RevEng Posted December 23, 2015 Share Posted December 23, 2015 Hi All, I've put together a new 7800 Development Wiki, at 7800.8bitdev.org. Those of us that have taken up 7800 development can attest that there's a lot of information scattered about the net on programming the 7800, but much of it is outdated, and much of it is languishing. The wiki will hopefully improve the situation, since anyone with a stake in 7800 development can sign-up and add or update entries. I've taken a first pass at populating the wiki. It's not fully comprehensive (yet) but there are definitely a bunch of useful docs, including some new ones I put together with information I haven't seen elsewhere. Ironically, it's a bit weak on 7800basic info, but I'm hoping to shore that up in the future. The wiki has an updated version of the 7800 Software Guide, which has fixed sections for mirrors, DMA timing, and equates. The wiki is also the new official home of 7800basic. (I'll still update the AA 7800basic release thread here with any news.) I've also created the 7800 Assembly Dev Kit, which is a collection of dasm, 7800header, and 7800sign, and some scripting to make getting setup for 7800 assembly coding painless. Windows, OS X, and Linux are supported. I'm hoping the 7800 developers will find this useful, and that it will drive the 7800 forward as a console to write games for. Enjoy, and Happy Holidays! 11 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Trebor Posted December 23, 2015 Share Posted December 23, 2015 Fantastic this has been made available and known to the community - THANK YOU! 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PacManPlus Posted December 23, 2015 Share Posted December 23, 2015 Awesome. Thank you! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PacManPlus Posted December 23, 2015 Share Posted December 23, 2015 Not saying that my source code is anything great, but if you set up an 'examples' page, you can use any of the source code that I posted here a while back. 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RevEng Posted December 23, 2015 Author Share Posted December 23, 2015 That's a great idea, Bob. I'll take you up on that. 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gambler172 Posted December 23, 2015 Share Posted December 23, 2015 Nice and useful 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pedgarcia Posted December 24, 2015 Share Posted December 24, 2015 Great stuff in there! I made a post here to help make people outside Atariage aware: http://www.vintageisthenewold.com/learn-everything-about-how-to-program-for-the-atari-7800/ If you need anything, let me know Thanks Paulo 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RevEng Posted December 24, 2015 Author Share Posted December 24, 2015 Thanks Paulo! Much appreciated. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+JAC! Posted January 14, 2016 Share Posted January 14, 2016 7800 is still on my "one day I will..." list , site looks very nice. Thanks. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RevEng Posted January 14, 2016 Author Share Posted January 14, 2016 Thanks, JAC! Still early days, but its a start. The more the merrier here. Can't wait to see what demos you cook up for the old girl, when "one day" eventually comes. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Heaven/TQA Posted January 14, 2016 Share Posted January 14, 2016 me just reading... just remembered that I did had touched the 7800 ages ago could be fun to see what the beast can do... 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cyprian Posted December 26, 2020 Share Posted December 26, 2020 On 12/23/2015 at 5:40 AM, RevEng said: Hi All, I've put together a new 7800 Development Wiki, at 7800.8bitdev.org. Those of us that have taken up 7800 development can attest that there's a lot of information scattered about the net on programming the 7800, but much of it is outdated, and much of it is languishing. The wiki will hopefully improve the situation, since anyone with a stake in 7800 development can sign-up and add or update entries. I've taken a first pass at populating the wiki. It's not fully comprehensive (yet) but there are definitely a bunch of useful docs, including some new ones I put together with information I haven't seen elsewhere. Ironically, it's a bit weak on 7800basic info, but I'm hoping to shore that up in the future. The wiki has an updated version of the 7800 Software Guide, which has fixed sections for mirrors, DMA timing, and equates. The wiki is also the new official home of 7800basic. (I'll still update the AA 7800basic release thread here with any news.) I've also created the 7800 Assembly Dev Kit, which is a collection of dasm, 7800header, and 7800sign, and some scripting to make getting setup for 7800 assembly coding painless. Windows, OS X, and Linux are supported. I'm hoping the 7800 developers will find this useful, and that it will drive the 7800 forward as a console to write games for. Enjoy, and Happy Holidays! nice tool, thanks. Is there a way to create e.g. 4kB rom with it? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RevEng Posted December 26, 2020 Author Share Posted December 26, 2020 With 7800basic? no. The last 4k of the rom is reserved for 7800basic functions, and there's no way to import graphics there. 16k is the smallest officially supported size. With the 7800 Assembly Dev Kit? yes. Just set your ROM ORG to $f000 in your source code. I did this just the other day in fact. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cyprian Posted December 26, 2020 Share Posted December 26, 2020 thanks @RevEng 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+JAC! Posted October 31, 2023 Share Posted October 31, 2023 On 1/14/2016 at 2:23 AM, RevEng said: Thanks, JAC! Still early days, but its a start. The more the merrier here. Can't wait to see what demos you cook up for the old girl, when "one day" eventually comes. One small step ahead: The next version of the WUDSN IDE will include a reference to the Wiki in the online help. 1 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eagle Posted October 31, 2023 Share Posted October 31, 2023 @JAC! could you add Maria modes to bitmap converter? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+JAC! Posted October 31, 2023 Share Posted October 31, 2023 12 minutes ago, Eagle said: @JAC! could you add Maria modes to bitmap converter? I think standard charset & bitmap will already work, but that's guessing. I've created https://github.com/wudsn/wudsn-ide/issues/20 to track the request. Feel free to provide further input there. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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