Hi! I've been wanting to further my knowledge of programming and thought that it would be more enjoyable and possibly more productive to do it on the Dreamcast. Any thoughts and recommendations for a semi-noob like myself? I know it requires a little bit more work and equipment to get setup, but I want to give it a shot. I have both, the CC and the BBA. This isn't my first attempt at this on the DC, but hopefully my last. I have some experience with cpp using Dev-CPP, I believe in another thread on this forum, you guys were recommending to use that compiler, so that's a plus for me. I hope I'm not asking for too much. Alot of the dreamcast documentation has been disappearing over the years with newer and more powerful consoles to do homebrew. Despite that, I would love to get started on the DC, even if it's for learning reasons, I can take that knowledge with me to other platforms/projects.
p.s. - I wont ask any noob questions unless I've exhausted all other options. Thanks
DC Programming Setup
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Hey, sorry for taking so long to reply. I moved, and I don't currently have internet.
If you have a BBA and motivation, you're in great shape. You should head over to http://dcemulation.org/phpBB programming forums and grab the DCDev ISO r4 (I think is the latest). It has everything that you need to begin development.
Set all that up, and make sure that you have the DCLoad/Tool IP to send your .elf/.bin files to the Dreamcast.
As for actual learning, there's a folder in the KOS directory of your install called examples. It has tons of examples for different things. I started off by screwing with them. Look at the input one for controller input, graphics for drawing things, etc. Put them together and you can make a simple game.
If you get stuck you can either post here or at http://dcemulation.org's forums. Tvspelsfreak and a few other reputable DC Devvers used to frequent these boards, but we've been having hosting issues and are currently about to be moving, so I'm not sure if they're all as active as they used to be.
Sorry for taking forever to respond and good luck.
If you have a BBA and motivation, you're in great shape. You should head over to http://dcemulation.org/phpBB programming forums and grab the DCDev ISO r4 (I think is the latest). It has everything that you need to begin development.
Set all that up, and make sure that you have the DCLoad/Tool IP to send your .elf/.bin files to the Dreamcast.
As for actual learning, there's a folder in the KOS directory of your install called examples. It has tons of examples for different things. I started off by screwing with them. Look at the input one for controller input, graphics for drawing things, etc. Put them together and you can make a simple game.
If you get stuck you can either post here or at http://dcemulation.org's forums. Tvspelsfreak and a few other reputable DC Devvers used to frequent these boards, but we've been having hosting issues and are currently about to be moving, so I'm not sure if they're all as active as they used to be.
Sorry for taking forever to respond and good luck.
Re: DC Programming Setup
never mind i found out how using bootdreams
i is dumb as hell for not googling
i is dumb as hell for not googling