Comments on: Programming for Atari 2600 http://www.diylive.net/index.php/2006/01/10/programming-for-atari-2600/ Do-it-yourself projects and technology updates Thu, 07 Apr 2011 22:05:33 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: TeamDroid » Atari 2600 Enigma http://www.diylive.net/index.php/2006/01/10/programming-for-atari-2600/comment-page-1/#comment-215 TeamDroid » Atari 2600 Enigma Sat, 14 Jan 2006 18:08:19 +0000 http://www.diylive.net/index.php/2006/01/10/programming-for-atari-2600/#comment-215 [...] Programming for Atari 2600 [...] [...] Programming for Atari 2600 [...]

]]> By: Mark VandeWettering http://www.diylive.net/index.php/2006/01/10/programming-for-atari-2600/comment-page-1/#comment-184 Mark VandeWettering Wed, 11 Jan 2006 00:17:09 +0000 http://www.diylive.net/index.php/2006/01/10/programming-for-atari-2600/#comment-184 I'll second the recommendation for AtariAge. The documentation placed there was highly instrumental in getting to understand how the Atari VCS worked and getting my first programs to run. I also give kudos to p65 and to the guys behind Stella (particularly the new version which has very nice debugging capabilities, it's really nice to single step through things and see what the machine is drawing with each instruction). In case it wasn't clear, the picture of my Enigma Machine that you have is actually running on a VCS. I scavenged an old SuperBreakout cartridge, disassembled it, pulled out the old PC board, plugged in the new one with my freshly programmed AT28C64 EEPROM, and that's what you get! So yeah, with the stuff you listed, you can actually make real hardware. I even made a label ( http://brainwagon.org/images/atari.png is an early version, I'll have to find the final version on my laptop sometime) and reassenbled it into a nice cartridge which sits alongside Pitfall II. Good stuff. I’ll second the recommendation for AtariAge. The documentation placed there was highly instrumental in getting to understand how the Atari VCS worked and getting my first programs to run. I also give kudos to p65 and to the guys behind Stella (particularly the new version which has very nice debugging capabilities, it’s really nice to single step through things and see what the machine is drawing with each instruction).

In case it wasn’t clear, the picture of my Enigma Machine that you have is actually running on a VCS. I scavenged an old SuperBreakout cartridge, disassembled it, pulled out the old PC board, plugged in the new one with my freshly programmed AT28C64 EEPROM, and that’s what you get! So yeah, with the stuff you listed, you can actually make real hardware. I even made a label ( http://brainwagon.org/images/atari.png is an early version, I’ll have to find the final version on my laptop sometime) and reassenbled it into a nice cartridge which sits alongside Pitfall II.

Good stuff.

]]> By: Administrator http://www.diylive.net/index.php/2006/01/10/programming-for-atari-2600/comment-page-1/#comment-183 Administrator Tue, 10 Jan 2006 23:27:02 +0000 http://www.diylive.net/index.php/2006/01/10/programming-for-atari-2600/#comment-183 Thanks David, I will check it out. Thanks David, I will check it out.

]]> By: Administrator http://www.diylive.net/index.php/2006/01/10/programming-for-atari-2600/comment-page-1/#comment-181 Administrator Tue, 10 Jan 2006 21:47:03 +0000 http://www.diylive.net/index.php/2006/01/10/programming-for-atari-2600/#comment-181 Thanks man. I really liked your site as well. I would love to write an Atari 2600 game. It was around during my younger times. So my question is, if I had that pc board and an EEPROM, could you program a ROM on the chip and play it on your Atari? I would be doing more cool how-to projects if I wasn't hammered this year. Sadly, I can't even play with my PIC chip programmer :( Thanks man. I really liked your site as well. I would love to write an Atari 2600 game. It was around during my younger times. So my question is, if I had that pc board and an EEPROM, could you program a ROM on the chip and play it on your Atari?

I would be doing more cool how-to projects if I wasn’t hammered this year. Sadly, I can’t even play with my PIC chip programmer :(

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