#154 - Mori Ryuu - Sat Jan 04, 2003 1:19 am
Konnichiwa,
So what exactly is HAM or ASM? I've heard people talk about them several times, but still don't know what they're advantages are when coding. Could anyone help me here?
#155 - Costis - Sat Jan 04, 2003 1:26 am
Hi,
They are two completely different things. HAM is a development library created to aid GBA developers write programs faster. While being a library, it is not also a compiler. Instead, HAM uses the devkitadv compiler to build projects. Assembly language, which is commonly referred to as ASM for short, consists of all of the different CPU instructions that a processor can run. Programming a system in assembly is the lowest level you can get above writing actual binary code. All other programming languages are higher level than assembly. Because of it being so close to the CPU, assembly tends to not to be portable to other systems (unlike C code) most of the time.
Costis
#160 - Yang - Sat Jan 04, 2003 2:26 am
| Mori Ryuu wrote: |
Konnichiwa,
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Are you Japanese?I'v learned japanese for 1.5 years.
#173 - lordmetroid - Sat Jan 04, 2003 9:43 am
so have I, I'm particular intresting in it as I'm learning my self throught studying....
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#189 - Mori Ryuu - Sun Jan 05, 2003 12:23 am
it's amazing how one word can change an entire topic...
#195 - sgeos - Sun Jan 05, 2003 2:17 am
| Mori Ryuu wrote: |
| it's amazing how one word can change an entire topic... |
Indeed it is. I converted k14.bdf into a format the gba can use and made a Japanese text demo a while back. I wrote a message that amounted to "Have a safe trip back to Japan" and showed it to my language exchange partner. I uses shift-jis codes, although I hand coded the message one letter at a time using their hex values.
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#284 - tubooboo - Sun Jan 05, 2003 10:45 pm
Hi Costis,
> Instead, HAM uses the devkitadv compiler to build projects.
Thats not really true. the HAM compiler is not the same as the devkitadvance compiler. They are both GCC, but HAM is built differently. It has been reported to me that the HAM builds work with more C++ features than the version in devkitadvance. Also, using the HAM compiler builder edition, you can easily upgrade the compiler yourself.
Cheers
Emanuel
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#286 - Costis - Sun Jan 05, 2003 11:02 pm
Hi,
Ah, sorry. I meant that it uses a GCC variant.
Costis
#450 - arog - Tue Jan 07, 2003 8:02 pm
If you are new to GBA programming, I highly recommend that you
try HAM (or DevKit Advance). Check out my HAM Tutorial website
if you want to get an idea of how HAM works.
HAM homepage:
http://www.ngine.de/ham.html
HAM Tutorial:
http://www.aaronrogers.com/ham/
"boku mo nihongo wo benkyoushimasu"
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HAM Tutorial
#753 - animension - Fri Jan 10, 2003 7:02 am
Speaking of Japanese text display subsystems, I'm definitely interested in finding a good library of JIS or S-JIS text for use in the GBA. I am half-Japanese so I speak it fluently and am interested in making both english and Japanese versions of a large project I am planning. So far, I found a character set made by an individual who uses the online nickname of "tonosama" but the letters are in a format that is a little unweildy. If anyone can point me to a library of Japanese font pixel data with codes for each of these characters I would be eternally grateful.
M. Knittel
#761 - Burre - Fri Jan 10, 2003 12:50 pm
| animension wrote: |
Speaking of Japanese text display subsystems, I'm definitely interested in finding a good library of JIS or S-JIS text for use in the GBA. I am half-Japanese so I speak it fluently and am interested in making both english and Japanese versions of a large project I am planning. So far, I found a character set made by an individual who uses the online nickname of "tonosama" but the letters are in a format that is a little unweildy. If anyone can point me to a library of Japanese font pixel data with codes for each of these characters I would be eternally grateful.
M. Knittel |
I've read about some E-book reader (found it on www.devrs.com/gba if remembering correctly) wich featured an asian language. Not sure if it were japanese though, might have been korean. Check it out.
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#787 - arog - Fri Jan 10, 2003 5:51 pm
Please post something here if you find a suitable text display system for
Japanese on the GBA. I have been looking but haven't found anything
that i really like yet.
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