Atari 2600 VCS and Adventure – Computerphile
&quot;Programming the Atari 2600 VCS: Coming Soon&quot;<p>I&#x27;ve been trying to work through &quot;Making Games For The Atari 2600&quot; by Steven Hugg over the past year and I&#x27;m just now starting to grok some of the key concepts, not only in 6502 assembler, but VCS programming specifically, which involves a lot of timing around the CRT beam. I don&#x27;t expect to make a final product ever but it&#x27;s really a lot of fun to play with. There&#x27;s a companion site for the book that lets you play with Atari programming online [1].<p>I also just bought a physical 2600 last week when I got a bit nostalgic for the paddle based games like Warlords, there&#x27;s really no equivalent controller for modern systems. I&#x27;ve been hoping they would make a comeback at some point.<p>[1] <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;8bitworkshop.com" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;8bitworkshop.com</a>