10 Dec
2015
10 Dec
'15
8:57 p.m.
On Dec 10, 2015, at 4:13 PM, drlegendre .
<drlegendre at gmail.com> wrote:
On Thu, Dec 10, 2015 at 12:55 AM, Mike <tulsamike3434 at gmail.com> wrote:
These days it's all done on an emulator.. =)
But yes, there are methods (even from the classic era) to load arbitrary
code into the 2600 using a proprietary cartridge and a cassette tape
machine. In essence, the special cart has a small bootstrap ROM that loads
the software from the cassette into an internal (to the cart) RAM space
which is then banked in as if it were a real 2600 cart ROM.
Of course, the software is still limited to the hardware resources of the
2600.. the cart just emulates a plug-in ROM.
So did this post properly? If not, I don't know how else to do it!
I?ve done embarrassingly little so far. The equivalent of ?Hello, World?. I have a
development environment setup on my Mac Pro, and I have a cart that lets me copy my ROM
images to an SD card and plug them into my Atari 2600 for testing on real hardware. My
primary challenge is finding time to learn to program it.
Then again, I have some Photography projects that are a higher priority that have the
exact same problem.
Zane
The only thing I?ve done in ages that?s even
remotely Classic Computer
related is to start working on learning how to program my
Atari 2600.
Zane
That sounds interesting How is that even done? I know there was a Atari
cart they came out with is that what your talking about?