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SegaTecToy - Feb 4, 2004

		SegaTecToy	Feb 4, 2004
		Can someone help me with some tutorials or anything like that for saturn development? I make a google search but I nothing useful was listed. <_< I have some PC programming experience and I think that to develop some simple demos for Saturn will be fun. Any links for a absolute Saturn newbie will be apreciated.

		kahuna	Feb 4, 2004
		This might be what you're looking for: Saturn Dev...

		SegaTecToy	Feb 4, 2004
		Thanks. There are lots of good info there but I can't make the PDFs open in my ACROBAT reader. It says 'file don't start with %pdf' (in 4.0) or 'file is corrupted' (AR 6.0) I see that there is the '.bz2' extension in the end of the names of the PDF files. I need some plug-in to open them?

		slinga	Feb 4, 2004
		Untar them, they are compressed. I think you can use winrar.

		antime	Feb 4, 2004
		They are compressed with bzip2.... Both WinRAR and WinAce can open them if you're afraid of the commandline.

		SegaTecToy	Feb 5, 2004
		Ok, they are working now. :thumbs-up: Thanks.

		mrkotfw	Feb 7, 2004
		Saturn dev isn't very difficult because we're using heavy libraries, if you know C and somewhat saturn hardware info, you're all set.. so there isn't any tutorial other than 'documentation'. :devil

		AntiPasta	Feb 7, 2004
		There is an SGL tutorial in fact. Haven't looked at it yet but I assume it assumes C experience.

		SegaTecToy	Feb 9, 2004
		I downloaded the SGL tutorial and from what I see it is good to set the stage for a newbie, apparently the main problem is to learn the features of the libraries used and the resources of the machine. Saturn dev looks very interesting. This will be my first try at console development so I hope to get at least a spinning cube in some weeks.

		SegaTecToy	Feb 10, 2004
		Where can I get a copy of this file: "Saturn Programming Manual vol. 2 : VDP1 User´s Manual.pdf'? The one I downloaded at the Saturn dev page was corrupt: "unexpected end of file"