i. Tonc v1.4 : Table of Contents

i.1. Preface

i	Contents	1
ii	Introduction to Tonc	3

i.2. GBA Basics

1	GBA Hardware	8
2	Setting up a development environment	12
3	My First GBA Demo	26
4	Video Introduction	33
5	The bitmap modes	42
6	The GBA keypad	70
7	Sprite and tiled background overview	76
8	Regular sprites	82
9	Regular tiled backgrounds	86

i.3. GBA Extended

10	The affine transformation matrix	113
11	Affine sprites	121
12	Affine tiled backgrounds	135
13	Graphic effects	142
14	Direct Memory Access	155
15	Timers	163
16	Hardware interrupts	167
17	BIOS calls	180
18	Beep! GBA sound introduction	189

i.4. Advanced / Applications

19	Text systems	201
20	Mode 7	225
21	More Mode7 tricks	233
22	Tonc's Text Engine	259
23	Whirlwind tour of ARM assembly	298
24	The Lab	338

i.5. Appendixes

A	Numbers, bits and bit operations	346
B	Fixed-point math & LUTs	362
C	Vector and matrix math	375
D	More on makefiles and compiler options	384
E	Make via editors	390
F	References	398
G	Change log	402

i.6. On revisions

Tonc v1.4 is final. Yeah, I said that about v1.0 as well, but this time I mean it. Really. Honest. Cross my heart and hope to die, etc, etc. Well … barring minor errata, this will be final. Honest, cross my heart, yadda yadda yadda.

Modified Aug 15, 2008, J Vijn. Get all Tonc files here