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Speaking of developing games for it, how does that work? I see the word 'flash' mentioned a few times, is the author talking about the same technology people ma
by dunstad 16y ago
Speaking of developing games for it, how does that work? I see the word 'flash' mentioned a few times, is the author talking about the same technology people make games on the Internet with?
- drewcrawford 16y agoNo. You're thinking of Adobe/Macromedia flash. The word you're seeing relates to a type of memory (and more recently) a process of storing data in that memory. You're going to need to know either C or the architecture assembly (and probably both to do much beyond "hello world"). If you're not a programmer (inferring from your comment), there are some arduino game kits which are much more friendly.
- eru 16y agoC and assembly should work pretty well. As an alternative you can also look into Forth, a cool language that's easy to get running on the bare metal, and spans the levels from assembly to C and above. A Forth machine is almost as amazing as a Lisp machine, and the language share some similarity in spirit, also (or maybe because) they are almost their exact opposites in almost all technical aspects. (See e.g. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forth_(programming_language) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forth_(programming_language) for an overview. "Forth is currently used in boot loaders such as Open Firmware, space applications, and other embedded systems.")