Description
Learn Assembly by Programming the Original Gameboy is a hands-on program designed to teach low-level programming and computer architecture by developing software for the original Nintendo Game Boy (DMG), published by Udemy Online Academy. Suitable for programmers, game developers, computer science students, embedded-systems enthusiasts, and retro-computing hobbyists, the course starts from Assembly fundamentals and gradually progresses into direct interaction with the Game Boy’s CPU, memory, graphics, audio, input, and hardware peripherals, using a beloved piece of real hardware as the vehicle for learning concepts that apply far beyond it. Learners begin with Assembly fundamentals, building comfort with instructions, registers, and how a CPU actually executes code at the lowest level before touching anything Game Boy-specific. From there, the course moves into the Game Boy’s memory architecture, teaching learners how RAM is organized and accessed, and how interrupts allow the hardware to respond to events without constant polling.
A significant portion of the course focuses on graphics programming, covering tile-based graphics and sprites, the core visual building blocks of Game Boy software. Learners study collision detection to understand how games determine when objects interact, along with DMA (Direct Memory Access) for efficiently transferring data such as sprite information without bogging down the CPU. Timers and sound hardware are covered as well, giving learners a complete picture of how audio and timing-dependent behavior work on real 1980s-era hardware. Serial communication and hardware-specific optimization round out the more advanced topics, showing learners how the Game Boy talks to external devices and how to write code that respects the platform’s tight resource constraints. Throughout the course, learners build real programs, culminating in a complete Flappy Bird-style game built entirely in Assembly. By the end, learners will understand how classic handheld computers work at the machine level, knowledge that transfers directly to embedded systems and low-level programming on modern hardware as well.
What you will learn in Learn Assembly by Programming the Original Gameboy:
- Program the Nintendo Game Boy (DMG) using Assembly language from the ground up
- Understand assembly instructions, memory, registers, interrupts, tile graphics, sprites, and sound hardware
- Build complete Game Boy applications and a Flappy Bird-style game from scratch
- Learn how classic handheld computers work at the machine level and apply those concepts to modern systems
- and …
Course specifications
Publisher: Udemy
Instructors: Julio Seaman
Language: English
Level: Introductory to Advanced
Number of Lessons: 170
Duration: 23h 1m
Course topics
Learn Assembly by Programming the Original Gameboy Prerequisites
A basic understanding of programming concepts (variables, loops, and functions) is helpful, but no Assembly or Game Boy experience is required. The course teaches everything needed to get started.
Some demos used Python as a tool for image processing, but prior knowledge of Python is not required.
Pictures
Learn Assembly by Programming the Original Gameboy introduction video
Installation guide
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Quality: 1080p
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Size
23 GB