Atari

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. Just use our web-based IDE to write 6502 assembly code, and see your code run instantly in the browser.

This book was written for the person who wants to get the most out of his or her ATARI computer. If you have a good understanding of BASIC but want to know how to get more special effects, more sounds, and more graphics from your computer, this book is for you.

With this book's self-instructional format, you'll be actively involved in learning BASIC for the AT ARI Computer. The material in each chapter is presented in short sections, each of which teaches you something new about ATARI® BASIC and gives you a question or asks you to write a program. Correct answers are given following the dashed line. For the most effective learning we urge you to use a thick paper to keep the answers out of sight until you have written your answer.

A crew digs up all of the old Atari 2600 game cartridges of "E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial" that were tossed into a landfill in the 1980s.

This book was written for the person who wants to get the most out of his or her ATARI computer. If you have a good understanding of BASIC but want to know how to get more special effects, more sounds, and more graphics from your computer, this book is for you. Every program is explained in detail so that after you enter the program and understand how it works, you can use this knowledge in writing your own programs.