NAME

       rgbds — Rednex Game Boy Development System

EXAMPLES

       To get a working ROM image from a single assembly source file:

             $ rgbasm -o game.o game.asm
             $ rgblink -o game.gb game.o
             $ rgbfix -v -p 0 game.gb

       Or in a single command line, without creating an intermediate object file:

             $ (rgbasm -o - - | rgblink -o - - | rgbfix -v -p 0) < game.asm > game.gb

SEE ALSO

       rgbasm(1), rgbasm(5), rgblink(1), rgblink(5), rgbfix(1), rgbgfx(1), gbz80(7), rgbds(5)

HISTORY

       1996-10-01: Carsten Sørensen (a.k.a. SurfSmurf) releases xAsm, xLink, and RGBFix, a Game Boy SM83 (GBZ80)
       assembler/linker system for DOS/Win32.

       1997-07-03:  Sørensen  releases  ASMotor, packaging the three programs together and moving towards making
       them a general-purpose target-independent system.

       1999-08-01: Justin Lloyd (a.k.a. Otaku no Zoku) adapts ASMotor to re-focus on SM83 assembly/machine code,
       and releases this version as RGBDS.

       2009-06-11: Vegard Nossum adapts the code to be more UNIX-like and releases this version as rgbds-linux.

       2010-01-12: Anthony J. Bentley forks Nossum's repository.  The fork becomes the reference  implementation
       of RGBDS.

       2010-09-25: Sørensen continues development of ASMotor: https://github.com/asmotor/asmotor to this day.

       2015-01-18:  stag019  begins  implementing  RGBGFX,  a  PNG-to-Game  Boy graphics converter, for eventual
       integration into RGBDS.

       2016-09-05: RGBGFX is integrated into Bentley's repository.

       2017-02-23: Bentley's repository is moved to the rednex: https://github.com/rednex/rgbds organization.

       2018-01-26: The codebase is relicensed under the MIT license.

       2020-09-15: The repository is moved to the gbdev: https://github.com/gbdev/rgbds organization.

       2022-05-17: The rgbds.gbdev.io: https://rgbds.gbdev.io website for RGBDS documentation and  downloads  is
       published.

       2025-10-31:  RGBDS  reaches version 1.0.0 and starts adhering to semantic versioning: https://semver.org/
       ("semver").

Debian                                          October 31, 2025                                        RGBDS(7)