FPC4GBA tutorial (W.I.P.)

[Legolas]

I have put online a draft of my tutorial 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

[technomage]

That is a good read Nice work.

[WILL]

Very nice.

The illustrations really attract the eye and aid the reader. :thumbup: for those!

Now the criticism...

:?: Where's the audio info?! :cry: [size=9px]I want audio...[/size]

: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]

Wonderfull I think this is exactly what potential GBA programmers are looking for!

[Legolas]

Very nice.

The illustrations really attract the eye and aid the reader. :thumbup: for those!

Now the criticism...

:?: Where's the audio info?! :cry: [size=9px]I want audio...[/size]

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

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: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

: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 I think this is exactly what potential GBA programmers are looking for!

Thanks a lot!

[WILL]

Very nice.

The illustrations really attract the eye and aid the reader. :thumbup: for those!

Now the criticism...

:?: Where's the audio info?! :cry: [size=9px]I want audio...[/size]

I'm working on it in this precise moment :lol:

Yay! :clap:

[dmantione]

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?

[WILL]

Yup! Helps if it's posted on the front page of PGD aswell.

[Legolas]

WILL: do you think that a sort of rss feed could be fine to auto update fpc4gba.pascalgamedevelopment.com?

[WILL]

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.