Re: Atari's development tools

From: Peter Pachla <peter.pachla_at_vectrex.freeserve.co.uk>
Date: Thu Jan 21 1999 - 20:08:31 EST

Hi Al,

>I guess I should elaborate on that.. Atari game development in the late 70's
>was done on a PDP11 (later a VAX) using the PDP-11 MACRO-11 macro
>assembler....

That would tie in with what (little) I know of Atari's development tools.

When I was developing 7800 software in '88, Atari were using a 6502 cross
assembler in house which ran on the MicroVAX - of course we had to use MadMAC
on the ST, but you can't have everything!

  TTFN - Pete.

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