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you convinced i am sold

Bob is going home had that kind of playfield even changing colors mid screen! a joy to see! plus it had a memorable 2 channel music! for me it´s one of the best games ever for its overall cuteness and charm!

I wish this video had more visual aids

The content you are sharing is great, and valuable to other assembly language programmers like myself!!!

Hi, I'm a game developer and use modern game engines , I'm hoping to be able to use C or C# for Atari 800xl programming. Don't suppose you know of a way to do this? I think it's possible to use C at least?

what is a color CLOCK ?

New subscriber; enjoying these videos so far! Just found the channel after getting my 2600+ and playing my childhood games. I'm a professional developer but haven't worked in such a constrained environment since I was a kid coding on my TRS-80 Color Computer where I had 16K of RAM. Didn't know how good I had it!

I downloaded the Code program but "Clone Git Repository" isn't showing up. Anything I can check for?

Humans are amazing.

still writing out my game after many months lol. its taken lots of time and effort but your videos help me understand things easier. hope to have it on a cartridge when its finished.. whenever that will be haha

Cool soundtrack!

Other systems such as the Commodore 64, and the Amiga were also based around television standards. Back in the 80s, I used to get tons of pirated games from other C64 owners, and probably half of them had problems running, or they had mild to severe graphical glitches. It might be minor as a flickering status panel, or as severe as the entire level being screwed up. Because I didn't know any different at the time, i used to think that the crackers were incompetent and stupid for releasing such broken games. It wasn't until later that I learned this was just the result of running PAL games on an NTSC system. When I got the Amiga, the same situation existed, but I upgraded my A500 to the newer Agnus chip, which could be switched into PAL mode, which fixed the problems with such games.

Why not use it like this? (code bellow) will avoid an unnecessary BIT (.byte $2C - 4 cycles) and will save 1 bytes (BIT opcode) for each INPUT and in the case where the capacitor is charged, you consume 8 cycles, while this consumes 6 cycles . . midBand: sta WSYNC ; 3 ; --------------------- ; check if paddle caps are charged. bit INPT0 ;3 BIT paddle 0 bmi donep0 ; 2/3 0=charging, 1=charged stx pValue ; 3 store current scanline value donep0: bit INPT1 ; 3 BIT paddle 1 bmi donep1 ; 2/3 0=charging, 1=charged stx pValue+1 ; 3 store current scanline value donep1: . . .

Why? The Xbox series x and the Nintendo 64 are both 64 bit consoles.

I know it was a nightmare to code on A26. The fact that you had to draw the "blacker black" manually is mind blowing. Its now easy to develop games on this machine, as we have step by step debuggers Also, the reason why the graphics are so simple is because of this

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No loose strings with you! (loose cables? Lol) Thx!

dammit there was a guy that programed dragon warrior for the intellivision! and it looks and plays great even the sound is perfect!! i wish someone would do this for our atari!

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The recommendation is for a 500 Kilo-ohm potentiometer, right?

That's genius

That's twice as much turning though. I'm not sure how playable a lot of paddle games would be like this... KABOOM, I'm looking at you!

Cool stuff! I really like your videos :)

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It's half crazy and half challenging...

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yours are the best Atari 2600 tutorials on the web

Is it useful in making websites Android and Ios applications?

As a 24 year old I am really learning a lot from your videos! Currently I'm trying to grasp all of the key concepts for the 2600. Keep up your videos!

Hi, I'm looking for a graphical game maker environment for the Atari 2600? It's too fiddly for little. Can I suggested a full GUI environment dynamically using different kernel routines and machine code instructions, to maximise graphical tricks? The user then doesn't need to know how to code, and programmers can concentrate on game play code.

Great deep dive. Always wondered how that worked.

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It's kind of weird everyone saying how they remember classifying the 2600 as a 2 or 4 bit system, I don't remember any of that. It was just a fun game machine. And like you said, we weren't really referring to bits until the 16 bit consoles started using it for marketing.

Atari coin op called these objects "stamps"

It's so different from the 80s consoles that genrrations need to be used at this point. It is no good saying "8-bit", as that could mean "similar to Atari 2600", or "similar to NES".

I loved Dark Chambers on the 2600. My first gaming adventure!

It's just not the same as writing assemble in notepad though 😜

Excellent! Thank you for sharing your knowledge on the Atari 2600/Assembly language with the rest of us. You have that special ability to take a difficult topic...break it down...organize it...and present it in a manner that is "consumable" for those that want to expand their horizons in this topic.

Fun fact: If you have a pair of paddle controllers connected and you're playing Combat, press the fire buttons on both controllers together for a burst of speed. Although, you won't be able to fire...

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I racked up a little collection of paddle controllers over the years and NONE of them worked properly 😂 I got pretty good at taking the pots apart and cleaning them! Now they are like brand new! ...never did score a driving controller though... 😔

I can't thank you enough considering the amount of work this must have been. This is STELLAR content, I love it! You single-handedly created the best YT channel for Atari 2600 programming. The bar is set really damn high now for others that might want to follow suit 😋 The paddles are indeed...not intuitive...to program Lol. This helps immensely!!!

Awesome Kyle!

Yay! Thx

Thanks for putting out this video. I was toying with the Atari Dev Kit in Visual Studio Code but wasn’t aware of the git repo you mentioned. I’m off to the races now 😊

I'm a very recently sub, maybe 3 or 4 days ago! I loved your Atari Programming playlist, it makes such programming way more intuitive than the classic book we firstly find! :) And ty a lot for the github repo for me to check the codes itself! You helped me a lot! I wish to do a demo for Atari, i'm not an amazing programmer, but that is going to be fun, just for the hobby and for the sake of it! I want to know how far Atari can go, haha! And also learn 6502...

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