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Glimmer Book 1 — Reactive Programming for Z80 Games ​

Glimmer lets you describe a Z80 game through its state, inputs and reactive rules, with the behaviour written in small blocks of assembly. The compiler generates the frame loop, input polling, change tracking and display support around those declarations.

This first book introduces the reactive model one construct at a time. Its small programs lead into Canvas, which brings structured state, dependency reports, multiple source files and cards together in one interactive program. Glimmer Book 2 applies the completed toolkit to Skyfall, Tetro and Rushlight.

The book teaches Glimmer 0.6. Every complete program in it is built with glimmer build.

Chapters ​

  1. The Shape of a Game
  2. First Light
  3. State
  4. Pulses and Bindings
  5. Compute, Effect, Render
  6. The 8x8 Matrix Profile
  7. Time
  8. Motion Curves
  9. Shapes, Sound and Displays on the Board
  10. Arrays and Layout Types
  11. Dependency Reports and Debugging
  12. Routines, Parts and Imports
  13. Cards

Appendices ​

The Glimmer reference covers declarations, both display profiles, the build and debugging commands, and the generated AZM source.