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If you like this article you might be interested in this article about the mode7 on the GBA: http://www.coranac.com/tonc/text/mode7.htm

Personally I love this kind of old-school programming article. It reminds me when I was developing homebrew games for the GBA!

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GBA programming was used in my school's class that covered (among other things) introductory C. It's really fun and pretty simple for beginners to write for bitmap mode.

That's exactly how I started programming! It was indeed a lot of fun. I remember being blown away the first time I saw a game/demo I wrote run on the real hardware. It was so rewarding. It's nice to see teachers using GBA programming as an introduction. It's so much more fascinating for a beginner in comparison to a regular "Hello World" written in a terminal or a basic sorting algorithm in C.

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