See Rollover (key) at Wikipedia for more information. Most computer keyboards can't handle certain simultaneous key presses. Warning: When using an emulator on a computer, be sure to use the left Ctrl key instead of the space bar as the fire button since the space bar can stop you from moving diagonally with the arrow keys. Stella isn't a substitute for testing your games on a real Atari 2600 using the Harmony cart, but it's great for quick and dirty testing. If you don't already have the latest version of Stella installed, download it and install it (Stella is the most popular Atari 2600 emulator).
Various people have posted in the batari Basic forum over the years that they lost everything they were working because they didn't back up their files. Your hard drive will die one day or get attacked by a virus, so be sure to make backups of your files using an external hard drive or thumb drive or something else that humans have invented for storing data. You can read more about it at AtariAge.īack up your files. Here's an example:ĭoing that means each file will automatically have a different name and the files will be listed in the order they were created.
To make things much easier, I end my program names with the year, month, day and military time. If you use Save As before making any major changes, then something stops working correctly, you can use a program like WinMerge to compare the latest two versions of your program and the differences will be highlighted. Every time I make a significant change to a program I'm working on, I use Save As to save it as a new file so I can go back to a previous working version if I mess something up.
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