NES development on Android tablet

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NES development on Android tablet
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Hello, friends! I'm a total noob in programming, but I would like to try to learn NES programming . I know, it's not an easy task, but I'm not ambitious in my desires, just want to test myself in that sphere of life:) There's already a lot of information about NES programming on the internet and I will try to check it out, but my main question of this topic is: "Is there a way to use my android tablet (4.0.3) to make the whole NES game including music? is that theoreticaly and practicaly possible?"
I know using PC is more convinient and has lots of means for NES dev. but for me it would be much more pleasant to learn without noise that PC produces :) just can't stand it in creative work and, unfortunately, have no money for a laptop. (and for the tablet I connect mouse + keyboard, so it's like a laptop:)
I'm sorry for my English and thank you for your attention in advance! :)
Re: NES development on Android tablet
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Well, if you can develop a lot of tools by yourself, including music editor, assembler etc, as most of them aren't exist for Android yet - then yes. But you would have to find a way how to write Android apps under Android first, and it is so much extra work that it just makes no sense to go through all this.

I think, using PC along with a pair of earplugs, or maybe headphones with nice music, would be much easier.
Re: NES development on Android tablet
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Shiru wrote:
Well, if you can develop a lot of tools by yourself, including music editor, assembler etc, as most of them aren't exist for Android yet - then yes. But you would have to find a way how to write Android apps under Android first, and it is so much extra work that it just makes no sense to go through all this.

I think, using PC along with a pair of earplugs, or maybe headphones with nice music, would be much easier.

Well :mrgreen: thank you, Shiru, for the response! It looks like it's really better to use some earphones with PC than doing that extra work that will kill me :mrgreen:
Re: NES development on Android tablet
by on (#110366)
If you've rooted your tablet, you can install a GNU operating environment inside Android. At that point, you can load ca65 and the rest of the toolchain. Or you can put an X server or VNC viewer on your tablet and put in a PC in a different room and then run the toolchain on that. But with the end of production of netbooks, I do find it important to have some sort of toolchain that can run completely on an ASUS Transformer tablet.
Re: NES development on Android tablet
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tepples wrote:
If you've rooted your tablet, you can install a GNU operating environment inside Android. At that point, you can load ca65 and the rest of the toolchain. Or you can put an X server or VNC viewer on your tablet and put in a PC in a different room and then run the toolchain on that. But with the end of production of netbooks, I do find it important to have some sort of toolchain that can run completely on an ASUS Transformer tablet.

thank you for a piece of advice!