I was too young to appreciate it at the time but I think Fred had a great series on assembly and the Sam that flowed into the sort of topics specifically of interest to game writers. Has anyone converted those to a modern document format?
Other than that I can tell you that z80 questions tend to get answered very quickly and in a good amount of detail on StackOverflow though one appears only once every other month or so, so it's not much of a learning resource. On 1 Feb 2012, at 10:39, war...@wdlee.co.uk wrote: > On a related but slightly different note... Sometime in the near future, I > want to get back into a fairly major SAM gaming project I was working on. I'm > going to give JAM a go (Just quickly tested it on my machine running Windows > 7, and seemks to work fine!). :-) I made the mistake of working in > GamesMaster again when I started it last year, but I hit a bit of an annoying > brick wall with it (Yes, I know... but it worked so well for my first few > games! :-D ) Unfortunately those limitations AREN'T because of the > limitations of the SAM, so I don't want to compromise the game from what it > could do, simply because of GamesMaster. > > So my plan is to re-program it in Assembly. And my question is... (I think I > may have asked this before, but for the life of me I can't remember, so sorry > if I have!) what's the best resource for learning it?? ;-) > > Dave, I love what you've done with "Dave Invaders" :-D What did you read for > learning how to program it? > > Quoting Balor Price <toberm...@cookingcircle.co.uk>: > >> Ah. I am a moron. Updated from Java 6 update 21 to update 30 and the >> problem went away. >> >> Must say, though, I would never have expected that to have been a problem, >> especially because your binaries are all JAR files instead of JAD midlets. >> Okay I'm confused again now! >> >> Howard >> >> >> On 01-Feb-12 07:59, david brant wrote: >>> People do use it then, not had much in the way of feedback. >>> >>> Jam Assembler does not doing anything special with the font or anything >>> like that. It would be using Windows API for fonts and messages etc. i.e. >>> anything standard windows stuff. >>> >>> Jam Assembler not been tested on anything newer than XP though. >>> >>> What version of Java is your computer using? Have you tried re loading Jam >>> Assembler? I have a newer version on my computer which sorts out some >>> project view issues and does method inheritance I'll upload it tonight with >>> a bit of luck. >>> >>> Otherwise can you send me a screen shot please. >>> >>> On 1 Feb 2012, at 01:19, Balor Price wrote: >>> >>>> >>>> So, hmmm... while I'm fired up... >>>> >>>> Anyone having problems with the GUI in Jam Assembler? It's been a while >>>> since I tinkered, but now I'm getting gobbledygook instead of English in >>>> the dropdown menus and dialogue boxes... At a guess I'd say the font >>>> lookups had gone askew, it's a JAR file that's executed so it's not >>>> relying on Windows API calls or anything. David? >>>> >>>> Howard >>> >> > > >
