Biginner programmer to Dreamcast...

Dandel1984 · Post by **Dandel1984** » Fri Apr 02, 2004 10:42 pm

I am relatively new to programming the dreamcast, and i got all the tools relative for it, and i would like to ask if there are tutorials on programming the dreamcast and the vmu unit for the system....

the basic tools i have include the following...

Linux Pc
Current verson of GCC
KallistiOS 1.2.0

Dreamcast with modem adaptor

Documents form the following sites...
http://mc.pp.se/dc/
http://dev.dcemulation.org/
http://www.boob.co.uk/
http://www.atani-software.net/dcprog/
http://cadcdev.sourceforge.net/

q_006 · Post by **q_006** » Fri Apr 02, 2004 11:13 pm

are you a beginner just to programming on the Dreamcast? or programming in general?

this is just so we can point you in the right direction.

OneThirty8 · Post by **OneThirty8** » Fri Apr 02, 2004 11:14 pm

You can take a look at some tutorials by BlackAura, BlueCrab, and Ian Micheal: http://files.frashii.com/~sp00nz/Doom/f ... ura/tutes/

Also, SDL works ok on dreamcast. There are some issues with it, and you'll have to fix it if you want to use SDL_Joystick events instead of the KOS controller stuff, but you can do some fun stuff with it. I read some decent tuts on SDL at http://cone3d.gamedev.net when I was starting out. Some of them won't work on DC without changes, but the general stuff will. For example, the Space Shooter game in lesson 6 would need to be changed a bit and the background image would have to be removed or replaced with a much smaller one, but I used code from that tut to make a DC game.

Lucious · Post by **Lucious** » Sun Apr 04, 2004 10:29 am

1. Learn to spell Beginner properly.
2. Learn to code C.
3. Just look at the exampls that are included with KalistOS, if you have had C coding experience and are confident that you should be fine.

ragnarok2040 · Post by **ragnarok2040** » Sun Apr 04, 2004 9:00 pm

Lucious wrote:1. Learn to spell Beginner properly.
2. Learn to code C.
3. Just look at the exampls that are included with KalistOS, if you have had C coding experience and are confident that you should be fine.

examples
KallistiOS
that=then

:P

Arqueiro · Post by **Arqueiro** » Mon Apr 05, 2004 8:33 am

i can't say anything, my english is so poor...

Storminator16 · Post by **Storminator16** » Tue Apr 06, 2004 4:54 am

Yeah, I find it pitiful you ranted on his spelling, Lucious. Show some class! If you have nothing else better to say, then don't say it.

Another tutorial to check out is 'Jump-N-Run Dev; tutorials:

http://jnrdev.weed-crew.net/