Retro C/C++ Programming Tutorials

Retro C/C++ Programming tutorials showing you how you can code games on 8 and 16 bit computers from the 1970s, 80s and 90s. Covers the very basics, plus cross-development compilers such as CC65, LLVM, VBCC, Z88DK.

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ASCII Dungeon Tiles on Amiga and Atari ST (C Programming)

In this part of the series we look at how Atari St and Amiga handles ASCII text and we create a hard-coded dungeon in C.

Retro C Versus BASIC: Squeezing Games into 8-bit Machines

It's weird but sometimes BASIC beats C, in ways you might not expect!

Programming the Amiga and Atari ST in C: Counter Loops and Game Ticks

Time to investigate how loops work in C as we develop a game for the ST and Amiga

Programming the Amiga and Atari ST in C: Hello World with VBCC

Now my retro programming IDE has Atari ST and Amiga VBCC compiler support, I figured it was time to return to the programming in C tutorials for these systems.