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_at_siconic.com
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