03/23/05: Hi Yorgle! Take a look at this!

Posted By: grundle

The first chart on this page has the 128 colors from the Atari 2600 color palette. Put your cursor over any color to see the RGB values:

http://www.biglist.com/lists/stella/archives/200109/msg00285.html

Here's a message board for people who write their own Atari 2600 programs, which they offer for free as downloads to use on the various shareware Atari 2600 emulators (such as PCAE and Stella):

http://www.biglist.com/lists/stella/archives/

Here's an even better message board with more of the same kinds of discussions:

http://www.atariage.com/forums/index.php?sid=e312c08dcf95462f7671705390bff9f4

Here's a long list of links that are useful for anyone who's interested in writing Atari 2600 programs:

http://www.atariage.com/2600/programming/

Here's a map of the kingdom in Adventure:

http://www.warrenrobinett.com/adventure/adv-map1.gif

Adventure was ranked #1 on Atari Times's list of the 20 greatest Atari games of all time. There are also some interesting comments from Warren Robinett, the game's programmer:

http://www.ataritimes.com/features/ataritop20_6.html

Here's the machine code for Adventure, along with some comments:

http://www.toadstool.net/games/adventure/source.htm

Here's where you can get an Atari 2600 emulator and all the games:

http://www.atariage.com/2600/emulation/index.php?SystemID=2600

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