Term Project Phase I

• Post to the blog, documenting your Phase I work.

• Be prepared to show your Phase I work to the class on a real GameBoy and on an emulator

• Post due April 13, midnight

• Demos in class April 14 and April 16

Purpose

At the time this assignment is due, we are less than 1 month away from the due date of our final projects. By completing this assignment you will:

• be on target with the goals you and I agreed upon for this stage in your final project
• have experience uploading code into a programmable cartridge

• have experience with the differences between the emulator and a real GameBoy

• give class members a better idea of what you are doing
• have some valuable feedback from class members
• have more likelihood of finding common programming problems that you and other class members are experiencing, so you can work together and share code more successfully.

Assignment Details

• review your milestones for Phase I
• write a post to the blog under the category "Project Phase I." Include in your post:
  • what your milestones were
  • what you achieved
  • what difficulties you encountered and how you solved them
  • a binary demo of whatever you can show to document that you achieved your milestones

  • all supporting source, include files, etc. which are not available on the wiki but are required to rebuild your binary.

  • what issues you are now aware of for your upcoming milestone and the completed final project
  • include your name in the title of the post.

• download your demo binary into a GameBoy SmartCard, test and debug your demo

• bring your GameBoy with the SmartCard into class on April 14.

• On April 14, come to the front of class and talk through your post:

  • Show the GameBoy running your demo code

  • Show the demo code in the emulator on my laptop (so people can see what is going on)
  • talk through some of the challenges you faced and some of the challenges you will be facing
  • solicit ideas from others about working together to solve similar challenges.
  • you will have 4 minutes. Groups of 2 have 8 minutes

• you are encouraged to comment on other people's work.