17 Apr
1998
17 Apr
'98
2:07 a.m.
Well? How DO you program Nintendo games. Do you need to compile? Or is it
more like BASIC? Is it done in any specific language?
Just asking...
Tim D. Hotze
17 Apr
17 Apr
8:38 a.m.
Hmm... I'd say you find an assembler refrence and start tossing asm at it and
see what happens!
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9:57 a.m.
Hotze wrote:
Well? How DO you program Nintendo games. Do you need to compile? Or is it
more like BASIC? Is it done in any specific language?
You program it in assembly language. It has a 6502 and some specialty
video and i/o stuff on board. There are NES programming pages around,
with all kinds of specs and sample code and such, if you want to get it
into it seriously. Most people today, use an emulator to test out the
basic functioning of their code, then, when they're serious about it,
build a RAM cartridge that takes a download from a serial port and
emulates EPROM, in order to test it on a real system. I'm not sure what
the official developer's kit was like, but I'd guess it included similar
hardware. Others have already built stuff like this and there is data
out there if you go looking for it.
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10:22 a.m.
On Fri, 17 Apr 1998, Hotze wrote:
Well? How DO you program Nintendo games. Do you need
to compile? Or is it
more like BASIC? Is it done in any specific language?
The Nintendo (I assume the original since its >10yrs and thus topical) had
a 6502 at its heart. If you can find some way to poke bytes into it,
that's how you'd program it. Normally you'd probably have a developer kit
with some interface (probably a carthridge) to download code into it with
a cross-assembler for building the actual programs. I'm sure there's
also some sort of library for calling graphic and sounds routines. It
would be cool if it had a BASIC interpreter but it doesn't, and I doubt if
one was ever developed for it, but wouldn't be surprised if one was as
side project of some programmer.
Sam Alternate e-mail: dastar(a)siconic.com
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12:20 p.m.
Sam Ismail wrote:
On Fri, 17 Apr 1998, Hotze wrote:
Acutally, with the popularity in the current emulators and those new projects for
the emulators, I wouldn't doubt that BASIC has been ported to the Nintendo. I
happen to have BASIC for the Nintendo GameBoy, and would imagine someone has
written a BASIC interpreter for the standard Nintendo as well.
CORD
Well? How DO you program Nintendo games. Do you
need to compile? Or is it
more like BASIC? Is it done in any specific language?
The Nintendo (I assume the original since its >10yrs and thus topical) had
a 6502 at its heart. If you can find some way to poke bytes into it,
that's how you'd program it. Normally you'd probably have a developer kit
with some interface (probably a carthridge) to download code into it with
a cross-assembler for building the actual programs. I'm sure there's
also some sort of library for calling graphic and sounds routines. It
would be cool if it had a BASIC interpreter but it doesn't, and I doubt if
one was ever developed for it, but wouldn't be surprised if one was as
side project of some programmer.
Sam Alternate e-mail: dastar(a)siconic.com
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See http://www.siconic.com/vcf for details!
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