Making Games for the Atari 2600 (8bitworkshop)

Hugg, Steven

ISBN 10: 1541021304 / ISBN 13: 9781541021303

Published by CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform (edition ), 2016

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Making Games for the Atari 2600 (8bitworkshop)
• Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform (edition )
• Publication Date: 2016
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1541021304
• ISBN 13: 9781541021303
• Binding: Paperback
• Condition: Very Good

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Synopsis

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!