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This may look like a silly choice to some, but if your goal is to stretch your mind a bit, assembler will definitely do the trick. 6502 assembler is less annoyi
by zephyrfalcon 16y ago
This may look like a silly choice to some, but if your goal is to stretch your mind a bit, assembler will definitely do the trick. 6502 assembler is less annoying than its i386 equivalent, and can be used in e.g. C64 or Apple emulators.
- cadr 16y agoAnd you can write Atari 2600 games :) http://www.atariage.com/2600/programming/index.html http://www.atariage.com/2600/programming/index.html
- waterlesscloud 16y agoWhich is just what I'm doing with it, so I brought it up here! I've had the urge to homebrew an 8-bit computer from the chip up, but I don't know if I have it in me to go that deep just yet, so I'm testing the waters by homebrewing some 2600 ware first. If I like it, maybe I'll build a hardware emulator somehow (Typing that I thought of half a dozen obstacles, but hey, why not?).
- cadr 16y agoI highly recommend the "2600 Programming For Newbies". I worked through it a few years back and loved it. Word of warning, though - 2600 programming is particularly tricky, because you only have a couple of screen buffers, and each is a byte. So when changing the background, you have to keep track of where the electron gun is and write things at the right time if you want the left and right side of the screen to be different :)