Porting Tutorial

[CandidStan]

yeah i own a gp2x, although it got somehow bricked. I knew about this forum for about a year, but for some reason could not sign up. So I ignored it until my gp2x got bricked, and I heard about the pandora so i tried signing up again and it worked. I'm not sure if this is considered "bricked", but my gp2x cannot read SD cards. It wasn't hit or anything, so i really don't know.

as long as it can boot up, its not bricked. also, (dont take this the wrong way) your inability to sign up may have been due to age restrictions

[edit] @ PV

Fair enough, just the impression I got from a few posts around the place.

I guess Hello World would be a good start.

Some of the prominent coders were talking about porting as getting started in a language, but I think that you should know at least one language and language theory before that would work well. i would think its mainly just helpful for getting acquainted with new hardware


also, you can't port console games, you need source code to port. the guy porting the dreamcast game is a special case because he originally made the dreamcast game, and therefore has the source.


How can that be if he was born in 82'?

To get on topic though, an introduction to coding would be nice considering I don't know the OpenEmbedded libary for shit.

 

[Game_over]

C++ Game programming: I recommend http://www.cppgameprogramming.com. It's an excellent set of tutorials similar in writing style to the Lazy Foo ones for learning SDL. speaking of which, once you get comfortable, use his tutorial to learn SDL.

 

[benjymous]

also, you can't port console games, you need source code to port. the guy porting the dreamcast game is a special case because he originally made the dreamcast game, and therefore has the source.

How can that be if he was born in 82'?
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Which would've put him in the 18-22 age range at the time of the DC, which would be about right for someone fresh out of university.