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Beginners > Interface?

#33860 - Specter - Mon Jan 10, 2005 2:41 am

are there any GBA development programs that have an interface of any kind? That would be REALLY helpful.
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#33871 - tepples - Mon Jan 10, 2005 5:28 am

What do you mean by "interface"? If you're not completely comfortable with working at a command line, you can try Dev-C++, an IDE designed for GCC under Windows. You might find this thread informative.
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#33880 - Fatnickc - Mon Jan 10, 2005 11:47 am

Or, perhaps, Visual Ham might be useful to you. It is a visually nice version of Ham, with compiler and everything in a single package. Also, as with most IDEs, you can change the compiler it uses to DevKitArm/Adv. It has quite a few built-in functions which might be useful to you, but then you have to display (well, it does itm for you0 the hame sign at the beginning of your demo.
I used to use it, and it was very helpful for a beginner, as I was. Now, however, I just use a text editor of my choice, DevkitArm and a simple make file. I don't really think that you have to get in with the command line if you want to use DevKitArm/Adv, because once you have written your make file, you can just replace the file names, and either double click the make file, or run make in the command prompt.
But, I think you'll find VHam to be good for you.

EDIT : If you do choose to use DevKitAdv afterall, instead of having to download the 5 files and put them together, Webbesen's Tutorial has a all-in-one download of it.