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| Slippyblade:
--- Quote from: yotsuya on June 30, 2016, 11:37:23 am ---I've spent the better part of a week learning how to program for the Atari 2600. Fun stuff. --- End quote --- Isn't it basically a dialect of Assembly? Or are there higher level compilers available now? |
| yotsuya:
--- Quote from: Slippyblade on June 30, 2016, 12:58:53 pm --- --- Quote from: yotsuya on June 30, 2016, 11:37:23 am ---I've spent the better part of a week learning how to program for the Atari 2600. Fun stuff. --- End quote --- Isn't it basically a dialect of Assembly? Or are there higher level compilers available now? --- End quote --- I'm using batari Basic. I'm barely at the beginner level. |
| ChadTower:
--- Quote from: Slippyblade on June 30, 2016, 12:58:53 pm --- --- Quote from: yotsuya on June 30, 2016, 11:37:23 am ---I've spent the better part of a week learning how to program for the Atari 2600. Fun stuff. --- End quote --- Isn't it basically a dialect of Assembly? Or are there higher level compilers available now? --- End quote --- Yes, though the compiler he's using does bring it one level up from that. It remains to be seen how well that compiler optimizes and that's a major concern on the 2600. |
| yotsuya:
--- Quote from: ChadTower on June 30, 2016, 02:07:17 pm --- --- Quote from: Slippyblade on June 30, 2016, 12:58:53 pm --- --- Quote from: yotsuya on June 30, 2016, 11:37:23 am ---I've spent the better part of a week learning how to program for the Atari 2600. Fun stuff. --- End quote --- Isn't it basically a dialect of Assembly? Or are there higher level compilers available now? --- End quote --- Yes, though the compiler he's using does bring it one level up from that. It remains to be seen how well that compiler optimizes and that's a major concern on the 2600. --- End quote --- I'm just farting around with it, I'm not planning on being the second coming of David Crane... |
| Slippyblade:
Did you ever play the Halo demake for 2600? It was pretty good, actually. |
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