Atari's coin-op 6502 development tools for their PDP-11 found!

[tschak909]

Dunno if anyone noticed, but...

 

The development tools (MAC65/68 and LINKM) have been found, which developed their arcade games in the late 1970s and early 1980s.

https://bitsavers.org/bits/Atari/arcade/

 

They are implemented in MACRO-11, and all assemble out to SAV files (and the SAV files are actually on the e6 disk)

 

The arcade games in this repository can be built with it, e.g.:

https://github.com/historicalsource/centipede/tree/main

 

Which contains the mac source, the command file, documentation, and binary artifacts for Centipede, which were copied from the original RX01 disks.

 

I will be setting up simh to run RT-11 V4 to demonstrate all of this soon (I have to get RT-11 back in my head, as I haven't used it in forever)

 

-Thom

[+D Train]

WOW

[+Stephen]

What a find!

[tschak909]

In this #retrocomputing #archaeology series video, we show how the tools at #ATARI coin-op worked, in-context. We modify Centipede, assemble, link, and create new EPROMs with our changes. #retrogaming #gamedev

 

[tschak909]

In this RE-RECORDED #retrocomputing #archaeology series video, we show how the tools at #ATARI coin-op worked, in-context. We modify Centipede, assemble, link, and create new EPROMs with our changes. #retrogaming #gamedev