kyle Posted June 6, 2002 Share Posted June 6, 2002 ATARI ARTS THE ONLY ATARI COMPANY WTF IS THAT? Are you on drugs my friend? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Opa Opa Posted June 6, 2002 Share Posted June 6, 2002 Idea Revolutions, check your PMs Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nukey Shay Posted June 6, 2002 Share Posted June 6, 2002 Is that Jim Butterfield's book? It sounds familiar. Other excellent references are Compute!'s beginner's books and magazine columns, as well as downloadable stuff from the Antic archives. [ 06-06-2002: Message edited by: Nukey Shay ] Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Joel D. Park Posted June 6, 2002 Share Posted June 6, 2002 I'm not sure who wrote the book, I don't have it here right now. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Snider-man Posted June 6, 2002 Share Posted June 6, 2002 Hey! I haven't seen Adam's article in a while! But, yes Chris, that's what initially inspired me to mess around with 2600 coding. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nukey Shay Posted June 6, 2002 Share Posted June 6, 2002 Found one that's kinda like that title using Google... C64 Machine Language For The Absolute Beginner - Danny Davis (1984) I use one that's called Machine Language For Beginners - Richard Mansfield, but I don't have a scanner to post it up (wish I did, because my copy is getting pretty worn). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Snider-man Posted June 6, 2002 Share Posted June 6, 2002 MLFB by Mansfield is the tome I have here too, Nukie. Got mine off eBay and was worth every penny I paid (about $10). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nukey Shay Posted June 6, 2002 Share Posted June 6, 2002 #@$%&*$! Mine was $20! j/k (True...it was new then. Looking almost as bad as a depot phone book these days) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chris++ Posted June 6, 2002 Share Posted June 6, 2002 Tim -- Adam was SO proud, around the time he met you, that his article had actually inspired someone to make an actual hack! He told me that "things like this make all the writing worth it," or something to that effect. Nukey -- Yeahhhh man! Compute magazine was my tutorial for learning C-64 machine language back in the day! Everyone else -- Insert your own affirmative! CF Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Opa Opa Posted June 6, 2002 Share Posted June 6, 2002 quote: Originally posted by Opa Opa: Idea Revolutions, check your PMs well... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Idea Revolutions Posted June 6, 2002 Author Share Posted June 6, 2002 Hey, I'm going on vacation tomorrow, so if you want to day anything drastic, do it before 1 PM tomorrow. P.S. Opa Opa, check your e-mail! You will be interested! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nukey Shay Posted June 7, 2002 Share Posted June 7, 2002 Executives get ALL the perks. j/k BTW nice signature...it's much more believeable now. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
somePUNK Posted June 7, 2002 Share Posted June 7, 2002 I have fath if you wanna work really hard Atari arts Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chris++ Posted June 7, 2002 Share Posted June 7, 2002 I told you these people were usually really cool, Chad! You might want to start out by making graphics hacks. Check it out: http://www.geocities.com/flynnwins/ocgs/is...2/vcsgraph.html I think Tim was originally inspired by this article, but I might be mistaken. CF Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Joel D. Park Posted June 7, 2002 Share Posted June 7, 2002 I got a decent book on Assembly Language called "Commodore 64 Machine Code for the Absolute Beginner" or something close to that. Though it breaks the assembler down even further than you'd need it to go, it helps explain what this and that command does, and how to work with Hex and Binary numbers and the math and stuff. Also I'd suggest doing a graphics hack first of one of the decompiled programs out there. Also, When doing sprites you'll find out that setting the Windows Calculator to "Scientific" mode and switiching between Binary and Hex will make decoding graphics a snap. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KAZ Posted June 18, 2002 Share Posted June 18, 2002 *bump* (on purpose, I'm trying to figure out how to make a playfield on an Atari 2600) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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