Development Notes

Notes for designing Atari 8-bit programs

General Coding

• Programming tips for developing on emulators vs real hardware

• Atari 8-bit programming wiki: http://atariwiki.strotmann.de/wiki/Wiki.jsp

• Full text of Atari 8-bit books: http://www.atariarchives.org/

• Full text of Atari magazines: http://www.atarimagazines.com/

Sound

• Some sound trackers http://atariage.com/forums/topic/234401-music-player-with-low-cpu-usage/#entry3165186

Raster Music Tracker appears to be the music creation tool of choice.

Installing Raster Music Tracker

• apokeysnd.dll from http://sourceforge.net/projects/asap/files/asap/3.2.0/asap-3.2.0-win32.zip/download

• sa_c6502.dll from http://raster.infos.cz/atari/sa_libraries/sa_libraries.htm

RMT source code examples

• Apparently can export from RMT

• RMT streamer

• Viper, sample game with RMT music and code

• Where in an RMT song are you?

• Can you jump to some place in the middle of a song?

• http://atariage.com/forums/topic/213684-atari-xlxe-music/

Other sound source code

• Atari Sound Commander, an ASM routine to play sounds in the VBLANK

• some code to drive a POKEY hardware hack, but has table of frequency dividers for notes

CC65 Examples

• Gem Drop Deluxe

• Plague, including inline assembler and music (comments in Spanish)