carlappis Posted June 30, 2022 Share Posted June 30, 2022 hello i just want to know what the diffrence is between krocadile cartride and a normal cd i want to make an atari game Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Bruce-Robert Pocock Posted August 5, 2022 Share Posted August 5, 2022 On 6/30/2022 at 4:39 PM, carlappis said: hello i just want to know what the diffrence is between krocadile cartride and a normal cd i want to make an atari game A Krocodile Cartridge is an older multi-cart that you can upload games (eg. your own) to and play them on the Atari 2600. I don't believe they're made any more. Modern-available options include: Harmony, Harmony Encore, or UnoCart, each of which uses an SD card to transfer games from your computer, or PlusCart, which uses WiFi to access a “cloud” server with games stored to it. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ecernosoft Posted August 17, 2022 Share Posted August 17, 2022 Go to the 5200 first! Then do the 2600! 5200 is easier to understand, is similar to 2600, and has more powerful chips. You WILL and I mean WILL run into issues designing a scanline kernal on 2600, or the minimal amount of RAM, or 76-cycle limit per scanline. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LatchKeyKid Posted August 17, 2022 Share Posted August 17, 2022 They are severe limitations but it's obviously doable (given the large library of official and homebrew games) if you set the core gameplay and asthetic expectations appropriately. I'm no expert but I liked the 8-Bit Guy's technique of starting with the most limited platform (c64 in his case) for the base game and adding special features and improvements with each successively more powerful platform he moved the game to afterwards. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Gemintronic Posted August 17, 2022 Share Posted August 17, 2022 2 hours ago, Ecernosoft said: Go to the 5200 first! Then do the 2600! 5200 is easier to understand, is similar to 2600, and has more powerful chips. You WILL and I mean WILL run into issues designing a scanline kernal on 2600, or the minimal amount of RAM, or 76-cycle limit per scanline. 5200 may be easier from a hardware perspective but only if he's comfortable with assembly. 2600 has batari BASIC. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ecernosoft Posted August 18, 2022 Share Posted August 18, 2022 13 hours ago, Gemintronic said: 5200 may be easier from a hardware perspective but only if he's comfortable with assembly. 2600 has batari BASIC. Ok I didn't think of that! Unless he's heard of Fast basic on 800xl.... you can probably write a version for 5200. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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