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In this #retrocomputing #archaeology series video, we show how the tools at #ATARI coin-op worked, in-context. We modify Centipede, assemble, link, and create new EPROMs with our changes. #retrogaming #gamedev
00:00 Intro
01:30 Centipede board
02:23 Goal
03:00 The PDP-11
08:13 STEP 1: EDIT THE CODE
17:50 STEP 2: ASSEMBLE CODE
21:58 STEP 3: LINK THE BINARY
27:36 STEP 4: SEND TO BLACK BOX
30:48 STEP 5: MAKE THE EPROMs
35:57 STEP 6: TRY IT OUT
(apologies for the noise gate, grrrr.)
REFERENCES
The atari-coin-op-assembler repo:
https://github.com/tschak909/atari-co...
The SimH emulator:
https://github.com/simh/simh
The atari coin op tools originally from:
https://bitsavers.org/bits/Atari/arca...
The HistoricalSource repo on GitHub:
https://github.com/historicalsource
Thanks to:
Al Kossow, for Bitsavers
Jim Geist, for helping debug the toolchain
HistoricalSource, for posting all the source code for study