Just regular Snake for 2600

[parski]

Hello!

 

I need to make a Snake game for the Atari 2600, so to learn I want to start by doing a hack on the game Tape Worm, which is pretty much a Snake clone with a lot of unnecessary elements implemented to give it a unique touch. However, I just want to make a normal Snake. I have no prior knowledge in Assembly, but I do know C#. I searched a bit on the forums and found bithacker as well as BOM (don't remember what it stands for), but I just get a windows with what looks like a pixel equivalent of HEX code. I want to see the actual code! My other problem is that when I try to emulate Tape Worm in both Z26 and Stella I can't get past the first screen... I tried to see what keys where mapped to what, but I tried pressing all the buttons with no success.

 

I found no stickies in this part of the forum, so if someone could just point me in the right direction I'd be very thankful.

[Impaler_26]

If you have programmed in C before why not try writing the game from scratch using batari Basic? It's quite similar to C (afaik) and easy to use.

 

Have a look at the bB Forum.

[raskar42]

 

I need to make a Snake game for the Atari 2600

 

...or they'll break my thumbs!

[parski]

Judging by the responses, there's no way to look at source code? I really want to do this.

[Impaler_26]

If you wanna take a look at the Tapeworm source code just disassemble the ROM with Distella.

[+stephena]

If you wanna take a look at the Tapeworm source code just disassemble the ROM with Distella.

Or use the latest version of Stella (3.3), which greatly improves the disassembly compared to previous versions. In many cases, it will even detect and mark graphics stored in ROM, which can be modified directly in the debugger.

[neotokeo2001]

An easy way to make it closer to plain old snake is just to remove the graphics for the enemies. The game will still make the sound when enemies appear but no enemy will show up to collide with the player.