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leefogg / Gameboy-Example-Collection

Collection of example Gameboy ROMs for development
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Very cool! #1

Closed lodenrogue closed 3 years ago

lodenrogue commented 4 years ago

Very cool project! In Assembly?!?! That's awesome! What are some reasons you chose assembly over another language?

leefogg commented 4 years ago

Hey! Thanks for noticing! That's a simple answer really, Currently you can only develop for the GB in C and assembly and the best documented C compiler is known to have loads of bugs, that matched with not able to debug it when its running was a big no-no. Many of these effects need cycle accurate timings too.

lodenrogue commented 4 years ago

Oh gotcha! Is there a large community wanting these retro games? I wonder if there's demand for a modern library written in python, etc.

leefogg commented 4 years ago

I don't think there's any demand for GB games but it's a refreshing change from modern-day high level programming where we spend so much time thinking about deployment, libraries, compatibility etc that it's nice to have nothing but the instructions. We do have a discord channel for the GB Dev community and we're always looking for tools to make Dev easier and more fun..

lodenrogue commented 4 years ago

Can you share the channel info? I'd love to pop in and check it out

leefogg commented 4 years ago

There a link to the discord on our main project https://github.com/gbdev/pandocs