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Re: [gbadev] Re: Scripting on the GBA

How does small compare to LUA?

Emil

----- Original Message -----
From: Groepaz
To: gbadev@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Monday, August 04, 2003 7:55 PM
Subject: Re: [gbadev] Re: Scripting on the GBA


On Sunday 03 August 2003 15:19, Raleigh Cross wrote:
> There aren't any scripting languages in the Unix shell replacement
> sense, nor are
> there any 'interpreted' languages that I
> know of. But, there is Dragon Basic [ http://www.simforth.com ].
> That's about as close as you get.

there are actually a bunch of "embedded" script interpreters around.... i
would personally suggest to have a look at "small", which is (as the name
suggests :)) a pretty small script interpreter with the capability of calling
external/custom C-routines. quite a bunch of games use that one afaik, its
easy,nice,small,free :)

gpz



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Tue Aug 12, 2003 7:43 am

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wow :) i guess that if you have a good enough compiler, that kind of approach will always work well... though it's totally OT, did working in lisp help the...
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Aug 18, 2003
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How does small compare to LUA? Emil ... From: Groepaz To: gbadev@yahoogroups.com Sent: Monday, August 04, 2003 7:55 PM Subject: Re: [gbadev] Re: Scripting on...
Emil Arkman
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Aug 12, 2003
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... whats LUA ? :=P gpz...
Groepaz
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Aug 12, 2003
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G> whats LUA ? :=P http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lua -- porneL Have you ever imagined a world with no hypothetical situations? [ http://pornel.ldreams.net ] GG...
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Aug 12, 2003
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http://www.gatesboy.com/Lua/Documentation/ It looks like there's actually a LUA implementation for the GBA that you may want to check out. Btw, I'm a complete...
James Acres
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Aug 12, 2003
2:40 pm

... The gbajunkie docs i remember being very good. Are you a complete newb to th gba or programming in general? If its programming in general the gba is not ...
Tom Badran
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Aug 12, 2003
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hi list, yup, there is an implementation of lua for gba. i made gbalua a long time ago mostly because i was wondering if it was possible, rather than because ...
Danjel Rydén
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Aug 12, 2003
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Not a complete newbie to programming.. have experience with 80x86 assembly and pascal / c++.. It's been awhile since those days, but I don't have any trouble...
James Acres
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Hey, Colin really had a good point there. If you still want to use scripts after Colin's email, I know of a scripting language called LUA that can be easily...
William Mallouk
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Aug 14, 2003
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... Yup -- 100% portable ANSI C. I don't know if anyone has mentioned it here yet, but Lua is also tiny, and it's one of *the* fastest interpreted scripting...
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