SGDK - Sega Genesis Development Kit

[Stef]

SGDK is a small development kit for the Sega Megadrive / Genesis system.

It's divided in 2 parts :
- GCC compiler & tools binaries (only for Windows platform currently, sorry for osx and linux users).
- Development library sources which provide facilities to develop on the Sega Megadrive/Genesis System.

I tried to keep only the strict minimum GCC binaries so the whole archive maintains a reasonable size (< 10 MB).

Download it here : http://code.google.com/p/sgdk/

You can find some tutorials about how use it in the Wiki section of project's page.
Free feel to post issues or requests, also if you want to contribute in some way you can contact me on the project page

Don't hesitate to post bugs or feature request in the issues tracker :
http://code.google.com/p/sgdk/issues/list

Updated version 0.94

* Major rewrite of the Bitmap engine:
- Fixed 256x160 resolution.
- Removed all specifics flags as it now always use deferred flip operation with extended blank.
- Simpler and easier to use.
- Better performance (checkout the cube face sample to see the difference).
- Backface culling now directly handled in the BMP_drawPolygon(..) method.
- Removed useless FF BMP engine (too complex, incomplete..)
- Many others changes you will discover
* Added "Bitmap" structure for better bitmap handling.
SGDK automatically convert 16 colors bitmap images to "Bitmap".
* Major rewrite of Maths3D engine:
- Added many 3D related structures (as matrix, transform..).
- More flexibility.
- Improved performance (not much).
* added DMA capability to VDP_setHorizontalScrollxxx(..) / VDP_setVerticalScrollTile(..) functions.
* Added VDP_doDMAEx(..) so we can specify if we modify the VRam step.
* Refactored palette functions.
* Fixed QSort function.
* Removed useless VRAM table (eat rom space for minor speed boost).
* Minors fixes/tweaks in memset and memcpy functions.
* Updated WavToRaw tool (now support any output rate).
* Added Genitile 1.7 sources.
* Minors tweaks on makefile.
* Fixed a minor issue in rom_head (Thanks Chilly Willy).
* Updated demo samples.
* Others minors changes or improvements.

[Drakon]

Far out man.

[donluca]

Wow, thank you, this is definitely interesting, might give it a look actually...

[Stef]

Far out man.

Yep, but realized i did not had any topic here to announce new version

[Drakon]

I didn't even know something like this exists.

Yep, but realized i did not had any topic here to announce new version

[Stef]

Hehe now you know
I only posted about it in the Spritesmind forum but i guess it could have some interests here too.

[djcc]

Goplanes is being made with SGDK. It got me much more far along than if I had to learn and work in assembly. I recommend it! If there were a "DJCC APPROVES!" sticker, I'd put one on it.

[Stef]

Thanks for your support DJCC
I'm really amazed how far Godplanes comes ! It's rare to see Genesis homebrew project going to that level and i'm happy SGDK helped a bit for that

[retrospiel]

And before any mod moves this to "Blast Processing": said forum shouldn't even exist. This place was a lot better when this kind of stuff wasn't confined to some kind of ghetto.

Edit: And yes, this is a pretty cool project Stef! The ADPCM driver sounds especially nifty.

[NostalgicMachine]

Cool stuff, dude!

[Drakon]

I don't mind there being a separate section for homebrew stuff. I like forums with categories instead of having everything in one large section.

[Stef]

And before any mod moves this to "Blast Processing": said forum shouldn't even exist. This place was a lot better when this kind of stuff wasn't confined to some kind of ghetto.

Edit: And yes, this is a pretty cool project Stef! The ADPCM driver sounds especially nifty.

Thanks
The basic idea of this driver was to make small games with PCM driven sound.
You could use a channel for music and the second one for SFX

[Chilly Willy]

And before any mod moves this to "Blast Processing": said forum shouldn't even exist. This place was a lot better when this kind of stuff wasn't confined to some kind of ghetto.

How soon they forget...

Blast Processing was created specifically for and at the request of programmers because our threads were being ridiculously quickly pushed off the front page of any other forum by everything else. We needed a forum where the ONLY thing allowed was development threads. No reviews, no hardware (unless it relates to programming), no idiotic polls - nothing but developer goodness!!

Just watch how quickly this thread disappears from the front page... in fact, in less than a week, you won't be able to find it without a search.

[Cleetus Johnson]

I downloaded the package I will look into the archive later. Great stuff man .

[retrospiel]

Blast Processing was created specifically for and at the request of programmers because our threads were being ridiculously quickly pushed off the front page of any other forum by everything else.

I see. Still, it was more fun when everyone participated in these threads, plus this forum seemed way more active before the split. I think I was for creating a dedicated forum but in hindsight I regret not being more vocal about the concerns I had as well.