i. Tonc v1.4.2 : Table of Contents

i.1. Preface

i	Contents	1
ii	Introduction to Tonc	3

i.2. GBA Basics

1	GBA Hardware	7
2	Setting up a development environment	10
3	My First GBA Demo	21
4	Video Introduction	34
5	The bitmap modes	38
6	The GBA keypad	56
7	Sprite and tiled background overview	62
8	Regular sprites	67
9	Regular tiled backgrounds	78

i.3. GBA Extended

10	The affine transformation matrix	92
11	Affine sprites	98
12	Affine tiled backgrounds	109
13	Graphic effects	115
14	Direct Memory Access	126
15	Timers	133
16	Hardware interrupts	136
17	BIOS calls	147
18	Beep! GBA sound introduction	155

i.4. Advanced / Applications

19	Text systems	165
20	Mode 7	192
21	More Mode7 tricks	209
22	Tonc's Text Engine	213
23	Whirlwind tour of ARM assembly	244
24	The Lab	276

i.5. Appendixes

A	Numbers, bits and bit operations	283
B	Fixed-point math & LUTs	294
C	Vector and matrix math	304
D	More on makefiles and compiler options	311
E	Make via editors	316
F	References	322
G	Change log	325

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 Mar 24, 2013, J Vijn. Get all Tonc files here