Show HN: 8bitworkshop IDE for Atari 2600

This is perfect! I was thinking about creating a simple game for a classic system for a long time. Now I have no excuse not to do it - a browser IDE with the live preview and a bunch of examples is everything I need. Also, it's much more than developers had these 39 (!) years ago.

Re: Show HN: 8bitworkshop IDE for Atari 2600

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Post by sehugg » Sun, Dec 25, 2016, 5:21 PM UTC

Enjoying the attention this is getting! It's been fun making it and learning the VCS tricks of the trade.

I'd like to credit a couple of projects that it depends on, Javatari by Paulo Augusto Peccin (http://javatari.org/) and DASM by Peter King and others (http://www.macs.hw.ac.uk/~pjbk/scholar/dasm.html). Oh yeah and Codemirror (https://codemirror.net/).

Re: Show HN: 8bitworkshop IDE for Atari 2600

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Post by rreabe » Sun, Dec 25, 2016, 6:10 PM UTC

Nice

Re: Show HN: 8bitworkshop IDE for Atari 2600

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Post by the_arun » Sun, Dec 25, 2016, 6:12 PM UTC

thumbs up!!

Re: Show HN: 8bitworkshop IDE for Atari 2600

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Post by qwertyuiop924 » Sun, Dec 25, 2016, 6:23 PM UTC

Honestly, I'd rather have an editor and assembler running on my system (probably WLA-DX and Emacs). But I can't deny this is impressive, and it's a nice primer for a system that I would love to learn to program.

Re: Show HN: 8bitworkshop IDE for Atari 2600

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Post by madengr » Sun, Dec 25, 2016, 6:27 PM UTC

Nice work!