TI-BASIC Q&A

[FinaleTI]

Hehe, there are lots of cool things you can do in BASIC that you might never even think of I just can't think of any at the moment...

Scrolling tilemappers that use Pics for map data, anyone?
*walks away whistling*

[Xeda112358]

Now I want to see what I can do I remember I used to store strings to pictures by storing 19 letters to a row (I used 5 pixels to determine which of 32 chars to use and vice versa). So I would get 1197 characters out of 767 bytes instead of 1208 bytes

[epic7]

Can anyone think of why my first game ever made with basic has totaly had its code messed up? I deleted it cuz it was so simple  but it was totally screwed up.

Maybe that's another doors related problem....

[Xeda112358]

What assembly programs or apps did you run?

[epic7]

DCS7?

[Xeda112358]

If that was all you had, that was probably what corrupted it

[epic7]

Doors and axe are my only programs. If this is another doors, I'm switching to another shell. 

[Xeda112358]

In any event, it is very likely not the fault of the OS or the program That is the best part about BASIC-- you usually have to know some really advanced stuff to make it cause a glitch or a crash

[FinaleTI]

Now I want to see what I can do I remember I used to store strings to pictures by storing 19 letters to a row (I used 5 pixels to determine which of 32 chars to use and vice versa). So I would get 1197 characters out of 767 bytes instead of 1208 bytes

Nice. At one point, I was playing with the idea of doing an RPG in BASIC that would use Pics for all long term data storage. I even had an inventory system based off Illusiat 13's, and a rudimentary sorting system for it. But that's all long gone, unfortunately.

[epic7]

It's a very simple game. Just move a plus sign around and collect pies. (3.14 pies)

[Xeda112358]

I did that! In one of my first RPG's I stored EVERYTHING to a picture for save data. I even let the user make custom sprites for their character (they could only view it in the stats menu). I felt so clever when I realised I could use the pixels as powers of 2, then I learned that was called binary

EDIT: @epic7: That probably didn't cause a crash then

[epic7]

Idk... Well my opening title screen doesn't work

For(x,-10,5,1.5
Line(-10,-10,10,X
Line(10,-10,-10,X
End
That used to work, but not anymore
Unless I changed it.. Idk since I forgot how most of the draw commands work in basic now


Parser, I envy you since you have recieved the honor of having a topic stickied.

[Deep Thought]

Maybe your screen dimensions were changed? Check the values under WINDOW and see if the Line() commands fall within the screen.

[parserp]

Parser, I envy you since you have recieved the honor of having a topic stickied.

[epic7]

Ok, screen dimentions were wrong

* epic7 adds zstandard

That will work, right?