hazjoh Posted June 14, 2005 Share Posted June 14, 2005 I have no experience in programming at all and would like to learn how to program games for the Atari 2600. I'm wondering if anyone can recommend a starting point. As far as books, manuals, web sits, and anything else that my help. Can anyone help me? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thomas Jentzsch Posted June 14, 2005 Share Posted June 14, 2005 I have no experience in programming at all and would like to learn how to program games for the Atari 2600. I'm wondering if anyone can recommend a starting point. As far as books, manuals, web sits, and anything else that my help. Can anyone help me? Why don't you just start reading Andrew's tutorials right here? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hazjoh Posted June 20, 2005 Author Share Posted June 20, 2005 I did check out Andrew's tutorials, but noticed that in Session 1: Start Here Andrew had stated that… “We're going to assume that you know how to program *something*, but not much more than that.” I, unfortunately, haven't even reached the "something" part, and was hoping there was a good book, manual, etc. out there to start with. Thank you very much for your time. I do appreciate you responding to my question. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bryan Posted June 20, 2005 Share Posted June 20, 2005 I did check out Andrew's tutorials, but noticed that in Session 1: Start Here Andrew had stated that… “We're going to assume that you know how to program *something*, but not much more than that.” I, unfortunately, haven't even reached the "something" part, and was hoping there was a good book, manual, etc. out there to start with. Thank you very much for your time. I do appreciate you responding to my question. 877324[/snapback] You should probably search out information on the 6502 processor on the net. Look at how some simple programs work. Get familar with the concepts of memory, registers, instructions, etc... It's really not that hard once you memorize the basics. Then come back and start reading how to control the 2600 using the these concepts. -Bry Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kisrael Posted June 22, 2005 Share Posted June 22, 2005 If you don't know any programming Atari is a very rough place to start. My tutorial http://alienbill.com/2600/101/ can help, but you probably want to start with something like a version of BASIC first. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+xucaen Posted August 12, 2005 Share Posted August 12, 2005 I have no experience in programming at all and would like to learn how to program games for the Atari 2600. I'm wondering if anyone can recommend a starting point. As far as books, manuals, web sits, and anything else that my help. Can anyone help me? 873982[/snapback] This is a good book for 6502 assembly language. http://www.atariarchives.org/alp/ God luck and have fun! Jim Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Random Terrain Posted August 16, 2005 Share Posted August 16, 2005 Here is a good starting place: http://www.atariage.com/forums/index.php?showforum=65 Make Atari 2600 games using BASIC. Nothing easier than BASIC. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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