We have a tutorials section on the website that happens to have two tilemapping tutorials on it.

Here you go:

http://www.omnimaga.org/index.php?action=articles;cat=12

Most tutorials have an example program with it. You build one while you are learning.

^the same goes here for smoothly scrolling a tilemap, which can be tricky to make fast. good luck on whatever you're doing.

Can you break it down to more specifics? With main loop are you having trouble drawing the tilemap each frame?

Well, the way I do it in TileCat is I have an array for the data. I use two for loops like so (You should be able to port this to Axe code):

for(int y = 0; y < MapHeight; y++)
    for(int x = 0; x < MapWidth; x++)
        {
             tile = MapArray[x + (y * MapWidth)];
             if tile == 0
                 //Draw Something at x * 8,y * 8
             if tile == 1
                 //Draw something else at x * 8,y * 8
         }

This will iterate over each tile in the array and read its value. Depending upon the value draw a sprite at X * 8 and y * 8

Note: There is a way you can modify this for scrolling by using two variables to keep track of where your view is and replacing MapWidth and MapHeight with those variables plus a value, say, 16 and 8 respectively. You will also want to make sure you don't go off the map though when doing that or going outside the array.

That's definitely more optimised, C0deH4cker good job. I'm not sure if i get what nibbles is for. Is that a variable name?

Yeah, I'm not understanding this