What programming resources are available?
John Saeger maintains the Atari Documentation Depot, which contains both 2600 and 7800 programming, development and game standards manuals. The Atari History Museum has several of the original 7800 (AKA 3600) technical documents on their 7800 page (scroll to the bottom). Eckhard Stolberg’s VCS Workshop Page also contains many tools and source code files. Of particular interest is devkit2.zip which contains instructions on how to modify a 7800 such that it may be used as a development system and cart reader for 2600 and 7800 games. There is Harry Dodgson’s (hdodgson@oeonline.com) Monitor Cart plus documentation. The 250+ pages included a stella guide, a 2600 programming manual which was a bit more readable, the Maria specs, and the 7800 docs plus numerous corrections to the Atari documentation. Video 61, the current copyright holder, is still producing these in small batches. The price is $99.95. Dan Boris’ 7800 Tech Page also contains a wealth of information on the 7800.
See Dan Boris’ VCS page. A fairly comprehensive page is Nick Bensema’s 2600 Programming Page, complete with gobs of source examples and programming tools. Bob Colbert (rcolbert@novia.net) provides many development tools for the Supercharger on his home page. These tools are different than those found on the Supercharger CD. Eckhard Stolberg’s (Eckhard_Stolberg@public.uni-hamburg.de) VCS Workshop Page also contains many tools and source code files. Of particular interest is his Devkit which contains instructions on how to modify a 7800 such that it may be used as a development system and cart reader for 2600 and 7800 games. Mac PowerPC users might wish to mosey on over to the Mactari site, which houses 2600 development tools for the Mac. See the Stella entry in the mailing list section. The stella mailing list is dedicated to 2600 programming. AtariAge has an active Programming Message Board with complete archives.
See Dan Boris’ VCS page. A fairly comprehensive page is Nick Bensema’s 2600 Programming Page, complete with gobs of source examples and programming tools. Bob Colbert (rcolbert@novia.net) provides many development tools for the Supercharger on his home page. These tools are different than those found on the Supercharger CD. Mac PowerPC users might wish to mosey on over to the Mactari site, which houses 2600 development tools for the Mac. Stella Archives Atariage has a forum dedicated to programmers.
