^as was nanovoice (or was it nanosynth?)

there is c source floating around for one of those.  commented too if you want to play with it!

Ahhh right. Interesting stuff here. Thank you for your answers!

Oh, don't worry about that. They're really equivalent as far as hardware control goes. You know, LSDJ was written mostly in C I think.

I asked because I figure out that when programming in Game Boy, you'd probably need a lot of control on the hardware for certain things, and I don't think C allows you to do that. Just from my ignorant point of view xD

Well, C is just another level of abstraction from machine code. You won't have minute control of what the compiler does when you write C code. This might not be a problem depending on how much performance you have to milk out of the code. I'd say use a C compiler and inline assembler code for things that require more performance than the compiler will give you.

Just for the sake of curiosity:
If you program Game Boy stuff on C, are you limiting your control compared to doing so on assembly?

Oh yeah that too, such a good link.

Yes, I just have not verified Linux myself, so don't know how more or less stable it is. Good to hear.

Cant compile gbdk source- SDCC has not supported GBZ since the 90s or something.

I just know that mountain lion has created alot of issues. pretty much every update breaks something

Yeah, it's extremely painless under Linux.  Why are people having trouble with OSX?

I can compile just fine in Linux.
There's other OS's y'know ;P

That's for assembly language, though, not C. But that's what I recommend you learn anyway.

^that is honestly exactly what i was looking for when it comes to online stuff thank you!

Also, http://gameboy.mongenel.com/asmschool.html

I was thinking model wise the original first then color(not sure the difference) but this is exactly what i was looking for thank you. I have a few windows machines so that should be fine. I have always wanted to learn programming and just never had the courage to dive in i guess. Any other online resources for learning C would be great too. Thank you for the response though!

Which model of Gameboy?

For the classics- the GBDK is a good place to start, many examples etc. Check out http://gbdk.sourceforge.net/ ... You'll most likely need a windows machine for compiling, none of us have of yet been able to compile using OSX.

If you don't know anything about programming there is a bit to learn- For learning C I would get this book: http://www.amazon.com/C-Programming-Lan … 0131103628 ... but there are quite a few free resources around the web too.
Personally I would dive into C first, and Assembly later.

Then down the road go and look at the pandoc http://nocash.emubase.de/pandocs.htm and possibly http://www.retards.org/library/technolo … sound3.pdf to get a visual understanding of the gameboy sound registers and how they are used.