How to Make an Atari Game

Step 4 Go Through 6507 Tutorials

With all of the resources available for beginners it can be a little overwhelming to know where to begin. Andrew Davie, an AtariAge member has written a number of "instructables" of sorts on beginner programming for the 2600. Another member with the handle of Kisrael put these tutorials together in a nice little sticky note linking to each of the lessons. Here is the Table of Contents: http://www.atariage.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=33233

Programming for Atari is actually done for the 6507 microprocessor, however as I think you learn from the linked tutorials, this is really just a stripped down version of the 6502. So, if you've taken the time to learn Assembly, chances are you are probably ready to convert that knowledge to Atari coding. There are only a few minor differences, and the different tutorials will point these out to you. From my understanding, a couple of these unsupported commands even appear to be functional. Of course, that doesn't mean you would want to program them in, but the point is the differences are minimal.