Hey Bill

Im not a programmer myself since I never actually coded a demo wich was
worthy to be posted on any website, but I did look for sprites, mode4
background a tile background and the like. I stopped at sound though since
that was just getting frustrating.

If you like frustrating puzzles (or Supaplex if you remember that game) or
illogical point and click adventure games you wont much mind programming for
GBA. But without a certain Stephen Stair who really did more then almost
anyone would have done to get me started I never would have come that far
with the GBA (hours and hours of helping).

Of course I did it without HAM and have no experience with it but still. HAM
is more then just a library but the main choice to use it over other
compilers is still the added libraries. I don't have any experience with
HAM and am mostly speakiung from my experiences without it, but if you are
not too serious HAM is ok and even if you are serious HAM is ok too but not
as proffesional looking of course :) (if only for the bragging rights to do
it yourself without the extra help :)).

I dont know how much help all my banter is at this point, Im almost going to
sleep and even if it wasnt any help I hope it wasnt a total chore to read
:).
----- Original Message -----
From: "Bill DeWitt" <Bill@...>
To: <gbadev@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Thursday, November 04, 2004 2:08 PM
Subject: [gbadev] Intro and newbie question


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> My name is Bill and my son just got his first GBA. I have been
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> I just wondered if GB proramming was a viable hobby. I see that
> some of the tools have not really had much in the way of recent
> development, it seems that Visual HAM may be on the back shelf, and
> the advent of the DS may even put the whole GBA world in limbo.
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> I sent off for the flash adapter kit and I downloaded some tools
> and have been playing around with the emulators, but I don't want to
> get too far into another field without knowing what landmines I might
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> Any conversation on the issue appreciated.
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