EdS
March 13, 2025, 9:41am
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The FROB is an ATARI 2600 #gamedev system for Apple II. Its tool FLOAD loads assembled 6502 code to be run by the 2600 via a shared memory window.
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The Frob was an #Atari2600 #Gamedev system for an #Apple2.
ATARI did not document the 2600. Besides the code in the manual, You had to reverse engineer other games to learn how things worked, seen here using Apple2...
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The Frob was an #Atari2600 #Gamedev system for an #Apple2.
It did not provide an assembler. You had to. Worst case? Hand-assemble, and use the Apple Monitor to put the code into Frob RAM, using register $C090 to control memory...
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jecel
March 13, 2025, 1:12pm
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Ah, Frob ! For some reason I wrongly remebered the name as “Frog” and when the web came along I tried searching for that name but never could find it. I even started to wonder if I had imagined the whole thing.
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