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Obviously everyone's always wanted to write their own music for the 2600. So here it is: a sort of Atari 2600 tracker.
You edit music data
in a text file where patterns are created and sequenced
into a song. Then you assemble the music data into
an Atari 2600 ROM which will play on 2600 emulators or on a real
Atari 2600 using a Supercharger or Cuttle Cart.
You can use it to write backing beats or tracks for your
music, or develop music for 2600 homebrew games.
The driver uses a very small
amount of 2600 resources so it can easily be placed into
game code. There is a growing demand for 2600 homebrew music
so it would be great to have more 2600 music programmers.
I've recently released version 2 of the music kit with a much
more advanced driver and player. Grab the latest version below.
And 2600 music programming can be a bit difficult, so I've written
a new 2600 sound and music programmer's guide which covers almost
everything I know about 2600 sound and music and includes three
useful sets of in-tune notes to help overcome the 2600's very limited
pitch. Download below.
Note that since I only have the DOS version of DASM tested and set up,
currently the kit is only set up to run out of the box on PCs. However I know
that it does work on Macs using the Mactari tools and it can probably
be set up on Linux too.
If you are a musician and develop songs or backing tracks using
the sequencer, you will be able to have an actual cartridge made
of your sequences by sending the ROM image to
Atariage.
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02.21.03: Version 2.0 released! New version features a much more
developed music driver with better control of volume, auto high hat,
smaller data size, and more. Also the new kit includes a better player
with measure number display, ff and rew, and a light show display as
the music plays (screenshot above). New sound clip added too.
02.21.03: Also, new Atari 2600 sound and music programmer's
guide released. Covers all the details of 2600 music programming.
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Mac users should look at Michael Barber's webpage about how to use the
kit on a Mac.
Linux users should try the linux version of DASM on
this page
first. If that doesn't
work, there are several 6502 assemblers for Linux listed on
this page.
If you have success with my kit on a Mac or Linux and have tips
for other users, please
email
so I can pass on the information to other users.
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