Making Games for the Atari 2600

by Steven Hugg

Overview

The Atari 2600 was released in 1977, and now there's finally a book about how to write games for it! You'll learn about the 6502 CPU, NTSC frames, scanlines, cycle counting, players, missiles, collisions, procedural generation, pseudo-3D, and more. While using the manual, take advantage of our Web-based IDE to write 6502 assembly code, and see your code run instantly in the browser. We'll cover the same programming tricks that master programmers used to make classic games. Create your own graphics and sound, and share your games with friends!

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781541021303
Publisher:	CreateSpace Publishing
Publication date:	12/22/2016
Pages:	264
Sales rank:	993,679
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.55(d)