Portable Game Console
PoGa-4DGL Reference Manual
Table of Contents
1. What is PoGa?..........................................................................................................................3
2. System requirements (all the resources/downloads you need).................................................4
2.1 Hardware....................................................................................................................................4
2.2 Software ....................................................................................................................................4
2.3 Documents.................................................................................................................................4
3. Creating your first PoGa Program.............................................................................................5
3.1 Your first PoGa Program.............................................................................................................5
3.2 Writing your first PoGa game.....................................................................................................8
3.3 Writing your second PoGa game.............................................................................................10
3.4 Adding Graphics to your program............................................................................................12
3.5 Let’s add graphics to the TextTiler...........................................................................................15
4. Add Images/Animations/Videos in your game........................................................................20
4.1 Building GCI DEMO .................................................................................................................20
4.2 Building the Tiler Demo...........................................................................................................28
5. PoGa Explorer........................................................................................................................39
5.1 PoGa Screenshot......................................................................................................................39
5.2 Formatting the SD card to PoGa Format .................................................................................40
5.3 Adding Folders.........................................................................................................................42
5.4 Copying programs to the DISK.................................................................................................43
5.5 Deleting programs from the DISK............................................................................................43
6. Including your game into the PoGa File System.......................................................................44
6.1 Setting PoGa Disk.....................................................................................................................44
6.2 Testing the files on the PoGa Disk............................................................................................51
7. PoGa Sprite Editor..................................................................................................................52
7.1 Making your First Sprite...........................................................................................................53
7.2 Making few more Sprites.........................................................................................................63
8. Creating and controlling sprites..............................................................................................73
Appendix A: PoGa File System Overview...................................................................................................76
Appendix B: PoGa Schematic.....................................................................................................................80
Appendix C: Software/Driver Installation Guide........................................................................................81
Appendix D: Microsoft’s ‘User Account Control’ (UAC)..............................................................................85
Proprietary Information.............................................................................................................87
Disclaimer of Warranties & Limitation of Liability.......................................................................87
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