All About Atari 8-Bit Programming

Slides and example code: https://bit.ly/3l0Ts1G

The Atari 8-Bit computers such as the Atari 400 and 800 were affordable, fun, and capable machines for their time. Despite the 1 megahertz CPU, scarce memory (between 8 and 128 KB), programmers, especially game developers, could get a lot out of these machines.

You can learn a lot about computer programming and computer architecture by programming these older machines. Because they have simpler architecture than modern computers, you can even program them in machine language with little pain. In this workshop, Arduino Cookbook co-author Brian Jepson will show you the many ways you can program an Atari 8-bit, in BASIC or Assembler:

-Using an emulator running on a computer, Raspberry Pi or mobile device
-With a web-based emulator (assembler/C)
-Using a Twitter bot
-On a real Atari computer