IENJINIA FAQ

IENJINIA Virtual Console

  1. What is the IENJINIA Virtual Console?

  2. Where can I download the IENJINIA Virtual Console?

  3. How do I install the IENJINIA Virtual Console?

  4. How do I run the IENJINIA Virtual Console?

  5. What do I use as controller for playing the games on the IENJINIA Virtual Console?

  6. How do I turn off (exit the program) the IENJINIA Virtual Console?

  7. How do I reset the IENJINIA Virtual Console?

  8. Where can I download games for the IENJINIA Virtual Console?

  9. I downloaded a game but it isn't listed as one of the available games in the IENJINIA Virtual Console startup window. What should I do?

  10. How can I write games for the IENJINIA Virtual Console?

IENJINIA Devkit

  1. What is the IENJINIA Devkit?

  2. Where can I download the IENJINIA Devkit?

  3. How do I install the IENJINIA Devkit?

  4. How do I run the IENJINIA Devkit?

  5. What is the IAVC?

  6. Where can I find a complete description of the IAVC?

  7. What are the different parts of the IENJINIA Devkit window for?

  8. Where does the IENJINIA Devkit place my project files?

  9. What does the Play button do?

  10. What does the Package button do?

  11. What does the Reset IAVC button do?

  12. What does the VBI button do?

  13. What does the SFI button do?

  14. What does the Stop button do?

  15. What does the Execute button do?

  16. What are the special keystrokes I can use in the IENJINIA Devkit's editor area?

  17. What programming language is used to write games for the IENJINIA Virtual Console?

  18. Isn't an interpreted language too slow to write a video game?

  19. I am trying to write an advanced physics/AI algorithm for my video game and IPL is too slow, what can I do?

  20. To make it easier to manage I want to split the source for my program into many files. Can I do that?

  21. How can I write a value to an address of the IAVC?

  22. How can I read a value from a an address of the IAVC?

  23. What is the fastest way to copy data from an array of numbers into the IAVC?

  24. If I write something to address 32 nothing appears on screen. Why does that happen?

  25. I have the data for my game in a file. How can I read it?

  26. What is the refresh rate for the video output of the IAVC?

  27. To do animation in my video game I want to modify the screen just after a frame displayed and before the next one starts. How can I do that?

  28. I want to dinamically modify the sound generator registers to create music or a sound effect. Should I do that in the vbi() method?

IENJINIA Programming Language

  1. What is IPL?

  2. Why did you switch from BeanShell to IPL?

  3. What data types are available in IPL?

  4. How can I write an integer constant?

  5. How can I write a floating point constant?

  6. How can I write a string constant?

  7. How can I write a boolean constant?

  8. How can I write a null constant?

  9. What is a valid name for a variable or a method?

  10. Which are the reserved keywords in IPL?

  11. Which are the predefined methods in IPL?

  12. What operators are available in IPL?

  13. What kinds of statements are available in IPL?

  14. How can I create an array?

  15. How can I define a method with a variable number of arguments?

  16. Can I define a recursive method?

  17. How does IPL find the value of a variable?

  18. How can I create a local variable?

  19. Is there any way to have dynamic scoping in IPL?

  20. Is there any way to do object oriented programming in IPL?

  21. Is there any way in IPL to create something similar to a struct in C?

  22. How can I declare a variable or method as private in an environment?

  23. Why does IPL allow a method as value in an expression?

  24. Are variables and methods in different namespaces?

IENJINIA CharEditor

  1. What is the IENJINIA CharEditor?

  2. Where can I download the IENJINIA CharEditor?

  3. How do I install the IENJINIA CharEditor?

  4. How do I run the IENJINIA CharEditor?

  5. What are the different parts of the IENJINIA CharEditor for?

  6. How do I set one of the 16 colors I want to use for the character colormap?

  7. How do I place a character in the screen editor?

  8. How do I modify the pixel map for a character?

  9. How do I make a copy of a character?

  10. What are the buttons at the right of the character selector for?

  11. In what format does the IENJINIA CharEditor save my data?

  12. How do I use the file I created with the IENJINIA CharEditor in my game?