KR155E and Jorgeche, If you were willing, I’d benefit from a “nerdy nights” style programming tutorial. I started out trying to use the VBDE, but only got to the point of changing some graphics in the platform demo, and creating my own slide reels per Stereoboy’s instructions. I don’t know C. I remember seeing the word “this” many times and reading that it is a pointer. I understand pointers in PLC programming, and now assembly. I started learning C through a book, but then really wanted to just jump into programming something – Nerdy Nights for NES is perfect IMO for that system. Because of many hours spent with that and on my own, I have a title screen that plays music and stars twinkle. When you press start it takes you to another screen. But that screen is a wall and there is no “game” working yet. But in just doing this I have experience with the music engine, and have learned about what goes on under the hood on the NES.
A fear I have is that using a higher level language with the VBDE is that things might be going on behind the scenes that could prevent me from learning things I should know about the hardware. For example in Assembly for NES, I have to be aware of certain interrupts, when I can update the PPU, how much data to send and to what places to command certain actions. In a higher level language, you might not need to understand some of these things, but then when you hit a wall, you wouldn’t know about them. Just my inexperienced thoughts. I am grateful with anything you update/come out with. It’s really nice of you to provide what you already have. I’m only programming NES because with Nerdy Nights it was easier to start with (for me). My main goal is to come out with a game for the VB.
