gbaslide by foolsgold@goldroad.co.uk

intro
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this is an app to let you non-programmers out there get a slideshow
up and running on the the gameboy advance!! 


usage
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1) 	select your pictures
2) 	use a paint package to reduce/expand each picture to exactly 240*160 pixels
3) 	save the pictures as 256 colour bitmaps (bmp)
4)	now make a text file, and inside it list all your pictures in the order
	you want them to appear in the slideshow. for instance, to create the
	"gbascene.gba" slideshow, i made a text file called "gbascene.txt" and wrote
	inside it:

	gbadev.bmp
	devrsgba.bmp
	gbaemu.bmp
	pern.bmp
	devkitadv.bmp
	ham.bmp
	mappy.bmp
	goldroad.bmp


	alternatively,	if the directory contains all the pictures you want (and no
	others), you could write...

	dir /b *.bmp > gbascene.txt

	from the dos prompt and it will make a list for you.

5)	now run gbaslide...eg.

	gbaslide gbascene.txt gbascene.gba

	where the first argument is you picture list, and the second argument is the
	name of the gba rom you want to create
6)	flash the resulting to gba file to a flash cart (or load
	up in an emulator) and hey presto!!

	NOTE: gbaslide does not fix the rom header. However,
	it does leave the correct space for a header. You 
	should use another app to fix the header, such as
	flash advance writer which will do it for you 
	when you flash the rom.

7)	press left and right to scroll through the slideshow

about
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gbapic was written in about 2 hours, in VC++, due to boredom. The gba slideshow
program was written in my assembler, goldroad ARM assembler, then included into 
the pc program using binasm, another of my utilities :)

If you really like this program, or would like some other types of fades (the standard
is mosaic) then how about making a donation! you can do this through paypal to my
account foolsgold@goldroad.co.uk

-rob

www.goldroad.co.uk

