Tag: Commodore Machine Language

The Only Thing We Have to Fear, is Assembly Itself – RetroChallenge 2018/04 – Update #7

  Assembly language: the very name strikes fear into the hearts of retro-computing oriented nerds everywhere. “I used to program my (Atari|Commodore|TI99|Apple|ZX Spectrum) in BASIC, and I always meant to do something in Assembly, but… ” If that sounds familiar to me, then this is the blog for you! Or rather, this is about the 100th blog for you, because…

Tetris in 6502 Assembler – part 9 – Joystick Control

Wiebo de Wit has published yet another part of its incredible tutorial about how to create a Tetris game using 6502 Assembler for the Commodore 64. This time, he teaches how to code joystick support for the game, as well as a pause mode. Wiebo is really doing an amazing job with this tutorial, and if it wasn’t enough, the whole game…