#21544 - bob23 - Mon May 31, 2004 4:40 pm
I want to program a small game where should I start??? Should I use the HAM dev kit thing?
#21548 - alek - Mon May 31, 2004 6:17 pm
You should start with reading som tutorials.
www.thepernproject.com
http://www.jharbour.com/gameboy/index.html (a free book)
tepples on this board is also writing a new tutorial that I bet is going to be great. Here is the topic where they discuss the new tutorial. Maybe you can give some suggestion on what you wish to see in a tutorial
if you want to use a library that makes the hardware specific stuff easier you can use Hamlib
You can also use ham without using hamlib. I think that VisualHam is great
#21564 - yaustar - Tue Jun 01, 2004 12:41 am
You have the development suites of DragonBasic, Catapult(sp?) and Visual Ham or you can use the DevKitAdv compilar with C/C++ using the tutorials above and www.gbajunkie.co.uk and http://user.chem.tue.nl/jakvijn/tonc/toc.htm
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#21617 - bob23 - Tue Jun 01, 2004 11:34 pm
thanks guys :) I'm learning C so I'm not going to use it for GBA(not that good with it yet) programing just yet.
Is DragonBasic better then Visual Ham which is easyer to learn and pick up?
#21620 - sajiimori - Tue Jun 01, 2004 11:50 pm
DragonBasic and VisualHAM are for 2 different languages. DragonBasic is easy to learn (because you don't have to know C), but it's not for people who want complete control right away.
#21622 - yaustar - Wed Jun 02, 2004 12:01 am
if you know/learning c then Visual ham or devkitadv is your best bet
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#21631 - bob23 - Wed Jun 02, 2004 2:00 am
ok I guess I will use Visual ham (mabey devkitadv) I want to use more C for game programing :)
#21633 - wintermute - Wed Jun 02, 2004 5:50 am
or you could use DevkitARM </shameless plug> :)
http://www.devkit.tk
read through the setting up section and join the mailing list - the more the merrier.
#22553 - AlexL - Thu Jun 24, 2004 1:44 am
Just making sure that you know this:
If you just want to create games, then GBA programming is probably not what you want, and PC programming would probably be better. If you want to program games that can be used on the GBA, you can use GBA programming. Just know that PC programming is MUCH easier.