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Just stumbled upon this book, Making Games for the Atari 2600, Steven Hugg, eBook - Amazon.com[^], and read the first couple of chapters.
It's actually well written and really interesting if you're into hardware and electronics and understanding how computing actually works. Some really interesting info about the 6502 processor and what you can do.
Since I finally finished Petzold's (Code: The Hidden Language of Computers[^]) and started working with Arduino and building my own little projects, this stuff seems extremely interesting to me.
Have any of you read the Atari book?
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raddevus wrote: Have any of you read the Atari book?
No, but I have fond memories of writing 6502 assembly for the Commodore PET, C64, and VIC20.
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Marc Clifton wrote: No, but I have fond memories of writing 6502 assembly for the Commodore PET, C64, and VIC20
Wow, that is very cool. Great experience. No wonder you have gone so far in your career and work. 
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You could also have look at NASA Open Source Software used to program spaceships..
Caveat Emptor.
"Progress doesn't come from early risers – progress is made by lazy men looking for easier ways to do things." Lazarus Long
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No, but I still write some stuff for the Atari 8 bit computers from time to time. I still have a few of them in the shelf.
I have lived with several Zen masters - all of them were cats.
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I hope it's the 800 and not the 400 with that membrane keyboard.
That thing was crazy impossible to type on. 
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One 400, two 600XL and one 800XL. Only my 130XE has died long ago.
I have lived with several Zen masters - all of them were cats.
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I've been playing around with the Master System and both the NES and SNES.
I must be a masochist, since I actually quite enjoy trying to work around the system limitations and playing with scroll registers and bitplanes and memory banks.
Takes me all the way back to being a kid and trying to get TASM and MASM to make the DOS machine do something I considered interesting.
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enhzflep wrote: I must be a masochist
Not at all. Getting the most out of far less memory, processor and no mighty graphics processor at all is slowly becoming a lost art.
I have lived with several Zen masters - all of them were cats.
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Sadly, yes.
Though to be fair - it was always a bit painful at the time, the economics have shifted in such a way that it's not really sensible in most cases any more. When you can buy a $5 Ras-Pi Zero that has about the same oomph as a $4,000 machine in the early 90s, the programmer's time is now far more expensive than a little more hardware.
I still remember the week that I first installed DJGPP in dos and had easy access to more than 64kb of memory in one chunk. I think I only slept for 3 or 4 of the nights, such was my excitement at the prospect of being able to do some texture-mapping and meta-ball stuff.
Ahhhh, (magnetic-core) memories...
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Never had the Atari and never had the book, but I programmed my C64 for years... Last time - virtually - a year ago...
Skipper: We'll fix it.
Alex: Fix it? How you gonna fix this?
Skipper: Grit, spit and a whole lotta duct tape.
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I have a little C compiler that works for the C64, the Ataris and the Apple II.
cc65 - Wikipedia[^]
I have lived with several Zen masters - all of them were cats.
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CodeWraith wrote: C compiler that works for the C64, the Ataris and the Apple II.
Wow. Amazing. 
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Kornfeld Eliyahu Peter wrote: programmed my C64 for years... Last time - virtually - a year ago
That's some serious dedication to a platform.
I had a C128 because I got in late.
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Is claustrophobia the fear of getting stuck in the chimney?
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
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These are just getting Claussier and Claussier!
... such stuff as dreams are made on
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Is eláfi-skata-phobia the fear of having Rudolph the red-nosed reindeer cr*p on your head as he flies by?
If you have an important point to make, don't try to be subtle or clever. Use a pile driver. Hit the point once. Then come back and hit it again. Then hit it a third time - a tremendous whack.
--Winston Churchill
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Oh! I always thought it was fear of santa stealing trophies off the mantle while eating the cookies you left out.
Signature ready for installation. Please Reboot now.
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Stuck in the chimney? Sley, isn't the Lounge supposed to be KSS?
This wasn't submitted: Claustrophyobia is a fear of being awarded little figurines shaped like fat bearded elves.
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Yes, apparently the term was coined shortly after viagra was made available.
"the debugger doesn't tell me anything because this code compiles just fine" - random QA comment
"Facebook is where you tell lies to your friends. Twitter is where you tell the truth to strangers." - chriselst
"I don't drink any more... then again, I don't drink any less." - Mike Mullikins uncle
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U.S. declares North Korea carried out massive WannaCry cyberattack[^]
To quote:
"The WannaCry attack, the official said, "demonstrates the importance of basic cyber hygiene,...." -
Well duh! And how about spending money to upgrade your antiquated XP operating system, to something more resistant to Ransom viruses, like Windows 10?
Get me coffee and no one gets hurt!
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Wasn't that obvious from the original ransomware message?
Quote: Glorious Leader control all your datas now and he really cool. If you want your datas back send Glorious Leader 5 billion dong or many Bitcoins - no crappy U.S. dollar, okay? And be sure to get Glorious Leader style glorious haircut because it really cool and Glorious Leader kill you if not you do this. If you no want datas back then Glorious Leader nuke you big time and then beat you at Battleships, sucker - Glorious Leader is world champion of Battleships. Whatever CIA say, this attack not by Glorious People's Republic of North Korea - it by the horrible peoples of South Korea.
98.4% of statistics are made up on the spot.
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I also hear the Glorious Leader can scale snow covered mountains wearing Italian loafers and a business suit! What a maroon!
"Go forth into the source" - Neal Morse
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