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Beginners > How would i go about porting?

#10026 - Ma-Hoye - Sun Aug 24, 2003 10:28 pm

Hi,

i was just wondering what is needed to go about performing a emulator or something, i have no coding experience but i guess going ahead and having a go is the best way to learn,

so could u please leave a few pointers :-)

thanks,
Ma-Hoye

#10041 - Lupin - Mon Aug 25, 2003 2:04 pm

*pointing* -> www.thepernproject.com

I learned everything from that site, it has really good tutorials and easy to understand code (even though there are some odd descriptions in the tuts...)

gbadev.org itself has some very good code examples itself, just look under "source" and you'll find some nice stuff. Just take an look, explore, change and see what happens ^^

#10104 - Omega81 - Wed Aug 27, 2003 2:56 am

I would say...., know the ins and outs of your host hardware, and then know the ins and out of your target hardware. this will let you know if it is realistically possible to emulate the target, Learn C, possibly ASM and maybe C++ but start from C it is easier to grasp and the other languagues biuld up from it. OOOO yeah...., read a lot of tutorials like Lupin said Thepernproject is a good source. gbadev has quite a lot of good ones

Hope that helps
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#10105 - yaustar - Wed Aug 27, 2003 3:02 am

Programming an emulator is no easy task (especially from stratch). Personally I would start a bit lower then work you way up. http://www.gametutorials.com is a good place to learn C++ though.
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