Maxim's World of Stuff - SMS/Meka stuff

Getting started with SMS programming

Introduction

This guide will (hopefully) get you going with SMS programming, from setting up your IDE and assembler, to debugging, to getting a working program.

The lessons are linked below:

Lesson 1

Go to Lesson 1
  • Downloading stuff
  • Setting it up
  • "Hello world!" explained in full

Lesson 2

Go to Lesson 2
  • A text scroller
  • Good practices
  • VBlanks
  • Debugging

News

  • 17/3/2005 Updated WLA DX, highlighter
    Like I said. The ConTEXT WLA DX Z80 highlighter is my latest version and the WLA DX Z80 Win32 binaries are the most recent too.
  • 19/10/2004 Minor updates
    I fixed some inconsistencies in style and added anchors - you can refer to any section like this.
  • ?/?/2003 Lesson 2
    It seems I forgot to mention when I finished Lesson 2.
  • 11/2/2003 Updated highlighter
    I updated the ConTEXT WLA DX Z80 highlighter to fix a few bugs and make it fully up-to-date.
  • Before I bothered to keep note
    I updated the WLA DX binaries, the compiler batch file, some errors/typos in lesson 1 and a whole lot more.