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Classic Game Programming on the NES
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Classic Game Programming on the NES

by Tony Cruise
July 2024
Beginner to intermediate
320 pages
8h 13m
English
Manning Publications
Audiobook available
Content preview from Classic Game Programming on the NES

index

Numbers

6502 Assembler 5, 25

loading data into register 33 – 41

absolute memory 36

absolute memory indexed with X or Y 37

immediate value 34

overview 33 – 41

zero-page memory 35

zero-page indexed indirect with X 40

zero-page index with X or Y 36

zero-page indirect indexed with Y 38

memory and registers

numerical representations 28 – 30

registers 30

stacks 32

status flags 31

zero-page memory 32

Online Assembler Simulator 26

6502 assembly language

subroutines 65 – 70

branches 66 – 67

calling 67

jumps 65

labels 69 – 70

6502 CPU, NMI routine 91 – 95

Symbols

@skip label 162, 164

% symbol 29

A

absolute address indexed with X or Y 53, 59

absolute memory 36, 43–46

address 52

indexed with X or Y 37

action adventures 262

action games, shooting, moving ...

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