Midterm

General

• the midterm is 15% of your grade

• the exam will be given in class on March 12, 2008

• you cannot use anything that uses electricity or has an on/off switch for the exam. This means:
  • no computers
  • no calculators
• you can bring in notes.

  • I highly recommend you print the GameBoy crib sheet and bring it to the exam

  • You should not need references outside of the crib sheet for the exam.
    • I will provide any other resources you need within the exam itself

exam format

The exam will be divided into sections:

• write code which does such-and-such
• hand-assemble some code. (I will give you relevant parts of the Z80 user's manual for the hand-assembly)
• explain what is broken

topics covered

• GameBoy CPU instruction set

• GameBoy video

• RGBDS macros

things to review

• Once Upon A Z80

• Today's lecture: did you "get" it?

• All GameBoy source code posted on the wiki

  • At this point you should understand every line of all of this code

• class notes from review class

materials for the exam

bring this to the exam

• GameBoy crib sheet (pdf)

this will be printed out and given to you at the exam

• GameBoy Opcode summary

• memory.asm

• hello-sprite.inc

• hello-sprite.asm in Word format with line numbers

• materials available only at the exam itself