How Atari Coin-Op Development Tools Worked with Thomas Cherryhomes

Through this presentation, we show the assembler and linker used by Atari to modify a copy of Centipede, from its original source code, and subsequently assembling, linking, splitting onto ROMs, and running the resulting code.
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[@6502Assembler]

Without a doubt, this is my favorite presentation from the vcfsw. Truly fascinating and well presented. I've seen pictures of the development workstations from Atari, and I've always wondered how they operated.

[@justovision]

Paper tape sneaker net is truly retro. Excellent presentation!

[@JohnUrbanic-m3q]

Great talk. Good questions too! I hope someday you recover the graphics tools as well - that would be an interesting part of this story.

[@sanctanox]

This is really fascinating, I started learning how to program in the early 80s. But his is next level. The amount of hardware and skill you needed to develop a game at that time is something else.

[@acelere]

wow!

[@mrt.7146]

Sweet 🤩

[@ClausB252]

Nice!