TatBou

it all works now. cd downloads allowed me to progress through the other subfolders needed to get to Dasm and assemble the program. thank you

so, it's probably a windows thing?

backstory: I've been trying to make an Atari 2600 game using Andrew Davie's Atari 2600 Programing for Newbies tutorial when I tried to use the assembler DASM for his Kernel_01 demo. After writing out the code he used, I tried installing DASM and that's where my problems begin. my problem: my problem started a bit before DASM was even a thing I knew about, when I had the thought "Atari games seem pretty simple, I've messed around with NES and MegaDrive games before so it shouldn't be that hard, I could make a game for it." The Atari was a bit of a learning curve for my primary C++ & html5 brain with its cut-throat resource management and all that. but I did start to understand how scanlines worked, some necessary timings, and all that TIA chip stuff. after a bit we got to the actual coding part of the tutorial and that's when I found out about DASM. as I'm guessing most of you know what DASM is and what it does, and as equal amount of you should know it doesn't have a traditional installation process. (From what I've heard) in order to install DASM you have to use the Command Prompt (for windows) to do some Hacker man stuff (I learned that piece of info from the YouTube video: (1) Code. Compile. Play. Setting up our ATARI 2600 Dev Tools | 8Blit - YouTube by 8blit. at around 6:22 in the video) but Instead of the Command Prompt prompting me to(this a text version of 8Blit's prompt in his tutorial with what I would assum would be what I would see? ? \Users\tatbo>\Downloads\ATARI>dir Volume in drive C is SSD Volume Serial Number is 8041-628B Directory of ? \Users\tatbo>\Downloads\ATARI 01/30/2021 82:28 PM <DIR> . 01/30/2021 02:28 PM <DIR> . . 01/30/2021 02:29 PM 1,646 Kernel.asm 01/30/2021 12:19 PM 227,150 dasm.exe 01/30/2021 12:19 PM <DIR> machines 2 File(s) 228,796 bytes 3 Dir(s) 15,100,145,664 bytes free it said: C:\Users\tatbo>\Downloads\ATARI>dir The system cannot find the path specified. What I'd like to know: first off, why is it doing this? second, what can be done to fix it? third, why is there a ">" symbol by "tatbo" in Command Prompt when it's not there in File Explorer? what File Explorer looks like: ________________________________ < > ^ | C:\Users\ | | | | ? defaultuser100000 | | ? fuckit | | ? public | | ? tatbo fourth, am I going to the right directory? Where the files would be in File Explorer: ________________________________ < > ^ | C:\Users\tatbo\Downloads\ATARI | | | | ? machines | | dasm.exe | | Kernel.asm Thanks in advance