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                         ATARI ASSEMBLER COURSE 
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                             SESSION 1 OUTLINE
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 1.1  Why Assembly Language?

 1.2  Atari System Architecture

 1.3  6502 CPU Description
    1.3.1  Registers - A,X,Y       1.3.2  Processor Status Flags - P
    1.3.3  Program Counter - PC    1.3.4  Stack Pointer - S

 1.4  Review of Binary and Hex Math

 1.5  6502 Instruction Set - Op-Codes

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                            SESSION 2  OUTLINE
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 2.1  Accumulator and Arithmetic
    2.1.1  LDA,X,Y/STA,X,Y  - "Peek & Poke"
    2.1.2  Register Transfers       2.1.3  ADC/SBC - Add & Subtract
    2.1.4  Increment and Decrement  2.1.5  AND/ORA/EOR-Logic Functions

 2.2  Assembly Language Format
    2.2.1  Labels and Symbols      2.2.2  Op-Code and Operand
    2.2.3  Assembler Directives    2.2.4  Comments

 2.3  Atari Assembler/Editor Commands
    2.3.1  NUM/REN-Number & Renumber    2.3.2  LIST/ENTER-Source Program
    2.3.3  ASM - Assemble Command       2.3.4  SAVE/LOAD - Machine Code


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                          SESSION 3   OUTLINE
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 3.1  Comparing and Testing
    3.1.1  Review of Logical Functions    3.1.2  CMP - Compare
    3.1.3  BIT - Bit Test                 3.1.4  Testing Index Registers

 3.2  Branching Instructions
    3.2.1  BEQ/BNE
            -If Equal or Not-Equal
    3.2.2  BCC/BCS
            -If Greater or Less-Than
    3.2.3  BPL/BMI
            -If Positive or Negative

 3.3  Control and Structure
       of programming in Assembler

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                       SESSION 4 OUTLINE
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 4.1  The Stack
    4.1.1  JSR/RTS - "Gosub/Return"    4.1.2  PLA/PHA - Pull/Push Stack
    4.1.3  TSX/TXS - Stack Pointer     4.1.4  The BASIC "USR" Command

 4.2  Indexed Addressing
    4.2.1  Data Structures     -Strings & Arrays
    4.2.2  Initializing Data    4.2.3  Moving Data
    4.2.4  Modifying Data

                  4.3  Some Assembler "Directives"

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                              SESSION 5
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 5.1  Zero-Page Addressing

 5.2  Indirect Addressing
    5.2.1  JMP - "Goto" Indirect 5.2.2  Indirect-Indexed
                                      - Post-indexed Addressing
    5.2.3  Indexed-indirect    - Pre-indexed Addressing

 5.3  The DEBUG Mode
    5.3.1  "D"
            -Display Memory Contents
    5.3.2  "C"
            -Change Memory Contents
    5.3.3  "L"
            -List Memory (Disassemble)
    5.3.4  "G,S & T"
            -Go, Step, and Trace
    
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                               SESSION 6
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 6.1  Shift and Rotate Instructions

 6.2  Interrupt Programming

 6.3  Non-Maskable Interrupts

 6.4  Maskable Interrupts

 6.5  More Assembler Directives

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                           SESSION 7
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 7.1  Atari Memory Map

 7.2  Memory Usage and Allocation

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                              SESSION 8
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                 INTRODUCTION TO ADVANCED TECHNIQUES

PART I:  ATARI CUSTOM HARDWARE:

 8.1  ANTIC
    8.1.1   The Display-List     8.1.2   Display-List Interrupts
    8.1.3   Scrolling            8.1.4   Redefined Character Set

 8.2  CTIA/GTIA
    8.2.1   Color                8.2.2   Player/Missile Graphics

 8.3  POKEY
    8.3.1   Sound                8.3.2   Serial I/O
    8.3.3   Keyboard, Paddles, etc.

 8.4  PIA
    - Peripheral Interface Adapter
    8.4.1   Joysticks            8.4.2   Misc. Interfacing

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                          SESSION 9
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                 INTRODUCTION TO ADVANCED TECHNIQUES

PART II:  ATARI OPERATING SYSTEM

 9.1   Monitor
        -Power-up and Initialization

 9.2   O/S RAM and ROM Vectors

 9.3   I/O Sub-System and
         Resident Handlers

 9.4   Interrupt Processing
         & Software Timers
               
 9.5   Floating Point Package
        
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                          SESSION 10
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                  DISK OPERATING SYSTEM
                    
 10.1  Resident Disk Handler
       
 10.2  File Management System (FMS)
        
 10.3  AUTORUN.SYS - Binary Load