Retro Lord Posted March 8, 2015 Share Posted March 8, 2015 I've been stuck with Atari 2600 programming for a long while now, and when I finish my current project I'd like to move on but I've been unsuccesfull in moving on, but I got interested in these 2 consoles and I was wondering if there are any well documented guides on programming for them. Thanks! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LS_Dracon Posted March 8, 2015 Share Posted March 8, 2015 For Odyssey 2 you need download and study Dan Boris Tech Manual PDF, download HERE Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+atari2600land Posted March 8, 2015 Share Posted March 8, 2015 (edited) I sort of "moved on" to the Odyssey 2. It is assembly, but it's a lot easier assembly. I say that because I have made games with Odyssey 2, but not Atari 2600, assembly. I have a whole bunch of games that I made and posted the code on in a link in my signature if you want to take a look. The annoying thing with Odyssey 2 coding though is that the code is split up into "pages" of 256 bytes each. To get out of a page, you need to either "jump" to (using "jmp") or call a section of it (using "call"). Simply using "jz" or "jnz" will not work if that area is outside the 256-byte page. It may sound harder than it actually is, though. Edited March 8, 2015 by atari2600land Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+atari2600land Posted March 9, 2015 Share Posted March 9, 2015 (edited) One more thing to add: If you decide to start Odyssey 2 programming, you can find the Odyssey 2 community's (there is one!) forums here: http://www.videopac.nl/forum/ I am on there, username "Chris!". Edited March 9, 2015 by atari2600land Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BigO Posted March 9, 2015 Share Posted March 9, 2015 (edited) Some Channel F stuff here: http://atariage.com/forums/topic/44963-fairchild-channel-f-techprogramming-info/ I think it was AA member e5frog who wrote the homebrew Pac Man for Channel F Edited March 9, 2015 by BigO Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
carlsson Posted March 9, 2015 Share Posted March 9, 2015 Retro Lord, have you ventured into own assembly language programming yet on the Atari 2600, or mostly made games with Batari BASIC? If a higher order language is desired, you might want to narrow your search for target systems to those for which there are compilers or interpreting environments. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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