>> I'm working on a project using a Parallax Basic Stamp and would like to
>> have it display the results on the GBA as basic text. I don't know if I
>> can use the output of the stamp to program the GBA using multi-boot
>> system. I would like to be able to transfer the program without using a

Hello,

I did not develop for GBA for a long time, but IIRC the multiboot data have
to conform to nintendo's multiboot header, which contains not only important
data about length, starting point, etc... but also graphics of nintendo
logo.
I can't recall the lenght of those data, but I suspect it's several kB
long, I wonder why nobody else pointed it to you yet. (this list is dead?)
As far as I can recall from my hazy memory, I think the MBV cable is using
this propietary format of multiboot data, and there's no way to boot the GBA
with some simpler scheme.

You can still make it trough with booting your GBA from some device with
larger memory (PC?) to upload your own program, which will expect simple
data from basic stamp later, in your own communication protocol, but I think
you wished to avoid that kind of solution.

I think the protocol of multiboot programs for GBA is described on this
basic level very well, if you will try to search a bit, you will surely run
into the information about that nintendo logo, as it had been discussed a
lot due to copyright reasons. The length of header, data format, etc.. is
surely described and floating around, as I have seen them couple of years
ago, when I was new to GBA.

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