How to program and compile Atari 2600 games on a PowerPC Macintosh running Macintosh OS 9, in a concise format. Not so new anymore:
* The distella tutorial has finally been added!
* Mac Makewav has been released! Find it in the Mactools folder.

OLD!!! (as of Jan 14, 2007, anyhow)

Player Graphic creation tool added. Really not all that exciting.

Possibly more exciting, here's the link to the Stella List Archive search tool:
http://www.atari2600.org/mailman/Stella/namazu.cgi

Mactari© Tools

Lynx users, you need to get browser that supports images. This is a super-cool animated gif that took me, oh, thirty minutes to hack up! ;-) It's tough to using a C=64 these days, ain't it?!!

Before going on to the topics in this table, follow the Set-Up instructions that begin on this page.

Programming Docs	Q & A	Other Useful Sites
Guide to 6507 assembler	What's an emulator?	Nick Bensema's Page (ESSENTIAL!!! Link updated 7/12/2002)
Stella [Atari 2600 programming] Manual (text)	How do I UNZIP files?!!	Bob Colbert's Page (creator of DiStella. Link updated 7/12/02)
Cycle Counting by Nick Besema	What is MPW and what else is it good for?	THE DIG (sample source and more!)
How to draw a playfield (Nick again!)	Okay, so how do I use DAsm in MPW?
What about a distella tutorial?		What kind of animal is Pac Man anyway?

Last updated 7/12/2002, but much of these pages haven't been altered since 3/12/98. Bad links abound.

Why did you do this?

What things like "LDA #>TABLE" mean.

Displaying scores, stolen from Defender

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