I have successfully set up WUDSN - a feat in itself considering the little time Ive had recently - with the MADS assembler, Altirra emulation of a XE + VBXE + 1088Kb RAM.
This means I can start the cross-port of the DTV code over to the Atari.
However, other than the HW and assembler specifics (i.e. different MACRO syntax; woohoo!
), the A8 ecosystem is quite different to the C64 one so I will need to get hold of some literature and read up a bit on how things happen in the Atari world before you will see any pretty pictured posts here (loading system, ROM specifics, memory map, etc). Once I get an idea of whats what, I can (hopefully) develop both builds in parallel, as at least the base code is the same for some of the 'higher level' functionality.
With that in mind, one interesting (some would say Amiga-esque) difference is the display lists system used. I was looking at a similar system when setting up the Atari ST blitter based work, as it seemed the most efficient way to feed the blitter. Im glad this is already baked into the system here.
@rubber_jonnie when you are well again and if the offer is still there, I will grab that A8 coding book if I may; just let me know how much and I can pop you over a payment.
