Comments on: Joystick Programming on the 2600, or How Stella Got Her Bots Back http://grandtextauto.org/2008/04/23/joystick-programming-on-the-2600-or-how-stella-got-her-bots-back/ A group blog about computer narrative, games, poetry, and art. Wed, 13 Jan 2010 15:44:40 -0800 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.5 hourly 1 By: andrew http://grandtextauto.org/2008/04/23/joystick-programming-on-the-2600-or-how-stella-got-her-bots-back/comment-page-1/#comment-240203 andrew Fri, 25 Apr 2008 18:44:06 +0000 http://grandtextauto.org/2008/04/23/joystick-programming-on-the-2600-or-how-stella-got-her-bots-back/#comment-240203 I agree, we should fix the color coding of already-visited-links in our blog's style sheet. I agree, we should fix the color coding of already-visited-links in our blog’s style sheet.

]]> By: michael http://grandtextauto.org/2008/04/23/joystick-programming-on-the-2600-or-how-stella-got-her-bots-back/comment-page-1/#comment-240193 michael Fri, 25 Apr 2008 18:18:10 +0000 http://grandtextauto.org/2008/04/23/joystick-programming-on-the-2600-or-how-stella-got-her-bots-back/#comment-240193 I'm glad Nick brought up the basic cartridge - I was going to, then got distracted and had to run off. I fiddled around with the basic cartridge back in the day, but preferred my friend's TRS-80 for basic programming. Yes Rob did indeed work on Wrong Button (took me a moment to remember this was the Missile Command box). Someone really needs to make Wild and Groovy Moon Combat. Something for Ian's Atari 2600 class to do next year... I love the "Forum Referee" idea. I wish every long and heated thread came with a forum referee analysis that provides a high-level gloss of the thread (both content and meta-content) and calls foul where foul is due. BTW, I added the stupid seeming "yes, this is a link", because it wasn't showing up as a visible link in my web browser (turns out the style for "already followed linked" is indistinguishable from normal text to my tired eyes). I’m glad Nick brought up the basic cartridge – I was going to, then got distracted and had to run off. I fiddled around with the basic cartridge back in the day, but preferred my friend’s TRS-80 for basic programming.

Yes Rob did indeed work on Wrong Button (took me a moment to remember this was the Missile Command box). Someone really needs to make Wild and Groovy Moon Combat. Something for Ian’s Atari 2600 class to do next year…

I love the “Forum Referee” idea. I wish every long and heated thread came with a forum referee analysis that provides a high-level gloss of the thread (both content and meta-content) and calls foul where foul is due.

BTW, I added the stupid seeming “yes, this is a link”, because it wasn’t showing up as a visible link in my web browser (turns out the style for “already followed linked” is indistinguishable from normal text to my tired eyes).

]]> By: andrew http://grandtextauto.org/2008/04/23/joystick-programming-on-the-2600-or-how-stella-got-her-bots-back/comment-page-1/#comment-239615 andrew Wed, 23 Apr 2008 21:45:50 +0000 http://grandtextauto.org/2008/04/23/joystick-programming-on-the-2600-or-how-stella-got-her-bots-back/#comment-239615 I was wondering if there was something BASIC I had forgotten! <a href="http://www.atariprotos.com/2600/software/basicprog/basicprog.htm" rel="nofollow">Looking again at that cartridge</a> — wow, that's crazy. What kinds of programs did people make with it? Here are <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/25885309@N02/sets/72157604661612578/" rel="nofollow">screenshots of the manual</a>. Wow. Also, the forum moderation you linked to is hilarious. That's the feisty Rob I know alright! I was wondering if there was something BASIC I had forgotten! Looking again at that cartridge — wow, that’s crazy. What kinds of programs did people make with it? Here are screenshots of the manual. Wow.

Also, the forum moderation you linked to is hilarious. That’s the feisty Rob I know alright!

]]> By: nick http://grandtextauto.org/2008/04/23/joystick-programming-on-the-2600-or-how-stella-got-her-bots-back/comment-page-1/#comment-239610 nick Wed, 23 Apr 2008 21:31:14 +0000 http://grandtextauto.org/2008/04/23/joystick-programming-on-the-2600-or-how-stella-got-her-bots-back/#comment-239610 Michael - the last one, certainly. But something about that game puzzles me. How can you press the wrong button on an Atari joystick? Andrew - the Atari 2600 <a href="http://www.atariage.com/software_page.html?SoftwareLabelID=15" rel="nofollow"><i>was</i> a player-programmable system!</a> If you can't read enough on the topic Andrew introduced, see Jason Scott's <a href="http://ascii.textfiles.com/archives/000633.html" rel="nofollow">volunteer moderation</a> of the ranging AtariAge thread and Digital Press thread about <i>Actionauts.</i> Michael – the last one, certainly. But something about that game puzzles me. How can you press the wrong button on an Atari joystick?

Andrew – the Atari 2600 was a player-programmable system!

If you can’t read enough on the topic Andrew introduced, see Jason Scott’s volunteer moderation of the ranging AtariAge thread and Digital Press thread about Actionauts.

]]> By: michael http://grandtextauto.org/2008/04/23/joystick-programming-on-the-2600-or-how-stella-got-her-bots-back/comment-page-1/#comment-239571 michael Wed, 23 Apr 2008 19:22:58 +0000 http://grandtextauto.org/2008/04/23/joystick-programming-on-the-2600-or-how-stella-got-her-bots-back/#comment-239571 But did Rob work on <a href="http://mightygodking.com/index.php/2008/04/21/fun-from-yesterday/" rel="nofollow">any of these games? (yes, this is a link)</a> But did Rob work on any of these games? (yes, this is a link)

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