That is what this wonderful little web site is for : ARM on a Mac

Its for people that want to use their ARM 7 skills on their Macs, and furthermore with exciting game design.

Its also for people who want to merely follow my word-by-word simple instructions to write and run some simple tests on an emulator.

Modern Gameboy Advance software emulators perfectly run all 1800 GameBoy cartridges in 2004... even yours soon! Nintendo DS Emulation needs ARM9, but as of Dec 2004 still does not work, but in a few months Nintendo DS development should be possible on Macintosh as well.

Your games and little utilities can easily be uploaded to 3rd party devices that then insert into GameBoy Advance, or Nintendo DS http://www.dslinux.org/

Even more exciting, though its been a long while, after all these months it finally happened...

flashable ARM chips are under three dollars, and high end development boards and tools are under 300 dollars now!

IAR Systems and AMTEL market the $295 AT91SAM7S KickStart Kit for rapid prototyping, and hassle free debugging using flashable 3 dollar ARM chips.

You need to use other compilers and tricks to use more than 32K of code with it, but thats an amazing bargain (aminly for the hardware debugging cable and USB oriented design.

PowerPC chips are only 9 dollars from Motorola, but the development boards are THOUSANDS of dollars. (Yes thousands, and 256 pin grids and 7 layer board minimums, <sigh>)

Better than 295 dollars is FREE development, Yes FREE. This web site will show you how you can install top quality assembler, C compiler, C++ Compiler, Debugger and GBA Emulator all free, and use Apple's GUI based free XCode IDE. Its more than convenient, its actually fun.

Build with one click, run your ROM cart with a double click, dump registers with another simple menu command.

There are many steps to do, though I have not updated these pages in months, so choose the pages that interest you below.

    Enjoy!,

=James