Posted By
Degauss
on 2008-11-10
04:34:43
|  Re: 2008 - new releases
Hi Everybody!
I feel like putting my two cents about the "how to get started"/"how to learn coding" topic:
I don't want to sound rude, but when i see statements like "We need to write a book" or "I want to learn more about plus/4" i can't help getting the impression that many of us feel like being on an isolated island. It's not like the plus/4 is SO different from the other 6502-based platforms and it's not like for example plus/4-democoding is SO different from demo-coding on other oldschool platforms. Not to forget that our little scene has collected tons of interesting information.
Sure, there's lot that could be done to reorganize all the information available in a better way, but honestly there is so many information already out there. My recommendations are:
Plus/4-Specifics:
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TLC's excellent article about the TED:
http://www.canberra.edu.au/~scott/C=Hacking/C-Hacking12/gfx.html
An absolute essential by SVS:
http://plus4world.powweb.com/tools/Ultimate_Map
More general 6502-stuff
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The opcodes
http://www.oxyron.de/html/opcodes.html
Nice site about general 6502 programming:
http://www.6502.org/
Some essential demo-coding stuff, further links:
http://codebase64.org/doku.php
Some very cool ASCII-Magazines on many coding topics:
http://www.ffd2.com/fridge/chacking/
http://www.ffd2.com/fridge/discovery/
For MMS, a C-Compiler for +4:
http://www.cc65.org
Generally spoken, you'll find lots of information if you *also* sneak around in the Atari XL and C64 scene. It's also a good advice to grab some ideas from the Amiga-Scene. Nonetheless: Nobody can help you *understand* all this stuff, this is up to you.
I also think we could use the forum more aggressively to share knowledge. If somebody would post a specific questaion about how this or that is done, i really think everybody would try to give answers.
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