Smash Bricks

Wanting to try my hand at making another game for the pi, I decided to do what the class before mine did, make a breakout clone for the Pi. This time instead of doing 1024x768x16 video, I'm doing a more fitting 640x480 with a 256 color palette (the palette is comprised of 16 bit colors). I may try doing some palette switching but it's fairly slow on the Pi currently.

Prerequisites

1. Raspberry Pi and Power Cable(I think that's a given)
2. SD Card
3. Screen that can display a 640x480x16 video signal
4. HDMI (or HDMI to DVI) cable, or Composite cable
5. arm-none-eabi cross compiler toolkit

Setup

1. The SD card needs to setup with a FAT partition containing the files nessisary to boot the pi, an easy (but bandwidth intensive and requires a 4GB+ card) way is to use the NOOBS installer image on the pi (http://www.raspberrypi.org/documentation/installation/installing-images/README.md) and get it to setup the boot partition. A much smaller way is to grab the files from https://github.com/raspberrypi/firmware/tree/master/boot and put them on the root directory of a FAT formated SD card
2. Run make
3. Copy the generated kernel.img file to the SD card replacing the existing kernel.img
4. Plug the SD card and HDMI cables into the Pi
5. Power it up

Author

• Hayden Kroepfl
  • Github (This one) - ChartreuseK
  • Email - hkroepfl@ucalgary.ca