Friday, March 29, 2013

Atari 2600 Development in OSX Using DOS Box

Atari 2600 development is easy under OS X using DOS Box.

You will need:
• Dos Box - http://www.dosbox.com/
• DASM - http://www.atariage.com/2600/programming/2600_101/bin/dasm.zip
• Stella - http://stella.sourceforge.net/downloads.php
• VCS.H - http://www.atariage.com/2600/programming/2600_101/bin/vcs.h



Step-by-step:
• Make a new directory under OS X for DOS
• Copy DASM, and VCS.H to this DOS directory 
• Mount this DOS directory as a virtual disk in DOS Box.("mount c ~/dos" for example)
• To compile a ROM, enter "dasm input_file_name.asm -f3 -ooutput_file_name.bin"
• To edit a .asm code file, use Textedit
• To run a .bin ROM image, use Stella



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