemble my codes to see what progress I eventually have made. I've been using v. 2.20.11 (which seems to be the latest one according to this page), it seems to assemble everything correctly except that it doesn't seem to recognize neither "VCS.h" nor "MACRO.h" no matter where I place the files. I've heard that DASM can have som issues on Windows 7 (which I have). Might this be the problem? Or is it just me being to simple-minded to figure it out? Any help will be greatly appreciated! EDIT: Here is the code file that I've been using to test DASM (download at the bottom of the first post): http://atariage.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=27194 And this is the command line I've been in Command Prompt to get DASM to assemble the source code: C:\*PATH* dasm.exe C:\*PATH*kernel.txt -lkernel.txt -f3 -v5 -okernel.bin