Hi everyone,

Code Snap 2600 is a very early prototype of a visual tool for creating Atari 2600 games using Blockly.

The goal is similar to other visual Atari/game-creation tools (this tool was inspired by the excellent tool VCS Game Maker), but with a different focus: Code Snap 2600 generates DASM-compatible 6502 assembly code directly, instead of using batari Basic.

This is still experimental and very basic, but it already includes some simple blocks for variables, joystick input, player bitmaps, playfield registers, kernels, and ASM generation.

I have attached an HTML user manual in English and Italian.

I used AI to help with some repetitive parts of the code, code documentation, and the creation of the manuals.

I have also attached a simple JSON example file to test the tool. To try it, open the tool, click “Load Blocks JSON,” and select: "example micro kernels.json"

Feedback, suggestions, and bug reports are welcome.


Published 8 hours ago
StatusIn development
PlatformsHTML5
Authorkamaleon70
Tagsatari, atari2600, visual-engine
Code licenseMIT License

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example micro kernels.json 42 kB
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manuals.zip 5.8 kB

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