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WILL
31-05-2006, 09:33 AM
Well it's now official. Both Dani?īl Mantione (Free Pascal Team developer) and Francesco Lombardi aka Legolas (major FPC 4 GBA Initiative contributor) have confirmed that the Free Pascal Compiler currently has and will have GameBoy Advanced target support come it's next release.

Legolas has uploaded a copy of the official FPC4GBA-based binaries to his personal site (http://itaprogaming.free.fr/) and Dani?īl has informed me that he has also placed them on the Free Pascal FTP site (ftp://ftp.freepascal.org/pub/fpc/snapshot/v21/) too. They will become available on the FPC 4 GBA Initiative site (http://fpc4gba.pascalgamedevelopment.com/) within the next few days.


This marks the milestone of the first time a commercial video game system has been supported by a Pascal compiler directly. Nice work to all that have helped and those that have really put their butts in gear to get us to this stage! :thumbup:


The Free Pascal Compiler is avaialble at www.FreePascal.org (http://www.freepascal.org/)

The FPC 4 GBA Initiative site is at FPC4GBA.PascalGameDevelopment.com (http://fpc4gba.pascalgamedevelopment.com/)
aidave
31-05-2006, 03:23 PM
cool
Legolas
31-05-2006, 05:52 PM
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In fact sources are officially released, and I have put a snapshot for your pleasure on my site :)

About an official support in next release, maybe we should wait a little bit, because we need to discuss about some technical aspects, like integrating linker script in the fpc sources, making a gba lib and so on :P
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BTW, you MUST download fpc4gba and test it! :mrgreen:
MikeS
31-05-2006, 08:01 PM
Wow, truly amazing! I'm going to have to buy some dummy cartridges and try to compile a hello world for the GBA.

Credits to all invovled bravo! And it all started here!

:)
savage
01-06-2006, 07:23 PM
Might be worth updating the fpc4gba site as I've just posted a news item on http://www.slashdot.org
WILL
02-06-2006, 02:22 AM
Updated! :D Site references the package from the FreePascal.org FTP as it most likely will have the most dependable URL address available.