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Legolas
25-09-2006, 07:43 PM
I have put online a draft of my tutorial (http://itaprogaming.free.fr/tutorial.html) on gba programming with fpc. As you will see, it's in a work-in-progress stage, but you can figure how things work. I hope I will be able to add more stuff in the next weeks. Feedback, typos and bug corrections and advises are welcome. :lol:
Because I know that I am a bit slow in release updates, I have made a batch script for fpc4gba compiling, so you can't have excuses for delaying the gba coding on fpc :P
technomage
25-09-2006, 08:28 PM
That is a good read :D Nice work.
Very nice. :)
The illustrations really attract the eye and aid the reader. :thumbup: for those!
Now the criticism...
:?: Where's the audio info?! :cry: I want audio...
:idea: How about showing us how to create a movie using mode 5? ;) You mentioned it so you obviously think it's a nice to have...
:arrow: That 'Usenti' program is a really cool tool. But I'm afraid that the page you link to might go dead some day. What about getting permission to host a copy (indicating the version, etc) from the guy?
:idea: Another item you can consider is the Link cable... Hard to do with minimal equipment, but possible I'm sure.
Other than all that stuff I think it's great as a basic overall tutorial and later reference guide. Of course there are things that it doesn't cover that will eventually come up, but thats more advanced things I think.
Great job! ;)
dmantione
25-09-2006, 09:05 PM
Wonderfull :D I think this is exactly what potential GBA programmers are looking for!
Legolas
25-09-2006, 09:13 PM
Very nice. :)
The illustrations really attract the eye and aid the reader. :thumbup: for those!
Now the criticism...
:?: Where's the audio info?! :cry: I want audio...
I'm working on it in this precise moment :lol:
:idea: How about showing us how to create a movie using mode 5? ;) You mentioned it so you obviously think it's a nice to have...
Good idea, I'll provide :D
:arrow: That 'Usenti' program is a really cool tool. But I'm afraid that the page you ]
I could try to ask him, even if I'm confident that this guy will keep his work online
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:idea: Another item you can consider is the Link cable... Hard to do with minimal equipment, but possible I'm sure.
I don't have a gba, so I don't know how the Link cable works. :(
Other than all that stuff I think it's great as a basic overall tutorial and later reference guide. Of course there are things that it doesn't cover that will eventually come up, but thats more advanced things I think.
Great job! ;)
Wonderfull :D I think this is exactly what potential GBA programmers are looking for!
Thanks a lot! 8)
Very nice. :)
The illustrations really attract the eye and aid the reader. :thumbup: for those!
Now the criticism...
:?: Where's the audio info?! :cry: I want audio...
I'm working on it in this precise moment :lol:
Yay! :clap:
dmantione
25-09-2006, 09:21 PM
Tomorrow a news posting on the Free Pascal front page will appear. Will, can you make this findable from the PGD site, also to help Google find it?
Yup! Helps if it's posted on the front page of PGD aswell. ;)
Legolas
25-09-2006, 09:27 PM
WILL: do you think that a sort of rss feed could be fine to auto update fpc4gba.pascalgamedevelopment.com?
Hmm... sure. If you can find something that will load it. ;)
IIRC that page is only HTML right now, but could make use of PHP to load RSS feeds though.
Great job Legolas!
I used to develop in C+HAMLib some years ago but now i think i'll wipe my GBA out of the box and start coding again! :)
jdarling
26-09-2006, 01:25 PM
Nice read. This is starting to make me want to have a GBA. Might have to go out and pickup one of those $25 ones from GameStop along with a card. Keep up the quality 8)
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