Making Games for the Atari 2600

By Francine Banner

Book 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 This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1541021304
• ISBN13: 9781541021303
• Release Date: December 2016
• Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
• Length: 264 Pages
• Weight: 1.04 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"