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Sep 4, 2008
A little (very little) more history. I spent more time at Atari waiting for assemblies to finish than you’d probably believe. I mean, assembly language; how hard can it be? Yet the Assembler/Editor cartridge was …
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Sep 3, 2008
Punchcards suck. I used to use Emacs at 300 baud. That’s how desperate I was to use a decent editor. The courses I was taking at school were on punchcards, and to avoid those horrible things, I: - Wrote a terminal …
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Sep 2, 2008
Digging through some old disks I found the source to an old version of MadMac, a fast assembler I wrote just before I left Atari. It needed some TLC ( some of the tables were missing, and I had to recreate them). It …
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Sep 1, 2008
I’ve linked to the middle, the meat, of How Atari BASIC Works. I really like the way that they crammed a pretty decent BASIC interpreter into 8K or 10K (depending on how you count) of ROM. In comparison, the first …
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Aug 31, 2008
Curt Vendel (who’s been groveling through a bunch of old Atari backup tapes for a number of years) has found and posted the source code to the Atari 800 version of Donkey Kong. Here’s a pointer to the forum thread …
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