my first serious prog was an incredibly massive, ye cannot get ye flask style text based adventure with an obcene number of goto's and lbl's. it was structured something like this:

lbl a
clrhome
disp "room introductory text here (i.e. "you find yourself standing in a barren field"
input str1
check here if str1="go n","go s" etc...
goto lbl depending on which command was typed
call err prgm ("no hablo stupid" or another err command randomly displayed
lbls for in room actions (i.e. get ye flask
goto a
lbl prgm (for move between room commands(i.e. go n

in this way i ended up having a game that was 100+k with seperate programs for every single room (i used zarchive for swapping which set was in RAM) that had more err mem's than even a nub has excuses for. i still really liked how it turned out, though, and it made me sad when my brother clrd my memory while screwing around with stuff

EDIT: i did the all on one line thing too because (i think, but i tested this forever ago and havent looked into it) lbl goto statements only check the beginnings and ends of lines and so it only has to search 6 or 8 spots in the program instead of twice for every line, speeding things up so you can get that memory error much more quickly . the habit stuck and i got so used to reading it that way that now i have trouble understanding clean-cut coding(my problems with short term memory also probably apply here; i have to have as much code on the tiny screen as possible or i'll forget where i am

You made this: http://www.ticalc.org/archives/files/fileinfo/412/41215.html

It makes me so sad. I was such a noob, all the different areas have their own copies of the RPG Starter Kit (Meaning their own map set, movement engine and event program). This could have easily been astronomically smaller. It also might have helped if I'd actually beaten FF4 before I tried to make a sequel.

You made this: http://www.ticalc.org/archives/files/fileinfo/412/41215.html

It makes me so sad. I was such a noob, all the different areas have their own copies of the RPG Starter Kit (Meaning their own map set, movement engine and event program). This could have easily been astronomically smaller. It also might have helped if I'd actually beaten FF4 before I tried to make a sequel.

Mhmm I have been actually meaning to try this back then. For some reasons, I never did, though. I might give it a try at one point anyway, though, just out of curiosity.

/\or you can just use the Horizontal command/\

I just used for loops for line coordinate variables, it will fill up in maybe a second at most.

when I was a noob, I didn't know what the Garbage collect was... yeah.....

I wrote a 17k program that inverted the screen.

Still on ticalc, if anyone wants to find it.

easiest full black screen in basic:
1. draw a full black screen
2. store it in a pic
3. recall the pic
4.
5. PROFIT!

I wrote a 17k program that inverted the screen.

Still on ticalc, if anyone wants to find it.

Can't find it

What's your ticalc name?

Found Kerm's version of Shade(, though